Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Texas 4th Congressional District in 2020 Texas General Election.
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Get StartedAllow women to determine what they can do with their own bodies. Stop telling them what they can and can't do. Stop forcing them to do things they don't want through bad legislation. Learn more
Fight to protect LGBTQ Rights & Equality. Allow them to return to the military, and have the same rights as every other citizen. Learn more
We should be working on ways, by working with corporations and colleges to get people in prisons proper and real skills and training and help to get them to become great citizens again and a better part of our communities once they are released. Learn more
Get the police proper PTSD and stress training to keep the stress levels down and work on better protecting and getting back to protecting and serving and being friendly members of the community again instead of militarizing our departments. Learn more
Work to get rid of private for profit prison systems. Because of this system, it has incentive with criminalizing citizens that normally wouldn't be put in prison because of quotas needing to be met to keep making a profit. We shouldn't be profiting off of this. Learn more
Fight to stop racial injustice. Learn more
Work on ways to better train police on how to handle suspects with mental disorders and properly trained to use less lethal force like bean bags to cause less death by police officers for non violent situations that we have. Learn more
Give teachers the materials they need both in the classroom and salary wise to keep them competitive and captivated with teaching our children. It takes a special person to be able to teach, and they should be compensated fairly for it, have proper healthcare, and should be fairly taken care of in retirement as well. Learn more
Fix the issues with the current administration's need to privatized education and giving a nice big tax cut to the rich to go to private schools disguised as vouchers on our tax payer dime while not providing enough money in those vouchers for the less fortunate to be able to afford private education. They can never have the same opportunities and that needs to change. We need to help the people that truly need the help, and not keep giving handouts to the rich and powerful. Learn more
Lower the costs of education and work to better provide further education opportunities to people that want it no matter what age or income level. Learn more
Make class transfers from one college to another acceptable across the board. If you are going for a teaching degree, there needs to be one curriculum for a general teaching degree no matter what college you start at. People shouldn’t have to retake 20 classes because one college said it would transfer while the next one they go to said that they don’t and just wasted thousands of dollars. Learn more
I will personally reject big corporate campaign money. Learn more
Stop allowing lobbyists to control the agenda and put that power back to the american citizen again. Work to make it easier for American Citizens to vote and get more people involved. Expanding voting days and getting more polling places, and allowing more people to be eligible to vote. Learn more
Those with rare diseases will be able to find out more about medications they are taking and can get the best services available for that disease, no matter what income level they are in. Learn more
Those without rare diseases but still have diseases like Diabetes and others that need lifesaving drugs like insulin, will not have to decide if they can eat or take a shot today. We shouldn’t be stretching out our lifesaving medications because we can’t afford these outrageous prices. Learn more
Work to provide alternative to harsh and addictive prescription drugs that we might not have access to now. Learn more
Lower the cost of prescriptions, allow better testing and more regulators to monitor pharmacies across the state. Learn more
I support the single-payer Medicare for all bill HR-1384. We need to fix our messed up healthcare system and I believe this will cost less in the long term, protect people like myself with pre-existing conditions, and make sure that everyone is covered no matter your income level. Learn more
Work on getting high speed internet access to the entire district, no matter what rural area you are in. Learn more
Return to Net Neutrality. Learn more
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