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Los Angeles County, CA March 2, 2004 Election
Candidates Answer Questions on the Issues
Member of the State Assembly; District 44; Republican Party


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 Budget Crisis, Education, Water, Health Insurance

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1. What does California need to do to address the current budget crisis?

Answer from Dave Wilcox:

Reduce spending.

Close down obsolete and redundant state agencies.

Reduce the number of non-essential state bureaucrats.


2. What should the state's priorities be for K-12 education? For the Community College System?

Answer from Dave Wilcox:

Restore control to parents and local schools.

Reform education funding through block grants.

Give parents more options for educating their children.


3. What measures would you support to address California's water needs?

Answer from Dave Wilcox:

Eliminate all favoritism to special interest groups impacted by deliver of water.

Do an objective study of the current status of the coming problems. Determine the root cause of the problem and solve it, rather than creating short-term "solutions" that simply postpone the crisis. By taking decisive action, we can prevent a water crisis similar to the electricity crisis of 2002.


4. What should the Legislature be doing to address the needs of Californians without health insurance?

Answer from Dave Wilcox:

Do everything possible to get state government out of the health-care business. Government interference is the primary problem.

Encourage medical savings accounts to help the free-market thrive and bring prices down through competition.


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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