The following are my positions:
- Increase the minimum wage by $1 per hour above the Federal standard. Provide free bus passes and rent control for minimum wage workers.
- Provide more shelters and food for the homeless, also free bus passes and donated cars for their use.
- Legalize marijuana use for adults over 21 years old. Users must be in possession of a permit. Permits would be available for a $25 filing fee per year at the courthouse.
- Eradication of all other drugs!
- Establish a dental school that would make services available free to low income people.
- Establish an optometry school that would make services available free to low income people plus make available eye glasses at a reduced rate.
- Bring in new industry for good paying jobs.
- New stadium for Sam Lynn Ball Paark.
- Make the Canal Project a reality.
- School uniforms for all grades.
- Add a city tax of 25 cents per pack of cigarettes.
- Add a city tax of 2% on earnings above $60,000 per year.
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