Jobs, Economic Growth and Opportunity

At the risk of missing the next great opportunity for advancement and progress, we have to look toward the future and identify new clean energy sources that will take into consideration the health and well-being of our children and their children. Economic growth has to be rooted in practical solutions for solving tomorrow’s problems, rather than looking back nostalgically at the glory days of old. We won’t accomplish anything by going back in time to rotary dial phones in phone booths and black and white televisions. We must generate employment opportunities in areas that are in demand now, and that will be in demand in the future. We need jobs. Access to training and education to ensure our workers are qualified for the future and the coming challenges to our country’s workforce. This can only be achieved by a common realization and bipartisan action. We must take a critical look at what’s coming down the pike and not jeopardize ​our future as a world power by making choices that will take us back in time, while the rest of the world continues to move forward.

My opponent voted against the infrastructure bill that ultimately is bringing the $20 billion Intel investment to Ohio. I will use wisdom in making decisions about the bills I vote in favor of, regardless of which administration introduces them if they will benefit the people of Ohio. We are facing a global microchip shortage. Intel is building 2 new plants that will pay an average salary of $135,000, and bring good union-paying jobs and a tax base of 10,000 jobs to Ohio (factory jobs, equipment technicians, engineers, and business support staff), but Davidson voted against the bill because it was initiated by President Biden. This is the single largest private investment that the state has ever seen, but he voted against it, That’s like shooting your nose off to spite your face. This investment will make Ohio the world’s top semiconductor supplier. Not to mention the multiplier effect, and the jobs that will spring up around it.

I will identify opportunities to promote quality public education, vocational training, and higher education, lower healthcare cost, economic development, and the advancement of technology, and I will fight to ensure that Ohio’s 8th district is informed about the resources that will promote our well-being and economic advancement. My opponent is an elitist who believes that if a child is born into a poor family they should not have access to higher education, or the ability to leave the cycle of poverty. As the first in my family to graduate from college, I take issue with that line of thinking. We are the land of opportunity, and we live in a meritorious society and believe that children should not be relegated to a life of poverty, simply because of the zip code they were born in.