Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Washington 4th Congressional District in 2020 Washington Primary Election.
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Get StartedSupport Community Safety With New Strategies for Policing and First Response Learn more
Invest more shrewdly in the development of shared and co-working spaces and shared-resource work hubs for local entrepreneurs, new entries to the job market, career changers, and retirees seeking a place to work and grow. Learn more
Develop easier access to tools and programming that helps small industrial businesses and supply-chain producers in inland communities to reach out more effectively into regional and global markets, access opportunities in federal defense industry and infrastructure contracts, compete more broadly in national industrial parts and components supply streams, and innovate as product and capability development entrepreneurs. Learn more
Establish more federally funded small business-startup learning and management outreach programs. Learn more
Endow smart community-vitality programs like shared-equipment "maker spaces", and public farming plots that are open to all citizens to develop their career interests and “side hustles”. Learn more
Invest in new models for family-farm and small-ranch cooperatives to address the continuing depression in commodities pricing and the decade-long increase in the number of agricultural bankruptcies nationwide. Learn more
Subsidize small town community banks so they can ramp up targeted micro-enterprise financing to enable a diverse new group of rural town and small-city grassroots entrepreneurs to set up shop in inland community downtowns now facing steady declines. Learn more
Let’s invest in improving the economic development potential of rural community centers, enhance the nation's cross-region and cross-country freight rail networks, and address our nation's ongoing responsibility to renew the trillions of dollars’ worth of shared agricultural assets. Learn more
Bolster Farm Competitiveness By Renewing America's Heartland Communities Learn more
Expand the Hanford Environmental Mitigation Model for Private Sector/Public Sector Partnership Learn more
Draw Up Districts in 2021 Based Only on Where People Live As Neighbors -- Not on How They Vote Learn more
Remove New Deal era regulatory barriers to broadening insurance pools beyond state lines. Learn more
Establish short term "portability support" beyond COBRA to help workers keep their insurance plans (and current monthly rates) even after changes in employment. Learn more
Improve citizen access, price fairness and customer service quality by opening up the insurance market to more competition from innovative for-profit, not-for-profit, non-profit and community group health insurance entrepreneurs Learn more
CLEAR ACCOUNTABILITY FOR BAD APPLES: Let's also hold accountable the few business owners out there who knowingly hire undocumented workers. But in the case of these few unscrupulous employers, let's not punish the undocumented seasonal workers for merely seeking to work. Instead, lets assign the rule-breaking business owners with the financial and legal burden of providing for the immediate welfare, proper compensation, future disposition, and proper guest worker documentation of these temporary workers. Learn more
POSITIVELY SUPPORT THE 99% OF RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYERS: Let's study how to more positively support and if need be subsidize the efforts of the great majority of farmers, ranchers, and food processors who already mount significant efforts to provide these critical non-citizen, seasonal staff members with adequate pay, basic benefits and humane working conditions that are economically competitive, fair and equitable. Learn more
COMMIT TO RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND IMPROVED CITIZEN-ACCESS TO INNOVATION DATA Learn more
EXPAND DIGITAL ACCESS, WI-FI AND 5G TECHNOLOGY Learn more
ENHANCE OUR SHARED AGRICULTURAL ASSETS: We need to address our nation's ongoing responsibility to renew and enhance the trillions of dollars’ worth of shared agricultural assets that the federal government has been investing in since the early 1800s. Learn more
REGIONAL FREIGHT RAIL: We need immediate federal action to support the rail industry in renewing and enhancing the nation's cross-region and cross-country freight rail networks (and to perhaps invest in encouraging the private sector to re-enter some level of passenger rail service business between rural area and small city locations to improve sustainable mobility patterns there in the 2020s.) Learn more
INVEST IMMEDIATELY IN REVIVAL OF RURAL-SMALL CITY TOWN CENTERS Learn more
START WITH INLAND, RURAL & SMALL-CITY ROADS & BRIDGES: We need to get started by addressing the roadway challenges in rural and small city settings between the coasts. Learn more
Let's do a "flat tax" for all no matter one's income but at rates that realistically measure the equal and fair extent that each one of us must sacrifice through taxation every year to enable the nation as a whole to thrive. Learn more
MAKE ADULT CAREER TRAINING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT UNIVERSAL Learn more
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