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Issue Position: Priorities

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2014
Issues: Women Employment and Affirmative Action Taxes Education Housing and Property Criminal Justice Elections

Support a strong public education system, including raising teacher pay;
Stand up for teachers and working families;
Promote affordable and accountable healthcare;
Stick up for the middle class and working poor by tackling the oppressive measures embedded within the General Assembly's recent tax reforms;
Modify the laws that obstruct affordable housing and propose legislation that curtails unfairness within the Home Owners Association (HOA) foreclosure process;
Address Right to Work's discriminatory impact while emphasizing every worker's right to a living wage;
Work to create State and Local partnerships to bring jobs home for District 40 residents;
Sponsor legislation to allow municipalities across the State to create Citizens Review Boards with subpoena power;
Act to reign in North Carolina's expanded Castle Doctrine (Stand Your Ground);
Strengthen legislation protecting women's rights, including stricter Domestic Violence laws;
Focus on fully-funding North Carolina's Indigent Defense Services system; and
Advocate for the reform of North Carolina's regressive Voter ID laws.


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