Issue Positions
Rural Agenda
Ashley supports…
Local Control
Rural Business Revival
Rural Entrepreneur Mentorship Program
Public Safety and Social Services Integration
Education Investments in Skilled Trades
Building Out Tourism Infrastructure
Affordable Housing
Amplifying rural voices in Salem!
Political Climate
Ashley supports…
De-escalating political tension by:
Implementing non-partisan ballots
Opening the primaries to all registered voters
Rank Choice Voting
Campaign Finance Reform
Small donor public financing of campaigns with matching
Campaign contribution caps and more transparency
Affordable Housing
Ashley supports…
Expanding access to Limited Equity Cooperatives
Cooperative housing provides an alternative to the traditional methods of acquiring a primary residence and maintains affordability for future generations.
In addition to helping small towns grow their working class population, Cooperative housing will also help address homelessness in the long-term, the housing shortage crisis, create and maintain affordable housing, increase home ownership and help people start to build equity.
Mental Health and Homelessness
Ashley supports…
Funding mobile outreach, peer mentoring, inpatient and outpatient services
Increasing capacity at the Oregon State Hospital
Creating a multi-disciplinary approach to deliver comprehensive mental/social services
Providing access to more resources for families to help their loved ones
Climate Change and Wildfires
Ashley supports…
Improving the County’s electronic alert systems and adding additional fire alert cameras in our forests.
Restoring native flora to burnt areas and rebuilding communities lost to wildfires.
Streamlining the town restoration process for areas impacted by natural disaster.
Working with McKenzie River area community leaders devastated by wildfire to figure out the best way to support them and figure out what the State can improve on.
Addressing inadequate evacuation routes in rural communities
Local Farms and Agriculture
Ashley supports…
Helping farms increase direct sales, reduce production costs, increase worker efficiency and retention rates and diversifying crops and value-added enterprises to provide year-round work for employees.
Using the cost savings to pay for overtime hours for farmworkers.
Criminal Justice
Ashley Supports…
Diverting people who have behaviors stemming from mental health, addiction and survival into intensive case management services in lieu of incarceration- LEAD Program
Better preparing individuals for reintegration into the community post-incarceration
Eliminating barriers for people, who have served their sentence, to rejoin the workforce, education sector and housing market
Integrating public safety and social services
Immigration
Ashley supports…
Providing culturally competent services, supports, and protection for immigrants and their families.
Alleviating language barriers that prevent this population from integrating into the community.
De-stigmatizing and encouraging mental health services to address the trauma of the immigration process and culture shock.