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applegrove

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1. This is what Burton said about other Independant candidates:
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 02:03 AM
Jan 2019

From the article:

"SNIP....

In an August 2016 op-ed in The Sacramento Bee, Burton urged voters to be wary of third-party candidates because "a Trump presidency would mean the dismantling of basically every important progressive achievement over the last century, and progressives need to keep that in mind."

"If Stein or Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson eat into Clinton's support even a little, that could matter in a close election," he wrote. "And in the same way I would bet that Ralph Nader -- or at least many of his supporters -- wishes that he didn't help to make George W. Bush our 43rd commander in chief, I suppose Stein supporters would not want to be in the position of explaining to their kids how they helped make Trump president."

....SNIP"

This campaign is a football block to public health care. And stopping climate change, or at least mitigating it.

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