Education
Metropolitan Community College
Current Public Office, dates held
Elected in 2016 to serve District 3 in the Nebraska Legislature. Re-elected in 2020.
Past Public Office, dates held
Elected as the At-Large Representative on the Bellevue City Council in 2008. Re-elected in 2012.
Military experience
NA
Volunteer experience
Bellevue Farmers Market, Bellevue Public Safety Foundation, Sarpy County Museum, Military Families Support, Veteran's Support, Foodbanks, decades of volunteerism to my community.
For Social Security: 1. Raise the Minimum Wage 2. Lower benefits for the highest-earning beneficiaries 3. Raise the Social Security payroll tax cap are three solutions that are a good path to SS solvency. For Medicare 1. Protect Medicare from budget cuts 2. Pharmacy Benefits Managers. 3. Telehealth expansion. 4. Review payment policy updates and take action to provide fair and effective payment policies. 5. Enhancing transparency on healthcare pricing and billing.
Immigration reform falls squarely on the shoulders of Congress & passing a long-term budget bill. Border Patrol officials say they need money & better resources/infrastructure to be able to process immigrants at the border. More staff is needed at the Ports of Entry where the vast majority of illegal drugs are being trafficked. They don't have enough staff or logistical support to even deport people when they want to do that. Before migrants reach the US border, we can support asylum processing & work with the Mexican government to expand shelter capacity & security. We need more immigration judges to speed up case processing times because the backlog is 5+ years preventing people from being able to have their asylum claims heard.
I believe that safe and accessible reproductive healthcare is a basic right that is supported by science, medicine and respect for human dignity.
Protecting Social Security & Medicare as we know it (addressed in Question #1); Healthcare Affordability (same framework as my answers to protecting Medicare); Immigration (also previously answered); Poor government leadership/hyper partisanship-So I will work for the people and on policy NOT partisan politics and parties as I've done over the last 18 years as an elected official; High Cost of Living-Making sure every American has the tools they need for a better life, which means lifting up working class Americans with fair wages/affordable healthcare/family medical leave/access to childcare/housing and bringing back the ability to create generational wealth; and the Economy which means we need long term budgets and goals for our future.
Education
AA (Ca), AS(Tx), BA(NY), MBA(Ok/Japan), Multiple Military Schools
Current Public Office, dates held
N/A
Past Public Office, dates held
N/A
Military experience
Marine Corp and Air Force
Volunteer experience
Red Cross, Lincoln Literacy Council, Innocence Project,Big Brothers of America, Korean Orphanage Project
Social Security was intended to pay workers who had contributed to the program throughout their lives. It has now become a catch-all for multiple programs. ALL those programs, except for the retirement portion, need to be cut out and budgeted in other departments. SS for retirees, needs to be left alone. Additionally. the age of retirement needs to revert back to 65. We are not magically getting healthier or longer lived. Our longevity is reversing.
We have another bigger problem. The Social Security funds have ALL been borrowed by our Federal government. They are on the books but in reality, they do not exist. They are spent. We MUST make drastic cuts in our government as Argentina has done to save Social Security and more.
I recently spoke with an immigration attorney who told me that since Biden took office, the legal entry of immigrants has dropped to 30% of what it was during President Trump`s term.
Many productive workers from Mexico and other countries contribute greatly to our society. Many Hispanic families have admirable family values, having them here is a benefit, and the process to allow them into the country needs to be rewritten. With my extensive international experience, I would undertake that rewrite.
Meanwhile, multiple countries are clearing out their jails and sending them here. We need a 100% cessation of non-documented aliens crossing our borders. Immigrants who did not initially enter legally MUST leave, and file legally to enter.
On contraception, I am very lacking in knowledge, so have no comment.
On abortion...there is one issue that everyone seems to forget; very few mothers would willingly give up a baby unless they were nervous or afraid. To me it is unimaginable to give up a life that is part me. Since this is the big problem that leads to abortion, we must focus on ensuring that NO mother worries about her future, her work, her school, or her family. There are organizations that do help pregnant and new mothers. We must make sure that all expectant mothers know of these services and that they are VERY simple to access. As a nation, we cannot survive if we rip out growing babies from the wombs of their mothers and sell body parts for profit! Help moms.
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting" (Sun Tzu, ancient Chinese strategist).
Since 2006, every Chinese officer, soldier and sailor has been required to study Sun Tzu`s book "The Art of War" as a required textbook. We are currently in a state of war with the Communist Chinese party. They know it, but most Americans do not.
The well-organized riots in the Northwest were well-funded. On street corners, individuals with blue caps would pay bail for jail and a cash reward for mayhem and rioting.
There is a surge of military-age Chinese males crossing our southern border. All of them have been given clearance by CCP to leave China. Thousands here now
The CCP is funding a silent war and most people do not see it.
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