My name is Maude Hills, most people are familiar with my name as Louise
Thundercloud, so Louise it is.
My platform will address the two serious ills in the District of Columbia,
each will only be addressed being granted unequivocal statehood.
One is the fact that for years the autistic population in DC has had
to put up with one size fits all services, no behavioral interventions,
no autism waiver (that would enable parents to access needed services
of the very expensive supports that autistic children & adults will
require for their entire lives.
This city has a bad record for squeezing the vulnerable autistic spectrum
clients into inappropriate services , Now we are being faced with returning
out of state placements to the district to save money when the clients
are retuning to the same non-existent services, this treadmill has to
stop.
As your DC Statehood Green Party Candidate for Delegate to the House
of Representatives, I will fight to remedy this sad situation that exists
in this city by forcing cross training with success proven agencies in
other states. 2) By fighting the practice of changing diagnosis to fit
the districts inability to create services for clients with accurate diagnosis.
3) By forcing an autism waver to be routinely offered by DC.
The second issue is truly affordable housing, not housing that targets
moderate to high income earners, but housing hat serves the very low income
and homeless.
I will do this by first working to limit the mayors ability to grant
contracts to developers who service only moderate to higher income populations.
I will fight to limit councils ability to make back door deals with developers
of condos, townhouses or any dwellings which do not serve very low income
or homeless people who need housing.
How will I work for this? By fighting for full statehood, by granting
DC statehood, the mayor and council will have to follow the law of the
land. I will work for legislation that will force the mayor and council
to have to meet in front of no less than 5 community town hall meetings.
To accurately address the concerns and desire of the entire community
when it comes to issues of disposing public property which could be used
for affordable housing.
In closing, I am willing to work with advocates for the autistic spectrum
community, as well as homeless and housing advocates to make sure these
needed changes happen.
And remember DC will be a much better place for all of us if we HAVE
STATEHOOD NOW!
Thank you,
~ Louise Thundercloud
