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About Betsy Carr
Betsy has dedicated her career to serving our community. In addition to serving as a delegate, Betsy served for 16 years as outreach director at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in downtown Richmond. She is a founder and past director of the Micah Initiative, which involves over 120 faith communities in partnerships with twenty-five city elementary schools, providing 1,700 mentors, tutors, and volunteers.
Betsy ran for the Richmond School Board because she knows that a strong public education is the road to success. After serving on the School Board, she realized she could have a greater impact and make a bigger difference to improve lives by serving in the General Assembly. She then ran for the House of Delegates so she could make a difference in schools, in health care, in criminal justice reform, in combating climate change, and creating fairness and justice for all.
Delegate Betsy B. Carr, a proud Democrat, represents the 69th House of Delegates district, serving portions of the City of Richmond in the Virginia House of Delegates.
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Want to know what goes on at the General Assembly? Volunteer during the legislative session January through February to get a firsthand experience and to help Betsy. In addition, Betsy is always walking and meeting folks in her district, not just during campaign time, but because she believes it is important to hear first-hand from her constituents about their concerns. Please, come walk with Betsy – it’s a fun and enlightening experience.
She and her staff would also love help with all the mailings and communicating Betsy does with folks.
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Healthcare
Betsy knows that every Virginian must have access to affordable quality health care and to reproductive health care. She is proud to have a 100% pro-choice track record in the legislature. She was a strong supporter and advocate for expanding Medicaid and she continues to work to ensure every Virginian can see a doctor for sickness and preventive care. No one should ever have to choose between filling a prescription and food on the table. Medications simply must be affordable for all.
Public Education
All children, no matter their zip code, should have a quality public school education, preparing them for a good-paying job or for higher education. They must have access to modern technology, so they can thrive in our 21st century global world. We need to have the best and brightest teachers and we need to pay them and respect them like the professionals they are.
Environment
Climate change is the crisis of our time and time is running out to make the very essential changes to leave a healthy earth for our children and grandchildren. Moreover, we need to ensure everyone has access to potable water, unspoiled land, and clean air. We need to remedy the environmental problems that have disproportionately impacted minority and rural communities, leaving them with too many respiratory ailments and other diseases. Environmental justice must be a priority.
Criminal Justice Reform
Criminal justice should be about helping folks become constructive, productive residents of their communities and keeping our neighborhoods safe. Betsy has worked hard to get illegal guns off the street and protect Virginians from gun violence. She supports legalizing marijuana so that young people, especially minority young people, are not singled out and lives ruined. She believes we need fair and equitable justice and that we don’t just lock people up. She supports automatic restoration of rights after a person has finished his or her sentence. She supports body-worn cameras and making sure we create a system where Black and Brown Virginians don’t have to worry about a police encounter. The goal of the criminal justice system must be to keep people safe in a compassionate, fair, and just way for all.
Equity, Opportunity, Justice and Fairness
ALL Virginians deserve equal opportunity, fairness and justice and the law must uphold those ideas. A person’s skin color, gender identity, sexual orientation, country of origin, disability or age should not be used to discriminate. Betsy knows we have a responsibility to remove discriminatory laws and to legislate to make a fairer, more just Commonwealth for all.
Voting Rights
All eligible Americans should have the right to vote, and it is our responsibility to make it easier and to increase access. Recently, we are seeing attempts all around the country to suppress voting and to make it more difficult, especially for minority communities. This is unacceptable. Betsy supports expansion of early voting, including Sunday voting, use of secure drop boxes and for any voting list purges to be limited, not to be used to simply strike people from the voting roles.
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Betsy B. Carr column: Virginia needs Biden’s care plan
July 25, 2021
Home care is the foundation of this country; it is work that makes all other work possible. As a delegate, I know firsthand how critical this workforce is to keeping Virginia healthy and our economy running. While we will continue to work on needed change in the General Assembly, I am calling on Congress to back Biden’s plan to invest in our home care workforce. Investing in care now is an investment in our commonwealth’s future. Learn more ➝
Lowering the limit: How allowing 15 mph zones could save lives in Virginia
March 11, 2021
In 2019, we hit a new record number of pedestrian deaths and, despite the reduction in driving during the pandemic, speeding fatalities increased. We had 123 pedestrian fatalities in 2020. One in six people killed on Virginia’s roads is on foot now. HB1903 authorizes local governing bodies to reduce the speed limit to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, in a business district or residential district. Ten miles per hour difference may not seem huge, but for pedestrian safety advocates and the families of victims of traffic collisions, the change could mean the difference between life and death. Learn more ➝