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LWV League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz Counties, CA November 4, 2008 Election
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Carol L. (Shepard) Brouillet
Answers Questions

Candidate for
United States Representative; District 14

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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of California and asked of all candidates for this office.
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Questions & Answers

1. What, if anything, do you believe the federal government should do to control global climate change?

Stop subsidizing the oil industry, reduce its use of fossil fuels, raise standards on vehicles to improve their milage and reduce their emissions, stop blocking cleaner energy producing techhnologies. Shift research towards clean, renewable energy.

2. What should the federal government do, if anything, to ensure that every American has health coverage?

Institute a single payer health care program, such as the Canadian system.

3. What, if anything, should the federal government do about immigration?

Stop subsidizing policies which drive people off their land in countries outside the US, such as Mexico, into poverty, and force them to leave their homes to seek work and money for their survival and their families survival. Do not criminalize workers, but be more rigorous in cracking down on businesses which take advantage of frightened labor which they are exploiting. The current policies encourage businesses to superexploit "undocumented immigrants" and businesses have become dependent on cheap labor.

Responses to questions asked of each candidate are reproduced as submitted to the League. 

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