Where I Stand

Power

- End Citizens United
- Ban stock trading for Congresspeople and their spouses
- Cap campaign funding limits
- Provide campaign fund matching
- Banning loopholes from allowing dark money in US elections, no exceptions

- Building more affordable housing
- Protecting renters’ rights and unjust evictions
- Building social safety net programs for the unhoused population.
- Preventing large corporate investors from driving up home and rental prices in neighborhoods across our state.
- Ensuring a livable wage
- Protecting strong labor unions and workers’ rights
- Paid Family Medical Leave
- Fully funded, high-quality, public education from pre-k through higher education
- Closing tax loopholes that benefit only the wealthiest and allow them to pay less than working people
- Government-managed single-payer Medicare for all, to address prescription drug prices, dental, hearing, and durable equipment.
- Investing in evidence-based preventative care such as health education, public health, mental health, addiction treatment, and health equity

- Ending the genocide in Gaza and providing aid to the Palestinian people
- Foreign policy that prioritizes diplomacy, trade, and human well-being over war.
- Investing at home in healthcare, education, and infrastructure, instead of sending American dollars overseas
- Abolish ICE and hold those involved accountable

- Significantly reforming the pathway to citizenship, protections for refugees, and resources to help newcomers integrate into our communities successfully
- Restore and codify necessary protections
- Dismantling systems that perpetuate oppression, inequity, and suffering
- Supporting leaders from marginalized communities such as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Women, Neurodiversity and disability, and people of lower income
- Human rights and dignity for all
- Invest in renewable energy
- research environmental justice from the public health perspective
- Implement the Green New Deal