New Ideas For A Change
Reduce Property Insurance Rates
- Lower premiums by spreading risk to investors throughout the world using cat fund bonds
- Undo the damage from the legislature's approval of the largest insurance rate increase in history
- End the cycle of insurance companies writing the insurance laws
Endorsed by The Voters Coalition
Endorsed by The Palm Beach Post
See: White Paper "A New Direction on Property Insurance"
Reform Property Taxes
- Fight for comprehensive reform of Florida's tax system, instead of stop-gap measures
- Get tough on wasteful spending by requiring politicians to vote individually on pork-barrel expenditures
- Close the sales tax loopholes instead of raising sales taxes
- Enforce existing tax laws to better collect taxes already on the books
Endorsed by The Voters Coalition
Endorsed by The Palm Beach Post
See: White Paper "Real Tax Reform"
See: Op-Ed "Ending Pork-Barrel Spending Forever"
See: Letter to the Editor "Domino Voted Against Tax Measure for Wrong Reason"
Improve Education
- Use the FCAT as a diagnostic tool, not a tool to punish schools, teachers, and students
- Raise teacher salaries, lower class sizes, and give our children the tools they need to succeed
- Value our teachers, by ensuring that they can afford to live and teach in Florida
- Increase support and standards for early childhood education
Endorsed by the Palm Beach County Classroom Teachers Association
Endorsed by the Florida Education Association
Endorsed by The Voters Coalition
Endorsed by The Palm Beach Post
See: White Paper "Leading in Education"
Make Florida Energy Independent
- Make Florida the state that shows the country the way in ending our dependence on foreign oil
- Promote incentives for energy conservation
- Commit to an energy policy that relies on cellulosic biofuels, solar power, and ocean energy harnessed from Florida's natural resources
- Protect the environment and liberate our foreign policy, while creating the jobs of the future here at home
Endorsed by The Voters Coalition
Endorsed by The Palm Beach Post
See: White Paper "Energy Independence"
See: Opinion: Florida has the ability to meet challenges
Protect Our Communities
- Enhance community policing
- Support victims' rights in and out of the courtroom
- Reduce gun trafficking in Florida by limiting the number of guns that can be purchased at one time
- Create effective gun registration and permit laws
- Promote better firearm safety including child safety locks, and safety training classes
- Support tougher prison sentences for violent criminals
Endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police, Florida State Lodge, District Four
Endorsed by The Voters Coalition
Endorsed by The Professional Firefighters/Paramedics of Palm Beach County, Inc. IAFF Local 2928
Endorsed by The Palm Beach Post
Improve Health Care
- Expand access to children's health insurance through KidCare
- Promote streamlined medical information technology to reduce administration costs
- Make Florida a leader in embryonic stem cell research
- Address Florida's nursing shortage
Endorsed by The Voters Coalition
Endorsed by Florida Nurses PAC
Endorsed by The Palm Beach Post
Create The Jobs Of The Future
- Foster Florida's bio-tech industry, anchored in District 83 by Scripps
- Create high-tech jobs in alternative energy production
- Educate and train workers for the jobs of the future
Endorsed by The Voters Coalition
Endorsed by The Palm Beach Post
Help Working Families
- Increase access to health care
- Expand affordable housing initiatives
- Improve education and job training
- Protect workers' rights
Endorsed by the AFL-CIO
Endorsed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Endorsed by Florida Carpenters Regional Council
Endorsed by The Voters Coalition
Endorsed by The Palm Beach Post
See: Key Labor Leader Backs Miller
Promote Biotechnology
- Liberate the science of embryonic stem cell research to help cure the world's worst diseases
- Fully fund investment in the Scripps-anchored biotechnology community
- Ensure that Florida sees through its commitment to the Scripps project and related biotechnology companies
Endorsed by The Voters Coalition
Endorsed by The Palm Beach Post
Protect Civil Rights
- Ensure that women make their reproductive decisions, instead of politicians in Tallahassee
- Fight for equal rights - regardless of gender, race, or sexual orientation
- Protect the independence of the judiciary
Endorsed by The Voters Coalition
Endorsed By The Palm Beach Human Rights Council
Endorsed By Equality Florida
Endorsed By Florida NOW PAC
Endorsed by The Palm Beach Post
Increase Affordable Housing
- Fully fund down-payment and mortgage assistance programs
- Repeal the cap on the affordable housing trust fund
- Promote community land trusts to reduce land costs for low income home-buyers
Endorsed by The Voters Coalition
Endorsed By The Palm Beach Human Rights Council
Endorsed By Equality Florida
Endorsed By Florida NOW PAC
Endorsed by The Palm Beach Post
Protect The Everglades
- Vigorously oversee state Everglades restoration efforts
- Fight to ensure that Washington keeps its commitment to restoration
- Accelerate land acquisition for restoration efforts
- Prevent further encroachment and pollution of the Everglades
- Let science guide restoration efforts
Endorsed by The Voters Coalition
Endorsed by The Palm Beach Post