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Leadership requires vision, drive, imagination, prioritization skill and the courage to take tough or daring stands. It requires a fearless attitude when advancing new ideas. It requires a no-bull assessment of the factual landscape, rational, unbiased thinking and a strategic outlook on the future. It requires the backbone to stand up to others who try to put their own selfish interests ahead of the best interest of the people. I possess all of these qualities. I am NOT a politician. I am a citizen who is appalled by the lack of leadership in Nevada. I have had enough.
There has been and there continues to be a gross lack of intelligent leadership in the state of Nevada. The career politicians who have spent decades "leading" us have driven our state to the edge of disaster:
appallingly deficient healthcare
an embarrassing public education system
sub-standard higher education
no long-term water solutions
an economy which is the first to suffer in an economic downturn and the last to
recover because of its nature and lack of diversity
As Southern Nevada's district 3 Congressional representative, I will see to it that all of the resources of the federal government are made available in order to begin to reverse this state of affairs.
More federal investment needs to be made here in science and technology development. ANY federal solar or geothermal energy research should be done here.
Our universities need to be upgraded to premier research institutions in order to provide the brainpower required to staff the diverse twenty-first century industries we must attract: communications firms, energy companies and software developers will NOT move here unless there is a pool of competent workers. Additionally, those industries need incentives to come to Southern Nevada, and I will see to it that they receive them.
Our public school systems need to be improved to the point where high school graduates are competent and competitive in the modern world. We need more teachers. We need more efficient administration. We need to recognize that in order to entice good teachers to come here, we need to go the extra mile, offering them more than the typical. Our current "leadership" has been content to import foreign workers to teach our children. I find this unacceptable. There are plenty of top-flight teachers in the United States. We need to draw in the best.
I will work to draw superior quality, affordable health care to Southern Nevada. There is no reason we should not have health care on par with Los Angeles or Phoenix. Yet there are few if any reasons for the best quality care providers to locate here. That will change.
There must be a long-term solution to the imminent water shortage in our state. This solution MUST be a top priority. If the water runs dry, the economy dies, nobody moves here, most people move away, our industries wither....we perish. There needs to be a plan at the federal level to bring a guaranteed supply of fresh water to our state. BEFORE we build a train to California, we need water security.