...Former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Unlike most of the other Dem 2020 candidates, he actually did things besides politix in his adult life, which made him political poison. He worked in startups and early-stage growth companies as a founder or executive from 2000 to 2009. After he founded Venture for America, the Obama administration selected him in 2012 as a
Champion of Changeand in 2015 as a
Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. His signature campaign policy is what he calls the
Freedom Dividend, a form of Universal Basic Income for every American over 18. Yang believes UBI is a necessary response to the rapid development of automation that is leading to workforce challenges. The other two central elements of Yang's platform are Medicare for All and
Human-Centered Capitalism....
on Wednesday morning after he blamed her for the Big Apple’s filthy streets, ripping him as clueless about city government.
"Andrew is a lovely guy, but this is a hard job, and requires you to really understand how government works, how labor unions work, how the budget works," Garcia said on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" ahead of the first in-person debate of the race tonight. "You don’t want anyone looking for the light switch."
Garcia — whom Yang recently blamed for often-trashy city streets — defended her record as sanitation commissioner under Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him..."I had left the department when we took a $100 million budget cut, and that had an immediate impact on the cleanliness of this city. I saw that, I tried to raise the red flag, it didn’t happen, and I left," she said on MSNBC.