Virginia Can't Wait

With skyrocketing inflation and an uncertain economy, we must do everything we can to support families in uncertain times.  We must lower the tax burden on working families- from the gas pump to groceries. We must bring down healthcare cost through innovation.

Ian will fight back against our rising cost of living.

• Over Regulation and red tape that tie small business owners’ hands and increase the cost of goods and services on our families
• Oppose Richmond’s out-of-control taxation that is punishing hard-working families. 
• Repeal the personal property tax (car tax)
• Oppose regulations that increase the cost of utilities
• Oppose excessive tolls in NOVA
• Your money is best kept in your wallet, rather than the government’s, and once elected, he will sponsor legislation to cut taxes.

Ensuring public safety is one of the top priorities of government at any level.  We should strive to have the best paid, best trained and most respected law enforcement officers in the nation.  

• We must never give in to partisan calls to defund the police.  
• We must encourage community policing
• Ensure any school that wants an SRO has access to one 
• Give law enforcement the right tools to help keep our communities safe.  
• Must grow and fortify programs like Operation Ceasefire (even against Senate opposition)
• Restore rebuttable presumption that people held on trial for certain serious, dangerous crimes such as murder are not eligible for bail.
• Pass legislation that will hold fentanyl dealers truly accountable for the lives they take
• Support the Governors efforts in ending human trafficking in Virginia and follow recommendations of the Human Trafficking Commission Final Report Recommendations including:
• Remove any person convicted of a felony offense involving a firearm from eligibility form enhanced earned sentence credits 
• Higher mandatory sentences for gun crimes (defeated in senate)

Defunding the police means higher crime rates. Ian will back the blue and work to ensure our brave men and women in law enforcement have the funds and resources they need to keep our families and community safe. Ian will also repeal soft-on-crime legislation passed in Richmond.

As Chairman of the Manassas City Economic Development committee Ian worked directly with staff and community partners to bring quality jobs to our region.  As an entrepreneur, inventor and  owner of a national recruitment firm Ian  knows what it's like to create jobs and help people find them.

Ian will bring this experience to Richmond and fight for jobs and a thriving economy so that every Virginian has an opportunity to excel.
We must:

• Virginia ranks in the bottom 3rd when it comes to ease of starting a business.  We must reduce regulations/red tape on our small businesses 
•  Virginia ranks 26th in the nation when it comes to business tax climate.  We must lighten the tax burden on job creators.
• BPOL must be reformed to apply only to net revenue, not gross revenue
• Ensure state economic development resources go to support small businesses as much as they do larger ones
• Remove college degree requirement from all state jobs that do not absolutely need them

Virginia is home to nearly 800,000 veterans- and many live and work in the 22nd House of Delegates District.  We owe our active duty and former military, reservists, Nation Guard and their families not only our sincere gratitude but a clear plan of action to make Virginia the number one state in the Union for veterans.
Supporting Veterans and helping them find jobs is one reason I started Reliant Hiring Solutions- Veteran focused hiring remains one of our top priorities.

• Improve the transfer of military training to civilian certification
• Support veterans and mental health dockets in Virginia Courts
• Support and expand Virginia's Veteran's Care Centers
• Build partnerships to establish Veteran's legal and benefits clinics in all regions