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Comment by Laura Palmer

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Co-chair Green Party of Texas
The assurance of basic income could be a comfort to those who have anxiety about systemic transition; so that people need not fear losing their job in the oil and gas sector, because everyone will be allowed a basic living.
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Implement a universal basic income
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Disputed The quote is based on a real Laura Palmer statement on GP.org’s “State Profile: Texas,” but the submitted wording is not verbatim. The source attributes the passage to Palmer and reads with a leading omission: “... Still, I think the assurance of basic income ...,” not exactly “The assurance of basic income ...” as submitted; a Green Pages reprint from January 7, 2018 shows the same wording. I also did not find independent support for the claimed year 2016 from the quoted page itself. ([gp.org](https://www.gp.org/state_profile_tx)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Checks performed: - Author attribution: Laura Palmer is confirmed as Co-chair of Green Party of Texas (GPTX SEC co-chair) via multiple independent sources. - Vote alignment: The quote clearly advocates basic income as a safety net during transition. Vote "for" on statement "Implement a universal basic income" is correctly aligned. - Year: 2016 - older than 2025, but no more recent attributable quote from Laura Palmer on UBI was found in web searches, so kept as-is. - Source URL: The original URL (http://www.gp.org/state_profile_texas) returned 403. I located the updated canonical URL at https://www.gp.org/state_profile_tx (referenced in search results as "State Profile: Texas - www.gp.org") and updated the opinion's source_url accordingly. - Direct verification: gp.org blocks WebFetch access with HTTP 403, so I could not directly confirm the page content. However, a Google search for the quote text did return a snippet that attributes the quote near-verbatim to Palmer on gp.org's Texas state profile, which is strong circumstantial evidence. Since direct fetch of the source_url is blocked for AI, marking as ai_unverifiable per guidelines. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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