{"id":12361,"date":"2017-10-27T18:58:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T22:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=12361"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:54:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T17:54:25","slug":"choice-26th-congressional-district-steven-machat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/choice-26th-congressional-district-steven-machat\/","title":{"rendered":"My Choice For The 26th Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Machat is a lawyer, music producer, film producer and accountant. He is also a man who began a controversial campaign to take on the two corporate parties. He started with a statewide campaign as an independent who ran against Marco Rubio and Patrick Murphy for the Senate and took both to court to get his right to debate them which he was never granted. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, Machat will soon get to debate Cuban-American Republican Senator Carlos Cubelo, and Democrat Debbie Mucarsell-Powell for district 26 as he is running for the Miami district as a Democrat next year.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Machat is not your average Democrat. He constantly travels to Cuba, especially after Trump’s announcement in June that he would return the embargo and travel restrictions that Former President Barack Obama lifted in 2014<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

I also travelled to Cuba and conducted an interview with Machat. I actually knew Machat since last year when I helped him get in touch with He-Man (or <\/span>Christian Schlaerth<\/span><\/strong><\/a>),<\/span> a candidate who ran for District 40, who has a similar campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I asked Machat on why he went to Cuba he told me, “I went to produce music to release worldwide with the Tree International Organization, to learn biological cures for human health conditions, instead of chemical pharmaceutical bandages.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Cuba is known to have among the best doctors in the hemisphere, many are sent to disaster zones worldwide, in spite of being a small developing nation under United States imposed embargo for 50 plus years, they have socialized medicine, and university covered by the state. <\/span><\/p>\n

Cuba also happens to have a higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality rate than the US, even though we are one of the richest countries. It\u2019s hard to go to Cuba and see this reality and come back and accept that “there is no money” for such a system. <\/span><\/p>\n

Machat wants to open the eyes of the youth to this reality.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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