Shiva Ayyadurai in 2018 MA Senate race
On Environment:
GMOs are destroying our health; establish safety standards
Ayyadurai says, "Health begins with prevention and what we feed the body. GMOs are destroying our health. We need policies to ensure our food supply is safe and not ridden with pesticides or genetic modifications that have evaded safety assessments."
The scientist's multi-million dare to Monsanto--one of the world's largest producers of GMOs--revolves around his alleged discovery of the accumulation of high levels of formaldehyde in
GMO-engineered plants, and his resulting shock that "acceptable standards for testing" do not exist. Here is Ayyadurai's challenge to the
Monsanto Company: "If Monsanto can disprove the fact that there are no safety assessment standards for GMOs, the conclusion of our fourth paper, then I will give them my $10 million building."
Source: 2018 Massachusetts Senate campaign website shiva4senate.com
Feb 22, 2018
On Homeland Security:
Deliver services that our vets need and have been denied
We must fast track and deliver those services that our vets need and have been wrongfully denied.
We treat illegal immigrants better than our own veterans.
Source: 2018 Massachusetts Senate campaign website shiva4senate.com
Feb 22, 2018
On Principles & Values:
Warren shoplifted racial identity of Native American
Most candidates hoping to unseat U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in next year's election aren't shying away from President Donald Trump's criticism of her claims of Native American heritage, although all but one say they won't be adopting Trump's habit of
deriding the Massachusetts Democrat as "Pocahontas."Technology entrepreneur Shiva Ayyadurai has embraced Trump's use of the term. Ayyadurai, who began the race as a Republican but is now running as an independent, already used Pocahontas to refer to
Warren in a tweet. He said Warren "has literally shoplifted the racial identity of Native American for her own personal gain," including a job as a law professor at Harvard University.
Warren has acknowledged telling Harvard and an earlier employer,
the University of Pennsylvania, of her heritage but only after she had been hired. Pocahontas was a native woman who lived in present-day Virginia in the 1600s and agreed to marry an English colonist to help ensure peace and protect her people.
Source: Boston Globe on 2018 Massachusetts Senatorial race
Dec 5, 2017
On Civil Rights:
Only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian
Shiva Ayyadurai, an Indian-American scientist whose campaign features the slogan "Only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian"--a jab at the controversy surrounding Warren's decision to check off a minority box marked for
Native Americans when she successfully applied for a teaching position at Harvard Law School decades ago--is threatening to sue Walsh and the city over their handling of August's event, should Walsh decline to issue a full apology.
Source: 2018 Massachusetts Senate campaign website shiva4senate.com
Nov 14, 2017
On Education:
Educational-industrial complex not yielding skilled students
Dr. Ayyadurai took aim at the educational industrial complex, which he said is not producing students with tangible skills, as evident by the fact, for every 17 skilled job openings only one person is ready to take on those jobs. His main target was
Harvard University, who he labeled a "Fake University that is actually a $45 billion dollar hedge fund." He said, "We need to tax Harvard and use those proceeds to fund real skills-based education."He also proposed the elimination of the
4-year undergraduate degree for entrance into medical school. On the topic of student loans, he wants students to be permitted to default on their loans, pointing out that the banks had taken on a business risk, and part of doing business was to live
with the consequences of taking on such risks. He criticized these banks for giving predatory loans to students without any background checks on either their ability to repay the loans or the value of their degrees.
Source: 2018 Massachusetts Senate campaign website shiva4senate.com
Nov 14, 2017
On Civil Rights:
It's about free speech, not against Black Lives Matter
Shiva Ayyadurai, who delivered the keynote address at August's "Free Speech Rally" where police restricted access on Boston Common as protesters numbered in the thousands, is demanding an apology from Mayor Marty Walsh, and threatens to sue if not.
The August 19 event, held at the Common's Parkman Bandstand, ended prematurely ahead of the arrival of thousands of marchers organized by Black Lives Matter. Police in anticipation of the rally ringed the bandstand with a series of barriers, preventing
rally-goers from moving within less than a football field's length from where speakers assembled. Ayyadurai demands an acknowledgment that Walsh was "wrong in mischaracterizing the approximately 40 people in the Parkman Bandstand as a hate group and
as sympathetic to white supremacy."
Ayyadurai is also demanding Walsh "acknowledge the sincerity of the group's commitment to free speech." Ayyadurai himself at one point, according to video he has from the event, declared "black lives do matter."
Source: New Boston Post on 2018 Massachusetts Senate race
Nov 10, 2017
On War & Peace:
Expose the war in Iraq as a fake war
From the time I was six or seven, I was introduced to the ridiculous caste system in India. If you go to the about section of our website, you see me fighting MIT, fighting for good things, exposing the war in Iraq, which is fake, a fake war,
we didn't have to send our soldiers to fight there, exposing fake news, and fighting against Monsanto. Here's a real fighter. You also have a guy who's a real innovator.
Source: Dartmouth Review on 2018 Massachusetts Senate race
Oct 24, 2017
On Energy & Oil:
Innovation, not regulation
We need to move beyond the debate of whether "climate change" is occurring or not. It doesn't matter. We need tangible solutions to these real problems. Innovation, NOT regulation, is the only way to solve these problems.
We need to throw out every career politician who gets in the way of unleashing incredible innovation, which already exist, but cannot reach the market because they do not line the pockets of these politicians and their lobbyists.
Source: 2018 Massachusetts Senatorial website shiva4senate.com
Oct 15, 2017
On Gun Control:
Protect constitutional gun rights
Most gun owners are law abiding citizens.
We must protect their constitutional rights. Chicago has America's strictest firearm laws and has record-breaking gun crime.
Source: 2018 Massachusetts Senatorial website shiva4senate.com
Oct 15, 2017
On Health Care:
More choice in healthcare, including Ancient Eastern
Neither ObamaCare nor RyanCare address REAL "care" or "health." We need CARE that provides choice, accountability and affordability.
We need HEALTH that integrates state of the art innovations and discoveries from East & West, Ancient & Modern, Science & Tradition for everyone.
Source: 2018 Massachusetts Senatorial website shiva4senate.com
Oct 15, 2017
On Immigration:
We need secure borders & clear enforcement
We need secure borders that safeguard our citizens and those that came here legally.
Without borders and clear enforcement, we don't have a country.
Source: 2018 Massachusetts Senatorial website shiva4senate.com
Oct 15, 2017
On Tax Reform:
Low taxes for innovators & job creators
Money goes where there's a stable economy, low inflation and low taxes.
Increasing taxes on those who innovate and take risks to deliver jobs will destroy our system. Our current 35% corporate tax is the highest in the industrialized world.
Source: 2018 Massachusetts Senatorial website shiva4senate.com
Oct 15, 2017
On Government Reform:
We need term limits against lobbyists & career politician.
What better person to represent Massachusetts than someone who knows information technology, someone who knows biotech, someone who knows how to create jobs. A Senator is someone who is supposed to be a representative. I am de facto
the best representative. I am not a lobbyist or a career politician. We need term limits. I'm not looking to do this as a job. One or two terms maximum and then get back to the farm. That's it.
Source: Merion West on 2018 Massachusetts Senate race
Jul 24, 2017
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