Protecting Your Freedom to Live Your Dream

Personal liberty means more than a slogan. It means the government should not be in the business of controlling your body, your marriage, your family, your faith, your private information, or your peaceful personal choices.

Too many politicians talk about freedom while voting to take it away from people they disagree with. Republican leaders in Columbia have dismantled abortion rights, attacked marriage equality, and pushed government deeper into the most personal parts of people’s lives. That is not freedom. That is control.

I believe South Carolinians are capable of making personal decisions for themselves, their families, and their futures. A representative should protect your freedom consistently, not pick and choose which rights matter based on party pressure, fear campaigns, or political convenience.

Freedom also requires honesty. We should make policy based on real evidence, real-world outcomes, and conversations with doctors, scientists, legal experts, law enforcement, parents, workers, and the people directly affected. We should not build laws around fearmongering, bad science, political influencers, or talking points designed to divide us.

What I believe

• Personal freedom is a core part of living in a free society.

• Government should protect rights consistently, not selectively.

• People should have the freedom to make deeply personal medical, family, religious, and life decisions without unnecessary political interference.

• Religious liberty matters, but it should never be twisted into a weapon used to deny other people equal treatment under the law.

• Constitutional rights deserve real respect, including due process, privacy, free speech, and the Second Amendment.

• A free society should be careful about giving government too much power to monitor, punish, or control ordinary people.

What I want to fight for

• Protection for reproductive freedom, including the right to make private medical decisions without politicians standing between patients and doctors.

• Respect for marriage equality and equal treatment under the law, because government should not get to decide whose family counts.

• Defense of Second Amendment rights while supporting evidence-based ways to reduce violence, improve safety, and keep guns out of the hands of people who have clearly shown they are a danger to others.

• Stronger digital privacy protections so your personal data, online activity, location information, and private communications are not treated like property for corporations or easy access for government.

• Limits on surveillance-state overreach, because freedom means very little if the government can watch, track, or collect information on people without strong safeguards.

• Legalizing and responsibly regulating marijuana, so adults are not treated like criminals for personal choices that should not ruin their lives, careers, or families.

• A government that respects people’s right to live their lives without unnecessary interference, control, or punishment.

Why this matters

When government starts deciding whose rights matter, freedom becomes fragile for everyone.

If politicians can take away reproductive freedom today, they can come after marriage equality tomorrow. If they can ignore privacy because technology makes surveillance easy, they can build systems that follow people through every part of their lives. If they can use fear instead of evidence, they can justify almost any intrusion.

This is personal. People should not have to beg politicians for permission to make medical decisions, marry the person they love, practice their faith, protect their privacy, defend themselves, or live peacefully without government breathing down their neck.

A government that respects freedom gives people room to live according to their own beliefs, responsibilities, and hopes for the future.

Bottom line

I want a government that protects your freedom consistently, respects your private life, and trusts South Carolinians to make personal decisions without unnecessary political interference.