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— Father's Name:
— Father's Occupation:
Favorite Book:
"Lest Innocent Blood be Shed" by Philip P. Hallie
Favorite President and Why:
Jimmy Carter- he didn't have a great presidency, I think because he was such an honest man, and people there didn't appreciate his honesty. He put solar panels on the White House- imagine how much further along in renewable energy we'd be at this point if the next President hadn't undone all the good Pres. Carter did in that field?
Favorite Quote:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
Favorite Sport:
Racquetball
— Mother's Name:
— Mother's Occupation:
Name one thing you would most like to do before you die:
I hope that I live long enough to see my daughter graduate college and marry whoever it is that she will love.
— Pets (include names):
Priority Issues:
Comprehensive Immigration reform- you can build as many walls as you like, but as El Chapo knows, tunnels are pretty easily made these days. Until we have comprehensive immigration reform, we'll continue to have a high number of undocumented workers.
The women and children coming from Central America are not immigrants, but refugees, and should be treated as such.
Healthcare- especially for women, protecting their right to make their own medical decisions and decisions about family planning
Taxes- the upper 1% needs to pay their fair share. The Inheritance Tax needs to stand, I will support changing base for inheritance tax from $5.1 million for an individual to $10.2 for individual or couple- not raising it for couple.
Reasonable gun safety laws, which includes not allowing armor piercing bullets to be sold to public and closing all gun show/internet loopholes. Everyone who buys a gun should have a background check.
Continuing to build a coalition in the Middle East to let Muslim countries provide the staffing for military action. We need to find the source of the weapons and ammunition for the radical groups and get the world to put pressure on whoever is providing the weapons and ammunition by the use of sanctions, if necessary. If their fancy guns are rendered useless by a lack of ammunition, it should be easier to root them out.
Reason for Seeking Public Office:
I heard our current Congressman speak at a town hall in August. He said the most important things to him were "faith, family and country", but then he spoke of things that have no foundation in the religion we both supposedly follow. I don't think that "sending the illegals" (as he said) back home and building a wall fall into "love your neighbor as yourself" very well. I don't think that talking about how we're "the most powerful country in the world" and how we can "pressure our allies to go along with us on sanctions on Iran" instead of supporting a treaty (that seems to have already worked some minor miracles) speaks of "faith"- maybe "faith" in power and weapons, but not faith in God.
In short, I'm tired of people standing up and saying they're Christians and then doing things so alien to what Jesus said to do. I think most Muslims feel the same way about the extremists who claim to follow their religion. I don't like people saying they're "Christian" and then doing and saying such horrible things, so that we are all painted with the broad brush of extremism and bigotry. It is time those of us who try very hard to follow what Jesus said to do, rather than just worshiping Him.
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
2. Other or expanded principles
- We need to bring down the number of abortions, by teaching medically accurate, age appropriate sex-education, making contraceptives available and free. Unwanted pregnancies are the biggest reason for abortion, so let's help stop unwanted pregnancies. "Plan B" should be readily available, especially for rape victims.We need more research into birth defects, to help those with wanted pregnancies have healthy children.
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Yes
2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- Yes
3. Other or expanded principles
- When the top money folks got a 2% tax cut, the those lower down got a 1%, it exacerbated wealth inequality. Change it back. Large businesses should either have tax loopholes/subsidies removed, or should have their taxes raised. Small C corps with taxable incomes less than $50,000 got a tax hike form 15% to 21%. This is bad for small businesses, and needs to be reversed.On Defense- we buy weapons military doesn't want/need, because weapons are manufactured in many CDs. If the military doesn't need them, CUT them! Retool those factories to manufacture solar panels or wind turbines.
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes
2. Other or expanded principles
- We should know the names of every donor to every committee.Citizens United is an abomination, and has subverted our election process. It must be overturned.
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No
3. Other or expanded principles
- Lowering corporate taxes doesn't necessarily put more money in the hands of workers, it usually puts more in the hands of shareholders. Corps have been reporting record profits for years, but they've not been moving that money to workers, just to shareholders, because dividends are how they're judged by Wall Street. Give larger tax cuts to those lower in the economic scale, and watch the economy grow.
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Yes
2. Other or expanded principles
- I don't know that we can do that Constitutionally, but we can incentivize them with election funds.
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
3. Other or expanded principles
- I support this because we've subsidized the fossil fuel industry for decades. It only seems fair (not to mention prudent) to move these subsidies/tax breaks to renewables. Even the military recognizes climate change as one of our greatest threats.
I support regulation in the form of a Carbon Fee & Dividend, like proposed by the Climate Change Lobby. This way, the fossil fuel companies will eventually pay the full cost of creating pollution, and will be encouraged to move to renewables.
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
2. Other or expanded principles
- gun safety: Our founders were very clear when they said wrote of "a well-regulated militia"- clearly, they never envisioned that we've had weapons of war capable of slaughtering hundreds of people in minutes. We can argue if they meant that only militias should have weapons or what, but weapons of war should never be in the hands of civilians as personal weapons. I grew up with a Daddy who hunted. We were taught that guns weren't toys, and that we weren't to touch them. Parents need to be more careful with guns, because too many children die from gun accidents.
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
2. Other or expanded principles
- It isn't the best we could have, but it was the best we could get at the time. We need to protect it for now, but move to Medicare-for-all opt in as I explained elsewhere in this questionnaire.
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- No
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
3. Other or expanded principles
- A wall will enrich only the smugglers and possibly some government officials on our side who are unethical.People have come here for basically 2 reasons:1. They want to work, and know there are jobs here than Americans won't do, or2. They're fleeing extreme violence, in which we had a hand in creating, through our support of murderous dictators in the past, and our antiquated drug laws now. I believe since we had a hand in creating the problems, we have a responsibility to help them now. With legalization or worker's permits, they should be treated more fairly.
1. Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Yes
2. Other or expanded principles
- Cannabis is not nearly as bad for the body as alcohol. I believe we should legalize recreational drugs, then regulate and tax them as we do alcohol. That way, with the tax revenue, we'll have more money for drug rehab beds for those who want/need them, and tax dollars for education and other much needed areas.
1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- No
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- No
3. Other or expanded principles
- This is tough one, and I know you're taking mostly about North Korea. The problem there is that they've got one, and if we go in, millions in South Korea, and possibly Japan are likely to die, and the nuclear fallout will hurt China, too. We need to look at the big picture here and understand all the dynamics. Blow-hard tweeting accomplishes nothing other than making the world more dangerous.Middle East, we're seen more as invaders, and that feeds into the extremists' propaganda. We shouldn't put our troops on the ground, and those who're there should be brought home.
Please explain in a total of 100 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- 1. Protecting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Raise the salary cap to $250,000 to bring in additional funds. Allow options buy-in, starting at 55, then dropping age every year or two til all can opt to buy in.2. Comprehensive Immigration Reform and NO WALL! No wall immediately saves at lest $18 billion. CIR will require a fee to apply for legal status, something similar to DACA, so should be revenue neutral.3. Moving tax cuts and subsidies from fossil fuels to renewables, should be revenue neutral.
