Tom Tzitzura
Democratic Clean Elections Candidate
State House Representative LD-29
Open Non-Partisan Primaries and Rank Choice Voting
Improve State Education
Woman’s Unconditional Right to Choose
Water
My Mission
LEADERSHIP
INTEGRITY
EQUALITY
It is no secret that legislation in our state concerning some of our
most deeply held values has been an issue for a long time.
Among those values, I plan to prioritize the following:
Defend Democracy
Improve State Education
Women’s Unconditional Right to Choose
Water
Defend Democracy
Here in Arizona, we can start by creating a true democracy through several actions.
- Eliminate partisan primaries by holding “Open Non-Partisan Primaries”, allowing each citizen to have
more choice from a larger field of candidates. - Gives Independents, Republicans, and Democrats equal opportunities to run for office without fear of
being “Primaried out” or falling victim to backroom dealings. - Eliminate gerrymandering.
- Incorporate “Rank Choice Voting” in the general election with a field of 3 or more final candidates.
- Make campaign financing transparent. No more dark money.
Improve State Education
We are all endowed through our genetics with unique abilities. We are not all geniuses. Being educated is not going to turn a person into a genius. What education can do is test your limits. Exposure and experience at the earliest onset of life develops the human brain and therefore the mind. The child that has a well-rounded education early in life has the best chance of becoming a happy and contributing person in life.
The following are some of the necessary actions needed to ensure all Arizona students in the Public School System are afforded the minimum resources to compete and contribute in the future:
- Begin fully funding the Public School System
- Eliminate the State ESA program
- Eliminate the Arizona’s Academic Standards Assessment thereby requiring a makeover of the State
School grading system - Start public pre-school for all of Arizona
Women’s Unconditional Right to Choose
No person, group, or government has the ethical right to tell a woman what she can or cannot do with her body. I will not support any law that places undo obstacles or burdens upon a woman that has to make life changing decisions for herself. She should be free of political pressures from outside groups. She should be free to consult with her medical professional and family who she trusts to make the decision that is right for her well being.
Water
As the Arizona population grows and new industries arrive in state, water conservation is not enough to ensure a stable and viable future. Arizona drought conditions and continual global warming are only going to make conditions worse. We must prepare for the worse.
In the news recently there are talks about water rights. This is a topic that I have many questions about and will research throughout this campaign. What I understand is that some of these claimed rights go back to the 19th century. What I do know is that since the 19th century, the population of our southwest has grown. The climate has changed drastically. Industry, transportation, and farming requirements have also changed.
Maybe it is time to re-think water rights? As precipitation patterns change in the Northern hemisphere what are “water rights” going to do for us if those rights concern puddles that we once called Lake Mead and Lake Powell?
Maybe it’s time to start thinking outside the box? Maybe it’s time to start concentrating on increasing water resources. Time to start reinventing farming here in the Southwest. Time to start building large green houses for crops we can control and manage the water.
We need to start exploring ways of increasing our water resources.
My proposal to ensure the water demands for a growing Arizona are met:
– Desalination plants from the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific Ocean.
– Interstate water pipeline systems to distribute water from flooded areas to reservoirs, and upcoming technologies.
(American ingenuity has built a 48-inch diameter pipeline stretching 420 miles over the vast wilderness of Alaska to transport crude oil. Why can’t we build an interstate system to save our flooded cities and towns, while at the same time replenish our lakes and reservoirs?)