Nancy Wallace

Nancy Wallace (Green Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Maryland's 8th Congressional District. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Wallace also ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Maryland. She did not appear on the ballot for the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Nancy Wallace was born in Long Island, New York. She graduated from Walt Whitman High School and earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Yale University. Her career experience includes lobbying for international environmental issues, founding and leading the International Entanglement Network, working as a director for the Sierra Club, co-founding Sustainable Montgomery, and working as a data coordinator for ecological restoration projects for the Department of Commerce. She also worked for Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), and the Department of Treasury. Wallace has served on the board of directors of the Center for Safer Wireless and Silver Spring Time Bank.^[1]

Elections

2024

U.S. House

General election

General election for U.S. House Maryland District 8

Incumbent Jamie Raskin defeated Cheryl Riley and Nancy Wallace in the general election for U.S. House Maryland District 8 on November 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Jamie Raskin (D)	76.8	292,101
	Cheryl Riley (R)	20.5	77,821
	Nancy Wallace (G)	2.5	9,612
	Other/Write-in votes	0.2	786

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 380,320
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 8

Incumbent Jamie Raskin defeated Eric Felber in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 8 on May 14, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Jamie Raskin	94.8	103,071
	Eric Felber	5.2	5,636

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 108,707
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 8

Cheryl Riley defeated Michael Yadeta in the Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 8 on May 14, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Cheryl Riley	69.2	9,647
	Michael Yadeta	30.8	4,290

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 13,937
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Endorsements

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U.S. Senate

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Maryland

The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Maryland on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Angela Alsobrooks (D)	54.6	1,650,912
		Larry Hogan (R)	42.8	1,294,344
		Mike Scott (L)	2.3	69,396
	Submit photo	Patrick Burke (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)	0.0	879
		Billy Bridges (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)	0.0	70
	Submit photo	Robin Rowe (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)	0.0	17
	Submit photo	Christy Helmondollar (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)	0.0	3
	Submit photo	Irwin Gibbs (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)	0.0	2
		Other/Write-in votes	0.2	5,755

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 3,021,378
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Moshe Landman (G)
Nancy Wallace (G)
Shaunesi Deberry (Unaffiliated)
Keith Packer (No Party Affiliation)
Emmanuel Osuchukwu (Unaffiliated)
Michael Sigmon (Progressive Party)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Maryland

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Maryland on May 14, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Angela Alsobrooks	53.4	357,052
	David Trone	42.8	286,381
	Joseph Perez	0.7	4,688
	Michael Cobb Sr.	0.7	4,524
	Brian Frydenborg	0.5	3,635
	Scottie Griffin	0.5	3,579
	Marcellus Crews	0.5	3,379
	Andrew Wildman	0.3	2,198
	Robert Houton	0.3	1,946
	Steven Seuferer	0.2	1,664

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 669,046
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Juan Dominguez (D)
William Jawando (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Maryland

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Maryland on May 14, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Larry Hogan	64.2	183,661
	Robin Ficker	27.8	79,517
	Chris Chaffee	3.2	9,134
	Lorie Friend	2.1	5,867
	John Myrick	1.7	4,987
	Moe Barakat	0.8	2,203
	Laban Seyoum	0.3	782

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 286,151
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Endorsements

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2022

General election

General election for Governor of Maryland

The following candidates ran in the general election for Governor of Maryland on November 8, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Wes Moore (D)	64.5	1,293,944
	Dan Cox (R)	32.1	644,000
	David Lashar (L)	1.5	30,101
	David Harding (Working Class Party)	0.9	17,154
	Nancy Wallace (G)	0.7	14,580
	Kyle Sefcik (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	596
	Other/Write-in votes	0.2	4,848

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,005,223
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Governor of Maryland

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Governor of Maryland on July 19, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Wes Moore	32.4	217,524
	Tom Perez	30.1	202,175
	Peter Franchot	21.1	141,586
	Rushern Baker III (Unofficially withdrew)	4.0	26,594
	Douglas F. Gansler	3.8	25,481
	John B. King Jr.	3.7	24,882
	Ashwani Jain	2.1	13,784
	Jon Baron	1.8	11,880
	Jerry Segal	0.6	4,276
	Ralph Jaffe	0.4	2,978

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 671,160
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Laura Neuman (D)
Mike Rosenbaum (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Governor of Maryland

Dan Cox defeated Kelly Schulz, Robin Ficker, and Joe Werner in the Republican primary for Governor of Maryland on July 19, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Dan Cox	52.0	153,423
	Kelly Schulz	43.5	128,302
	Robin Ficker	2.8	8,268
	Joe Werner	1.7	5,075

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 295,068
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2016

See also: Maryland's 8th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. In Maryland's 8th Congressional District, incumbent Chris Van Hollen (D) chose not to run for re-election in 2016, instead seeking election to the U.S. Senate. Jamie Raskin (D) defeated Dan Cox (R), Nancy Wallace (Green), and Jasen Wunder (Libertarian) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Raskin defeated eight other candidates in the Democratic primary, while Cox defeated Jeffrey Jones, Elizabeth Matory, Aryeh Shudofsky and Shelly Skolnick to win the Republican nomination. Additionally, Wallace defeated Charles Galloway and Elizabeth Croydon to win the Green Party primary. The primary elections took place on April 26, 2016.^[2]^[3]

**U.S. House, Maryland District 8 General Election, 2016**
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Jamie Raskin	60.6%	220,657
	Republican	Dan Cox	34.2%	124,651
	Green	Nancy Wallace	3.1%	11,201
	Libertarian	Jasen Wunder	2%	7,283
	N/A	Write-in	0.1%	532
Total Votes				364,324
Source: Maryland State Board of Elections

**U.S. House, Maryland District 8 Democratic Primary, 2016**
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Jamie Raskin	33.6%	43,776
David Trone	27.1%	35,400
Kathleen Matthews	23.9%	31,186
Ana Sol Gutierrez	5.5%	7,185
William Jawando	4.6%	6,058
Kumar Barve	2.4%	3,149
David Anderson	1.2%	1,511
Joel Rubin	1.1%	1,426
Dan Bolling	0.5%	712
Total Votes		130,403
Source: Maryland State Board of Elections

**U.S. House, Maryland District 8 Republican Primary, 2016**
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Dan Cox	44.4%	20,647
Jeffrey Jones	20.1%	9,343
Elizabeth Matory	15.7%	7,295
Shelly Skolnick	12.5%	5,835
Aryeh Shudofsky	7.4%	3,421
Total Votes		46,541
Source: Maryland State Board of Elections

Campaign themes

2024

U.S. House

Ballotpedia survey responses

Nancy Wallace did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Wallace’s campaign website stated the following:

“

Let the Sun shine in!

With a new energy from the strongest source of power we know, the people of this country, let’s shine a light on the wide range of successful policies for tackling our toughest problems to transform our nation to a just, prosperous, sustainable society. Let’s look at the economic strengths of our local communities, the innovations our state legislatures, the wisdom of our traditions, and lessons from other countries. You and I together can implement the wonderful public policy initiatives listed below. Many creative approaches are used today that successfully implement ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy, and nonviolence. You just might not have heard about them yet! And the costs are usually less than the failed policies of our current government.

I hope you are as amazed as I have been at these excellent, realistic, proven policy options, and will have your faith in our people and our power restored as mine has been. And, since this massive a change is a two part effort – the “system change” hand in hand with our personal change – you’ll find action links to things you can do yourself at the end of each topic. Let’s go!

“When the people lead, the leaders will follow” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower

The two major themes of my campaign are Climate Change and Survival of Women and Girls. These and other key positions are presented below.

Climate Change – implement an emergency economic transformation to renewable energy, including 100% renewable electricity supply by 2020, and all other energy uses by 2030
Women and Girls’ Survival – violence against women in the US and worldwide has reached epidemic proportions, and we must protect the lives of women and girls along with all other victims of our culture of violence
Community Based Economics and Economic Justice – a just, prosperous and sustainable economy begins at home, in our communities with small businesses and green jobs, in a Green New Deal
Health Care for All – Single Payer Health Care and Men’s Contraception – a universal, comprehensive, national single-payer health care system would redirect the administrative waste of private insurance corporations -currently 31 cents of every dollar spent on health care in America today – into real patient care. And men need to be fully empowered to make their own decisions about having a child, with modern, safe, reversible effective contraception^[4]

”

—Nancy Wallace’s campaign website (2024)^[5]

U.S. Senate

Ballotpedia survey responses

Nancy Wallace did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

2022

Nancy Wallace completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Wallace's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Emergency mobilization to reverse cliimate change is the top priority of my campaign. I am inspired by and following the example of Greta Thunberg, and the science of the International Panel on Climate Change. Our campaign is also focusing on the other two emergencies of social justice and children's health. I promote specific programs to achieve our goals, with a forward-looking, positive, unifying and science-based approach.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Emergency mobilization to reverse climate change is the top priority. We can use practical steps that also move us forward on social justice, women's equality, and children's health.
Social justice, from increasing home ownership with rent-to-own of all public assisted housing, to eliminating the cash bond exploitation, to student skills training for good-paying union jobs in a local, self-reliant economy will be implemented.
The children's health epidemic, with 1 in every 8 children in the US with neuro-developmental disorders, cancer, learning disabilities, and allergies must be addressed. The decades of toxics introduced in our food, air and water since WWII has now come back to haunt us in our children's bodies and brains.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Climate change reversal in all forms - solar panels, super insulation on buildings and homes, 100% recycling, switch to organic agriculture to absorb CO2 and nitrogen out of the atmosphere, replanting sea grass in the Chesapeake Bay to absorb CO2, maximum telework, rebuilding the Baltimore water and sewer syste - every programmatic and policy step to reduce and reverse climate change must be taken as soon as humanly possible. We saw with covid what we can do when we want to, quickly and at large scale. We must do even more, as quickly, against climate change.

In each of these programs, we must prioritize rebalancing society from the extreme wealth and racial divisions of today. For instance, public assisted housing should be super insulated by the government free of charge, which reduces natural gas use and climate change, and also lowers utility bills; and the housing should also become rent-to-own, so the government does not continue as a landlord sucking the little financial income of the poor into state accounts, while the middle and upper classes get the benefit of the mortgage tax deduction.

I prioritize solutions with four "wins", in each of my key areas - climate, social justice, women's equality, and children's health.

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Campaign website

Wallace's campaign website stated the following:

“

Issues: Let the Sun Shine In!

With a new energy from the strongest source of power we know, the people of this country, let’s shine a light on the wide range of successful policies for tackling our toughest problems to transform our nation to a just, prosperous, sustainable society. Let’s look at the economic strengths of our local communities, the innovations our state legislatures, the wisdom of our traditions, and lessons from other countries. You and I together can implement the wonderful public policy initiatives listed below. Many creative approaches are used today that successfully implement ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy, and nonviolence. You just might not have heard about them yet! And the costs are usually less than the failed policies of our current government.

I hope you are as amazed as I have been at these excellent, realistic, proven policy options, and will have your faith in our people and our power restored as mine has been. And, since this massive a change is a two part effort – the “system change” hand in hand with our personal change – you’ll find action links to things you can do yourself at the end of each topic. Let’s go!

“When the people lead, the leaders will follow”
– President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Climate Change

Fifteen countries already get 100% of their electricity from renewable sources. (1) Our National Research Council says “…renewable resources available in the United States, taken collectively, can supply significantly greater amounts of electricity than the total current or projected domestic demand.” (2) Germany at times meets 100% of its electricity demand from solar and wind, and Canada is already at 65% renewable energy! So let’s do it!

1. I will declare a state-wide emergency to address climate change.

We need an emergency economic transformation similar to the 18‐month effort in World War II that pivoted our economy to wartime production. But now, we’re switching to renewable energy production!

2. Set a goal of 100% renewable energy by 2028

with interim goals of 10% transformation for each 6 month interval until the end of 2028.

3. Promote the creation of major new solar and wind energy resources.

Most of this renewable transformation will come from wind energy, which is plentiful and for which we have adequate technology right now. We need to ramp up production in the wind turbine factories to rapidly install enough power to meet each interval’s goal of 10% transformation. Installation will create tens of thousands of new jobs. (footnote1 ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25_renewable_energy (footnote 2) National Research Council (2010). “Electricity from Renewable Resources: Status, Prospects, and Impediments”. National Academies of Science. p. 4.

4. Work with each county to develop a transition plan within one month.

Detailed proposals have already been drawn up for switching to 100% renewable energy for New York, California and Washington states. In 2014, a plan was published to convert all 50 states to 100% renewable energy.(footnote 3) These plans need to be finalized and implemented. So much of this is already done!

5. Create a "Climate Change Corps," modeled on the Civilian Conservation Corps

Provide 100% employment at living wages to help ramp up production in factories that manufacture renewable energy products, and plant trees nationwide to absorb carbon. Planting trees in cities has a triple benefit of carbon absorption, lower temperatures in summer, and enhances livability of communities.

Other major benefits to America from a rapid switch to renewable energy:

Air Pollution
Switching to renewable energy would virtually eliminate air pollution thus saving billions in health care costs and tens of thousands of lives.

Increased Food
Stopping urban car pollution would also allow increased urban food production, since urban air would no longer be polluted and cities will be cooler in summer. This local “urban farming” also greatly reduces CO2 production, by reducing energy for food transportation which is one of the largest global warming impacts of our agricultural system.

You see?? We can do this!!!

Resources for You on Climate Change:

Special Maryland program to help you install energy efficiency and solar – a free helping hand all along the way:
http://retrofitbaltimore.civicworks.com/

Make Your Home Energy Efficient
http://www.wikihow.com/Make‐Your‐Home‐Energy‐Efficient

Get started buying an electric car

http://www.which.co.uk/cars/choosing‐a‐car/buying‐a‐car/electric‐car‐guide/

Montgomery County Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
http://mocoalliance.org/newsroom/community‐supported‐agriculture/

Carroll County Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
http://www.buppertsfarmcsa.com/

Harford County Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
http://www.bradsproduce.com/csa

Find a CSA in your area
https://afsic.nal.usda.gov/community‐supported‐agriculture‐3

DC model for urban farming and environmental sustainability
http://www.greenscheme.org/

Footnotes

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25_renewable_energy

2 National Research Council (2010). “Electricity from Renewable Resources: Status, Prospects, and Impediments”. National Academies of Science. p. 4.

3 Mark Schwarz (February 26, 2014). “Stanford scientist unveils 50‐state plan to transform U.S. to renewable energy” http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/february/fifty‐states‐renewables‐022414.html The World Can Transition to 100 Percent Renewable Power, http://thesolutionsproject.org/ 70%, 80%, 99.9%, 100% Renewables — Study Central, http://cleantechnica.com/70‐80‐99‐9‐100‐ renewables‐study‐central/

4 http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html

5 Stephanie Cooke (October 10, 2011). “After Fukushima, Does Nuclear Power Have a Future?”. New York Times. Antoni Slodkowski (June 15, 2011). “Japan anti‐nuclear protesters rally after quake” . Reuters. Hiroko Tabuchi (July 13, 2011). “Japan Premier Wants Shift Away From Nuclear Power”. New York Times.

Children’s Health

Breast Milk Emergency – Wallace and Elder Call for 100% Breast Milk Protection in Observance of World Breastfeeding Week August 1-7, 2022

We Declare an Emergency for Clean, Safe Breast Milk in Maryland Based on New EPA PFAS Safety Recommendations

Two Emergency Steps to Protect Breast Milk Will Be Wallace-Elder Program

(1) Emergency Drinking Water Purification Needed Now

Breastfeeding is a crucial start to a healthy life. We support Maryland mothers’ right to clean water and clean food, so their breast milk is safe for nursing babies.

Unfortunately we all consume toxic chemicals in our food, water, and the air we breathe from industrial manufacturing and use. Chemicals such as mercury, PCBs, PFAS and TCE all accumulate in human bodies and they don’t go away. So an American mother’s body becomes a reservoir of environmental toxins.

A study of 45 women in Massachusetts showed that the average concentration of PFOA (arguably the deadliest of all PFAS or “forever chemicals”) was 10,950 over the EPA threshold, while the highest concentration was 40,250 times over the limit.

These toxins pass into breast milk, and then into infants’ fragile, developing brain and other organs. PFAS levels in breast milk have been found 40,000 times over EPA guidelines for drinking water. Yet this is the only liquid that these infants drink.

PFAS and these other toxics have been linked to a host of cancers. In children, PFAS also causes a decrease in infant live birth rates, and development of ADHD and childhood asthma.

We consider the new, stronger EPA health advisory on PFAS “permanent poisons” that was published in June 2022 as establishing clear scientific grounds to declare an emergency in Maryland for breast milk protection. Recent testing has shown 100% of American breast milk has these toxic PFAS. This threat to babies must be addressed immediately, not wait for years for legislation and regulation. Other toxics such as mercury, lead and arsenic are also present in Maryland drinking water and pass into breast milk of nursing mothers.

In the absence of the EPA providing these life-saving regulations, we call on the state of Maryland — and we promise if elected — to regulate all PFAS as a class of hazardous chemicals in food and water, and to require all PFAS compounds to be reduced to levels under the current limits of detection in drinking water, groundwater, and surface water.

If elected, Nancy and Pat will immediately provide reverse osmosis drinking water filters to every house and apartment with a nursing mother on an emergency basis. These “RO filters” will provide clean water for mothers, and also clean water for mixing infant formula. The financial benefit from the improved health of the babies and their families will more than outweigh the cost. These reverse osmosis filters will also create truly clean drinking water for all members of the households, removing nearly all of these toxic chemicals:

Mercury

Lead

Arsenic

Poly and per-fluoroalkyd substances (PFAS)

Pesticides

Heavy Metals

Nitrates

Pharmaceuticals

We also call for these additional measures to evaluate and reduce the known sources of these toxins in Maryland food and water:

1) free, voluntary breast milk testing services to lactating mothers, similar to the emergency free covid testing services

2) an immediate moratorium on spreading sewer sludge containing PFAS on Maryland agricultural fields

3) require removal of PFAS toxics from liquid effluent at wastewater treatment plants before discharge into Maryland rivers and the Chesapeake Bay

4) a halt to the outflow of these carcinogens from Maryland’s industrial and military sites

Scientific Call for Dramatic Reduction in PFAS Exposure
The June 15, 2022 EPA advisory dramatically lowered the recommended drinking water intake of PFAS, by 17,000 percent. But the harm from current levels has been ignored by the Maryland Democratic legislature and Republican governor, which created a law to wait two more years to stop selling new, PFAS-containing products. And that new law does nothing to provide safe, clean water now to our most vulnerable, youngest residents and their mothers. The law also does nothing to clean up existing contamination in the soil and groundwater, or stop PFAS in sewage treatment outflows.

US Center for Disease Control (CDC) warning to pregnant women on mercury in seafood, also passes through breast milk

Mercury is a second toxic poison that is transmitted through breast milk to babies. Mercury causes harm to developing brains and immune systems. It also crosses the placenta during pregnancy to harm a fetus’ brain development. There is no “safe” limit for mercury intake, yet it is found in our drinking water and seafood. The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) already recommends pregnant women restrict their intake of seafood because of mercury levels, but never prints the words “this recommended amount is safe” because no amount is safe. We must prioritize protection of mothers and babies today from mercury which will also occur with these emergency water filters.

We call on the Maryland governor to implement maximum protection immediately, even now during this election season, to protect babies from these dangerous, permanent poisons. Just as we have provided free testing kits for COVID-19 to the entire public, we can provide water filters which eliminate these toxics while additional community testing and regulations are developed.

To protect babies in the future, we also support a building requirement that all new homes must have whole-house reverse osmosis filters. This will allow any purchaser to safely plan their pregnancies or entertain grandchildren knowing that Maryland drinking water will not harm them. Since these “forever chemicals” persist in the groundwater and streams and there is no known way to remove PFAS from our bodies, the only way to protect Marylanders long-term is to ensure filtered water at the least cost, when housing is constructed.

(2) Emergency Testing of Chesapeake Seafood and Public Posting – Nursing Mothers’ Right to Know

Mothers also have a right to know the amount of toxic chemicals in foods which pass through breast milk to babies including PFAS and mercury. Seafood especially accumulates these poisons thousands of times higher than the surrounding water. Maryland needs an immediate, robust food testing program with the results provided on websites for the public. Mothers and children’s doctors can then make their best decisions given the many other benefits of breast feeding.

Sexism in Maryland Democratic and Republican Parties Ignoring Women and Babies’ Health

As a women’s issue, and a children’s issue, we believe that breast milk has not been taken seriously as a political issue in Maryland politics. Pat Elder, our lieutenant governor candidate who is a national expert on PFAS, and governor candidate Nancy Wallace will make this issue a top priority for their administration. All parents and caretakers of children will benefit with a healthy start to our children’s lives. Today’s cancer epidemic in children must stop, and this is one step we can take in Maryland immediately to protect our babies’ health and future.

Babies Can’t Wait – Breast Milk Needs Emergency Protection Now

Breastfeeding babies have an inalienable right to clean breast milk and clean infant formula.

Nursing mothers have a right to clean drinking water without toxic chemicals, without paying extra for expensive purified water. And they have a right to all taxpayer funded studies of food toxics so they can make their best decisions about nursing and diet.

Scientific studies including by the National Academy of Sciences are raising the alarm about these chemicals, and we must follow the science with the best protections for our people and the environment immediately.

_____________________________________________________

PCB= polychlorinated bipheyls

PFAS = poly and perfluoroalkyd substances, a group of 4,700 industrial chemicals using fluorine in artificial molecules

TCE = trichloroethylene used in paints and industrial grease removers

_____________________________________________________________

“Rainwater everywhere on Earth unsafe to drink due to “forever chemicals” [PFAS], study finds”, August 9, 2022

Community Peace/Stopping Police Violence

We have experienced many deaths and tremendous suffering from our national culture of violence, but none cut so deeply into the heart of our communities as the abuse of physical power by the our own government via the police. The institutions we should trust to protect and help us, instead betray us with suspicion, assumed guilt, fear, and murder. Although many police officers deserve praise for their service, too many we trust to protect and help us instead betray us with hostile suspicion and quick resort to fatal violence.

A long-standing pattern of abuse of the state’s police power for African Americans, particularly men, has become known to all our country. We must act immediately to stop police violence, stop all instances of violence in our culture, and bring peace to our families, streets, and the relationship between communities and law enforcement. Our goal is peace in our communities, with police respecting people in every interaction, each step of their work – and return to their best role, peace keepers.

A. Prevention of Police Violence and Reduction in Community Violence

1. Increased screening and training for local police – use federal and state support to distribute best practices from the most successful, tolerant police forces in the country; the federal government should help local departments help other local departments. Emphasize de-escalation with more training hours than weapons training hours.

2. Eliminate disparity between communities and their police forces – Fund a state survey of racial parity of local police forces to their communities; pro-actively identify areas with significant gaps and then support local recruitment to achieve parity quickly. Set a three-year goal for each state and local force to have 50% of the officers living in the jurisdiction they are policing.

3. Early intervention to identify problem officers – Determine simpler systems for identifying officers with records of unnecessary violence, to improve on the current, complex system that often doesn’t work in time or is too much of a local administrative burden to work effectively.

4. Full funding for social workers – Dramatically increased funding for social workers at the local level; the federal government can help communities by re-programming funds from the federal Department of Energy, as we switch from nuclear power to safe, local renewable electricity. Social workers are our front line to help protect children from abuse, which is a major predictor and cause of adult violence in both police and other adults.

5. Elevate violent offenders to non-violent paths – Promote the successful model of Richmond, California’s “life mapping program” which, under a Green Party mayor Gayle McLaughlin, reduced street murder of all kinds by 83%. This public/private partnership reduced street violence to historic lows. The reduced overall community violence changes the community’s atmosphere for all. http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2014/01/06/richmond-reports-lowest-homicide-total-in-33-years-credits-multipronged-efforts/

6. Provide mental health rapid response to accompany police – Provide 24-hour, on site mental health response individuals to accompany police to any possible mental health-related situation. Trained specialists have precedence in initial assessment of a situation. This will protect the officers, emotionally disturbed individuals, and the community immediately. The program will also pay for itself in the long run with reduced health care and legal costs.

B. Avoidance of Physical Confrontation and Violent Police Response

7. Mental health units have priority – Support establishing Mental Health units in all local social service departments as a professional standard, which police must call for all behavioral and mental health incidents before drawing any weapon. Put emphasis on simple containment of the person using non-violent means, no matter how disruptive temporarily to traffic or neighborhoods, putting the disturbed person’s life ahead of “maintaining order” for its own sake.

8. Raise the standard for “acceptable force” above the legal minimum – Implement the 30 recommendations of the Police Chiefs Research Forum (PERF), a group of police chiefs and commanders. In January 2016 the group issued a 30-point policy paper, among them calling for a redefinition of acceptable force and many other specific, practical means to reduce excessive force. http://samuelwalker.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PERF30Principles.pdf

C. Accountability and Truth

8. Local citizen oversight boards– support implementation of oversight boards in all police departments, with all three components of authority to make independent investigations, review of police department’s investigation, and audit of internal review processes. The federal role should provide program training and measurement systems for local programs.

9. Automatic external investigation of every police killing – a local or state investigation should occur with every police killing, without having to wait for federal intervention which may be delayed or politically influenced. Set a common expectation among police that all taking of life will have this external review.

10. Police body camera footage as public property –set a national standard that this footage is gathered in the course of public service, and is to be made available to the community within a set time period such as seven days of any killing. In this unique case, an officers’ important personal right to privacy is outweighed by the security risk to the public of problem officers, since only the police have the state-granted authority to take life in certain circumstances.

Resources for You on Community Peace/Stopping Police Violence:

Record incidents and preserve evidence –

The Maryland chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has an app to help you legally monitor, record, and report police interactions. Download here. The app’s main functions are:

Record button allows you to record exchanges between police officers and themselves or other community members. The audio and video files are automatically sent to the ACLU of Maryland so that evidence can’t be destroyed.
Witness function sends out an alert when police stop someone so that community members can move toward the location and document the interaction.
Report feature gives you the option to complete an incident report and send it directly to the ACLU of Maryland for review. ACLU legal staff will review videos that are sent along with a detailed incident report.
Know Your Rights section – in English and Spanish – provides an overview of your rights when you are stopped by law enforcement officers.
Notification function allows you to get news about action alerts and events on police accountability, to help you get involved in the movement for reform.

Democracy & Governance Reform

Nancy and Pat support Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) in the strongest possible terms.

VOTING RIGHTS

Nancy Wallace and Pat Elder strongly believe that all Maryland citizens should be able to vote in state, county and local elections. This fundamental right of a human being to have a voice in their own government is the basic contract by which the government exists in the first place. Incarceration should not waive that right. The viewpoint of people for whom the system is not working, who have been incarcerated, is particularly important in solving our problems. All voices should be included.

This inclusion also serves as a subtle brake on the tendency of governments and elites to concentrate power to themselves, and to imprison opposition. Since Maryland has the highest rate of incarceration of Black men in the United States, the current prohibition on this voting leaves out major input from people with lived experience on our problems from our public policy decisions.

GOVERNANCE REFORM – BREAK THE PARALYSIS OF MD STATE GOVERNMENT

Nancy Wallace and Pat Elder recommend major reforms to the state government processes especially the state legislature in order to bring real representative democracy to Maryland. Reform is also needed so the state legislature can quickly address the crises of climate change. Our undemocratic, elitist, current legislative processes have led to Maryland’s public policy paralysis. The well-known rule of thumb is that it takes three years to get even a good, small bill through the Maryland legislature. This delay is now actually dangerous, demoralizing our citizens and stopping critical climate program consideration. We propose a “Green Democracy” package of state government reforms, based on four principles:

1) True Majority Voting (aka Ranked Choice Voting or RCV) – We must have real representative democracy in every county and state election which reflects the majority of the electorate’s preferences – through Ranked Choice Voting. Also, the state legislature itself should use RCV with on-the-record voting for selecting committee chairs and subcommittee chairs. RCV is used in Maine, Alaska, New York City, San Francisco, Takoma Park and many other jurisdictions in the US and other countries. Learn more about RCV here.

2) Citizen Equality – Every citizen is equal to any other, so every citizen’s elected representative should be equal to every other representative. Seniority – the length of time someone has served in the legislature – has to stop being the basis for committee assignments and committee chair appointment, with its massive power to “kill” a bill that the party leadership does not like. A first-time elected representative is just as important as a 30-year representative, as are their constituents. The current system is a recipe for paralysis and policy failure through invisible, despotic control by party leadership.

3) Citizen Empowerment – citizens must be able to initiate major policy changes and new directions themselves, without waiting for the legislature to consider and reject a change, as we have now. The simple citizen referendum we have in our counties and throughout the US is prohibited in Maryland at the state level. Citizens must be able to launch ballot initiatives from the state legislature to exercise our freedom as citizens.

4) One-Session Decision Making – We must have a government that is able to act quickly on the major programs required for an emergency response to the climate change catastrophe. The legislature should be in session at least six months, and expanded salaries and staff resources provided for legislators to consider major new policy approaches thoroughly. State legislators should work throughout the year instead of just 90 days, and the antique requirements to “read” a bill three times on the floor of the chamber should be dropped. We have computers now, folks.

Specific Reforms to Implement These Principles:

1. True Majority Representation
a) If the founders of our country had thought of Ranked Choice Voting, I think they would have required it up and down our government. Our current system of simply “the most votes wins” simply does not statistically produce a winner who accurately represents the majority will of the voters if there are more than two candidates. This system encourages power politics and fear-based voting, which is the opposite of the values-based voting we need now – and it discourages the true majority of women and so-called minorities from running for office. We need new voices with new ideas, courage, and comprehensive new programs to implement creative policy solutions, with a deep understanding of the larger system of nature and life with which we must now make peace. Ranked Choice Voting has been proven in many jurisdictions to bring exactly these new people into politics.

b) RCV should be used not only for general elections, but also for elections within the state legislature such as Speaker of the House, President of the Senate, and all committee chairs within the committees. This will ensure the leadership is truly representing the majority’s preference.

c) Recorded votes at all levels of state legislature – Basic accountability of representatives to the citizens requires us knowing how our representatives voted on every vote. Then we can see if the majority’s values and positions were supported by the people we elected, or if they went off track once they went to Annapolis. Every vote in subcommittee, committee, and the chamber floor should be a recorded vote, and available online for citizens to see immediately. You are our representatives, we are paying your salary, and we want to see how you vote.

2. Citizen Equality
a) Each committee should elect its own chair, so no chair is selected based on how long they’ve served or friends with leadership. Just as today the members all vote for the Speaker and President, each committee should be empowered to select its own chair, using RCV. The transmission belt of the old, entrenched elites must stop over-riding the representatives’ equal access to the committee chair positions where virtually all bills are killed. Our current system greatly undervalues citizens of newly elected delegates, and overvalues those of longtime delegates. This corresponds directly to undervaluing the constituents of new delegates, and overvaluing constituents of longtime delegates.

b) The leadership and committee chairs’ duties should only be administrative – to schedule committee meetings, hearings, and votes. Every bill should be voted on in subcommittee and committee, with a recorded vote, in the order it was introduced.

c) Committee assignments should be made by Ranked Choice Voting, so representatives get the assignment that each one wants the most – everybody is equal. There is no seniority in choice of committees – in fact, one might say that after four or eight years on one committee, that person should move on, and let representatives with new fresh ideas have a chance to influence programs.

d) Leadership (Speaker of the House and President of the Senate) should be elected by Ranked Choice Voting, with on-the-record, on-the-Internet voting. Control of the floor of the House and Senate are key powers and voters have the right and responsibility to know how their elected representatives voted.

3. Citizen Empowerment
a) Citizen referendums – enable state-wide referendums, not our stultifying current process of citizens “only voting up what the legislature has voted down”. The current approach puts the control of all issues 100% in the hands of the current state legislature first, cutting off the ability of the voters to bring up an issue or position on their own. This not only cuts out the direct voice of the citizens, it doesn’t allow voters to empower representatives to make major changes, that reps might not want to take on by themselves. Let us have our say!

b) Allow new incorporation of municipalities – municipalities were previously halted by the state legislature in order to centralize control at the state and county level. For instance, citizens of Silver Spring have expressed that they would like their own jurisdiction, because they don’t get fair consideration of their own issues when dealing with a large county program. With the older, pre-existing municipalities of Takoma Park on one side, and Kensington and Chevy Chase on the other, Silver Spring is not allowed to implement initiatives on their own like these older towns. It then has less of a community spirit and less commitment to resolving local issues, feeling disempowered. We need more sense of community in America, not less. It should be up to the local people as to whether they have a local jurisdiction of their own.

4. One-Session Decisions
a) Drop the “three readings” rule – The easiest step to speed up decision-making is simply to eliminate the 18th century “three readings” tradition. Although it once served a purpose 240 years ago when people may have been delayed in their carriages coming to Annapolis, it is utterly unnecessary now.

b) Consider bills in the order in which they were introduced – not only for hearings as we do today, which can be just five minutes and a formality – but also real committee and subcommittee votes. Every proposal should see the light of day. The new ones are especially important, and should not be “put in the drawer” and killed because established leadership doesn’t support them – which happens with nearly all new ideas in the current system. All votes should be recorded and available on the Internet immediately.

c) Extend the session to at least six months – with extension in pay for members and staff. A year should be considered, since the planet is dying and we need massive transformation of our government programs now. This will also stop the abuse of representatives and staff, who go without sleep and weekends during the “shot clock” atmosphere of the current 90 days. Members should be able to get reasonable amounts of sleep throughout the session, with reliable weekends off. This will support women as parents and lower-income people entering the political arena, and bring important new voices into the legislative process. It will also allow more evening sessions, which will encourage more citizen participation in hearings. It will also provide more time for the public to communicate with members on issues and reduce the “back door” work which determines so much in the state legislature today – and which gives corporations, professional lobbyists, and “insiders” the upper hand.

d) Fund adequate staff support for legislators – Every member should have their own staff person, not sharing staff as in the House of Delegates. Members from the same district may have different positions, and deserve staff who are dedicated to those positions and have time to research new proposals. Since the state has a $2.3 billion “rainy day fund” and then pleads it doesn’t have the money for the legislators to have adequate staff, it certainly appears that the representatives are disempowered, and the leadership elite then can make all significant decisions themselves.

e) The legislature should decide the state budget, not the governor – the current system where the governor sets the budget and the legislature can only increase individual budget items disempowers the representatives, and puts overly concentrated power in one person, the governor. No other state the US has this system. It undercuts the fundamental exercise of a representative democracy.

Summary:

In conclusion, we need real democracy and rapid public policy decisions in this time of climate emergency and the continuing crises in social justice. Our current Maryland legislative processes are killing us and the planet with indecision, delay, unfairness, and lack of transparency. We must have equal representation of new and old representatives’ citizens, we must move quickly, we must have an easier way for the public to endorse a different view than the establishment, and we must have a way for new ideas to see the light of day. After 240 years, major reform to our Maryland legislative processes is long overdue and desperately needed for our survival.

Health Care for All

The Green Party and I support single-payer universal health care and preventive care for all.

Our current health care system lets tens of thousands of people die each year by excluding them from adequate care, while its exorbitant costs are crippling our economy. The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world without a national health care system.

Under a universal, comprehensive, national single-payer health care system, the administrative waste of private insurance corporations would be redirected to patient care. If the United States were to shift to a system of universal coverage and a single payer plan, as in Canada and many European countries, the savings in administrative costs would be more than enough to offset the cost of additional care. Expenses for businesses currently providing coverage would be reduced, while state and local governments would pay less because they would receive reimbursement for services provided to the previously uninsured, and because public programs would cease to be the “dumping ground” for high-risk patients and those rejected by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) when they become disabled and unemployed. In addition, people would gain the peace of mind in knowing that they have health care they need. No longer would people have to worry about the prospect of financial ruin if they become seriously ill, are laid off their jobs, or are injured in an accident.

Greens support a wide-range of health care services, not just traditional medicine which too often emphasizes “a medical arms race” that relies upon high-tech intervention, surgical techniques and costly pharmaceuticals. Chronic conditions are often best cured by alternative medicine. We support the teaching, funding and practice of holistic health approaches and as appropriate, the use of complementary and alternative therapies such as herbal medicines, homeopathy, naturopathy, traditional Chinese medicine and other healing approaches.

Greens recognize that our own health is also intimately tied to the health of our communities and environment. To improve our own health, we must improve the quality of our air, water and food and the health of our workplaces, homes and schools.

The Green Party and I unequivocally support a woman’s right to reproductive choice, no matter her marital status or age, and that contraception and safe, legal abortion procedures be available on demand and be included in all health insurance coverage in the U.S., as well as free of charge in any state where a woman’s income falls below the poverty level.

I will support the following national changes:

1. Single-Payer Health Care

Enact a universal, comprehensive, national single-payer health plan that will provide the following with no increase in cost:

A publicly funded health care insurance program, administered at the state and local levels, with comprehensive lifetime benefits, including dental, vision, mental health care, substance abuse treatment, medication coverage, and hospice and long-term care;
Participation of all licensed and/or certified health providers, subject to standards of practice in their field, with the freedom of patients to choose the type of health care provider from a wide range of health care choices, and with decision-making in the hands of patients and their health providers, not insurance companies;
Portability of coverage regardless of geographical location or employment;
Cost controls via streamlined administration, national fee schedules, bulk purchases of drugs and medical equipment, coordination of capital expenditures and publicly negotiated prices of medications;
Primary and preventive care as priorities, including wellness education about diet, nutrition and exercise; holistic health; and medical marijuana.
More comprehensive services for those who have special needs, including the mentally ill, the differently abled and those who are terminally ill;
A mental health care system that safeguards human dignity, respects individual autonomy, and protects informed consent;
Greatly reduced paperwork for both patients and providers;
Fair and full reimbursement to providers for their services;
Hospitals that can afford safe and adequate staffing levels of registered nurses;
Establishment of national, state, and local health policy boards consisting of health consumers and providers to oversee and evaluate the performance of the system, ensure access to care, and help determine research priorities; and
Establishment of a National Health Trust Fund that would channel all current Federal payments for health care programs directly into the Fund, in addition to employees’ health premium payments.

2. Men’s contraception

Women today have 12 different methods of modern contraception that are effective, reversible, and relatively safe. Men have none. The only methods are permanent sterilization or ineffective. Yet, 50% of the pregnancies in the US are still unplanned. Men should be enabled to take control of their own reproductive decisions, and become equal, responsible partners in this most important decision of our lives. Given the advances in medicine and technology in the past 70 years, men should have access to safe, inexpensive, effective, reversible male contraceptives. I believe this is a human right for men, and a major protection from unplanned pregnancy for women.

Men today have essentially the same limited set of reproductive choices as 70 years ago, when vasectomies first became available. All these choices have significant drawbacks. Male contraceptives have had three periods of attention since modern contraceptive research began in the 1960s, but the pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and health organizations have not followed through to bring successful methods to market. I will introduce legislation to fully fund research for excellent male contraception, and enable all men in the United States to have access to the new products.

From a human rights standpoint, men have a fundamental right to control their reproductive decisions equivalent to women’s rights. With the sophistication of modern science, men should have a range of birth control methods that help them implement their own decision when to have a child. A caring man will be bound for life to a child that was not planned, with life-altering consequences for himself as well as for the mother and other family members. Young men in particular need to be empowered to make a conscious choice to be a parent, as an expression of their own vision of their life plan, with full awareness of the responsibilities and benefits of that choice.

From a women’s health perspective, effective male contraceptives allow women to have the freedom not to use a female contraceptive, most of which are hormonal with side effects. Also, when combined with female contraception, the use of two methods will lead to a large reduction in unplanned pregnancies. This reduction will save women’s lives and protect children from maternal loss in developing countries. In developed countries, reduced unplanned pregnancies will increase maternal and infant health and improve socioeconomic outcomes particularly for teens.

From a family planning perspective, male contraception allows a couple to improve their ability to control reproduction dramatically. Today, all women’s contraceptive methods have a failure rate, with tubal ligation (sterilization) still producing pregnancies for one out of every 200 to 300 women. A couple would be able to greatly decrease the risk of unplanned pregnancy by combining two highly effective, reversible methods. If each partner uses a method that is 99.5% effective, the net risk of conception drops to 0.0025%, near zero. Yet in the United States, nearly 50% of pregnancies are still unintended.

From a child welfare standpoint, the ability for a man to implement his decision when he is ready to be a father — for instance after completing his education, achieving a stable partner, and gaining financial stability — would improve child survival and all aspects of social development. Also, a man’s active role in the child-bearing decision encourages a stronger relational foundation for future support of the child.

Overall, men represent a major worldwide unmet need for family planning. Our society is morally bound to address this massive need. Male contraceptives are more than a simple “win-win” for men and women – the list of benefits is nearly endless. While vasectomies offer an excellent choice for more mature men who have completed having children, the long stretch from puberty to middle age now offers an excellent opportunity for the public and private sector to achieve major improvement in health, quality of life, and dignity for all people using current institutions and infrastructure.

The medical research establishment has not invested significant resources in male contraceptives. Three phases of attention, in the 1960s, 1970s, and mid-2000s, did not lead to any major new methods being brought to market. Public agency funding of research through NIH continues to decline. Contraception has become cast as a women’s issue. Involving men in child-bearing decisions as active and 100% responsible partners will provide a humanizing effect for this topic, empowering half the human race to decide when and why to make one of the most important decisions of their life.

At least six new male methods are under study at this time. They include an insert, an herb, several types of drugs, and heat. However, all of this research is being done by individual researchers and teams in small labs and universities. The current researchers are struggling with financial hurdles which are slowing and even stopping research on very promising methods. Immediate major funding is needed to ensure these researchers have support to complete their scientific studies; encourage the regulatory agencies to assign top priority to product reviews; and educate relevant public interest groups on the relationships between improved male contraception and their agendas.

Also, the medical industry needs to be persuaded that increased research is warranted by public interest until a suite of inexpensive, accessible, reversible options is available to men worldwide.

Education

Nancy and Pat fully embrace all the recommendations of the Kirwan Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education, and its resulting Blueprint for Maryland’s Future. We will include full funding in the Governor’s budget each year of our term.

We are committed in addition to introducing the Montessori method of education especially in pre-K through second grade. This method emphasizes independence, and it views children as naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a sufficiently supportive and well-prepared learning environment. The state will work with private and public partners to enable this transition. There is broad scientific evidence on the positive efficacy of this Montessori system. See Marshall, Chloë (December 2017). “Montessori education: a review of the evidence base”. NPJ Science of Learning. 2 (1): 11. doi:10.1038/s41539-017-0012-7. ISSN 2056-7936. PMC 6161506. PMID 30631457

We are also committed to making high school a path of continued interest and challenge for students with preparation for college (which is free under a Greens governor), for public service, and for trades and art in each high school. We support establishing service academies and technical academies as a focus point for high school curriculum. We will work with local trade unions and industries to develop curriculum and working internships to ensure each student understands they have a secure path to a good job with which to support a family in the future.

We support free public colleges, both two year and four year colleges. Some of the most developed European countries provide free college, and our state and country should do so as well. College is a part of the overall public education, and should be an option for everyone. This has been a Green Party program for decades.

We support forgiveness of student debt from Maryland public colleges, whatever the age of the student. We must free our young workers from the burden of major debt repayment to allow them the freedom to create companies, develop their artistic and entertainment talents, and also choose to serve the community as teachers, without tens of thousands of dollars of debt.

Mentoring and tutoring are a key part of helping students advance with their grade level. We will recruit adults for special early-education tutoring programs to ensure that grades 1 – 6 are on track. This tutoring is a means of giving back to the community that we think every adult should consider, as part of the invaluable role of elders in our society.

Funding for these programs will come in part from a complete audit of state and federal funds given to the schools, and of our many quasi-governmental commissions and agencies which are often inefficient or overstaffed for their responsibilities.

Pat has been a school teacher for many years, and continues to teach part-time at Great Mills High School for GED students, in St. Mary’s County. Nancy has been a mentor to three children for 25 years, through their transition to young adulthood, and has encountered the many pressures faced by disadvantaged youth in our urban centers.

We care, we show up in the difficult places, and we will dedicate the resources necessary to our children.

Immigration – Reform Our Laws and Foreign Policy Together

The U.S. needs a complete overhaul of our immigration laws, coordinated with transformation of our foreighn policy to help stop supported corrupt governments, harmful trade policies, and unsustainable development in sending countries. Undocumented immigrants should be granted a legal status which includes the chance to become U.S. citizens, and the horrific human sex trafficking stopped through outreach programs in sending countries, and use of our vaunted national intelligence capability to stop this devastation and slavery.

Our current situation has created extreme social injustice and untold hidden suffering, both here and abroad. Millions of people are living and working in the U.S. with no legal status, making them subject to extreme exploitation and abuse. This silent, captive class of low and illegally underpaid workers is however convenient for American corporations. The Wall Street Journal has called for completely open borders, to keep wages low and help corporate profits with cheap labor. Washington has been more interested in meeting business needs with repeated, very slow amnesties maintaining the powerless underclass, rather than tackling the source of this human crisis in the first place – US-supported corruption, harmful trade policies, and unsustainable economies in developing countries. Meanwhile, wives and children back home are prey to abuse, rape and murder as enterprising, responsible young fathers and husbands come to the US simply to earn a living.

Solving the immigration crisis means a re-orientation of our foreign policy, to focus on helping nations create just, prosperous, and sustainable societies. Migration is almost always a second choice to staying in one’s native country, and the silent suffering by individuals is immense. Our immigration policy should be a way to address all people’s sustainability needs as we undo the damage to local communities worldwide, and chart a course toward sustainable local economies and strong economic partners.

Undocumented immigrants already residing and working in the United States should be granted a legal status which includes the chance to become U.S. citizens, as long as they present no danger to other members of society.
I call for stiffer, more appropriate policy and laws to deal with human traffickers – primarily women and children who are bought, kidnapped, coerced, brutalized, defrauded, tricked, sold and marketed for forced sex (rape) and prostitution, with an estimated 50,000 trafficked to the U.S. We demand that procedures to deport victims before the traffickers are prosecuted must be changed to allow the victims to testify against the traffickers, which plays a major role in bringing these cases to justice and helping stem the tide of this heinous crime.
I call for recognition of the sovereignty of indigenous nations whose territories cross national boundaries. These indigenous nations have the right to determine the status of their members.

Marijuana

Privacy

Overview

Our current government has allowed technology to outstrip the regulatory capacity of our agencies and scientists. Corporations are driving our right to privacy into extinction, in just a two or three decades after centuries of defending that as a core value, starting with the Bill of Rights. We need a radical transformation of our regulation, and to put the “Precautionary Principle” into law so new technology must be evaluated before introduction into the market, for privacy as well as health, similar to the federal government’s evaluation of environmental impacts before major decisions. An Electronic Bill of Rights would redress the imbalance between the average consumer’s ability to understand complex technology, and the “data mining” of information by major corporations.

Our bodies are an area of privacy under the Constitution. We support full control of our own bodies, also known as “bodily autonomy”. This includes:

1) the right to control one’s reproduction and the right to abortion under Roe vs Wade.

2) the right to express our sexual orientation and gender identity as we choose, free from government interference based on other people’s values and cultural norms. As Abraham Lincoln said, “”Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”

Technology

We must radically transform the US government’s approach to freedom and privacy. The electronic invasion of our lives, including the most private spaces of our homes and our public spaces, violates the basic reason this country exists. Our government spies on hundreds of millions of us, and approves of corporations’ spying on us with avoidance of necessary FCC regulation of wireless data warehousing.

I will introduce a national Electronic Privacy Bill of Rights that protects us in our homes from any surveillance without a warrant under any conditions, and puts limits on public surveillance.
I completely oppose the Executive Branch’s claim to supersede the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow surveillance without a warrant, as claimed by both Republican and Democratic administrations; and I oppose the secret FISA court itself. Defending freedom is the responsibility each generation, and we must overcome the near total erosion of freedom in our culture and laws today. The federal government should set the best example of respecting our rights, not how to ignore them.
We support legal limits or prohibition of private corporations collecting information on students through their use of school-issued laptops and other devices. In the US, almost one third of all students—elementary through high school—already use school-issued digital devices, and many of these devices present a serious risk to student privacy. The devices collect data on the students beyond what is necessary for school assignments, and this data may be transferred to other uses and stored indefinitely. School districts should be required to have strong, enforceable privacy policies, and opt out provisions for parents, when using federal funds to purchase these devices.
Edward Snowden has now been shown to have been legally correct in his claim that the National Security Agency was violating the law and the Constitution with its unlimited data sweeps on average citizens. He should be provided the protection of the US Whistleblower Protection Program, and allowed to return safely to the US. I believe the founders of our country would have agreed with him. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Paris, January 30, 1787. Jefferson’s statement certainly holds true in this case. The intensity of the US Administration’s drive to return him for prosecution for asserting a Constitutional protection for all Americans is a measure of how warped our government has become. Those government resources and staff salaries should be spent on freeing women and girls trapped into sex slavery in the US, with its minute by minute tragedy of pain and suffering; and switching their agencies to 100% renewable energy.

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Right to Control One’s Body

(first three paragraphs from Green Party National Platform)

Women’s right to control their bodies is non-negotiable. It is essential that the option of a safe, legal abortion remains available. The “morning-after” pill must be affordable and easily accessible without a prescription, together with a government-sponsored public relations campaign to educate women about this form of contraception. Clinics must be accessible and must offer advice on contraception and the means for contraception; consultation about abortion and the performance of abortions, and; abortion regardless of age or marital status.

We endorse women’s right to use contraception and, when they choose, to have an abortion. This right cannot be limited to women’s age or marital status. Contraception and abortion must be included in all health insurance policies in the U.S., and any state government must be able to legally offer these services free of charge to women at the poverty level. Public health agencies operating abroad should be allowed to offer family planning, contraception, and abortion in all countries that ask for those services. We oppose our government’s habit of cutting family planning funds when those funds go to agencies in foreign countries that give out contraceptive devices, offer advice on abortion, and perform abortions.

We encourage women and men to prevent unwanted pregnancies. It is the inalienable right and duty of every woman to learn about her body and to be aware of the phases of her menstrual cycle, and it is the duty for every man to be aware of the functions and health of his and his partner’s bodies. This information is necessary for self-determination, to make informed decisions, and to prevent unintended consequences. Unplanned conception takes control away from individuals and makes them subject to external controls. The “morning-after” pill and option of a safe and legal abortion need to remain available.

We support development of men’s contraception so men can also exercise their reproductive rights with non-hormonal, reversible, safe modern contraception. Nancy helped found a non-profit spurring research in these areas. See Male Contraceptive Initiative for the current research options to empower men in this crucial area.

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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

In keeping with the Green Party’s “10 Green Key Values” of diversity, social justice and feminism, we support full legal and political equality for all persons regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, characteristics, and expression. We affirm the rights of all individuals to freely choose intimate partners, regardless of their sex, gender, or gender identity. We and the Green Party affirm the right of all persons to self-determination with regard to gender identity and sex.

Social Justice and Community‐Based Economics

Social Justice (see below for Community-Based Economics)

Social Justice is one of the “Four Pillars” of the Green Party worldwide. This is a core value to all our work. Our Maryland solutions are:

1) Having a home – we support reversing poverty with a new requirement that all public housing, and housing with state funds, be “rent to own”. Current renters would have past payments credited towards the purchase of their home, and all future payments will go towards ownership. This will build more stable neighborhoods, and allow people to build their capital resources. There is no reason the state government should be a landlord for poor people, extracting more wealth from the poor when they cannot afford it, keeping people poor, even while the country’s official public policy has been to increase home ownership, with all its many personal and community benefits since 1935. A second program will propose a “fair mortgage” for private mortgages where the owner gains equity at the same, steady rate each month over the life of the loan, parallel to the banks gaining their profit at a standard rate. The current mortgages pay the banks nearly all their profit in the first half of the loan, and the owner only builds significant equity in the later half. That is not fair to owners, and is another way of “vacuuming up” wealth from the middle class to the upper 1% and the banking system.

2) Reparations – there are several proposals for reparations to heal some of the inherited damage and loss of wealth from generations of slavery and Jim Crow. I will establish a commission to examine these proposals, and bring one or more to the state legislature for action during my first term. The American Civil Liberties Union has helped introduce a bill in the US Congress, H.R. 40, for this on the federal level. I will model the Maryland Reparations Commission on this approach (https://www.aclu-md.org/en/reparations).

3) Stopping bail bond exploitation – the for-profit bail system must be eliminated. The current system is a cycle of indebtedness for people needing bond that keeps poor people who use them in debt even after they have been cleared of charges. This system is underwritten by nine insurance companies, and a form of it has been declared unconstitutional in onen county in Texas. The industry makes a mockery of our national value that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Instead, the bail bonds companies support keeping poor people in jail while presumed innocent, while wealthier people can walk free, arrange their defense, and continue working while waiting for trial and presumed innocent. Our core values are not just for the rich. Numerous national groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Color of Change advocate for this major change, and Nancy and Pat support this reform whole-heartedly. See this report for more information and recommendations.

4) Free college and forgiveness of student debt – See our Education page for more proposals and our commitments on improving educational access to become income-blind and available to all. We lift up families and neighborhoods as well as the individual student when we open educational opportunities to all.

5) Protection of Black cemeteries and historical communities – we have many cemeteries throughout Maryland that testify to the vibrant Black communities of the past two centuries. These lives deserve equal respect in their memorial places as all other Maryland residents. Yet they have often been overrun by real estate development and fraudulent land grabs for expanding suburbs and farmettes. Their memories have been erased, in our minds and off our zoning maps. We need to support the identification, restoration, and memorialization of this fundamental part of our state history, cherish the contributions of these communities, and include the disinheritance of valuable property ownership in our reparations commission mission.

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Community-Based Economics

One of the Green Party’s 10 Key Values is Community Based Economics and Economic Justice. We recognize it is essential to create a vibrant and sustainable, community-based economic system that can create jobs and provide a decent standard of living for all people, while maintaining a healthy ecological balance.

We are all painfully familiar with the facts of the disappearance of the middle class, the increasing gap between rich and poor in the US, and the hopelessness of young professionals facing crushing student debt. One percent of the US population owns 60% of our wealth. I propose ten concrete steps to rapidly reverse this impoverishment of 99% of the American people:

Raise the minimum wage to $17.07 per hour ensure self sufficiency of full time workers. This level is the minimum wage of 1964 simply adjusted for inflation! This is the actual minimum wage required in Montgomery County, MD for self sufficiency for one person, as calculated by the Center for Women’s Welfare based on careful research(1). This simply allows a single person to live without being dependent on any public funds. Seattle, Washington has enacted a similar minimum wage. The erosion of this standard over the past 40 years by the same parties that enacted it must be reversed. Small businesses should be assisted by the Small Business Administration during their adjustment period, using efficiency and business process reengineering consulting to maintain profitability.
Free health care for all Americans, through single payer health care programs. Since the major reason for housing foreclosures is medical debt, free health care will reduce poverty and stabilize communities, as well as improving America’s health. We can make Medicare available to all, and transfer the 31 cents every health care dollar currently spent on paperwork, spent instead on real health care for sick people. This saves lives, saves families, and focuses on health, instead of health insurance corporate profits as the Affordable Care Act does. During the Great Recession in 2009 while 18,000 families were being evicted from their homes each week, many for health care debt, the Chief Executive Officers of the 10 top health insurers paid themselves salaries averaging $28 million each for one year.
Free community college, implementing Thomas Jefferson’s original envisioned for public education. This is simply a logical continuation of our K-12 public education system. This will eliminate the second major source of debt.
Require rent-to-own for all public housing to build home ownership in our poorest communities and create stable neighborhoods for children and families.
Strongly encourage employee ownership of businesses with a state outreach program to help businesses convert to worker-owned or cooperative structures. It is not enough for Americans to have the opportunity to own stock in corporations, the original “share the wealth” approach. It has not worked overall, and the gap between rich and poor, rich and middle class continues to widen. Employee ownership is a proven way to help working Americans have more income for the same labor, and these businesses thrive and grow under the new energy and creativity provided by its worker-owners. Many successful examples of this may be found throughout the US, including King Arthur Flour nearby in Pennsylvania.
Promote local, small, community-centered businesses by re-orienting our Maryland Department of Commerce to these businesses as the top priority. All grants, funds, and tax breaks should be provided only to small businesses, and businesses which are headquartered in the United States. Priority should be given to businesses that focus on delivering products and services based on local products and current local labor. This approach also lowers the carbon footprint of our state economy, helping fight climate change.
Re-establish the capital gains tax and inheritance taxes of the 1970s. Removing those limits on the accumulation of excessive wealth has been a significant enabler of the current extreme wealth gap in our country.
Use our billions in state contracting dollars to decrease the wage gap and rebuild the middle class. Prioritize bidders for state contracts that have the lowest wage gap between top executive salary and lowest paid worker, as defined by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Companies which have not published this wage gap should be barred from bidding. This would include all military contracting, which will provide major transparency for many companies so state governments may also then use the same standard for their contracting. The Obama Administration delayed three years before even issuing implementing regulations for this visibility of American corporations’ exorbitant executive salaries.(2)
Stop overriding US laws protecting workers with global corporate treaties. I believe our state’s position should be to withdraw the United States from NAFTA, CAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Fast Track, and other corporate globalization treaties. All these treaties override US laws protecting our workers, including overtime, environmental health, women’s equal pay, and occupational safety that millions of Americans won with hard fought victories over the past 100 years. The Democratic and Republican approval of these treaties is a threat to the health, safety, and welfare of all Americans. It is also a fundamental abuse of our democratic process, where anonymous corporate-run courts override legitimately elected representatives’ decisions.
Support establishment of state public banks. A state-level public bank will direct local profits into local economic development(footnote 3). These banks receive state tax payments, and partner with local small banks to provide loans to the community to advance our public welfare. The interest on the loans then is returned to the citizens of the state through the public bank, and provides additional funds for helping our communities. This model has been extremely successful in that “hotbed of radicalism”, North Dakota, for the past 90 years. A good source of more information is Ellen Brown’s book The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity.
Change our Department of Commerce economic metrics to support a steady state economy(footnote 4), not physical growth. This includes published reports and metrics to the public and legislators. While our profitability and productivity can grow, further physical growth is ecologically unsustainable, as our diminishing wetlands, agriculture, and aquifer recharge zones attest. We should concentrate our metrics on improving our quality of life, not corporate profits. The metrics should support sustainable economic goals, emphasizing ingenuity, efficiency, increased productivity, ethics, and creativity as the drivers of increased profits and wealth.

Resources for you on Community-Based Economics and Economic Justice

There is an amazing grassroots economic revolution going on in the country, building on the union movement of the 1930s, the cooperatives movement of the 1970s, fair trade in the 1980s, the local farming movement of the last 20 years, and the sharing approach using technology-based communications of the last 10 years. These are all blossoming into something called the New Economy.

New Economy Coalition: http://neweconomy.net/

Here’s just a partial list of economic structures which give workers and communities a fair deal. You can patronize them locally as customers, join as workers and members, and advocate for adoption in your business:

credit unions, administered by the National Credit Union Association (NCUA) – learn more
employee-owned businesses, National Center for Employee Ownership
local currencies like Baltimore’s BNote, http://baltimoregreencurrency.org
TimeBanks
public banks, Public Banking Institute
producer cooperatives, part of the larger cooperatives movement, Grassroots Economic Organizing
community-supported agriculture (CSAs), Maryland Organic Food and Farming Association

1 http://www.selfsufficiencystandard.org/index.html
2 https://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1370539817895
3 http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/
4 http://steadystate.org/

Tax Reform

We need to use the tax code to redistribute our over-concentration of wealth from the top 1% and large, multi-national corporations. I support reinstating estate and capital gains taxes at 1970s rates. Increase subsidies for solar, wind, geothermal, tidal energy. Stop subsidies for the petroleum, natural gas, and nuclear industries. All corporations should pay income taxes (60% of the large corporations currently pay no tax). End farm bill subsidies for grains that contribute to the national obesity epidemic and subsidize large agribusiness, and balance the market for fruits and vegetables.

Tax policy should be used as a driver to redistribute the extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few individuals and large, multi-national corporations, back to 99% of Americans to re-establish the middle class. Currently, 1% of the population owns 60% of the wealth in the US, which is unconscionable. The estate tax and the capital gains tax should be reinstated at the rates of the 1970s. These were successful tools in protecting the middle class for decades, and their removal in the 1980s were a major reason for the rapid increase in over-concentration.

I will also support major reform of federal corporate taxation so the two-thirds of all US corporations that do not pay any US taxes, are taxed at a fair rate. For instance, Prudential financial services giant had $3.5 billion in profits in 2014, and paid zero income tax. I also support tax assistance to enable employee-owned companies, to build a more just, equal society, parallel to the residential mortgage interest deduction from the 1930s which encourages home ownership.

The tax system should support our emergency switch to renewable energy to reverse climate change. I support removing all tax subsidies for the petroleum, natural gas, and nuclear industries, including the Price Anderson Act shielding the nuclear industry from bearing its full cost. I support tax subsidies for renewable energy as a minimum step in fighting climate change, since every second counts towards planetary survival. And Congress needs to end our massive farm bill tax subsidies for the four grains which are the basis of our snack foods, and instead provide a fair, free market for production of healthier fruits and vegetables.

Transit

Nancy and Pat support a variety of transit options that allow for innovation and flexibility in our new, all-electric transit grid. We support evolving our communities to safe, walkable neighborhoods that provide most services and products within walking distance. Bicycles including electric bicycles, tricycle carts for the elderly, tree-lined walking paths for pedestrians, and small-scale, frequent public transit create safe, sustainable communities that are pleasant and human-centered.

We and the Green Party support a transportation policy that emphasizes the use of mass transit and alternatives to the automobile and truck for transport. We call for major public investment in mass transportation, so that such systems are cheap or free to the public and are safe, accessible, and easily understandable to first-time users. We need ecologically sound forms of transportation that minimize pollution and maximize efficiency.

We and the Green Party support the proposed Baltimore Regional Transportation Authority (BRTA) that can finish the Red Line Light Rail system, and the Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition that is fighting for this light rail. The transportation service currently offered is concentrated in mostly white and affluent neighborhoods while many low-income communities of color in east and west Baltimore have barely any service at all. Car-centered systems exacerbate many of the problems these communities already face, making it harder to access the jobs, health services, and clean air that folks need to live.

Surfaces impermeable to rainwater, polluted storm run-off; paved over or polluted wetlands, the heat island effect, air pollution, and acid rain are all directly related to a transportation system run amuck.

Massive subsidies to the auto and fossil fuel industries through highways as well as an unworkable approach by urban planners maintain the auto’s dominance of our cityscapes and inherited patterns of disadvantaged, Black and minority transit deserts . The present-day approach of upgrading streets to accommodate increased traffic generates new traffic because access is now easier, and people will now take jobs further from their homes or purchase homes further from their jobs. Some people shift from public transit to private cars due to the trip time in cars being shorter. As patronage for public transit decreases, public transit loses funding, becomes less viable, and service deteriorates thus encouraging even more people to use their cars.

To counteract these trends and reduce auto use, we advocate the following strategies:

1. Pedestrians and Bicyclists

Make streets, neighborhoods and commercial districts more pedestrian friendly.
Increase the greenery of streets, using ecologically appropriate trees that can thrive in an urban environment providing shade, cleaner air, and habitat for birds.
Utilize traffic-calming methods, where the design of streets promotes safe speeds and safe interaction with pedestrians. Create auto-free zones focused on neighborhood cohesion and shared areas.
Develop extensive networks of bikeways, bicycle lanes and paths. Include bike racks on all public transit.
Maintain free community bicycle fleets, and provide necessary support for cyclists.

2. Mass Transit

Redirect resources that currently go to enhancing auto capacity into expanding human-scale transit options.
Support diversification of local public transit, such as the flexible jitney model and small busses which respond quickly to demand changes.
Encourage employer subsidies of transit commuter tickets for employees, funded by government Congestion Management grants.
Use existing auto infrastructure for transit expansion where possible. Light rail can be established in expressway medians through metropolitan high-density corridors.
Include land use decisions in transportation issues, with consideration of the need for mass transit to have a market and be viable, and with attention paid to cross-commuting the practice of people commuting to a place where they could and should live.
Transfer ownership and operation of all intercity railroad trackage currently under control of freight railroads to responsible and adequately funded public agencies, as is done with highways, to provide for efficiency and safety of all rail traffic.

3. Motor Vehicles

Place a moratorium on highway widening, appropriating funds instead for mass transit and facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Discourage unnecessary auto use by encouraging conversion of urban areas to small walkable neighborhoods with small businesses providing community needs.
Lead by example, using government procurement to put more electric vehicles and EV charging stations into service.
Electrify truck stops, freight terminals and loading docks. Enact and enforce anti-idling regulations. Idling engines consume nearly a billion gallons of gasoline and Diesel fuel and emit ten million tons of carbon dioxide annually (2007 data).
Encourage carpooling programs, telecommuting, and other creative solutions to reduce commuter traffic congestion.
Remove the worst-polluting vehicles from the road by requiring every vehicle to comply with the emission standards in effect when it was manufactured before issuing or renewing its license. Keeping to the original manufactured emissions level instead of allowing more emissions for older vehicles would save lives in Maryland from the air pollution especially diesel particulate matter from trucks.

4. Air Travel

Air travel is a major contributor to climate change, and should be reduced to essential travel for emergencies. This is a very difficult personal and cultural shift for people who have had the funds to travel in the past. Much of our vision of “the good life” and retirement involves travel, which has usually involved air travel until now. Indeed, the lure of far-off places has made taking an airplane for a vacation nearly assumed. However, there are alternative ways to travel which are more pleasant, and which make the travel itself into part of the pleasure and adventure of the trip. The travel industry needs to develop low-carbon and eventually no-carbon transportation solutions, and focus on quality of experience instead of distance traveled.
We support legislation and regulation to further incrementally reduce airplane noise and air pollution, both of which are physically harmful to the health of people living near airports.
Emphasize the use of light and heavy rail for freight transportation.

5. Freight

We call for incentives to get long-distance truck hauling off of our highways and on to railways. We favor the removal of any administrative impediments to efficient long-haul freight transport by rail. Time is lost when switching goods from one railroad to another, even when the trains are the same size and gauge, and this waste can be eliminated.

Women and Girls’ Survival

The second campaign theme is relieving the violence and oppression of women at home in the US, and finding ways to support women’s survival in other countries. The facts on women and girls’ suffering in the United States and around the world are so overwhelming it is difficult to take in at once. Three women die in the US every day from domestic violence. Child abuse is rampant. Violence against women is an hour by hour show in our mainstream entertainment. In other countries, millions of women and girls are dying each year from lack of family planning, discrimination in food supply, 39,000 child brides per day, killings and torture for choosing a husband, and inadequate education. The list seems endless and we often turn away in hopelessness. But we must not. There has been progress, in many countries and cultures. In the US, we can make violence against women prevented and prosecuted as the individual tragedy it is, instead of a daily expectation which the courts and police are all too familiar. Internationally, we can increase support for the many successful efforts begun by thousands of dedicated people through for the US government. One of the Green Party’s 10 Key Values is Feminism and Gender Equity. We can address this holocaust of women and girls through appropriate use of federal programs by:

Increase training resources for local community law enforcement on management of domestic violence.
Closing all gun loopholes, banning assault weapons, and
Work with the entertainment industry to provide a realistic rating system for violence, and particularly violence against women. This includes video games and TV shows.
Defend the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights to continue full and equal protection for women.

Resources for You on Women’s Survival:

What You Can Do To Stop Domestic/Sexual Violence http://ndvsac.org/get‐involved/what‐you‐can‐do‐to‐stop‐domesticsexual‐violence/ Video on what you can do – Emma Watson speech http://www.msnbc.com/the‐last‐word/watch/emma‐watson‐if‐not‐me‐who‐if‐not‐now‐when‐ 332137027735^[4]

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—Nancy Wallace's campaign website (2022)^[6]

2016

The following issues were listed on Wallace's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

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Climate Change: Fifteen countries already get 100% of their electricity from renewable sources. Our National Research Council says "…renewable resources available in the United States, taken collectively, can supply significantly greater amounts of electricity than the total current or projected domestic demand." Germany at times meets 100% of its electricity demand from solar and wind, and Canada is already at 65% renewable energy! So let's do it!

Women and Girls’ Survival: The second campaign theme is relieving the violence and oppression of women at home in the US, and finding ways to support women's survival in other countries. The facts on women and girls' suffering in the United States and around the world are so overwhelming it is difficult to take in at once. Three women die in the US every day from domestic violence. Child abuse is rampant. Violence against women is an hour by hour show in our mainstream entertainment.

Community Based Economics and Economic Justice: We are all painfully familiar with the facts of the disappearance of the middle class, the increasing gap between rich and poor in the US, and the hopelessness of young professionals facing crushing student debt. One percent of the US population owns 60% of our wealth.

Health Care for All: The Green Party and I support single-payer universal health care and preventive care for all. Our current health care system lets tens of thousands of people die each year by excluding them from adequate care, while its exorbitant costs are crippling our economy. The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world without a national health care system.

Federal Tax Reform: We need to use the tax code to redistribute our over-concentration of wealth from the top 1% and large, multi-national corporations. I support reinstating estate and capital gains taxes at 1970s rates. Increase subsidies for solar, wind, geothermal, tidal energy. Stop subsidies for the petroleum, natural gas, and nuclear industries.

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—Nancy Wallace's campaign website, http://www.nancywallace.us/issues/

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Nancy Wallace campaign contribution history
Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	U.S. House Maryland District 8	Lost general	$0	N/A**
2024*	U.S. Senate Maryland	Withdrew general	$0	$651
2022	Governor of Maryland	Lost general	$22,214	$17,208
Grand total			$22,214	$17,859
Sources: OpenSecrets, Federal Elections Commission *This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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↑ Nancy Wallace for Congress, "Meet Nancy," accessed October 23, 2024
↑ Maryland State Board of Elections, "2016 Presidential Primary Election State Candidates List," accessed February 5, 2016
↑ The New York Times, "Maryland Primary Results," April 26, 2016
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
↑ Nancy Wallace’s campaign website, “Issues,” accessed October 23, 2024
↑ Nancy Wallace for Governor, “Issues,” accessed October 14, 2022

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[1] Nancy Wallace for Congress, "Meet Nancy," accessed October 23, 2024

[2] Maryland State Board of Elections, "2016 Presidential Primary Election State Candidates List," accessed February 5, 2016

[3] The New York Times, "Maryland Primary Results," April 26, 2016

[quotedisclaimer-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

[5] Nancy Wallace’s campaign website, “Issues,” accessed October 23, 2024

[6] Nancy Wallace for Governor, “Issues,” accessed October 14, 2022

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