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.@PeteButtigieg's quotes from the debate, a long thread. Divided into differently lengthened segments for your reading delight. #DemDebates #DemDebate2 #TeamPete
"I'm running for president because our country is running out of time. It is even bigger than the emergency of the Trump presidency. Ask yourself how somebody like Donald Trump ever gets within cheating distance of the Oval Office in the first place. 1/5
"It doesn't happen unless America is already in a crisis -- an economy that's not working for everyone, endless war, climate change. We have lived this in my industrial Midwestern hometown. My generation has lived this as long as we have been alive. 2/5
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Okay, I have been skeptical about @PeteButtigieg (more than skeptical), but if he is actually committed to the #cjreform in his #DouglassPlan, he is making some SERIOUS commitments
peteforamerica.com/douglass-plan
Okay, I have been skeptical about @PeteButtigieg (more than skeptical), but if he is actually committed to the #cjreform in his #DouglassPlan, he is making some SERIOUS commitments
peteforamerica.com/douglass-plan
1. I have long argued that the Federal government should be incentivizing states to reverse mass incarceration, that is plank one in the @PeteButtigieg plan (needs some tinkering along the lines of the "Reverse Mass Incarceration Act:" but this is a start peteforamerica.com/douglass-plan 
2. Eliminating incarceration for drug possessing is a good idea...he should not implicitly make the distinction between dealers and users, but he says reduce sentences for other drug offenses and make it all retroactive (very important) @PeteButtigieg peteforamerica.com/douglass-plan
THREAD: Today, @PeteButtigieg unveiled details of the #DouglassPlan which is a “comprehensive investment in the empowerment of Black America.” For anyone wondering why he didn’t do any of this in SB, I have some news… peteforamerica.com/Douglass-Plan
2/ Note: this plan is *comprehensive* and thus, there are a number of things he proposes to do with the power of the presidency that are not powers he enjoys as a mayor. Some of these things include his proposals to…
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-Revitalize the Office of Civil Rights at HHS
-Free tuition for low-income students
-Preservation of cultural & historical sites
-Eliminate private federal prisons & mandatory minimums
-DC Statehood
-End racial gerrymandering
-Revitalize the Office of Civil Rights at HHS
-Free tuition for low-income students
-Preservation of cultural & historical sites
-Eliminate private federal prisons & mandatory minimums
-DC Statehood
-End racial gerrymandering
