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New Jersey US House District 5

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    Aamir Arif
    (PFL)

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    Beau Forte
    (Grn)

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    Josh Gottheimer
    (Dem)

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    Mary Jo Guinchard
    (Rep)

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    James Tosone
    (L)

Biographical Information

What are the most important challenges facing our country, and how do you propose to address them?

What will you do to support an economy and job market that are strong and inclusive of all people?

What measures do you support to expand voter access and restore trust in our elections?

What is your position on immigration reform?

What, if any, actions would you take to address the threats facing the United States due to climate change?

What is your stance on access to abortion?

What’s the biggest foreign policy challenge facing the United States and how would you address it?

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Campaign Email beau4congress@gmail.com
Campaign phone 9738699464
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Twitter @beau4congress
Website www.beauforcongressnj.com
Healthcare - Currently, more than 1000 citizens go broke daily, solely due to their personal medical bills. We need a universal healthcare system, like every other developed nation already has.

Trust and faith in our government - We need to expand Congress. in 1920, The United States had a population of 106 million people, and those people were represented by 435 members of Congress. Today, we have 330 million people, and still just 435 members of Congress. If we expanded that number, it would immediately make it harder for political parties to gerrymander districts, harder for lobbyists, corporations and the wealthy to purchase votes, and make it much harder for representatives to hide from their constituency. This would help to restore faith in our government again.

Ceasefire NOW! We must put an end to our endless support for Israel and their far-right regime of genocidal war criminals.

Fight to make Roe the law of the land, and fight to protect ALL Civil rRghts.
A single payer universal healthcare plan would be an enormous boost to our economy. In the first year that we implement this system, the country will see an entrepreneurial boom like it has never seen before. This will happen organically because suddenly, all of those millions of Americans who were afraid to leave their employer and follow their dreams of starting a business will now be able to do so without risking healthcare coverage for them and their families. This has always been a major roadblock for people trying to start a business, and this will now be gone. Also, small business owners will no longer be obligated to offer health insurance to their employees. The boost that a universal healthcare system offers to both employers and employees is immeasurable. The United States needs to catch up to the rest of the world and implement this system.

Voter registration should come automatically on your 18th birthday. I believe we restore faith in the elections when we shrink the Congressional Districts back down to approximately 200k people. This is all covered in my Expansion of Congress plan. I would also like to see a system where votes are counted by address, allowing public access to count votes that way.
I would like to see it made much easier to become a citizen. People who have been here for years, working, raising families, staying out of trouble, etc., should have a clear path to citizenship. I have a good friend who has a wife and 1 year old child in Costa Rica, and can not get them into the country for at least another year. What a disgrace!
I believe in The Green New Deal. I believe in changing our methods of creating energy to more sustainable solutions. I believe we can create good government and private sector jobs this way. We are using the same energy sources that we did 100 years ago. That's crazy! Sun, wind, water, must take the place of fossil fuels, and now. Climate change is one of the issues of our time, and must be tackled immediately.
I am unapologetically 100% pro-choice. I believe that there is no time or place where I, or anyone else, especially the government, should get in the way of a woman and her doctor making long term decisions for her health. As the father of a daughter, I would never allow my child to live in a place where she can not make her own healthcare decisions.
The cost of trying to be the boss of the world. We need to bring many of our military service people home, train them for better jobs, and get them ready to join the public sector. We spend more on our military than the next 7 or 8 nations combined do. We do this at our own detriment, as we are the only developed nation to not have a universal healthcare policy. We need to stop being the world's police force, and invest at home.
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Campaign Email tosone4congress@gmail.com
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Federal Government spending, taxes, and debt. The only way to control spending, so we can reduce both taxes and the debt, is to reform the biggest Federal spending programs: entitlements and the military.
The current economy is crony capitalist, benefiting the wealthy and powerful, rather than being truly free. Individuals and companies have the right to freely offer goods and services, which is the most effective at improving lives. The government’s role should be to protect property rights, adjudicate disputes, and provide a legal framework for voluntary trade. Most taxes and government regulations are burdensome, stifling innovation and job creation.
We need to remove the laws and regulations that the two major parties have passed that limit the ability of third-party and Independent candidates to participate in our democracy. This includes excessively high signature requirements to get on the ballot, reserving the first two columns on the ballot for Democrats and Republicans, taxpayer-funding of Democratic and Republican primaries, and overly complex campaign finance laws.
Those who wish to immigrate to the United States and have been screened to determine that they are not terrorists, criminals, or carrying a communicable disease, and can demonstrate that day are able to work or have other means of support, should be granted legal status. They should have the ability to get employment and to have a pathway to citizenship.
The Federal government should streamline multi-year environmental reviews, so that the private sector can provide market-driven solutions that incentivize green innovation, without damaging our economy.
Federal and state governments should have no role in regulating a women’s reproductive health. Their only role should be to protect a women’s right to make her own healthcare decisions with, if she so chooses, the advice of healthcare providers.
The Federal government should not be spending taxpayer money to provide military assistance to any country. Those foreign governments that are not unfriendly to the U.S. should be allowed to use their taxpayer money to purchase military equipment from U.S. weapons manufacturers in order to defend themselves.