Dr. Luis Daniel Muñoz, who’s seeking the Democratic nomination for governor of Rhode Island, says he has three priorities if elected.

“I’m running with plans to create sustainable health care system, a more equitable education system, housing that’s low income and affordable ... so that people can have roofs over their heads,” Muñoz said in a “Beyond the Podium” segment.

Muñoz said growing up in Central Falls gave him an understanding of what he called urban core struggles. He said he took that struggle and translated it into a career path by becoming a medical doctor and learning how the health care industry impacts the economy.

“Bringing that into the office of governor at a time when we’re still confronting this endemic is very important given that we have to build out infrastructure with community health, which I believe should be free,” Muñoz said.

“People should walk to free clinics like the ‘90s, but we dismantled that since,” Muñoz said. “I also think that when we focus on businesses -- not the big corporations -- we need to focus on the microbusinesses, right, what our local economies are built for, and ultimately, we can do that by putting ARPA dollars for these businesses.”

Muñoz said the political figures he admires -- Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy among them -- all share a common trait.

“People that were willing to sacrifice their lives for what they believed,” Muñoz said. “Those are the heroes that I always look up to.”

Muñoz said the best advice he ever received was “be still.”

“Sometimes we are so reactive to the issues that are happening around us that we fail to think carefully on how to create sustainable systems,” Muñoz said.

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