Education
- Make education a priority
- Increase teacher’s salaries and fix PEIA
- Adequately give tax credit to teachers for purchased supplies
- End state support of charter schools
- Support teacher’s right to strike and unionize
- Expand school, after-school and weekend food programs
- Fund more nonathletic extra-curricular activities
- Expand scholarship program to 2.0 students and make 3.0 scholarship available based on performance even after enrollment
- Promote trade schools at the same level as colleges
- Place social workers and counselors in every school, including pre-K, to help children and teach coping skills
Infrastructure
- Stop Right to Work and return the Prevailing Wage
- Enforce West Virginia Jobs Act and make out of state companies hire locally
- Preference given to union companies for state contracts
- Put West Virginians to work fixing our roads and bridges and not just patching them
Jobs
- Protect and promote unions (investigate claims of wrongful termination due to union talks)
- Raise the severance tax
- Support small business through the WV Can’t Wait Small Business Revolution
- Legalize marijuana (legislated to give advantage to local farmers and local dispensaries)
Opioid Crisis
- Support better after treatment care with support services, such as employment services and follow-up care
- Establish more inpatient care facilities
- Make drug distributors publicly publish what drugs are coming into our state
- Cap the price of insulin, EpiPens and other life-saving drugs
- Improve mental health access
While this list includes many of the issues we would like to see addressed at the state level, it does not cover everything. I look forward to meeting and talking with as many people in Marion County as I can and see where we share concerns and common ground. That is who I want to represent, every resident of Marion County.
