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I want to work to support candidates and bills that share our progressive values such as:
- protecting the environment
- protecting open space in our community
- making the oil companies pay their fair share for the oil they drill in California while protecting our coast
- supporting PUBLIC libraries with professional librarians to curate the book collections
- supporting our schools and our teachers to ensure our kids are well-educated and don't fall behind the rest of the world
- dealing compassionately and fairly with the least among us + not pretending they don't exist or criminalizing their misfortune
- supporting universal single-payer health care
- stopping the prison explosion by ending the failed `War on Drugs' and decriminalizing personal drug use, treating drug addiction as the medical problem it is
- overturning the Supreme Court's `Citizens United' ruling that makes it more difficult for those without money to be heard in our political discourse
We Democrats have nothing against business or against people getting rich, that's all part of the American Dream and we're all for it. But we believe companies and people should not get rich using the resources and infrastructure provided by society without paying their fair share. They should not get rich by tricking us or taking advantage of us. They should not be able to spoil and deplete our public resources and pass the cost to the government (which is us, by the way) to pay with our tax dollars.
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