Heather's website highlighted the following campaign themes (2017):

Improving our local economy and creating good paying jobs for peninsula families is important to Heather. Our tourist industry is vital to our local economy and we must do everything we can to continue to make the peninsula an attractive destination for visitors. Making investments that will diversify our economy will go a long way in expanding opportunities at our ports and attracting good paying manufacturing jobs. Keeping taxes low and reducing burdensome regulations help small businesses compete and local families make ends meet. Heather will oppose efforts to raise taxes and demand that our state government lives within its means.

A well-trained work force is a magnet for employers and as a Williamsburg/James City School Board member, Heather helped expand opportunities for students to prepare for careers in cutting edge high-tech manufacturing and the trades. If elected to represent the 93rd district in the General Assembly, Heather will make expanding our local economy a top priority.

A passionate advocate for our children's education, Heather's background serving our public schools gives her a unique perspective into what our local students, teachers and schools need. Heather's three children have all graduated from our public school system. She has served on the Williamsburg/James City County School Board, the Special Education Advisory Committee, the New Horizons board and Chaired the 21st Century Career Readiness Committee. She currently sits on the New Horizon's Foundation board to raise scholarship money for tools and certifications for students who have chosen the trades, manufacturing or construction as a career.

While on the WJCC School Board, she helped create potential employment opportunities for our students by initiating Manufacturing Day. WJCC school system was the first in North American to be adopted by the Association for Manufacturer’s Excellence and to hold Manufacturing Day; a day for students, teachers and parents to explore careers in manufacturing. As a result of these decisions, organic relationships have developed with our local employers.

Heather's focus will be to ensure that our students have the tools to compete in tomorrow’s global economy while demanding excellence and accountability from every school. Heather believes that the best investment a school system can make is not in a new program or building but in quality teachers to lead our classrooms. While on the school board she also helped implement the Northstar project, that helps schools save money on process so that more money can be put in the classroom. Heather believes that the teacher is the most important asset and has supported pay raises.

We have a lot of terrific schools in the 93rd district but unfortunately, we also have some schools that are underperforming. Heather believes that we need to find ways to get more resources into the classroom but also provide parents of children in failing schools with options to provide their kids the best education possible. Every child should have access to a quality education, regardless of economic or geographic restraints or status.

Heather knows that having access to affordable quality health care for their families is an issue many peninsula residents experience. With uncertainty at the Federal level, it's critical that the Commonwealth take the steps necessary to work toward implementing improvements to access while remaining financially sound. With the growing demand for health care, it's more important we don't act in a manner that will compromise funding in vital areas like education and public safety.

Heather believes our local free clinics provide invaluable services to members of the community. Heather's father has served as the Chaplin of Lackey Health Clinic and she has seen how investments in health clinics like Lackey, can go a long way in providing health care options. As your Delegate, Heather will support continued funding to Lackey, Old Towne and Golden Bethune. She will also work to make Medicaid work better and get rid of waste, fraud and abuse.

There is still a lot to be done in the promotion of preemptive care, like promoting health initiatives in schools throughout the district. As a member of WJCC School Board, Heather fully supported the SHIP initiatives (School Health Initiative Program) that were implemented in schools in the WJCC school district and she will work with education leaders and school board members to implement similar programs in all schools in the 93rd district.

Heather understands that for far too long our traffic issues on the peninsula have not been addressed properly. Working to bring solutions to local traffic congestion is a high priority of Heathers. Peninsula residents would much rather be spending time at home with their families instead of being stuck in traffic. Heather is committed to building a broad collation of local stake holders and elected officials in ensuring the peninsula gets its fair share of transportation dollars to complete the widening of I-64 to Richmond.

The completion of this construction is vital in helping reduce the bottle necking that is occurring; keeping residents from getting where they need to go. Reducing this congestion will make the region more welcoming for new small businesses and tourism in the future.