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Student Mock Election Ends March 10 VOTERS’ PAMPHLET Washington State Elections Color your cover! *For Educational Use Only. Not an Official Voters’ Pamphlet. 2020 #FutureVoter 8 Presidential Candidates | Democratic Party Michael Bennet (Democratic Party Candidate) Contact Information Statement (720) 432-7682 To beat Donald Trump, we need to offer the opposite [email protected] of Donald Trump. That is what I represent. A different MichaelBennet.com temperament. A different set of values. A new direction that Elected Experience will unify the American people. Appointed to U.S. Senate from Colorado in 2009; Reelected Donald Trump doesn’t care about your kids or mine, and in 2010 and 2016 the future of our kids has to be part of every decision we Other Professional Experience make. Our kids don’t have time for us to waste fighting a Superintendent - Denver Public Schools; Chief of Staff - losing battle for the next 10 years on a Medicare for All plan Mayor of the City of Denver, CO; Managing Director - that would take insurance away from millions of people Investment Company; Attorney & Law Clerk and cost trillions of dollars. They don’t need more empty promises of free stuff. Instead, we need to cover everyone Education in three years and lower costs with the option of buying a Wesleyan University (BA); Yale University (JD) government healthcare plan; create economic opportunity; Community Service end childhood poverty; and build a climate solution that lasts No information submitted a generation. It’s up to us to leave more, not less, to the next generation, and that’s why I’m running for President — to expand opportunities to every American and build a better future for all of us. Candidate statements are printed exactly as submitted. The Office of the Secretary of State does not make corrections of any kind or verify statements for truth or fact. Presidential Candidates | Democratic Party 9 Joseph R. Biden (Democratic Party Candidate) Contact Information Statement [email protected] Former Vice President Joe Biden believes we are in a battle www.joebiden.com for the soul of this nation. The current president threatens Elected Experience everything we stand for by fanning the flames of hate groups, Vice President of the United States; United States Senator dividing Americans, and tearing the fabric of the country from Delaware; New Castle County Council apart. The stakes in this election couldn’t be higher, and nothing will change if we don’t defeat the current president. Other Professional Experience No information submitted Joe’s parents instilled in him that when you see an abuse of power, it’s your obligation to stand up to combat it. That’s Education motivated him his entire life - as Senator from Delaware for University of Delaware; Syracuse University College of Law 36 years and President Obama’s Vice President for 8 years. Community Service Joe stood shoulder to shoulder with President Obama to No information submitted pass the Affordable Care Act, expanding health care for 20 million people. He wrote and passed the Violence Against Women Act, when domestic violence was considered a family matter. He took on the NRA and won – twice – including passing the assault weapons ban. And, he started talking about climate change as a moral issue of our time far before it was a mainstream issue. His vision for America is based on equal opportunity for all. Treating everyone with dignity. A middle class where everyone - regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, or disability - comes along. As president, Joe will expand on the historic progress of the Obama-Biden administration and rebuild a strong, inclusive middle class. He’ll protect and build on Obamacare with a public option. He’ll restore our standing in the world. Joe has a proven ability to bring people together and to deliver for the middle class. At this defining moment in our nation’s history, it’s going to take Joe’s strong leadership to unite America and move our country forward. Washington’s Presidential Primary was first created in 1989 by Initiative 99, a petition submitted to the Legislature. For this election only, you must mark and sign a party declaration for your vote to count. 10 Presidential Candidates | Democratic Party Michael Bloomberg (Democratic Party Candidate) Contact Information Statement (212) 205-7446 Mike Bloomberg is an entrepreneur and three-term [email protected] mayor of New York City whose innovations in business, www.mikebloomberg.com government, and philanthropy have made him a pioneering Elected Experience leader on critical issues facing America and the world. He Mayor of New York City, 2002-2013 has launched major coalitions to save and improve lives, including America’s largest campaigns to prevent gun Other Professional Experience violence and fight the climate crisis, and he has championed Founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies efforts to fix our immigration system. Education Elected mayor just weeks after the attacks of September 11, BS from Johns Hopkins University; MBA from Harvard 2001, Mike led New York City’s resurgence. He spearheaded Business School the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan, fought poverty with new Community Service programs that became national models, and turned around As a boy, Mike became one of the youngest ever Eagle a failing school system. Mike reduced carbon emissions by Scouts, and he has made giving back a priority throughout 14 percent, increased New Yorkers’ life expectancy by three his career. He launched national grassroots coalitions to years, and cut crime by a third while reducing incarceration take on pressing challenges, and he created the nation’s by 39 percent. Despite the national recession, he led the city first Chief Service Officer role in New York City, mobilizing to record job growth. millions of volunteers and helping more than 270 cities After his third term, Mike resumed leadership of Bloomberg engage citizens in service. Bloomberg Philanthropies works LP, the technology and media company he founded in 1981. to save and improve lives in 510 cities and 129 countries. Bloomberg LP now employs some 20,000 people. Through Bloomberg Philanthropies, Mike applies a unique, data-driven approach to drive progress in five focus areas – education, the environment, public health, and government innovation, and the arts. He has given away $10 billion. Mike grew up in a middle-class home in Medford, Massachusetts. He took out government loans and worked his way through school, graduating from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School. He is the father of two daughters, Emma and Georgina, and has two grandchildren. Candidate statements are printed exactly as submitted. The Office of the Secretary of State does not make corrections of any kind or verify statements for truth or fact. Presidential Candidates | Democratic Party 11 Cory Booker (Democratic Party Candidate) Contact Information Statement (973) 310-7253 Cory Booker has made it his mission to bring people [email protected] together to do uncommon things since he began his career www.corybooker.com in public service. As a baby, his parents moved their family Elected Experience to Harrington Park, NJ and battledhousing discrimination to As the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate get Cory and his brother into good public schools. Cory’s from NJ, Cory helped pass laws that are combating mass dad always told him that life isn’t about the degrees you incarceration and directing investment into vulnerable get – it’s about the service you give. And Cory has carried communities. From 2006 to 2013, he served as Newark’s those values with him throughout his career, from his time as mayor, where he united a diverse coalition to make change. Newark’s mayor, to his 2016 DNC convention speech, to the launch of this campaign back in February 2019. Other Professional Experience Cory founded a nonprofit that provided legal aid and other This election is about how we can pull together and heal services for low-income families. America after years of Trump’s hatred and division. We need a president who can repair the damage Trump has done Education and make justice and opportunity real for every American. Stanford University, followed by the University of Oxford on We need a president who is unafraid to tackle the biggest a Rhodes Scholarship and Yale Law School. problems in our country, like the gun violence epidemic, the Community Service crisis of climate change, a broken criminal justice system, Service and commitment to giving back to his community and an immigration system that has separated children from have and always will be a central part of Cory’s life. their families. Throughout this campaign, Cory has shown that he has the record, the ideas, and the commitment to take these challenges head on, because he has spent his entire career running at the toughest challenges and bringing people together to accomplish things others said were impossible. In the Senate, he has been on the front lines of efforts to increase wages and ensure hard work is fairly rewarded, expand economic opportunity and protect the rights of all Americans to breathe clean air and drink clean water. When Democrats unite around our shared values, we’ll more than take back the White House – we will restore our sense of common purpose, expanding opportunity, and ensuring justice for every American. Washington’s Presidential Primary was first created in 1989 by Initiative 99, a petition submitted to the Legislature. For this election only, you must mark and sign a party declaration for your vote to count. 12 Presidential Candidates | Democratic Party Pete Buttigieg (Democratic Party Candidate) Contact Information Statement [email protected] In an election that will decide who will lead the day after peteforamerica.com Donald Trump leaves office, Pete Buttigieg will be a Elected Experience president ready to pick up the pieces of our divided nation, Mayor of South Bend, Indiana gather up an American majority that is hungry for change, and launch the era that must come next.