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The world is reasonable to reject him as a candidate. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/gary-johnson-libertarian-president-new-mexico-governor-record/ https:/
by minikites 10y ago
The world is reasonable to reject him as a candidate.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/gary-johnson-libertarian-president-new-mexico-governor-record/ https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/gary-johnson-libertarian-...
Prisons:
>Johnson accepted at least $9,000 in campaign donations from a prison company that ultimately won a state contract. By the time he left office, New Mexico led the country in for-profit prisons, housing 44 percent of its inmates in private facilities. Only Alaska, with 31 percent, came close.
>In 2000, after four inmates and a guard were killed in private facilities, Johnson vetoed an oversight bill and startled reporters by insisting that New Mexico had the best prisons in the nation.
Poverty:
>Within just a few months, the state had knocked more than 16,000 people off its welfare rolls, and its poverty rate had risen to first in the nation, according to a report from the state’s legislature.
Schools:
>For Democratic legislators, the trouble wasn’t just that Johnson wanted to divert money from the public system to private institutions. It was that his plan would privilege rich families in the long run, said Charles Bowyer, who served as government-relations director of the teachers’ union during Johnson’s tenure. Tuition at the most prestigious private schools often cost around $8,000 or $9,000 — meaning low-income families could never afford them, even with vouchers. And private schools would still be able to reject special-needs students.
- tanderson92 10y agoWorth mentioning that Jacobin approaches things from a very left of center perspective. There may be many HN readers who are Libertarian and disagree ideologically with the Jacobin view of the world (I happen to agree with it)