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Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz Counties, CA March 2, 2004 Election
Candidates Answer Questions on the Issues
United States Representative; District 17; Democratic 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 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?

Answer from Art Dunn:

We must reorganize our financial system to promote jobs for Main street instead of promoting bubbles on Wall Street. We have eight million unemployed. IF WE PUT THEM TO WORK ON NEEDED INFRASTRUCTUR PROJECTS IT WOULD INCREASE THE TAX BASE AND RESTART OUR FALTERING ECONOMY.


2. What are your foreign policy priorities for the United States?

Answer from Art Dunn:

The IMF and other international financial institutions have fallen down on the job of building up countries. Economic development, in the long run, is the best way to defeat terrorism. We need new international agreements directed toward economic development that puts people to work on needed projects.


3. What are your priorities for the federal budget?

Answer from Art Dunn:

Heavy investment in needed infrastructure projects such as water management and development,mass transportation and energy including our electrical grid which is prcarious.WE HAD FOUTEEN MILLION UNEMPLOYED IN THE NINETEEN THIRTIES. WE PUT ALL THOSE PEOPLE TO WORK IN THE NINETEEN FORTIES TO WIN THE WAR. wE DO NOT NEED TO GO TO WAR TO PUT OUR PEOPLE TO WORK wE CAN BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE AT HOME AND AROUND THE WORLD


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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