Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California.
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By Bill Badour
This is the fourth part in a weekly series highlighting the Democratic presidential candidates for the 2020 race.
Pete Buttigieg is in favor of:
- Abolishing capital punishment, ending cash bail, and eliminating private prisons.
- Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour and offering paid family and medical leave for up to 12 weeks.
- Students not having to take on debt, cancelling some student debt, boosting teacher’s pay and is against for-profit charter schools.
- Supporting nuclear power and taxing carbon emissions.
- A voluntary buyback program on assault weapons, requiring universal background checks and starting a gun licensing program.
- “Medicare for all, for all who want it”, a plan to extend public health insurance options for those who would want it without ending private insurance.
- Legalizing marijuana and scrapping past convictions.
- Boosting the defense budget and bringing the troops home.
