No family should have to choose between paying bills, seeing a doctor, or putting food on the table. These programs are lifelines for thousands in our community, and Erin will fight to keep them strong so they are never on the chopping block. Everyone deserves the dignity of healthcare and a full plate.

Programs like SNAP, Medicaid, WIC, and beyond are there to help when people need it most. Erin believes these programs shouldn’t exist in a vacuum, and should be bundled with programs to help families eventually graduate off of these programs. She will work to enhance funding for navigators to help recipients find better paying jobs, find upskilling and reskilling opportunities, and build stronger, more abundant lives. We must strive towards self-sufficiency and sustainability for people to permanently not just climb out of poverty but to stay out of it for good.

Energy shouldn’t be a partisan issue. We all use it, we all rely on it, and we all need to work to create more affordable energy.

The energy crisis is here and we need to address it so families don’t have to pay more of their already stressed incomes on utility bills. Business growth - and job growth - also relies on predicable and affordable energy. Between permitting form and expanding sources of energy, we just can’t wait any longer.

Renewable energy should not be partisan talking points. It’s common sense. It allows for growth, protects public health, strengthen the economy, and benefit everyone along the way. Our need for energy will only grow, so our means to create it must grow with it. This means leaning into all possibilities: renewable natural gas, wind, solar, geothermal, battery storage, hydro, and nuclear. Traditional natural gas is also an accessible source of baseload energy with lower carbon.

And coal? It’s a vital part of the renewable transition because we need ample metallurgical coal to fuel steel mills to build those solar panels, wind turbines, nuclear reactors, and other parts of our energy systems. Coal fueled the energy of our past, and it can do that for the future, just in a different way that’s better for our people and our planet.

Erin also supports passing sweeping permitting reform to allow for new energy facilities to be built and come on line faster, rather than spend years and dollars on legal fees and lobbyists to provide vital energy supply. She also believes that expanding and upgrading distribution and transmission needs to be done now to future proof capacity.

Kentucky is primed to be a hub for jobs up and down the supply chain. But it needs leaders who will push for direct investment from both domestic and international companies.

Erin will champion policies that encourage major employers in legacy and emerging industries - from advanced manufacturing to the auto industry - to choose Kentucky for future expansion.

She will also push for programs to make Kentucky’s workforce globally competitive, from investing in early childhood education, like Pre-K for All, to upskilling and reselling current workers as part of investment agreements. Creating more good jobs will not only keep our young people here at home, but it will bring many Kentuckians back.

Because being pro-business and pro-people do not need to be at odds. In fact, they are complementary when done right.

Erin knows the value of a strong public school education as a graduate of Fayette County Public Schools. Schools are the heart and lifeblood of our communities and the foundation for our kids’ futures. That means making sure free and reduced lunch programs stay fully supported - no child should ever have to learn or live on an empty stomach - and protection of Title I schools. In Kentucky, 1 in 5 kids struggles with hunger. That is not ok.

Teacher pay also must be preserved and increased. Kentucky ranks 48th in starting teacher pay and 49th in support staff pay. Teachers dedicate their lives to growing future generations, so we should dedicate more dollars to letting them do their jobs well, without having to reach into their own pockets. Investing in our schools and our students is investing in the future. And we should be doing that without nickel and diming taxpayers along the way.

Erin will also champion legislation for national support for Pre-K for All, just like Governor Beshear is doing right here in Kentucky. Pre-K provides kids better readiness to enter school, grows the labor force by allowing parents to work, increases take home pay by giving parents the chance to earn while their kids go to school, saves money on childcare expenses, and grows the economy by a factor of 10 for every dollar spent. It just makes sense to give our kids the best chance at success as early as possible.

Healthcare is a human right, and should not be a profit engine. Basic preventative and primary care should be free and accessible to all. Insurance companies also should not have more say on a patient’s treatment than their doctor; that’s just absurd.

Erin knows the broken healthcare system firsthand. As someone with a chronic disease, she has to navigate its grubby hands every day. She has advocated for those with disabilities on Capitol Hill to block legislation that would prevent doctors from prescribing the medication best suited for them, and she will keep doing this in Congress.

Erin will also work to pass legislation that will prohibit medical bankruptcies - which impact over 500K people per year - will not hurt their credit scores. A health scare and the wrong type of insurance within this broken system should not prevent people from being able to find housing, get jobs, or pay their bills.

Farmers feed this great nation. But from tariffs to SNAP cuts to bailouts for foreign economies to shuttering of USAID, American - and especially Kentucky - farmers have been left out in the cold. Soybean markets have been completely decimated. The bourbon industry isn’t buying as much corn. And long-standing markets are get slashed constantly.

Farmers are the backbone of our food supply and we must treat them as core parts of our economy and our culture. Erin will axe the tariffs that are leaving crops to rot and paychecks to not come, reopening China’s soybean market and restoring $25B in trade. She will also move to revitalize foreign aid, which contributes over $2B annually to farmers. And she will protect SNAP, the cuts to which this administration is proposing will cost farmers over $30B over the next decade.

Kentucky - and America - is in the midst of a housing crisis. Housing supply is also a key contributor to homelessness. The Kentucky Housing Corporation conducted a gap analysis in 2024 and the results are staggering: “The state has an overall housing gap of 206K units,” with the starkest gaps in rural and non-urban areas. Exacerbated by everything from natural disasters to rising interest rates to tariffs on building materials to private equity snapping up supply.

Erin is committed to championing legislation to limit private equity from purchasing affordable housing only to flip them for a profit or turn them into short-term rentals. This would include instituting limits on purchasing, mandatory waiting periods to allow for individual home buyers to purchase housing before investors with bags of cash can, repurposing vacant commercial real estate into affordable housing units, and improving rates for first time home buyers.

Erin is also sympathetic to renters, as a lifelong renter herself. She has organized tenant associations and advocated for renters rights, and will do so in Washington. She will seek to create a national Renter’s Bill of Rights to stop abuse by slumlords, ensure affordability, and prevent evictions from destroying second chances at living with dignity.

Voters have lost faith in the value of their ballot; this must be restored. Voter apathy is high because so many folks don’t think their vote can outweigh corporate donor checks.

Citizens United must be overturned or counter-legislation must be passed. Corporate campaign contributions must also be capped.

Erin is a strong supporter of campaign finance reform, shortening election cycles, and institution of term limits across the board for elected and appointed offices. She also believes elected officials should be required to place their investments in trust and prohibited from trading stocks.

Corporate interests shouldn’t control America: the people should.

13 states - including Kentucky - still use the federal minimum wage of $7.25/ hour. In Kentucky, 14K people still make that minimum wage. The federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2009 and that is unacceptable.

Erin is committed to first raising the federal minimum wage, and then working to create a clear path towards a living wage. The fact that 10% of the American workforce relies on SNAP benefits is unconscionable. We have to do better for our American workers.

Beyond increasing opportunity, we also must enhance financial literacy. Erin is committed to including financial education as core parts of public assistance programs, educational grants, and core curriculums for schools. From credit scores to basic tax preparation, Americans are woefully behind on how to best manage their money. As she was always taught, “knowledge is power” and American kids are not set up for success from a young age on how to seize and sustain financial freedom.

As a kid, Erin dreamed of being a diplomat - she wanted to travel the world and preach the gospel of how amazing America, the American Dream, and American Democracy was. But now, instead of being a global leader, we are becoming a global loser: a place people don’t look to but away from. For the first time in 20 years, the U.S. has dropped out of the top 10 most desirable passports. This is not what our ancestors fought for when we overthrew British rule.

Erin will work to restore the vital work of the Department of State, USAID, U.S. Institute of Peace, and other vital programs that work to build soft power across the globe. The more we invest in diplomacy, the less we must invest in the tools of defense and war. America should be a beacon of hope and freedom; not a cudgel of hate and authoritarianism.

As the world’s richest country, we also have a duty to help those with less. Foreign aid - especially in the form of food and medicine - must be restored. As John F. Kennedy said when he created USAID, it is both our moral and economic obligation to help those less fortunate. If we don’t, someone else - like China - will.

As Maya Angelou said, “The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.” Yet we still have laws being proposed each and every day to restrict freedoms of one group or another out of hate and fear.

Erin will fight for equal rights for all communities that have been historically disenfranchised, from women to African Americans to the LGBTQIA+ community. She will automatically vote down any legislation seeking to take liberties away from these groups of people and work towards expanding protections against discrimination, pushing for stronger prosecutions for domestic violence, and restoring programs meant to give all an equal chance at success.

Trans rights are human rights.

ICE in its current state needs to be abolished. It has been co-opted into a secret police brutalizing communities and kidnapping productive members of communities across the country, even right here in Kentucky.

Erin welcomes real, sustainable immigration reform that provides immigrants who did not have the means to come here with the proper paperwork or were fleeing horrific conditions back home, a clear path to citizenship. If you pay taxes, you should have a path to citizenship that doesn’t cost $10K+ in legal fees. We must also hold companies accountable who exploit our immigration system (looking at you, big agribusiness).

America is a nation of immigrants and we must remember we cannot exist without them. Erin supports creating good quality jobs for Americans but also to return to the America where she grew up: a place where people dreamed of coming because here, anything is possible.

On the day Roe vs. Wade was overturned, Erin cried and comforted her young female colleagues. For years, Erin has been a staunch advocate for and donor to Planned Parenthood and women’s reproductive rights for years.

We must protect women’s rights to make their own reproductive health decisions. Women’s healthcare decisions must be between a woman and her doctor: NOT the government.

Let’s be honest: we are not giving our veterans the treatment and support they deserve. Active duty military shouldn’t have to wait in food assistance lines or struggle to pay rent. Their spouses shouldn’t have to give up careers while they are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

Veterans deserve a system that rewards and thanks them for their service, not puts them at a disadvantage. Erin will fight for a stronger VA healthcare system, enhance programs for veteran mental health, expand programs to match homeless veterans with housing, and do more to reward companies who help upskill and skill our veterans for a stronger professional future.

Erin comes from a long line of services members. Her great grandfather was awarded a Silver Star in France for driving gas trucks to the front lines. Her grandfather was a Military Policy in the Philippines. Her cousin was a POW in a Nazi camp. Her stepdad was a Master Chief Seabee in the Navy, serving three tours in the Middle East. She is also a proud Daughter of the American Revolution. Veterans shaped who she is and her love for her country.

The heart of Kentucky is its people, but its people’s greatest pride is our incredible natural beauty. From the rolling hills right here in Central Kentucky to mountains of Appalachia where Erin’s Dad grew up to the riverbanks of the Ohio where Erin’s Mom came from, Kentucky’s - and America’s - parks and landscapes must be preserved. This administration is selling off drilling and mining rights to the highest bidder, all while calling climate change - which threatens our biodiversity - a hoax.

Our parks are our pride and they must be preserved. Erin will ensure that our natural resources are accessed responsibility and fight for lobbyists for oil and gas to not desecrate this incredible country. Erin spent her childhood hiking the Red River Gorge and visiting Natural Bridge State Park, which both sit in the 6th district, and she is committed to protecting it for future generations to come.

We can talk about policy forever, but members of the U.S. House of Representatives have a core duty to provide services to their constituents. Erin is committed to establishing an excellent and timely constituent services operation to ensure that no one feels like their voice is being ignored.

From casework for veterans to grants for small businesses and farmers and educators to service academy nominations, Erin will ensure each and every constituent need is handled with the care it deserves. And no, she won’t be sending you any condescending letters if you disagree with her policies like some incumbents do.

Working people keep paying more and more and getting less and less, all while a handful of men (and one woman) get tax break after tax break. They keep getting richer and working folks keep getting poorer. This must change.

Erin wants to work towards a world where the American Dream is possible again, where the middle class is booming and income inequality isn’t as stark as it is today. Billionaires need to pay their fair share and be brought to task especially if their riches were made off the backs of minimum wage workers who rely on SNAP. All we are asking for is for everyone to pay what they should, and that is certainly not how the tax code is written today.

Growing up on a farm, Erin was exposed to guns from a young age but she was always taught to not touch them. They were always on a high shelf and only used in case of emergencies. She learned to respect them as weapons. She also plans to purchase a firearm of her own and learn how to use it properly - with training classes - to better understand the issue. The best way to learn is to do.

But our country does have a gun violence problem and we must address it. Kids should not have to fear being gunned down at school. It is a uniquely American way to die. And we have to do better for our kids and our neighbors to create a safer country.

Today in America it is easier to buy a gun than a car, and Erin is very pro common sense gun control laws, but we have clearly lost sight of what “common sense” means anymore. She will support legislation that requires background checks and mandatory waiting periods because no one needs to buy a gun right now. She will also work with experts on both sides of the gun control issue to better learn how to create lasting, impactful reform.