Eugene F. Douglass

Ross will say she supports nuclear. Fusion power plants do not exist. Fission plants do, and they are being updated. Commercial fusion, if the optimistic shops are right, is still a decade-plus away. She has spent her career blocking the fission, the natural gas, the pipeline to get it here, and the leases that make electrical power now. Ranking member of the Energy Subcommittee can hold a fusion hearing and still leave the household on 25-cent per kWh power. I will vote to license the reactors we already know how to build. She can keep the press conference about the reactors that do not exist.

I want the other column: firm power, including nuclear that large loads pay for themselves; lower taxes; more houses; a federal government that stops duplicating Raleigh. We have a forty-trillion-dollar national debt. We do not have a spare California to import.

Deborah Ross and the national Democratic stack keep selling the blue-state model. On energy she supports only “green” sources. She has opposed nuclear as a working power source, natural gas, clean fossil fuels, clean coal, fracking, and new oil and coal leases. Massachusetts already ran a version of that experiment — high rates, tight gas, shuttered nuclear. The charts are what families pay when that model wins.

Amend the U.S. Constitution to protect unborn life.

• Establish constitutional protection for unborn children.

Support laws prohibiting elective abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, with limited exceptions for rape or incest.

• Permit rare rape or incest exceptions.
• Reduce elective abortions after heartbeat detection.

Oppose illegal immigration because the candidate believes it facilitates trafficking and undercuts wages and entry-level jobs.

• Distinguish lawful immigration and seasonal work from unlawful entry.
• Focus on labor-market and trafficking effects.

Prohibit gender-transition drugs and surgical procedures for minors.

• Apply the prohibition to medical interventions for minors.

Apply Title IX protections so women's scholastic sports and intimate facilities remain separated on the basis of sex.

• Preserve female athletic categories.
• Maintain sex-separated locker-room protections.

Keep the federal government smaller and focused on its constitutional responsibilities.

• Emphasize interstate commerce, national defense, and protection against foreign and domestic enemies.
• Avoid federal micromanagement of local issues.

Reduce federal debt by ending duplicated federal functions and returning those responsibilities to state and local governments.

• Reduce overlapping administration.
• Move responsibility closer to residents.

Represent Republicans, Democrats, and unaffiliated voters rather than only special interests or partisan activists.

• Treat district-wide representation as a congressional duty.

Support Israel as a U.S. ally and prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

• Treat Israeli security and Iranian nuclear capability as connected concerns.

License nuclear-fission reactor designs that are already proven and can provide firm power.

• Expand reliable nuclear generation.
• Prefer deployable fission technology to speculative capacity.

Pursue lower taxes as part of a lower-cost economic model.

• Reduce the tax burden on households and the economy.

Expand the supply of housing to improve affordability.

• Address housing costs through additional supply.