Candidate for U.S. Senate - Georgia in 2020 Georgia Regular and Presidential Primary Election.
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Get StartedMaya is committed to expanding the First Step Act and working in the U.S. Senate to vet appointments to the federal judiciary including the U.S. Supreme Court as well as directing the Department of Justice in its grant making programs to local police departments to demilitarize and return to community based policing where local law enforcement must live within the boundaries of the jurisdictions they police so they are truly members of the community hired to protect and serve all of its citizens. Learn more
Maya successfully wrote and defended responsible gun ownership regulations and she has long been fighting for justice system realignment, the end of cash bail, cannabis equity, reverse non-violent incarceration, eliminating mandatory minimums and ending “above-the-law” policing. Learn more
Expand veteran protections. Learn more
In the new virtual world, Maya has innovative ideas of what to do with commercial real estate left vacant as companies moved their workforce to their own homes in the remote work environment. Learn more
Maya has been fighting against workplace discrimination and predatory lending and for small businesses, equal pay and closing the CEO wage gap, local jobs, enforcement of minority contracting requirements, paid vocational training and caps. Learn more
Raising the minimum wage for workers, overhauling the tax code and credit reporting and requiring corporations and billionaires to pay their fair share of taxes and deploying money fairly to bailout main street over wall street, and taking predatory lending out of higher education. Learn more
She supports the framework of the Green New Deal and she will fight to resign the Paris Accord, incentivizing adherence to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, reducing American reliance on fossil fuels and ensuring replacement industry and jobs for communities that are economically rely on coal and unhealthy energy sources, expanding emission reduction goals and expanding affordable clean energy options with carefully tailored tax incentives, protecting farmers against bankruptcy and expanding SNAP benefit eligibility so that families avoid hunger and starvation, and Americans against unfair utility rate hikes. Learn more
Lead on global peace. Link trade and immigration. Learn more
She believes in universal, single payer healthcare for all, protecting rural hospitals, mental health and women’s health, ensuring healthcare as a right, reducing prescription drug costs, increasing reimbursement rates and holding big pharma accountable. She is committed to get this done by strengthening and expanding Medicaid and Medicare and funnelling all healthcare competition through pre-existing federal oversight of healthcare markets that ensure all Americans have coverage and choice of physicians. Learn more
Maya will continue to fight in Washington, D.C. for new HUD rules that hold developers accountable, remove inherent displacement effects and protect small property owners as well as tenants. She will expand eligibility for housing subsidies to support those who were made unemployed by the COVID-19 pandemic and increase access for working and middle class families to homeownership. Learn more
Maya supports the PRO Act and is committed to continuing the fight on all these issues while introducing amendment legislation to also protect small business and remit “backpay” for free labor to ensure intergenerational wealth building and transfer and close the race wealth gap. Learn more
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