Campaign Issues

My campaign is focused on two core issues: Affordability and Fairness.

Affordability means making the American Dream a reality again. Americans shouldn’t be struggling just to survive while our leaders fund unnecessary wars and lavish ballrooms to drive up our national debt to disastrous levels.

Fairness means building a country that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few. We must hold our leaders accountable to ensure that they represent us, and we must support workers and small businesses to restore the balance of power away from the billionaire elite and back to the working class.

Affordability

    1. Support emergency efforts to provide immediate relief for Americans in the current economic crisis.

    2. Draft an Economic Bill of Rights to protect Americans from exploitation by employers, landlords, and economic instability.

    3. Create a democratic economy that promotes employee-owned co-ops, strengthens labor unions, and supports communities through public banking and public utilities.

    4. Create a fair and balanced tax policy that closes loopholes and ensures billionaires and corporations pay their fair share.

    1. Push legislation that fully implements a Medicare for All system that is supported by most Americans across all political parties.

    2. Forgive medical debt and expand coverage to include naturopathic and alternative medicine.

    3. Reverse Trump-era cuts to Medicare and Medicaid that have reduced access to healthcare and threaten the viability of hospitals across Connecticut.

    1. Double Pell Grants and broaden eligibility requirements.

    2. Cap student loan interest rates at 1% and ensure they never exceed the principal loan.

    3. Streamline university and college administrative bureaucracy and bend the cost curve.

    4. Restore public student loan forgiveness (PSLF) for civil servants and anyone serving the public good.

Fairness

    1. End Insider Trading: Congress members cannot use insider information for stock trading, nor share with anyone outside of Congress. Members cannot trade stocks or other securities during their term, and any members found in violation will be expelled.

    2. Term Limits: Members of both chambers will be limited to a maximum of 12 years of service. House representatives will be limited to 6 terms; Senators will be limited to 2 terms.

    3. Age Limits: No person who will reach the age of 80 during the term they seek will be eligible to run for that office.

    4. Ban private sectory lobbying for 10 years after service.

  • Representative DeLauro no longer serves the people of Connecticut’s 3rd District. Why would she, when 95% of her campaign funding ($1.7 million!) comes from corporate donors and special-interest PACs?

    Her corporate donors include— but are not limited to!— SpaceX, Deloitte, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, HP, Verizon, Raytheon, AT&T, L3Harris, and General Dynamics.

    Rep. DeLauro has also received nearly $600,000 from AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups. That might be why she refuses to call the situation in Gaza a genocide, even though the UN and several hundred humanitarian organizations would disagree with her.

    Rep. DeLauro, 83, has been In office since 1991… that’s 35 years. She continues to use 20th-century thinking for 21st-century problems.

  • Trump and his administration have committed numerous impeachable offenses including usurping Congressional power, violating court orders, unauthorized and illegal military strikes, deploying military against American civilians, human trafficking, violating the Emoluments Clause... the list grows every day.

    It is the duty of Congress to hold this administration accountable through their power of impeachment and removal.

Taking on the Political Class

    1. Re-align America’s position in the United Nations to work with global allies to solve global challenges.

    2. Replace “free trade” agreements that exploit developing nations with fair trade agreements that benefit America’s working class.

    3. End proxy wars and work towards cooperation and lasting global peace.

    1. Cut funding to imperialist military activities and focus on defensive purposes.

    2. Bring troops home from 750 military bases across the globe.

    3. Audit the Pentagon and stop funneling taxpayer money to military contractors.

    4. Fully fund Veteran Affairs with imperial war budget savings.

    • Formally acknowledge that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet every definition of a genocide.

    • Hold the Israeli government accountable for their ongoing war crimes.

    • Reduce funding for Israel and reappropiate billions of dollars annually back to American citizens.

    • Support for a one state, non-sectarian Holy Land with equal rights and representation for all.

Ending the Overseas Empire

    1. Provide 6 months of parental leave for new parents, to match the standard in most other developed countries.

    2. Provide public subsidies and tax credits for quality childcare facilities.

    3. Enforce an “excess profit” tax on private care facilities.

    1. Housing is a human right. Every American deserves the minimum amount of housing, water, food, and electricity needed to survive.

    2. Establish and fund shared housing facilities to provide immediate relief for the homelessness epidemic.

    3. Fund development projects to recover abandoned properties and build affordable housing.

    1. Fund Social Security by removing the cap on Social Security taxation. Currently, earnings above $184,500 are not taxed.

    2. Tie Social Security benefits to an inflation index that guarantees adjustment for the rising costs many seniors face, especially for medical care and housing.

    3. Invest in publicly-owned elder care facilities, including at-home services.

Caring for the Vulnerable

Protecting Our Rights As Citizens

    1. Codify protections for transgender individuals and gender affirming healthcare.

    2. Create and enforce federal protection against healthcare, employment, and housing discrimination for LGBTQ+ individuals and communities.

    3. Fight against book bans and establish a parental guideline system similar to movies/television (TV-Y, TV-PG, etc).

    4. Protect trans athletes from culture war scapegoating.

    5. Create federal legislation to ban “conversion” therapy.

    1. Cap annual rent increases to the national inflation rate

    2. Limit new lease pricing increases to 10% over the previous lease

    3. Allow tax deductions for rental payments.

    4. Impose additional taxes on investment firms and corporations that purchase residential properties.

    5. Enforce limits on the number of residential properties that can be owned by a single entity in an area.

    1. Immediately seek to overturn Citizens United and Buckley vs. Valeo, which argued that campaign contributions are “protected speech” and therefore cannot be limited.

    2. Support federal legislation to transition all voting to ranked choice voting, expanding voter choice and eliminating the two-party system.

    3. Automatic voter registration for U.S. citizens upon their 18th birthday.

    4. Protect mail-in voting and remove unnecessary restrictions on absentee voting.

    5. Support statehood for Washington, D.C. with full Congressional representation

    1. Codify Roe vs. Wade and ensure nationwide access to critical healthcare.

    2. Increase federal funding for abuse and crisis centers.

    3. Increase funding to expedite sexual assault investigations.

    4. Push to formally ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

    1. Support legislation to abolish private, for-profit prisons.

    2. Full federal legalization of cannabis and decriminalization of other drug possession. Expunge all criminal records related to drug possession.

    3. Focus on rehabilitation by funding training and job placement programs for incarcerated individuals.

  • 1. Assault weapons ban

    2. Ending federal ban of gun research

    3. Robust Mental Health services for schools and universities

  • 1. Abolish ICE. Replace with INS (Immigration and Naturalization Services)

    2. Increased funding for immigration judges

    3. Non-intervention policy in Latin America, preventing migrant crises and overwhelming immigration surges

    4. End Imperial and CIA operations in other countries that destabilize countries contributing to increased immigration and conflict

    1. Prevent military-style equipment purchases by local police departments with federal funding.

    2. Create and maintain a national database of police abuse reports and statistics.

    3. End the abuse of “qualified immunity” protections by law enforcement officials.

    4. Require police departments to deploy trained Crisis Counselors for non-violent situations.

Implementing Needed Reforms

    1. Aggressively pursue net-zero carbon emissions regulations and re-join the global fight against climate change.

    2. Strengthen pollution laws (clean air/water).

    3. Prioritize environmental restoration and climate mitigations in frontline communities.

    4. Create a national task force on microplastics to research regulations and potential solutions.

    5. Re-fund climate science research and environmental protections.

    1. Invest in high-speed rail lines connecting New London, Hartford, and New Haven to Boston and New York City.

    2. Increase public transportation funding for city and rural bus routes.

    3. Secure and strengthen our national electrical grid.

    4. Provide federal funding to upgrade municipal water systems.

    1. Set the starting salary for Connecticut educators at $75,000/year, and adjust annually for inflation.

    2. Implement permanent federal income tax breaks for public school faculty and staff.

    3. Hire and retain teachers to keep classroom sizes below 20 students (below 11 for special education).

    4. Fund school infrastructure upgrades for modern techno.ogy and equipment.

  • 1. Increase NIH Budget by 25%

    2. Increase NSF Budget by 25%

    3. Restructure Peer Review process and grant process to increase transparency and access to all publicly funded data

    4. Fees on private industry using federally funded university research data

Funding Needed Investments

Creating a Fair and Modern Workplace

    1. Update federal definitions of full-time and part-time employment.

    2. Make all federal positions 32 hours a week with no loss in pay.

    3. Provide tax incentives for companies that transition to a 32-hour work week

    1. Provide robust career training programs for individuals who experience job loss due to new legislation or industry-wide changes.

    2. Provide enhanced unemployment benefits to individuals who experience job loss caused by new legislation or industry-wide changes.

    3. Enact and enforce regulations to keep small businesses competitive with large corporations.

    1. Make all applicable federal positions eligible for Work From Home (WFH).

    2. Offer tax incentives to companies that offer WFH-friendly schedules.

    3. Offer tax incentives to individuals that relocate to rural areas for WFH positions.

Protecting Societal Well-Being

    1. Enforce and strengthen existing antitrust laws.

    2. Prevent media and news consolidation into the hands of a few billionaires.

    3. End rubber-stamp approval of corporate mergers, particularly in telecommunications and media.

    1. Introduce limits on the use of public resources (water and electricity) for AI datacenters.

    2. Enact strict regulations on misinformation, deepfakes, and IP theft from AI and social media platforms.

    3. Cancel all federal contracts with Palantir and dismantle the surveillance state.

    1. Limit for-profit news market and make news a public utility to restore the integrity of the Fourth Estate.

    2. Strictly regulate what can be labeled as news, and enforce clear disclaimers on “opinion” or “entertainment” content/programming.

    3. Fund not-for-profit, independent media outlets at the local and national levels.