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Francis Suarez:
The diversity of our city is a strength for us
Suarez, who is the first Hispanic candidate to enter the 2024 race, is making Miami and its diversity a cornerstone of his campaign. "Miami is a very inclusive city,
we're a city that is very tolerant, we want everyone to feel comfortable and confident being in our city and it's something -- that diversity of our city, is a strength for us," he said on Friday.
Source: NBC News on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jun 16, 2023
Cornel West:
Focusing on diversity is a very narrow criteria to use
Q: And how about the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action?WEST: This began with reparations--an attempt to repair some of the damage done
by the barbaric slavery and the vicious Jim and Jane Crow. It shifted to diversity, and that became a very narrow criteria to use. And now that's being called into question.
Source: Politico.com on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jul 7, 2023
Perry Johnson:
Leftists drives wedges among us in dealing with race
[On Supreme Court banning racial preference in college applications]: "I applaud today's #SCOTUS ruling on affirmative action. Discrimination based on the color of one's
skin is wrong, period. Leftists in America continue to drive wedges amongst us with inflammatory rhetoric and practices in dealing with race. It is time we stand up against it."
Source: CNN coverage of 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jun 30, 2023
Will Hurd:
Use diversity to solve the major problems that we're facing
I wish they would focus and focus their attacks on war criminals like Vladimir Putin, not my friends in the LGBTQ community. It is 2023. We should be talking about, how do we embrace our differences? Because here's what I have learned as
I have crisscrossed the country. We're better together. And we should be having our leaders that are encouraging that, that are protecting that, in order -- how we use our diversity to solve the major problems that we're facing.
Source: CNN interviews on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jul 2, 2023
Asa Hutchinson:
Move beyond race-based admissions; fight identity politics
After the historic Supreme Court decision rolling back the use of affirmative action in college admissions, Arkansas politicians and lawmakers gave their reactions. The court's 6-3 decision along ideological lines struck down affirmative action in
college admissions.Former two-term Arkansas governor and candidate for Republican presidential nomination Asa Hutchinson had his reaction in support of the decision up not long after the morning announcement of the decision. "The recent Supreme Court
ruling strikes a blow against identity politics. It's time to move beyond race-based admissions. Colleges are supporting diversity by reducing legacy preferences and increasing financial aid," Hutchinson stated.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders
invoked Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: "People should be judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin. The Supreme Court affirmed that fundamental truth in today's decision."
Source: KARK News on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jun 29, 2023
Marianne Williamson:
Declare transgender murder/suicide a national emergency
Transgender rights are a hot-button social issue, with Republican-led legislatures passing laws restricting access to gender affirming care for transgender youth and limiting the ability to discuss gender identity in schools.President Biden has
voiced support for transgender rights, but has faced some scrutiny from LGBTQ+ advocates over his plan for transgender athletes in high school sports.
Williamson has called for more protections for the LGBTQ+ community, including for transgender
individuals. She supports declaring transgender murder and suicide rates a national emergency, legislation requiring police departments to "ensure fairer interactions with transgender people," and implementing LGBTQ+ inclusive public education,
according to her campaign site.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., however, has broken from most Democrats on one key issue surrounding transgender rights, saying that he is "against people participating in women's sports who are biologically male."
Source: Newsweek magazine on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
May 15, 2023
Joe Biden:
Rights for women and minorities part of our shared humanity
We have to continue working to ensure that women and girls enjoy equal rights and equal participation in their societies. That Indigenous groups; racial, ethnic, religious minorities; people with disabilities do
not have their potential stifled by systemic discrimination. That the LGBTQI+ people are not prosecuted or targeted with violence because of who they are. These rights are part of our shared humanity.
Source: Speech to the United Nations (2023 presidential hopefuls)
Sep 19, 2023
Chase Oliver:
I'm armed and gay: armed gays are harder to bash
Oliver is running for president on a platform emphasizing immigration and criminal justice reforms as a man who is both pro-police reform and pro-choice. He is also pro-Second Amendment, describing himself as an "armed and gay"
Libertarian who owns a .38 special revolver. "Armed gays are harder to bash," Oliver told the small crowd at Hoosier Brewing in Old Town Greenwood.
Source: Franklin (IN) Daily Journal on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Sep 25, 2023
Chase Oliver:
Don't tell LGBTQ people who to be or how to live
A gay Libertarian from Georgia is making waves in his run for his party's nomination for U.S. president--becoming the first-ever third-party candidate to speak at the Iowa State Fair Political Soapbox. Oliver spoke with the Bay Area Reporter, telling
the paper that 2024 represents "a unique opportunity for our party to break out into the mainstream.""We have stood for self-expression and self-ownership and autonomy since our founding in 1971--just two years after Stonewall," Oliver said of the
Libertarian Party. "It took Democrats decades to catch up because they had to wait until it was politically popular. If there's one thing I know about LGBTQ people it's that we like to go our own way and not be told who to be or how to live."
And Oliver might be right--enthusiasm for the lead candidates in the Democratic and Republican primary races, Biden and former President Donald Trump, respectively, is not great.
Source: Bay Area Reporter on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Aug 22, 2023
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