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* What is the most pressing issue in the state?
State: Out-of-control Sacramento spending and resultant budget
crisis aggravated by out-of-control illegal immigration.
Local: impact of out-of-control state spending on local tax base,
crippling efforts to roll back teenage/youth drug use and efforts to
address substandard education.
* How will you be able to address the concerns of Huntington Beach
in Washington?
The exact same way I did for years representing Orange County in
Congress. With the best constituent service in the California
delegation -- top-notch staff of dedicated public servants. My
reputation in Congress as a “hard-worker-second-to-none” was earned
the hard way -- through long hours.
* What makes you the best person for the job?
I never took influence-peddling tainted donations. Self-evident
life experience defending faith, family and freedom as a husband,
dad, grandfather, pilot, U.S. Air Force officer and
communicator/broadcaster. World traveled beyond any current member as
journalist/House intelligence committee member.
* What one thing would you hope to accomplish while in office?
With wisdom and scholarship to bring my life experience to bear in
the no-end-in-sight war on terror. “Knowing your enemy” is a powerful
start!
* How do you see yourself working with your party, in Congress and
with the White House?
My two best friends in Congress are chairmen -- Chairman of Armed
Services Duncan Hunter, Chairman of International Affairs Henry Hyde.
Personal relationship with the Bush family equal to any member of
Congress.
* How do you rate the federal government’s handling of homeland
security? What else can be done, if anything, to make the U.S. more
secure from terrorism?
Qualified B grade. The government’s best moves at preventing
another attack must be kept secret, therefore, history may give Pres.
Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft an A+.
Our U.S. government must tell the total truth about the extent
throughout the Muslim world -- Morocco to Mindanao -- of hate-filled
anti-West radical Islamic teaching through schools and their press.
Anti-Semitism has surpassed the Hitler gang’s lying and libel.
* What’s your opinion of the president’s proposed guest worker
program? How should the federal government address illegal
immigration?
Any Democrat “proposals” are nightmarishly worse, but the
administration “proposal” is so badly flawed that it would create an
accelerated invasion beyond what the politicians “tolerate” now. This
proposal would begin another move across all our borders with the
migratory magnetic force of gravity -- it has already begun. Ask our
thin line of border control officers. We must repair our border
integrity whatever the price, it would be preventative fiscal sanity.
* Is there too much spending in the president’s budget proposal?
How can the deficit be reduced, and should Americans be concerned
about it?
Federal spending is explosive and beyond precedent (and that does
not include Iraq and Afghanistan liberation costs.) Congress is on a
spending binge. I swear I will work tirelessly to stop and roll back
discretionary spending increases.
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