The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of California and asked of all candidates for this office.
See below for questions on
Federal Resources,
Foreign Policy,
Federal Budget
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1. What can be done to ensure that California gets its fair share of federal resources?
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Answer from Gary M. Waayers:
As a state, we the people of California need to reach
consensus where California needs to be two to three
decades from now. The entire Congressional
delegation from California needs to work together to
achieve this vision. As a block our delegation can bing
the resources needed to achieve the people's goals.
2. What are your foreign policy priorities for the United States?
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Answer from Gary M. Waayers:
To work in a peaceful, cooperative, nonviolent way with
all other nations to establish peace and justice. We
need to return to the United Nations as full partners as
in a marriage. We are interdependent with the rest of
the world socially, environmentally, and economicly. We
have no choice but to make the marriage work. Being
violent will not accelerate the process of achieving
peace or justice.
3. What are your priorities for the federal budget?
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Answer from Gary M. Waayers:
To ensure health, education, and safety programs are
fully funded. To make sure the Armed Forces have the
training and equipment needed to defend our country.
To provide the funds needed to transistion a significant
percentage of our oil based energy policies to
renewables before oil production peaks in the next
decade and to decrease our country's impact on global
warming. To provide for the repair and upgrades in
infrastructure needed to carry out interstate commerce.
To provide the means to ensure the health and
sustainablity of our environment and all our resources.
To change the tax codes to ensure that all individuals
and businesses that use our infrastructure, our
resources, our workers, pay their fair share of taxes.
Our economy is based on capitalism. But our great
country is more then the economy. We must find ways
to have the great gains of capitalism balance with
the needs of all the other aspects of our country. Those
that have gained the most from our economic system
need to put the most back to help our country stay
great.
Responses to questions asked of each candidate
are reproduced as submitted to the League.
The order of the candidates is random and changes daily.
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