What Carlos Believes...

Our City and Our Communities are stronger when we have a more equitable, more just, and more progressive society. That starts with bringing a proven record of progressive change to Baton Rouge, standing up for our values no matter the opposition, and working with others to make progress for New Orleans.

Prioritize Education Funding

Raise Teacher Pay, Expand Access to Universal Pre-K & Early Childhood Ed, and Prioritize Increases to K-12 and Higher Education​ funding formulas

Focus State Infrastructure Investments

Substantially Increase State Infrastructure Investments In NOLA Water Resiliency and
Smarter Drainage Solutions

Enhance Public Safety Through Reform

Build On The Governor's Criminal Justice Reform Successes that Continue to Enhance Public Safety, End Injustice, & Cut Prison Costs

Issue Spotlight: Pro-Choice

Carlos on LGBTQ+ Equality

Carlos on Gun Violence

For the community there are no legal protections. You can be “married on Sunday and fired on Monday.”
This must change. I will fight for equal rights and protection that we all deserve. 

I will fight for universal background checks, to ban assault rifles and weapons of war, fight to limit clip size, institute more mandatory training for a gun licenses, and support "red-flag" legislation. We have a long way to go but these moves would be a good start.

Issue Spotlight: Economic Justice

To make equity real, we must advance economic justice for all.

• A Living Wage: Progress means fighting for a living wage, not just a higher minimum wage.
• Equal Pay: It means championing a guarantee of Equal Pay for Equal Work for women.
• Medicaid Expansion: Economic justice means preserving and enhancing the Medicaid Expansion because health care is a right. Expansion ends heath care cost-related bankruptcies and ensures we have a healthier people ready to work.
• Tax Justice: We must focus on a return to the "Stelly Plan," to reduce regressive sales taxes on working people and to make sure big corporations and the very wealthy pay their fair share. 

Issue Spotlight: Fighting the "Right" War On Drugs

The burgeoning Opioid Epidemic threatens our entire state's future. LDH reports "Between 2013 and 2017, Louisiana experienced a 36% increase in drug-related deaths, more than twice the national increase." We must refocus our state drug policy by radically increasing our state Opioid epidemic response through treatment access, alternative pain management, and cutting unnecessary opioid prescriptions while ending the war on the "wrong" drugs by decriminalizing Marijuana.

Our Climate. Our Coast.

Louisiana is on the front lines of climate change and we aren't doing nearly enough about it. From the land loss due to oil and gas activities to the rising sea levels due to carbon emissions, we stand to see more rain, more weather, and more water faster than anyone else in the Country. That means we need action. Strong action to decarbonize and reach net zero emissions before 2050. And it means ongoing reinvestment in stabilizing our coast - through the full-funding of our coastal master plan but also with work beyond: grappling with our energy future and committing to clean, carbon-free generation and broad electrification as fast as possible. Our state has one of the most difficult transitions away from fossil fuels toward green industry and opportunity - but we must start now. Our literal future is at stake.