Sonya Halpern
October 28, 2020
COVID
- Supports expansion of medicare to bring healthcare coverage to high-risk Georgians
- Increase funding for hospitals
- Prepare for vaccine distribution once there is one available
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
- End cash bails
- Eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing
- Ban excessive use of force and no-knock warrants
- Prohibitions on hiring officers with histories of misconduct and abuse
EDUCATION
- Reinvesting and increasing funding for k-12 public schools
- Restore HOPE scholarship
HEALTHCARE
- Expanding medicaid
- “Everyone should have the right to health insurance regardless of their employment status or income.”
- Supports a woman’s right to chose
ECONOMY
- $15 per hour minimum wage
- Increase availability of affordable housing
VOTING RIGHTS
- Invest in local county boards of education to make it easier to have absentee ballot counted
- Same day voter registration
- Advocate for a fair and non-partisan redistricting process