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A Campaign for Our Seat in the House
Andrew Payton is a Democrat running for the Virginia House of Delegates (HD-34), which represents the City of Harrisonburg and parts of Rockingham County.
Help us send someone to Richmond who will advocate for the many, not the few.
Public Office is a Public Service
When Andrew goes to Richmond, he will not go alone. Elected officials should represent the needs, dreams, and struggles of their constituents, and Andrew intends to do that. We need to hear from you.
Let's defend our neighbors, our families, our freedoms, and our land from the exploitation of big business and authoritarian leaders and those elected leaders willing to enable them.
Positive change can come through collective action. Join this campaign and let's reclaim our futures.
Campaign Issues
Explore some of the important issues impacting our community.
Affordable Healthcare
For most of us, healthcare expenses eat up far too much of our budgets, and too many of us are one accident or diagnosis away from serious financial hardship. Essential services like older adult care are beyond the means of many families. We should be expanding public options like Medicaid, and yet, Virginia trigger laws would terminate the program if Republicans in Congress get their way.
Harrisonburg and Rockingham County have nearly 30 thousand individuals (about 20% of the total population) that depend on heath insurance programs currently being threatened by the federal government. Andrew would support legislation to defend and expand public coverage so that everyone has access to the care they need.
Source: Virginia Department of Medical Assistance
Source: Virginia Public Media
Work & Housing
Housing is too expensive and most jobs don't pay enough. We've seen rent and housing prices skyrocket while wages aren't keeping up with inflation. Less than half of working households in Virginia can afford a median cost home. The rising costs of groceries, childcare, and insurance are squeezing many of us to breaking point.
Andrew would support legislation to protect tenants and lower housing costs and would pursue measures to address burdensome zoning laws, like mandatory parking minimums, that impact our ability to build more affordable housing. He would support measures to increase the rights of workers, like the right to collective bargaining, protections from workplace discrimination, and ensuring paid parental leave and paid sick leave for all workers.
At the end of the day, we all deserve to be safely housed and paid a living wage for the work that we do, and there are policies that can push in that direction.
Source: WHRO.org
Education
Quality education is the hallmark of a successful society, and we live with enough abundance to ensure to every child has access to a public education that meets their needs and expands their horizons.
Andrew would support legislation that increases funding to public schools. He believes we should be able to offer universal pre-K and lower the cost of higher education, including making community colleges tuition free.
Environment & Energy
Help with surprise energy bills are one of the top reasons local households seek emergency financial assistance. And while our region is safer than some in the nation from the impacts of climate change, we are not immune, as recent hurricanes and wild fires have proven. State programs like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative help reduce energy burden on low-income homes and prepare us for natural disasters like floods, but only if we protect them from politicians who care more about the bottom line of utility companies than they do about our people and our planet.
Andrew would defend the Virginia Clean Economy Act and would champion legislation that protects water and land and accelerates our transition away from a fossil fuel economy.
Learn more from the Virginia Energy Efficiency Council.
Virginia House District 34
Virginia's 34th House District represents the City Harrisonburg and parts of Rockingham County, including Singers Glen, Linville, Elkton, Keezletown, Mcgaheysville, and Massanetta Springs.
Get in touch
E-mail: info@paytonfordelegate.com
Phone: 540-218-6097
Address: PO Box 545, Harrisonburg VA 22803
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