Candidate Details
Party Affiliation: Democrat
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Biography
Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, political activist, and spiritual thought leader.
For over three decades, she has been a leader in spiritual and religiously progressive circles. She is the author of 15 books, four of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers.
Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit organization that has delivered more than 16 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients since 1989. The group was created to help people suffering from the ravages of HIV/AIDS.
She has also worked throughout her career on poverty, anti-hunger and racial reconciliation issues. In 2004, she co-founded The Peace Alliance and supports the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace. Williamson ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.
Policies:
- Economic Bill of Rights- realign public policy with the most basic elements of our humanity. The purpose of data and statistics, especially economic ones, should be placed in service to the human condition.
- Health- The WHOLE HEALTH PLAN expands the healthcare debate, tackling not only how to pay for healthcare but also how to provide greater opportunities for health.
- Children- The way to take care of our economy tomorrow is by taking care of our children today.
- When it comes to health, hunger, addiction, education, and safety – we are shirking our responsibilities as a nation of parents.
- Economy At this time in our history, our economic system doesn’t serve our democratic values. Instead, the government founded to protect those values now serves an economic system that often thwarts them.
- Climate Action Our biggest crisis regarding the climate emergency is humanity’s massive state of denial that it exists on the scale it does. Yet willingness to recognize the depth of the problem is prerequisite to our solving it.
- Reproductive Justice I believe the decision of whether or not to have an abortion lies solely with a pregnant woman, according to the dictates of her conscience and in communion with the God of her understanding. I trust the moral decision-making of the American woman, and I do not feel the government has a right to deny or restrict her decisions.