End The Drug War and Drug Prohibition
If elected, I will work diligently to pass legislation to immediately end the War on Drugs, the drug scheduling programs, and pardon non-violent drug offenders
Police Brutality
If elected, I will co-sponsor Congressman Amash’s bill to end Qualified Immunity for law enforcement. Many politicians, local, state, and federal have used the cry “Black Lives Matter!” and very few have called for actual policy change to address the issue. This needs to change.
Foreign Intervention
Far too many people are harmed by the US government’s foreign intervention. The wars our government is involved in become more and more complicated by the day and less and less winnable at the same time. Our government creates terrorism faster than it combats terrorism. It is time to bring the troops home.
Immigration
I’ve never used 23 And Me or Ancestry dot com to figure out where I came from. Where you end up and what you do with your life matters more to me than where you came from. At one point, the default when attempting to come into this country was that you were just let in. Only people with great cause to keep out were actually kept out. All folks “yearning to breathe free” should have equal opportunity to enter this country. If elected, I will work to enact legislation simplifying the immigration laws in this country and providing all upstanding folks a path for permanent residence.
Health and Agriculture
I feel very strongly that many Americans today have worse health than they should because of agricultural practices encouraged by the federal government and because of dietary recommendations coming from the USDA. If elected, I would actively encourage the public to step outside of the Standard American Diet, and if possible work to pass legislation taking away the USDA’s power to make dietary recommendations.
Hi Andrew,
I am strongly considering voting for you in the upcoming election. Would you mind sharing a brief overview on your position of the following issues to help me with my vote?
-Abortion
-Energy & Environment
-Health Care
Thanks for your help in helping to provide me with a more informed vote.
Charles Logan Shoaf
Thank you for the consideration and the questions. I’ll go one at a time here.
On the issue of abortion, I do not believe I nor anyone else has the right to prevent a woman from choosing to have an abortion. That said, I also do not believe that it is a procedure that should receieve federal funding, as there are taxpayers with deeply held moral oppositions to the procedure.
Energy and Environment are a broad topic that are tough to handle without specific questions, but broadly speaking I am in favor of tax credits for potentially environmentally friendly endeavors, but not in favor of subsidies for such things. If you have specific questions on anything I am happy to delve deeper on these topics.
On the issue of Health Care, I do not have a great solution in front of me. I don’t believe the Affordable Care Act was a good idea and I see examples of people all the time talking about how their health insurance costs went up or they had to go see a different doctor because of it. But the truth is, the issues in our health care system go back much further than that even. We’ve tied people to their employers by making it prohibitively expensive to get insurance independently. Things like lodge doctors are now a thing of the past. I would like to see policies put in place to address these issues. I would also like to see policies put in place to make options like direct primary care more common and more accessible. The first person who’s advice I seek when dealing with healthcare policy issues is Justin O’Donnell, our US Senate Candidate. He’s one of the foremost experts on the issue of public health insurance in the country, given his experience working in the exchanges. You should check him out at odonnell2020.com.