Danielle Ford

Where Ford stands

Health & Care Systems

When health care, mental health, addiction, disability, and long-term care systems fail, families become case managers and hospitals, schools, police, and communities absorb the burden.

Safe Communities

Public safety requires accountability for serious harm. It also requires prevention, treatment, functioning mental-health systems, support for law enforcement, and fewer situations where police are expected to solve every failure after every other system has broken down.

Affordability

Housing, rent, utilities, insurance, transportation, wages, childcare, small business, adult education, and homeownership are connected. A serious affordability strategy has to look at the whole system instead of promising one quick fix.

Government Accountability

Decisions should be traceable. Contracts should withstand scrutiny. Competitive processes should not be weakened by loopholes. Appointed bodies should not become shields against accountability.