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Date :2-15-12 Candidate: William E. Cimbrelo Party: Independent Campaign mailing address: P.O. Box 4, N. Brookfield, MA 01535 Best Contact: Bill Cimbrelo Web Site: http://billcimbrelo.com Campaign Manager: TBD Phone: Phone Number: (508)637-5203 Email: bill@billcimbrelo.com
Please return your completed questionnaire by: January 26, 2012 We only accept questionnaires via email. Please email the completed version to tony@progressivemass.com by January 26. Please feel free to be in touch with Tony Mack if you have any questions, by email or by phone, at 617-905-7706.
Please respond to each question. If your answer is conditional, please explain your conditions. 1.
** Stop paying subsidies to non-family owned entities. Help the smaller farmers only.
b. Do you support adding tougher enforcement of corporate tax breaks, for instance, by fighting for clawback provisions that allow the government to take back corporate subsidies if jobs are not created as promised by the companies? Yes
2.
Health Care
Over 83 million Americans are either uninsured or under-insured. That means that one out of every two adults is one catastrophic injury or illness away from bankruptcy. a. Do you support protecting and implementing the Affordable Care Act and building on this important national health care reform by adding a public option? Yes b. Do you support programs to aggressively eliminate health care disparities based on racial and ethnic background and gender? Yes c. What ideas, policies or legislation do you have in mind to support, or file in order either to make good quality health care accessible to all Americans, to reduce health care costs or both?
Single-payer public healthcare is essential for the good health and future of ALL Americans. The public option has been shown to be fiscally sound and provides coverage that is truly health insurance and not sick insurance because it draws on all Americans sick and healthy alike. The public options eliminates much of the brouhaha regarding coverage of contraception and/or abortion services. At no time, should the beliefs of an employer determine the level or type of coverage that an employee receives. Employers should pay a set amount into a blind pool. Employees, in the privacy of their own home, then select the coverage they want to have or need. At the employees discretion, contraceptive or abortion services can be included or excluded. Until and unless corpocracy and the legal corruption of our Congress is taken out of the equation, self-interested parties will continue to block this effort. One of my key efforts will be to expose and oust those that are tied to these corporate entities - directly or otherwise.
But I would support efforts to increase Social Security benefits to be in line with a realistic cost of living index, not one that is artificially created to benefit corporate America and the wealthy. b. Would you support restoring or increasing federal funding to repair existing public housing, to increase the number of rental housing vouchers, and to create new units of affordable housing, including lowincome housing? Yes d. Do you support continued funding for food stamps, extensions of unemployment insurance, transitional assistance to needy families, WIC, etc.? Yes
e. Do you support strengthening federal anti-predatory lending laws while at the same time allowing strong state or local anti-predatory lending laws to remain intact? As long as the state laws are equal or tougher than the federal mandates. Yes f. Do you support reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act? Yes
d. Do you oppose the federal "Secure Communities" policy which calls for local and state law enforcement personnel to enforce federal immigration law, leading to the deportation of immigrants who have not been convicted of any crime? Yes e. Do you oppose legislation to require voters to show government-issue photo IDs in order to vote?
I support a national identification card that eliminates the need for a Berlin-like wall between us and Mexico. All the major industrialized nations have such a photo ID, usually with a thumb print. No f. Do you oppose the Indefinite Detention provisions within the National Defense Authorization Bill? Yes g. Do you support a federal prohibition on racial profiling by all law enforcement officials? Yes h. Do you support a comprehensive plan to assist felons who want to reintegrate themselves into society that includes housing assistance, substance abuse treatment, and job training? Yes
b. Do you oppose mining our national parks and the surrounding areas for uranium or other rare-earth elements? Yes c. Do you support restoration of the Clean Water Act to its original intent, protecting all of the waterways of the United States. Yes
7. Education
a. Please pick your top three federal policy solutions to address the school achievement gap. ___ reducing collective bargaining rights of ___ charter schools teachers ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ race to the top smaller classrooms school voucher programs pilot schools bilingual education increased technology in classrooms ___ _2__ _1__ ___ increasing teacher pay maintaining standardized testing as a ___ graduation requirement ___ measure of teacher performance eliminating standardized testing repeal No Child Left Behind
__3_ other _Bring back the arts, social studies, vocational training, sports, music, etc. _________________________________________________________________ d. Do you support increased federal funding on grants and loans to make higher education more affordable to working families and their children? Higher education should be a right, not a privilege! Yes
8. Foreign Policy
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a. Do you support the closing of Guantanamo Bay prison? b. Do you support detainee trials in US Federal Courts rather than in military tribunals? c. Do you support the immediate withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan?
d. Do you believe the President has the obligation to get Congressional authorization for military action, including providing air support, such as in Libya this past year? Yes