Lenny on the Issues

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Small Business:

• Eliminate taxes on small businesses and stop giving tax breaks to large businesses. End corporate welfare.

• Provide tax credits to small businesses so that they can pay their employees a living wage and provide comprehensive health benefits.

  • Read my opinion pieces on small business here and here​.

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Healthcare:

• Restore Medicaid by reversing the 2018/2019 Medicaid cuts. Audit Medicaid so we understand where the funding is going, and reallocate to benefit every Rhode Islander. 

• Protect a woman’s right to choose and reproductive freedom.

 

Public Schools:

• Make a quality education a Constitutional right in Rhode Island.

• Ensure that every public school teacher in Rhode Island makes at least $60,000 per year.

 

Affordable Housing:

• Ensure that every family in Rhode Island can have access to affordable housing by build 10,000 green affordable homes.

• Protect local neighborhoods by limiting the power of predatory landlords, and end source of income discrimination. 

• Provide public funding to assist landowners in retrofitting their homes to provide more housing.

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Public Safety

• As a registered nurse, I will never turn my back on our first responders. 

• Invest in affordable housing, healthcare, social workers, and mental healthcare, so our first responders do not have to respond to crises they are not equipped to handle.

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Shoreline Access

• Pass H8055, the Shoreline Access Bill, to protect every Rhode Islanders access to the coast.

• Support a recognizable high tide line to ensure the Constitutional right of every Rhode Islander to the coast.

 

Climate Change

• Build 10,000 units of green affordable housing, creating hundreds of unionized jobs. 

• Shut down polluting industries and create green justice zones. 

• Take on the fossil fuel industry to ensure clean air and water, and become one of the first states in the country to go 100 percent clean energy.

 

Democracy:

• Pass a bill to form an independent redistricting commission in Rhode Island. 

• End the influence of corporate lobbyist money, and institute the public funding of elections in Rhode Island.

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Taxes:

• Increase taxes on the top 1 percent of Rhode Islanders and build a fair tax system for all. 

 

Minimum Wage:

• Pass a $19 minimum wage. ($39,520 annually) 

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Gun Safety and Mass Shootings:

• Common sense gun reform that centers community interests and not the NRA

• Stopping mass shootings needs to be about more than gun safety legislation. Our state needs to reinvest in healthcare, education, and housing so all Rhode Islanders canhave a future they believe in.

  • Read my op-ed on mass shootings here​