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Five things worth fighting for
Civil rights
Every person has rights that no government, corporation, or institution is entitled to take away. The right to speak freely, to worship according to conscience, to be secure in your own home, to face your accuser, to own property, and to be treated equally under the law. These rights are not granted by the state; they are recognized by it. When institutions violate civil rights, someone has to say so and someone has to act. Eric intends to be that someone.
Slowing down traffic
Children walk to school on streets designed for 50 miles per hour. Families cross intersections where drivers barely slow down. Neighborhoods built for people have been redesigned for cars, and the people who live in them pay the price every day. Slowing down traffic is not a minor issue. It is a direct measure of whether a community values its own people more than throughput. Speed limits, crosswalks, stop signs, enforcement; these are cheap, proven, and the single most immediate thing a local government can do to make a neighborhood safer. Eric will push for lower speeds, better enforcement, and street designs that protect the people who live there.
Getting rid of banks
The banking system as it exists today extracts wealth from working families and concentrates it in institutions that answer to no one. Overdraft fees on the poorest accounts. Interest rates that keep families in debt for decades. Lending practices that favor corporations over small businesses and families. The alternative is not chaos; it is credit unions, community lending, honest money, and financial systems that serve the people who use them instead of the shareholders who own them. Banks are not inevitable. They are a choice, and we can make a different one.
Getting rid of human traffickers
Human trafficking is not something that happens somewhere else. It happens in American cities, American suburbs, and American supply chains. It happens because systems designed to catch it are underfunded, undertrained, and sometimes complicit. Eric will push for aggressive enforcement, better training for law enforcement and social services, support for survivors, and zero tolerance for the institutional failures that allow trafficking to continue. This is not a partisan issue. It is a basic test of whether a society protects its most vulnerable people.
Enforcing the rules and stopping liars
Rules exist for a reason. When public officials lie, when institutions cover up failures, when people in positions of trust abuse that trust, the entire system breaks down. Accountability is not vindictive; it is the minimum standard for a functioning society. Eric has spent his career finding what is off, documenting it rigorously, and holding systems accountable before the failure becomes catastrophic. That is what he intends to do in public life. If you are doing your job honestly, you have nothing to worry about. If you are not, there will be a conversation.