Believes that Georgia should invest in small businesses instead of "giving massive corporate tax breaks to attract out-of-state businesses."

Wants to expand affordable broadband internet to rural areas.

- Believes that Georgia should invest in small businesses instead of "giving massive corporate tax breaks to attract out-of-state businesses." 
- Wants to expand affordable broadband internet to rural areas.

Economy

Wants to make it easier to vote and repeal S.B. 202 so that state legislatures don't control election boards.

Supports a constitutional amendment on the ballot that creates an independent commission to run elections and voting districts are done fairly.

- Wants to make it easier to vote and repeal S.B. 202 so that state legislatures don't control election boards. 
- Supports a constitutional amendment on the ballot that creates an independent commission to run elections and voting districts are done fairly.

Voting & Elections

Wants to expand Medicaid to cover more than 150,000 uninsured Georgians and 32,000 uninsured veterans.

Supports expanding treatment for mental illnesses and substance abuse disorders.

Believes that decisions about women's healthcare "are best made between a woman and her doctor," and promises to reduce barriers to birth control, protect women from pregnancy discrimination, and provide paid parental leave to state employees.

- Wants to expand Medicaid to cover more than 150,000 uninsured Georgians and 32,000 uninsured veterans. 
- Supports expanding treatment for mental illnesses and substance abuse disorders. 
- Believes that decisions about women's healthcare "are best made between a woman and her doctor," and promises to reduce barriers to birth control, protect women from pregnancy discrimination, and provide paid parental leave to state employees.

Healthcare

Wants to increase funding for public education so that the state education system is fully funded, including funding sparsity and equalization grants and providing additional funding to districts with higher poverty rates.

Plans to hire more school counselors and remove administrative tasks from teachers.

Supports "stopping anti-diversity bills which heap additional burdens on lesson planning and create an adversarial relationship between educators and parents where none should exist."

- Wants to increase funding for public education so that the state education system is fully funded, including funding sparsity and equalization grants and providing additional funding to districts with higher poverty rates.
- Plans to hire more school counselors and remove administrative tasks from teachers. 
- Supports "stopping anti-diversity bills which heap additional burdens on lesson planning and create an adversarial relationship between educators and parents where none should exist."

Education

Supports universal background checks on every gun purchase and transfer, awareness programs about safe gun storage, extreme risk laws to keep people in crisis or with dangerous histories from accessing guns, and waiting periods on new gun purchases.

- Supports universal background checks on every gun purchase and transfer, awareness programs about safe gun storage, extreme risk laws to keep people in crisis or with dangerous histories from accessing guns, and waiting periods on new gun purchases.

Public Safety

Michael Garza

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