Andy Ruff's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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- Council Member (Bloomington, IN) - At-Large
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Andy Ruff has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2020 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
Issue Positions
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- "It is not right that 44 million Americans have inadequate health insurance and 27.5 million Americans have no health insurance at all. it is unacceptable that 500,000 people go bankrupt due to medical expenses every year while the health insurance companies and pharmaceutical industry generate billions of dollars in profit. It is absurd that the United States spends twice as much on healthcare per person than other countries but has generally worse health outcomes. Andy Ruff believes we need to make healthcare a right in this country and guarantee all Americans high quality healthcare through a universal healthcare system as proposed in the Medicare for All Act of 2019." (www.andyruff.org)
- "More than 18 million Americans at high risk of Covid-19 lack adequate health insurance. That's beyond unacceptableâit's inhumane. We need a single-payer system that puts people over profits and guarantees quality healthcare for all. #M4A". (twitter.com)
- "The policies coming out of Washington D.C. donât represent the interests of ordinary Hoosiers. This is because billionaires and large corporations flood our elections with huge sums of money to get their preferred candidates elected. As elected officials in government, they use their power to give massive tax breaks to billionaires and implement trade policies that allow corporations to outsource jobs to other countries where labor is less regulated. Andy Ruff understands that Big Money is the greatest threat to democracy, and he supports legislation focused on campaign finance reform and election reform." (www.andyruff.org)
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- "Iâm 100% in support of small businesses taking any amount of government assistance needed to keep their employees and their families housed and healthy, but for a guy as wealthy as Joe Hollingsworth Jr. to take a six-figure loan meant for small businesses to survive only to retain a single employee seems excessive". (www.facebook.com)
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- "Andy Ruff supports policies aimed to decrease CO2 levels, such as carbon taxing, but it is clear that these policies wonât be enough. That is why Andy believes we need to develop the Green New Deal to radically transform our energy systems and speed our transition to renewable energy." (www.andyruff.org)
- "Andy Ruff supports policies aimed to decrease CO2 levels, such as carbon taxing, but it is clear that these policies wonât be enough. That is why Andy believes we need to develop the Green New Deal to radically transform our energy systems and speed our transition to renewable energy." (www.andyruff.org)
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