Include substantial investments in new affordable housing construction Effectively address homelessness Minimize gentrification and protect communities Allow disenfranchised communities the opportunity to build intergenerational wealth through homeownership

Provide everyone in America comprehensive health care coverage without premiums, deductibles, co-pays, or surprise bills through a Medicare for All system Prevent drug companies and insurers from gouging patients Invest in infrastructure so every community has equitable access to health care Identify, quantify, and eliminate health care disparities in suffering communities

Issues - Send Rev. William Summerville to Congress

ISSUES

I will fight for an America committed to justice – economic, racial, social, health care, and environmental – for all of us.

COVID Recovery for All

Ensure all communities have access to the COVID-19 vaccines
Provide recurring federal relief that is fairly distributed to families and businesses
Create nationwide Personal Protective Equipment safety standards for the workplace
Continue the moratorium on evictions
Continue the moratorium on student loan payments

Economic Justice for All

A minimum living wage that adjusts for inflation
Strengthen and expand unions
Equal pay for equal work
Support small businesses
Expand workplace protections for the LGBTQIA+ community by passing the Equality Act
Make credit and banking services available to all communities
Dismantle and expunge predatory lending
Make the ultra-wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share of taxes
Increased protections and employment opportunities for persons with disabilities

Fair Housing for All

Include substantial investments in new affordable housing construction
Effectively address homelessness
Minimize gentrification and protect communities
Allow disenfranchised communities the opportunity to build intergenerational wealth through homeownership

Climate Justice for All

Clean water, clean food, and clean air for all
Create millions of good paying jobs by re-inventing our energy and transportation systems through a Green New Deal
Preserve and protect national parks and natural lands

Medicare for All

Provide everyone in America comprehensive health care coverage without premiums, deductibles, co-pays, or surprise bills through a Medicare for All system
Prevent drug companies and insurers from gouging patients
Invest in infrastructure so every community has equitable access to health care
Identify, quantify, and eliminate health care disparities in suffering communities

Public Education Reform for All

Increase federal and state funding for:
- Early childhood education
- Child care
- Public schools
- Educators
- Community schools
- After-school programs
Invest in the right of teachers and their unions to collectively bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions
Free public college
Cancel student debt
Set a higher minimum salary that adjusts with the rate of inflation to attract and keep the best public school teachers.

Public Safety Reform for All

Implement alternatives to incarceration where appropriate
End mandatory minimum sentencing and the death penalty
Legalize marijuana
Set national standards for policing and use-of-force procedures
Ensure law enforcement accountability
End for-profit prisons and immigration detention centers
Bail reform

Comprehensive Reparations

Identify Descendants of U.S. Chattel Slavery as a protected class
Compensation in the form of paychecks to close the racial wealth gap
Incorporate policies to identify and eradicate systemic racism within various institutions

Universal Basic Income

$2,000 payments issued monthly to individuals who make less than $85,000 a year

Political Campaign Reform

Public financing of campaigns
Reversal of Citizens United
Making election day a national holiday
Non-partisan civic organizations/programs for oversight of voting procedures and vote counting
In addition, as a lifelong Democrat I believe that the Democratic party should do away with the Superdelegate system in their primary electoral drives as it unbalances and displaces the actual voices of their democrat party members. We can’t pretend to be a party that holds a “representative” democracy to be the ideal with such a system in place.

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