We can make a lot of progress financially.” Money needs to go into the correct place. Leatherberry: “Small businesses had a really hard time during the pandemic. We can get people trained to match jobs now. Like the apprenticeship model where you train people to an industry standard, paid, supervised, on-the-job training and certified classroom instruction. We need to look at how we train our workforce differently. Hoyle: “After the pandemic, people went back to work and we have recovered those jobs. We need to meet the necessities of life but we don’t need to expand our use of resources.” We can have more jobs but people should be working less. How would you help our community recover from unemployment post pandemic?īeilstein: “Access to services and access to things that make life better are more important than access to work. These are good policies but we’ve gotta put our money where our mouth is.” Levi: “This is actually something the Democrats are quite good at. I would support family leave, and make sure we have access to high quality child care.” When children do better, we all do better. We should be investing in this, and child care. Hoyle: “When we had the Child Tax Credit we cut child poverty in half, kids who aren’t going to bed hungry. I ultimately support a universal basic income.” I would definitely support expanding this tax credit, and health care for children. The Child Tax Credit resulted in a reduction of poverty. Public housing has worked well and government agencies should invest in housing to keep it public.”īeilstein: “One of the best ways to eliminate poverty is to give people money. We can take the finance aspect out of housing. The cost is going up faster than wages in this country. Homelessness is an in-depth issue regarding drug use, mental health.”īeilstein: “Housing in general is treated as an investment rather than a utility. Cut out investment banks buying houses and foreign interest in buying houses. Skarlatos: “Cost of housing has always been going up, due to supply and demand. Politicians are the ones causing prices to go up, we have to look at their fundraising.” If you look at housing prices and why they’re going up it’s because of big actors such as real estate moguls, wall street, federal policies. Leatherberry: “One of the big ways is to go after the price. One of the biggest challenges in finding employees is the lack of housing.” She stated that she is willing to partner with anyone, across party lines, to find solutions. We need different solutions including investing in behavioral health and addiction services. Hoyle: “The federal government has walked away from its obligations. How do you plan to address the housing and homelessness crisis in Oregon? Val Hoyle speaks to the crowd at a rally after the overturning of Roe V Wade -Photo by Raleigh Emerson “Not having it as a law allows you to endlessly talk about it and fundraise off of it.” He also accused Val Hoyle of taking fundraising money from big pharma, although according to Open Secrets, a website that provides transparency of candidate funding, Hoyle hasn’t actually taken any money from pharmaceutical companies. It makes more sense to have it at a state level.” He also asked why Democrats didn’t codify abortion when they had the majority. Levi Leatherberry: “I support abortion, this district supports abortion. “Republicans have said what they wanted to do, when people tell you who you are you should believe them.” Women’s health care needs don’t change because they cross state lines.” She also referenced Skarlatos’s changing stance on abortion. I can’t imagine going to a lawyer or a politician to get a medical procedure. I’m the only one here who has been pregnant, given birth and lost a pregnancy. Val Hoyle: “This is a personal issue for me. I support the rights of women and all people to get the medical care they need.” Mike Beilstein: “Graham’s bill has no chance of passing, even if Republicans get a majority in the House. His current campaign has scrubbed his website of anything mentioning abortion. I’m a state rights advocate myself.” When Skarlatos ran for this seat in 2020, he indicated his support for defunding Planned Parenthood and was previously endorsed by Right To Life Oregon. The Supreme Court literally just ruled that it’s a state issue. If elected, would you vote for Graham’s bill?Īlek Skarlatos: “I would not vote for Lindsey Graham’s bill and I would not vote for any bill that bans abortion in the United States. Senator Lindsey Graham has introduced a nationwide bill banning abortion after 15 weeks. The Supreme Court recently overturned Roe and turned over regulation of abortion to individual states.

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