Platform
Ethics Reform
- Support social audits of government and nongovernmental agencies for the purpose of combating unethical practices
- Ensure that organizations are socially-conscious of the concerns of the employees, investors, stockholder and stakeholders
- Encourage government offices and government agencies to benchmark their ethics and behavior to those of world-class providers of goods and services
Jobs and the Economy
- Stimulate economic development with the creation of more private sector jobs
- Incentivize small businesses looking to compete internationally
- Support job-creation programs
- Support The President’s plan to allow withdrawals from retirement funds with lesser penalties
- Support The President’s plan for 90-day bans on home foreclosures
- Support community development organizations which create jobs in areas where economic development is nonexistent
- Support the consumer’s “Credit Bill of Rights”
- Close the gender wage gap for Illinois Women
- Support economic expansion through tax-rate reductions
Healthcare
- Support creation of a healthcare program affordable to all
- Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions
- Work to lower prescription drug costs in the United States
- Improve and protect Medicaid
- Provide healthcare options to unemployed
- Promote medical malpractice reform
- Provide health care tax credits to small businesses providing insurance to employees
- Support more regulation of healthcare, not a total overhaul
Foreign Policy
- Reduce troop levels in Iraq
- Increase troop levels in Afghanistan
- Open channels of communication with “less than cooperative” nations only for purpose of promoting UN compliance and world peace
Immigration & Homeland Security
- Believe illegal immigrants should not displace American citizens nor should they burden our healthcare system
- Believe border security should be improved (without erection of walls)
Education
- Support funding for safe routes to school
- Evaluate/Assess Effectiveness of No Child Left Behind Program
- Protect funds for pre-college programs, Tech-prep and Perkins Loans
- Protect funding such as the IL MAP grant
- Protect research funding
- Protect National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities
Energy & The Environment
- End US dependence on foreign oil
- End importing of oil from corrupt countries
- Support The President’s plan to create new “green” jobs
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Invest more money in renewable energy
Abortion & The Death Penalty
- Believe all life is precious and begins at conception (Pro-life)
- Do not believe man has the right to take another’s life






