Zach’s Plan to help you!

We are living through one of the worst cost-of-living crises in memory. Wages have been flat for decades while housing, healthcare, groceries, and childcare keep climbing. Georgians are getting priced out of homes they grew up in. Young parents are delaying starting families because they can’t afford childcare. Long-time homeowners on fixed incomes are watching their property taxes climb year after year. And millions of us are one layoff away from a crisis we can’t recover from.

This isn’t an accident. It’s the result of a tax code and a set of policies that were written to favor large corporations and the wealthiest Americans at the expense of everyone else. As a CPA, I’ve seen it up close. And as your State Senator, I’ll work every day to rewrite those rules.

Affordability is my number one priority. It’s the lens I’ll bring to every vote, every bill, and every decision I make under the Gold Dome.

What I will fight for:

• Rewrite Georgia’s tax code so working families and small businesses stop subsidizing out-of-state corporations.

• Reduce regressive taxes that hit lower-income Georgians hardest and protect long-time homeowners from being taxed out of their homes.

• Cap corporate ownership of single-family homes and close the shell-company loopholes Wall Street uses to hide it.

• Expand Medicaid to bring down healthcare costs for half a million Georgians and save our rural hospitals.

• Lower childcare costs so young parents can work, save, and build a future.

Home-ownership has been the single most reliable way American families build wealth for three generations. That opportunity is disappearing in Georgia, and it didn’t disappear by accident.

Corporate investors and private equity firms are buying up single-family homes across the state and turning them into rental revenue streams. Georgia families aren’t just competing against each other, now we’re also competing against Wall Street investment funds with unlimited cash. Our tax code and our property laws make it easier for those firms to hide behind shell companies and dodge reporting requirements. That has to end.

I’ll fight to level the playing field so that when a young family wants to buy their first home, they’re not outbid by a faceless LLC that’s going to turn the house into a rental and ship the profits out of state.

What I will fight for:

• Cap the number of single-family homes that any corporate entity or private equity firm can own in Georgia.

• Require parent companies to report total single-family home ownership across all subsidiaries and LLCs.

• Apply progressive taxation to large-scale corporate SFH portfolios, making it financially unattractive to hoard homes.

• Expand down-payment assistance and first-time home-buyer programs so Georgians can actually compete.

• Support zoning reform that allows for more housing supply while protecting community character.

• Defend long-time homeowners from property tax shocks that force them out of homes they’ve lived in for decades.

Georgia is one of only ten states that still refuses to expand Medicaid. That federal money that could cover over half a million Georgians, save our rural hospitals from closing, and create tens of thousands of jobs. For every dollar Georgia puts in, we get nine federal dollars back. I’ve run budgets for a living, but you don’t need to be an accountant to know that’s a good investment.

Beyond Medicaid expansion, I believe in a healthcare system where no Georgian has to choose between medicine and rent, where your care isn’t tied to an employer, and where the communities that have been historically under-served get the same quality of care AND research as anyone else.

What I will fight for:

• Expand Medicaid in Georgia. Every year we wait, more Georgians die and more rural hospitals close.

• Protect and expand reproductive healthcare, including access to contraception, FDA-approved medications, and abortion care.

• Lower prescription drug costs by allowing Georgia to negotiate drug prices and crack down on pharmacy benefit manager abuses.

• Invest in rural hospitals and expand access in historically under-served communities.

• Address racial disparities in healthcare outcomes through research funding and targeted investment in under-served areas.

• Support the long-term movement toward universal, non-employer-based coverage so no Georgian is trapped in a bad job just to keep their health insurance.

I’m a proud product of Georgia’s public schools. Public education is one of the smartest investments a state can make. An educated population attracts employers, drives growth, and pays dividends for generations. But Georgia has been under-investing for too long. Our school funding formula (QBE) is outdated and hasn’t kept up with what modern classrooms actually need. Teachers are burned out, classrooms are overcrowded, and our future generations are paying the price.

I will not vote to divert a single public dollar to private school vouchers. Public money belongs in public schools. Private schools aren’t held to the same standards or curriculum requirements we expect of our public schools, and vouchers overwhelmingly benefit wealthy communities at the expense of poorer ones.

What I will fight for:

• Modernize Georgia’s school funding formula so every district, especially lower-income ones, gets what it actually needs.

• Raise teacher pay, reduce class sizes, and fully stock classrooms. Teachers shouldn’t have to buy supplies on their own dime.

• Expand mental health counselors in every school so students get support early and before issues escalate.

• Oppose all voucher schemes that divert public education funding to private schools.

• Subsidize teacher preparation programs that help keep new educators in Georgia.

• Respect teachers as professionals. Let them teach and stop overriding their judgment from the Capitol.

Reproductive freedom is not negotiable. Government has no business standing between a patient and their doctor, between a woman and her family, or between any Georgian and the healthcare decisions they need to make for themselves.

I’ll fight every attempt to restrict access to reproductive care, and I’ll work to expand protections for the patients and providers who are already under attack.

What I will fight for:

• Protect and expand access to abortion care in Georgia.

• Defend access to contraception and FDA-approved abortion medications.

• Protect healthcare providers from prosecution for providing lawful care.

• Require insurance coverage for IVF and fertility treatments so families struggling to conceive aren’t priced out of having children.

• Address Georgia’s maternal mortality crisis, particularly the disproportionate rates affecting Black and brown women, through targeted research investments and improved access to prenatal care.

Georgia has been at the center of the national fight over voting rights for a decade. Every cycle, we see new attempts to make it harder for eligible Georgians to cast a ballot: fewer polling locations, tighter ID requirements, shorter voting windows, and more barriers to mail-in voting.

As your State Senator, I’ll be a first line of defense. I’ll oppose every bill that makes voting harder, and I’ll fight to expand access, because a democracy where only some people can vote isn’t a democracy at all.

What I will fight for:

• Oppose all voter ID laws that impose new barriers on eligible voters. Georgians show ID to register.

• Support automatic voter registration and same-day registration so no Georgian is turned away on Election Day over paperwork.

• Expand early voting windows and protect mail-in voting access.

• Fund more polling locations and poll workers, especially in counties that struggle to keep up with demand.

• Support independent redistricting commissions to end partisan gerrymandering.

• Reject any attempt to leave ERIC or other multi-state systems that keep voter rolls accurate.

• Prohibit ICE and other federal agents from operating at or near polling locations.

I grew up in Georgia. I understand and respect gun ownership. I believe every American has the right to defend themselves and their community. I also believe we can protect our communities and our children without trampling the Second Amendment.

There is an extreme lack of trust on both sides of the aisle. Those on the left perceive the right as stubbornly not moving an inch. Those on the right perceive the left as a group who constantly moves the goalposts. We can address this issue, but only if we commit to building trust.

What I will fight for:

• Require universal background checks on all gun sales, including at gun shows and private sales.

• Offer expanded tax credits for gun safes.

• Expand access to firearm safety courses through tax credits.

• Oppose legislation requiring teachers to arm themselves.

• Support reasonable red flag laws that allow temporary removal of firearms from people who are a danger to themselves or others, after the claim has been substantiated.

• Refuse all contributions and endorsements from the NRA and state gun lobby groups.

District 37 covers northwest Cobb and parts of Bartow County. These are communities where residents love the green space they have and watch with concern as more of it disappears to reckless development. We also live with real environmental harms: PFAS contamination in northwest Georgia, and to our south, Sterigenics has been sued for exposing the community to ethylene oxide. These aren’t abstract issues. They’re costing our neighbors their health and their savings.

I believe climate change is one of the most urgent challenges we face, and I don’t think Georgia’s current approach meets the moment. Polluting our communities has been treated as a cost of doing business. Real consequences for polluters would protect our families, our property values, and our future.

What I will fight for:

• End the fine-as-cost-of-business loophole by making environmental penalties proportional to the profits gained from violations.

• Address PFAS and forever chemical contamination through stricter standards and enforcement.

• Protect and expand community green spaces as development pressures grow in Cobb and Bartow.

• Accelerate Georgia’s transition to clean energy and invest in jobs that come with it.

• Expand sustainable public transportation and smart infrastructure investments.

• Stand up to energy company lobbyists who’ve spent decades blocking common-sense environmental protections.

• Partner with community environmental groups to keep these issues in front of voters and lawmakers alike.

This is my personal number one structural issue. Until we get corporate money out of our politics, every other issue becomes harder to solve. Citizens United turned our political system upside down, and everyday Georgians are left in the dust.

I’ve never taken corporate PAC money and I never will. My campaign is funded by people, and if I’m elected, I’ll be accountable to the people, not to the donors and special interest groups who’ve spent decades rigging our tax code, our regulations, and our laws in their favor.

What I will fight for:

• Refuse all corporate PAC money, in this race and every future race.

• Level contribution limits in Georgia so small donors aren’t drowned out by big ones.

• Require LLCs and shell companies that donate to candidates or committees to disclose their beneficial owners and original source of funds.

• Prohibit state contractors, active bidders, and anyone seeking state business from donating to officials who oversee those decisions.

• Require elected officials to place individual stocks and bonds in a blind trust while in office.

• Support legislation banning individual stock trades by public officials.

• Make corporate fines a multiple of the revenue gained from illicit activity, enough to actually deter bad behavior.

Georgia’s small businesses, the family-owned restaurants, the independent shops, the local contractors, and the two-person consulting firms, are the actual engine of our economy. They’re where most new jobs come from, where most wealth is built, and where communities get their character.

But too often, small businesses are left to absorb what the big players won’t: rising healthcare costs, supply-chain shocks, reckless tariffs, and tighter access to capital. Meanwhile, massive corporations use their leverage to pressure suppliers, undercut competitors, capture subsidies, and shape laws in their own favor.

As your State Senator, I’ll fight to make Georgia a place where small businesses can compete on a level playing field and where entrepreneurs who take real risks actually have a shot at building something of their own.

What I will fight for:

• End the corporate subsidy arms race. Stop handing tax breaks to out-of-state corporations that small businesses never get.

• Expand access to capital for Georgia-based small businesses, especially in underserved regions and communities.

• Protect small businesses from predatory practices by large corporations, including supplier squeezes and below-cost competition.

• Simplify regulatory and tax compliance for small businesses so they don’t need a Fortune 100 legal team to operate.

My entire platform is built around workers and working families. I’ve worked since I was 15, and every step of the way I’ve watched my peers, my coworkers, and my neighbors get the short end of the stick. Wages have stayed flat for decades while corporate profits, share buybacks, and executive pay have exploded.

I’m proud to be endorsed by UFCW Local 1996, IBEW Local 613, and the AFL-CIO. If I’m elected, I will be a partner to labor at the State Capitol, not just when it’s politically convenient, but when it matters.

What I will fight for:

• Raise Georgia’s minimum wage to a genuine living wage and tie it to inflation so it never falls behind again.

• Repeal right-to-work laws that weaken unions and suppress wages across Georgia.

• Defend the right to organize and make it easier, not harder, for Georgia workers to form unions.

• Protect workers from wage theft, misclassification as independent contractors, and retaliation for organizing.

• Reform Georgia’s state tax code so wealthy individuals and corporations pay their fair share.

• Support a meaningful wealth tax on the ultra-wealthy. Not on affluent professionals or successful small business owners, but on the billionaires and shareholder class who’ve spent decades extracting wealth from workers and public infrastructure.

When state and local police cooperate with ICE, it erodes community trust and makes our communities less safe. Undocumented immigrants become less likely to cooperate with law enforcement or report crimes when they fear it could put them at risk, and that leaves everyone more vulnerable. I don’t want a Georgia where neighbors fear each other. I want a Georgia where we look out for each other.

At the state level, we have tools to protect our communities from federal overreach. I’ll use them.

What I will fight for:

• Prohibit state and local law enforcement cooperation with ICE. It makes our communities less safe, not more.

• Restrict ICE operations around schools, churches, courthouses, hospitals, and polling locations.

• Establish state oversight of detention facilities so inhumane conditions can be documented and addressed.

• Support lawsuits against ICE facilities found to be violating basic human standards.

• Defend immigrants’ access to essential services without fear of immigration enforcement.

• Partner with Georgia’s federal delegation to support comprehensive immigration reform that provides real pathways to citizenship.