Candidate for Virginia House of Delegates - District 59 in 2023 Virginia General Election.
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Get StartedSafeguarding our reproductive rights, freedoms, and expanding access to abortion, contraception, and reproductive healthcare. Learn more
Marriage equality for LGBTQ people. Learn more
Raising the felony larceny threshold. Learn more
Establishing fair guidelines for police lineups and identifications. Learn more
Increasing resources and programs to prevent sexual, dating, and domestic abuse and violence, and to protect victims thereof. Learn more
Promoting the use of non-lethal force. Learn more
Higher standards for accepting jailhouse informant testimony. Learn more
Full funding of courts, including competitive pay for courts staff. Learn more
Ending the practice of trying children as adults. Learn more
Fair compensation and better training for first responders, public safety officers, and criminal justice workers. Learn more
Video recording of and prohibition of the use of deception during interrogations. Learn more
Better training for law enforcement officers. Learn more
Fully funding mental health services and interventions, and increased capacity thereof, when appropriate in place of law enforcement involvement. Learn more
Providing the option for civilian oversight of sheriff’s offices *and* city police departments. Learn more
Treating substance abuse as a mental health issue and not a criminal matter. Learn more
Ending or minimizing jail time for non-violent offenses. Learn more
Establishing clear & transparent laws for legal use of marijuana and clear guidelines for setting up a legal recreational cannabis market. Learn more
Incentives for our small, local businesses including subsidizing a pooled benefits program for employees and a lesser tax burden. Learn more
Repeal of anti-worker laws. Learn more
A strong, full-funded public education system. Learn more
Strengthening laws and enforcement of laws that safeguard PK-12 and higher education student and educator privacy, especially of data, and that prevent cyber attacks on and increase cyber security of our Virginia school districts, colleges, and universities. Learn more
Standards of Learning (SOLs) that include Virginians’ complete and shared history and that reflect the lives and experiences of ALL people. Learn more
Bringing the SOQs (Standards of Quality) in line with what it takes to properly educate our students, and fully funding any state-issued mandates. Learn more
Reversing disinvestment in our institutions of higher and continuing education and taking the financial burden of Virginia’s students and their families. Learn more
Reducing gaps in opportunities and outcomes for students of color, special education, English Language Learners, and low-income students. Learn more
Making sure the Commonwealth fully meets its educational funding obligations. Learn more
A robust state grant program for funding school infrastructure and facilities to modernize Virginia’s crumbling school buildings. Learn more
Raising the salaries of teachers and ALL other K-12 public school staffers. Virginia is one of the wealthiest states in the United States, but ranks among the lowest in teacher pay. Learn more
Policies that accommodate and include transgender and nonbinary students. Learn more
Exploring regulations/rules on how traffic, water, environmental, and other impact studies are contracted to increase accuracy and reduce conflicts of interest. Learn more
Transitioning away from single-use plastics. Learn more
Staying in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Learn more
Exploring possibilities for establishing protective trusts for rural land. Learn more
Transitioning to renewable energy sources while making renewable energy sources affordable. Learn more
Connecting the agricultural traditions in the 59th District with creating new jobs and supporting new environmental and bio-based industries. Learn more
Halting new pipelines and gold mines. Learn more
Fair, comparable wages for renewable energy workers. Learn more
Protecting historic and vulnerable communities such as Brown Grove here in the 59th District. Learn more
Ranked-choice voting. Learn more
A full time legislature. Learn more
Automatic rights restoration. Learn more
Competitive pay for ALL Virginia’s public servants and employees. Learn more
Campaign finance reforms/limitations, to limit the influence of developers. Learn more
Greater access to voting and other democratic processes, such as early and absentee voting. Learn more
Fully funding voter & elections services and tools. Learn more
Establishing a Voter Protection and Election Integrity Unit to keep elections in Virginia secure and keep election officials safe. Learn more
Public financing of elections. Learn more
Shifting the burden of enforcing parking and traffic violations to a non-armed civilian agency. Learn more
Limits on political donations, including mirroring federal campaign limits. Limitations what politicians can use campaign funds for to campaign expenses–office space, office supplies, campaign materials and needs, salaries for staff, childcare, and health insurance. Stricter disclosure laws. Learn more
Funding programs and initiatives to educate and train people about safe gun use and to prevent gun crimes & violence. Learn more
Giving families and law enforcement tools to intervene, such as Red Flag Laws, when there is evidence that someone with access to firearms poses a risk to themselves or others while protecting due process. Learn more
Keeping guns out of the hands of violent criminals and domestic abusers. Learn more
Secure firearm storage policies. Learn more
Expansion of background checks to private and gun show sales. Learn more
Limiting firearms in sensitive places. Learn more
Prohibitions on dangerous weapons, including ghost guns, assault-style weapons and those with high capacity magazines. Learn more
Expanding access to Medicaid. Learn more
Adequate funding and resources for mental health services including for substance abuse disorders. Learn more
Building capacity for the provision of behavioral and mental health and medical disability services. Learn more
Parity of mental health benefits and services with medical and surgical benefits and services. Learn more
Reducing racial, socio-economic, and gender-based disparities in access to adequate and appropriate healthcare. Learn more
Decoupling healthcare from employment. Learn more
Instituting a medical debt relief program. Learn more
Developing and expanding our public transportation infrastructure including sidewalks, bike lanes, and hiking and walking trails. Learn more
Lowering or capping prescription drug prices, the establishment of a Prescription Drug Affordability Board and an assistance program for prescriptions and healthcare equipment & supplies. Learn more
Establishing emergency funds for qualifying tenants who are struggling to pay their rent including re-starting the Virginia Rent Relief Program (RRP). Learn more
Incentivizing localities to adopt affordable housing ordinances. Learn more
Creating & funding housing assistance programs that include energy efficiency updates and other repairs to help residents maintain and stay in their homes. Learn more
Creating & funding a statewide housing assistance program to supplement the federal housing programs such as Section 8. Learn more
Protecting transparency and citizen engagement processes around land use and development decisions. Learn more
I support: Treating high-speed internet like a public utility. Establish full infrastructure for high speed internet, including pushing the electric utility companies in the 59th to do their part to provide broadband access. Subsidizing internet bills in rural and other areas that are more expensive to service. Increasing funding to the Virginia Telecommunications Initiative to help defray costs of broadband access. Learn more
Right to Repair policies especially for home appliances and agricultural equipment. Learn more
Affordable, accessible, and high quality, affordable and accessible prenatal, elder, and childcare. Learn more
Providing localities with more tools to raise their own revenues beyond property taxes, and giving localities more power to require & negotiate proffers. Learn more
Tax fairness for middle and working class Virginians. Learn more
I am a proponent of tax reforms such that the Commonwealth accesses every viable and reasonable source of revenue possible, while removing burdens on working and middle class Virginians. Learn more
Paid sick, medical, and family leave for all workers. Learn more
The right to collective bargaining for employees. Learn more
A $15 minimum wage. Learn more
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