A Living Wage for Workers
It’s harder than ever for everyday people in Pennsylvania to get ahead. Our wages are stagnant while the cost of living rises. Working people in our community need a raise.
Patty has led the way in the fight for higher wages and better benefits for workers in the State House, introducing and supporting bills to raise the minimum wage to $15. A hard day’s work should be enough to live on, and Patty’s running to take the fight for a living wage and expanded worker protections to the PA Senate.
Affordable Housing for All
Everyone in our community needs and deserves a safe home, but they’re getting harder and harder to afford. Neighbors who have lived their whole lives in our community now get priced out of their homes so landlords and corporations can make a quick profit. In the Senate, Patty will continue the fight for proven solutions to decrease the cost of living in our community and make sure everyone in Dauphin County has affordable access to a quality home.
Funding Public Schools
Students in Pennsylvania deserve the best available education and nothing less, and right now, we’re failing to deliver.
Schools in struggling communities are getting underfunded and left behind. The quality of the education our kids receive shouldn’t be bound to their ZIP code. We need leaders in Harrisburg who will fight for a quality education for every student in our commonwealth. Patty will fight to fully implement the fair-funding formula.
Protecting Reproductive Rights
Patty has a 100% pro-choice voting record, and will always defend a woman’s privacy and right to choose.
Patty fought against restrictions on reproductive freedom such as House Bill 321 and Senate Bill 3. Once elected to the State Senate, she hopes to continue her work with other elected officials, and advocacy groups like Represent PA and Planned Parenthood, to form a strong coalition that ensures no bill restricting access to healthcare will ever become law in Pennsylvania.
Ensuring Affordable Healthcare
Everyone has someone in their life who struggles to afford healthcare. People shouldn’t go broke to get the medicine they need.
We need more investment to make life-saving medications to make healthcare more affordable to everyone. Patty will fight for families, not the insurance companies.
Defending LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians from Discrimination
Patty stands proud in support of our vibrant LGBTQ+ community because Pennsylvania is for all of us. Love, equality, and understanding are foundations of our community. We should all feel free, welcome, and empowered to be who we are and love who we love.
Patty co-sponsored and voted for the Fairness Act. It would explicitly protect LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians from many forms of discrimination, from housing to public accommodations to employment. We’ve come a long way in making a more welcoming community, but there is so much work left to be done to contribute to a culture of freedom and inclusion in Dauphin County and all of Pennsylvania.
