Rand Knight is running for the Senate in Georgia, and he is a Democrat:
I am running for U.S. Senate because I am sick and tired of our great country being misrepresented to the rest of the world, and misled into poor decisions that are costing irreplaceable lives, an indebted future, an unhealthy food supply, and failure in our healthcare and educational systems.
Our current Republican Senatorial leadership has completely forgotten that our number one job is to take care of business at home. When we have poverty in every city, homelessness on the streets, failing urban infrastructures, air and water so polluted that you cannot go outside or swim in many places, and almost $9 trillion in National debt, we must do better to solve our nation’s problems.(emphasis mine)
Follow me below the fold for a look at a couple of key issue statements.
Here are a few snippets:
Iraq:
Our involvement in the Iraq war needs to come to a close. We need a specific timeline and benchmarks for withdrawal of our troops from Iraq, and the process needs to be honorable and secure.
Good answer.
Immigration:
Securing our borders immediately is the perfect place to start, and both borders and both coasts need to be secured for both domestic security and immigration reasons. In addition, we must find ways to deal with the current immigration population that are fair, honest and humane. It is very possible that the immigration problem and ensuing legislation can actually be used as an opportunity to heal some of the open wounds around this issue so that we do not move forward with hate-filled anger.
He is profoundly non-Cardwell on this issue. This is essentially a wash with Saxby. The issue will be off the table.
Environment:
Is this really even necessary with a dude with a PhD in ecology? The dude knows his stuff here.
His site is loaded and it will take some time to just weed through it all. Impressive for a first day launch of a campaign. There will be much to learn as the campaign begins, but we can at least breath a sigh of relief that he appears to be a Democrat smack dab in the mainstream of the party.