Comment by Jarrod Williams

We need a Universal Basic Income to provide a base level for everyone.
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Disputed I checked the cited Democracy Chronicles page. It attributes to Jarrod Williams’s campaign website the wording “...a Guaranteed Basic Income...” in a list of policies, but it does not contain the exact sentence “We need a Universal Basic Income to provide a base level for everyone.” The only place I found that exact sentence is a YouCongress entry, which itself labels the quote “AI Unverifiable” and cites the Democracy Chronicles page. That indicates the circulated quote is a rewritten or unsupported paraphrase, not a verified verbatim quotation from the cited source. ([democracychronicles.org](https://democracychronicles.org/nevada-socialist-partys-candidate/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Author verified: Jarrod Williams was a real 2016 US Senate candidate for Nevada running on the Nevada Socialist Party/independent ticket (confirmed via Ballotpedia, Democracy Chronicles, VoteSmart). The quote "We need a Universal Basic Income to provide a base level for everyone" is consistent with his democratic socialist platform. Vote direction "for" on "Implement a universal basic income" correctly matches the quote's pro-UBI stance. However, the source_url is a Facebook post (facebook.com/jarrod4nevada/posts/1164006416951899) which is blocked from automated access, so the exact quote text cannot be verified against the source. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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