Live Green, Vote Green in 2008!
The Green Party in Illinois and Nationally has a comprehensive platform that guides the Party as we seek to make the important changes which will allow Illinois and the United States to tackle the challenges ahead. The basis of that platform is the 10 Key Values, which I have outlined below. Click on the links to go the Illinois Green Party site to learn more about the 10 Key Values.
Ten Key Values
- Ecological wisdom
- Social justice
- Grassroots democracy
- Nonviolence
- Decentralization
- Community-based economics
- Feminism
- Respect for diversity
- Personal and global responsibility
- Future focus
My campaign will focus on three issues that all have their roots in the 10 Key Values. My first priority if elected will be to push for legislation that will secure state guaranteed low interest loans to homeowners for the purchase and installation of solar and wind powered electrical generators. In tandem with this legislation, myself and other Greens will push for legislation that will compel the utilities to buy back excess energy from these decentralized producers. The technology has come more than far enough and the time has long since arrived for us to take concrete steps to increase our sulf-sufficiency as a nation and as a state. Not only will these measures serve to foster ecologically friendly technologies, but they will create good local jobs in our communities. Read more ...
In Chicago we are lucky to have a mass transit system that allows many of us to navigate the city without the need for a car. Unfortunately, due to persistent inaction on the part of the state legislature, after years of neglect the CTA has fallen into a state of disrepair and squalor such that the insititution that was once the pride of our great city has become its shame. My second priority as your representative in Springfield will be to secure the passage of legisialtion that will not only guarantee the continued existence of our Regional Transit Authority, but that will dramatically increase the funding avaialable for public transit. If Chicago and Illinois are to continue to grow and lead in America then we must have a transit system that not only copes with the demands placed on it, but which anticipates those of a growing populace. Read more ...
As residents of Illinois' 12th state congressional district we have had the good fortune of being voiced in Springfield by a Representative who takes health care very seriously. If elected as your representative on November 5th, however, my third key priority will go above and beyond Representative Feigenholtz's efforts as I will fight for a Single Payer Health system for all of Illinois. For too long we have seen large insurance companies feeding off the premiums of average citizens and then fighting and refusing to pay legitimate claims. Not only will a Single Payer eliminate unnecessary paperwork and delay, but Single Payer Health systems have been shown time and again to operate more efficiently than multi-payer systems. By reducing redundant administrative agencies more of your health care dollars will go to treatment, and less of it into the pockets of stockholders profiting from your misfortune. Read more ...