Timothy Grady

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Fight For Our Future

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I believe in a Rustbelt Renaissance, in an Ohio that builds, that leads, that creates real opportunity in every corner of the state.

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Improvement is Building a Better Future.It is the spirit of National Improvement, the vision of leaders like Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams. It is the belief that we prosper when we invest in ourselves; our people, our communities, and our country.We invest in what connects us. Roads, railways, airports, telecommunications; the infrastructure and networks that allows us to work together and achieve more than any one person could alone.We invest in where we live. Strong cities and thriving villages. Affordable housing. Clean air and water. Stewardship of our land and natural resources that belong to all and future generations.We build. Great works that transform millions of lives, and small improvements that make everyday life better. We invest in discovery. Progress comes from innovation, through science, engineering, trial and error. We learn. Research institutions, moonshots, universities, community colleges, and schools; laying the foundation for anyone to climb higher and achieve more. The sort of Improvement that Clay and Adams and further back to our Founders believed in was not just National Improvement but the Improvement of Ourselves. That’s the idea behind this country, that people will be free to pursue their dreams and rise above. That’s the power of democracy and liberty: the freedom to explore who we are and strive for more.Self-Improvement. It’s the heart of this movement. It’s about people investing in themselves and each other. Gaining new skills, imagining new possibilities, being better neighbors, friends, and family. Prospering by our own hands, our own talents. And as we improve ourselves, we improve our communities. A strong nation isn’t just built by policy or government, it’s built by the choices we make every day. By how we support one another. Because no matter who is running the show, we can control and are responsible for our own lives. Yeah, our government may be corrupt and incompetent, but we can still be better and do better and that will matter a whole lot more and it will eventually trickle through to every institution. We create the fabric of our nation by the lives we lead, not who we vote for. This is a campaign for the governorship of Ohio but it is also a campaign to mobilize thousands of people to work to improve themselves and their communities and that will be 1000x more impactful, in the end, regardless of the outcome.

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Every part of government, of the economy, of life itself is steadily being reduced by our politics to a Left vs Right dichotomy. It’s a virus, it consumes all things that are good. We reject it. We reject its Zero-Sum outlook, its Us vs Them attitude. We reject its cynicism, its pursuit of power at the expense of basic human decency, of moral values, and of American principles. And we absolutely reject the notion that the world is so simple, so two-dimensional, so uninteresting. Partisan politics seeks to flatten us, to place us into neat categories. We reject it. We will not be flattened.

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By knowing and embracing who we are we will lead a Rust Belt Renaissance. Renaissance means rebirth. It means bouncing back. Every renaissance, every golden age, every great epoch was preceded by crisis. Athens, Rome, Florence, Edinburgh, Vienna, Chicago; each was made great in the wake of crisis. Fostering that renaissance means using our history to our advantage, recognizing our economic diversity and potential held within our small and medium sized cities that are so often overlooked. Reindustrializing means innovation and regional economic integration. It means turning our research and technology powerhouses like Cleveland Clinic, the public university system, and Wright-Patterson into engines of innovation tied to our industrial centers and supply chains. Left-Behind Ohio, really anywhere outside the major cities, are actually overlooked Ohio. They will be the key to unlocking the future of Ohio.

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The greatest threat to Ohio is corruption. Corruption which robs Ohioans of their tax dollars, which denies Ohio the proper investments, and which degrades trust in government and each other. We will implement immediately the most severe crackdown on corruption this state and this country have ever seen. At the state and local level we will expose conflicts of interest, bribery, and any other dirty dealing. We will instill a sense of pride and civic duty in our government, in the police, in the bureaucracy. We will recruit to our ticket an Auditor, a Secretary of State, and Attorney General that will hold politicians and government accountable, expose wrongdoing, and prosecute accordingly. Transparency will be the default. The culture of pay-to-play politics and government will be put to an end. And we will work tirelessly to earn the trust of the public once again.

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Expand the Ohio House from 99 members to 225. Expand the Ohio Senate from 33 members to 75.

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Fund and implement the long-studied 3C+D Amtrak corridor without further delay.

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I believe in an Ohio that not only grows but thrives, an Ohio that creates opportunity for all, where anyone can come and build a life, where anyone can find the tools to improve themselves, I believe in an Ohio that strives always and everywhere for better; and I want to build that Ohio with a government and a movement committed to improvement, to integrity, and to opportunity.

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Let us call forth a new vision for Ohio; a vision of abundance and prosperity, of growth and innovation, of opportunity and liberty. An Ohio that leads. An Ohio that owns its future. An Ohio for all of us.Past politicians and policies have failed because they failed to understand what actually makes an economy strong. Prosperity emerges from the ground up. It is a product of productivity. Productivity is a product of innovation. And innovation is a product of human interaction; of people encountering each other, exchanging ideas, and building things together. We need to focus on people and place.To that end, this platform concentrates on three interconnected pillars: Cities, Education, and Infrastructure.

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Ohio’s zoning and land use regime is one of the most significant obstacles to the economic revitalization of its cities and one of the most underappreciated drivers of housing unaffordability, sprawl, and urban decay. We will transform it.

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We will invest heavily in public safety across Ohio. We will also fund neighborhood-based peacekeeping efforts that complement formal law enforcement. People who live in a community are its first and best early-warning system. That knowledge has value, and volunteer effort alone is not sufficient to capture it so we will fund it.

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We will end homelessness in Ohio.

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The commitment of this campaign is an Ohio for everyone and for anyone. Whether you want to live in suburbia, a small Ohio village, an urban metropolis, rural Ohio, or Appalachian Ohio; we want to make it a place that is affordable, accessible, and healthy. You should be able to live in these places and still have ready access to a job, to education, to healthcare, to nature, to stores and entertainment, to healthy food. You should be able to walk around where you live. You shouldn’t have to suffer crime or pollution. You should be able to live the life you want.

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Using some of the thousands of square miles of land that will fall into disuse because of the impending Cornpocalypse, we propose building a brand new city in Ohio’s Northwest. Learn more.

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New and expanded post-secondary campuses should be located within cities, not on remote outskirts. Ohio’s cities are full of underutilized buildings that can be repurposed for educational use. Placing colleges downtown is cheaper than building greenfield campuses, creates foot traffic for local businesses, and makes education genuinely accessible. A resident should be able to walk or take a short transit ride to attend class.

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Colleges will be directly integrated with local business and industry. Specialized training programs will be developed in coordination with regional employers, and degree pathways will map clearly onto real job opportunities in the local economy. Apprenticeship programs will also be facilitated.

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We will dramatically increase direct state funding for research and innovation at Ohio’s universities and colleges. Funds will also support cluster development and public-private partnerships in research and development.

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Ohio’s educational system will be rebuilt as a coherent ladder from pre-K through two years of

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We have invested in our places and our people. Now we must connect them. Innovation is a function of the velocity of interaction and how often people encounter ideas, other people, and new possibilities. Infrastructure is the physical substrate of that interaction. A well-connected Ohio is a more innovative, more productive Ohio.

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We will build a high-speed rail system across Ohio. Beginning with a 3C+D corridor —Cleveland to Columbus to Dayton to Cincinnati — and supporting a federal and interstate initiative linking New York City to Chicago through Cleveland. Ohio’s flat geography makes high-speed rail construction significantly cheaper here than in most of the country (looking at you California); we can achieve French-level construction costs if we build with the ambition and scale that makes such efficiency possible. In the range of $12-15 billion to make the 3C+D corridor. While more costly than the much proposed and debated 3C+D Amtrak expansion of low speed rail, High Speed Rail is the only investment that will result in meaningful change in behavior and meaningful new connections and opportunities. That, and it builds for the 21st century. Just because something is cheaper does not make it good or better. Building rail that wasn’t modern in the 1970s is not a good idea.

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We will build a comprehensive, low-cost, statewide public transit network linking together local transit networks with the state backbone, one that makes getting around Ohio without a personal vehicle a genuinely practical choice for the vast majority of Ohioans, regardless of where they live, and acts as a convenient, efficient complement to personal vehicles.

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We will invest in the low-altitude economy: a regulatory framework enabling drone delivery and drone taxi services, and the infrastructure needed to support aerial innovation. Our small cities are a natural space to be connected with regional airports and drone taxis. Ohio should be a national leader in this space.

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Every corner of Ohio will have access to excellent, affordable high-speed internet and mobile service. Broadband infrastructure investment will be coordinated with smart grid deployment to reduce costs and extend reach.

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Ohio stops being a collection of struggling cities and isolated rural communities. It becomes a networked whole, diverse in character, unified in opportunity, and positioned to lead the country into a more prosperous and innovative future. When we begin to understand that innovation, growth, and prosperity are products of society as a whole and not in isolation, we can begin to approach policy, markets, and governance from a better, more informed position.

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Taxation is a necessary component of government. It is both a primary source of revenue to provide for the government services and investment we all rely upon and a tool for managing and correcting the market. It has other uses as well, many policymakers and voters like to imagine it as a weapon of punishment or righteousness; but we’ll stick to necessary revenue and market efficiency.

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I’m not part of the old system. I’m an independent, a reformer, and I’m building a new movement to fight for the future; fight for a robust economy, honest government, and a state that finally works for all of us.

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The Improvement Agenda is an ethos. We’re here to challenge our state, our communities, and ourselves to do and be better. Even small improvements add up. Fixing potholes, repainting a building, setting aside a little a time a day to exercise. We’re going to be a state where small problems aren’t ignored and we take responsibility.

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The world is a place of incredible depth, incredible complexity. There aren’t just two ways of seeing the world. There are thousands. By broadening our perspective, by embracing the American axiom, “E Pluribus Unum”, Out of Many, One, we can bring new ideas to government and society. We can create where others destroy. We can go forward while others are stuck in the past.

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Democracy is a founding principle of the United States. Democracy was one of the most important values shared among Americans even before the republic was formed. Democracy is what the Revolution was fought for. Democracy can never be stolen, it cannot be killed, it does not die at the ballot box. Democracy is lived. Only when Americans abandon it in their hearts and minds will we lose Democracy in America.

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Remove State Legislative Term Limits to reduce the power of party machines.

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Commit to high-speed rail connecting: Cleveland–Columbus–Dayton–Cincinnati A multi-state compact linking Chicago to New York via Cleveland

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Ohio is one of the most urbanized states in the country, not because we have huge metros like New York or Chicago, but because we have dozens of smaller cities spread across the state. These cities, their industrial history, and the history of the Rust Belt have been looked on as a drag on the economy, as a failure to be managed. But our history, our geography actually represents structural advantage in a changing world, given the right vision of the future.

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A city that has lost its people and its jobs cannot bootstrap its own revival. It needs external support to rightsize, reorganize, and rebuild for a new economic reality. We will provide that support through direct state funding to municipalities, flexible resources that allow cities and their communities to determine their own futures. This is not a one-size fits all solution. We must recognize the unique history and characteristics of each city. We should give direct funding to the city and leave it to the city and the community to choose how it is spent, to choose the best future for themselves, to claim their own destiny.

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We must legalize construction. The foundational principle is that land use should reflect the genuine character and needs of a place. Make it easier for people to build housing and businesses and mixed use and mixed density construction anywhere in Ohio. Sometimes that means preempting local laws. People must be allowed to do what they want with their property.

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We will build the infrastructure of care that Ohio currently lacks. This means a significant expansion of community mental health centers and outpatient psychiatric services, accessible and affordable in every part of the state. It means more residential treatment capacity for serious mental illness. It means accessible addiction treatment including medication-assisted treatment. It means permanent supportive housing for those with chronic mental illness or disability who need ongoing support to live stably. And it means robust case management: people who help individuals navigate housing,benefits, healthcare, and employment, and who maintain relationships with them over time.

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Investing in Ohio’s small and medium sized cities is addressing the affordability crisis.

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The next step is to invest heavily in our education, training, and research. This is tied closely to investment in cities.

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Colleges and universities are huge influxes of state and federal money. They should support the communities where they are located. Deep integration will make both stronger.

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Every Ohio public educational institution will be connected to a new statewide startup services entity: an all-in-one hub integrating technology transfer, entrepreneurship programming, business management services, business incubation, and capital access. These hubs will work alongside technology transfer offices to bring patents to market quickly, and they will offer angel and venture capital funding,small business loans, supply chain support, and connections to national and global markets. The goal is to generate new businesses endogenously across all of Ohio’s cities, building robust economies that are more diverse, more resilient, and more durable.

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We will introduce universal pre-K administered directly through the public school system. Early childhood education has among the strongest returns of any public investment; we will not leave it to chance or household income.

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The goal is straightforward: any Ohioan should be able to reach everything they need within 45 minutes, and travel anywhere in Ohio in under eight hours for less than $50. This is a measurable standard we will design the system to meet.

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We will build a smart energy grid for Ohio. We will legalize and encourage the construction of solar, wind, and battery storage facilities. We will establish the research and regulatory infrastructure for nuclear innovation, including investment in small modular reactors and next-generation nuclear design. We will make Ohio the cheapest place in the country to buy electricity, attracting energy-intensive industries and giving households more money to spend on everything else.

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Taxes are not ideological. Turning taxation into a partisan issue with one party being assiduously anti-tax (with no plan for balancing budgets aside from cutting government functions to nothing) and one party being pro-tax though usually limiting its ambitions to only the high earners and corporations (which simply do not offer a large enough tax base to cover even the more modest of their grand designs) is a recipe for a disastrous system of taxation.

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We have the boldest, most comprehensive plan for making Ohio affordable, innovative, and prosperous. It begins with investing in Ohio’s cities, it’s people, and the things that connect us. But it’s so much more than that. Learn more about the Ohio Vision.

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Traditional candidates use campaigns and policy proposals as advertising to win votes, with their words amounting to little more than broken promises and empty rhetoric. Not only is this deceitful, it’s a wasted opportunity. We believe the campaign is about way more than collecting votes, it’s about building consensus. The campaign is where true governance begins.

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Supporting and defending Democracy in Ohio means many things. It means protecting voting rights, election integrity, and accessibility. But it also means having an informed and engaged electorate. It means journalism as an institution that will inquire and uncover. It means civic engagement. It means political competition. We need more people to run for office, we need more options on the ballot. We need people to be able to engage in democracy and politics with respect, not anger or fear, we need to be able to disagree constructively, we need to be able to live and govern without uniformity. Democracy isn’t warfare, it’s learning and discovery and creation.

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Establish a truly independent redistricting commission, insulated from partisan control.

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Create regulatory framework for ease of deployment of self-driving taxis in Ohio cities.

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In an election marked by such unseriousness as an incumbent governor nearly losing the primary to a fake farmer with a bad cowboy hat (Timothy’s is bigger) and the opposition party mustering less than 40% of the vote, Timothy managed 574 votes just as a write-in candidate relying entirely on one website and a video explaining how to spell T-I-M G-R-A-D-Y. These write-in votes distributed across the whole state demonstrated a hunger for someone, anyone, who could put together coherent sentences into policy and stand against corruption.

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Most cities in Ohio and the United States are badly managed. Horribly managed. And underinvested. Many people are to blame. Many have lost population and tax base over decades of deindustrialization. But if you want to see prosperity at the state or national level you have to make the places where people actually live and work and learn and grow and create, actually work, actually safe, actually desirable.

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We need to create more coordinated regional planning infrastructure. Create more mechanisms for municipalities, counties, townships to work directly with each other and to partner on different projects. Reduce the often oppositional relationship between them. We need to recognize that people and networks function outside of arbitrary boundaries. Build infrastructure, build transit, write laws that map how people really live and work.

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Ohio will adopt a use-classification system built around intensity rather than use type. The key question for any piece of land is not “is this residential or commercial” but “what intensity of activity is appropriate here, and what genuinely incompatible uses: (heavy industry, hazardous materials) need to be separated.” Within intensity tiers, a wide range of uses will be permitted as of right. A building that is residential above and retail below should be legal everywhere in an urban area without a variance. A small workshop or studio integrated into a mixed neighborhood should not require a special permit. Density, more housing units per acre, more floors per building, should be legal in more places.

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For those who have hit hard times the intervention is different: emergency shelter that is safe and dignified, rapid rehousing assistance, and short-term support to get back on their feet. We will build a bridge for them.

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We will invest in community colleges, technical schools, and branch campuses within our smaller and medium sized cities and our larger cities (where we will also invest in flagship universities and larger institutions).

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K–8 education will emphasize foundational mastery: literacy, numeracy, scientific reasoning,and civic knowledge. Students will be grouped and paced by demonstrated ability and achievement, not simply by age, from the middle grades onward. This means slower students receive genuine support to catch up rather than being passed along, and faster students are challenged at the level they are actually operating at. A teacher managing a class of students performing at roughly the same level is a more effective teacher than one trying to serve a twenty-point ability range simultaneously.

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The network has four layers that must work as one.

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A smart grid also enables more efficient, market-driven energy generation and distribution, integrating rooftop solar, microgrids, home battery systems, and the growing fleet of electric vehicles that function as distributed energy storage. The result is a more resilient, more efficient,and lower-cost energy system for everyone.

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It is the position of this campaign that any system of taxation should be broad based, consistent in its application, and simple in its design. It should prize efficiency and balancing revenue with expenditures. The most efficient, least distorting taxes should be used first and only new taxes applied when reasonable After these considerations have been met, it can also be used in a limited capacity for a more equitable and socially desirable flow of capital. It must be done sparingly so as not to complicate the tax code and to prevent special interests from securing themselves improper or undesirable benefits.

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Our approach to policymaking and problem solving fundamentally diverges from that of Democrats and Republicans and moves beyond the tried and failed politics of Left and Right. We draw on the cutting edge of complexity and evolutionary science and utilize New Economic Thinking (NET) as the foundations for something much better, a politics for the 21st century.

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We must root out corruption. Honesty, integrity, and public service must be restored, not just in government, but in our culture. Trust is what holds us together, and we must rebuild it. As a culture of corruption has spread, we have collectively lost faith in the institutions that made us great and strong, in our schools, in our justice system, in our financial institutions, in our local governments, in the government as a whole. Restoring that trust is essential to our future success and must be a priority.

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The power of the state government is limited, the power of the governor even more so. Real reform, real growth, a real renaissance, requires a real plan. It requires concerted action at multiple levels of government and buy-in from decision makers, institutions, business, and most importantly the public. If the state government isn’t on the same page as city and county governments, our efforts will fail. If cities are still competing against each other in a race to the bottom to attract businesses, our efforts will fail. If we pass a budget with investment in education and capital for new businesses and the public doesn’t believe in it, doesn’t think it’s a real opportunity to skill up or start a business, our efforts will fail.

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Support interoperability of public transit networks (shared payment systems, regularized schedules and connections, anywhere in Ohio in less than 12 hours and less than $30).

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We need to standardize many regulations between cities to allow businesses to better operate between them. They can still have a great deal of freedom to set rules within their boundaries, but they should use standard language and attempt to be consistent with other municipalities setting the same rules.

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The value of land in any location is overwhelmingly a product of what surrounds it, the street grid, the transit access, the proximity to employers and amenities, not of anything the landowner did. The landvalue tax captures this appropriately, ensuring that the community which created the value of the land also captures a share of it. What a landowner builds on that land is their own investment, and should not be taxed away. Our goal is to encourage building and improvement, not punish it like a property tax does. And we want to discourage vacant lots and buildings left to rot, not reward it like a property tax does.

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For individuals whose mental illness or addiction has reached a level where they are a danger to themselves or others, Ohio’s existing civil commitment framework already provides legal mechanisms for involuntary evaluation and treatment. We will use those tools fully, ensure that legal standards are applied rigorously and fairly, and guarantee that civil commitment leads to genuine treatment in appropriate facilities.

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In many instances community colleges, technical schools, and branch campuses will work jointly and be part of the same operation while allowing for internal diversity.

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High school will also carry a clearer social contract. Attendance, effort, and achievement matter and will be recognized and rewarded. The culture of schools should cultivate a genuine desire to learn, an understanding that excellence is worth pursuing for its own sake, not only as a credential. In an era when AI increasingly makes knowledge retrieval trivial, the competitive advantage of a well-educated person is not what they can look up but what they can think, create, and build. It is overwhelmingly about drive and desire for personal improvement.

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The backbone is high-speed rail on the major intercity corridors. Frequent, reliable, fast service between Ohio’s cities changes the calculus of travel. If Cleveland to Columbus takes an hour and the train runs every half-hour, people will use it.

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We will take full advantage of the datacenter buildout to ensure large datacenter developers are financing the big investments in new, clean energy and grid development to enable lower costs for all, abundant energy in the future, and a modern grid. Not surprisingly, all debate around datacenters has so far ignored the massive opportunity before us to usher in the new energy revolution.

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Below are the simple proposals for the reform of Ohio’s tax system to better meet the conditions for an optimal tax system outlined above.

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New Economic Thinking folds perfectly into fundamentally American ideals: the division of power, rule of law, democracy, liberty, opportunity, and pluralism. This follows a string of thought from Adam Smith to Mills to Hayek and a vision that connects Washington and Jefferson and Hamilton to Theodore Roosevelt to FDR and to Reagan. Together New Economic Thinking and Americanism represent a different philosophy to politics and policy than what today’s Democrats and Republicans offer but draws on a great American heritage. Call it Radical Centrism or Complexity Liberalism, call it whatever you want; but we believe it offers the vision that can unite Americans toward a common and brighter future.

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We will hold ourselves to the highest standards. It doesn’t matter how corrupt our opponents are. It doesn’t matter what others do. We do what’s right because we are in this for our families, our neighbors, our communities, and our country, not for personal gain.

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Adopt multi-member congressional districts elected through open-list proportional representation, ideally as a single statewide district. This truly eliminates gerrymandering. Advocate for repeal of the 1967 federal single-member district mandate, which artificially entrenches polarization and two-party dominance.

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Expand the role of the Infrastructure Bank through a new Public Bank

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We will preempt local zoning ordinances that block missing-middle housing, duplexes, triplexes, small apartment buildings, in areas already served by existing infrastructure. Exclusionary zoning is not a legitimate exercise of local autonomy; it is the use of government power to prevent people from living somewhere, and it imposes costs on the entire region. The state will act to end it. Accessory dwelling units will be legal on any residential property in Ohio.

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The second layer is regional rapid transit: dedicated-lane or signal-priority bus routes as well as light rail lines connecting smaller cities and towns to each other and to the rail network. Bus rapid transit delivers reliable travel times competitive with driving. These routes feed into the high speed rail network, keeping usage high and providing the fares needed to support the network.

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The Commercial Activities Tax, which is Ohio’s tax on businesses, will be eliminated. It is an incredibly inefficient and difficult to administer tax that provides only modest revenue while discouraging businesses and entrepreneurship in Ohio.

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Honesty is non-negotiable. We will not lie for votes, for money, or for power. Politicians fear the truth because they believe people prefer comforting lies. But the truth is what people deserve, even harsh truths. The truth builds trust. The truth allows us to face the world as it is and shape it into what it should be.

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Create a statebacked road maintenance fund to improve road quality statewide. Filling potholes at a higher rate.

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Parking minimums, requirements that new development include a certain number of parking spaces per unit or per square foot, will be eliminated statewide. They make construction more expensive, they consume land that could be used for housing or commerce,they mandate car-centric design in areas that would otherwise support walking and transit. Developers who want to build parking will build it. Mandating it for everyone regardless of context is bad policy. Allow cities to develop to what the people and the market would arrive at on their own.

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Two Free Years of Post-Secondary Education+ Every Ohioan will be guaranteed two years of tuition-free post-secondary education following high school at a community college, technical school, or public university. This program will be universal in eligibility and differentiated in path: students may pursue a two-year associate’s degree, a technical certification, a vocational qualification, or the first two years of a four-year degree at any public Ohio institution. The state pays the tuition; the student chooses the direction and must demonstrate ability. The program will be voluntary but strongly incentivized, and we expect adoption rates approaching 90%. By default, high school graduates will have a connected pathway to their local affiliated community college or university. But they may apply to any public institution in Ohio and attend if accepted, including flagship research universities, where the two-year benefit applies toward a four-year degree. Students who demonstrate exceptional academic achievement will have access to selective and accelerated pathways. Long-term this will create one of the best educated and skilled workforces in the world. Preparing Ohioans for a changing future and preparing Ohio to compete and succeed. At the same time it will help fuel an explosion of new business formation, invention, and innovation that will grow the economy, lower costs, and deliver more and better. This will require a massive expansion of Ohio’s post-secondary institutions, especially community colleges. It will require the hiring of thousands more instructors and professors. New and expanded facilities will be a tremendous investment in all of Ohio and provide new services and be aligned with downtown revitalization efforts.

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The third layer is local transit within cities: bus networks, light rail where density and ridership support it, and demand-responsive services for lower-density areas. We will fund local transit systems directly at the state level, helping municipalities that cannot sustain quality service on their own tax base, and we will require minimum service standards in exchange. This will be combined with investments in biking and walking paths. Once people arrive at a city, they need to easily get around it.

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Nothing will replace this tax. Businesses and entrepreneurs will be encouraged to invest and reinvest in Ohio by eliminating this tax.

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Freedom means protecting our individual rights; freedom of speech, religion, assembly, expression, and privacy. It means the right to pursue happiness, make our own decisions, and learn from our own mistakes.

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Allow charter cities to adopt other voting methods including Approval, RCV, and STAR voting.

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Create a statebacked fund to provide villages and cities suffering from decline and degrowth the resources necessary to resize.

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Ohio will establish a process for rapid adaptive reuse of buildings, converting commercial or industrial buildings to residential or mixed use. Ohio’s cities are full of underutilized or abandoned buildings. Repurposing them will be made simple and fast.

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The fourth layer and the hardest problem in public transit is the last mile. This is where transit systems historically fail. A person can take a train from Cincinnati to Columbus and a bus from the station to a major employer, but if the bus doesn’t run after 7 PM and home is a 40-minute walk from the nearest stop, the system doesn’t work. If people still need to own a car for edge cases, then they will own and use a car and not be able to use the convenience of the public transit network.

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Freedom means free exchange and free markets. People, not bureaucracies, are the best judges of their own needs and desires. When people can act on their own judgment, work, trade, and collaborate voluntarily, they create innovation and prosperity. Markets are not just economic systems; they are the natural result of a free society.

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Democracy Dollars: A digital voucher for $100.00 in campaign contributions awarded to all Ohio voters every two years. The $100.00 can be divided as needed. The voucher can be used for any candidates for office in Ohio. Gives greater power to all voters and candidates will benefit from appealing to many voters and not just rich ones.

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Support continued operation of existing nuclear plants.

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Autonomous vehicles change this equation entirely. Shared autonomous taxis, pooled, summoned by phone, operating continuously, can serve as the last-mile connector for the entire transit network at a competitive cost structure and with greater safety. A person takes the train to their stop, opens an app, and an autonomous vehicle takes them anywhere they want to go, even far from a public transit route. Ohio will build the regulatory environment that allows robotaxis to scale.

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Ohio will impose a tax on inheritances between $750,000 and $1.5 million of 2%; 5% on amounts above $1.5 million.

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Expanding freedom means expanding choice. More choices, better choices, and empowering people to make their own.

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Reduce the donation maximum for Ohio elections to $2,500.

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Expand nuclear engineering programs at public universities.

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We will make Ohio one of the most welcoming states in the country for autonomous vehicle development and deployment, because a mature AV network layered on top of strong public transit is what finally makes car ownership genuinely optional for most Ohioans. That is the long-term goal, and it is achievable within a decade if we build the foundation now. This is a better world for everyone with more choice about how to live and how to get around. This is an especially good deal for car owners who will see traffic significantly reduced and will find their car offers far more flexibility than it did before being able to change from one’s car to another form of transit whenever they want.

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Ohio will raise the severance tax to 4% of the market value at the point of extraction on oil and natural gas. This remains well below other producing states but is a significant increase for Ohio.

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Same Day Voter Registration: Voters should be able to register to vote on election day. It’s a bureaucratic formality.

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Fund advanced reactor research, including alternative fuels and coolants.

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The entire network will be unified operationally. One app. One fare structure. One ticket purchased on a phone, automatically split across every provider on a route. Schedules will be synchronized so connections are reliable.

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Ohio will eliminate Property Taxes. Ohio will adopt a Land Value Tax. This transition will happen over the course of 4 years.

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Candidate Voter Guide: Provide a candidate guide to all voters which will contain a character limited summary from every candidate so that voters (who rarely bother to research things because they’re rational and know it doesn’t actually matter how they vote) can learn a little about who they’re voting for.

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Create a streamlined licensing regime for SMRs and next-generation reactors.

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Taxing land value rewards communities for the value that they help to create and encourages further investment in public goods and being a desirable place to live.

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Reform PUCO and Ohio utility law to: Increase transparency Prevent regulatory capture Enable competition

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Reduce housing shortages

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Require and subsidize research for safer fracking methods with reduced wastewater.

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Many of the services property taxes currently fund will be more directly funded by the state under our plan, requiring significantly less tax collected by localities and more tax collected by the state. As such some of the Land Value Tax will go to the state.

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Invest in cleaner extraction, refining, and shipping.

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Develop clean energy uses of fossil fuels (hydrogen, carbon materials) to reduce risk of future stranded capital.

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The statewide Land Value Tax will be set at 2.5%. Localities are permitted to tax land value up to an additional 3.5% with a maximum LVT rate of 6%. This will be a reduction from Property Taxes for many homeowners and shift more of the tax burden onto owners of vacant lots, owners of dilapidated or abandoned property, and owners of undeveloped and underdeveloped land in desirable cities.

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Support expanding solar manufacturing (training, research, supply chain)

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Support residential solar market development (standards).

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Invest in higher-efficiency wind turbines with smaller footprints.

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Expand the Ohio Third Frontier. More aggressive investment strategy and appoint more technologically knowledgeable members to the board.

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Establish the Bank of Ohio modelled on the Bank of North Dakota. Roll the Ohio Infrastructure Bank into it. Increase loan availability for early stage, small, and medium sized businesses.

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Low-altitude economy: Liberalize drone regulations and establish standards. Support for civilian and defense applications Regulatory framework and infrastructure for flying taxis

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EV and battery dominance: Invest in lithium battery production Fuel cell research Support electric tech stack dominance through Ohio’s existing cutting edge research universities, car manufacturing, and solar manufacturing industry.

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Advanced materials: Carbon fiber, nanotubes, graphene Existing material cluster support in Akron

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Support development of orbital and space technology Spaceport (yes, this will be a thing that matters 10 years from now) Support space mining companies Support space manufacturing companies Support Ohio’s existing aerospace clusters.

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Support reuse of disused coal mines for rare earth extraction

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Support refining industry in Ohio

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Support new industries primarily through early stage capital, pure research funding, and skills training.

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Eliminate the property tax in Ohio and transition to a Land Value Tax Encourages building Penalizes absent landlords, vacant lots, and decaying buildings

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Legalize dense, mixed-use development statewide.

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Invest in: Modular construction Cross-laminated timber Taller wooden buildings

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Provide more funding for building inspectors to speed inspection and increase production rates.

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Ease housing prices by investing in Ohio’s many small cities making them desirable places to live and work while connecting them through convenient transit and telecommunications to the state’s larger cities.

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Invest in agricultural research developing new crops, management techniques, and processing technologies.

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Invest in: Precision agriculture Automation Open-source GMOs

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Support aquaponics, hydroponics, algae, and vertical farming.

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Invest in developing automated farming equipment.

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Support value added food processing industry.

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Health care should be portable, transparent, and focused on outcomes.

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Repeal Ohio’s Certificate of Need laws.

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Expand rural hospitals and telemedicine.

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Reduce paperwork and pursue targeted tort reform.

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Expand medical school slots and lower costs.

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Create interstate healthcare standards allowing insurance and care providers to operate across state lines

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Eliminate air, water, and environmental pollutants.

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Fully connect and expand a statewide bike trail system.

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Lower the cost of and increase availability of fresh fruits and vegetables.

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Eliminate 12th grade; replace with post-secondary transition.

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Support more self-paced education tools.

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Ban phones and laptops in classes (unless specific to digital literacy related curriculum)

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Expand capacity in high-demand fields (nuclear, medicine, teaching, aerospace, software).

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Protect campus speech

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Eliminate most mandatory minimums – judicial discretion.

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Decriminalize drugs and release non-violent drug offenders (disorderly conduct, public intoxication remain criminal and eligible for drug courts).

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Provide additional funding for rehab.

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Legalize marijuana with a competitive market (we must undercut blackmarket prices).

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Increase funding to hire more judges and public defenders. Speed up processing.

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Expand the remit of small claims court be defining small claims as below $25,000. Expand the number of small claims judges.

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Establish fund for community crime prevention techniques.

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Expand shelters and legal advocacy for domestic violence.

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Emergency housing and income support for victims.

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Eliminate child poverty with $2,000–$6,000/year for families below the poverty line.

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Redesign welfare to eliminate benefit cliffs. It must ALWAYS pay to work in Ohio.

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Make it easier to engage in flexible productive employment while still receiving disability in Ohio.

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Expand addiction treatment.

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Fund suicide prevention and hotlines.

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Increase therapists and school-based mental health services.

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Reduce stigma and redirect drug users to care, not prison.

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Establish a simple statewide system for modern time banking.

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Eliminate the Commercial Activity Tax.

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Restore the inheritance tax.

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Create an Independent Commission on Taxation for implementation.

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Promote efforts to reduce online criminal activity and scams. Informed citizens and harsh active policing.

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Substantially reduce occupational licensing and expand reciprocal licensing across states.

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Create a state fund and distribution formula to significantly reduce potholes and road decay ACROSS Ohio

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Increase state funding to localities

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Create a regional development block grant system in which multiple communities (connected cities, villages, counties, and townships) can submit a proposal for development and continued cooperation that can unlock significant state funds

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Create a rustbelt redevelopment fund that distributes money to rustbelt communities on a fair formula with the understanding that declining cities need outside funding to have a chance at uplift.

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Increase funding to community colleges and branch campuses across the state.

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Support high skill training and integration with industry needs.

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Increasing funding for research and support practical applications in solving local problems and supporting local industry.

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Create an entrepreneurship office at all public colleges and universities that connects new technologies, entrepreneurs, venture capital, and workforce training to support new business and industry development across the state.

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Support a Robust economy focused on many small and medium sized businesses.

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Invest in state transit network that connects all parts of Ohio together ensuring businesses and people located in smaller cities can connect with people and resources anywhere in the state.