VOTE411 Voter Guide

Enacting the New York Health Act: Establishing a single-payer healthcare system to ensure that medical decisions are made by doctors and patients, not for-profit insurance companies. This will make our communities more affordable by reducing healthcare costs that are driving up our property and school taxes. We need to build a healthcare system for NY that Washington can't take away.

Protecting NY from Federal Lawlessness and Overreach: Where Washington pulls back, NY must step up. This means protecting healthcare, education, research, social services and other public assets like SNAP from federal cuts. This also means physically protecting our immigrant neighbors from lawless ICE activity.

Codifying Human Accountability: Introduce the Constitutional Right to Talk to a Human Being and require that life-altering decisions, from healthcare claims to financial lending and employment, be overseen by accountable human beings rather than unregulated corporate algorithms or AI.

Energy Sustainability & Affordability: Transitioning New York to a clean energy economy (wind, solar, and wave generation) to reduce utility rates and protect residents from global energy market volatility. We need to maintain and expand our commitments enacted in the CLCPA and Build Public Renewables Act. Publicly owned energy projects are the best way to provide for both our environment and lower costs. We should also keep land conservation in mind when siting renewable energy projects. Our priorities should be roof tops and parking lots first.

Modernizing Grid Infrastructure: Updating the state’s electrical grid to handle decentralized renewable inputs and a moratorium on high-consumption data centers that threaten to drive up costs and emissions.

Resiliency Funding for Municipalities: Providing direct state support for local infrastructure, like the projects I have managed in Stillwater, to handle the increased frequency of extreme weather and flooding.

New York must maintain our commitment to equal protection of the law and liberty and justice for all.

This means maintaining our educational commitments to teaching history and science as they are, not as politicians wished they were. We must maintain our commitments to inclusion and equity across the state for all people regardless of color, creed, gender, sex, immigration status, or sexual orientation.

We must protect our immigrant neighbors with policies that ban masked federal agents, impose civil liability on them when they violate the constitution, and stop the federal government from commandeering local police for federal immigration enforcement.

We must also maintain our commitments to equal justice for all by maintaining our commitments against torture in jails and prisons, making sure youth don't improperly face adult consequences for mistakes, and that the wealthy can't buy their way out of jail.

We must make sure universal childcare is actually universal.

Gerrymandering is reprehensible. Voters should choose their elected officials, not the other way around. It is clear now that independent redistricting and bans on gerrymandering must be universal at the federal level, or not at all. When states like NY lead in doing the right thing on gerrymandering we have created opportunity for powerful national interests to rig elections against the will of the American people.

In the short term we must roll back independent redistricting to combat the unprecedented mid census redistricting scam being run by Republican led states at the behest of Donald Trump. We must do what we can in NY to makes sure the federal government actually reflects the will and the values of the broad American people.

Longer term, more than independent redistricting. We should be doing away with single member winner take all districts and moving towards a system of proportional representation that cannot be gerrymandered. This way all voters have their voices heard.

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