What Do You Want from Hillary?

[qwlauren35]

Or any Presidential Candidate?

I know what I want but I'm not sure how I'll get it.

I want a commitment that the next presidential candidate will fight for:
- fair sentencing laws
- de-escalation of police force and a commission to oversee police brutality
- ex-offender voting rights and job opportunities
- access to birth control and reproductive freedom
- a Supreme Court that will fight for voting rights and an end to voter restrictions
- more presence of black federal court judges


Am I missing anything? Is there anything you care about?

How do we get the candidates to begin this conversation, much less make commitments to our community?

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Equal pay for equal work for women...

Support for a higher minimum wage
Improvement of the ACA

[JustAnotherGen]

2. No subject

Holder or Obama - possibly both - appointed to SCOTUS if seats become available.

A full court press on education - get rid of nclb - give black and Hispanic kids in inner city schools the same exact tools that the kids in the burbs get.

Paycheck Fairness based upon an average of the four main groups tracked. That should include giving raises across the board to women living on social security - they were screwed for years and it hurts their SS checks today. And the ability to go back 20 years to sue - I want that.

Post Office offering banking services. Close down the predators when the check cashing fee is nominal at the post office through competition alone.

No drug or treatment comes to market for the masses without consideration of all people in the US. In medical issues - ethnic background and genetic history matters.

[Maedhros]

3. END THE WAR ON TERROR.

Sorry for the all-caps, but as long as we are in a state of war, we will continue to discard our civil liberties in favor of imagined security. If we want to make any headway on issues that matter, we have to end the war first.

[freshwest]

4. That was Obama. We should expect the same of her. It's said that she will continue all of his goals.

Looking forward to seeing this fleshed out as soon as possible. Her voting record in the Senate is posted in one of the threads in the HRC group.

Those who, like the GOP and other groups, that did not want Obama, in general don't want HRC either. That is not to say all those still angry about how we percieved her campaign in 2008 to be going after Obama will be convinced.

I was one of them, but we must learn whatever is good or bad in what seems to be the choice of the party right now, HRC.

There will never be another Obama, he was a unique and timely gift to this country. I began missing him as soon as he was sworn in again in 2013.