Cualificaciones: ¿Qué formación, experiencia y características te cualifican para este puesto?
Democracia: ¿Qué es necesario hacer, si es que hay algo, para proteger nuestra democracia y restaurar la confianza en nuestras instituciones?
Inmigración: ¿Qué cambios de políticas son necesarios para que el sistema de inmigración de EE. UU. sea eficaz y humano?
Relaciones Internacionales: ¿Cuál es el papel de Estados Unidos en la protección de la democracia en todo el mundo y cómo podemos equilibrar esa posición con nuestros intereses económicos?
Cambio climático: ¿Qué medidas, si las hubiera, deben adoptarse a nivel federal para abordar los impactos del cambio climático?
Stream the Democrat Primary Voters Guide
Carl Oscar Sherman
I have a background as a city manager, businessman, mayor, member of the Texas House of Representatives, and pastor. These help me understand the challenges faced by rural, suburban, and urban Texans.
www.carlsherman.com
Our main focus should be on bipartisanship and addressing the needs of everyday Americans, regardless of their political affiliation. We must also provide protection for voters. Poor turnout in elections is due in large part to gerrymandering, discriminatory voter ID laws, lack of access to polls, and prejudice towards formerly incarcerated Texans.
We must conduct investigations on unfair conditions in detention facilities, oppose private immigration centers, and provide additional judicial resources, translators, and social workers at our borders. It is also important to provide more pathways to citizenship and education to immigrants about their rights so they can also be their own advocates in an unfair system.
Take a strong role in cultivating democracy helps ensure a peaceful world in which both human dignity and trade are facilitated and protected. But it can’t be a policy of words without action. While it is important to collaborate and partner with other countries, democracy must start at home, which allows us to be a role model for others
The federal government can establish protected areas and support small agricultural producers. They can also implement carbon taxes to the largest producers of greenhouse gas and use the money to invest in small farmers, sustainable tech, and support organizations to combat climate change. Since global problems require global solutions, we must also collaborate with the international community.
