Karla Kemp

Reduce homelessness by redirecting funds from law-enforcement clearances into housing and comprehensive social services, cutting costs while reducing homelessness by at least 60%. Establish work-for-rent housing programs that include trade education, creating long-term stability, workforce readiness, and pathways to independence.

Build a European-style education system that treats learning as a public good: provide free undergraduate education, forgive all existing student loan debt, and pay graduate students—including a funded international study year—with monthly stipends and on-campus childcare. Expand technical education through paid internships and apprenticeships, with wage support during the first two years after graduation during internships or apprenticeship training completion.

Ensure equity and accountability by restoring DEI initiatives, strengthening support for disabled and challenged students, and capping public-university executive pay at no more than 30% above the lowest-paid instructor.

Establish a universal, service-based healthcare system that prioritizes care over profit by eliminating investor prioritized profits, ensuring immediate payment of medical claims, and providing full coverage for all people. Guarantee comprehensive care, including mandatory basic immunizations, complete women’s healthcare (including abortion & IVF), cancer care, and robust support for disabled and challenged individuals.

Transition to this system by expanding Medicaid for all until universal coverage is complete, and strengthen the medical workforce by offering free medical school to doctors who commit to ten years of public service.

Guns, while enjoyable, are a deadly weapon. Similar to a car, it is a matter of how you use it. If it is a requirement to get training, pass an exam and get a license, and carry insurance when you drive a car, why not for a gun? In fact, I would suggest training and recertification with every gun and either a bond or a form of insurance. I also believe in a waiting period as well as a background check before purchasing each gun, regardless of venue. (gun shows included) As is the existing law in most states, no guns for felons or those with a history of dangerous mental illness.

While the current administration would have you believe that the Democrats will take away your right to bear arms, that has NEVER been true. I am a firm believer in our Constitution and will fight to uphold and strengthen it.

In a circular economy , products and services are designed to be reused, repaired, or repurposed so they create ongoing value rather than waste. Public dollars should support jobs and products that improve our lives and environment, such as renewable materials, not toxic plastics that pollute water and soil and never truly break down. A business that does not pay a livable wage undermines itself: employees cannot meet their needs or afford the goods and services the economy depends on.

These are the three pillars of sustainability. Every business affects stakeholders: employees, customers, owners, neighbors, and anyone impacted by how a product is made, used, and disposed of. This full impact—from creation to end of life—is called a product’s lifecycle. In a circular economy , products and services are designed to be reused, repaired, or repurposed so they create ongoing value rather than waste. If a product damages people or the environment during its lifecycle, or cannot be safely reused at the end of its life, it should not be produced. Businesses must take responsibility for pollution and partner with others to turn waste into resources—or they should not operate. Public dollars should support jobs and products that improve our lives and environment, such as renewable materials, not toxic plastics that pollute water and soil and never truly break down. A business that does not pay a livable wage undermines itself: employees cannot meet their needs or afford the goods and services the economy depends on. Likewise, a business that overuses resources or poisons air, water, or soil destroys the very systems that sustain its workforce, customers, and long-term success. Clean air, water, and soil are not optional—they are the foundation of a healthy society and a resilient economy. When businesses operate in balance with people and the planet, they create lasting prosperity for everyone.