Meet
the candidates
Iris
Adam: Natural Law
Abortion
— Pro-choice.
Budget/Economy
— She supports reducing government regulations
on the private sector to encourage investment
and economic expansion. She advocates giving
tax credits for businesses that provide
child care for their employees and increasing
state funds to provide child care for children
in low-income working families.
Crime
— She advocates a tough penal code paired
with scientifically proven programs to reduce
stress in the individual and throughout
society in an effort to deter crime.
Education
— She supports the utilization of scientifically
proven educational programs that promote
creative potential in school children.
Energy
— She advocates the use of nonpolluting
energy sources such as geothermal, wind,
solar and hydrogen fuel cells.
Health
Care — She supports prevention-oriented
health programs to reduce disease and encourage
health and vitality.
Welfare
— Unknown. However, Natural Law does encourage
short-term assistance as well as reforms
that incentivize work.
Photo
and information was taken from IrisAdam.com
and natural-law.org.
 Peter
Miguel Camejo: Green
Abortion
— Pro-choice. He also defends family planning.
Budget/Economy
— He wants to lessen the deficit by enacting
a series of tax increases, one of which
would affect those with yearly earnings
of $260,000 or more.
Crime
— He opposes the death penalty and supports
the implementation of penalties other than
incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
He wants to amend the “Three Strikes” Law
so that it will be applied only when the
third offense is a serious or violent felony.
Education
— He advocates increasing state funds for
hiring additional teachers, raising teacher
salaries and aiding Head Start programs.
Energy
— He wants to initiate a program to develop
renewable solar energy.
Health
Care — He supports the patient’s
right to sue their HMOs as well as the right
to appeal to an administrative board of
specialists when services are denied.
Welfare
— He wants to increase employment and job-training
programs for welfare recipients as well
as provide child care for welfare recipients
who work.
Photo
and information was taken from votecamejo.org.
 Gary
Copeland: Libertarian
Abortion
— He opposes government funding of abortions.
The decision of abortion should be left
up to the individual.
Budget/Economy
— He wants to cut the State budget and abolish
the income tax.
Crime
— He supports ending drug prohibition and
placing a 10 percent tax on drugs in order
to fund law enforcement and medical vouchers.
The “Three Strikes” Law should be amended
to exclude all non-violent crimes.
Education
— He believes that parents should be able
to keep their tax dollars in order to send
their children to the schools of their choice.
Energy
— He opposes government involvement in creating
supply-and-demand.
Health
Care — He supports implementation
of a system of medical vouchers that low-income
families could use to purchase health care
or insurance.
Welfare
— Unknown. However, the Libertarian Party
supports the idea that welfare should be
abolished, placing financial responsibility
on church, community and charitable organizations.
Photo and information was taken from
lpwolfpack.net/copeland and lp.org.
 Gray
Davis: Democrat
Abortion
— Pro-choice.
Budget/Economy
— He has worked to provide tax relief for
businesses and agriculture, expand international
trade with other nations and provide jobs
to lessen the unemployment rate.
Crime
— He wants to continue to increase funding
to law enforcement for technological equipment
upgrades. He has helped to activate California’s
AMBER Alert System.
Education
— He favors reducing class size and more
accountability for test scores. He has increased
funding to California’s schools.
Energy
— He supports reducing the wholesale cost
of electricity and wants to keep consumer
rates at a reasonable level. He wants to
maintain solvency of investor-owned utilities.
Health
Care — He has developed the Health
Family Program, which provided health insurance
to uninsured children. He believes that
patients should be able to sue their HMOs.
Welfare
— Unknown (not indicated on California Governor
Web site or Official Voter Information Guide).
Photo and information were taken from
governor.ca.gov. Information was also taken
from the Official Voter Information Guide.
 Reinhold
Gulke: American Independent
Abortion
— Pro-life. If abortion is to remain
legal, he wants mandatory pre-abortion counseling
to be administered.
Budget/Economy
— He supports eliminating taxpayer subsidy
of energy purchases for giant utility corporations
as well as halting tax funding of all benefits
of illegal aliens.
Crime
— He wants to uphold the “Three Strikes”
Law, but only for violent or aggravated
crimes.
Education
— He believes that parents should be able
to choose public schools, private schools
or home schooling for their children.
Energy
— He wants the laws to be re-written to
encourage development of new energy sources.
Consumers and taxpayers should be protected,
not the giant utilities.
Health
Care — He believes that health
care decisions should be made only by the
patient and his or her doctor without outside
interference from insurance companies or
government.
Welfare
— He wants welfare to be the sole responsibility
of churches and charitable organizations.
Photo and information were taken from
gulke.com.
 Bill
Simon: Republican
Abortion
— Unknown. However, the Republican Party
generally holds a pro-life stance.
Budget/Economy
— He wants to cut unnecessary programs and
reduce government bureaucracy. He would
like the State to establish a working capital
reserve to aid in balancing revenue and
maintain a separate reserve for state emergencies.
Crime
— He will enforce the “Three Strikes” Law
and the “10-20-Life” Law, which targets
criminals who use guns.
Education
— He supports holding schools accountable
for their test scores and cutting state
and district bureaucracies. He believes
that parents, schools and teachers should
be able to determine an educational program
that best suits their children.
Energy
— He opposes allowing the State to buy energy.
He wants to transfer existing contracts
to the utilities. He promotes the use of
alternative energy.
Health Care — He believes that
patients who want only to purchase catastrophic
health coverage should be able to.
Welfare
— Unknown (not indicated on Bill Simon for
Governor Web site).
Photo and information were taken from
simonforgovernor.com.
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