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Virginia’s 5th District candidate Leslie Cockburn.

Hosts Jeff Lenert and Bob McAdams talk with Democratic candidate Leslie Cockburn about her run for Virginia’s 5th district. Topics include:

• Making voting more accessible to all Americans.
• Income disparity in America.
• Institutional racism.
• Prison reform.
• Gun control reform.
• Checking the President’s authority to declare war.
• Healthcare as a right.
• Protecting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
• Medicare for all.
• The power of collective bargaining.
• Student aid and debt.
• Renewable energy.
• Returning to the Paris Accord.
• The Atlantic coast pipeline and the Union Hill compressor station.
• Treating immigrants with respect.
• Infrastructure repair in America.
• Bringing Internet broadband to all of the 5th district.
• Protecting the rights of women.
• Financial reform and the national debt.
• Restoring public trust in government.
• Campaign finance reform.
• Protecting the first amendment and the free press.
• Respecting the Constitution of the United States of America.
• The impeachment process.
• Removing the door on the congressional office.
• How to volunteer with the Cockburn campaign.

A 94.7 WPVC the special presentation.

Leslie Cockburn

Hosts Jeff Lenert and Bob McAdams talk with Democratic candidate Leslie Cockburn about her run for Virginia’s 5th district. Topics include: Medicare-for-all and the Dominion pipeline. Also, changing police culture.

This is our final post in this series.

For four weeks in March, WPVC founder and station manager Jeff Lenert and Special Events coordinator Bob McAdams talk to Virginia 5th district candidates about their candidacy. Join him on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville Saturdays from 11 a.m. to Noon.