This week, the Chico News & Review interviewed Audrey Denney about her run for Congress in California’s First Congressional District. Read the full interview with Ken Magri here.

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“I think that the Democratic Party too often has failed to live up to our values and that is why people are turned off. We keep electing Democrats who take corporate Political Action Committee (PAC) money and are beholding to the systems we’re trying to change.

We keep electing Democrats that think incrementalism leads to policy change. They confuse caution with leadership, instead of actually delivering on real change. What we need at this moment is a new generation of leaders who aren’t bought and paid for by corporations.

We need to completely reform and take profit out of our health system, so people can get care. We need to attack the housing crisis, so people aren’t spending 50-60% of their income on rent. We need a Democratic party that will deliver, and the only way we will get that is to elect Democrats who don’t take corporate money.”