Mark Small

My positions on issues have been held by GOP: the opinion in the lead case for women’s reproduction rights - Roe v Wade - was written by Nixon-appointee; the EPA was created during Nixon’s administration; progressive income taxes were Ike’s. 23/34

Obamacare was patterned after a Massachusetts program put in place under then-Governor Romney, whose program did not go far enough to protect people. Big Business and concentrations of wealth were anathema to Theodore Roosevelt. 24/34

If we commit our military to conflicts, we should do so only under a declaration of war, as required by the Constitution. We should legalize drugs and get government out of our bodies and our lives. 25/34

Slavery existed for roughly 240 years after Europeans arrive in North America and was protected for the last (almost) 80 years by the Constitution. 26/34

The concept of “reparations” is not limited to cutting a check to individuals who descended from former slaves or are indigenous peoples. 27/34

We need to build infrastructure, homes, schools, and transportation in areas devastated by the aftermath of two of the greatest evils - slavery and genocide - the USA has practiced. 28/34

We need to ensure the Equal Rights Amendment is ratified. Women do not receive equal protection of our laws. That equal treatment needs to start. 29/34

There are a lot of things I have omitted here because of constraints of time. I hope I have addressed, adequately, misgivings some might have about why I am running as a Republican. 30/34