Platform

Jobs and the Economy

  • Stimulate economic development with the creation of more private sector jobs
  • Offer incentives to 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

Health Care

  • Support more regulation of health care, not a total overhaul
  • Support creation of a health care 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 health care options to unemployed
  • Promote medical malpractice reform
  • Provide health care tax credits to small businesses providing insurance to employees

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 health care system
  • Believe border security should be improved (without erection of walls)

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

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 person’s life

Amendment II & Gun Control

  • Would NOT oppose any legislation that reauthorizes the 1994 law, which sunset in 2004 that banned many types of semi-automatic firearms.
  • Would NOT oppose legislation that would ban private sales of firearms at a gun show unless the buyer submits to a background check.
  • Would NOT support legislation to repeal the 1996 gun free school zones act.
  • Would NOT oppose legislation banning the manufacture, sale or possession of large-capacity magazines (Would support ban of magazine sizes of 200 or greater).
  • Would NOT oppose legislation that would take away the right of 18-20 year-olds to possess a firearm.
  • Would NOT oppose a ban on .50 caliber firearms.
  • Would NOT support a repeal of the 1993 Brady instant check even though I do not support a registration list of gun owners.
  • Would NOT oppose any legislation requiring that cartridge casings be “micro-stamped” with a unique identification code.
  • Would support a repeal of the Lautenberg Domestic Gun Ban.
  • Would support reciprocity legislation for persons allowed to carry concealed firearms.
  • Would NOT oppose any legislation mandating that trigger locks be applied to all firearms when not in use.
  • Would NOT oppose any legislation requiring firearms intended for self-protection to be locked up when not in use.
  • Would NOT support repealing the so-called “sporting purpose” test of the 1968 Act.
  • Would NOT support legislation repealing “Veterans Disarmament Act” passed in Congress in 2007.
  • Would support legislation to protect the free speech rights of organizations such as Gun Owners of America.