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Carl Marlinga: “I'm pro choice and my opponent isn't.”

Featuring: Carl Marlinga, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Michigan, District 10

One-on-one with Democrat Carl Marlinga on Michigan's 10th Congressional District race

Published November 1, 2022 | Video Starts at 10:59

I guess for first, what are your views on abortion and do you think this is something that should be decided at a federal level? Well, first of all, I'm pro choice and my opponent isn't. I think this is the biggest difference between us. He's 100% anti choice, would not even allow an abortion in the case of a victim of rape or incest. (10:59–11:03)

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“Working with the University of Michigan Law School to identify and free people who were wrongfully accused and convicted.”
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“We broke the 200 year plus tradition of the peaceful transition of government in democracy without violence.”
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“We can start to transition our economy to the new green technologies that the world is waiting for.”
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“OPEC countries know that there is a serious chance that we can divest ourselves entirely from the need for oil and gas.”
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“We have the added benefit of cleaning up our planet's air and water.”
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“If we produce those [renewable energy products] here, we'll have factories producing them. We will have a high employment economy.”
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“Instead of defunding the police, we have to fund the police.”
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“As a circuit court judge, I headed up the mental health court to identify those who did not have to be in prison.”
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“Every one of our graduates who graduated did not come back and commit another crime.”
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“We save our prison system for the worst of the worst, for the most violent.”
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“We empty the prison system from the nonviolent drug offenders, from all of those suffering from emotional and mental health problems.”
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“We can reduce the total cost of our prison by making sure that we keep the prisons only for those who are serious threats to us.”
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“We reduce the crime rate when we take everybody else, or if we offer them enough help at treatment courts.”
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“Dangerous felons should not have guns.”
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“We should have universal background checks to make sure that people with felony records do not have guns.”
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“We have to have the red flag laws to allow there to be a due process hearing.”
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“There is no reason why the minimum age to purchase a gun should not be lifted from 18 to 21.”
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“There is no reason why weapons of war like [semi-automatic weapons with bump stocks] should be in the hands of ordinary people.”
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“Congress does have a duty to legislate in this area and make sure that those [semi-automatic weapons] are not sold in interstate commerce.”
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“My opponent...would not even allow an abortion in the case of a victim of rape or incest.”
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“Congress has a duty to restore the rights that were once enshrined in Roe versus Wade.”
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“We right now have a system of combined sewer overflow systems where drain water and sewage come into the same facility.”
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“In heavy rain events, partially treated sewage is dumped into our lakes.”
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“The only way to make sure that this doesn't happen is to separate [sewer and drain systems].”
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“We would have a magnificently effective public works project that would provide a lot of jobs as well as cleaning up the environment.”
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“There is no reason why Republicans and Democrats can't work on [ensuring clean drinking water, lakes, and air].”
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