The New Plan
When you vote for someone, you should know what they’re actually going to do.
Here is my plan.
Politicians have been running on vague promises in this district for as long as anyone can remember, and the promises never get kept.
I think that’s why people stop voting.
So I wrote down exactly what I’d do in Congress if MD-01 sends me. The plan is about 180 pages. Pick whichever theme matters most to you and start there. If something’s missing, tell me.
The platform is here if you want the headlines. What’s below is how I’d legislate them.
— Randi White
What’s in the Plan
Twenty-seven briefs grouped into five themes. Click any one to jump to it.
Honor the Deal We Made
Social Security, veterans, federal workers, unions, family farmers, and the right to vote.
Healthcare is a Human Right
Maternal care, rural doctor access, insurance you can keep, mental health, dental, and vision.
Environmental Justice
The Chesapeake Bay, watermen, family farms, climate recovery, offshore wind, and the land worth keeping.
Life and Liberty
Reproductive freedom, LGBTQIA+ rights, immigration, gun safety, and Black history in schools.
The Pursuit of Happiness
Schools, towns worth staying in, real jobs, small businesses, transportation, and houses people can live in.
Honor the Deal We Made
You paid in for your entire working life. The government has to honor that contract.
— Randi White
This is about the people who held up their end of the deal. Most of the promises the government made them are being broken right now.
Bargaining Rights
Protecting your right to join a union and bargain for better pay.
Triple Hit
Pushing back on federal cuts hitting workers and seniors in MD-01 at the same time.
Promise to Veterans
Making sure veterans get the benefits and care they were promised.
Eastern Shore VA
Bringing VA services to Eastern Shore veterans who shouldn't have to drive hours for care.
Right to Organize
Backing the PRO Act and making organizing legal in industries that fight it hardest.
Social Security
Protecting Social Security from cuts disguised as reforms.
Right to Vote
Defending your right to vote against the people trying to take it away.
Healthcare is a Human Right
A wealthy country should not be losing mothers in childbirth.
— Randi White
Most of MD-01 is medically underserved. The way Congress and the insurance industry have set this up, that's not an accident.
Mothers Shouldn't Die
Closing the maternal mortality gap killing Black mothers in MD-01.
Doctors When You Need Them
Bringing primary care doctors to the rural counties where you can't find one.
Care That Treats You Right
Making sure you don't get talked down to or turned away when you need care.
Coverage You Can Count On
Protecting the health insurance you have from being yanked out from under you.
Mental Health, Dental, Vision
Treating mental health like real health care, and getting dental and vision covered alongside it.
Environmental Justice
Polluters who profit by breaking the watershed should pay for the watershed.
— Randi White
The economy of MD-01 runs on the Bay and the land around it. Big polluters have been skating for decades while everyone else pays for the cleanup.
Bay and Polluters
Making big polluters pay for Bay cleanup instead of taxpayers.
Offshore Wind
Backing offshore wind on the Delmarva coast and the jobs that come with it.
Climate, FEMA, Crisfield
Making sure FEMA actually shows up when MD-01 floods.
A Trade Worth Saving
Defending the watermen and the seafood industry against policies that keep squeezing them.
Family Farms
Backing family farms against agribusiness consolidation and disappearing federal support.
The Land Worth Keeping
Keeping public lands public and the Shore wild.
Life and Liberty
The federal government does not get to decide whose family counts or whose body is real.
— Randi White
These are the freedoms most under attack right now. Personal decisions the government has never had any business making.
Your Body, Your Decision
Restoring federal protection for reproductive health care, including IVF.
LGBTQIA+ Lives Lived Out Loud
Backing the Equality Act and protecting trans people from the laws trying to erase them.
An Immigration System That Works
Fixing the immigration system that's broken for the families and farmers who depend on it.
Gun Safety
Passing universal background checks and the other gun safety laws that already work everywhere else.
Black History is American History
Defending what's taught in schools from the people trying to censor it.
The Pursuit of Happiness
What is missing in MD-01 is a federal partner who treats this as part of the job.
— Randi White
This is the daily stuff: schools, jobs, housing, getting around, the businesses that keep towns alive. The federal government has more leverage on every one of these than it admits.
Schools That Work
Defending public schools and the IDEA funding rural districts need to serve kids with disabilities.
Towns Worth Staying In
Making sure MD-01 towns get the federal investment that keeps them from emptying out.
Real Jobs Here
Bringing real jobs to MD-01 that pay enough to live on.
Small and Black-Owned Businesses
Restoring the SBA and MBDA so small and Black-owned businesses can actually get capital.
Get Where You're Going
Fixing what MD-01 commuters actually depend on, from the Bay Bridge to rural roads.
Houses People Can Live In
Using the federal housing toolkit Congress gives us to make MD-01 affordable for the people who already live here.
The Full Plan
The complete document. Five themes, twenty-seven briefs, around 180 pages. Citations, sources, and the honest parts included.
Download the PDFPDF · 181 pages · 2.5 MB
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