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Joe Kazlas For IN Senate Group
Describe your background.
Widowed Father of an amazing Daughter, US Navy Vet, United Auto Worker
Occupation
Stellantis - Team Leader
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I am a Navy Veteran, UAW member, lifelong resident of the Senate District... And many more life experiences. Also, I am not a career politician, I support term limits. But most of all I am a father.
My top priority is to bring common sense and common decency back to government. A working class agenda, focusing on improving economic stability and increasing worker power through higher wages, stronger unions, affordable healthcare, and expanded worker protections. That includes a higher minimum wage, paid leave, reduced childcare costs, and investing in apprenticeships, aiming to ensure work pays enough to sustain families. We also need to look at tax rates on wealthy corporations and revisit tax abatements on them as well.
I support expansion of Medicare and Medicaid at the state level to increase federal funding for healthcare. Rural Hoosiers face significant health disparities compared to urban residents, including higher rates of chronic diseases (obesity, diabetes, COPD) and lower life expectancy. These challenges are driven by systemic barriers that must be addressed, including hospital closures, severe provider shortages, limited prenatal care, and long emergency response times. I support initiatives such as GROW, IRHA and the Indiana University Center for Rural Engagement.
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Describe your background.
I have worked for the state Indiana as a family case manager investigating child abuse, and neglect. I now work as a therapist in a middle school in Indianapolis. I grew up in rural Indiana where it was over 30 minutes to the closest store. My family is blue collar, but extremely supportive and involved in each other’s lives.
Occupation
Social Work
I will bring empathy, adaptability, strong communication, critical, thinking, creativity, and advocacy to the state house. As a social worker I have to work with people from every walk of life and find a way to serve the community in new and creative ways every day. I work with nonexistent budgets to dig tunnels through systemic mountains.
My top priority once in office is to ensure transparency around the decisions I make. I never want there to be a question of why I supported or wrote a bill. The first bill I hoped to write is to expand public healthcare in new and creative ways to ensure everyone has access to affordable, quality physical and mental healthcare.
We are able to diminish barriers that make it difficult for people in rule areas to get healthcare, not take it away. Our job as legislators is to provide the tools for communities to use. This looks like new and creative solutions like integrating social workers, offering training & positions for paramedics to offer preventative services, and putting public funding into rural hospitals and medical facilities. There is no reason for there to be maternal healthcare deserts while our state has a surplus of funds. At the state house, we are able to empower communities by spreading opportunity instead of allowing it to be consolidated to the point that being one zip code over from another takes 14 years off your lifespan.
