Despite losing the money race to political veteran Judy Feder by a resounding 10-to-1 margin, Waterford’s Mike Turner has a bold prediction for the Democratic Party’s upcoming congressional primary:
“We will win,” he said. “My staff and I are already planning for the general election.”
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...Turner, a backer of Barack Obama, said he shuns political labels, preferring to call himself a "solutionist."
One solution he is offering to what he calls the "No. 1 crisis" facing the country, the war in Iraq, is to pull all American troops out of Iraq by the end of 2009.
"There has never been a definition of what our mission is in Iraq," he said.
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Turner also is a backer of a universal health-care plan that would make the federal government the country's sole insurance provider. To pay for such a plan, Turner said the government would have to raise taxes on the nation's top 5 percent of earners by 5 percent and on the top 1 percent of earners by 10 percent.
With respect to immigration reform, he opposes a plan to stretch a barrier between the United States and Mexico.
"A fence is the second dumbest idea by this administration," he said. Iraq being No. 1, he added.
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