Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Maryland 8th Congressional District in 2024 Maryland General Election.
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Get StartedIncreased screening and training for local police – use federal support to distribute best practices from the most successful, tolerant police forces in the country; the federal government should help local departments help other local departments. Eliminate disparity between communities and their police forces – Fund a national survey of racial parity of local police forces to their communities; pro-actively identify areas with significant gaps and then support local recruitment to achieve parity quickly. Learn more
The tax system should support our emergency switch to renewable energy to reverse climate change. I support removing all tax subsidies for the petroleum, natural gas, and nuclear industries, including the Price Anderson Act shielding the nuclear industry from bearing its full cost. I support tax subsidies for renewable energy as a minimum step in fighting climate change, since every second counts towards planetary survival. And Congress needs to end our massive farm bill tax subsidies for the four grains which are the basis of our snack foods, and instead provide a fair, free market for production of healthier fruits and vegetables. Learn more
Climate Change – implement an emergency economic transformation to renewable energy, including 100% renewable electricity supply by 2020, and all other energy uses by 2030 Learn more
Single Payer Health Care and Men’s Contraception – a universal, comprehensive, national single-payer health care system would redirect the administrative waste of private insurance corporations -currently 31 cents of every dollar spent on health care in America today – into real patient care. And men need to be fully empowered to make their own decisions about having a child, with modern, safe, reversible effective contraception Learn more
Undocumented immigrants already residing and working in the United States should be granted a legal status which includes the chance to become U.S. citizens, as long as they present no danger to other members of society. Learn more
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