New Jersey US House District 12 Choose 1
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What are the most important challenges facing our country, and how do you propose to address them?
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What policies would you support to ease the cost of living and strengthen long-term economic stability for families in this district?
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What changes would you support to make healthcare and mental health services more affordable, accessible, and easier to navigate?
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What is your position on immigration reform? What do you think the relationship between federal immigration enforcement and state or local government institutions should be?
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What is your stance on access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare? And what roles should the federal government and the states each play on reproductive healthcare?
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What actions would you support to strengthen climate resilience and protect infrastructure and neighborhoods from the impact of extreme weather?
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What measures do you support to expand voter access and restore trust in our elections?
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Biographical Information
Campaign Email
campaign@andresjinete.org
Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/andresfjinete
Twitter
@andresfjinete
Website
andresjinete.org
What are the most important challenges facing our country, and how do you propose to address them?
Working families and seniors cannot afford the basic necessities of life. We are overburdened by high rents, low-wages, and medical and student debt. Instead of investing in robust social programs for our people, we choose to spend trillions of dollars fighting pointless wars, supporting genocide, and caging tens of thousands of hard-working people in so-called detention centers.
We support national rent control, social housing, a $25 minimum wage, universal healthcare, student debt relief, free college, and paths to legalization over detention centers.
What policies would you support to ease the cost of living and strengthen long-term economic stability for families in this district?
We need to protect families and small businesses by enacting national rent control that covers commercial and residential properties. We need income-based public housing.
The time has come to raise the minimum wage to $25 an hour and index it to inflation; this will boost the purchasing power of families in the district. If we socialize the cost of healthcare via single-payer, we can reduce the cost of everyone.
What changes would you support to make healthcare and mental health services more affordable, accessible, and easier to navigate?
We support funding funding clinics and hospitals in medical deserts. We believe in creating a universal healthcare system by expanding medicare to cover everyone, regardless of status. This would be essentially a single-payer model free at the point of service.
What is your position on immigration reform? What do you think the relationship between federal immigration enforcement and state or local government institutions should be?
DHS has become a rogue agency that undermines American Civil Liberties, spies on the public, and criminalizes dissent. ICE functions as secret police, enacting a "tough on crime" outlook to get votes for hardliners in both parties. Both of these agencies need to be dismantled. We need a general amnesty that provides paths of legalization for those are already here and a radical shift in our foreign policy, away from coups, sanctions, and blockades, which destabilize the region and create huge migration flows.
What is your stance on access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare? And what roles should the federal government and the states each play on reproductive healthcare?
We are staunch supporters of every person's right to bodily autonomy and access to ALL healthcare, including abortion, paid for by the state. The government SHOULD NOT insert themselves between individuals and healthcare providers and make medical decisions.
What actions would you support to strengthen climate resilience and protect infrastructure and neighborhoods from the impact of extreme weather?
We are experiencing an existential crisis for humanity and all life on the planet. Over the next decade, we need to radically change our energy mix. Fossil fuels can no longer power the economies of the global north. For this end, renewable energy has to scale up quickly. The Americas, particularly in the south, hold the highest potential of green energy production, along with Africa. As one of the key contributors of Green House emissions, the United States must partner with its neighbors and follow the steps of Europe, integrating our energy grids as a continent. This is critical to de-carbonize all domestic consumption. Together, we can save ourselves and the planet.
What measures do you support to expand voter access and restore trust in our elections?
The Green Party has been a long-time supported of ranked choice voting and multi-member districts.
In addition, we need campaign finance reform to transform our political system and make it more responsive to voters and to the needs of everyday people, limiting campaign spending for PACs and publicly funding our elections.
Biographical Information
Campaign Email
winston@winstonforcongress.com
Campaign phone
(609) 285-3191
Twitter
@wincongressnj12
Website
https://winstonforcongress.com
What are the most important challenges facing our country, and how do you propose to address them?
The U.S. faces six critical challenges. On economic inequality, I propose the American Economic Security Act: a $50K minimum livable income, Employer of Last Resort program, and $50B wealth cap—using demand-side economics to stimulate growth. On climate change, we need renewable energy investment, carbon pricing, sustainable infrastructure, and environmental justice. On healthcare, I support Medicare-for-All, expanded mental health and opioid treatment, and protected reproductive rights. On education, we must increase public school funding, make college affordable, expand vocational training, and aid workers displaced by automation. On racial injustice, we need anti-discrimination enforcement, police accountability, and equal economic opportunity. On government reform, we need campaign finance limits, transparency mandates, and strict accountability for officials. These policies will build a more just, equitable, and sustainable America.
What policies would you support to ease the cost of living and strengthen long-term economic stability for families in this district?
I support policies like my American Economic Security Act, which includes a $50K minimum livable income guarantee, a 50-year tax holiday for the bottom 99%, and a wealth cap to redistribute wealth and promote economic fairness. He also advocates for affordable housing initiatives, property tax relief, and Social Security expansion to ease the cost of living and strengthen long-term economic stability for families in NJ-12. Without national will district level pilot programs need development and implementation to demonstrate these policies to the rest of the country.
What changes would you support to make healthcare and mental health services more affordable, accessible, and easier to navigate?
Nationally Medicare for all, but without national will to structurally change healthcare services, implementing a pilot program to expand Veterans Administration health care to the general population in NJ12 must be implemented with funding, staffing and capacity increases to ensure "zero backlog" optimal service times for both veterans and the general public.
What is your position on immigration reform? What do you think the relationship between federal immigration enforcement and state or local government institutions should be?
Our immigration system needs comprehensive reform. I support a direct pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, permanent DACA protection, an end to for-profit detention, and decriminalized border crossings with humane asylum processing. Immigration enforcement is strictly federal. Local police should never act as immigration agents. I oppose 287(g) agreements and support sanctuary policies that protect community trust.
The real crisis is our immigration courts. Judges handle 3,000 to 4,000 cases each, creating years-long backlogs. These delays force people to pay crushing legal fees for years and risk being labeled non-compliant over minor clerical issues or missed notices caused by system overload. Congress must force hiring enough judges to cap caseloads at 700, guarantee legal representation, and simplify filing so no one falls through the cracks due to bureaucratic failure.
What is your stance on access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare? And what roles should the federal government and the states each play on reproductive healthcare?
Reproductive healthcare is a fundamental right, not a political bargaining chip. I support full access to abortion, contraception, fertility treatment, and maternal care without restriction, stigma, or cost barriers. The federal government must codify Roe into law and guarantee nationwide access so no state can strip these rights away. States should handle implementation and provider licensing, but they cannot ban, restrict, or criminalize abortion. The federal government should fund clinics, protect providers from harassment, and ensure medication abortion is available by mail nationwide. No person should have to travel across state lines or face criminal charges for basic medical care. Healthcare decisions belong between a mother, family, faith and physician, not politicians.
What actions would you support to strengthen climate resilience and protect infrastructure and neighborhoods from the impact of extreme weather?
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Climate resilience means protecting working families before disaster strikes, not just cleaning up afterward. I support federal investment to harden power grids, elevate flood-prone infrastructure, and upgrade water systems against drought and storm surge. We need stronger building codes, green infrastructure like urban tree canopies and permeable surfaces, and dedicated funding for low-income neighborhoods that historically face the worst damage and slowest recovery.
The federal government should coordinate emergency response, fund resilient infrastructure, and require climate risk assessments for all federally backed projects. States and localities should handle zoning, land use, and implementation, but with federal standards that prevent building in high-risk zones and ensure equity.
What measures do you support to expand voter access and restore trust in our elections?
Every voter deserves to know their vote was counted correctly. I support decentralized, paper-based voting systems with voter-verified paper receipts at every precinct. No purely electronic voting without a hard copy trail. Voters must be able to go online using their printed receipt to confirm their vote was counted accurately. These receipts provide the backbone for routine, foolproof audits that trace every vote back to its precinct. I support mandatory risk-limiting audits after every election, not just after complaints, and open-source voting software so security experts can inspect the code. The federal government should set baseline security and audit standards, but states and localities should choose equipment and run elections with federal funding to upgrade outdated machines. States must automatically register US Citizens to vote. implement blockchain technology to prevent hacking.
Biographical Information
What are the most important challenges facing our country, and how do you propose to address them?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What policies would you support to ease the cost of living and strengthen long-term economic stability for families in this district?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What changes would you support to make healthcare and mental health services more affordable, accessible, and easier to navigate?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What is your position on immigration reform? What do you think the relationship between federal immigration enforcement and state or local government institutions should be?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What is your stance on access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare? And what roles should the federal government and the states each play on reproductive healthcare?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What actions would you support to strengthen climate resilience and protect infrastructure and neighborhoods from the impact of extreme weather?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What measures do you support to expand voter access and restore trust in our elections?
Candidate has not yet responded.