iHeart Radio: NH Today
This morning I joined Chris Ryan on iHeart Radio's New Hampshire Today, and we covered a lot of ground — from why I jumped into this race to healthcare, AI, and what it actually means to build coalitions across the aisle. Click here to listen.
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Politics right now can feel loud, heated, and polarizing. Many people don't feel at home in either party. People are frustrated by a system that ignores them, and I understand that frustration completely.
I've driven 27,000 miles around this state asking people what they wish Washington understood, and the answers are similar across New Hampshire. Rising property taxes, childcare that costs a family $17,000 last year, healthcare few can actually afford. These fears don't belong to one party.
One of the things we talked about was how you actually build coalitions across real differences. I serve on the Hampton Select Board alongside people who vote very differently than I do nationally. We begin by finding common ground around the problems we all want to solve. When we put people first, real progress follows.
Chris mentioned there are a lot of progressives in this race, and he's right. I'm glad people have a real choice among good candidates. But here’s what sets me apart: I'm a union organizer, a teacher, a mom. These issues aren't far away to me. They impact my family, my neighbors, my community, and that's exactly where my sense of urgency comes from.
We also got deep into healthcare and AI. We didn't vote to let three companies own the entire healthcare system and take a cut at every single step. Universal healthcare isn't just the right thing to do, it's the number one cost in household and municipal budgets across this state.
On AI, we didn't vote to hand tech companies our data, our energy, and our communities to build their models without any accountability back to us. I love seeing people stand up and demand that conversation. When it comes to AI in the military, if lives are on the line there has to be human accountability. Full stop.
These are fights that matter and issues I'm ready to bring a sense of urgency to. I don't take corporate PAC money, so I'm ready to have these conversations with the interests of the people of New Hampshire in mind, not big tech or healthcare corporations.
I'm ready to fight for all of it. Thank you Chris for the conversation, and thank you to everyone supporting this campaign. We deserve a real choice and we deserve strong leadership. We deserve change.
