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suegeo

(2,573 posts)
Tue Jul 18, 2017, 08:53 PM Jul 2017

Bjorkman Talks Universal Health Care & Minimum Wage, Challenges Reporters

[link:http://dakotafreepress.com/2017/07/14/video-bjorkman-talks-universal-health-care-minimum-wage-challenges-reporters/|

SNIP from link above:

Bjorkman’s first response, on why he’s running for Congress, reveals a deeply humanitarian, service-oriented motivation. He served the public for years as a judge. The problems he saw from the bench—mental health, drug addiction, health care in general—affect not just the defendants who came before him but their families and especially their children.

Another snip (with a snip-in-a-snip, if you will)
At 3:13, Bjorkman says three magic words: “universal health care.”

There’s a solution to our problems. All the other countries that are developed have developed it. Heritage magazine did a study of the most economically free countries in the world… ten of the eleven more economically free countries than the United States all had universal health care. That’s Heritage Foundation. Forbes magazine addressed it [Tim Bjorkman, press conference, 2017.07.13, timestamp 2:50].

This guy's got a shot, unless Putin gets involved again.

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