Age
72
Highest post-secondary educ
M.D., University of Illinois
Occupation
Physician/scientist, retail sales
Middle-class return to prosperity, healthcare cost and quality, minority and majority federal rights, women's health and needs, and the failure of computer databases/AI data centers.
State-payer medical funding, return to adequate taxation and prosecute insider trading.
Age
63
Highest post-secondary educ
M.Ed., University of Missouri-St. Louis
Occupation
Teacher, retired
I am most focused on Medicare for all and universal pre-K. A healthy nation is a thriving nation and a country that takes care of its children is a measure of its humanity and honoring our social contract. Healthcare is a right and should not be based on income or employment status. Free public education is a right and should begin as young as possible, as minds develop.
I am a member of BAC (take back Balance and Accountability to Congress). We need to restore the role of Congress as a check on the executive and remove the corruption that has brought us to this point: ending Citizens United, banning stock trades, term limits, SCOTUS code of ethics. A corporate-influenced Congress cannot address the needs of the people. Time for a reset.
Age
60
Highest post-secondary educ
M.P.A., Harvard University
Occupation
Host, On Democracy with FP Wellman, MeidasTouch Network
I care about whether working people can build a decent life: affordable healthcare, good jobs, housing, veterans’ care, clean water, reproductive freedom and democracy. After 22 years in the Army and helping lead a COVID field hospital, I know government matters most when people need it.
Lowering costs for working families. We need an economy with a strong floor and no ceiling: affordable healthcare, lower drug prices, housing people can afford, strong workers’ rights and tax policies that reward work instead of wealth.
