North Carolina is a beautiful place with so much to offer. But our state faces many challenges. Some are the result of a decade or more of bad policy making and a failure to invest in the people who live here.
Healthcare and public education have suffered because that’s what happens when you starve systems of the funding they need and treat people as less important than profit.
Social divisions have deepened because that’s what happens when you divide people for political and financial gain and refuse to acknowledge the dignity and humanity of every person.
Political divisions have hardened because that’s what happens when you let elected officials pick their voters instead of voters choosing who they want to represent them.
There is a different way, and it is still achievable. We can commit to valuing human beings over corporate interests, and to investing in our children because they are our children and not because they are future workers. We can, and we must, reckon with the way racism has shaped so many of the policies that are holding us back.
We can despair and leave our community’s fate in the hands of those who have different priorities. Or we can do the work. I will continue to do all I can in the North Carolina Senate to move our state forward.
Lisa Grafstein
Paid for by the Lisa Grafstein Campaign
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