Our Platform

Housing in America should be stable, accessible, safe, healthy, energy efficient, and, above all, affordable. Democrats believe the government should take aggressive steps to increase the supply of housing, especially affordable housing, and address long-standing economic and racial inequities in our housing markets. Democrats are committed to ending homelessness in Delta County. We will elect candidates that will give local elected office holders tools and resources to combat gentrification, penalize predatory lending practices, and maintain homeownership, including exploring targeted rental relief when exorbitant rent increases force long-term residents from their communities and tackling persistent racial bias in appraisals that contributes to the racial wealth gap.

Education is fundamental to the idea of America and to fulfilling our nation's promise. It is the key to addressing the challenges before us-to growing our economy, maintaining American competitiveness on the world stage, and building a more just, equitable, civically engaged, and socially conscientious nation. As Democrats, we believe that education is a critical public good-not a commodity-and that it is the government's responsibility to ensure that every child, everywhere, is able to receive a quality education that enables them to lead meaningful lives, no matter their race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability status, language status, immigration or citizenship status, household income or ZIP code. Our education system must be inclusive of our diverse population, equally serving all ethnic and cultural, and religious groups, and students from varied socioeconomic backgrounds. Diversity is to be honored and respected. Every pre-K-12 student should have access to high-quality, balanced, engaging instruction at a neighborhood school. Educators and Educational Support Professionals deserve fair wages and benefits, safe working conditions, and legal rights, including the right to collective bargaining and should be part of the decision-making process. Students have a right to a safe, equitable, inclusive learning environment. Continuing education at institutes of higher learning should be available at reasonable cost to all qualified students.Item description

Delta County citizens deserve an economy that works for everyone-not just for the wealthy and the well-connected. Democrats believe that it is a moral and an economic imperative that we support working families by rebuilding the middle class for the 21st century, making sure this time that everyone can make it and thrive, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, national origin, age, or ZIP code.

Democrats will fight to raise wages for working people and improve job quality and security. We will support legislation to strengthen whistleblower and anti-retaliation protections for workers who speak for themselves or their coworkers. Democrats will hold executives personally accountable if they interfere in workers' efforts to organize, including issuing criminal penalties for intentional obstruction. Democrats will vigorously protect all private-sector workers' right to strike without fear of coercion, interference, and undue delay. Democrats believe we need to be much more proactive and aggressive in rooting out discrimination in our employment system.

We believe that the world's richest nation should have the world's best infrastructure system. Democrats will launch a clean energy revolution through investments in clean energy, clean transportation, energy efficiency, and advanced manufacturing. Democrats know that small businesses are among the best job creators in our country. We will invest in the American heartland and rural communities, after all, this is home. We will make it easier for new and beginning farmers, aquaculture farmers, ranchers, and foresters, including returning veterans, to start and grow their operations. America's farmworkers are essential to our economy, our communities, and our security. We will enforce labor and environmental protections for farmworkers, including overtime and safety rules protecting workers from exposure to pesticides and extreme heat, and ensure farmworkers are able to exercise their right to bargain collectively. Democrats support public investments in technology and innovation that help create a stronger economy for all Americans. We will support women innovators and innovators of color, encourage diversity in technology, and promote business models that reinvest in low-income communities and communities of any ethnicity.

Democrats will fight to implement paid sick days and a high-quality, comprehensive, and inclusive paid family and medical leave system that protects workers from the unfair choice between attending to urgent health or caretaking needs and earning a paycheck.

Democrats will take decisive action to level the playing field for people of color, working families, women, small business owners, and others who have been left on the sidelines.

Democrats are proud to be the party that advocates retirement security for all. We are the party that created and strengthened Social Security, and defended public and private retirement plans that provide a decent monthly income. We are fighting to make sure that all workers have the ability to save at work for emergencies and for retirement. Democrats will reject every effort to cut, privatize, or weaken Social Security, including attempts to raise the retirement age, diminish benefits by cutting cost-of-living adjustments, or reduce earned benefits. We will ensure Social Security will be there forever.