Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Mississippi 1st Congressional District in 2020 Mississippi General Election.
View your personalized ballot, check your voter registration, make a plan to vote, and research every name and measure on the ballot with BallotReady.
Get StartedReform the prison system and abolish private prisons.While automatically restoring voting rights to people who complete their prison sentences is a necessary step, and one that should be federally mandated, it is the prison system itself that must be reformed before we can see meaningful change. We must be proactive rather than reactive to the circumstances that cause many crimes – prioritizing community services (education, meeting people’s basic needs) to prevent crime. Learn more
Legalize cannabis and release those incarcerated on cannabis-related charges.Instead of wasting taxpayer dollars on incarcerating people for consumption of a substance that is legal in some form in most of the country, we should use those tax dollars to invest in programs relating to education and public health. Learn more
Universal healthcare is a basic human right. Learn more
Increasing tax rates on the wealthiest Americans and big corporations will benefit most Americans. The super rich (those who earn more than $10 million/year) should be taxed at a much higher rate than they are currently, as should corporations such as Netflix, Amazon, Chevron, Eli Lilly and Deere, who paid no federal taxes at all in 2018. Learn more
A living wage is not a luxury but a right.The federal minimum wage must be automatically recalculated annually based on cost-of-living increases. Learn more
View your personalized ballot, check your voter registration, make a plan to vote, and research every name and measure on the ballot with BallotReady.