Written by Michael McGinnis, a sixth-generation Kentuckian and lifelong Northern Kentuckian.
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I’m running to fix Congress, fix the budget process, cut wasteful spending, fix the immigration system, and drain the swamp.
Congress gets one hundred less things done per year since it switched to a three day work week. This is why I’m proposing the Senators Work As Much As Teachers Act. This would mandate that Congress show up 180 days per year.
Lobbyists want Congress broken so that they can slip whatever they want into these omnibus bills in the middle of the night when no one has time to read them. I am proposing one bill one issue, no hearing no vote, and a 72 hour rule in order to stop these omnibus bills on a permanent basis. I refuse to take corporate PAC money from lobbyists, unlike my opponent.
Many of the people coming across the southern border aren’t poor. They are spending thousands of dollars to fly all across the world to Mexico, and then paying thousands of dollars to the cartels to get them across the border. They are coming here because our currency is more valuable than theirs. The way to stop them from coming here in the first place is by finishing the wall, and implementing mandatory e-verify. Mandatory e-verify requires two forms of ID in order to get a job here.
It is quite important that we have a non-partisan federal prosecutor appointed by judges in D.C. When the D.C. federal prosecutor is appointed by the President they will not prosecute people on their side of the aisle, and they will not prosecute people on the other side of the aisle since that is perceived as going after their political opponents.
Thomas Massie hasn’t gotten a bill passed in 12 years. His campaign has taken corporate PAC money from D.C. lobbying firms. It is time to send a message to the corporate swamp on May 21st that Northern Kentucky’s representative in Congress will not be beholden to the lobbyists.