Clarke’s Progressive Democrat Vision

"Our COMMUNITY and our NATION are a family; a caring and responsible family. Our America is a place where people care for and about themselves and others. It is an America where people act responsibly with strength and effectiveness..."

Values:

One: caring and RESPONSIBILITY for all carried out with strength and conviction

Two: PROTECTION, fulfillment in life and fairness -- an America where dreams can come true in safety for any individual willing to put forth the effort

Three: FREEDOM, opportunity and broad prosperity

Four: COMMUNITY, service, and cooperation -- responsibility requires service to shape our community

Five: TRUST, honesty, and open communication in and from our government

Progressive principles:

1. Equity -- work hard, play by the rules, serve your family/community/nation then the nation should provide the environment for you to have a decent standard of living, freedom, security, and opportunity

2. Equality: guaranteed political equality and avoid imbalances of power

3. Democracy -- maximize citizen participation, minimize concentration of political, corporate, religious, and media power. improve journalistic standards. Establish publicly financed elections. Invest in public education. Bring corporations under stakeholder not just stockholder control.

4. Government for a better future -- promote and provide sufficient protection, greater democracy, more freedoms, better environment, broader prosperity, better health, greater fulfillment, less violence, and provide and maintain infrastructure.

5. Ethical business -- business should not adversely affect the public good

Policy directions

1. Security -- military strength, strong diplomatic alliances, wise foreign and domestic policy, safe at home/abroad and helping people around the world

2. Economy -- innovation that leads to good paying jobs to provide a fair opportunity to prosper

3. Health -- access to state-of-the-art, affordable health care for all Americans

4. Education -- vibrant, well-funded, expanded public education system where children are taught the truth about their nation, its wonders and its blemishes

5. Early childhood -- high quality early childhood education

6. Environment -- clean, healthy, safe -- water you can drink, air you can breathe, and beautiful, clean places to go. Polluters pay.

7. Energy -- renewable for both the economy and the environment

8. Openness -- open, efficient, fair government that tells the truth and earns the trust of every American

9. Equal rights – race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation

10. Protections -- for consumers, workers, retirees, investors

Effective government -- smaller government supposedly eliminates waste; it really eliminates social programs and increases spending in areas than endanger personal freedoms. We need government that is responsible and responsive to all the people. We need government that gets the job done. a better future -- economically, educationally, environmentally, and in all other areas of life. Lowering taxes primarily for the rich elite has had the effect of the de-funding programs that give people opportunities for a better future. The proper goal is a better future for all Americans with efficient use of resources. Stronger America is about defense and every other dimension of strength -- effectiveness in the world, our economy, our educational systems, our health care system, our families, our communities, our commitment to the environment & the peoples of the world, and our integrity at home and abroad.

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Endorsements

Hon. Betsy Gotbaum
NY Public Advocate

Hon. C. Virginia Fields
Manhattan Borough Pres.

Hon. Anthony Weiner
U.S. Congress

Hon. Donna Christian-Christensen
U.S. Representative for US Virgin Islands

Hon. Bill de Blasio
Councilmember, 39th CD

Hon. Kendall Stewart
Councilmember, 45th CD

Hon. Melissa Mark-Viverito
Councilmember, 8th CD

Hon. Annabel Palma
Councilmember, 18th CD

Hon. Rosie Mendez
Councilmember, 2nd CD

Hon. Helen Sears
Councilmember, 25th CD

Hon. John Liu
Councilmember, 20th CD

Hon. Melinda Katz
Councilmember, 29th CD

Hon. Helen Foster
Councilmember, 16th CD

Hon. Darlene Mealy
Councilmember, 41st CD

Hon. Alan Gerson
Councilmember, 1st CD

Hon. Miguel Martinez
Councilmember, 10th CD

Hon. James Sanders, Jr.
Councilmember, 31st CD

Hon. Phil Reed

Hon. Mayor Wayne Hall
Mayor Hempstead, LI

Hon. Nick Perry
Assemblymember, 58th AD

Hon. John Sampson
NY State Senator, 19th

Alan Fleishman
District Leader, 52nd AD

Rev. Dr. Paul Smith

Roberta Flack

Emily's List

Women Building for the Future PAC

National Women's Political Caucus

Women's Campaign Forum

Jim Owles Democratic Club

Stonewall Democratic Club

Caribbean American Leadership Summit

100 Clergy for Clarke

Progressive Democrat Political Association

Guyanese-American Workers United

Men and Women Against Domestic Violence

1199/SEIU

32BJ

District Council 9, Painters

Local 420, Hospital Wkrs, DC37 AFSCME

Mason Tenders District Council, LIUNA

United Food and Commerical Workers (UFCW), Local 1500

International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), Joint Council 16

UNITE / HERE!

Hotel Trades Council (NYC)

HERE, Local 6 (Hotel Workers)

Carpenters, Local 926 (Brooklyn)