Our priorities, our district.
As a teacher, parent, and lifelong Southern Indiana resident, I believe state government should focus on what matters most: strong schools, affordable living, accessible healthcare, and real opportunity for local families and businesses.
Fully fund and protect public schools
As a former teacher, I know how much students and educators need the resources to succeed. Public schools are the foundation of our communities — they deserve serious, sustained investment.
- Make sure public schools receive the funding students and teachers need
- Support educators with fair pay and classroom resources
- Strengthen local schools so families can count on them
From Sarah's reporting: When politicians attack a school band program
Strong schools build stronger communities — and every child deserves the chance to succeed.
Property tax & utility relief
Families across District 70 are stretched thin by rising costs while large corporations get tax breaks. It's time for a government that protects Hoosiers' wallets first.
- Deliver real property tax relief for working families
- Bring transparency to how taxes are calculated
- Stop utilities from shifting costs onto ratepayers
- Make sure corporations pay their fair share
Hoosiers deserve a government that protects their wallets.
Hoosiers first, not billion-dollar corporations
Why are our cities and counties scrambling to protect us from massive data centers while our state government hands those same companies enormous incentives to come here?
Harrison County passed a one-year moratorium. So did New Albany. Madison County went six months. Boone County and many others are taking action too — as of this summer, roughly a third of Indiana counties have moved to restrict data-center development. That is not happening by accident.
Local leaders are asking some pretty basic questions:
- How much water will these facilities use?
- What will they do to our electric grid and our utility bills?
- Who pays for the infrastructure they require?
- What happens to nearby homeowners and farmland?
- What about noise, generators, and pollution?
Meanwhile, Indiana has created huge tax incentives for qualifying data centers — including exemptions on equipment and electricity that can last 25 years, and in some cases up to 50 years. Fifty years.
I use AI. I use technology. I am not against progress. I am against giving billion-dollar corporations the red carpet while Hoosier communities are left trying to figure out how to protect themselves.
In the Indiana State House, I will fight to:
- Protect families from subsidizing massive corporate electric demand
- Require transparency about water and electricity use before approval
- Protect local control and zoning authority
- Require strong noise, pollution, and environmental safeguards
- Make data centers pay their fair share for the infrastructure they need
- Take a hard look at these massive tax breaks and ask one simple question: what are Hoosiers getting in return?
Our local governments should not have to save us from bad state policy. The Statehouse should be protecting us too. If a corporation wants to build here, fine — but they should not get unlimited access to our water, our power, and decades of tax breaks without accountability.
Sarah wants to hear from you
Do you think Indiana should slow down and put stronger protections in place before more data centers are approved?
Join the conversation — or tell Sarah directly if Facebook isn't your thing.
Hoosiers first. Not billion-dollar corporations.
Protect access to care
When a rural hospital closes, an entire community loses something it can't easily replace. Access to local, affordable healthcare is non-negotiable.
- Protect rural hospitals from closure
- Improve access to doctors and specialists across the district
- Support rural healthcare providers
- Keep local care affordable
From Sarah's reporting: Why rural OBGYN programs are closing · IN-09 healthcare debate
Healthy communities start with accessible healthcare.
Support local economies
Small businesses and family farms are the backbone of District 70. State policy should help them compete and grow — not tilt the field toward the biggest players.
- Support local entrepreneurs
- Strengthen family farms
- Ensure fair competition
- Promote local job growth
Indiana's economy should work for local communities.
Keep the focus on kids
Our public schools shouldn't be the front line of someone else's political war. Eighteen years in the classroom taught Sarah what really makes a school work: well-supported teachers, engaged parents, and a community that lets educators do their job.
- Stop diverting public dollars away from neighborhood schools
- Defend music, arts, and extracurriculars from political attacks
- Keep curriculum decisions with local educators and parents — not statehouse culture warriors
- Protect the line between public schools and outside groups pushing their own agendas
From Sarah's reporting: Why LifeWise is dangerous — and how we stop it · Tracking LifeWise across the country
Our kids deserve schools focused on them — not on the loudest voices in Indianapolis.
Neighbors first
Through Project Next Media, Sarah has spent the last year doing something that's gone out of style in politics: listening to people across the district — Democrats, Republicans, and independents — and treating their answers seriously.
That's the approach she'll take to the statehouse. Most Hoosiers want the same basic things: a school they trust, a job that pays the bills, a doctor they can get to, and a government that doesn't talk down to them.
- Take the fear, hate, and division out of how we do politics
- Hold real town halls — and answer the hard questions in person
- Work across the aisle on the things that affect daily life
- Treat every constituent the same, regardless of how they voted
Hear Sarah on this: How we stop the fear, hate, and division harming us all · Speaking at the Corydon "No Kings" rally
We can elect leaders who want unity and peace. We just have to work together to get them elected.
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