Jennifer Lewis

Jennifer Lewis (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Virginia's 6th Congressional District. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Jennifer Lewis did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Lewis' campaign website stated the following:

HEALTHCARE

Healthcare is a human right. No one should be in debt, go bankrupt, or die because of a lack of insurance. Jennifer supports Medicare for All, keeping prescription drug prices low, reducing premiums, enhancing the quality of care, and safeguarding those with preexisting conditions.

Mental health and addiction services also must be prioritized and fully funded.

ENVIRONMENT

In addition to her long standing opposition to the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines, Jennifer supports reforming FERC, prioritizing clean and renewable energy, rejecting contributions from Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power and other fossil fuel industries. Our priorities should be removing our dependency on fossil fuels and moving towards a clean energy future. Jennifer supports achieving 100% clean and renewable energy by 2050.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS

The recent SCOTUS ruling has overturned Roe v. Wade and stripped over half of the nation’s citizens of their rights.

Overturning Roe v. Wade means more than the loss of reproductive rights to a person's body. It means carrying a non-viable pregnancy to term, it means potential death for the birthing mother and child, it means medically unsafe abortions, it means no access to life-saving tubal ligation, no access to safe and necessary abortions for ectopic pregnancy. This makes abortions illegal for cases of rape and incest. It lessens the clause and right to privacy afforded in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. There is no bodily autonomy. No freedom.

Jennifer has supported the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, the Paycheck Fairness Act closing loopholes from the 1963 Equal Pay Act, has been an active volunteer and advocate for Planned Parenthood and the Blue Ridge Abortion Fund. Jennifer also supports current legislation such as the American Rescue Plan, the Infant Formula Supplemental Appropriations Act, Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, the Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act, the expanded version of the Violence Against Women Act, and opposes any bans or laws restricting abortion rights and access. Additionally, she supports providing up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, wants to increase funding for domestic violence shelters, and wants to protect funding for women's health centers.

We all have mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters - women we couldn't live without. Don't they have a right to pursue their dreams, to be treated (and paid) fairly at work, to make decisions about their own bodies?

CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

Our criminal justice system needs to be reformed. Jennifer supports widespread reform beginning with reducing mandatory minimums for non-violent offenders, implementing and emphasizing treatment for those who suffer from addiction and mental illness, and abolishing for-profit prisons.

WORKING FAMILIES

The working class doesn’t deserve to work paycheck-to-paycheck and to be continually exploited. Jennifer supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15, supports reducing all unfair discrepancies in pay between men and women. Jennifer supports the PRO Act protecting workers' right to unionize and collectively bargain.

One job should be enough.

LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS

Love is love. Our family, friends, and neighbors shouldn’t be told to deny who they identify as or with - they deserve fair and equal treatment under law. Jennifer supports non-discrimination protections to the LGBTQIA+ community in educational settings, credit, housing, employment, jury duty, public services, and federally funded programs.

MARIJUANA & HEMP

Jennifer supports legalization of medicinal and recreational marijuana for adult use. Jennifer supports the legal cultivation of hemp and supports the Industrial Hemp Farming Act.

OPIOID CRISIS

Jennifer’s professional experience in mental health illustrates to her the lack of resources at the community level. She supports increased funding for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation - but also insists on holding pharmaceutical companies accountable.

INFRASTRUCTURE & RURAL BROADBAND

We need to increase capital lending to small businesses and expand high-speed broadband networks throughout the district. Internet should be accessible to all.

VETERANS

Our veterans deserve our respect, regardless of our views of any specific conflict. And when they return home, or leave the service, we need to take care of them and provide the tools and resources they need to thrive as civilians. Jennifer supports improving the educational benefits in the post-9/11 GI Bill and is particularly passionate about helping veterans with homelessness, depression, and PTSD.

EDUCATION

The schools in our district need to be well-funded. We need to transition from the idea of success to attending a four-year university or college and that vocational training and education is equally important. I support a tuition free community college and public universities and colleges - our children and families shouldn’t be living their lives in debt. We must inject money into our crumbling schools of the sixth district in the least burdensome way to localities and taxpayers, improve and increase teacher, administrative, and support staff pay, improve and increase areas in need of funding such as technology, nutrition, and after school programs.

FARMS AND AGRICULTURE

Jennifer comes from a farming family, and she understands the stress and strains endured by family farms. She wants to encourage policies that allow farms to sell directly to consumers and restaurants. Just like in other industries, corporate conglomeration and monopolization has led to large agribusiness crushing competition from smaller farms. We must protect small family farms and agricultural businesses from being impacted by big ag and big greed.

VOTING RIGHTS

The right to vote is fundamental to democracy. Jennifer supports automatic voter registration, same-day voter registration, restoration of rights, and election day being a federal holiday.[2]

—Jennifer Lewis' campaign website (2022)[3]

Jennifer Lewis did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2019 Candidate Connection survey.

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