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Leslie Cockburn

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Quick Facts
Personal Details

Education

  • Graduated, Yale University

Professional Experience

  • Graduated, Yale University
  • Producer, "60 Minutes," CBS News
  • Correspondent, "Frontline," PBS
  • Professor, Princeton University

Political Experience

  • Graduated, Yale University
  • Producer, "60 Minutes," CBS News
  • Correspondent, "Frontline," PBS
  • Professor, Princeton University
  • Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 5, 2018

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • Graduated, Yale University
  • Producer, "60 Minutes," CBS News
  • Correspondent, "Frontline," PBS
  • Professor, Princeton University
  • Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 5, 2018
  • Member, Krebser Fund Board
  • Member, Piedmont Environmental Council Board
Policy Positions

2021

Abortion

Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice

Budget

1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Unknown Position

2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- Unknown Position

Campaign Finance

Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position

Economy

1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Unknown Position

Education

Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position

Energy & Environment

1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Yes

2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes

Guns

Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes

Health Care

Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No

Immigration

1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Unknown Position

Marijuana

Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Unknown Position

National Security

1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Unknown Position

Speeches
Events

2018

Nov. 6
Cockburn Election Night Watch Party

Tue 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM EST

Three Notch'd Brewing Company Charlottesville, VA