Etienne Rosas
Progressive
Democrat
N/A
Texas
Running For: House Representative - District 34
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For taxing billionaires out of existence and aggressively taxing capital gains
- For government-funded childcare for all
- For strict rent controls and 'housing first' policies
Business & Labor
- For breaking up monopolies and regulating corporations
- For penalizing white collar crime
- For gradually raising minimum wage to $20/hr
- For a 4-day workweek
- For workers' right to unionize and expanding unionization
- For mandating sectoral bargaining or worker councils
Health Care
- For single-payer, universal healthcare (Medicare for All)
- For fully funded rural and border health systems including mobile clinics and telehealth
- For mental health parity including trauma-informed care in schools
- For full reproductive justice including access to contraception, abortion, prenatal care, and parental leave
Education
- For funding public schools through statewide (not local) funding pools
- For free college and forgiving student debt
Voting Rights & Democracy
- For overturning Citizens United
- For banning corporate lobbying and stock-trading by congresspeople/officials
- For passing the 'Democracy for All' Amendment
- For public financing of elections
- For banning dark money and Super PACs
- For limiting campaign spending
- For mandatory public disclosure of meetings between officials and lobbyists
- For ranked-choice voting
- For proportional representation in the House
- For independent redistricting commissions
- For making Election Day a national holiday
- For automatic voter registration
- For the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (phasing out Electoral College)
- For restoring the Voting Rights Act
Public Safety
- For community-based policing with de-escalation training and restorative justice
- For independent civilian oversight of police with investigative powers
- For integrating social services with policing (mental health responders, youth programs, addiction services)
- Against the 'War on Drugs'
- For banning private prisons and arrest quotas
- For rehabilitation-focused prisons to prevent recidivism