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What do I stand for?

 

Positions I support

1. Expansion of Medicare

2. Increase in the minimum wage to $10 hour for all businesses that gross over a billion dollars a year

.3. Make November 4th a non-working state holiday so everyone that wants to vote can.

4. Safeguards for credit card users preventing credit card distributors from arbitrarily raising interest rates or changing the original contract from what the original contractee had signed.

5. Heavily discounted online classes available for all Mainers to count as high school and college credits.

6. Transition of public buildings from expensive oil to wood pellets, wind, solar heat hot water, and solar photovoltaics. Whatever as the best return of investment (considering local economic stimulus).

7. All employers must make available to all their employees what company makes for profit per employee and make publicly available the wages or salaries that are paid that are paid at their current location and the top 10 earners of the company (but allow employees names to remain anonymous).

8. Make hospitals have medical costs to be transparent and give patients the information up front. I would also encourage the state of Maine to challenge the regional monopolization of the mega hospitals, to encourage the free market to work by encouraging competition.

9. Prevent Time Warner and Comcast developing a monopoly in Maine by having them choose to be the content distributor or content supplier allowing free-market competition in the market.

10. Changing the status of top heavy expensive administrative hospitals from non-profit to for profit, to end the state corporate welfare of hospitals.

11. The legalization of Marijuana, limiting it's use to 21 years and over, and only allowing it to be grown in cities with 2500 or less (creating jobs in rural Maine) , must be locally owned (owner must live within 10 miles of farm area), and must be legalized for sale or growth by popular city/town wide referendum

12. Nurses and other health staff that are mandated to work over 12 hours should be given 12 hours to recover and not to exceed a total of 16 hours of total work time for patient safety.

13. Any person working part-time or full-time should be allowed to call out ill 3x a year with a doctors note with no disciplinary repercussions from their employer.

14. No person should be elected to office without a clear majority mandate (run off elections if necessary).

15. Privacy rights- Maine should expand and fight for privacy rights of it's citizens by governmental agencies or corporate powers.

16. To restore true democracy in the United States to pass a needed 28th Amendment to our Constitution which would end corporate personhood and publicly finance all elections in our country. There are only 2 ways to amend the Constitution. (1) Go through our federal government (2) Go through our State Legislators via an Article V. Convention of the States. I would say we should protect our Republic and Maine should put forth a constitutional convention to save the Republic and give a voice to the people.

17. Buying a gun should be no more easier or difficult than getting a driver's license to drive.

18. Companies must give the same consequences to all employees violating company policy or risk state fines for unfair employment practices.

19. Explore the process of micro-financing or investing from Mainers to Mainers.

20. Explore the process of cheaper home care alternatives to keep the elderly in their homes and prevent them from being sent into nursing homes.