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The Beacon Magazine, August 25, 2016 Florida International University Florida International University FIU Digital Commons Beacon Magazine Special Collections and University Archives 8-25-2016 The Beacon Magazine, August 25, 2016 Florida International University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/student_magazine Recommended Citation Florida International University, "The Beacon Magazine, August 25, 2016" (2016). Beacon Magazine. 1. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/student_magazine/1 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections and University Archives at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Beacon Magazine by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 1 Issue 1 One copy per person. Additional copies are 25 cents. MAGAZINE ELECTIONS 2016 KNOW YOUR DISTRICT DISTRICT 23 DISTRICT 26 Includes Pembroke Pines, Hollywood, Sunny Isles Beach and Miami Beach Includes Olympia Heights, Kendall, parts of Homestead, Florida City and Candidates: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (Dem.), Tim Canova (Dem.), the Keys Marty Feigenbaum (Rep.), Joe Kaufman (Rep.), Don Endress (No party Candiates: Carlos Curbelo (Rep.), Joe Garcia (Dem.), Jose Peixoto (Rep.) affiliation), Lyle Milstein (NPA) and Annette Taddeo (Dem.). DISTRICT 24 DISTRICT 27 Includes Miramar, North Miami Beach, North Miami, Biscayne Park and Includes parts of Hialeah, Cutler Ridge, Pinecrest and parts of Homestead parts of Hialeah Candiates: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Rep.), Maria Perio (Rep.), David Adams Candiates: Frederica Wilson (Dem.) and Randal Hill (Dem.) (Rep.), Scott Fuhrman (Dem.), Frank Perez (Dem.) and Adam Sackrin (Dem.) DISTRICT 25 Includes Miami Lakes, Doral and parts of Hialeah Candiates: Mario Diaz-Balart (Rep.) and Alina Valdes (Dem.) SEE PAGE 3 FOR VOTING TIPS 2 The Beacon Magazine – Thursday, August 25, 2016 fiusm.com Libertarian candidates visit FIU STEPHANIE ESPAILLAT News Director [email protected] nfavorability between the two primary parties has lead some voters to seek out additional options for this election season, and the strong dislike for the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump campaigns have opened up a spot for third-party candidatesU to enter the political arena. A prominent third party candidate, Gary Johnson and his running mate William Weld from the Libertarian STEPHANIE ESPAILLAT/THE BEACON Party, visited FIU on Wednesday, Aug. 19 at the Wertheim Presidential nominee, Gary Johnson from the Libertarian Party held a townhall at the Wertheim Performing Arts Performing Arts Center in the hopes of capturing the Center on Wednesday, Aug. 19. attention of an audience full of potential voters. “Is this the craziest election cycle ever?” Johnson both believe that they have a strong chance at reaching It describes that the Republican and Democrat asked the audience. “You know how crazy it is? I’m this figure. nominees have some of the worst favorability ratings going to be the next president.” According to a poll conducted by the Wall Street since 1992, and that 55 percent of voters in the survey The former governors came to Miami to persuade hold a negative view of Clinton, and a 60 percent potential voters after being officially nominated as the negative view of Trump. The favorability for Johnson Libertarian presidential ticket in Orlando months before. from the Libertarian Party and Jill Stein from the Green One of the reasons for selecting FIU to host their town Party drew backing from 16 percent out of the 1,000 hall was to appeal to the millennial voters. individuals surveyed. “The millennials are a larger population group than Is this the craziest election cycle ever? You Johnson and Weld both took this visit as an the baby boomers, which is very significant,” said know how crazy it is? I’m going to be the next opportunity to share their ideas and platforms with the Johnson. “Very significant also is that we are leading in president. students at FIU, millennials, and the overall population the demographic [from] 18 to 24, and we are in second of Miami, Florida. place [in the demographic from] 18 to 34. So there is a Gary Johnson After being asked about Hispanic voters in the 2016 lot of room for movement given that no one knows who Presidential Candidate elections, the former Gov. of New Mexico, Johnson we are.” Libertarian Party explained why he does not specifically target Hispanics The Libertarian Party expects to be on the ballot in all for the purpose of gaining more votes and support for 50 states, and Johnson along with Weld, need 15 percent his party. in order to get into the presidential debates, which is Journal, the presence of a third party candidate would almost necessary to win an election. Johnson and Weld impact the elections in an unpredictable way. SEE LIBERTARIAN, PAGE 4 Green Party candidate believes she can reach the Presidential debates alternative third-party candidate Gary Deal as an initiative to “create millions immediately stop deportations that she STEPHANIE ESPAILLAT Johnson from the Libertarian Party. But of jobs by transitioning to a hundred says are tearing families apart,” said News Director as she is favoring highly among younger percent clean renewable energy by 2030, Featheringill. “She says Donald Trump’s [email protected] supporters, she is committed to reaching and investing in public transit, sustainable plan to ban immigrants based on their the debates. agriculture, and conservation.” religion is unconstitutional. Stein would fter being arrested back Featheringill explains that there are She explains that the positions taken offer subsidized health care and education in 2012 for trying to many reason why students should consider by the Green Party is understanding that to undocumented immigrants. enter Hofstra University Stein as a presidential candidate. having a job in the U.S. is a right and should In addition, Stein wants to end poverty to participate in the In terms of issues directly related to be fostered. Creating jobs with living by establishing an improved “Medicare national debates between students, Featheringill explains that if wages for every American who needs For All” single-payer public health Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, third Stein were to be elected, the government work is a right. Replacing unemployment insurance program, end police brutality partyA candidate Jill Stein is still increasing would buy student debt from various offices with employment offices, and by and mass incarceration, focus on women’s her efforts to be included in this year’s agencies, and then write off the debt by advancing workers rights to form unions, rights, LGBTQA rights, indigenous national debates. cancelling it. In turn, this would allow achieve workplace democracy, and keep a people’s rights and land, and increase the As this year’s Green Party candidate, debt-burdened students to have a fresh fair share of the wealth is a must. minimum wage to $15 an hour. Stein has been notorious in attempting to start. Being environmentally conscious is “Break up ‘too-big-to-fail’ banks and break the two-party system, and encourage The Green Party also takes many also guaranteed in the party’s platform. democratize the Federal Reserve. Reject voters to consider alternative options positions on education, given that they Featheringill explains that Stein and the gentrification as a model of economic besides the Democrats and Republicans. believe that education should not be Green Party “lead on a global treaty to development. Support development of FIU Student Media contacted Linda a privilege, but rather a right for all halt climate change.” worker and community cooperatives Featheringill, a spokesperson for Stein’s individuals seeking an education in the “End destructive energy extraction: and small businesses. Make Wall Street, campaign, to find out what students should United States. fracking, tar sands, offshore drilling, oil big corporations, and the rich pay their know about Stein and third-party options. “[She wants to] abolish student debt to trains, mountaintop removal, and uranium fair share of taxes,” said Featheringill “First, third party candidates have free a generation of Americans from debt mines. Protect our public lands, water when explaining Stein’s platform. to reach 15 percent in opinion polls to servitude,” said Featheringill. “Guarantee supplies, biological diversity, parks, “Create democratically run public banks be included in the official presidential tuition-free, world-class public education and pollinators. Label GMOs, and put a and utilities. Replace corporate trade debates,” said Featheringill. “This is true from preschool through university, [and] moratorium on GMOs and pesticides until agreements with fair trade agreements.” of both Stein and Johnson. And we’re end high stakes testing and public school they are proven safe,” said Featheringill Lastly, Stein believes in empowering working on it.” privatization.” on Stein’s platform. “Protect the rights of the people of the nation by abolishing Johnson and Stein, who wanted to Featheringill also says that students future generations.” corporate personhood. She wants to be represented in the national debates, and millennials alike may find Stein to be Stein also takes a hard stand on protect voters’ rights by establishing submitted a lawsuit that was recently a candidate they will agree with. immigration; a topic that has been a constitutional right to vote, to enact dismissed by a judge who upheld the One of the main focuses of the Green receiving a lot of attraction in this election electoral reform that would take out big regulation that candidates must average 15 Party, and from which they derived their season. Stein believes that there should money in elections and allow open debates percent support in the polls by September name, is increasing job creation while exist a path for citizenship for individuals that would allow the dismantling of the in order to be a part of the national debates. at the same time implementing ways to and families immigrating to the U.S.
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