About Rick
Rick For PA: Creating a Future You Can Afford
Rick’s journey is a testament to the hard work and resilience of Pennsylvania families, and it drives his commitment to tackling the affordability crisis head-on. After graduating from Kent State and pursuing a professional football career, he built a life rooted in service as a teacher, a coach, and an advocate for students. For thirty years in logistics and sales, he worked with the businesses that move our economy, giving him a front-row view to the pressures of budgets, costs, and making ends meet.
His deepest formative experience came when he embraced the role of primary caregiver as a single dad to his three young children. Managing a household on a single income taught him the real-life impact of every bill, grocery receipt, and utility statement. That hands-on understanding of family economics is why his campaign is singularly focused on Creating a Future You Can Afford.
Now retired and running for the PA State House in the 199th District, Rick is applying his energy and pragmatic problem-solving to lower the daily costs that strain household budgets. He will fight to reduce the burden of energy, housing, groceries, and healthcare, and work to raise wages for working families. He is committed to opposing projects like unsustainable data centers that drive up utility costs for residents.
Rick believes solving problems requires finding common ground. He is running to end polarization and fear-mongering, and to focus on practical solutions that ease financial pressures and build a stronger, more prosperous community for everyone.