A 73-year-old White Bird man whose campaign platform reads like a throwback to the 1960s and early 1970s is running for Idaho governor on the Libertarian ticket.
29% of democratic voters say healthcare is one of the most important issues they re going to be voting on. top of the list, in fact. you have relied heavily on climate change. you ve drilled down on climate change. what do you offer voters who are looking for someone to tackle our nation s healthcare issues? well, we have done so much in our state successfully, not just in climate addressing the climate crisis. we ve adopted the very first public health option in the united states. we re proud of that. i m the first governor to actually work with our community to pass those bills. but we ve done so much on our other issues to help families health. health is not just the healthcare system, you ve got to have a family wage. that s why i m proud to say we ve adopted while i m governor the highest minimum wage in the united states. you have to bea toibl ta able te of your family when they re sick. that s why we have the most robust medical family leave in the united states. you have to
play basketball game we ll do that. i will give to your favorite charity. we ll stick with basketball. it will explode the deficits. let s look a couple years down the line to see where our growth projections are. again, what leader mcconnell said, and he s correct, if you take even one tenth of a gdp point and add it over that is magical thinking. here s what we re seeing no, you have to hundreds of billions of dollars have gone into the profits of corporations, profits are up, right, they have gone into the pockets of people at the top, right, there is some money that s gone to people who are average family wage earn ergs. a couple thousand dollars a year. it depends. we have not seen wage growth. we ve had the highest wage growth. .7% the last quarter. 3% year over. before inflation, 2.6% inflation. right. in real terms it s barely anything. without it we d be below.