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Jackson Sun: Constitution Party Candidates Share Goals, Ideals

By Katherine Burgess:

“What I want to do is change the conversation and allow people to understand that we don’t need a two-party system that tells us one thing on TV or in the papers, but then on the flip side when they go to vote on issues, they vote unconstitutionally,” [Shaun] Crowell said. “… There’s this two-party system that has a fix on our country, but yet they’re not really producing viable solutions to the problem.”

Crowell is running against incumbent Republican Bill Haslam, Democrat Charles Brown, Green Party candidate Isa Infante, Libertarian Daniel Lewis and independents Steve Coburn and John Hooker.

Mark Rawles, a candidate for the U.S. House, said he would encourage reduction of government and rewriting trade agreements.

Rawles has created a theory called “funnel economics,” that when a small and a large economy enter a free trade agreement, the smaller comes out on top.

Rawles said the government must put additional tariffs on imports, using that money to pay off debt to China and incentivize American companies to return to the United States.

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