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I've released this as a complete document on facebook, but Twitter doesn't have a file upload button, so brace yourselves for the longest stream of tweets I'm likely to ever produce. I present, a (non-exhaustive) list of policy priorities:
First and foremost in my priorities upon assuming office, should I have the privilege of representing the citizens of the great state of Tennessee, is pressing for healthcare reform. We’re one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and it’s completely unacceptable how (1/2)
(2/2) easy it is for a family to go bankrupt from one accident due to exorbitant medical costs.
Next, Gun laws: I am a firm believer in a strong second amendment, and will not be supporting gun bans. Public safety is important, but maintaining freedoms is equally important. To that end, I would support legislation to expand background checks to private gun (1/2)
(2/2) sales in the name of safety, but I cannot stress enough, I will not support bans. Even if such bans weren’t of questionable efficacy, they run counter to one of the most critical freedoms explicitly granted to us in the constitution.
Third: Schools: This is another significant priority, close behind health care. Our school system is broken, bottom to top. We have underfunded public school for k-12 all around the state and the nation, we have class sizes which are simply unfeasible for a single (1/3)
(2/3) instructor to manage, and we have books and facilities which are so old or otherwise unfit for use that it’s an embarrassment to think they’re resources used in a first-world nation anywhere. Then, on a collegiate level, we have schools which are so expensive that
(3/3) students can easily end up tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt before even entering the professional workforce. The situation is all-around unsustainable, and I will work to reform it from the ground up.
The environment: Climate scientists the world around agree, this is a serious issue facing the world today. I will push for green energy and a cleaner environment, either through carbon taxes which get distributed to the customers in the area that polluter serves, renewed (1/3)
(2/3) subsidies and incentives for pursuing green energy, some combination of those two, or something else entirely. Regardless the solution settled upon, this is an issue which needs to be addressed. Even if every scientist everywhere were wrong, which I don’t believe to be
(3/3) the case, the worst that happens from pursuing this is that we leave our children and their children a cleaner, better world to live in.
Women’s rights: I support a woman’s right to choose all things related to her own medical care, start to finish. They deserve to have every bit of freedom and bodily autonomy we grant to men.
Net neutrality: repealing net neutrality was a serious misstep, and this is an issue that I want to work towards rectifying. Ajit Pai’s FCC acted unconscionably in their decision to remove its protections and they failed their responsibility to consumers when they decided (1/2)
(2/2) to bow to large ISPs. We need to restore these safeguards before it’s too late.
Workers’ rights: Everyone deserves to make enough money to survive if they’re working full time, no matter what that work entails. To that end, I will pursue higher minimum wages and pro-worker and pro-union legislation to counteract what some of the powerful lobbies on (1/2)
(2/2) the hill have been eroding for decades.
Again, this list is not exhaustive, and I want to learn more of what you all believe is important, but I believe it's important to be clear about what is at the front of my mind when I'm running this race, and the exact things I want to see change.
