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Age: 78
Business: Sundance Industries
Title: Founder and president
Campaign Web site: linkforpres.com
After manufacturing wheat-grass juicers for more than 40 years in Newburgh, N.Y., with a little real estate development on the side, Alden Link thinks it's about time he ran for president. His key issue: more nuclear energy.
"If a miracle happens, and I got elected - I think I would have the country on a very good start to getting energy independent," Link says.
As well as liberalizing drug and immigration laws, Link would make some changes at the United Nations, which he says is not only anti-U.S. and anti-Israel, but also extremely wasteful. After moving the U.N. headquarters out of New York (he suggests it head to Somalia, where there are fewer opportunities to waste money on expensive lunches), Link would turn the Secretariat building into a hotel and casino.
"The city would get more revenue that way," he says.
On immigration and gay rights, Link's proposed policies are more liberal than those of his opponents for the nomination. They include worker visas for all undocumented aliens currently employed in the U.S. and a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, which prevents federal recognition of same-sex couples married by states.
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