Dear Voter,
The greatest honor and joy of my professional life has been to represent the First Congressional District in Congress for the past seventeen years.
The cities and towns of the First District are great places to live, and my goal in the House of Representatives has been to make them even better. Western and central Massachusetts residents have a deep commitment to providing our children with a quality education; standing up for constitutional safeguards and civil liberties; protecting our planet and environmental future; keeping all citizens healthy; honoring our nation’s veterans; enhancing America’s place in the world; providing economic opportunity and livable wages; and developing our region’s industries, educational institutions, natural resources and cultural and historical attractions. My work in the House over the years has been focused on facing our challenges and building a better tomorrow for everyone in the First District and beyond. I want to continue that work in the 111th Congress, and with your help and support, we can make raise our quality of life even higher.
As always, I’ll be traveling around the First District during this campaign season, and I want to hear from you – what you are concerned about, what your goals are, and what it’s going to take to achieve them. My pledge is to listen to and work with you to solve problems and create new pathways to a brighter future.
See you on the campaign trail...
John Olver
My Primary Agenda
- Safely disengage our troops from Iraq, bring our soldiers home, and substitute a multi-faceted diplomatic effort to encourage political compromise within Iraq and discourage Iraq’s neighbors from engaging in that country’s civil strife.
- Turn our attention to the security, economic and social situation in Afghanistan, which has become badly neglected during the Iraq War.
- Enact mandatory emission reductions for CO2 and other greenhouse gases that cause global warming while taking bolder steps to increase energy conservation, efficiency and production from renewable sources.
- Restore adherence to our Constitution’s protection of civil liberties and commitment to human rights and justice, which includes halting the unlawful surveillance of law-abiding citizens and the torture of combat detainees.
- Ensure rapid implementation of 100% screening of passenger air cargo and incoming sea cargo, enhanced security at nuclear and chemical plants, and the interoperability of communications and information sharing for emergency responders.
- Provide health coverage for the nearly 50 million Americans who do not have health insurance.
- Provide additional transit and other energy efficient surface transportation options in order to move more Americans from conventional automobiles to modes of travel that produce less CO2.
- Rehabilitate distressed public housing, make new public housing units more energy efficient, offer more rental assistance for needy families, provide adequate housing for the elderly and disabled, and help curb the skyrocketing number of housing foreclosures.
- Consistently fund research for cures to diseases at levels that at least keep up with inflation.
- Help communities improve public education with more well-trained teachers, smaller classes and modernized schools.
- Support local economic development, including transportation development, and raise the quality of recreational, cultural and historical opportunities/attractions in western and central Massachusetts.
Citizens for John Olver for Congress
P.O. Box 819
Amherst, MA 01004
(413) 259-9898
olvercampaign@crocker.com
