Jill Brown

Environment / Energy Our environment is under siege. The overdevelopment that is taking place is in our region is truly alarming. The ground destabilization that is being caused by clear cutting trees to make way for huge communities is taxing our already inadequate infrastructure and causing undue burden to existing residents. Additionally, it is displacing our wildlife and threatening many already endangered species by destroying what little natural habitat they have left. Our water is polluted with forever chemicals and heavy metals and is unfit to drink. Meanwhile, big corporations, developers, and corporate farmers have undue influence gained by high dollar donations to lawmakers who favor their projects. I'm tired of lawmakers that continually put greed over need. Environment / Energy We need leadership that will stand up to lobbyists and big corporations and start putting protection of our environment first! Education That every child is entitled to a quality education and that our educators should be valued. Abortion / Contraception The decision of the supreme court to overturning of Roe v. Wade and undo fifty years of settled law is an outrage. It has set women back to a dark time when we had almost no rights as individuals! We will not go quietly back to the dark ages! A women's right to choose what happens to her body is fundamental to equality. Everyone has the right to bodily autonomy and privacy in healthcare. The extreme religious views of a minority of people are being used as a weapon toward the resurgence of oppression. Now that this issue is in the hands of state government to regulate, we must have representatives that share the values that protect our right to choose what is best for us and our families.