We are dedicated to actively promoting the following progressive issues in Georgia. These four issues were selected based on the results of a poll we submitted to over 9000 progressive Georgians in March of 2004:


The Environment
Georgia has natural wonders in abundance, from the far reaches of the Okefenokee Swamp to the brisk wind at Brasstown Bald. Our public officials, however, often seem ready to sacrifice that heritage on the altar of business, compromising our forests, rivers, air, and health on the basis of specious arguments that protecting the environment costs jobs.

Both at home and in Washington, Georgians need leaders with the vision and integrity to reject pressure to abuse our wild places and common resources. Since we deserve clean air, clean water, and healthy landscapes, we have to hold officials accountable for how their actions affect the environment — or, when necessary, take action to replace those with Georgians who protect our natural heritage for future generations.

Health Care
Too many Georgians have no way to pay for even the most basic health care. Whether self employed, part of a small business, a part-time worker, or jobless, people from varying walks of life — and sometimes even children — find themselves deprived of the resources and financial safety net that most Georgians rely on. That strains our hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers of last resort.

At the same time, spiraling pharmaceutical costs and insurance rates have begun to place a crushing burden not only on small businesses, but also some of our largest corporations. Citizens need public officials willing to grapple with those problems, and to find solutions that make healthcare affordable to all — not more gimmickry and giveaways that help corporations more than the people in need of our support.

The Economy/Fiscal Responsibility
Since the ascension of the Bush administration, government spending has gone out of control — and our spending priorities have become increasingly askew. Instead of extending unemployment benefits while the country remains mired in its worst job market since Herbert Hoover, the administration — working with conservatives in Congress — have offered freebie after freebie to agribusiness concerns, defense contractors, major polluters, pharmaceutical companies, and the wealthy. To make matters worse, the administration faces a half-trillion dollar budget deficit this year — which means our children will have to foot the bill for conservatives’ misplaced largesse.

We owe our children the right to inherit our future, instead of our debts. The time has come to restore discipline and progressive values to Washington – to curb the tax giveaways, to stop corporate tax evasion, and to reorient spending toward investments that create jobs and support citizens who need training and help while they seek new work.

Electing More Progressives
At every level of government — in the state legislature, at the governor’s office, with our congressmen and in the White House — progressive principles have been ignored and trampled on for too long. Just as the Democratic primary campaign tapped into a hunger to restore progressive values in Washington, citizens have to take it upon themselves to organize — by helping people who share progressive interests to become voters, by recruiting better candidates, and by getting our message heard — to take control of the public agenda away from the demagogues and ne’er do wells of the right.