Stephanie Carlisle
Nevada Congressional District 1
Growing up on public assistance, with a single father who struggled his whole life to lift himself out of poverty, I know firsthand the kinds of challenges faced by so many in District 1. We need to impose congressional term limits, we need to identify federal fiscal misconduct, and we need to secure our borders against terrorist threats – but the representatives we have on the Hill aren’t working to get us ANY of those.
As someone who graduated high school with high honors while also working 3 part-time jobs to save for college, I’m no stranger to hard work OR lots of it. Whether juggling the details of owning/operating my own business, or working closely with business owners and the general public to protect and grow their financial futures, I’m intimately familiar with the struggles of District 1 employers and employees alike. Every day I USE my degree in Organizational Leadership – a degree that specifically prepared me to spearhead the kinds of broad changes we need in our bureaucracy, in spite of the challenges generally associated with change.
Congress needs fresh eyes on practically every issue, yet we hardly ever GET new representatives. Even with congressional approval ratings dipping into the single digits, an incumbent has a 95% of winning re-election. Enacting term limits is essential to the survival of our republic. The Founding Fathers built this to be a government OF the people – it’s why Congress is only in session part of the year. It’s designed to be filled with real citizens like you and me, with lives and careers that don’t revolve around being a professional political operative for the next 40 or 50 years. This country is stagnating because our politicians are static, and their stoicism is fractioning a system ordained to be flexible and dynamic in response to the changing needs of its citizenry.
The fastest, most transparent, and least objectionable way to bring federal spending in line is to audit every single governmental agency/department/organization/committee – and hold their leaders responsible for any impropriety. As a banking manager I’m intimately familiar with standard accounting practices, and as a freshman Representative I’d be beholden to no one but you; that makes me ideally suited to call for legislation mandating independent audits by a team of forensic accountants. If in the course of our jobs we mismanage the resources allocated to us, we are held accountable to our employers – it should be no different for those at the federal level.
Immigration and refugee policies have always been hot-button issues because they embody two conflicting obligations – we need all the hard-working, creative, useful people we can get, but we also have a responsibility to keep our country safe. In this digital age, when RETAILERS can assemble information from an infinite variety of sources and create an astoundingly accurate profile on practically anybody, the fact that the agencies we put in charge of doing exactly that CANNOT do so for every visa applicant is absurd. Washington desperately needs fresh eyes on this; I grew up in the digital age, and I work with these kinds of businesses on a daily basis. By all means, let’s put this technology to work doing something far more important than recommending what movie we should watch next.
I’m the best choice to represent you in Congress, to voice your concerns and fight for your causes, because they’re my causes, too. This is our home, and it’s worth fighting for.
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