I am running as a Democrat on four pillars:
1) Lowered health care costs and quality care for all Ohioans through Ohio’s improved and expanded, compassionate and cost-effective Medicare for All.
I am an emergency physician and a past Executive Board member of the Ohio Single Payer Action Network. In healthcare business is not the solution, business is the problem. You don’t need a businessman between you and your physician.
2) Equal democracy for you, for everyone, no exceptions.
House Joint Resolution 1, sponsored by my opponent Brian Stewart, would make it vastly more difficult to pass citizen ballot initiatives and thus weaken your power as a voter, allowing a 41% minority to rule.
Stop gerrymandering and limit money in politics. If money is speech, we, the people, will always have our voices drowned out by truckloads of secret corporate cash and out-of-state special interests.
3) Protection of women’s rights and health, especially getting government out of personal reproductive decisions.
4) Politics based on science, truth and facts.
We rush to disaster when we can’t control a pandemic or stop global warming based on non-science based ideology. We need factual education on STEM, genuine history and the humanities. I will work for the future for all Ohioans.
Stop Stewart’s HJR1
Republican Representative Brian Stewart claims that his HJR1 initiative will make it harder for outside big-money interests to amend Ohio’s Constitution. In fact, Stewart’s HJR1 virtually guarantees that only outside well-heeled special interests, through paid petition-gatherers, will have the muscle to gather enough signatures to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. We all know about big-money interests such as First Energy that spent over $60 million to buy legislator’s support for dirty coal-fired electric plants while quashing renewable energy explorations.
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Stewart’s HJR1 is a slap in voter’s faces
Representative Brian Stewart ( R-Ashville) is not being honest when he and his fellow Republican legislators claim they want to protect Ohio’s Constitution from corporate and bankrolled special interests with HJR1 and associated bills. The real issue is they want to cheat you out of your voice by changing the rules in the middle of the game as they fear pro-choice amendment/language would likely pass in a November election.
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Abortion is Health Care
I have a wife, daughters, granddaughters, sisters-in-law, daughters-in-law and many other women in my life. I value and respect them. I will be voting “NO” 8 August on Rep. Brian Stewart’s and his fellow Ohio Republicans attempt to cheat, change the rules and gut a November pro-choice amendment. Republicans also strive to take away your voice so that they can continue to craft gerrymandered districts without you, the voter, passing any amendments to limit their cheating. Ohio Republicans are cheaters. Yes, I said it and I stand by this statement. The Ohio Supreme Court has also said they are cheating. Said so seven times.
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State Issue One is an “Intolerable Act”
Confederate General James L. Kemper, as quoted in the 1993 film Gettysburg, said to General George Pickett “Well, I got to hand it to you George. You sure got a talent for trivializing the momentous and complicating the obvious. You ever consider running for Congress?”
At the risk of trivializing the momentous denial of rights to women and Ohio voters that State Issue 1 proposes I quote from a post by the Physician’s Action Network: “If Issue 1 was a football game (and the score is) Ohio State 59, Michigan 41 ( then) MICHIGAN WINS!”. Rather, for the rights of Ohioans and for the preservation of our democracy, Issue 1 is nearly as momentous as the 27 “Intolerable Acts” of King George the 111 elucidated in the Declaration of Independence.
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