Families on the North Shore are doing everything right: working hard, providing for their families, and contributing to their communities. Yet the cost of building a stable life keeps going up. Groceries, housing, childcare, healthcare, basic home repairs, transportation – everything is becoming harder to afford. Meanwhile, politicians in Washington argue, posture, and defer to special interest groups instead of actually helping the families they were elected to serve. 

I’m running for Congress because North Shore families deserve better. I’m not a career politician: I’m a dad and neighbor who knows that the people in charge won’t fix what’s broken, so it’s on the rest of us to step up.

This campaign is about restoring the basic deal that used to define America: if you work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to build a good life, stay in the community you love, and give your kids a better future. That’s not too much to ask, and it shouldn’t take three jobs, endless stress, and luck to make it happen. 

Here are some alarming statistics about the state of the Massachusetts economy: 

• Housing costs are among the highest in the nation, with median single-family home prices reaching around $687,500. MA has the nation’s highest median infant child-care costs, topping $23,000 a year

• MA is the second most expensive state for retirees with an annual cost of living of over $88,268

• The state is experiencing significant domestic outmigration of young adults aged 26-35

• The average commute time of 30 minutes is 47th in the nation

• MA had net losses of nearly 37,000 private sector jobs in the last five years (one of only four states in the country to have negative job gains)
  

My agenda is focused on using common sense and my business experience to rebuild an economy that works for working families: lowering costs, creating jobs, improving education and opportunity, and making government work with the same urgency as the rest of us. Because the stakes aren’t theoretical: they’re kitchen-table real. And it’s time we had leaders in DC who understand that.