Insurance & Safety Fire Commissioner

Points to holding the line on the coast — Georgia's rate bureau sought a 42% homeowners increase after Hurricane Helene and he granted just 7.5%. Even so, statewide home premiums have kept rising (roughly 9–10% a year), and critics say the office still approves steady increases.

Has publicly spotlighted insurers — calling out Allstate over auto rate increases — and credits the 2025 lawsuit-reform package with easing pressure on auto premiums going forward.

Has not moved to ban ZIP-code- or credit-score-based pricing, treating them as standard actuarial underwriting — the opposite of his opponent, who wants both outlawed.

Frames lower costs as a tort-reform story: after the 2025 lawsuit-reform laws he predicted property-casualty rates would fall 3–5% and urged insurers to file decreases. He casts the office as a stabilizer of a stressed market rather than an adversary of insurers.

Oversees the health-insurance market and has emphasized keeping coverage available — working, he says, to make sure small businesses and property owners aren't denied certain policies — while leaving Medicaid-expansion decisions to the Legislature.

Relies on the department's existing consumer-services and fraud divisions to field complaints, emphasizing market stability and access; he hasn't proposed the kind of new strike force his opponent is campaigning on.

Leans on his law-enforcement background and the department's fraud unit to pursue insurance fraud, but has not built a campaign around a dedicated elder-fraud task force.

As Safety Fire Commissioner he oversees the state fire marshal and fire-safety enforcement — a role that fits his career as a police chief and National Guard general, and one he highlights as the public-safety half of the office.