Politics is About People

Issues is another way of saying Things that Affect People’s Lives. In politics, we sometimes forget that. But that’s where I always try to start - how does this piece of legislation help regular folks?

Will Hurd is taking notes for his book

New Family Values

Family Values. Will Hurd with his supporters in red t-shirts

I don’t care who you are or where you live. You want to be able to put food on your table, a roof over your family and to ensure the people you love are healthy and happy. New Family values are about ensuring we increase access to health care while decreasing its cost, provide our seniors with quality care and compassion
and treat our kids like they are
our future.

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Technology

Why is tech important. Two people at the computer. Will Hurd's optinion on Technology

The technological change we are going to see in the next 30 years is going to make the change we saw in the last 30 years look insignificant. We must be prepared to take advantage of technology before it takes advantage of us.

With an increasingly interconnected world we need to treat cyber as a domain just like air, land, sea, and space. We need a national cyber strategy to defend our systems from state and non-state actors.

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Education

School classroom. Will Hurd about Education and Education Equity

We have income inequality because we have education inequality. We have to prepare our kids for jobs that don’t exist today.

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Jobs & The Economy

Will Hurd on domestic policy, jobs and the economy

American economic and military dominance is no longer guaranteed. Prosperity is a product of empowering people not the Government. To move people up the economic ladder we need free markets not democratic socialism.

We have benefitted from the brain drain from every other country in the world. We need to benefit from the hard working drain as well, and we need immigration policy in place that puts strong disincentives from coming here illegally so we have a much more manageable immigration system.

USA Foreign Policy

USA foreign policy. international flags. Will Hurd on National Security and the border.

America has become an exceptional nation not because of what we have taken but what we have given. We need a foreign policy that inspires fear in our enemies and causes our friends to love us.

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Leadership

Will Hurd standing portrait. Will Hurd on Leadership, Why leadership is important, transformative leadership

There has been and continues to be a lack of leadership in Washington, D.C. Leaders should inspire not fearmonger. It’s simple. Don’t be a jerk, racist, misogynist or homophobe and work together to accomplish big things.

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“We represent our constituents and by extension the American people. Everything we do must be with them in mind, and we must never forget that they are the ones who have given us the privilege of serving.” Will Hurd signature in white