LaKesha's priorities start with the cost of living, the everyday concerns almost everyone in the 14th District shares, built from listening to families, workers, and small-business owners across the district.
This is the whole reason LaKesha is running. Groceries, rent, health care, and gas cost too much, and paychecks aren't keeping up. She'll focus relentlessly on the everyday costs squeezing working families.
The mills that built these towns are gone and wages still lag the rest of the state. LaKesha's career is getting capital and loans into Main Street businesses so they can grow and hire here at home.
Families should be able to afford a home in every part of the district, and build wealth instead of being trapped by rising costs.
The Medicaid cuts coming out of Washington put more than 600,000 North Carolinians and the rural hospitals our communities depend on at risk, even North Carolina's own Republican senator broke with his party to vote no.
Two years after the storm, Chimney Rock and Lake Lure are still rebuilding and hundreds of Foothills jobs were lost. The people of Rutherford and Burke deserve a representative who shows up and gets recovery done.
No member of Congress should get rich off the office. LaKesha takes no corporate PAC money and will fight to make government work for people, not insiders.
Every child deserves a great public school regardless of zip code, and every worker deserves a path to a good-paying career.