1. Cut the Cost of Heating a Home

This is the kitchen table issue in the North Country and the campaign’s strongest ground. Heating a home through a Northern New York winter, propane costs, and keeping the lights on.

●      Hardening and modernizing the grid so families and small businesses are not left in the dark when it matters most.

●      The frame is investment, not austerity. Telling people to tighten their belt repeatedly is not a plan.

●      People here are not expecting miracles, but they do expect things to work as they should.

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2. Rebuild Roads, Pipes and Broadband

Distance and isolation are the organizing facts of life in this district. Every issue connects back to geography.

●      Roads, bridges, water systems and broadband.

●      A grid that handles the weather that happens every season, not the weather in a planning document.

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3. Build Careers Without Leaving Home

The campaign phrase is stay and build. Young families leaving is the loss that compounds.

●      Workforce pathways through BOCES programs, certifications and SUNY partnerships.

●      People should be able to build a future here without leaving to find opportunity.

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4. Keep Our Hospitals Open

Hospitals in the North Country are closing because of a shrinking customer base rather than a shrinking pool of patients who need care. That distinction is the campaign’s line and it lands.

●      Long drives for basic services are a normal part of life here and should be named plainly.

●      Investing in healthcare and medicine rather than letting for profit pressure decide which facilities survive.

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5. Invest in Local Trades and Main Street

The argument is to support what already exists here rather than waiting for another large corporation to arrive.

●      Small businesses, trades and artisan industries that already define the region.

●      Work that keeps money local and communities strong.

●      Supports the right of workers to organize in any manner they choose.

●      Supports collective bargaining for private and public sector workers.

●      Has proposed preventing firms from purchasing personal data that could be used to target employees who are organizing.