Rachel Creemers

Rachel Creemers graduated from Okemos High School. Creemers earned a bachelor's degree from Hampshire College in 2014. Creemers' career experience includes working as an artist.[1]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I'm an educational animator and street artist from Salem, and I'm running on a platform of a Worker's Bill of Rights; a Right to Sanity, Stability, and Fair Pay.

As an outspoken progressive activist, I've worked up and down the east coast the last 10 years on progressive causes, even interning at the Senate with Senator Sanders. I've worked to support causes like The Green New Deal, Medicare for All, Housing as a Human Right, LGBTQIA+ Rights, and Labor Rights for the Post Office and local workers.

I'm tired of being tired. The more I look at where the Democratic party is going, the more I see the same taglines and phrases recycled for the last 10 plus years, and a stagnation of ideas to tackle the real problems facing us. I refuse to wait another decade for the party to slowly catch up to where the people are at now.

I'm talking about common sense legislation, like making it illegal to be able to bully your workers.

I'm talking about tying a company's success to their workforce, creating laws where CEOs can only make 10 times the amount of their lowest paid worker.

I'm talking about creating government run grocery stores that are run similar to our military commissaries, where the goal of the store isn't to maximize profits but to instead keep families everywhere fed at affordable prices.

When I first got into politics, I door knocked for Ayanna Pressley as a barista at Diesel Cafe. She would say

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

We need a Worker's Bill of Rights, a right to Sanity, Stability, and Fair Pay

Sanity - workers would no longer be allowed to be bullied at work.

Stability - large companies would no longer be able to lay employees off to boost their stock prices

Fair Pay - A CEO's pay would only allowed to be ten times the amount of the lowest paid worker. That way if the CEO wants a raise, everyone gets a raise.Grocery prices need to come down, and the US already has a program that protects people from being price gouged.

Creating a government run grocery store that is equivalent to the military commissary program would make feeding Americans everywhere their mission, as opposed to maximizing profitsHousing needs to stop being a Wall Street asset. The amount of single family houses that an individual can own needs to be limited to 10 or less, returning investment properties back to the neighborhoods and folks who want to live there.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Labor Right and Worker's Rights. Curtailing workplace abuse, expanding worker's rights, and expanding job options is the basis of creating the most powerful, most kind, and prosperous nation in the world.

People need protection first and foremost, not businesses.