Candidate for Ohio Lieutenant Governor in 2018 Ohio 2018 General Election.
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Get StartedSafeguard women’s reproductive rights and right to privacy, and oppose any legislation that would infringe upon these rights, including pending legislation that would require doctors to investigate a woman’s reasons for terminating a pregnancy. Learn more
Change the focus of the Ohio Department of natural Resources from exploitation of our natural resources to conservation, restoration of ecosystem services, non-extractive public use, and environmental stewardship. Learn more
Guarantee equal protection under law and the basic right of LGBTQ+ people to be free express from discrimination, by government, employers, schools, and places of business. Require accommodations for persons of all genders in public facilities. Learn more
Ensure all people’s right to access the basic necessities of life. Learn more
Swiftly repeal the “Right to Work” laws and strengthen employment laws for non-union workers. Learn more
Provide for conceal-carry permitting, subject to the rights of citizens to establish limited gun free zones, and offer a diversion program for first time, non-violent gun possession offenses, including improper handling, which includes instruction on non-lethal methods of conflict resolution and self-defense, gun safety, and the legal requirements for conceal carry gun possession in Ohio.. Learn more
Discontinue the use of private prisons in Ohio, and instruct the Correction Institute Inspection Committee to guide implementation of a plan to eliminate prison overpopulation and improve safety and health standards without adding new capacity. Learn more
Implement a comprehensive reinvention of our State's criminal justice system to end mass incarceration and rapidly transition to a state-wide system of restorative justice that focuses on involving the most affected people and communities in repairing the harm caused by crime, and that eliminates disparate minority incarceration and supports local innovation in achieving successful re-entry outcomes. Learn more
Allocate 10% of the Rainy Day Fund and savings from ending mass incarceration of non-violent drug offenders to significantly increase state funding for comprehensive opioid prevention and treatment. Learn more
Decriminalize the child support law. Learn more
Protect the citizens and residents of Ohio by ensuring that police are trained in non-violent de-escalation tactics and hostage negotiation with the goal of prevention of loss of life Learn more
Ensure that police are screened for PTSD or other impairment related to their current or past service in the police force or armed services. Learn more
Hire police from within the local communities they serve and institute programs for community policing, including training in ways to non-violently and effectively dealing with mentally ill individuals who have called for assistance in a mental health crisis. Learn more
Preserve the home rule prerogatives of local governments and districts to regulate the production, sale and use of cannabis products according to the democratic will of their constituents. Learn more
Divert a portion of the tax revenue gained by legal marijuana sales to the communities most affected by the war on drugs to help rebuild schools and expand economic mobility and reintegration into society. Learn more
Expunge all criminal records related to nonviolent drug possession offenses and use taxes gained by legal marijuana sales to fund substance abuse prevention, including youth development, and wrap-around addiction treatment services. Learn more
Decriminalize, legalize, regulate and tax the production, trade and use of marijuana for medical and adult recreational use, and industrial hemp, while ensuring the economic benefits of the emerging cannabis industry stay in Ohio with equitable access for small and medium size firms. Learn more
Promote entrepreneurialism and self-determination for individuals and communities. Attract employers and promote small businesses and self-employment by providing basic benefits such as universal health care and free public pre-school. Learn more
Strengthen legal remedies for contracted, part-time and temporary workers who suffer from exploitive employment practices. Learn more
Incentivize employers to hire local and to discontinue outsourcing of locally available services and materials used in the production process. Learn more
Create new pathways to employment and home ownership using surplus housing stock. Learn more
Increase our Minimum Wage to a Living Wage ($15 per hr.) and tie it directly to current cost of living, including inflation. Learn more
Strengthen current Labor Unions and assist workers in forming new Labor Unions. Learn more
Empower community land trusts to stop the “firesale” of our public lands. Learn more
Phase in a Universal Basic Income (UBI) paid for in part with a value-added tax on corporate profits from labor-displacing automation, while overhauling Ohio’s social programs to develop human potentials and sustainable livelihoods instead of perpetual poverty. Learn more
Create a policy climate favorable to the success of small businesses, cooperatives, community investment funds, and other socially beneficial business enterprises. Learn more
Establish incentives to create a world leading industrial hemp industry to significantly expand employment across both rural and urban populations. Learn more
End the use of anonymous shell corporations to conceal financial scams. Learn more
Build economically vibrant, secure and resilient communities from the bottom up. Learn more
Establish public banks that serve depositors and small businesses, not shareholders and CEOs. Learn more
Bring back arts and music education and extra-curricular activities in our schools. Provide a well-rounded education for Ohio's students. Learn more
Promote entrepreneurialism and self-determination for individuals and communities. Attract employers and promote small businesses and self-employment by providing basic benefits such as universal health care and free public pre-school. Learn more
Promote gifted and talented programs in all state-funded schools. Learn more
End the school to prison pipeline. Allow schools to turn down money provided for school resource officers, and provide alternative programming to bring more community engagement and family engagement into the schools. Learn more
Provide relief and support to teachers by adequately funding Ohio's classrooms. Learn more
Provide student debt relief, including a program to offset property tax payments and community work with a refundable tax credit applied to reduce student loan indebtedness of Ohio’s post-secondary graduates. Learn more
Establish and work towards a goal of tuition-free secondary education for all Ohioans. Learn more
Support teacher professional development, teacher promotion, and improved school performance through a peer-based system of review and teacher mentoring that eliminates the incentive to “teach to the test”. Learn more
Revise state-wide academic standards to establish instructional and assessment approaches that ensure successful attainment of learning outcomes. Learn more
Engage a state-wide performance review and revoke the charters of all low performing charter schools that are unable or unwilling to undergo transition away from the use of private management entities. Learn more
Remove the profit motive as a factor in public education by imposing a moratorium on the use of state charter school funding to hire for-profit management entities. Learn more
Provide public pre K-12 school funding that is equitable and sufficient to secure a quality education as a basic right of all Ohioans while eliminating the unconstitutional property tax-based formula for allocating state funding to Ohio's district and charter schools. Learn more
Work with students, parents, teachers, and community stakeholders to implement a 21st century education system that is more decentralized, adaptable, and responsive to the evolving learning needs of Ohio’s students and their diverse communities. Learn more
Expand school and community-based nutritional programs for families. Learn more
Require full disclosure and labeling of GMO products, and application of the precautionary principle to resolve questions involving scientific uncertainty in a manner that minimizes risks to public and ecological health. Learn more
Tackle the root causes of food insecurity and food waste by removing legal and economic barriers to broad-scale adoption of innovations in sustainable agriculture that improve health and productivity of soil, plants, and livestock. Learn more
Engage with agribusiness and community stakeholders to expand markets for locally-sourced and fairly-priced agricultural products while incentivizing farmland protection and intergenerational land tenure to alleviate the socio-economic conditions that contribute to sprawl. Learn more
Adopt sustainable food and farming policies to support rapid development of infrastructure and supply chains needed to support a vibrant local and regional food economy while alleviating food insecurity, reducing food waste, improving public health, restoring farm ecosystems, and creating living wage jobs both on and off the farm. Learn more
Implement a comprehensive phosphorous reduction program throughout the Lake Erie Basin, and prioritize implementation of policies and programs developed via the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and other partnership-based efforts, to eliminate the threat of large-scale algae blooms and other threats to Lake Erie environmental quality. Learn more
Invest in a state-wide climate resilience initiative using evidence-based ecological design principles and techniques to restore well-functioning terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, sequester carbon, reduce heat island effect, enhance biodiversity, and reduce potential losses to life and property due to catastrophic weather events. Learn more
Change the focus of the Ohio Department of natural Resources from exploitation of our natural resources to conservation, restoration of ecosystem services, non-extractive public use, and environmental stewardship. Learn more
Classify fracking wastewater and its derivatives as "hazardous" waste under Ohio law, notwithstanding the current federal exemption of oil and gas development waste from regulation under the Superfund Act. Learn more
Ban the further use of injection wells and other above and below ground long-term storage facilities for the purpose of disposing of wastewater, brine waste, and residual solid wastes generated by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) Learn more
Impose a statewide ban on new high volume, unconventional gas extraction (fracking) operations and a moratorium on existing operations until and unless the science provides sufficient information to accurately determine the level of associated direct, cumulative and long-term risks to public health, and until any such site operations are certified as safe by the Ohio Department of Health. Learn more
Establish a Superfund for Workers, providing financial and educational assistance to workers and their families displaced by the transition to renewable industries. Learn more
Adjust the state’s renewable portfolio standards, energy pricing structures and publicly funded research to drive a rapid transition to a clean energy future Learn more
Enact and enforce laws to secure improvements in animal health and welfare, including increased funding for spay-neuter and animal rescue programs, and enactment of rigorous state-wide standards for humane treatment and conditions at all facilities engaged in the breeding and housing for sale of dogs and their puppies. Learn more
Rapidly transition to integrative whole farm practices that sustain farming communities while eliminating all forms of animal cruelty and ensuring humane treatment of all farm animals. Learn more
Enact a comprehensive, state-wide zero-waste manufacturing and sales policy to rapidly transition to sustainably usable, repairable, reusable and recyclable consumer products and packaging, including a state-wide ban on single use, non-biodegradable consumer product packaging. Learn more
Strengthen and enforce Ohio’s water and air quality standards to incentivize best practices that substantially reduce public and environmental health risks stemming from cumulative, long term pollution sources, according to the precautionary principle. Learn more
Stop misuse of State leasing and eminent domain authorities for private fossil fuel extraction and other non-community based theft of Ohio’s lands, public or private. Learn more
Safeguard local Home Rule prerogatives of municipalities and local taxing districts. Learn more
Support grassroots Community Bill of Rights initiatives, including the Lake Erie Bill of Rights. Learn more
Increase transparency of public agencies and accountability of all public officials. Learn more
Fight corruption and end pay to play politics with strict new campaign finance laws. Learn more
End Partisan Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression, so that voters choose their their elected officials, rather than the other way around. Learn more
Revamp our State’s electoral process, effectively using ballot initiatives and other forms of direct democracy to institute preference voting, proportional representation and related changes that promote coalition-building and a more pluralistic and inclusive system of electoral politics in Ohio. Learn more
Uphold Participatory Democracy and the fundamental rights granted in the Ohio and US Constitutions. Learn more
Advance common-sense solutions to gun violence that has caused too many senseless deaths in Ohio and elsewhere, while protecting the 2nd Amendment rights of Ohioans. Learn more
Oppose the dangerous Stand Your Ground laws which are correlated with an increase in gun violence and increased vigilantism. Learn more
Enforce enhanced background checks for all gun sales, as well as a ban on personal use assault weapons and high capacity magazines, and compulsory de-escalation and mental health training for permitted security personnel. Learn more
Restrict gun ownership as a protective measure where background checks reveal threats or incidents of violence, including domestic violence, menacing, hate crimes, bullying or similar behaviors. Learn more
Vigorously oppose Conceal-Carry Reciprocity, which would impose a dangerous race to the bottom among States by setting national uniform standards based on the weakest existing laws regarding conceal and carry. Learn more
Use a universal healthcare system in Ohio to provide mental health and addiction services. Treat drug addiction as a health condition, not a criminal issue. Learn more
Engage Ohio's world-class innovation networks to improve public and ecological health on the basis of sound, peer-reviewed science, including responsible use of biotech Learn more
Institute Single-payer healthcare for Ohio and give all Ohioans basic, quality healthcare as a right, including comprehensive reproductive healthcare and sexual health care for women and people of all genders. Learn more
rovide equitable access to safe, clean and adequate housing Learn more
and public transportation for all Ohoans, regardless of socio-economic status. Learn more
We will ensure equitable access to Ohio’s criminal justice and social service systems, by establishing Ohio as a sanctuary state Learn more
and public transportation for all Ohoans, regardless of socio-economic status. Learn more
Invest in Ohio’s public transportation systems, using State and local bond issues and multiple alternative funding sources that allow for capturing of revenues generated through community economic development and reduced traffic congestion in areas benefiting from public transportation system improvements. Learn more
Upgrade our transportation, watershed management, clean energy and green infrastructure while employing and training thousands of Ohioans. Learn more
Classify fracking wastewater and its derivatives as "hazardous" waste under Ohio law, notwithstanding the current federal exemption of oil and gas development waste from regulation under the Superfund Act. Learn more
Provide equitable access to safe, clean and adequate housing and public transportation for all Ohoans, regardless of socio-economic status. Learn more
Empower community land trusts to stop the “firesale” of our public lands. Learn more
Provide additional support for single parents. Learn more
Enact mandatory paid maternity and paternity leave. Learn more
Ensure adequate tax dollars to provide equitable and stable local funding. Learn more
Overhaul Ohio’s tax policies to end corporate welfare and provide comprehensive relief to working people, including a refundable childcare credit for working families. Learn more
Promote wage equality in the work place, while prohibiting restrictions on an employee's ability to discuss wages with employers and co-workers. Learn more
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