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To provide disney line cruise readers with some 11th-hour inspiration prior to the June 5 Presidential Primary disney line cruise Election (at least those who didn't vote absentee), the  La Jolla Light posed five questions to the candidates running for San Diego s 52nd congressional district.  We hope their responses offer an informative, final glimpse at the platforms and personalities of those running to represent La Jolla.
My legislation, H.R. 909, The Beach Act, which addresses water quality; H.R. 1036, the Job Creation and Innovation Investment disney line cruise Act of 2011; and H.R. 4056, the Science and Technology disney line cruise Regulatory Relief Act of 2012, all show my efforts to protect each of those.
1) A. Support of business in La Jolla to entice more tourism, disney line cruise which would include the completion of the 22-year planned (Belvedere) Promenade. This costs money and that is the problem with the San Diego City Council controlling us. This project to revitalize the central business area was reapproved in 2004 and became a part of the La Jolla Community Plan and approved disney line cruise by the La Jolla Town Council (LJTC). When another agency controls your goal, it is a primary concern.
B. Guano in the La Jolla Cove and the stench and toxicity emanating from this: It is a problem for our community, is a deterrent to tourism and this is directly related to business. disney line cruise Cleanup has about six to 10 regulatory hurdles to overcome. It can be accomplished disney line cruise with persistence time and legal input.
This is a task that we can solicit help through the Department of the Interior and accomplish. I shall be your advocate and work with the Department of the Interior to accomplish this and have a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Permit issued.
C. Eliminate rush hour traffic congestion with a safe, southbound exit from I-5 onto 52 West into La Jolla and increase parking for more customer access in the business area. Removal of stop signs and the inclusion of traffic circles on Torrey Pines Road is an amazing way to allow a greater continuous flow of traffic through to ingress and egress La Jolla Shores and La Jolla Village. We need to engineer, disney line cruise model it and implement it at all the congested intersections on Torrey Pines Road. The parking issue is critical and must be addressed with diagonal parking on both sides of streets, adding additional parking and reducing extensive delays disney line cruise as people attempt to parallel-park.
4) Abraham Lincoln is the "man." His strength, intelligence and ability to lead us to a unified nation took over 100 years to obtain. disney line cruise Lincoln's understanding of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights still transcends us.
2) No, in this current, difficult economic environment the best measure in the short term is to elect new public officials who can restore responsible government. If La Jolla seceded it would just duplicate all the difficulties San Diego experiences. The key is to change business as usual within government administration.
5) I am not a hateful person so detest is too strong of a word. I would say I most dislike disney line cruise man's inhumanity to man. In that regard, the terrorist threat to Americans and the people of the world is one of my greatest concerns.
1) A. Jobs and the economy: Like the rest of the country, La Jolla suffers from the economic downturn. Our small businesses disney line cruise — owned, run and patronized disney line cruise by locals — provide jobs, an important part of our local tax base, and a vibrant village for our residents. La Jolla will prosper as our national economy recovers. To help, I have proposed an "Invest in America" strategy that I will support in Congress calling for investment in infrastructure, education and a new energy strategy as ways to get people to work right now and keep America competitive into the next century. It can be viewed disney line cruise here .
B. Basic scientific research funding: disney line cruise Every day here in La Jolla, researchers at Salk, Scripps, Sanford-Burnham, UCSD and others use grants disney line cruise from the National Institutes of Health to find cures to Alzheimer's disease and cancer. These scientific investments have transformed our local economy while raising the quality of life for millions worldwide.
According to a recent study, high technology, which includes biotech and life sciences, accounts for an economic impact of $41.5 billion and about 11 percent of the region's total workforce. disney line cruise But the current Congress is backsliding on these investments. Funding for science is not keeping pace with inflation, and is even being cut. As a member of Congress, I will fight for adequate and consistent funding for scientific research.
C. Water quality: La Jollans love our beaches. They add tremendously to our quality of life and we spend a great deal of time there with friends and family. Our children grow up swimming in the ocean. When I was elected to the City Council in 2000, San Diego had 365 sewer spills – one per day! The New York Times travel section had recently featured San Diego beaches not as attractions, but as polluted areas to be avoided. As co-chair of the city s Clean Water Task Force, I led an effort to rehabilitate our long-neglected sewer system and to clean the system for the first time in over 15 years. We added low flow sewage diverters along the coast, to capture sewage spills before they reach the ocean. As a result, by 2007, we had reduced sewer spills and beach closure days by 80 percent, disney line cruise and our beaches now consistently earn A grades for water quality in the annual survey from Heal the Bay. As a former environmental lawyer, I understand the importance disney line cruise of the Clean Water Act in protecting disney line cruise our beaches and bays and I will fight to maintain its effectiveness.
2) It is hard for me to imagine a proposal for secession that would get the required disney line cruise positive vote from La Jollans and also a positive vote from the rest of the City. When I represented La Jolla on the City Council, I ensured that the City provided data and cooperation to "Independent La Jolla" disney line cruise advocates, but I focused on working within the city to improve our community, at the "throat," in Bird Rock, on Fire Station 13 and by undergrounding utility lines.
3) I have always aspired to be in public service, so this is no sacrifice for me. Because of the election, though, I haven't been on my bicycle in about two months. I hope to do some more riding in the summer.
4) I admire most those who fought fearlessly for positive change disney line cruise on behalf of others: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt. I am also greatly inspired by my dad, Harvey, a Lutheran minister disney line cruise who fought for civil rights and housing desegregation in the suburbs of Detroit where I grew up in the 1960s.
These seem to be some of the most pressing problems in the community. As these are largely products of the city's fiscal problems over the last decade, we need to pressure city officials to make basic infrastructure maintenance a priority over other projects. That said, I also see reinvestment in our nation's infrastructure is as a critical component of our economic recovery and would work to secure available funding for local projects.
2) I would support the voters' decision on this issue. Succession would be an extremely expensive undertaking, requiring a large investment in resources to pay for infrastructure maintenance, public safety and other amenities like parks and libraries. Any ballot language would need to fully and accurately address the related costs, so residents understand what's at stake for their pocketbooks.
3) I've been fortunate in having the opportunity to combine many of my aspirations with my legislative work, but I would enjoy a little more time for outdoor recreation and fitness activities, including hiking, boating and SCUBA.
1) A. Jobs: We need to encourage private sector investment in San Diego to bring sustainable jobs back to the community. The exodus of technology and manufacturing disney line cruise companies will continue unless we address the regulatory, tax and paperwork required to grow a business in San Diego.
B. Federal Spending: The federal debt going to $23 trillion disney line cruise in the next 10 years will not allow citizens to preserve the American dream for future generations. We need to: 1) do away with baseline disney line cruise budgeting; 2) do away with spend or lose; 3) eliminate block grants; 4) take the GAO report that talks of 1,500 duplicative, fragmented and ineffective programs and reduce them; and 5) use the10th Amendment to the Constitution to restore sanity to federal spending.
C. Restoring trust in Congress: I take no PAC money and will represent the best interests of the citizens in the 52nd District. I have proposed the following to demonstrate leadership by example: 1) have Congressmen take a 15 percent pay cut; 2) cut the staff from 22 to 12 3) cut the franking privilege from $250,000 to $25,000 using technology and e-mail; 4) take no federal disney line cruise pension; 5) put personal asset in a private trust.
5) People who tell me that career politicians disney line cruise are the only ones who can solve the mess that career politicians have created. These problems we face can be solved using common sense, the Constitution and Judeo-Christian principles. We need to send people to Washington who do not take PAC money, have business skills and want to serve and not self-serve.
1) A. Unemployment: Unemployment is at a 60-year high! Companies are bringing over cheap labor from India/China on Federal H-1 visas approved by your Congress. These policies serve to replace American jobs at a cheaper rate, then put the middle disney line cruise class on permanent unemployment at the cost of the states.
B. Federal deficit: The federal deficit is growing and neither party is taking responsibility to address the issue. Instead Congress voted to extend the deficit to more than $15.5 trillion dollars, making your money worth less, at the cost of your children and grandchildren!
C. Current lending policies: Under current policies, foreclosures and bankruptcies remain high. Credit markets decreased by less than $3.5 trillion, and the U.S. dollar is devaluating every day. Incomes are going down, a