POLICY ISSUES
Campaign issues frustratingly are too often used to distract and divide instead of to drive conversations that move everyone forward. This is not an accident.
Significant majorities of Americans support a wide array of public policies including dynamic education investments as well as rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure.
Those policies, though, would require those at the top to pay their share, like we do. So those pulling the media levers ensure we are constantly fed stories instead about the topics that keep the rest of us divided.
Our roads and bridges continue to crumble. Trade schools and educational access for those with disabilities stay unfunded.
But the wealthy keep their money.
I am a staunch progressive, and in office I will pursue policies that expand and protect the rights of all Americans. But we cannot, and I will not, let disagreements on traditionally divisive issues wholly dominate our attentions, preventing us from making progress in the areas where we agree.
Instead of continually and fruitlessly trying to change others’ minds on the most sensitive of issues, I will instead simply vote my conscience on them and then get back to the negotiating table on the issues that unite us. That way, we’ll deliver as many real results for the American people as possible.
VOLUNTEER
To me, campaigns sending volunteers out just to knock on doors and pass out pamphlets with the candidate’s face has always been an exercise in self-aggrandizing ego-stroking.
Instead of coordinating efforts to tell communities that I want to serve them, volunteering with my campaign will be heavily focused on doing the actual serving. We will be going into various communities in Michigan to help in any way we can and that each of those communities needs. Community service, not self service.