2018 MA Governor's race: on Welfare & Poverty


Jay Gonzalez: Address the affordable housing crisis

we must address the affordable housing crisis we face in Massachusetts. Families are being squeezed from every direction and the dream of home ownership is out of reach for far too many. It is inexcusable that people working two and three jobs at a time are still struggling to pay the rent while others are one paycheck away from being homeless. As Governor, I will work to increase our affordable and public housing stock in cities and towns across Massachusetts.
Source: ORMA questionnaire on 2018 Massachusetts governor race Dec 20, 2017

Setti Warren: Economic inequality is the defining issue of our time

On the reason Warren decided to enter the race for Governor: "When I think about the defining issue of our time, I believe it's economic inequality. It's striking, in the Boston area, including in Newton. I was very lucky as a young kid that grew up in Newton. My parents grew up in two tough neighborhoods, Harlem and the Bronx. My dad used his military GI Bill benefits in Korea to purchase the home where I grew up with my two sisters and where I live today. This was a generational investment for people of modest means to make ends meet and ensure their kids can do better than they did. That is not happening in our Commonwealth today. The divide is growing. People in communities are falling behind. That's why I'm in this race."
Source: WBUR.org on 2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial race Jun 12, 2017

Jay Gonzalez: Back to FDR values: good home, school, doctor, & job

On the Democratic Party: "What everyone realizes is that the long-term Democratic Party politics and policies, which have supported families and workers, we may have been a little distracted from those over the last few years. So we just have to go back to the basic values, that go back to Franklin Roosevelt, that people need a good home, a good school, a good doctor, a good job, and then they can build a life depending on the energy and commitment and insight that they have.

"We've lost that, and because we're an unequal society one of the problems is the people at the top when they have trouble with the home, school, doctor, job they have enough money to go get it from somewhere else. But people in lower income brackets they don't have those extra resources. When you have expanding inequality you also see increasing pressure on people who are struggling. And that's a special responsibility of the governor to point out that to prosper as a state we have to prosper together."

Source: WBUR.org on 2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial race May 8, 2017

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Candidates and political leaders on Welfare & Poverty:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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