New York
nurse special edition | june 2019
the official publication of the new york state nurses association
With this issue we begin an examination of candidates in the race for U.S. president. This issue looks at the field of Democrats. Next month, New York Nurse will feature the Republican candidates, as well as presidential candidates of other parties.
Countdown to the Presidency
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Democratic candidates Former Vice President Joe Biden
Senator Bernie Sanders
Senator Elizabeth Warren
Medicare for All
Unions/ Janus
Minimum Wage
NYSNA’s Position
NYSNA supports the Medicare for All Act of 2019, introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders and 14 of his colleagues. In the U.S. House of Representatives, it is sponsored by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI).
NYSNA supports workers’ rights, strong wages, collective bargaining, the right to organize, and supports the elimination of laws banning union security. NYSNA is in favor of the Support the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (“PRO Act”) to strengthen protections for employees engaged in collective action, to facilitate collective bargaining, and to provide for stronger remedies for employees under the NLRA.
NYSNA supports the Raise the Wage Act, which would raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour by 2024.
Former VP Joe Biden
Does not support Medicare for All; would improve and build upon Obamacare.
Supported NAFTA and the TPP.
Endorsed a $15 an hour minimum wage, saying it’s “well past time.”
Along with 14 other Democrats, Sanders introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2019, which extends Medicare to every resident and largely eliminates private health insurance.
Pledged after Janus to double down on “efforts to make it easier, not harder, to join a union.” Along with Harris, Warren, Gillibrand, and Booker, Sanders is a Cosponsor of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would shore up workers’ rights to strike, organize, and litigate against their employers.
Cosponsor of Raise the Wage Act of 2019, which would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2024.
Cosponsor but has kept details broad. There are “different ways” to get to “affordable health care for every American.”
Called Janus a “huge victory” for a corporate-rigged system, saying “But I’ve got news for the billionaires behind this case: we’re not going anywhere. #Union” Cosponsor, PRO Act.
Supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2024.
Cosponsoring but believes private insurance should still have a role.
Cosponsor of PRO Act.
Called for a $15 an hour minimum wage and is among other candidates who have put their money where their mouth is by walking the picket line with striking McDonald’s workers.
Cosponsoring but would keep private health insurance.
Cosponsor of PRO Act and a vocal opponent of Janus saying it should be “easier not harder … to join unions.” He picketed with McDonald’s workers to show support for their right to organize.
Cosponsor of Raise the Wage Act.
(D-DE)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
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and issues Senator Kamala Harris
Climate/ Green New Deal
Senator Cory Booker
Trade
Immigration
Reproductive Rights
Guns
NYSNA supports the Green New Deal and combatting climate change to protect public health.
NYSNA supports trade policies that protect American workers and the economy and opposed NAFTA and TPP.
NYSNA supports immigration policies to protect people seeking U.S. asylum; provide DACA recipients a clear path to citizenship; and respect the dignity of every person (No kids in cages!).
NYSNA support the Women's Health Protection Act of 2019 which guarantees safe and affordable care.
NYSNA supports the public health position on gun control to establish policies that protect our patients and communities, including the Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act.
Believes it is a crucial framework for meeting climate challenges.
Backed NAFTA and TPP, but has promised to unveil a progressive trade policy and give unions and environmental advocates a seat at the table.
Maybe he would support a wall if border barriers added to national security and if a path to citizenship was carved out for those who arrived in this country as children.
“I can’t justify leaving millions of women without the healthcare they need… If I believe healthcare is a right, as I do, I can no longer support [the Hyde Amendment].”
Authored the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban legislation, and believes “Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines should be banned from civilian ownership.”
Cosponsor
Voted against NAFTA, opposed admitting China to the WTO without conditions and scorned trade policies made by, for and with global corporations and banks.
No to the border wall and to tax dollars that fund it.
His Medicare for All bill would cover the full range of reproductive right.
Supported the Assault Weapons Ban Bill, saying, “Assault weapons are designed and sold as tools of war.”
Original Cosponsor
Unveiled a plan for “economic patriotism,” which includes overhauling the government’s approach to international trade and prioritizing American workers.
No to the border wall. It’s “a monument of hate and division.”
Cosponsored legislation to Supports the Assault Weapons Ban, overturn the Hyde amendment. ending the gun show loophole, universal background checks, and other “sensible gun safety laws.”
Cosponsor
No wall under any Opposed the TPP as well as the circumstance. Yes to current administration’s tariffs and escalating trade dispute with border security. China.
Cosponsor
Opposed fast-tracking the TPP and is positioning himself as a “pro-fair trade Democrat” – trade that keeps American workers out of the “crosshairs.”
Does not believe building more physical security barriers is in our national best interest or makes us safer.
Called for a repeal of the Hyde amendment.
Supports near universal background checks and banning assault weapons.
Said the Hyde amendment is a threat to reproductive rights and punishes those who already struggle for access to adequate health care services.
Wants all gun owners to be licensed through the federal government and is building on past proposals for banning assault weapons, highcapacity magazines and bump stocks.
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Senator Amy Klobuchar
Governor Jay Inslee
Former Representative Beto O’Rourke
Medicare for All
Unions/ Janus
Cosponsor
A cosponsor of the PRO Act, Gillibrand has consistently supported “It’s time to raise the the right to collectively bargain. minimum wage [to $15 an hour] so that hardworking men and women can actually make a living.”
Prefers a Medicaid-type plan (under Obamacare would be a public option) and would not get rid of private insurance.
From a union family, Klobuchar believes “when unions are strong, our country is strong.” She supports “free and fair union elections, … collective bargaining rights, rolling back Right to Work laws,” and making it easier to join unions.
“There’s no doubt about it – the federal minimum wage must be increased to $15 an hour.”
Gov. Jay Inslee Introduced a public option bill in
“Strong unions – in both the public and private sectors – provide a strong public benefit. All of us benefit from the dramatic reforms to working conditions that unions fought for and won,” Inslee tweeted post-Janus.
Unclear – supported raising the minimum wage in Washington State in 2020 from $12 an hour to $13.50, and claims to have the highest minimum wage in the U.S.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Minimum Wage
(D-WA)
Washington State.
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke
Prefers extending Medicare without eliminating private insurance; his plan would include ”public option”; calls his plan Medicare for America.
“When we invest in the American worker, we’re investing in their families and this country,” O’Rourke says.
Supports a $15 an hour federal minimum wage.
Prefers something else.
If elected, he has said he will reverse the Janus decision.
Supports a federal minimum wage of $15 an hour that could be higher depending on the cost of living in local areas.
Prefers something else.
Unclear – “Make it easier for workers to bargain for better pay.”
Unclear – “We need to increase wages.”
(D-TX)
Former Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Former HUD Secretary Julian Castro (D-TX)
Says Medicare ”should be there for As an expression of solidarity with unions, Castro has made it everybody” but has not backed any clear to his campaign staff that he fully supports their right to unionize. Medicare for All proposal.
Has shown his commitment to raising the federal minimum wage by paying every person on his work force at least $15 an hour.
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Former Governor John Hickenlooper
Climate/ Green New Deal
Senator Michael Bennet
Former HUD Secretary Julian Castro
Trade
Immigration
Reproductive Rights
Guns
One of the first supporters and Cosponsor.
Introduced the Level the Playing Field in Global Trade Act of 2019, which vowes to protect “fair wages, safe working conditions, and the environment” at home and abroad.
Has yet to firmly declare a stance on this issue.
Called repeal of the Hyde amendment “critical,” especially for low-income women.
Gillibrand has changed her position on gun control and now supports legislation to stop gun trafficking, ban automatic assault weapons, and institute universal background checks.
Cosponsor
Although trade is not a signature issue for Klobuchar, she is generally anti-trade and voted against a fast-track for the TPP and against CAFTA.
Unclear – she is for “smart security” and against the wall, but has tried to negotiate with the president around funding for the wall.
Cosponsored legislation to Supports universal background overturn the Hyde amendment. checks and the Assault Weapons Ban Bill. Otherwise, she will evaluate gun laws against “what would ‘hurt [her] Uncle Dick in the deer stand.’”
Supports the Green New Deal and has rolled out his own Climate Mission for a clean energy economy.
Opposed to this administration’s trade policies, Inslee told PBS in March that he supports a positive working relationship with trade partners and open access to foreign trade markets.
“I support smart border security that restores efficiency to our ports of entry and immigration ports.”
Supports federal funding for abortions and says Hyde is “wrong.”
Supports the Green New Deal’s “ambition.”
Proposed implementing U.S. labor practices and the right to organize in trade agreements with countries around the world.
“Let’s ensure our security not through walls and militarization, but by investing in our ports of entry where the vast majority of everything and everyone that ever comes into this country first enters…”
Supported the Assault Weapons Ban Supports a budget that “includes no restrictions on the bill. use of federal healthcare funds for abortions.”
Prefers something else, saying,“The resolution sets unachievable goals.”
Relatively pro-free trade: “The U.S. should expand trade rather than adopt a protectionist crouch. One of the most reckless things President Trump did was walk away from potentially positive trade agreements and impose tariffs to force other countries to capitulate.”
Unclear – “We don’t want to waste more money building a wall that’s not really necessary. But putting a significant amount of money toward border security – I think most people agree with that.”
The Hyde Amendment “actively harms women by limiting access and choice.”
Has yet to firmly declare a stance on this issue.
Prefers something else.
Voted to give Obama a fast-track on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
Would support the wall if experts recommend it.
Has called for the Hyde Amendment to be overturned immediately.
Supported ban on high-capacity magazines while in the Senate.
Supports it.
A proponent of NAFTA as mayor of San Antonio, Castro says he would hope to renegotiate the trade agreement and offer better protections for workers and the environment.
Proposes assessing alternatives to a wall such as new technologies and practices.
“It’s long past time to repeal the Hyde Amendment and make abortion care available to all women – not just those who can afford it.”
Supports renewing the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, limiting high-capacity magazines, requiring background checks at gun shows and gun buybacks.
Supported 1994 ban on assault weapons, which has since lapsed.
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Representative Tulsi Gabbard
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
Representative John Delaney
Mayor Pete Buttigieg
Andrew Yang
Medicare for All
Unions/ Janus
Minimum Wage
Cosponsor in the House
Has said she supports workers’ demands for union rights.
Cosponsor of Raise the Wage Act (House).
(D-HI)
Rep. John Delaney (D-MD)
Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-South Bend, IN)
Andrew Yang (D-NY) Entrepreneur & Founder, Venture for America
Marianne Williamson
No to Medicare for All, and prefers “As the son of a union worker, I fully support the right of to keep private insurance. McDonald’s workers to organize. Unions create safe work environments and fight for the rights of all workers.”
Supports "public option" as “best way” to move towards Medicare for All system.
Supporter of labor and union groups; thinks Democrats must work harder for working people and help them achieve economic stability.
“It’s time to raise the minimum wage to $15.”
Supports some version of a singlepayer system.
Unclear
“Leave minimum wage to states but universal basic income” – a monthly stipend of $1,000 to help workers make ends meet – “makes it much less necessary.”
Supports high-quality universal coverage for every American.
A proponent of workers’ right to organize.
Supports an increased minimum wage that is based on geographical location. She also supports a universal basic income of $1,000 per month.
(D-CA) Author, Lecturer & Activist
Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NYC, NY)
Supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour over time.
Believes healthcare is a right not a “Unions and their members are the backbone of the middle class privilege. Supports Medicare for All and this attack [Janus v AFSCME] on the power and resources of the labor movement demands a response.” system.
Raised NYC’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, saying “There’s plenty of money to go around, it’s just in the wrong hands.”
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Marianne Williamson
Climate/ Green New Deal
Mayor Bill de Blasio
Trade
Immigration
Reproductive Rights
Guns
Supports it with the Opposed Trans-Pacific caveat that she does Partnership. not want to leave the door open to nuclear power.
Unclear
Believes abortion should remain legal and accessible.
Voted to ban assault weapons, Cosponsoring of the Assault Weapons Ban of 2018. She wants background checks, to close the gun-show loophole, and to ban highcapacity magazines.
Does not support it. Supported Trans-Pacific Partnership. He has introduced a climate plan centered on a carbon tax.
Supports smart border security and does not rule out physical barriers.
“Women should have access to legal abortion care, and the Hyde Amendment kind of gets in the way of that.”
Supports universal background checks legislation, banning assault weapons and passing a national extreme risk protection bill.
Supports
Supports repealing the Hyde “Secure borders and a Thinks NAFTA caused irreplaceable job losses across the well-managed immigration Amendment. system are critical to industrial Midwest. national security.”
Enthusiastic supporter
Unclear
“A Green New Deal Unclear would provide an overall strategy for how clean energy, sustainable infrastructure and transportation, and a national green jobs program can revitalize our economy and utilize our innovative and human capacity to benefit all our people.” Supporter – NYC has already begun implementing its own version of the Green New Deal.
Against NAFTA and criticized the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Supports increased funding Supports a repeal of the Hyde Amendment. to secure the border as well as supporting the use of modern technology to monitor the border courts. And supports more resources for border courts.
Supports universal background checks and banning assault weapons. Supports laws that would prevent “dangerous” individuals from owning guns and increased mental health resources for those who need it.
“The best way to provide security is not more or fewer walls, but efficient, effective border security driven by technology, particularly at points of entry.”
Supports using public funds to pay for abortions.
Pledged to eliminate the sale of assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons.
De Blasio has yet to firmly declare a stance on immigration. de Blasio’s NYC is a sanctuary city.
Called on cities‘ pension funds “If you don’t support repeal [of Hyde], you shouldn’t be the to divest from assault weapons manufacturers. Democratic nominee.”
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Governor Steve Bullock
Gov. Steve Bullock (D-MT)
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH)
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA)
Former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-AK)
Mayor Wayne Messam (D-Miramar, FL)
Representative Eric Swalwell
Representative Tim Ryan
Representative Seth Moulton
Medicare for All
Unions/ Janus
Minimum Wage
Has says there are any number of different paths toward affordable, quality healthcare.
“The U.S. Supreme Court just overturned 40 years of settled law [Janus] that workers, employers and unions rely on.”
Unclear – ushered in a minimum wage increase in Montana, bringing the state’s hourly minimum to $8.50.
“America‘s unions represent a worker‘s best chance for a Supports Medicare for All but operating alongside and competing paycheck that grows and the American promise of being free to dream.” with private insurance plans.
Original cosponsor of the Raise the Wage Act.
Supports it but without eliminating “Labor unions built this country. We have unions to thank for private insurance. safe, clean work environments, the 40-hour work week, and the strongest middle class the world has ever seen. We need to be supporting and growing unions to fight for a prosperous life for all…”
Supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Prefers updating Medicare through “Unions have been on the front lines fighting for American workers for decades, securing overtime, healthcare, paid leave a public option and competition and more. These rights will now [post-Janus] be under greater with private insurers. threat – for those in unions and the rest of us, as well.”
Cosponsor of Raise the Wage Act of 2019.
Supports abolishing private insurance companies and implementing a “fully socialized, National Health Service-style single-payer healthcare system” for all citizens and tax-paying permanent residents.
“McDonald’s workers, like workers all over the world, are tired of being paid less … and being harassed. I urge everyone to join them in their struggle and to never cross a picket line.”
“Establish a national $15 minimum wage and eliminate the tipped minimum wage. The minimum wage would be indexed to the consumer price index.”
Supports it but also supports a plan that maintains private insurance.
Unclear
Unclear – supports a “living wage.”
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Former Senator Mike Gravel
Climate/ Green New Deal
Mayor Wayne Messam
Trade
Immigration
Reproductive Rights
Strongly criticized the We can do better with a more focused administration’s trade war with China, saying the tariffs hurt plan. Montana farmers and are not really forward looking.
Has not firmly declared a stance on this issue.
The Hyde Amendment “should Supports banning assault weapons. be repealed.”
Cosponsor
“The trade war with China was not beneficial to the United States; this administration has alienated nations with longstanding relationships with the U.S.,” Swalwell told PBS in May.
Supports “more funding to train, hire and retain border personnel, deploy the best technology at ports of entry and provide additional immigration court resources.”
Has said he would lift the Hyde Called for a mandatory government Amendment. buyback of all assault weapons, which could cost as much as $15 billion, and prosecution of those who resist.
Does not support some aspects such as job guarantees and universal basic income.
Says NAFTA, CAFTA, and the U.S. Korea-Free Trade Agreement cost America jobs and he has denounced unfair trade practices by China.
Wants funding to better equip those at the border with the tools needed to prioritize national security and treat migrants and asylum seekers with the respect they deserve. Keeping families together is a priority.
Supported a bill that would have repealed the Hyde Amendment.
Has yet to firmly declare a stance on this issue.
One of the first to sign on, but takes exception to the jobs guarantee and forcing everyone onto Medicare for All.
Broadly agrees with levying certain tariffs, but characterizes the administrations’ approach as “short-sighted, irresponsible, and dangerous.”
“We need more judges to expedite the [asylum] process,” and to invest in ports of entry to keep drugs out of this country.
Supports the public funding of abortion care.
Authored bi-partisan legislation to ban bump stocks, and has said, “There’s simply no reason for a civilian to own a military-style assault weapon.”
“The Green New Deal is an ambitious and absolutely necessary plan.”
Identifies as “very much of a globalist,” who believes in open markets and open borders. Called NAFTA unfair and economically hurtful and the “root cause” of illegal migration to the U.S.
Supports open borders with “absolute freedom of movement.” (Excepting criminals). Would abolish U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
The rights of all citizens to basic bodily autonomy should be guaranteed by constitutional amendment, including the right to a safe and legal abortion among others.
“It is not a question of outlawing guns; it is a question of background checks, it is a question of limiting automatic weapons so it is not taking guns away from the people under their second amendment rights.”
Unclear – Use tariffs to crack Supports the urgency and the end down on certain countries. goal of the Green New Deal but would roll out his own policy and include renewable energy markers.
Guns
“I think it’s settled law in terms Has yet to firmly declare a stance on “Concurrent to passing this issue. comprehensive immigration of a woman’s right of choice and I respect that settled law.” reform, the legislation should also include the necessary funding to provide border security, including technology, CBP agents and facilities to humanely detain” migrants and asylum seekers.
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Republican and third party Below are Republican and third party candidates with their positions on issues, where available. President Donald Trump
Joe Walsh
Former Governor Bill Weld
Minimum Wage
Climate/ Green New Deal
NYSNA supports workers’ rights, strong wages, collective bargaining, the right to organize and supports the elimination of laws banning union security. NYSNA is in favor of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act) to strengthen protections for employees engaged in collective action, to facilitate collective bargaining and to provide for stronger remedies for employees under the NLRA.
NYSNA supports the Raise the Wage Act, which would raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour by 2024.
NYSNA supports the Green New Deal and combatting climate change to protect public health.
Against
Strongly supports Janus ruling.
According to Labor “A roadmap to destroy the Secretary Alexander American economy.” Acosta, Trump does not support an increase in the minimum wage.
Unclear where he stands now, but in Congress, Walsh ran hard against Obamacare and opted out of the generous congressional healthcare plan.
N/A
N/A
Unclear – Walsh recognizes that human activities impact climate change and says the Republicans should acknowledge it as a problem.
Against
N/A
Against. As governor, he vetoed minimum wage increases in his state.
Said the Green New Deal sounds expensive, but the U.S. should rejoin the Paris Agreement.
Max Abramson
Against
Strongly Right-to-Work
Voted against raising the minimum wage in New Hampshire to $12 an hour.
America should lead the world in developing alternative energies. “We can create more jobs and build more manufacturing” and bring energy costs down through free market competition.
Dan “Taxation is Theft” Behrman
Against
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unclear – wants people to be able to choose whatever healthcare that they want.
N/A
N/A
Unclear
Medicare for All
Unions/ Janus
NYSNA’s Position
NYSNA supports the Medicare for All Act of 2019, introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and 14 of his colleagues. In the U.S. House of Representatives, it is sponsored by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI).
Pres. Donald Trump (R-NY)
Joe Walsh (R-IL)
Former Gov. Bill Weld (R-MA)
(Libertarian-NH)
(Libertarian-TX)
Souraya Faas (Libertarian-FL)
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candidates and issues Max Abramson
Dan Behrman
Souraya Fass
Trade
Immigration
Reproductive Rights
Guns
NYSNA supports trade policies that protect American workers and the economy and opposed NAFTA and TPP.
NYSNA supports immigration policies to protect people seeking U.S. asylum; provide DACA recipients a clear path to citizenship; and respect the dignity of every person (No kids in cages!).
NYSNA support the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2019, which guarantees safe and affordable care.
NYSNA supports the public health position on gun control to establish policies that protect our patients and communities, including the Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act.
Working on revisions to NAFTA.
Wants a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and has insisted on it, causing the longest partial government shutdown in history.
The newest administration rules ban The Second Amendment “will never be taxpayer-funded clinics from making repealed.” abortion referrals and prohibit clinics that receive federal money from sharing office space with abortion providers.
Unclear
For a wall and border security.
Anti-abortion
Strongly supports free trade.
For more work visas, a guest worker “I’m a pro-choice Republican.” program, more agents and better technology. Against a border wall and citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Against giving guns to people with any history of mental illness. For “focusing on gun safety rather than gun ownership.”
N/A
Not clear – says he is proimmigration but supports secure borders.
Opposes taxpayer funding for abortion and Planned Parenthood and has consistently voted this position.
Strongly pro-second amendment; advocated to expand the New Hampshire Stand Your Ground bill to include the use of guns not just in self-defense but to defend others in response to non-deadly force.
Supports free markets.
Does not support the border wall.
Unclear – says this is about taxes and opposition of control; wants to change the conversation to why abortions are happening.
N/A
N/A
Unclear – has said, “… those who Pro-life but would not impose her belief Against gun control. arrive illegally seem to have more on others. Abortion should be decided rights and advantages than the on the state not the federal level. hardworking American citizens who were born here.”
After the August 2019 shootings in Texas and Ohio, Walsh said that an assault weapons ban would do nothing to prevent mass shootings.
Other
Walsh says that he is running to the right of President Trump.
For reducing the size and scope of government, rolling back all income tax, closing the Federal Reserve and IRS, ending daylight saving time and massively culling the criminal justice system.
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Adam Kokesh
John McAfee
Arvin Vohra
Kim Ruff
Medicare for All
Unions/ Janus
Minimum Wage
Climate/ Green New Deal
N/A
N/A
N/A
Against government regulation of the environment.
Against
N/A
Against raising the minimum wage.
N/A
Against
N/A
Against raising the minimum wage.
N/A
Against
N/A
For eliminating the minimum wage entirely.
For selling all government owned land and removing all laws limiting the liability of private property owners as a way to protect the environment.
N/A
N/A
N/A
Against
Retired Teamster
(Green Party-NY)
Favors a community-controlled national health service with publicly owned clinics and hospitals governed by a federation of locally elected boards.
Unclear – but pledges to guaranty an income above poverty.
Proposed a Global Green New Deal funded by money from military spending cuts reinvested in Green Energy, Regenerative Agriculture, and Basic Human Needs Around the World.
Dario Hunter
Supports
Pledged to protect workers’ rights and unions and to stop firings without just cause.
For a $15 an hour minimum wage.
“Under the REAL Green New Deal there will be full employment – with public works jobs and green jobs.”
Strongly supports
In the past he has spoken out for the rights of all workers to organize.
For a guaranteed universal basic income of $1,000 per month, which would increase with inflation.
Strongly supports the prioritization of Green Energy.
Adam Kokesh (Libertarian-AZ)
John McAfee (Libertarian-TN)
Kim Ruff (Libertarian-AZ)
Arvin Vohra (Libertarian-MD)
Sedinam Kinamo Christin MoyowasifzaCurry (Green Party-CA)
Howie Hawkins
(Green Party-OH)
Ian Schlakman (Green Party-MD)
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Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza-Curry
Howie Hawkins
Dario Hunter
Ian Schlakman
Trade
Immigration
Reproductive Rights
Guns
Other
Believes in voluntary trade based on ownership.
For securing our borders and ending the incentive structure that encourages illegal entry. Against amnesty for illegal aliens.
Against abortion, but opposes government standing in the way of choice.
Has wielded a gun in protest of Second Amendment restrictions in states where public use of firearms is illegal.
His platform is based on a plan to abolish all government in favor of the “localization” of government.
N/A
Against increasing restrictions on border security. For denying illegal immigrants access to subsidized healthcare.
Pro-choice, but believes it is not the government’s prerogative to ban abortion.
Against restrictions on current process for “Freedom for the people is my purchasing guns. only goal.”
For ending government restrictions on free trade.
For abolishing ICE and pardoning fully all otherwise innocent people who are in the U.S. without government permission; against border walls, as antithetical to freedom and liberty.
“There is no medical consensus on when life begins so we just relegate it to one of personal belief – is the fetus life or property? You own yourself. Government has no right to tell you what to do.”
Against all restrictions on the Second Amendment, excluding weapons of mass destruction. For disbanding the Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Unclear — “Make Trade Not War.”
For open borders and removing all restrictions on immigration.
Believes reproductive rights are outside the boundaries of state and federal government and are a matter of individual choice.
For eliminating all gun-free school zones and remove all restrictions on gun ownership as a way to promote school safety.
Vohra has been called an “anarcho capitalist;” he believes in ending the welfare state, abolishing public schools and ending the income tax.
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Curry is an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, who is seeking to break what she perceives as a color barrier within the Green Party.
For European-style “Open Borders – Fair Trade Zones with Free Travel for Work, Shopping and Recreation.”
For open borders, legalizing undocumented immigrants and replacing the customs and border patrol and ICE with an agency committed to the administration of open borders.
Supports “full and improved Medicare for All that covers all medically necessary services, including abortion and all reproductive health services.”
For nationalizing the gun industry, banning and buying back military assault weapons, universal background checks, a mandatory gun safety test for gun owners and a 28-day waiting period for gun purchases.
For trade laws that protect “the labor, human rights, economy, environment and domestic industry of partner and recipient nations,” giving local industry and agriculture an edge over foreign corporations.
Against “unwarranted deportations and detentions, night raids and separating undocumented immigrant families.” For creating an achievable path to citizenship for immigrants.
“Contraception and abortion must be included in all health insurance policies in the U.S., and any state government must be able to legally offer these services free of charge to women at the poverty level.”
For an assault weapons ban, Brady Bill background checks, background checks for private sales and sales at gun shows, no immunity from lawsuits for gun manufacturers, etc.
Strongly opposed to the expansion of free trade.
For open borders and abolishing ICE.
Strongly supports a woman’s right to an For gun control legislation, including unrestricted abortion. background checks for sales at gun shows and requiring a license for gun ownership.
For an Open Revolutionary Socialist Platform, ie “creating a true international human rights focused agenda that’s anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist.” Continued on page 16
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Brian T. Carroll
Joe Schriner
Joshua Perkins
C. L. "Connie" Gammon
Unions/ Janus
Minimum Wage
Climate/ Green New Deal
Strongly supports
N/A
Unclear – claims to support climate and environmental protections.
For dismantling Obamacare, Medicaid, N/A (American Solidarity & Medicare and moving to a Regional Health Care System, including a Party-OH) local tax to cover a local version of Medicare and Medicaid for poor, uninsured people. Emphasis on diet, exercise and the environment.
N/A
Proposed turning the White House into the Kyoto Protocol Home Zone and pushing for reforestation, adding teeth to the EPA, and shifting to a more “decentralized” society withs local production for local consumption.
Joshua Perkins
Medicare for All Brian T. Carroll
For expanding Medicare and making (American Solidarity it higher quality than for-profit systems. Party-CA)
Joe Schriner
Has not settled on a particular (American Solidarity plan, but believes we need more government intervention. Party-TX)
N/A
We should explore universal basic income to learn more about it. Supports the principal of an income for all.
Climate policy is a matter of pragmatism and political feasibility – how can we deny modern conveniences to those without in India and China? Strongly supports nuclear energy and other alt. energy sources, as well as the use of geoengineering to stop global warming.
C.L. “Connie” Gammon
N/A
Right-to-Work
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Supporters of the Green New Deal must accept that achieving environmental prosperity in the future may require economic sacrifice now.
Called on members to sign up as citizen cosponsors for Medicare for All.
WFP National Director Maurice Mitchell has stated that unions “built the American middle class. They brought us the [40]-hour work week and employer-based healthcare. They raised wage floors and ended child labor.”
Strongly supports a $15 an hour minimum wage on the state and federal levels.
Called on members to sign up as grassroots cosponsors of the Green New Deal.
(Prohibition Party Nominee-TN)
Mark Charles (Independent-NM)
Working Families Party (WFP)
NEW YORK NURSE
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Working Families Party
Mark Charles
Trade
Immigration
Reproductive Rights
Guns
Other
N/A
Unclear – “Families will not have to Pro-life hide or fear separations. It means that DACA kids will be fast-tracked for citizenship.”
For tightening interstate and mail-order sales and enforcing the laws that are already on the books.
N/A
For “Amnesty for all illegal “I am against abortion, period. Life immigrants and family reunification, begins at conception.” a living wage, benefits and optimal working conditions for all new arrivals to the country.”
For banning semi-automatic weapons, gun registration and a mandatory requirement for gun training and carry insurance, etc.
N/A
Unclear – for immigration reform but how it should be reformed has not been clarified.
Pro-life – would criminalize the abortion procedure but not women.
Focus should be shifted away from mass shootings to gun safety through targeted interventions in high-risk communities.
Strongly supports free For strong border security. trade on a reciprocal basis among equals.
Anti-abortion
Enthusiastic supporter of the Second Amendment.
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Calling for justice for Native Americans and an end to institutional racism.
Against the TPP and passing the reactivation of a Fast Track mechanism, which allowed the U.S.’s entry into NAFTA and the WTO.
Petitioning to abolish ICE.
Released a joint statement with other progressive groups calling for the withdrawal of support for any Democratic candidate who is not prochoice.
Has endorsed candidates who advocated for stricter gun laws.
In 2020, Working Families Party has said it will endorse one of the following six candidates for president of the U.S.: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Bill de Blasio or Kamala Harris.