Lower your costs.
Answer to you.
I'm Ken McCool, and I'm running to make life here more affordable: lower your housing and everyday costs, cut the fees Raleigh keeps piling on, get Matthews the transit it was promised, and fund the schools your family counts on. That's the job.
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How Ken makes life here more affordable.
Every one of Ken's priorities comes back to the same question: does it lower costs and make life better for families in District 105? Here's the plan.
Bring down the cost of living
Housing, grocery bills, and property taxes keep climbing while paychecks don't. Ken will fight to keep housing within reach for young families and seniors, and he already delivered $1.5M for affordable housing here at home.
Get Matthews its train back
Matthews was promised the Silver Line light rail, then the politicians cut our town out of the deal. Ken will fight until we get it, because a train means a cheaper commute: less gas, less parking, and one less car payment for a lot of families.
Fund our schools with state dollars
When Raleigh shortchanges public schools, your county makes up the difference on your property-tax bill. Ken will fight to make the state pay its share, so great schools stop costing you more at home.
Make developers pay, not you
Our towns are booming, and right now the cost of that growth, new roads, water, and classrooms, lands on your tax bill. Ken will make the developers who profit from growth pay for what it needs.
This is the seat whose 2023 party-switch handed Raleigh its supermajority. Ken's running to flip it back, and keep his word once he's there. See the record →
"Every family here deserves to get ahead, not just get by. That's the whole reason I'm running."
He's already cut costs for families here.
Ken helped secure $1.5 million for affordable housing, so working families and seniors could afford to stay in the towns they love. He delivered the largest parks investment in 15 years and helped bring in an advanced-manufacturing campus with good-paying jobs, right here at home.
When Ken says he'll lower your costs, it's because he's already done it, closer to home than Raleigh ever gets.
Matthews' own mayor is with Ken.
"Every town in the county is getting what they want, except Matthews."
Mayor John Higdon, Town of Matthews
216 votes decided it.
District 105, Matthews, Mint Hill, and southeast Charlotte, is a true toss-up, and it voted for the Democrat at the top of the ticket. 216 votes is one street. It's your block. One honest neighbor in Raleigh is the difference between this district getting its train, its roads, and its schools funded, or getting left behind again. If you sat home last time, this is the reason to show up.
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