Economy / Jobs - Make Connecticut a better place to run a business by lowering corporate and personal income tax rates - Provide tax incentives to businesses that create new jobs - Cut the high number of burdensome state regulations - Require a cost-benefit analysis on all health-care mandates that increase the cost of health insurance Public Safety - Enact a tougher "3 Stikes and You're Out" law to put the worst of the worst offenders in jail for life - Reform the parole system, including requiring GPS monitoring for violent offenders who are paroled back into the community - Prevent serial rapists from moving back into residential neighborhoods Education - Ensure that new accountability measures are used, so that taxpayers' money is not spent on school programs that are underperforming - Allow Regional Vocational Education centers to charge a higher tuition to those outside municipalities - Fight to further increase educational funding to small towns - Fully fund the Teachers' Retirement Fund every year, thereby addressing the large unfunded liability