STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES

Our key commitment is to preservation, extension and enforcement of the broad spectrum of our residents’ rights.  Democratic-led local governments in the Colonial Area and Montgomery County have consistently delivered on these principles for our residents. Colonial Area Democrats are committed to accelerating and extending that success in 2024 and beyond.
 

Public Safety

• Keeping communities safe by empowering fair, equitable law enforcement

• Regulating firearms reasonably to reduce domestic violence and enhance community safety

Reproductive Rights

• Providing unimpeded freedom in reproductive health, including birth control and abortion rights

• Protecting physicians’ legal rights to provide necessary, expert reproductive health care – including gender-affirming care
   

Social Equality

• Protecting civil rights and liberties to enforce fair treatment for all in community life

• Ensuring expansive, unimpeded ballot access for all eligible voters

• Promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in our community

• Supporting organizations that promote awareness of social issues

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Education and Culture

• Committing public funding only to public schools – not to resource-diverting vouchers, charter and religious schools

• Supporting parents’ rights to oversee their children’s education without detriment to the larger community

• Promoting respect for educators’ and librarians’ informed expertise about curriculum and reading material

• Ensuring broad access, guided by educators’ and librarians’ expertise, to books and educational media for all students and for all community members

• Respect for all people’s – including students’ – privacy in gender and sexual identities
   

Environment and Quality of Life

• Promoting environmental safety and integrity – including expanded green spaces

• Limiting sprawl and excess development

• Respecting science and making efforts to reduce climate change
   

Economy and Government

• Stimulating and promoting local businesses

• Ensuring prudent, efficient use of taxpayer dollars

• Standing up for union labor and strengthening workers' right to organize

• Providing opportunities for affordable housing for all – including those currently unhomed

• Delivering transparent, streamlined, equitable government in our communities and the county