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DATE June 19, 2002

OFFICE YOU ARE SEEKING U.S. Senate

1. Please list here basic biographical information such as education, occupation, family, etc.

Graduate of Wichita State University, BGS degree, Major Math.

Industrial Engineer, The Boeing Company, 26 years, Retired. Own and operate a farm for 18 years.

57 years old. Born in Wichita, KS. Single. One brother.

2. Please give your experience in elective or appointive office, or as a candidate for elective office.

Republican Primary in 1996 for the U.S. Senate. Libertarian Candidate for U.S. Senate in 1998. Republican Presidential candidate 2000.

3. If you are an incumbent, what are your accomplishments? What would be your priorities for this office?

N/A

4. If you are a challenger, what would be your priorities if elected?

Education, the Environment, Entitlements, and the Economy (TAXES).

5. What are the greatest challenges facing our country in the coming years?

The greatest challenge will be to keep the rest of the world from going ballistic. Disease and malnutrition are rampant among people of many countries. These same countries do not have an education system or economy or infrastructure. The breeding grounds for crazies. This is self-serving but I think we need to help these folks and fast before they do more serious damage to us. Domestically I fear the government’s encroachment on our freedom. How do we stop it?

6. What is your judgement on how the Bush administration is pursuing the war on terrorism?

No comment.

7. Some time in the next decade, revenue from the payroll tax will no longer cover the cost of Social Security benefits. What should be done about it?

I believe the current system is nothing but a shell game. I favor the establishment of something like a 401K. The devil would be in the details. First, only allow a certain percent to be placed in stock funds. Second, there would have to be automatic stop losses imposed. Third, who do you trust with that much leverage power over companies? Fourth, the government can’t touch it.

8. Should a prescription drug benefit be added to Medicare? If so, what’s the best way to structure and finance such a benefit?

NO. What are we up to now, 6 trillion dollars spent on these socialist boondoggles? Face it, they don’t work.

9. What is your opinion of President Bush’s plan to reorganize government to improve homeland security? Are there ways the plan should be modified?

I am fearful of a HomeLand Security agency. The failure was not with the FBI or CIA or whatever agency. As far as I can tell they had the information about 9/11. They just didn’t have anyone to coordinate. A new cabinet position? A new bureaucracy starting out with 170,000 employees? Can you imagine how big it will be in a decade? What freedoms are they going to try to take away? Modify it, I don’t want it.

10. Do you generally favor or oppose gun control?

I oppose gun control. I am a member of the National Rifle Association and support their views.

11. What specific reforms do you favor to improve federal income tax law? (Please discuss tax law, not the IRS). If you are an incumbent, what actions have you taken to improve tax law?

Discuss tax law? How many pages of federal income tax law are there now, fifteen or sixteen thousand? Repeal the laws and start over. I will consider any proposal that is simple and fair. Flat Tax or National Sales Tax. There are some choices already available from Steve Forbes, Rep. Dick Gephardt, and Rep. Jim Traficant.

12. What should the federal government do to strengthen the economy? Should President Bush’s tax cuts be made permanent? Should the phase-in be accelerated, or should cuts scheduled in the future be foregone?

Forbid government agencies from making rules/laws. There was an article in the Washington Times that stated the agencies input 4,132 rules in 2001. Congress and the President passed 108 laws in 2001. These rules are stifling business. Reduce taxes.

The tax cuts should be permanent. I can live with the phase-in as is.

 

13. How well do you believe welfare reform is proceeding? What changes - if any - do you believe need to be made in federal welfare laws?

It is not proceeding. They just shifted the burden to the States or other agencies. Get rid of it. It hasn’t reduced poverty according to government numbers. I still want to know why only 28 cents of every welfare dollar makes it to a recipient. If it was working don’t you think the number of people listed at poverty level would have decreased? If it was working don’t you think the overall Welfare budget would decrease? The budget has grown and more and more of us are looking at living in hovel because of it.

14. Do you support the proposed constitutional amendment, sometimes called the human life amendment, that states that life begins at conception and the fetus has all the rights and protections of a fully developed human being? Do you support the premise of this amendment that anything that interferes with the fertilized egg, including certain contraceptives, constitutes the taking of a life.

Is this a trick question? If a human fetus or human fertilized egg is not a human then what is it? A giraffe! Take that as a YES.

15. Do you support U. S. tax dollars for family planning, at home and abroad.

No.

16. Please describe your general philosophy about trade agreements with other countries. Are there specific changes that you would like to see in current American trade policy?

I believe in "Free and Fair" trade with the emphasis on "FAIR". The rightful responsibility for negotiating Trade Agreements is with Congress. I am opposed to "Fast Track". Too many times Trade Agreements are made from a position of weakness. We have what they want so we should be in a position of strength.

 

17. Does the federal government need to be more or less involved in improving the environment?

Less. This responsibility should be primarily the states. The EPA should be organized like the AG department. EPA people should reside alongside the County Agents and lend advice and help in solving environmental problems. They should not be a bunch of lawyers sitting in Washington that don't have a clue and so they spend their time meddling in social issues.

 

18. What is the role of the federal government in improving race relations?