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Terry Hurst

Policy Positions

Terry's campaign website highlights the following issues:

Personal Freedom

  • Abolish the Death Penalty - The tragedy of wrongful conviction (4%) coupled with extremely low return on investment (added expense from guaranteed extra representation and lengthy appeals) warrants life in prison instead.
  • Ending the Drug War - I believe Virginia is ready to join the ranks of 26 other states that have legalized cannabis in some way. Legalize, free the convicted with restored rights, and create a successful economy sector.
  • Return to Community Policing - We need to stop the militarization of police and return to a community policing system focusing on working with the community.
  • Stopping abusive toll collection practices - Private companies like Elizabeth River Crossings should not be allowed to use the DMV to violate a citizen's due process during toll collection.
  • Rights Restoration - Automatic restoration of civil rights for all non-violent felons.
  • Fighting for Food Freedom - Improving Virginia's cottage food laws to expand the number of items allowed to be produced and sold in unregulated kitchens.

Economic Opportunity

  • Creating a Better Business Climate - I will seek out unduly regulated industries and state sponsored monopolies like Dominion Power to bring about common sense changes that will stimulate new businesses and create more jobs. I support simplifying and standardizing the permitting process for solar farms, easing the permitting regulations on Virginia's growing craft beer and spirits industry, and ending Virginia's prohibition on casino gambling.
  • Reforming Virginia's Professional Licensure System - I will bring together business owners and stakeholders to review Virginia's antiquated professional licensing system.
  • Training Our Future Workforce - I will fight to stop and restore the cuts to Virginia's Public Universities by cutting elsewhere in the budget while working to update our primary and secondary educational systems to provide more pathways for vocational training and more pipelines for students to transition into skilled trade jobs if they don't attend college.

Quality of Life

  • Adapting to Flooding and Sea Level Rise - I will ensure government is not an obstacle to free market solutions and academic research to address sea level rise and recurring flooding. We need to maximize our waters so they are an asset to our citizens and not a burden.
  • Building a Transportation System for the Future - Uber and Lyft have done more to increase transit options in Norfolk than light rail ever has. We need to reorient our transportation priorities to free market solutions appropriate to the 21st Century.
  • Protecting and Healing Our Waterways - We need to repair the damage done to our waterways from decades of industrial abuse so that our children can once again safely swim and fish in the Lafayette and Elizabeth Rivers.