Affordability & Utility Rates
For too many families in District 22, the electric bill has become a second mortgage.
Rhode Island consistently ranks among the highest electricity rates in the nation. But here’s what makes it worse: delivery charges now exceed the cost of the electricity itself. You’re paying more to have power sent to your home than you’re paying for the power you actually use.
That’s not a billing quirk. That’s a policy failure.
I will fight for real oversight of utility rates, full transparency in how costs are passed to consumers, and meaningful relief for working families. Rhode Island families deserve to know exactly what they’re paying for — and they deserve a representative who will demand answers.
Education
I believe in public education. I also believe one size does not fit all.
Children have different needs, different learning styles, and different circumstances. But here in District 22, the most urgent fight is about money — and who bears the burden.
Rhode Island’s education funding formula is broken. The Blue Ribbon Commission identified the changes needed: move more dollars directly toward teaching and learning, shift legacy costs like pensions and transportation off local budgets, and ensure cities and towns aren’t forced to choose between funding schools and funding everything else.
Right now, Warwick families pay their taxes and watch too much of that money disappear into costs that have nothing to do with what happens in a classroom. That has to change.
I will fight to implement the Blue Ribbon Commission’s recommendations — not as a talking point, but as a concrete legislative priority. Every child in Rhode Island deserves access to a high-quality public education. Getting the funding right is how we make that possible.
Coastal Preservation & Climate Readiness
I live here. This coastline isn’t a talking point — it’s my backyard, my neighborhood, and my family’s home.
Rhode Island’s own modeling shows that under severe storm conditions, Warwick Neck doesn’t just flood. It becomes an island — separated from the rest of Warwick entirely. In 1938, a hurricane struck with a storm surge of nearly 16 feet along Narragansett Bay. Providence built the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier. Warwick Neck has no such protection.
The weather is changing. Anyone who lives here knows it.
The Rocky Point Gateway project is a step in the right direction — upgraded stormwater management and drainage, designed for coastal resilience. We need more investments like it. What we don’t need is to bulldoze the wooded land across the street — natural buffer, tree canopy, and all — to build 14 duplex units.
I will fight to protect this coastline. Not as a policy position. As a neighbor.
Rocky Point — For Everyone
A developer is proposing 14 duplex units directly across from Rocky Point State Park — at the entrance to our neighborhood on Rocky Point Avenue.
Warwick and Rhode Island voted — twice — to preserve Rocky Point for the public. They said: this place belongs to everyone. A developer proposing to pack 14 duplex units onto the wooded land at the park’s entrance isn’t just asking for a variance. They’re asking us to contradict that decision, right at the front door.
I live two minutes up the street. I walk there — sometimes more than once a day. I know what that land means to this neighborhood — as a natural buffer, as wildlife habitat, as the first thing visitors see when they arrive at one of Warwick’s most beloved public spaces.
The families who live on these streets deserve to be heard in this process. As your State Representative, I will make sure they are.