Policy Agenda
This campaign is focused on putting politics back in the hands of the people of District 3. Please expand each topic below to learn about my policy positions. This page will continue to be updated, so please check back in the future! For any comments or concerns, please email michael@mcvickerforky.com
Where I Stand
As a Father of a four-year-old, I understand how important Pre-K is for making sure ALL kids are prepared for kindergarten. This would provide voluntary preschool to every four-year-old in the Commonwealth. By investing in our youngest learners today, we are ensuring Kentucky’s kids are ready for kindergarten, helping 40,000+ parents return to the workforce, and saving families an average of $7,000 a year in childcare costs. It’s an investment in our families, our economy, and our future.
Schools are pushing too many kids to college while leaving many young people out in the wind. We must create a pipeline to push more kids into certified trade apprenticeship programs. With Boomers retiring more every year, we need to build the workforce to build our future. These jobs aren’t easily replaced by robots and provide an honest retirement path. With McCracken County being home to many trade union halls, there is a perfect opportunity to support the surrounding counties.
When a factory, AI Data Center, bitcoin mining warehouse, or Nuclear facility moves into your area, there needs to be transparency on environmental/utility impact. If we ban NDAs being passed out to surrounding homeowners from a project we can provide a layer of transparency to the public while protecting homeowners from future abuse. Republicans in Frankfort have cheered on companies passing out NDAs to homeowners during interm committee sessions.
For years, the Kentucky GOP has passed economic policy without public fiscal notes. Sometimes purposely withdrawing a bill’s fiscal notes. This is hiding the true impact of their policies. We must mandate fiscal notes on every major economic bill in the name of transparency. The public deserves to know the impact of laws we are passing.
For decades, Republicans have cried “states’ rights” while being the soldiers for A.L.E.C.’s corporate policy machine. This has turned GOP State Legislators into representatives for the most powerful corporations in the US instead of representatives for their constituents. This blatant corruption must end
In a lot of Kentucky elections your elected officials are chosen by a small pool of voters in a partisian primary.
Ranked choice voting is a nonpartisan electoral reform that gives voters the freedom to rank candidates in order of choice. This can provide voters an incentive to research who is on the ballot and provides a larger voice to the voters in every election.
A detailed breakdown can be reviewed here. https://www.rankthevoteky.org/what_is_rcv
States like Alaska take a chunk of the profits from their oil industry, then use those funds to give direct checks to the citizens. I believe if we are going to have data centers, bitcoin mining facilities, and nuclear enrichment or reactors we need to take some of those profits to distribute to the citizens who take the majority of the risks. These specific facilities have small workforces, tax handouts from the county state and federal government making their “vaccuum” even worse. This fund would also allow more money to circulate through McCracken County instead of being sucked into the pockets of people like Peter Thiel or Riot Platforms.
For far too Long Republicans have cried about fiscal responsibility while never addressing the backwards priorities they focus on. It is time to stop the crony spending in Frankfort, the corporate handouts, and the backward priorties. If we can cut the waste, abuse, and fraud in Frankfort we can start investing in infrastructure that will truely move our district forward.