Candidate for Pennsylvania State Senate - District 9 in 2020 Pennsylvania Primary Election.
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Get StartedI support a woman’s right to choose and to make her own health care decisions without interference by the state or employers. I will fight to remove current restrictions and roadblocks on the right to choose in Pennsylvania. Learn more
Provide funding to address the victims of the opioid epidemic by providing direct grants to local areas to establish treatment centers and other solutions. Provide for treatment in the first instance for addiction as an alternative to criminal prosecution to keep people out of the criminal system. Ensure increased funding for our mental health system. Learn more
Marijuana should be decriminalized. Those imprisoned for use or possession should be released, and records should be expunged. Those imprisoned for low level use or possession of other drugs should be committed to treatment rather than prison. Cash bail should be eliminated as there are thousands in jail solely because of their socioeconomic status. Learn more
Promoting Real Jobs and Economic Growth. Learn more
Provide additional support for young farmers, organic farming and urban and community agriculture. Support programs to use sustainably produced wood products in construction and for energy. Restore funding for farmland and forestland conservation. Learn more
Provide adequate funding to make a college education affordable for all. Provide state assistance for funding for universal preschool across the Commonwealth. Reform the funding formula for support of schools. Provide school districts with alternatives to real estate taxes. Make greater provision for state loans and provide forgiveness of excessive student loans for those who commit to work in the Commonwealth. Learn more
Protecting Our Natural Environment and Climate. Learn more
Green Infrastructure Growth. Learn more
Limit the number of annual gun purchases. Prohibit gun sales to individuals with a history of violence and those under restraining orders. Prohibit all automatic and semi-automatic weapons except in the hands of law enforcement or within licensed firing ranges. Prohibit gun possession within 100 yards of any school, church, government building, stadium or other venue open to the public with a capacity greater than 100 individuals. Prohibit concealed carry. Ban high capacity magazines. Learn more
Auction greenhouse gas allowances, impose a universal oil, gas and mineral severance tax, and legalize and tax recreational marijuana. Pass a Constitutional Amendment to impose a graduated income tax and allow higher millage rates in the taxation of commercial and industrial properties. Expand the local wage tax to include interest, dividend and capital gains income. Restore authorization for the former tax on wealth other than real estate and make it available to schools. Impose a requirement that all schools impose the expanded wage tax to reduce reliance on property taxes and reestablish the tax on securities not in retirement or school savings accounts. Learn more
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