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Policy Platform

Linda Pritchett

Policy platform

Jo Anna Potts

Fight against any efforts that attempt to take away a woman’s right to choose

- Expand Medicaid
- Fight against any efforts that attempt to take away a woman’s right to choose

- <pv key='medicaid-expansion'>Expand Medicaid</pv>
- Fight against any efforts that attempt to take away a woman’s right to choose

Healthcare

Support legislation to restore the original promise of the HOPE Scholarship

- Reinvest in K-12 public schools
- Support legislation to restore the original promise of the HOPE Scholarship

Education

- End cash bail
- Eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing

- End <pv key='cash-bail'>cash bail</pv>
- Eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing

Criminal Justice

Advocate for a fair, nonpartisan redistricting process

Support legislation which expands access to the ballot box

- Advocate for a fair, nonpartisan redistricting process
- Support legislation which expands access to the ballot box

Voting & Elections

Support legislation to increase Georgia’s minimum wage

Explore ways to increase the availability of affordable housing in the district

- Support legislation to increase Georgia’s minimum wage
- Explore ways to increase the availability of affordable housing in the district

Economy

Sonya Halpern

Prevent Republicans from shutting down Obamacare exchanges in the state which would result in 60k people losing health insurance

Supports universal healthcare coverage and Medicare for All

- Expand Medicaid 
- Prevent Republicans from shutting down Obamacare exchanges in the state which would result in 60k people losing health insurance
- Supports universal healthcare coverage and Medicare for All

- <pv key='medicaid-expansion'>Expand Medicaid</pv> 
- Prevent Republicans from shutting down <pv key='aca'>Obamacare</pv> exchanges in the state which would result in 60k people losing health insurance
- Supports universal healthcare coverage and <pv key='medicare-for-all'>Medicare for All</pv>

Supports a $15 per hour minimum wage as the starting point of providing a living wage to all

Supports unions operating local and state job training through apprenticeship programs

- Supports a $15 per hour minimum wage as the starting point of providing a living wage to all
- Must prevent wage theft
- Supports unions operating local and state job training through apprenticeship programs

- Ban chokeholds
- Ban racial profiling
- Eliminate qualified immunity
- Ban no-knock warrants

- Ban chokeholds
- Ban racial profiling
- Eliminate <pv key='qualified-immunity'>qualified immunity</pv>
- Ban no-knock warrants

- Increase early voting from 21 to 45 days
- Make election day a holiday
- Stop voter purges
- Same-day voter registration

Work toward free public and technical college education

- Supports fully funding public schools
- Opposes public money for private schools
- Must hold charter schools accountable
- Restore the HOPE scholarship
- Work toward free public and technical college education
- Protect teacher pensions

Expand the Georgia Department of Labor to speed up benefit claims

Guarantee masks and PPE for all Georgians

Require science-based plans for reopenings and use of masks

Extend the moratorium on COVID-19 evictions

- Expand the Georgia Department of Labor to speed up benefit claims
- Guarantee masks and PPE for all Georgians
- Require science-based plans for reopenings and use of masks
- Extend the moratorium on COVID-19 evictions

COVID

Create a housing trust fund to help localities build affordable housing

Would change state eviction laws to protect renters

- Must address homelessness
- Create a housing trust fund to help localities build affordable housing
- Opposes predatory lending
- Would change state eviction laws to protect renters

Housing & Urban Development

Zan Fort

- Your state senator represents the interests of your district in the Georgia State Senate.
- Your state senator can author, sponsor, and vote on bills that may become state laws after going through the legislative process. 
- State Senators are involved in approving some appointments by the Governor.
- The State Senate, along with the State House of Representatives, makes up our state lawmaking body: the Georgia General Assembly.
- There are 56 Georgia senators, each representing a single district.
- State Senators are elected to two-year terms. They are paid a yearly salary of $17,342.