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Everyone deserves access to high-quality healthcare when needed. No one should be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition, or go bankrupt because of health issues. As your Representative in Congress, I will fight to protect and expand Medicare for All and decrease prescription drug costs. I will work to increase funding for the specific health issues in the North State, including rural health and lack of access to specialists. I will promote solutions to keep our health care dollars in our district to support preventive care and improve access to high-quality medical, mental health, and addiction recovery services.
From our nation’s founding, to today, immigrants have played a crucial role in the growth and success of our nation. Whether first generation immigrants or tenth generation, American families celebrate the stories of those who came to this country looking for a better life. It is time that our immigration system reflect the value immigrants have always had to our nation. An effective immigration system does not create cruelty, but prevents it.
Inadequate highways, dangerous rural roads, poor cell or internet service, and aging water systems plague most of our district. Our crumbling infrastructure puts us at an economic disadvantage and threatens lives. I will fight to secure federal funding for highway and water infrastructure improvement and encourage public and private investment in communications infrastructure.
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Audrey Denney understands that climate change is a complex issue, but that its impact is devastating to rural communities and economies. In Northern California, our forests have the potential to benefit us or destroy us. Audrey believes in bringing local stakeholders together, to remove red tape and clear the path for green energy, giving our farmers and foresters access to tools to adapt to changing conditions, and creating healthy forests to protect us from disasters.
In Northern California, our forests have the potential to benefit us or destroy us. Our forests currently are in a state of crisis. Instead of providing us with necessary natural, social, and economic resources, they have become a public safety hazard. Unfortunately, we can expect to see increased extreme weather conditions that continue to spark catastrophic fires, threaten our communities and claim lives. If we use scientific practices to manage our forests back to their natural state of health – we turn that threat into the center of our environmental and economic prosperity.
When we manage our forests to protect and restore our watershed ecosystems – we achieve a multitude of benefits. Recharged groundwater, improved water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, carbon sequestration, valuable timber, livestock forage, and other forest by-products. Forest restoration and management provides quality jobs to local people and boosts our rural economy. I would strongly advocate for focused federal funding and streamlined oversight and for local experts to be involved in managing our forests for multiple uses, including sustainable logging, wildlife, tourism, recreation, and rural jobs.
Every American deserves access to high-quality, affordable healthcare, and no one should go bankrupt because of illness or be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. In Congress, Audrey Denney will fight to advance Medicare for All, decrease prescription drug prices, and improve access to quality medical care, mental health services, and addiction recovery for all families, especially those in rural, underserved communities.
Everyone deserves access to high-quality healthcare when needed. No one should be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition, or go bankrupt because of health issues. As your Representative in Congress, I will fight to protect and expand Medicare for All and decrease prescription drug costs. I will work to increase funding for the specific health issues in the North State, including rural health and lack of access to specialists. I will promote solutions to keep our health care dollars in our district to support preventive care and improve access to high-quality medical, mental health, and addiction recovery services.
Dangerous roads and highways, poor cell or internet service, and aging water systems plague most of our district. Our crumbling infrastructure puts us at an economic disadvantage and threatens lives. In Congress, Audrey Denney will fight to secure federal funding for highway and water improvement throughout the district and encourage investment in rural communications. Improving our infrastructure is the first step to revitalizing our rural economy, and increasing access to resources for everyone in our district.
Changes in climate as well as lack of appropriate policy action have led to devastating losses to life, property, and our local economy in California’s first district. Last year, 93 people died in our district in two devastating and historic wildfires. Forest-based industry in our district has been constricted by a lack of federal funding for forest management and overly-restrictive federal policies. The 11 counties of the north state that make up our district are rich in natural resources and natural beauty. Half of the land area of our district is federal public land, badly in need of management, while our communities suffer from levels of poverty and unemployment much higher than the rest of the state.
The forests of our district have become increasingly unhealthy in the last decade and are now at the point of posing a critical threat to our communities. Years of drought, as well as destructive beetle infestations have left a high percentage of dead trees, fuel for wildfires. We have been experiencing longer hotter fire seasons with devastating effect. Policy has also played a role in the current crisis. In the 1850s, healthy fire-adapted California forests hosted 50-80 trees per acre, whereas today our forests host an unsustainable 300-400 trees per acre. This has been caused not only by climate change, but also by 100 years of forest mismanagement and the unintended consequences of environmental policy and fire suppression policy. Application of the Endangered Species Act has limited access to whole areas of forest where critical management practices are needed. Clear-cutting of trees, and replanting with a uniform stand of the same or few species has reduced the natural ability of the forest to regenerate and made beetle infestations spread more quickly. Our communities are bearing the risk of these dangerous forest conditions, without being given the opportunity to be a part of the solution.
Climate change is a complex and multi-layered issue, but its impact is devastating. While our communities are suffering from the effects of climate change, we also see farmers in the midwest suffering from droughts and floods, increasingly powerful storms throughout the country including tornados, winter storms, and hurricanes, and rising sea levels in Florida. A recent government study involving 13 federal agencies, predicts that through the course of this century climate change will cause our economy and agricultural production to fall, ending at a point 10% less than our current national economy.
There is no one approach that will solve this emergency for us. A web of approaches are necessary, which bring diverse local stakeholders together for shared solutions-oriented planning (environmentalists, forest industry, local government, tribal government, etc.), which invest in and mobilize local people both in career and technical education as well as public-private partnerships in land stewardship, and which streamline and expedite regulatory hurdles and increase local control.
We must work to clear pathways for green energy technologies to compete in the marketplace by removing the red tape that impedes innovation and favors traditional energy options. We can Improve coordination of permitting and oversight at the federal, state and local levels in order to accelerate the implementation of clean energy projects that modernize our power grid and encourage investment in these technologies that create jobs.
My policy priorities for combating climate change and developing our rural economy focus on three critical approaches: mitigation, adaptation and resilience.
