Jeff Waldstreicher - Candidate for State Senate - District 18

The Activist - Montgomery County, Maryland & Beyond

Education - it defines our community

Health Care

• Supports single payer system
• • Tough given the representative reality in the MD state legislature
• State needs to step up due to the cancellation of the federal mandate

Politics - a marathon; sometimes outside events can accelerate things

Trump Administration

• Maryland should be a leader pushing back against the Trump administration

Support of the SAFE Act

Planned Parenthood

• The largest provider of mammograms for women in Maryland (and the nation)
• MD passed a bill last year to fund this

Working to champion issues for the disabled

• Proposal to get rid of the Medicaid clawback for ABLE accounts
• ABLE accounts (529 accounts for people with disabilities to save their money and protect their assets w/out sacrificing social security disability benefits)
• The Medicaid clawback sometimes requires people to take money out of their ABLE accounts - damaging ability for people to sign up for these accounts

Complexity as a systemic problem in government

• Healthcare is expensive and difficult to navigate
• The public option for Obamacare would have helped; but would have jeopardized support for passing Obamacare

On building consensus w/divergent political views

Divergent views between the county council / county state delegation

• Council wants more money
• State delegation doesn’t necessarily agree

On Maryland Passing Dedicated Funding for Metro

• 150 million, forever funding

50% vs 100% clean energy bills before the legislature

On writing effective legislation

Bill for public financing of state legislature races

• Complicated by districts that occupy multiple counties
• Bills for statewide financing have failed

On The 2018 Legislative Session

• Maryland Healthy Paid Leave Act
• • Overroad veto on paid sick leave
  • So people can get paid leave to care for sick kids / relatives

On Working Family Support

• Co-lead sponsor on fight for 15
• Support Labor / Unions

On Working for Bob Mueller

On professional work in corporate investigations

On Consumer Financial Protections Bureau

• How can we stand up to the Trump admin slashing this department back?

On Amazon coming to Maryland

On the SAFE Act (Details)

• Unconstitutionality of local law enforcement holding immigrants based on ICE detainer requested not backed by a court or independent 3rd party
• Montgomery County is already operating constitutionally
• Other jurisdictions are not operating in this manner