2022 AR Senate race: on Government Reform


Natalie James: Pass John Lewis Voting Rights Act & Freedom to Vote Act

Q: What's the first thing you'd like to accomplish if elected?

A: Vote to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Freedom to Vote Act, Women's Health Protection Act along with pushing to codify Roe vs Wade.

Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on 2022 Arkansas Senate race Apr 25, 2022

Dan Whitfield: Favors ranked choice voting

The two party system has made it to where we are constantly faced with a lesser of two evils voting choice. A troubling poll asked two questions. First, are you enthusiastic to vote for Donald Trump? 68% said yes. Second, are you enthusiastic to vote for Biden? 31% said yes. The majority of people that will be voting for Biden are only doing so to vote against Trump, not because they support Biden.

Ranked choice voting eliminates the need to vote for someone because you don't like their opponent. After the election if no candidate has more than 50% of the vote, the candidate with the lowest amount of votes will be eliminated, and the people who voted for that candidate as their first choice will now add their vote to their second choice candidate. This continues until a candidate has over 50% of the vote.

Source: 2022 Arkansas Senate campaign website DanWhitCongress.us Dec 6, 2020

Dan Whitfield: End gerrymandering, use computer algorithm to draw lines

Gerrymandering has been used by political parties to create district lines, in which best benefit their parties' ambitions, for too long. In order to fix gerrymandering for good I propose we use a computer algorithm to create district lines, rather than having interested parties do it.
Source: 2022 Arkansas Senate campaign website DanWhitCongress.us Dec 6, 2020

Dan Whitfield: Reform Postal Service; against privatization

The US Post has been serving Americans since 1775, when Benjamin Franklin was selected as the first Postmaster. There are approximately 471 million pieces of mail delivered every single day through the USPS. We need to remove the legislation that was put into place to directly hurt the USPS in order to make it look inefficient to push for privatization. The USPS should never have been put in the hands of an individual that has a huge financial incentive to see it fail.
Source: 2022 Arkansas Senate campaign website DanWhitCongress.us Dec 6, 2020

Dan Whitfield: Lower pay for elected officials

I propose we lower elected officials pay. Why does a senator need to make a huge salary while their constituents are making closer to $40,000? Yes, it is important to understand a congressman must own a residence in both his home state and in Washington DC, but that doesn't require such giant lavish salaries. It should be up to constituents to determine if their representatives' salary either increases, decreases, or remains the same.
Source: 2022 Arkansas Senate campaign website DanWhitCongress.us Dec 6, 2020

Dan Whitfield: Denied ballot access in 2020, not dropping fight for 2022

Whitfield hoped to run but suspended his campaign after not getting on the ballot. He says the COVID-19 outbreak and social distance guidelines hurt his chances of meeting his May 1st deadline to get the 10,000 signatures he needed and was denied an
Source: KSFM-5 CBS News on 2022 Arkansas Senate race Oct 1, 2020

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Sen.Michael Bennet (D-CO)
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Mayor Mike Bloomberg (I-NYC)
Gov.Steve Bullock (D-MT)
Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-IN)
Sen.Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Secy.Julian Castro (D-TX)
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CEO Don Blankenship (C-WV)
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Howie Hawkins (G-NY)
Gov.Gary Johnson(L-NM)
Howard Schultz(I-WA)
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Pres.Donald Trump(R-NY)
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Gov.Bill Weld(R-MA & L-NY)

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Sen.Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Gov.John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Gov.Jay Inslee (D-WA)
Rep.Seth Moulton (D-MA)
Rep.Beto O`Rourke (D-TX)
Rep.Tim Ryan (D-CA)
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