League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
Sacramento County, CA March 2, 2004 Election
	Gaspar Roberto Garcia Answers Questions Candidate for Member of the State Assembly; District 9; Republican Party

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Questions & Answers

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

California needs to elect legislators that will commit to quitting their political bickering between their political parties and focus on balancing the budget and the people's business. California needs to elect people, like me, who are honest,courageous, competent, and are also characterized by integrity. California needs to elect legislators who will recognize the the time for politics as usual is past. California needs to elect legislators who will make California a magnet for companies looking for a place to grow. I advocate balanced budgets, prudent spending, and protection for the weakest among us.

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

For both the K-12 education and the Community College System, the state should prioritize the elimination of the gross unfairness in our educational funding process. The state should prioritize funding the needs of the classroom first, the needs of the school site second, and the needs of the school bureaucracy third and last. The state must also prioritize the development of a comprehensive job description for each teacher and each school employee such that the average California citizen can understand, in detail, what teachers and other school personnel are supposed to do in order to earn in the form of salary.

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

I will support expending state funds to insure that every individual living in California has available safe water to drink and use in meeting daily needs. I will also support making sure that California Farmers have available water to grow their crops and return to the public unneeded water in safe consumable form. I will support water rights of owners but act to protect the general public in questions of importance attendant to the stated overarching goals written above.

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

The legislature needs to advice all people that health is precious to have and that they should do some planning to get health services in the event that they should fail in their health. That the state is very interested in having a healthy citizenry but can not be the provider of health insurance, except in limited circumstances. The State, therefore, should provide employers with incentives, of various sorts, to encourage them to provide for the health needs of employees of their enterprises. The legislature should make it unlawful for insurance companies to make extraordinary income by providing health insurance to Californians.