Meet Shaun.
Shaun Navarro has been a leader in the community for nearly a decade. As co-chair of Las Vegas DSA, he helped create a monthly mutual aid event for the unhoused community, showing up every last Sunday for 6 years with supplies and volunteers. He helped craft the free brake light clinic, repairing brake lights for free for low income families. He led the charge on Palestine, arranging protests and education years before the horrific events of 2023.
Shaun is a staple in the community, working to organize people to take power back from establishment figures who have let us down time and time again. Shaun is running for Assembly District 34 to continue this work, not as a newcomer but as a seasoned organizer ready to fight for his community in a new forum – Nevada’s legislature.
Issues
Rent prices have risen by around 36% in the years since COVID. Nevadan’s are being priced out of the housing market, with nearly half of all southern Nevadans unable to afford a home in Las Vegas. Private corporations are buying up homes in Nevada, and greedy landlords were caught manipulating rent prices with software algorithms like RealPage.
Wages are rising slowly in Nevada, so slowly that they still have not caught up with inflation. The $12 an hour we won in 2019 was already a compromise, and now it’s worth even less. Shaun believes we should raise wages to $23 an hour, the minimum amount required to afford a two bedroom apartment. We should then tie wages to inflation, copying cities like Santa Fe on a state level.
Nevada’s political system has been corrupted by money. Corporate PACs and lobbyists call the shots in Carson City, not only dictating what legislation is passed but openly writing their own bills and presenting them to legislators.
Shaun believes that we should follow the 23 other US states who have banned all corporate spending in local races and forbid corporations from donating to candidates.
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