Ted Cooke Legislative Priorities. 

Fix the Economy 

• Stop mandates and over-regulation on businesses.
• Lower gasoline prices by lowering or eliminating the states' nearly 50 cents per gallon gasoline tax.
• Improve transportation by realigning DOT spending to match up with the types of transportation people choose to use, not what DOT wants people to use.
• Help fill store shelves by removing blockages to the economy- No quarantine, lockdown nor masking of the healthy, there should be medical right to refuse, and no vax mandates.  
• Lower energy costs by ending cap and trade.
• Stop increases in government spending.
• Stop making it more rewarding to stay home than work.

 
Restore Education  

• Parents should always have oversight of children and education.
• Schools should not define by skin color, present sexually encouraging material nor seek to replace parents’ values.
• Make all current school curricula publicly available online for review by parents.
• Schools should proficiently teach reading, writing, arithmetic, objective sciences, and American civics.

 
Reduce Homelessness 

• Implement cost-effective shelters which are sober, sanitary, have public safety and offer job counseling.
• Fix and expand state mental health services.  
• Ease the Growth Management Act, streamline permitting & inspection, lower excise and B&O taxes and eliminate the capital gains tax to encourage building affordable new houses.

 
Ensure Election Integrity 

• Your vote should be as secure as your pocket book.
• Ballots should be stored according to precinct.
• Chain of custody should be verifiable.
• Tabulation machines should be domestically manufactured and tamper-proof.
• Require full independent audits, and represent both major parties in elections staffing at all levels.
• Return the option of in-person voting with ID check to protect everyone's vote.

 
Fund the Police 

• When you call 911, the police should show up and be allowed enforce the law.
• Allow police to act on reasonable suspicion once again, not be held to the unworkable standard of probable cause.  
• Stop putting police in peril for doing their jobs- No individuals on police use of force review boards who have shown anti-police bias.
• The law should be universal and applied the same to everyone.  

 
 

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