Candidate Profiles

1. We must address our mental health crisis. Mental health affects all aspects of our lives. While we have increased mental health access, our demand has grown at a faster rate and we are woefully behind in addressing needs. We must find ways to incentivize mental health professionals in all areas of the state, and we must increase reimbursement rates to ensure needs are met. 2. Iowa must fully fund public schools. We have not adequately funded the public schools for a decade. In addition, we have now dedicated state resources to private education. Yes, parents should absolutely have a choice in where to send their kids to school. But we cannot, and should not, provide taxpayer tuition when we are not adequately addressing the needs of the public schools, where the vast majority of students are educated. 3. We must allow women to make the medical choices about their bodies. We must eliminate the 6 week abortion ban.

Medicaid reimbursement rates, dental reimbursement rates, Inspectors for nursing homes, public school funding and Mental Health resources.

Yes. It will save lives.

The first thing we need to do is increase funding for nursing home inspections and followup. We need to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates so that nursing homes can pay their staff appropriately. We need to offer recruitment and retention bonuses to attract and maintain staff.

Not only do we have the second highest cancer rate in the nation; our rate is the only state that is increasing. We should start with more water testing and enforcement of violations. In addition, we need to provide funding for childhood cancer which is not currently being tracked.

We need to fund water testing! We cannot address the water quality issue if we are not providing funding the devices to track the data.

We must first incentivize mental health professionals. We do not have an adequate supply in our state. We can provide loan forgiveness, tax credits and retention incentives.

We should eliminate the 6 week abortion ban. There should be no ban. We should provide free contraception.

No. Different cultures define the start of life in various ways. We should not impose one set of beliefs on other.

The Iowa legislature is not a curriculum expert. We must leave the job of defining curriculum to those that have become experts in the field.

Iowa should provide tax credits to small businesses and incentives to those who start a small business and retain our residents. We must also incentivize our young population to stay in the state by enacting pro-inclusive policies that will provide them incentives to stay.