Candidate Positions

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As the 21st century dawns, change has become a way of life. Coping with change has become part of the definition of our jobs as governors. We have many tools at our disposal. Through promoting trade and investment, improving America’s education system, enhancing the nation’s basic infrastructure, encouraging innovation, and taking advantage of specific opportunities around the world, governors can shape an effective state response to changes in the state, national, and global economies.

Original source: http://brownback.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=175794

Original source: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20061226-9999-1n26hunter.html

Hunter’s skepticism about trade and his aggressive stance on immigration could be a building block for a candidacy that exploits simmering anxieties about globalization among some conservatives.

In his early outings since announcing his interest in a presidential candidacy, Hunter has blasted China for cheating the United States on trade deals to use American dollars to finance a threatening military buildup.

Original source: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles7/Frank_Kucinich.htm

His progressive vision may well resonate with many young activists. He says if elected he will repeal NAFTA and exit the United States from the World Trade Organization. Kucinich says, “NAFTA has spurred a $360 billion trade deficit, costing 363,000 high-paying jobs, most in manufacturing. This is called free trade. Where is freedom when jobs are lost? Where is freedom when industries threaten to move out of the country unless wages are cut? Where is freedom when the right to bargain collectively is crushed? Where is freedom when a union is broken?”

Perhaps just as George McGovern was the anti-war’s elected voice during the late Vietnam era - Kucinich hopes he can become the delegate of globalization’s combatants. He certainly is the only Democrat running for President that has lashed free trade with such a savory eloquence.

Original source: http://www.speculativebubble.com/politics/bill-richardson.php

GOV. RICHARDSON: Outsourcing is a problem. Most outsourcing jobs are technical. We need to upgrade our science and math standards in our school. It’s education. And I would create 250 science and math academies to deal with that gap.

In addition to that, what we need is trade agreements, fair trade agreements where we say, no slave labor, no child labor; we’re not going to have — we’re going to have environmental protection; we’re going to have to deal with wage disparity. And also, I would have a different attitude toward the private sector. I would say to the private sector, what is it going to take to keep you here?

I would have an industrial policy where we invest in high-growth industries, in health industries, in high-tech, in renewable energy, to keep those jobs here.