ABC This Week interviews during 2019: on Government Reform


Jerrold Nadler: Impeachment: Trump continuing threat to election & democracy

[On whether Trump's actions are impeachable:] This is a continuing threat to the integrity of our elections now. This is not a one-off. Impeachment is not a punishment for past behavior. This president sought foreign interference in the 2016 election. He is openly seeking foreign interference in the 2020 election. And he poses a continuing threat to our national security and to the integrity of our elections, to our democratic system itself. We cannot permit that to continue.

There are two questions that are implicated in all this. One, is it OK to solicit foreign interference for your election campaign? Is it OK to use the power of the presidency to coerce a foreign government into helping you in the election, and to subvert the honesty of the election? And secondly, is it OK to order everyone not to testify in order to cover it up? Those are the two articles of impeachment. If the answer to either of those questions is it's OK, we will not have a democracy anymore.

Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview on impeaching Trump Dec 15, 2019

Tom Steyer: Government is broken; push power back to people

We have a broken government, it's been corrupted by corporate money, we need to push the power back to the American people, retake the democracy. I've been doing that successfully from the outside for 10 years. If we're going to take back this democracy, is someone going to lead it who's successfully done it from the outside or a bunch of people from Washington D.C., the insiders, going to reform the government that is failing the American people and that everybody kno
Source: ABC This Week interviews in 2019 Jul 14, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Impeachment is now about the rule of law

I think every day that passes the pressure to impeach grows and I think that it's justifiable. The evidence continues to come in and with the president now saying that he is willing to break the law to win re-election, that transcends partisanship, it transcends party lines and this is now about the rule of law in the United States of America.
Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview on impeaching Trump Jun 16, 2019

Beto O`Rourke: New Voting Rights Act: eliminate gerrymandering & PACs

We announced a set of bold Democracy reform proposals to bring tens of millions more of our fellow Americans in and to remove barriers with a new Voting Rights Act that ensures that every vote counts and that every voice is heard. If we match that with an end to gerrymandering and getting big, unaccountable money and PACs out of our politics, this Democracy is going to be up to the challenge. No one has worked harder to make sure that this Democracy works for everyone than I have.
Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview Jun 9, 2019

Andrew Yang: Create department to regulate social media

Q: Should we have a department overseeing social media?

YANG: Yes, department of the attention economy, because the data clearly shows that in addition to the problems in our democracy because people are getting information through social media, we're also seeing a huge surge in a depression, anxiety and emotional issues, particularly among adolescent girls. You see that the surge in anxiety and depression among teenage girls in particular is coincident with smartphone adoption and social media.

Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview of presidential hopefuls Apr 7, 2019

  • The above quotations are from ABC This Week interviews during 2019
    (Martha Raddatz interviewing candidates for 2019-2020 races).
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2020 Presidential contenders on Government Reform:
  Democrats running for President:
Sen.Michael Bennet (D-CO)
V.P.Joe Biden (D-DE)
Mayor Mike Bloomberg (I-NYC)
Gov.Steve Bullock (D-MT)
Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-IN)
Sen.Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Secy.Julian Castro (D-TX)
Gov.Lincoln Chafee (L-RI)
Rep.John Delaney (D-MD)
Rep.Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)
Sen.Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Gov.Deval Patrick (D-MA)
Sen.Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
CEO Tom Steyer (D-CA)
Sen.Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Marianne Williamson (D-CA)
CEO Andrew Yang (D-NY)

2020 Third Party Candidates:
Rep.Justin Amash (L-MI)
CEO Don Blankenship (C-WV)
Gov.Lincoln Chafee (L-RI)
Howie Hawkins (G-NY)
Gov.Gary Johnson(L-NM)
Howard Schultz(I-WA)
Gov.Jesse Ventura (I-MN) 		Republicans running for President:
Sen.Ted Cruz(R-TX)
Gov.Larry Hogan (R-MD)
Gov.John Kasich(R-OH)
V.P.Mike Pence(R-IN)
Gov.Mark Sanford (R-SC)
Pres.Donald Trump(R-NY)
Rep.Joe Walsh (R-IL)
Gov.Bill Weld(R-MA & L-NY)

2020 Withdrawn Democratic Candidates:
Sen.Stacey Abrams (D-GA)
Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NYC)
Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Sen.Mike Gravel (D-AK)
Sen.Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Gov.John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Gov.Jay Inslee (D-WA)
Mayor Wayne Messam (D-FL)
Rep.Seth Moulton (D-MA)
Rep.Beto O`Rourke (D-TX)
Rep.Tim Ryan (D-CA)
Adm.Joe Sestak (D-PA)
Rep.Eric Swalwell (D-CA)
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