Gary Johnson’s Hard-Right Record

[UCmeNdc]

Gary Johnson spent his time as New Mexico’s governor championing private prisons and austerity. He’s not worth a protest vote.

But a few issues aside, Johnson’s politics are toxic. And it’s disingenuous for him to suggest that economics can be set aside as a discrete category. What he downplays as “economics” is actually the core of his political philosophy: his fierce belief that the “free market” knows best, and that most anything the state can do, private business can do better.

This was borne out during his tenure, from 1995 to 2003, as New Mexico’s Republican governor — the only political office he’s ever held. Those eight years were marked by drastic calls for austerity and a relentless drive to privatize or eliminate functions of state government.

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Johnson’s antagonism toward labor, which dated back to his days as a small-business owner. In 1991, a jury penalized his construction company $600,000 for dismissing an employee who reported safety concerns to OSHA.

He rejected minimum-wage increases and backed “right-to-work” bills. And in 1999, when public employee unions’ right to collectively bargain was set to expire, Johnson vetoed a bill to extend it. Thanks to Johnson’s actions, AFSCME’s Carter Bundy told me, ten thousand government workers saw their wages frozen. “He was incredibly hostile to labor,” said Morty Simon, an attorney who represented labor groups in the ’90s. “We were just totally shut out of the Gary Johnson administration. No contact, no nothing.”

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Johnson’s eagerness to slash programs was matched by a zeal to cut taxes — especially for the wealthy.


https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/gary-johnson-libertarian-president-new-mexico-governor-record/

Johnson’s faith in capitalist markets is unwavering. Votes yes on TPP
He votes No on repeal of Citizen's United
He votes yes to keep money into politics

[Mamajami]

1. Sorry, but he is another fraud.

[Vinca]

2. Bill Weld is no prize either.

I heard him say they wanted to get rid of Obamacare (of course) and that people in this country would always have access to medical care because of emergency rooms. Not the sharpest tacks.