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REAL CHOICE
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REAL CHANGE
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ROBERT
MOORE
MAYOR
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FOR A NEW WASHINGTON
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NOT A MEDIA CANDIDATE!
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5% Sales Tax and 8.3% Income Tax Ceiling
Aggressively End Waste of Taxpayer Money
Build and Enforce Affordable Fixed-Rent Housing
Upgrade Funding for Police, Fire and Medical Services
Republic DC General as Charles Drew Medical Center
Improve Family, Child, Youth and Ex-Offender Programs
Cheaper Prescription Drugs and 4% Sales Tax for Seniors
Environmentally Safe People-Friendly Urban Systems
Produce a Functional Action Plan for DC Statehood
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ACCOUNTABLE * DEMOCRATIC
* INDEPENDENT * UNBOUGHT
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THIS NOVEMBER 5TH . . .
KNOW MOORE BEFORE YOU VOTE!
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Triple
Construction of Affordable Apartments and Homes. . .
Mandate genuine DC-wide fixed rents with options to buy after
5 years. Develop strong construction partnerships, and create a
District Construction Authority to hire skilled and trainable DC
residents to repair abandoned buildings and build new affordable
housing.
Reduce Sales/Income Taxes and Aggressively Eliminate Waste. . .
Establish a 5% sales tax and a lower income tax rate ceiling
of 8.3%. Create all-year Tax-Free Fridays and Monthly Tax-Free
Weekends on all retain sales. End waste, fraud and resource
mismanagement by enforcing strong and swift penalties, and provide
a cash or credit bonus for the best use of DC and federal
government funds or resources.
First Class Public Schools and Teacher Salaries. . .
Develop public and charter schools into free Public Academies
that support and upgrade the basic, new, future and special
education needs of all District children. Attract and keep
effective teachers by paying a $40,000 base salary. Establish a
fully accountable no-cost school supply system for teachers and
students. Expand parent and teacher involvement. Link parents,
teachers, colleges, businesses and diverse public agencies to
raise standards.
Upgrade and Strengthen Health, Police, Fire and Sanitation
Services. . .
Return, upgrade, and manage all of DC General Hospital as an
efficient first class public health center. Mandate guaranteed
funding, support, equipment upgrades and District cost of living
salary increases for police, fire, health and sanitation
professionals.
Respect and Accountability for All District Residents. .
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Aggressively honor our expecation and right to accountable,
responsive, efficient and good government. Mandate full-funding
and fail-safe operation plans for DC government services. Plan,
construct, maintain and enforce environmentally safe
people-friendly urban systems. |
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Increase
and Protect Employment Opportunities. . .
Mandate first-preference hiring for residents in all District
jobs. Selectively attract businesses that offer quality full time
employment for DC residents. Create all-year 20-day training,
counseling, certification and referral programs that guarantee
quality jobs. Aggressively enforce stronger and swifter penalties
against businesses and individuals that practice, promote or
permit discriminatory hiring, firing, training, referral,
promotion and service.
Stronger Family, Youth and Ex-Offender Assistance Programs. . .
Develop one-stop support services for young and single-parent
needy families. Simplify and strengthen job training, and
coordination between agencies, organizations and businesses that
empower families and ex-offenders to succeed. Develop all-year (9
am-9 pm) recreation, training and job source youth programs.
Mandate full voting rights for tax paying ex-offenders.
Increase Senior Citizen Services and Protections. . .
Mandate by law low-cost prescription drugs and a special 4%
sales tax for seniors over 60 on fixed incomes. Reorganize and
improve agencies into one-stop and house-call services for elders.
Enforce stronger-swifter penalties that protect seniors from
crime, fraud, violence and harassment. Create more senior
recreation and resource centers.
More Shopping and Community Recreation/Resource Centers. . .
Provide strategic incentives for businesses to build and
maintain more Metro station connected shopping/entertainment
malls. Build one-stop Metro accessible all-year 7-day (9 am-9 pm)
recreation, training, library and Internet multi-resource
community centers.
A Real Statehood Plan for the 51st State of New Washington. . .
Organize, produce and take action on a scheduled and
functional action plan to bring true American democracy and total
District citizen-controlled statehood by 2010 ... the state of New
Washington—Democracy's Capital State. |
BACKGROUND:
Age 49, father of 2; grandfather of 3; over 28 years of
professional experience in District, federal and military
government communication; corporate and financial communication,
small business counseling, adult education instruction and
training, broadcast journalism, voter education-activism, and
student rights activism. Born in Harlem, New York City; raised
between New York City, the District of Columbia, and Savannah,
Georgia. |
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