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THE DC STATEHOOD SLATE’S COVENANT WITH THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

THE DC STATEHOOD SLATE PLEDGES, ONCE IN OFFICE, TO IMMEDIATELY WORK TO IMPLEMENT THE FOLLOWING ACTION ITEMS AS PRIORITIES FOR THE REVITALIZATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA:

1. Make education priority #1 by demanding parental involvement to create a DC-oriented school system, and ensuring that high-quality schooling, from pre-k through graduate school, is available and affordable to every District resident;

2. Eradicate the rat problem and overhaul trash collection;

3. Mandate that for every dollar spent on incarceration, one dollar will be spent on preventive intervention programs to keep our people from a life of crime;

4. Re-institute full curbside and office building recycling programs;

5. Block the reckless privatization and the systematic dismantling of the District government and its public services by the federal government, the control board, and others;

6. Force every department head to competitively re-apply for his/her job and to overhaul the oversight and confirmation process so that only highly skilled managers work for the Distract;

7. Turn housing renters into homeowners by converting apartment buildings into cooperatives and condominiums;

8. Aggressively condemn abandoned properties and drug houses, and transform them into community centers, women’s shelters, homeless shelters, and homes for low-income families;

9. Re-write the District’s EPA to promote the community’s interests, and convert open space into public parks and nature sanctuaries;

10. Enact a realistic 5-year economic development plan for the District that will diversity our economy away from tourism and entertainment and encourage entrepreneurship, industry, and service in Anacostia and other neglected areas;

11. Implement a program to develop cooperative banks, supermarkets and other community-based businesses that foster neighborhood development and economic self-sufficiency;

12. Legislative a realistic and socially conscious District budget that restores education, community health clinics, full employee health benefits for District government employees, drug rehabilitation programs, and child care.

The DC Statehood Slate
555 Newcomb St., SE, Washington, DC 20032
201-789-8708

The Progressive Alternative to the Status Quo

We will challenge the Democrats and Republicans at every turn. We are out to show the District that a new, reinvigorated DC Statehood Party is the viable, progressive alternative to the parties and policies that have brought us shame, corruption, social and economic injustice, and disaster.

Who We Are:

We are a slate of DC Statehood Party candidates. We feel that the residents of the District of Columbia deserve a government that is responsive to the needs of all citizens. WE feel that the Democratic Party of the District has failed the working people, and is not a progressive party. Elect us, and together we will work to protect and better the lot of regular working folks in the District, and not just the fat cats that control the Democratic Party.

Some Things We Stand For:

1. Making a high quality public education available and affordable to all.
2. An economic policy that invests first and foremost in human beings.
3. Emphasizing youth intervention programs, training, recreation facilities, and drug treatment, as opposed to more prisons.
4. Programs designed to turn every District renter into an owner of their house of apartment over the next ten years.
5. Protection of rent control from its continual assaults from the status quo.
6. A budget that is fair and just in its treatment of all citizens, including those in need of assistance.
7. A freeze on all government privatization plans, and government asset giveaways.
8. The right of full-time employees to earn a living wage, and to negotiate, contract and strike, if necessary, over their work environment and benefits.

“Human assets are the only ones worth investing in.” John Gloster

These Are The Candidates Who Will Make a Difference:

John Gloster — Mayor
Pat Kidd — Delegate to Congress
Joseph Romanow — Chairman of the City Council
David Van Williams — Representative to Congress
Gail Dixon — School Board At-Large
Thomas E. Smith — ANC 2C04
Terri Greene — ANC 1B09
Tracy Joyner — ANC 8C

Paid for by the Committees to Elect John Gloster, Pat Kidd, and Joseph Romanow.
Philip Barlow, Treasurer. For More Info, Call: 202-789-8708

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