Presidential Candidates

Republican Candidate- Donald Trump
Birthday: June 14, 1946 (69)
Place of Birth: Queens, New York City
Education: He attended the Kew-Forest as a child and his father saw him as a rough child so he sent him to the New York Military Academy where he attended from eighth grade until he graduated from high school. He rank "cadet captain" his senior year and he has stated that the academy gave him more military training than a lot of the guys in the military get. He then attended Fordham University in the Bronx for two years; he transferred to Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated with a Bachelor in Science in economics. Trump almost had to go to war (Vietnam) but didn't because of four student deferments while attending college and then a medical one 1968 after graduation. He said he was subjected to "heel spurs" in one of his foots but he didn't remember which one.
Past Occupations:

• Real Estate entrepreneur- 


• Domestically: 
• New York
• Illinois 
• Virginia
• California
• New Jersey, etc 
• Internationally:

• Turkey 
• Panama
• South Korea
• Philippines
• Hotels in: 
• Illinois
• Ireland
• Nevada
• New York
• Film Producer of:


• The Little Rascals
• 54
• Horrorween
• Writer of: 
• Crippled America
• Trump 101
• Think Big
• The Art of the Comeback
• Actor in:
• Ghosts Can't Do It
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York City
• The Little Rascals
• The Nanny
• Businessperson
• (Now) politician: 
• Running for Republican Party
• Television producer
• The Apprentice
• Economist
• Investor

History of Politics: Donald Trump does not have any known history in formal study in politics nor has he shadowed any previous campaigns. The only known involvement in politics would be being a business owner and having to deal with laws, voting, pulling permits for construction, campaign donations, etc.

Stands for/Philosophy: Donald Trump has made many points on what he believes in and how he would be as a president. 
The first being that he is a fiscal conservative. 

Second, he is an advocate for a tax reform; he has said that cutting taxes spurs investment and consumer spending which in turn creates jobs that leads to more wealth and a greater government revenue. 

Third, he absolutely hates Obamacare (Affordable Care Act). 

Fourth, in relation to his foreign policy views, he believes that China is untrustworthy and is cheating America out of billions by manipulating and devaluing it's currency. He has also said that if Putin doesn't respect the U.S. then he will get along with him. 

Fifth, he stands by the second amendment and does not completely agree with gun control. He proposes that we should limit restrictions on guns, ban some assault weapons, and extend the waiting period to purchase a gun. 

Sixth, this deals with social issues, while he understands values are evolving, he still believes marriage should be between man and woman. He is pro-life after being pro-choice for awhile; he credits a life-changing event with a close friend for his decision to switch.

Furthermore, he believes that budget wise, America should cut spending, climate change is a hoax, and do not cut Social Security or Medicare, we should grow the economy and save those programs. For the immigration issue, he says there should be no path to citizenship for undocumented workers, they should be deported. He finds our citizenship by birth a bogus idea.  More European immigrants should be allowed and a legal status for those who graduate with a degree in a U.S college.

Democratic Candidate- Hillary Clinton

Birthday: October 26, 1947 (68)
Place of Birth: Chicago, IL
Education: Clinton attended Maine East, then Maine South High School then went to Wellesley College, which she graduate from in 1969; she was the first student commencement speaker. From there, she received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1973. 
Past Occupations/History of Politics: Clinton's whole life as been in politics. After graduation, she was a Congressional legal counsel. She moved to Arkansas soon after where she married Bill Clinton in 1975.  She co founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in 1977, and became the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978, then named the first female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979. She was the First Lady of Arkansas from 1979-81, and 1983-92 where she led a task force to reform the education system, served on the board of directors of Wal-Mart-- among her other corporations. She became Secretary of State in the Obama administration and U.S. Senator of New York. She is now running for the 2016 presidential campaign. 


Stands for: Hillary Clinton has stood for more progressive ideas than that of her husband, for instance issues dealing with Wall Street reform, gay rights, and criminal justice reform. She has stood behind most of President Obama's foreign policy, and is further standing behind free energy and higher education reform. 

Philosophy: Clinton has mentioned her views on several things such as:
Education- She pledges to increase college affordability and ease the burden of student loans for the students have already graduated. She has said "College is up supposed to help people achieve their dreams. But more and more, paying for college actually pushes those dreams further and further out of reach. That is a betrayal of everything college is supposed to represent." 

Immigration- "Clinton has said that people who came to the U.S. illegally should be able to apply for citizenship if they fulfill certain criteria like paying back taxes and a fine and learning English." 

Economy, Clinton believes we need bankruptcy reform and in 1998, personally lobbied Congress against bankruptcy bill. 

Civil rights- She is a supporter of abortion rights and believes in the women's right to choose yet opposes a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy because it would conflict with the Roe v. Wade decision. She recently changed her mind on gay marriage, and supports it. Furthermore, she supports the "Black Lives Matter" 

Foreign affairs- "The world isn't simple but it holds far more opportunities than threats if we exercise bold and confident leadership that lets us shape global events rather than by shaped by them." She has four priorities in the arena of foreign affairs, those being:
1. Prevent a nuclear Iran
2. Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
3. Hold China accountable
4. Stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin

Green Candidate- Jill Stein
Birthday: May 14, 1950 (65)
Place of Birth: Chicago, IL
Education: In the 1970's, Stein studied psychology, sociology, and anthropology at Harvard University, earning her undergraduate degree. Afterwards, she attended Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1979.  (Wikipedia..Jill).

Past Occupations: After graduation, she practiced Internal Medicine in private practice. From there, she became "concerned about the connection between people's health and the quality of their local environment." (Jill Stein). She served on the boards of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and helped hound the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities.  (Wikipedia..Jill).

History of Politics: Served on the board of MassVoters for Fair Elections and founded and served as cochair of a local recycling committee in Lexington that was approved by the Board of Selectman. She has testified before legislative panels as well as local and state governmental bodies. Furthermore, she helped formulate a "Secure Green Future" ballot initiative that called legislators to accelerate efforts to move the Massachusetts economy to more renewable energy and make green jobs the top priority.  (Wikipedia..Jill).

Her electoral campaign goes as such:
Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate in 2002, then she ran for state representative in Massachusetts but lost to Thomas Stanely. In 2006, she was nominated for Secretary of the Commonwealth. She was elected to the Town Meeting Seat, Precinct 2 in 2005 and was re-elected in 2008. Then in 2010, she ran for governor then in 2012 she ran for the presidential campaign, and she is currently running for the 2016 election. (Wikipedia..Jill).

Stands for/Philosophy:
Healthcare:

• Healthcare is a right, including women's reproductive rights
• Birth control should not be up to your employer
• Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research
• Maintain abortion rights and provide free birth control

Budget and Economy:

• Believes we are in a state of emergency, not in a state of recovery
• Thinks Obama's stimulus was okay, but it only made a slight dent in crisis
• Our economy is not working for out vast majority
• Reduce spending via military cuts and preventive health
• It is un-American that the top 1% own 90% of America's wealth

Civil Rights/Gun Control:

• No discrimination based on orientation whether it's LGB or T
• "Religious Freedom" is surrogate for patriarchal domination
• Supports the "Black Lives Matter" and wants to fix the system of racism
• Supports gay marriage, and was the first pro-gay marriage candidate in the first gay marriage state
• More local regulations and more background checks

Education:

• Common Core empowers contractors over teachers
• End high stakes testing
• Establish basic right to free college education
• Right to a tuition-free public education, pre-k thru college
• Stop blaming teachers for "under-performing schools"

Energy and Oil/ Environment:

• Completely zero out climate emissions as fast as possible
• Make wars for oil obsolete, and strive for 100% renewable's by 2030
• Address climate change now; we can't wait 4 more years
• Believes logging wood for electricity is neither clean nor green
• Moratorium on GMOs until they are proven safe
• Restore shorelines, deltas, forests, and grazing systems
• Filthy Five: clean up coal plants in Massachusetts
• Promote sustainable agriculture and freedom from toxic threats

Foreign Policy:

• Work towards neutral Ukraine and don't arm them against Russia
• Lifting the Cuban embargo was long overdue
• Focus on human rights, international law, and diplomacy
• End Israeli apartheid occupations and illegal settlements

Health Care:

• Tort reform becomes unneeded under Medicare-for-All
• Threats like Ebola are threats to public health worldwide
• Single-payer public health insurance program
• What injures the climate's health also injures human health.
• Healthy People, Healthy Planet: Link the environment to health

Immigration:

• Undocumented immigration has massively spiked after NAFTA
• Extend DREAM Act beyond the age of 30
• Provide a legal path the citizenship for immigrant residents
• Believes that undocumented immigrants are a critical component of economy

All information for (A"Jill Stein).

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Socialist Candidate- Ralph Nader

Birthday: February 27, 1934 

Place of Birth: Winsted, CT

Education: Nader graduated from the Gilbert School, a private post secondary school in Connecticut, in 1951. He was then accepted at Princeton University and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1955. Following that, he went to Harvard Law School, where he received a Bachelor of Laws in 1958.

Past Occupations: Nader served 6 months on active duty in the Army in 1959, from there he was admitted to the bar and started to practice as a lawyer in Hartford, Connecticut. "He was an assistant professor of history and government at the University of Hartford from 1961 to 1963." 

In 1964, he wrote a book called Unsafe at Any Speed where he claimed that many American automobiles were unsafe to operate. 

History of Politics: He was an consultant to the U.S Department of Labor in 1964. His book, Unsafe at Any Speed, became a bestseller and led directly to the passage of the 1996 National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. Ran for President in 1996 but collected less than 1 percent of the vote. He ran again, this time getting 2.7 percent of the national vote. He ran again in 2008 and won about .5 percent of the popular vote.

Stands for/Philosophy: Nader views on Abortion go as such:

• Supports Reproductive Rights and stem cell research
• No government role

Budget and Economy:

• Sees that half of the federal budget is now military spending
• Use surplus to rebuild country and provide for communal needs
• Infrastructure, poverty and preventive health are top priorities
• Two-tiered economy is unhealthy and troubling
• Allow citizen lawsuits for waste  in government spending

Civil/Consumer Rights:

• Safeguard the Constitution for the glad can take care of itself
• Supports gay marriage
• African Americans need to have faster progress
• Patriot Act associated with abuse of Muslim's civil rights
• Supports "impenetrable protection of privacy"
• Long history of pushing for reforms to make consumers safer
• Instrumental in Consumer Product Safety Act and related laws
• Help for ordinary people should replace corporate welfare

Crime:

• Opposed 1996 expansion of the federal death penalty
• Crime in the suites is worse than crime in the streets
• Moratorium on executions

Drugs:

• Believes the drug on war has failed, despite $50 billion annually
• Rehabilitation, not incarceration
• Failed War on Drugs endangers communities
• Supports legalizing hemp

Education:

• Abandon standardized testing, focus on teaching civic skills
• Invest in K-12 education; it will reduce poverty
• Teach democratic principles and citizenship in schools

Environment/ Energy&Oil:

• Break addiction to fossil fuels
• Congress should revive energy policies before crisis
• Mining companies get free mines for campaign contributions
• End all commercial logging in National Forests
• Head off a genetic engineering rampage

Foreign Policy:

• US should be the world's humanitarian superpower
• Corporate activity destroys the third world
• Selling arms is not a good way to conduct foreign affairs

Health Care:

• Single-payer health care plan over for-profit care
• 3.5% payroll tax to fund universal healthcare
• Billing fraud and abuse cost $200 billion

Immigration:

• Migrant workers are exploited, crack down on employers
• Address immigration as part of worldwide economic justice
• Don't criminalize the border, but no open border either

All information from (Ralph Nader).

Libertarian Candidate- Gary Johnson

Birthday: January 1, 1953 (62)

Place of Birth: Minot, ND

Education: Johnson graduated from Sandia High School in Albuquerque in 1971, and from there he attended the University of New Mexico from 1971 to 1975 where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in political science. 

Past Occupations: After college, Johnson earned money as a door-to-door handyman and the success in that industry encouraged him to start his own business, Big J Enterprises, in 1976.

History in Politics: Johnson entered politics in 1994 when he decided to run for governor and was advised by "Republican Elders" to run for the State Legislature instead. He managed to win the Republican nomination, and then went on the win the general election. He ran for re-election as governor in 1998, and he won again, making him the first governor to serve two successive four-year terms after term limits were expanded to two terms in 1991. After his time as governor ran out, he served on the Advisory Council of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and then in 2011, he served on the board of directors of Students For Liberty. He ran for president in the 2012 campaign, and in now running for the 2016 Libertarian nomination. 

Stands for/Philosophy:
Abortion: 

• Do not require insurers to provide birth control
• No federal funding for stem cell research
• Support's women's right to choose up until viability of the fetus

Budget and Economy:

• Supports separation of religion and state
• Prostitution is safer when legal and regulated
• Supports gay unions, let the government stayed out of marriage business

Crime/Drugs:

• Marijuana is safer than alcohol
• Legalize marijuana instead of 1.8 million arrests and $70 Billion spent
• Vetoed early release of prisoners due to over-crowding
• Built private prisons to replace out-of-state prisoners
• War on Drugs is a miserable failure, instead there should be $6 million used towards rehabilitation and treatment

Education:

• Public education system needs to undergo a major reform
• Abolish Departments of Education and HUD
• No student loans, they cause higher tuition

Energy and Oil/Environment:

• Alternative energy is good
• Supports nuclear power
• He accepts global warming but not cap and trade
• No compromise on clean air but again, no cap and trade
• Focus on prevention and states for Endanger Species

Foreign Policy:

• Believes we can no longer afford to shell out billions in foreign aid
• No foreign aid spending unless it protects U.S. interests

Healthcare:

• Government-managed healthcare is insanity
• Block grant Medicare; it's a carte blanche to the states
• ObamaCare is unconstitutional and so is Bush's Medicare Rx plan
• More federal funding for rural health services

Immigration:

• Believes the Arizona anti-immigrant law leads to racial profilling
• Building a wall will do nothing "A 10 foot wall just requires an 11 foot ladder)
• 2 year grace period for illegals to get work visas
• 1 strike and you are out for legal immigrants who violate terms

All information found on (Gary Johnson).