Joyce Griggs
Bio | Joyce Griggs is an Army veteran and during her service she earned the Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Medal and the Parachutist badge. She has since worked as an attorney. |
Status and Position | Former Candidate of N/A |
Political Party and Jurisdiction | Democrat, N/A |
Elections | Election Jurisdiction | Started Campaign | Campaign Status | Poll Rankings (of the vote) |
| 2020 House of Representatives Election GA-01 | GA-01 | Yes | Running | N/A |
Campaign Financing | Griggs’ campaign is mostly self-financed, but has also been funded by individual contributions. Source: https://www.opensecrets.org/races/candidates?cycle=2020&id=GA01&spec=N |
Voting Rights | Griggs is concerned about voter suppression and advocates for the monitoring of poll workers to ensure fair voting. Source: https://thecurrentga.org/2020/10/11/u-s-house-candidates-agree-your-vote-matters-disagree-on-whether-system-will-be-fair/ |
Opinions on Issues
Issues | Stance | Summary |
| Universal Healthcare | Nuance | Griggs advocates for the expansion of affordable and accessible healthcare for all rather than a complete overhaul of the current system. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/ Griggs wants to improve the accessibility and quality of healthcare by strengthening healthcare coverage programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, lowering the cost of prescription drugs, and ensuring care for those with pre-existing conditions. She believes healthcare reform and expansion to be a more effective solution than a complete shift of the nation's healthcare system to universal healthcare. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/, https://www.wsav.com/news/your-local-election-hq/meet-the-candidates-rep-carter-and-griggs-discuss-health-care-covid-19-and-more/ |
| Socialized Healthcare | For | Griggs wants to enact policies and protections that ensure access to affordable, quality healthcare regardless of socioeconomic status, including an expansion of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Medicaid. Source: https://www.wsav.com/news/your-local-election-hq/meet-the-candidates-rep-carter-and-griggs-discuss-health-care-covid-19-and-more/ |
| Private Healthcare | Nuance | Although Griggs has not explicitly expressed a stance against private healthcare, she believes it is not accessible enough, especially for those in rural communities and communities of color, thus access to healthcare needs to improve under the current system. Source: https://www.wsav.com/news/your-local-election-hq/mecare-covid-19-and-more/, https://www.wsav.com/news/your-local-election-hq/meet-the-candidates-rep-carter-and-griggs-discuss-health-care-covid-19-and-more/ |
| LGBT Rights | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Taxes | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Flat Tax Rate | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Abortion | Nuance | Griggs has remained largely silent on the issue of abortion, however her endorsement by the NWPC suggests some support. Source: https://www.nwpc.org/politicalaction/ Griggs has not publicly expressed much on her stance on abortion, however, she is endorsed by the National Women's Political Caucus, whose criteria for endorsements include support for pro-choice legislation and abortion access. Source: https://www.nwpc.org/politicalaction/ |
| Gun Control | Nuance | Griggs advocates the right to bear arms while also calling for an end to unnecessary police brutality. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/ Griggs supports the right of private citizens to own guns as means of protection, but also expresses concern over the issue of police brutality, racial profiling, and unnecessary searches and seizures. Thus, she supports the ownership of guns by individuals but seeks to limit its irresponsible use by law enforcement. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/ |
| Assisted Suicide | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. Griggs supports the right of private citizens to own guns as means of protection, but also expresses concern over the issue of police brutality, racial profiling, and unnecessary searches and seizures. Thus, she supports the ownership of guns by individuals but seeks to limit its irresponsible use by law enforcement. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/ |
| Government Interference | Nuance | Griggs supports government interference on issues such as healthcare coverage, environmental protections, labor unions, criminal justice reform, and racial justice, but opposes government interference in the right of private citizens to own and bear arms. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/ |
| Planned Parenthood | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Welfare | For | Griggs supports welfare programs involving healthcare, environmental justice, restorative justice, labor unions, and working-class families. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/ Griggs advocates for affordable and accessible healthcare or all, the strengthening of restorative justice programs and rehabilitation programs for public offenders, the increased flow of resources to marginalized communities and the protection of these communities’ land and water, and the strengthening of labor unions and protections for working-class families. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/ |
| Welfare | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Death Penalty | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Mandatory Prison Sentence | Nuanced | Griggs supports sentencing reforms that rehabilitate rather than incarcerate offenders and fair sentencing based on offense, opposes racial profiling, supports the First Step Act, and seeks to abolish private prisons. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/ |
| Military Spending | Nuance | As a military veteran, Griggs has voices support for a reformation of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, although she has not disclosed exactly what this reformation would entail. She has not disclosed views on other aspects of military spending and reform. Source: https://www.savannahnow.com/news/20200605/joyce-marie-griggs-running-for-1st-congressional-district-democratic-nomination |
| War on Terrorism | Nuanced | Griggs has not explicitly expressed her views on the War on Terrorism, however she was a recipient of the Global War on Terrorism Service medal, indicating some support for the initiative. Source: https://www.cbs46.com/joyce-marie-griggs-d/article_18785300-041c-11eb-8831-7b53f020a8ca.html |
| Foreign Policy International Interaction | For | Griggs supports international collaboration regarding issues such as climate change and the COVID-19 crisis. Source: https://www.wsav.com/news/your-local-election-hq/meet-the-candidates-rep-carter-and-griggs-discuss-health-care-covid-19-and-more/ Griggs sees international crises such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic as warranting interactions between policymakers internationally and not just nationally or regionally, seeing as they affect every human being regardless of country of origin. Source: https://www.wsav.com/news/your-local-election-hq/meet-the-candidates-rep-carter-and-griggs-discuss-health-care-covid-19-and-more/ |
| United Nations power | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Nationalism | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Free Markets | Nuance | Griggs supports some government interference in the economy, especially when it comes to environmental protections and health regulations related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Source: https://www.wsav.com/news/your-local-election-hq/meet-the-candidates-rep-carter-and-griggs-discuss-health-care-covid-19-and-more/ While Griggs is not opposed to the economic system of capitalism as a whole, she does favor some regulations of industries which have adverse environmental impacts as well as closures and regulations of certain businesses in order to protect the health and safety of the public during the pandemic. Source: https://www.wsav.com/news/your-local-election-hq/meet-the-candidates-rep-carter-and-griggs-discuss-health-care-covid-19-and-more/ |
| Brexit | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Affirmative Action | For | Griggs has been very vocal about expanding opportunities to those in marginalized communities and communities of color, however as to the specifics of how Affirmative Action would play a role in her economic strategy, she has not explicitly discussed. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/ |
| Government Spending | For | Griggs supports the allocation of government funds to environmental agencies and services, marginalized communities, rehabilitation programs for offenders, the expansion and improvements in infrastructure of Savannah Ports, small business loans and grants, and job training programs. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/, https://www.wsav.com/news/your-local-election-hq/meet-the-candidates-rep-carter-and-griggs-discuss-health-care-covid-19-and-more/ |
| Charter Schools | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Common Core | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Clean Energy | Nuance | Griggs is supportive of the expansion of clean energy, “green jobs”, and environmental protections, however is opposed to a complete elimination of fossil fuels. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/ Griggs seeks to reduce carbon emissions, strengthen the Clean Water Act, allocate funds to the EPA and Forest Services, and instate drilling and fracking protections. She also supports the expansion of “green jobs” that further enhance the well-being of the environment and community. Griggs sees more funding and regulations as more effective than a complete ban/elimination of all fossil fuels. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/, https://www.effinghamherald.net/local/griggs-doesnt-always-follow-party-line/ |
| Religious Freedom | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Separation of Church and State | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Slavery Reparations | For | Griggs supports the abolition of private prisons and police brutality disproportionately targeting communities of color, an end to racial profiling by law enforcement, and favors the implementation of restorative justice programs for offenders rather than lengthy prison sentences. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/ |
| Border Control | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Passenger Profiling | Against | Griggs is opposed to any form of racial profiling and unjustified searches and seizures. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/ |
| DACA | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Sanctuary Cities | Unknown | No clear stance on issue. |
| Legalizing Marijuana | Nuance | Although Griggs has not explicitly voiced her opinion on the legalization of marijuana, she supports changing the severity of sentencing for drug violations and focusing on rehabilitation of offenders rather than imprisonment and mass incarceration. Source: https://griggsforcongress.com/griggs-for-the-people/ |