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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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