League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
Marin, Sonoma County, CA June 5, 2012 Election
	H. Christian Gunderson Answers Questions Candidate for Member of the State Assembly; District 10

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Questions & Answers

1. How will you prioritize the budget choices the Legislature must make to align the state’s income and spending?

Instead of only thinking about taxing someone or firing someone work of creating more income coming into the budget.

My solutions include: have 25% of credit card fees go to our schools it would add billions for education and free up the state budget and require multinational banks to loan a 25% percentage of deposits to local small businesses.

If California brokered all health insurance this would decrease the cost for all small businesses and single families and still allow for as much shopping around as people would want. California brokering health insurance could save a family $2000-$5000 or more a year. And have a 5% commission from the health insurance to increase state revenues.

Another idea is to have California certify Canadian pharmaceutical websites for quality and safety. This would save 50 to 80% off of medications and certify that they are safe as walking across the street to local drugstore. By attaching a 5% safety fee to the participating websites, this would also increase revenues for California.

2. What types of changes or reforms, if any, do you think are important to make our state government function more effectively?

Putting the people first a head of any party, money, or group.

As your future Assembly Member, my vision is simple: provide transparency, stop bills that hurt Californians, support bills that help change the lives of 37 million Californians for the better. I plan to be pro-active and fight to make Marin and Sonoma an even better place to live and work. Thank you for your vote.

3. Fees for public higher education have gone up dramatically and funding has been cut. Is this a priority concern, and if so, what measures would you propose to address it?

Education must be our number one goal. My idea is to cap credit card rates at 20% and have 25% of the fees go to local schools. Banks helped get us into this mess, they can help us get out. And they would still make 15% profit on the almost free money from the FED. This one idea would raise billions for local schools and ease the budgets issues. Marin has 19 school districts, Sonoma 46 school districts I would consolidate a lot to cut overhead. In the IJ there was an article about how good the Finland schools are, the 1st thing they did was consolidate school districts and make the superintendent teach one day a week. Also pension reform.

4. What other major issues do you think the Legislature must address? What are your own priorities?

We need to decrease business regulations California puts out 40,000 news regulations a year, require multinational banks to loan a 25% percentage of deposits to local small businesses. Ask business leader specific ways to help business something the professional politician in Sacramento don't do. Stop the Farm Bill which may increase food prices 25-50% during harvest and crush and put 1000's of farmers out of business. Re fund the redevelopment agencies.

Support Gov. Brown's 12 point pension plan fully along with Marin's and Sonoma's pension reforms.

A number of things I would also wish to see are:

Make sure they never receive a pension bigger than their last paycheck. Retire when you want, but don't start collecting any pension until age 67½. Create a hybrid plan that limits unfunded mandates. Do something about courts which are limiting action on people still employed and have pensions that need to be modified. In short don't put a Band-Aid on a gaping pension wound.

Global Warming I would like to see a Palm Oil Ban it's the number one reason for the cutting rain forests around the world. Palm Oil is a food additive and it's unnecessary. Banning it's would save thousands and thousands of acres of rain forests and it would slow down Global Warming

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