Infrastructure
What is your approach to federal infrastructure investment, and how would you prioritize funding for energy, transportation, flood mitigation, and resilience needs in your district?
Our infrastructure is in need of an overhaul. Luckily, this presents an opportunity to build more sustainable systems in their place that will last generations! I listen to what voters want and the evidence is clear, the people support clean energy, investment in public transportation, and roads that won’t flood in a light shower. All of these things contribute to lowering our costs and strengthening our nation. We need energy independence through clean energy, we need safe communities connected through public transport, and we need emergency-ready infrastructure. Most importantly, we need an outsider, a fighter that will advocate for all of us in Congress and I, Alex McMenemy, am not a man that will go down without a fight!
Inflation
If elected to office, what will you do to address rising costs, especially with regard to groceries, childcare, and housing?
Our tax dollars should be used to support our citizens through hard economic times and protect us from economic shock, but right now the only people my opponents will protect are the same ones raising rent and profiting from our misfortune. To build a strong nation, we must make sure all of us are cared for and protected. That means working towards free universal healthcare and childcare so that people don’t put off going to the doctor or dread having to pay sky-high childcare costs, free or low-cost higher education and student loan forgiveness to remove the chains of debt weighing down on us, and enshrining housing as a human right because so many of us are one missed paycheck away from homelessness. We must demand the lives we deserve!
Immigration
What is your position on federal immigration enforcement and detention policies? What specific changes, if any, would you support to how those policies are implemented?
Immigration is a subject of much debate, but one thing we should all agree on is that human rights can not be disregarded. A better world is possible, a world where we can process and accept people that give up everything just to call themselves Americans. That is the world we must work towards if we want to call ourselves the greatest nation. I believe that in order to achieve that world, we must abolish ICE, close the concentration camps, and hold everyone who has been in these organizations accountable. We cannot allow the government to freely pick and choose who they can enact violence upon because if we do, there is nothing to stop them turning their sights on us. A world where tyranny is resisted must be fought for!
Voting
What changes, if any, to current laws related to voter registration, voter ID, and mail-in ballots would you support and why?
We’re told our founders wanted to build a government of, by, and for the people. Many experts believe our problem is not that too many people vote, but instead too few. Our average voter turnout rate is consistently one of the lowest compared to our peers, and part of that is because our politicians are listening to corrupt dark money sources rather than the American people. I take no corporate money and am committed to building your political power through things like overturning the Citizens United ruling that opened the floodgates for political corruption, and introducing a bill that would allow for any public official to be removed from office in a recall election. We, the people, must take our government back from corporate corruption!
