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The Prosperity Plan

[ Community Development | Jobs & Business Retention | Education | Taxes |
Ethics & Values | Infrastructure & Development | Health Care | Seniors ]

There is no substitute for substance. This plan is a concrete listing of
where I stand and where we need to take this district in four years.

Community Development

  • Pull West Monroe voters into West Monroe based district
  • Increased funding for West Monroe Community Center for after school program
  • Increased funding for Boys and Girls Clubs of West Monroe for after school program
  • Increased funding for West Ouachita Senior Center
  • Tough penalties for those that prey on children and seniors

Jobs & Business Retention

  • Develop a research park at the LSU Ag Experiment Station at Calhoun
  • Amend current existing incumbent worker training program eliminating complicated paper work and minimum class sizes for small business allowing small businesses to train workers in the work place
  • Amend existing quality jobs program eliminating overly burdensome mandate allowing start-up and small businesses to participate in the program
  • Develop training programs NOW for identified target industries so we will have a work ready workforce

Education

  • Put prayer back school
  • Put vocational education back in high school
  • Enact a teacher's bill of rights promoting discipline in the classroom protecting teachers from frivolous grievances
  • Establish a program that will support teachers that stay in Louisiana to teach forgiving tuition and student loans as an incentive

Taxes

  • Repeal Stelly
  • Tax deductions for health care premiums paid by individuals
  • Tax deduction for private/parochial school tuition
  • Eliminate state sales tax on business utilities
  • Remove business debt from franchise tax base

Ethics & Values

  • Pro Prayer in schools
  • Pro Life
  • Pro Family
  • Support legislation requiring elected officials to disclose sources of income
  • Support legislation prohibiting legislators from doing business with government
  • Stop internet predators
  • Stop half way housing near schools or school bus stops

Infrastructure & Development

  • Rebuild the I-20 interchanges at Calhoun including a frontage road (exit 103 - 101) to open up access for development
  • Fully fund development of the port
  • Build Washington Street Extension (Hwy 3033) providing an elevated RR crossing and access to the WM Industrial Park and I-20
  • Continue work on Sparta preservation and West Ouachita regional waste water treatment plant
  • Build turning lane on Hwy 80 from Warren Drive to Well Road
  • Widen/straighten Hwy 546 all the way to Hwy 34

Health Care

  • Incentives for employers to provide health care insurance
  • Contain cost through public private partnerships to provide the uninsured and under insured access to health care through private insurers where possible
  • Revamp the charity hospital system using a "dollars follows the patient" model and strengthen the relationship between the LSU Shreveport and LSU Monroe charity hospital
  • Support school based health clinics

Seniors

  • Support increased funding for senior centers by indexing funding (tie it to CPI - if it is good enough for legislators, then it is good enough for seniors)
  • Support tough penalties for those that prey on seniors
 

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