USA Today Excerpt: Des Moines: Half a dozen people dressed as penguins to ask Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang about climate change Sunday at a Franklin Junior High town hall event. … The penguin outfits were a response to a Yang quote from another campaign event where he said that “people with financial struggles have the attitude that the penguins can wait in line.” Activists asked Yang to make climate change his top priority.
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By staff and wire reports, USA Today, May 1, 2019
A group of Iowans dressed as penguins asks Andrew Yang, entrepreneur and 2020 caucus candidate, about climate change during a town hall Sunday at Franklin Junior High School in Des Moines. (Photo: Kelsey Kremer/The Register)
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Des Moines: Half a dozen people dressed as penguins to ask Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang about climate change Sunday at a Franklin Junior High town hall event. The costumed questioners were there on behalf of Bold Iowa, a Democratic group founded by former state lawmaker Ed Fallon that organizes around climate change and environmental protection. The penguin outfits were a response to a Yang quote from another campaign event where he said that “people with financial struggles have the attitude that the penguins can wait in line.” Activists asked Yang to make climate change his top priority. Yang responded that climate change is important but that helping people with financial needs, through his plan to give all citizens a basic income, is the way to start fixing it.