Jesse's Platform

Economic Development

• Build a film industry to create jobs, increase tourism, and educate citizens
• Already initiated the creation of intellectual properties legislation to protect new economic venues
• Create a WV Bug [logo] to identify WV businesses and products
• Fair taxation plan in which big business shares the brunt of the burden (instead of citizens)
• Flood mitigation / Water storage / Lakes of power / Redirect Valley Fills

Responsible mining and logging practices

• Enforce mountaintop removal regulations
• Create an exit strategy for mountaintop removal and land redevelopment with clearly defined responsibilities in regard to refuse
• Improved regulations for timber rustling and clear-cutting with clearly defined responsibilities
• Enforce weight limits on coal trucks
• Promote and fund stewardship programs

Preservation of Natural Resources and Environment

• Clean air, water, and environment
• Take inventory of the state's water and work to ensure a water management board
• Enforce clean water act
• Support the bottle bill

Education

• Smaller classrooms and limits on busing
• Competitive pay for educators
• Work to overturn "No Child Left Behind" /create an inclusive plan for WV's kids
• Make the arts mandatory and accountable in elementary, middle and senior high schools (this means putting arts under assessment)
• High Tech home schooling utilizing Public Broadcasting services
• Increase adult literacy

Universal Healthcare Reform

• Preserve women's right to choose
• Expand the state's lower cost prescription drug plan to include all West Virginians
• Utilize alternative healthcare to encourage self responsibility and wellness while lowering healthcare costs

Campaign Finance Reform

• Create a program similar to Minnesota's in which campaign donations may be written off as tax exemptions (as a way to increase voter participation)
• Clean Elections, including verifiable voting machines and public financing

Cut Government waste and red tape/ more customer friendly government

• "The buck stops here" when citizens call any government office, if the answer is not known, the office will take information and get back to you with well researched answers -no transfers
• Insurance reform before tort reform