Lore Bergman
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My
Platform

FIGHTING FOR

THE Cost of Living AND AFFORDABILITY

  • I will work to pass legislation against price gouging of all kinds. Legislation needs to be written that monitors and controls all types of price gouging. I will fight for strict laws on how much and how often prices can be raised in any given year. This includes everything that is bought and sold, including rent payments.
  • Free childcare and Pre-k. 
  • Rent control and freezes! I will fight to legally protect the rights of the people and demand that housing be respected as a human and constitutional right.
  • The Trump administration has done away with consumer protections across all industries. I will fight so that corporations are held accountable for their wrongdoings so that consumers have a path to reconciliation.
  • I fully support free universal healthcare and exploring real avenues towards attaining it. This will reduce the cost of living tremendously. 
  • I will fight for the federally mandated minimum wage to be raised to a living wage. Tennessee currently has one of the lowest minimum wages in the country at $7.25 per hour, and some of the highest rents in the country. How does that make sense or is fair?
  • TAX THE RICH, so they pay their fair share and regular Americans can pay less taxes. 
  • If the rich would pay their fair share of taxes, we would have plenty of money to balance the budget and fund programs that would help the average American live a more affordable live and get the help they need when neccessary.
  • Stop the tariff madness. It just raises prices and makes things more expensive for the average American. Small business owners and farmers suffer also because of unnecessary tariff wars. They can’t afford products they need to run their businesses or sell their crops. Businesses have to raise their prices and farmers lose income which stresses them out to be able to afford to live. This is all passed on to the American consumer. 
  • FIX IMMIGRATION! It’s not just about compassion and empathy. It’s also about economics. Labor shortages raise the costs of groceries and strain the very systems our tax dollars support. Fixing immigration policy helps families, communities and our economy.
  • STOP FIRING WORKERS and gutting government departments. People can’t afford to live if they don’t have jobs.

FIGHTING FOR

Women's
Rights

  • Christian Nationalism and Project 2025 have plainly stated that they want to stop women from voting and they think the 19th Amendment, a woman’s right to vote, should be abolished. I will fight to stop this!
  • Women’s Rights are a part of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), and the Trump Administration is trying to erase us from history and society. We will not let them succeed.
  • Women should once again and permanently have the right to CHOOSE their own reproductive care needs, including care for abortions, miscarriages and any other care that has to do with their reproductive systems, including contraception and IVF. This needs to be codified as a federal law once and for all. When a woman does not have the right to make decisions about her own body, she is not a free citizen.
  • Woman have the right to be paid equally for the same job as a man. Yet women STILL get paid .81-.83 cents for every dollar a man makes for the same job. We have been fighting this one way too long, and it needs to finally be enforced.
  • Child marriage needs to be abolished in all 50 states. Only 16 states have currently banned child marriage by setting the minimum age at 18 with no exceptions. The large majority of child marriages consist of young underage girls usually marrying much older adult men. In most cases they are forced to marry their abusers, which protects the abusers from prosecution. It is disgusting and reprehensible and must stop!
  • 12 million girls around the world are victims of child marriage.
  • Victims of sexual abuse including males, should be able to report their abuse and prosecute, without time limits. Only 22 states have eliminated time limits as to when a child or an adult can report their abuse and prosecute their abusers. All 50 states should have the same policy.
  • The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” The inalienable right for women to vote is being attacked, and I will fight to defend it.
  • This administration has recently imposed limits on a woman’s freedom to vote. By requiring birth certificates or pre-marriage names, they are introducing bureaucratic hurdles and infringing upon their right to vote as citizens. New attacks on married women regarding what is required to vote by the SAFE Act are ridiculous and unnecessary and needs to stop, and is just another form of voter suppression.
  • Military families should have the right to decide if they need an abortion or not, and be able to get the care they need.

FIGHTING FOR

LGBTQ+
RIGHTS

  • The community will have the same rights as the straight community.
  • Codify the right of gay couples to marry so they no longer have to worry about it being taken.
  • Protection from discrimination of any kind.
  • Gay parents will have the same rights to adopt a child and will go through the same requirements as a straight couple and will not be discriminated against.
  • Transgender persons have a right to be who they want to be without discrimination, threats, or fear.
  • Drag shows should be considered a performance art, like any other show, and should not be considered a political issue. It should be protected under the 1st amendment. and free speech.
  • Gay and Transgender people should be able to serve in the military without discrimination, harassment or any denial of service.
  • The gay community and the trans community should not have to live in fear to the point where they feel they have to leave their state or their country.

FIGHTING FOR

PARENTAL
RIGHTS

  • Parents should decide what to do about their own child’s health care needs, including transgender issues.
  • Parents should decide what their own children should read and study.
  • Parents should get free childcare.
  • Parents should get free Pre-k. 
  • Parents should get free universal healthcare for their families.

FIGHTING FOR

GUN
REFORM

  • Responsible gun ownership.
  • Stop the insanity!! Gun violence is the number one killer of children in this country!!!!
  • Safe Storage and Temporary Transfer
  • Guns need to be kept out of the hands of the mentally ill and the addicted.
  • I stand with the police and veterans who agree that weapons of war need to be kept off the streets and out of the homes of Americans. These are made for combat, invented for nothing more than killing as many people, as quickly as possible.

FIGHTING FOR

IMMIGRATION

  • Implement immigration reform and demand constitutional protection and humane practices
  • Humane, dignified treatment of detainees, with rights protecting them from assault and bodily harm.
  • Hate and discrimination must be punished.
  • More judges and legal help to speed up immigration status.
  • Cruelty-free and humane border policies
  • A final and clear path to citizenship for all immigrants and DACA recipients.
  • Faster path to work permits.
  • New and common-sense ideas for the border.
  • Overhaul of outdated 30-year-old border security policies
  • ABOLISH ICE
  • DEFUND ICE
  • ICE must have clear identification for all members, and face masks should be prohibited.
  • No racial profiling for all detainees.
  • No arrests or entrance without real Judicial warrants signed by unbiased judges, instead of Administrative warrants written by ICE themselves.
  • ICE should be prohibited by constitutional law from entering schools and detaining children.
  • No trauma and arrests of underage children.
  • No home entry without real Judicial warrants signed by real judges.
  • No arrests at court hearings and court houses, where people are following the law and going to there scheduled appointments.
  • No deportation of ANYONE without due process. Most ICE detainees have no criminal record, with many of them being in the United States legally. ICE is wasting large amounts of our tax dollars and harming American families. These resources could be used to hire more people to run our immigration system in a faster, more productive way. These resources could also be used towards more necessary programs to enrich the lives of Americans.
  • Fixing immigration isn’t just about compassion and empathy, its about economics. Labor shortages raise the cost of groceries and strain the very systems our tax dollars support. Fixing immigration policy helps families, communities and the economy. Funds wasted on this cruel and debasing program could be more effectively be used to supplement everything on my platform, that helps the American people.
  • With the devastation and cruelty of families being torn apart, and ICE arrests being only 30% valid, I plan to focus on cruelty free and constitutionally legal pathways to citizenship. 70-75% of detainees have no criminal record at all, are already citizens, or are here legally.
  • The interruption of court cases is a waste of your tax dollars, and unlawful arrests are an egregious display of power that only serves to intimidate and enrich private prisons. It is horrifying watching what this country is becoming.,

FIGHTING FOR

CLIMATE
CHANGE

  • Take money out of politics, so the fossil fuel industry cannot bribe politicians while they watch the earth die.
  • More funding to combat the Climate Crisis.
  • More clean energy, less fossil fuels.
  • Protect the EPA.
  • Protect our national parks from the oil industry.
  • Save the endangered species.
  • Protect and reinstate incentives for green projects.
  • We must wake up and stop living in denial about climate change.

FIGHTING FOR

TAX REFORM
Budget Reform & Tariffs

  • Taxes are unavoidable, how else are things paid for? TAX THE RICH!!
  • Protect the IRS so they can go after the super-rich who cheat and use loopholes to not pay any or hardly any taxes.
  • Get rid of the loopholes and tricks for the rich while filing taxes.
  • The average American pays more taxes than the super-rich do. Tax the super-rich and the budget would be balanced. Stop giving tax cuts to the super rich and upper 1%, and give tax cuts and incentives to the poor and middle class.
  • Taxing the super rich will balance the budget, and therefore we can stop torturing the most vulnerable with threats of starvation and homelessness as their much-needed survival programs are threatened.
  • Once again get money out of politics, so the rich corporations and individuals who cheat cannot bribe politicians to vote against them paying their fair share.
  • Everyone, especially the rich, should be paying their fair share of taxes.
  • Help farmers by ending tariffs, and allow them to sell their products by forming more REAL trade agreements, so they don’t need unwanted buyouts.
  • Help small businesses and companies thrive by ENDING TARIFFS.
  • Stop taking federal jobs by destroying governmental departments, and focus on job creation and new industry.
  • Make sure necessary survival programs are not put into the same budget as ICE. Necessity and non- necessity items should have different budgets.
  • Get money out of politics so the rich corporations and individuals who cheat cannot bribe politicians to vote against the very laws that make them pay their fair share of taxes.
  • Do not allow unneeded tariffs without congressional approval, and uphold the law firmly.
  • Go back to the tax rates for the super rich before Ronald Reagan changed them.
  • Make it a law that all presidents, congressional members, cabinet members and Supreme Court justices must show their tax returns.
  • If Presidents, congressional members, cabinet members and Supreme Court justices make extra money above their salaries while in office, it should be taxed at an extreme amount. This will help deter them from making money while in office and they may pay more attention to their jobs!
  • Enforce insider trading laws and stop insider trading for all politically connected people in Washington.

FIGHTING FOR

CHILDREN & Education

  • Children have the right to be able to read and study more, not less.
  • Children have the right to feel safe in school from gun violence.
  • Children have the right not to die by gun fire, which is the number one killer of children in this country!
  • Children have the right to free pre-K and childcare.
  • Foster children should not be thrown into the streets on their 18th birthday. We must support them longer, and do more to get them ready for their adult lives. 75% of foster children end up homeless and in sex trades because of a lack of help and basic empathy.
  • Students need to be told the whole truth about accumulating student debt before they take a loan. Teach students to look for grants instead of loans, even if it means they will have to take a longer period of time to achieve their educational goals.
  • The Department of Education must be saved and improved, and not dismantled.
  • Public schools must be funded, and voucher programs must be ended. They are a scam, waste taxpayer money and take funds away from public schools.

FIGHTING FOR

VOTING RIGHTS &
ELECTION REFORM

  • Gerrymandering, dark money, corporate money and Citizens United have corrupted every part of our political system. All these things, including the Electoral College, must be abolished and illegal.
  • A non-partisan federal computer system design for calculating district and county boundaries to stop gerrymandering, should be adopted. The lines should be permanent, but if the population gets too great in one area it should be split down the middle. But we must stop changing the district lines every ten years. It is ridiculous and unnecessary and makes the system so that the politicians get to choose their voters, and not the other way around.
  • Codified Federal law that says all legal citizens who are accused of a felony and have finished their sentences, should have their right to vote restored immediately. Or even better, it should be against the law to take someone’s voting rights away, in the first place
  • Corporate money and dark money need to be illegal in campaigns.
  • Lying about an election’s integrity without real proof and defrauding the American people should be punishable by law.
  • ALL intimidation of any kind towards any individual or specific group of voters should be punishable by law.
  • Nation-wide consistency for all election laws and regulations surrounding voting machines.
  • End the electoral college. It is archaic and unfair. It does not represent democracy, and can be corrupted easily, as we have seen.
  • Only use the popular vote where everyone’s individual vote is counted.
  • Voting should be made easier and not harder. All states should be required to give out as much info as possible about upcoming elections. 
  • As an American citizen you should automatically be registered to vote.
  • All voters should be able to vote at any polling place within your state. We have computers now, this shouldn’t be that hard.
  • If you are a disabled or elderly voter, you should automatically receive a mail-in ballot for each election. So if you are too ill to get to the poll, you can still vote. 
  • States should send mail-in ballots to all voters to encourage voting, by making it easier to vote.
  • Adopt an election process similar to other countries, where all candidates running for office receive a dedicated amount of money from the government and must conduct their campaign using only those designated funds. Also, designate a very short window. for campaigning, like 3 months. It will put all candidates on an even playing field and will help ordinary Americans run for office, instead of just the wealthy.

FIGHTING FOR YOU

Congressional and
Supreme Court Reform

  • All congressional representatives should be required to take random drug tests, random cognitive tests, an American history class, American government class and Political Science class.
  • All congressmen and supreme court justices should have term limits adopted immediately.  I propose both bodies of Congress and the Supreme Court should have a total of 12 years allowed in office, each.
  • All supreme court justices must be elected and not nominated by the sitting president.
  • Insider trading should be forbidden and those laws should be strictly enforced.
  • Citizens United, Dark money, corporate money, and lobbyist money should be outlawed. No Congressional member or Supreme Court members should be allowed to accept it.
  • All members of Congress, the Supreme Court and the President must show their tax returns, by law.
  • It should be illegal to accept any gift, currency, personal items or trips from any individual, country or outside organization whatsoever. This should be strictly enforced.
  • All Supreme Court justices must be elected and not appointed. I believe each state and territory should elect one justice for the court. Nine justices are not enough, in my opinion. I believe having more elected judges by all the people of the US will help with the corruption of buying and selling judges, as we have now. After all, all states and territories must abide by the same federal laws, so why shouldn’t they all be represented in the highest court?
  • There should be a specialized incarceration system and nonpartisan legal system for members of the federal government, who break the law, so there is real accountability. 

FIGHTING FOR YOU

SOCIAL SECURITY,
HUD & SNAP

  • All mistakes that Social Security make are their responsibility NOT the recipients. Social Security should not blame recipients for over payments when the recipient have done everything that is asked and nothing wrong. The overpayments should be Social Securities lose and should not be expected to be paid back.
  • SNAP and HUD should have judges to go before to plead a case when mistakes are made by them. SNAP has this type of structure, but HUD does not, and it’s sorely needed. What happens is that a worker makes a mistake, and then the recipient can’t fight it. You have to just accept it when it comes to HUD and the amount of rent they say you have to pay, and it’s not fair. 
  • All programs should have a non-partisan judge to go before for appeals, not an employee or legal team from that organization.
  • New calculation formulas need to be invented for determining payments when you initially receive your disability, social security, SNAP & HUD rental portion amounts. They are archaic and make no sense to how they are calculated.
  • When Social Security gives a raise, it should be an amount and not a percentage according to what you receive. The individual with the smallest payments should get the larger raise, and the individual with the largest payments should get the smallest raise. Unfortunately, it’s reversed and very unfair, especially to those who live below the poverty line. Going by an amount instead of a percentage would actually save the government a lot of money. It would even things out for all individuals and add funds to the system.
  • More protection for the renters of HUD properties, instead of the owners.
  • More accountability for the owners of HUD Properties when receiving payments to repair items. Was the money used appropriately?
  • Owners of HUD properties are NOT allowed to be on the state HUD boards.
  • All books kept by HUD owners must be reviewed by INDEPENDENT accountants assigned by HUD, NOT the owners.
  • When these programs tell us what our rights are, they need to provide lawyers to help us get those rights, NOT lawyers from legal aid. When HUD tells us what our rights are, they should provide lawyers to protect these rights, especially when owners mistreat residents and are crooked.
  • Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) must make it easier for the disabled to run for political office. A candidate should not have to fear of losing their disability status or benefits,  by being allowed to suspend their payments without having to reapply for the program. Reapplying for disability after no longer being an elected official, can take THREE YEARS or more. This discourages participation in our political system and is borderline discriminatory and should be illegal.
  • Our disabled veterans should be our top priority. It is a disgrace to this country how we treat our veterans. They should have more affordable housing specifically for them, and a diamond encrusted healthcare card accepted at any healthcare facility of their choosing. All services and medications should be free.
  • Being unhoused is not a crime. It is a tragedy. We need more affordable housing.

FIGHTING FOR

healthcare,
Medicare &
Medicaid

  • Healthcare is a human right, and I believe all people should have free government subsidized health care. Out of all the richest and industrialized countries in the world, the United States is the only one who can’t figure out how to give us free healthcare. It is ridiculous.
  • TAX THE RICH, DEFUND ICE and stop wasting funds on Wars to steal other countries resources and lands and we will have plenty of money for free universal healthcare and all other survival programs!
  • We should have tax-funded healthcare systems like Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland who have equal access for all and emphasis on preventative care.
  • We have too many private healthcare corporations in this country making too much money off of America’s bad health. STOP privatizing health insurance.
  • No American should go bankrupt because they get sick.
  • Stop electing rich politicians who don’t understand how Medicare or Medicaid work, and how hard and expensive it is for the normal working American to afford any healthcare.
  • Expansion of medicaid, not gutting it. We need to expand medicaid so we can have more hospitals and not less. Also, we must stop threatening to end medicaid because of false claims of fraud.
  • Free health insurance for all, not just some. Everyone should have free healthcare. This is especially where Love Thy Neighbor comes into the picture. In my opinion, it should be something like straight Medicare that is not managed by any private healthcare corporations, but managed by the government. Once again, it will even the playing field, and everyone will get the same kind of insurance.
  • Private insurance companies should get out of medicare.
  • Drug prices should be the same for medications as they are in Canada and Mexico. Same drugs = same prices.
  • If we still refuse to provide free health care, then the ACA should be extended and the tax credits should be larger. Once again, private insurance companies should get out of our health insurance system, so we won’t have crazy high prices and confusion about what someone can get with their insurance, and what someone cannot get. 
  • Everyone should get the same level of care. In fact why don’t we all get what congresspeople in Washington get?
  • If we can’t get free universal healthcare, then how about a sliding payment scale according to income? And maybe once again, we should all get the same level of healthcare and insurance that our congress people get.
  •  FREE HEALTHCARE, NOT COSTLY AND WASTEFUL WARFARE!

FIGHTING FOR

FOREIGN POLICY

  • All innocent victims caught in the crossfire of war need to be supported for as long as it takes.
  • As democracy has been under attack here in the U.S and around the world, we should always support any country that wants to become, or continue to be a democracy.
  • There is no room in the world for hate, bigotry or discrimination against any group of people, and we as the United States should always fight for those freedoms.
  • HEALTHCARE NOT WARFARE!
  • No wars can be started without congressional approval.
  • No resources or land should be stolen from other countries.
  • No countries should be threatened with attacks to steal their resources and land.
  • No colonization or annexation of other countries.
  • No “Domination of the Western Hemisphere”.
  • No Imperialism
  • No never ending wars
  • No American Dictators taking over the world!

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WHAT I BELEIVE ABOUT CERTAIN ISSUES AND WHAT I WOULD CHANGE

W0MANS RIGHTS
Women should once again and permanently have the right to CHOOSE their own reproductive care needs, including care for abortions, miscarriages and any other care that has to do with their reproductive systems. When a woman does not have the right to make decisions about her own body, she is not a free citizen.

Woman should have the right to be paid equally for the same job as a man. We have been fighting this one way too long.
Children Marriage needs to be abolished in all 50 states. 44 states still allow underage children to be married. The large majority are young underage girls, marrying much older adult men. They are usually forced to marry their abusers in most cases, which protects the abusers from prosecution. It is disgusting and irreprehensible and must stop!
Victims of sexual abuse including males, should be able to report their abuse and prosecute, without time limits. 34 states still have time limits as to when a child or adult can report their abuse and prosecute their abusers.

LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
* The community will have the same rights as the straight community.
* Codify the right of gay couples to marry
* Protection from discrimination of any kind.
* Gay parents will have the same rights to adopt a child and will go through have the same requirements as a straight couple and will not be discriminated against.

PARENTAL RIGHTS
* Parents should decide what to do about their own child’s health care needs, including transgender issues.
* Parents should decide what their own children should read and study.
CHILDREN
Children have the right to be able to read and study more, not less.
Children have the right to feel safe in school from gun violence.
Children have the right not to die by gun fire, which is the number one killer of children in this country!

GUNS
* Stop the insanity!! Gun violence is the number one killer of children in this country!!!!
* Stricter gun laws and red flag laws.
* Guns need to be kept out of the hands of the mentally ill and the addicted.
* I stand with the police and veterans who agree that assault weapons of any type, need to be kept off the streets and out of the homes of Americans. These are machines of war, invented for nothing else but killing as many as quickly as possible.

IMMIGRATION
* Hate and discrimination must be punished.
* More judges and legal help to speed up immigration status.
* Cruelty free and human border policies
* A final and clear path to citizenship for all immigrants and DACA recipients.
* Faster path to work permits.
* New and common-sense ideas for the border.

CLIMATE CHANGE
* Take money out of politics, so the fossil fuel industry cannot bribe politicians, while they watch the earth die.
* More clean energy, less fossil fuels.
* Protect the EPA.
* Protect our national parks from the oil industry.
* Save the endangered species.

TAXES
* Taxes are unavoidable, how else are things paid for?
* Protect the IRS so they can go after the super-rich who cheat and use loopholes to not pay any or hardly any taxes.
* Get rid of the loopholes and tricks for the rich while filing taxes.
* The average American pays more taxes than the super-rich do. Tax the super-rich and the budget would be balanced.
* Once again get money out of politics, so the rich corporations and individuals who cheat cannot bribe politicians to vote against them paying their fair share.

VOTING RIGHTS AND ELECTION REFORM
* A non-partisan federal computer design for calculating district and county boundaries to stop gerrymandering, should be adopted.
* Federal law that says all legal citizens who are accused of a felony and have finished their punishment, should be able to vote.
* Corporate money and dark money need to be illegal in campaigns.
* Lying about an election’s integrity without real proof should be punishable by law.
* ALL intimidation of any kind towards any individual or specific group of voters should be punishable by law.

SOCIAL SECURITY, HUD AND SNAP
* All mistakes that Social Security, SNAP and HUD make are their responsibility NOT the recipients.
* All programs should have a non-partisan judge to go before for appeals, not an employee or legal team from that organization.
* New calculation formulas need to be invented for terminating payments.
* When Social Security gives a raise, it should be an amount and not a percentage. The poorest should get the most and the richest the least especially when the poorest live below the poverty line.
* More protection for the renters of HUD properties, instead of the owners.
* More accountability for the owners of HUD Properties when receiving payments to repair items. Was the money used appropriately?
* Owners of HUD properties are NOT allowed to be on the state HUD boards.
* All books kept by HUD owners must be reviewed by independent accountants assigned by HUD NOT the owners.
* When these programs tell us what our rights are, they need to provide lawyers to help us get those rights, NOT lawyers from legal aid. Especially when owners mistreat residents.
* Social Security disability must make it easier for the disabled to run for political office.

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