Ward on the Issues
Where is Ward on the Issues?
- Ward supports “prevailing wage” laws and project labor agreements to provide fair wages for construction workers.
- Ward supports increase in worksite enforcement of wage and hour laws which will deter illegal and unfair labor practices while also detering illegal immigration without racial profiling. activity .
- Ward supports educational improvments through pilot programs to increase afterschool and weekend options that focus on academic excellence.
- Ward will support state efforts to ease the ability of workers to unionize and negotiate fair wages and working conditions.
- Ward will support efforts to close corporate tax loopholes and make them pay their fair share.
- Ward supports efforts to create jobs in Maryland with an emphasis on green jobs.
- Ward will fight efforts to reduce and eliminate cuts to education and public safety.
- Ward will seek to insource jobs to Maryland, and to reduce wasteful contracting out of government services that can be performed more cost effectively.
- Unlike his Tea Party opponent who has stated his opposition to any state fund of the arts or economic development aid to Johns Hopkins; Ward believes the modest state support to the arts helps bring jobs to Maryland; Ward knows that Johns Hopkins as a major employer in Maryland brings money into Maryland by providing world class health care. Helping Hopkins expand with quality jobs and spin off bio-tech companies helps grow our economy out of the current recession.
- Although there are few debates and forums to hear the candidates, Ward met with community activists in Perry Hall at their forum, the Tea Party incumbents did not.
Do you want effective forward thinking leadership that is open to meeting with the community? Isn’t it time for District 7 voters to restore sanity and term limit the incumbents Rick Impallaria and Pat McDonough?
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