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Beto O`Rourke: Monthly Cabinet town halls

O'Rourke said he would require his Cabinet to hold monthly town hall meetings.
Source: Axios.com "What you need to know about 2020" Apr 29, 2019

John Bolton: Trump agrees that America has too many elections

In an essay adapted from his book, Bolton writes: 'One highlight came when [Chinese President Xi Jinping] said he wanted to work with Trump for 6 more years, and Trump replied that people were saying that the 2-term constitutional limit on presidents should be repealed for him. Xi said the US had too many elections, because he didn't want to switch away from Trump, who nodded approvingly.'

'At the opening of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang,' Bolton wrote. 'According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do. The National Security Council's top Asia staffer, Matthew Pottinger, told me that Trump said something very similar during his November 2017 trip to China.' [According to leaked Communist party documents, at least 1 million Uighur Muslims are detained in the camps.]

Source: Axios.com excerpts from "The Room Where It Happened" Jun 17, 2020

John Delaney: End gerrymandering, make Election Day a holiday

As a congressman, Delaney introduced the Open Our Democracy Act, legislation aimed at ending gerrymandering and establishing Election Day as a federal holiday.
Source: Axios.com "What you need to know about 2020" Feb 27, 2019

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