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Christopher Katsoulis

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Christopher Katsoulis

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Christopher Katsoulis was a 2016 Democratic candidate for the Fifteenth Essex District of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Campaign themes

2016

Katsoulis' campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Education

  • Less testing, more teaching. Students can opt out of the MCAS in grades 3-8, but it is a state requirement that high school students pass the MCAS in order to recieve their diploma. The pressure of the MCAS eats up classroom time, narrows curriculum, and destroys children's love of learning.
  • Christopher is opposed to expanding the Charter School System. The expansion of charter schools requires averting funds away from public schools and allocating them to charter schools. Our public school systems need every penny to ensure that a majority of our children receive the proper education they deserve.
  • Just because Christopher does not support expanding charter schools, that does not mean he cannot understand the benefits and importance charter schools have. Christopher believes that public schools and charter schools ought to communicate and work together to strengthen education. They should share ideas and teaching strategies that have been proven effective.
  • To increase high school graduation rates and offer an innovative approach that has not been done in public high schools, Christopher strongly advocates implementing a cooperative education program for our high schoolers. This idea comes from a successful charter school in Lawrence called Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School. Watch the video below to better understand how the coop program is paid for and how it works.

Opioid Epidemic

  • Keep people who are already addicted to opioids alive by making all of the effective tools available in this regard. Naloxone, a drug that reverses opioid overdose, should be made as widely available as possible. Just as those who are allergic to bees or other allergens carry around an EpiPen, those who use opioids should be able to have Naloxone on hand. Christopher advocates for making Naloxone an over-the-counter drug because someone who is struggling with addiction will not seek their primary care physician for a prescription, plus it is readily available to family members who can reverse the overdose in case first responders arrive too late.
  • Provide enhanced training for physicians so that they become more adept at screening for, recognizing, and treating addiction. We need to make sure that physicians have the kind of training in addiction medicine that will help interrupt the flow of newly-created prescribed opioid addictions.
  • Make it as difficult as possible for opioid pain medications to be used in ways other than the ways they were intended or prescribed. ​As examples, we could stop approval of any new opioid painkillers that are not clearly safer than existing ones and remove from the market all high dose opioid analgesics that are easily crushed.
  • Educate the public about the risks of prescription pain medications, especially in our schools.

Healthcare

  • Christopher believes that healthcare is a basic human right. Everyone should have access to high quality, affordable healthcare without going bankrupt. That's why Christopher supports "An Act Establishing Medicare for All in Massachusetts", which would create a single payer health care system for Massachusetts, guaranteeing first rate healthcare coverage for every resident of the state, while saving money for state and local governments, businesses, and residents.

Economic Growth and State Revenue

  • Legalize marijuana. Christopher believes it is time we legalize a natural substance that is less harmful and addicting than alcohol and something that many people use regardless of the law. We should tax and regulate marijuana the same way we do with alcohol and tobacco. Colorado and Washington have proved that marijuana has the potential to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue. Also, thousands of jobs would be created as a result of marijuana legalization.
  • Christopher supports gradually increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
  • Shifting healthcare to a single payer system would save the state billions of dollars per year.
  • Massachusetts should invest more in solar and wind energy, creating thousands of jobs in the process.
  • Christopher strongly supports stronger collective bargaining rights for unions who represent many of our working people and their families. Stronger collective bargaining results in higher wages, better benefits, and safer work environments.
  • Close corporate tax loopholes that ultimately affects working class people and small businesses.
  • Force the richest 1% in Massachusetts to pay their fair share of taxes.[1]
 ”
—Christopher Katsoulis, [2]

Elections

2016

See also: Massachusetts House of Representatives elections, 2016

Elections for the Massachusetts House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election took place on September 8, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 7, 2016.

Incumbent Linda Dean Campbell defeated Nicholas Torresi in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Fifteenth Essex District general election.[3][4]

Massachusetts House of Representatives, Fifteenth Essex District General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Linda Dean Campbell Incumbent 63.49% 12,904
     Independent Nicholas Torresi 36.51% 7,421
Total Votes 20,325
Source: Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth


Incumbent Linda Dean Campbell defeated Christopher James Katsoulis in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Fifteenth Essex District Democratic Primary.[5][6]

Massachusetts House of Representatives, Fifteenth Essex District Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Linda Dean Campbell Incumbent 82.67% 1,517
     Democratic Christopher James Katsoulis 17.33% 318
Total Votes 1,835


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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  2. ↑ Vote Katsoulis, "Issues," accessed September 6, 2016
  3. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of State, "2016 State election candidates," accessed October 3, 2016
  4. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, "Election data lookup," accessed December 20, 2016
  5. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of State, "2016 Primary Candidates (Democratic)," accessed June 20, 2016
  6. ↑ Secretary of the Commonweath of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts Election Statistics," accessed October 14, 2016


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