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Andrew Gillum:
Corporate tax cuts can create jobs, support training
Gillum sides with Gov. Rick Scott (R) in his fight over taxpayer-funded economic incentives. Scott supports them as a job-creating tool, while House Speaker Richard Corcoran (R) blocked the funding as "corporate welfare." As mayor, Gillum has used
incentives, but thinks the state's economic development regime lacks a training aspect, such as apprentice programs. He said the state should consider boosting funding for all types of programs, with those tied to labor unions needing to be strengthened.
Source: Politico.com on 2018 Florida gubernatorial race
May 31, 2017
Buddy Roemer:
The two major parties are joined at the billfold
Buddy Roemer announced in a statement this morning that his quixotic independent campaign for president has come to an end. Roemer had decided to seek the Reform Party and Americans Elect nominations. Then, Americans Elect folded earlier this month,
while Roemer continued to struggle to draw attention and interest to his campaign. His statement:"As I am no longer a candidate for president, I am free to pledge a good portion of the rest of my life to enacting campaign reform in the halls of
Congress. Instead of using my right to the floor of Congress to lobby for corporate clients, I will lobby for the American people who want reform," he said. "To be successful, this endeavor must cross party lines. In truth, the two major parties are
addicted to special interests and corporate money. I have said it many times: they are joined at the billfold. The two parties have been graveyards of reform too often in the past. They don't want reform. They only want victory and reelection."
Source: Alexander Burns on Politico.com
May 31, 2012
Donald Trump:
US open for business: keep Carrier AC in Indiana
President-elect Donald Trump aimed a series of tweets at companies that would move American jobs out of the country: "Expensive mistake," said the sixth in a rapid-fire series. "THE UNITED STATES IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS."A central theme of Trump's 2016
presidential campaign had been bringing back jobs that had been outsourced to other countries. That point was something he emphasized last week with a deal that was to retain some jobs at Carrier, which manufactures air conditioners in
Indiana, rather than having those jobs exported to Mexico.
Trump tweeted: "Any business that leaves our country for another country... fires its employees, builds a new factory or plant in the other country, and then thinks it will sell its product
back into the US... without retribution or consequence, is WRONG! There will be a tax on our soon-to-be-strong border of 35% for these companies...wanting to sell their product, cars, A.C. units etc., back across the border."
Source: Politico.com on Twitter posts during 2016 Trump Transition
Dec 4, 2016
Jeb Bush:
Stop rewarding portfolio Americans over paycheck Americans
In order to spur the economy, Bush said ObamaCare needs to be repealed. "Our current policy rewards portfolio Americans at the expense of paycheck America while enabling the greatest sustained deficits in American history,"
Bush said. "Conservatives need to advance economic freedom by working to repeal ObamaCare and replacing it with a system that is consumer-directed, less coercive and significantly less costly."
Source: Tal Kopan on Politico.com, "Crony Capitalism"
Oct 29, 2013
John Kasich:
FactCheck: Managing Director at Lehman, but not Board member
Trump gave Kasich a Lehman Brothers role he didn't have. Trump went after Kasich's work at Lehman Brothers, the firm whose 2008 bankruptcy almost tipped the world economy over the edge. Trump said Kasich was on the board, and Kasich correctly countered
that he never was [saying that he was a "banker"]. He was a managing director in the investment banking division until the company's collapse, however. In Ohio, Kasich's opponents tried to blame him for disastrously tying up some state pension money with
Lehman. Kasich said he made some introductions but they never led anywhere.[OnTheIssues note: Politico.com scores this as an error by Donald Trump, but OnTheIssues would score this as an accurate statement by Trump: both "board member" and "managing
director in the investment banking division" are high-level influential positions of responsibility. Kasich's counter that he was simply a "banker" attempts to mislead the public that he was not in a high-level influential position].
Source: Politico.com FactCheck on GOP 2015 CNBC's debate
Oct 28, 2015
Tim Kaine:
Protect banking industry's ability to serve consumers
Kaine was one of 70 senators who signed a one-page letter asking Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray to try to "prevent any unintended consequences that negatively impact community banks and credit unions or unnecessarily limit
Source: Politico.com, "Banking Letter," on 2016 Veepstakes
Jul 21, 2016
Tom Steyer:
AdWatch: put people before corporations
Few of the other Democratic presidential candidates have hit the television airwaves, and none have committed the amount of money in one buy that Steyer has with his first TV ad buy [which totals] $1.4 million dollars in spending.
In one ad, Steyer focused on his pledge to limit the influence of corporations in politics, an early theme of his candidacy. He has leaned into his outsider status in the starting moments of his campaign.
"We're a get-out-to-the-people, directly-address-the-people organization,'' Steyer told POLITICO. "I've been an outsider this whole time in Democratic politics."
"Tom is running for president because he sees how the broken political system in
Washington has failed the American people and has a plan to change it," Steyer's campaign manager said in a statement. "Our campaign is focused on exactly that--creating a United States that puts its people before corporations."
Source: Politico.com AdWatch: 2020 Democratic primary
Jul 10, 2019
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