Tim Hayes

Energy prices are spiking, grocery bills are rising, and accessible housing is out of reach for working folks. Families in the 143rd District are feeling the pain of failed economic policies of career politicians. Making life affordable for the people of Pennsylvania isn’t a campaign talking point, it’s something Tim’s seen and experienced firsthand. There isn’t a single person that’s not feeling the effects of the affordability crisis.

To address energy costs, as state representative, Tim will introduce and support legislation that will expand energy capacity on our grid with a more diversified energy portfolio, bolster low-income energy assistance programs, and improve energy efficiency for the industrial and commercial sectors. Addressing food costs, Tim will work with farmers to address issues with existing agricultural supply chains that are driving up costs at the grocery store. And for housing, he’ll expand access to home repair and weatherization programs, crack down on large corporations buying up every home and inflating prices, and work with townships and boroughs across the district to create a regional development plan, developing where it makes sense while preserving our rural open space too.

Tim is an outdoorsman and an environmental policy expert who loves hiking at Nockamixon or Peace Valley. Protecting our district’s open space is his top priority. He’s also focused on diversifying our energy portfolio to reduce carbon emissions while lowering costs for families, putting guardrails on data centers to protect our communities and energy grid, and updating that grid to improve our state’s energy efficiency and further lower utility costs. Beyond energy issues, he will work to protect our air, water and land. He’ll introduce legislation to make critical investments into our state parks and forests, increase support for the Clean Streams Fund, eliminate PFAS, and bolster investments in the Agricultural Innovation Grant Program.

Tim attended public schools for his entire education from pre-k through high school, public tech school, college, and graduate school. He completely supports fully funding our public schools so that every child, whether they want to enter a trade or earn a PhD, can get a great education suited to their needs. Tim will increase state support for recruiting and retaining educators by cutting red tape for certification and will fight to increase wages. He’ll fight to increase investments in career and technical education to support participation in the trades. And he’ll stand up to any effort to siphon off public dollars for charter or private schools.

Tim worked as a field artillery specialist in the National Guard: he knows guns and respects the right of all law-abiding citizens to own firearms. He supports common-sense gun safety measures, including background checks and red flag laws, to keep guns out of the hands of anyone who poses a threat to themselves or others.

Tim’s lived through the tough experience of losing his health coverage and believes no one else should experience that. He’ll fight to keep our healthcare system out of the hands of for-profit private equity companies, expand coverage for programs like Medicaid, protect coverage for people with disabilities or pre-existing conditions, and cap the cost of insulin and other essential drugs.

In the 143rd District and across Pennsylvania, police, fire, and EMS companies are struggling to get by, due to a lack of funding and resources. Volunteer fire companies in particular may have to revert to becoming paid companies, which will cost millions of dollars. Tim has worked in Dublin to get its police and volunteer fire departments more funding. For the police department, he secured new handguns, holiday pay for part-time officers, and he even personally donates his council check back to the police officers so that they can buy new clothing. For the fire department, he used the savings from cutting wasteful spending to create a new budget line item that directly invests into the firefighters. And for Point Pleasant EMS, Dublin has donated over $10,000 for new equipment.

As state representative, Tim will continue his staunch support of first responders and create more opportunities to invest in the police, fire and EMS departments in the 143rd. He’ll push to develop a plan for sustainable, long-term funding for volunteer companies. He’ll fight to secure additional funding for police departments to buy new gear and retain officers. And he’ll help EMS companies in the district retain their call boxes so that they don’t lose municipal funding.

The minimum wage in our state is the same as it was when Tim’s mom worked minimum wage jobs to pay their family’s bills. He’ll be a champion for raising the minimum wage in our state to $15 an hour.

He’ll also push the state government to invest in its workers and make Pennsylvania the economic powerhouse of the country. He’s already authored House Bill 894, the Veterans Entering the Sustainability Sector (VETSS) Program Act. This bill would establish a new program to train veterans in jobs in clean energy, land conservation, water quality, and energy efficiency. As our next State Representative, Tim will continue fighting for workers in Pennsylvania. He’ll protect collective bargaining rights, oppose union-busting, and support prevailing wage and project labor agreement standards, and he’ll work to expand access to apprenticeship programs and trade schools.

Tim truly believes that the government should never interfere with a patient’s reproductive health choices. At a time when individual rights are under attack nationwide, he will protect access to reproductive healthcare and defend the right to privacy here in Pennsylvania.

Tim will stand up for our democracy against any attempts to disenfranchise citizens or make it harder for them to cast a ballot. He supports expanded mail-in ballot drop boxes, early voting, same-day voter registration, and pre-registration for teens so that they’ll be ready to cast a ballot when they turn 18. He supports open primaries, giving registered independents more say in their representation.