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THE SEAHAWK/NDVEMBER 2, 2000
Your 2000 presidential election voting
guide, presented as a public service of
Republican Party
PREStDENTIAL CANDIDATE: GEORGE W. BUSH
Vice-Presidential Candidate: DICK CHENEY
VISION: The Republican Party refundable health credit so they can
advances the founding principles of choose health plans and physicians that
freedom and limited government fit their needs, remove federal regula
George W. Bush
and the dignity
and worth of ev
ery individual.
These principles
point us toward
reforms in gov
ernment, a resto
ration of timeless
values, and a re
newal of our na
tional purpose.
EDUCA
TION reform
public schools,
close the achieve
ment gap, set high
standards, pro
mote character education, and ensure
school safety. Performance will be
measured annually, and parents will be
empowered with information and
choices.
ENVIRONMENT: maintain a
strong federal environmental role but
return authority to states and local com
munities, set high environmental stan
dards and provide market-based incen
tives so that these standards can be met/
exceeded, ensure that the federal gov-
errmient complies with all environmen
tal laws.
HEALTH CARE: make health
insurance affordable to low-income
families, provide them with a $2,000
tions that restrict state
flexibility in imple
menting programs for
the uninsured.
TAXES: the larg
est percentage cuts
will go to the lowest
income, surplus
should be returned to
the middle class by
cutting high marginal
rates, double the child
credit, eliminate death
tax, reduce marriage
penalty, and expand
Education Savings
Accounts and chari
table deductions.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND
TRADE: foreign policy must be
more than the management of crisis,
concentrate on enduring national inter
ests, expanding free trade within our
hemisphere, supporting the entry of
China/Taiwan into the World Trade Or
ganization, launching new rounds of
global trade talks, and enforcing
American laws against unfair trade
practices.
For further information:
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conventions/republican/features/plat-
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Democratic Party
Presidential Candidate - AL GDRE
Vice-Presidential Candidate - JDE LIEBERMAN
VISION: This party shall pro
vide an avenue for the free and open
expression of diverse ideas and
opinions, and shall work to promote
government which is responsive to
the legitimate needs, interests, and
aspirations of every man, woman,
and child in a
manner which
does not abrogate
or usurp human
dignity or those
fundamental
rights which are
the birthright of
all people citi
zens of a free and
democratic na
tion.
EDUCA
TION: hold
School’s ac- Al Gore
countable and
increase benefits for teachers and
treat them as professionals, supports
holding teachers accountable while
ensuring the teachers are well quali
fied
ENVIRONMENT: supports
stronger environmental standards,
preserving land and national parks,
supports an environmental trust
fund for the investment of new
technology’s
HEALTH CARE: wants
expand coverage for children, se
niors and small businesses,
strengthen Medicare by putting it in
a lockbox and providing a prescrip
tion drug benefit to assist seniors in
covering costs
TAXES: wants
to install Marriage
tax penalty relief and
expand earned in
come tax credit pro
viding tax relief for
stay at home parents
and provide targeted
tax relief for working
families
FOREIGN
AFFAIRS AND
TRADE : encour
age China to become
an open society and
integrate the institu
tions that promote, trade, the envi
ronment, and human rights, prevent
new physical threats to our national
security. Gore will boost pay and
benefits, invest in modern weapons
for the military, believes in opening
markets overseas to spread new in
dustries and make business more
competitive
For further information :
www.algore.com
www.ncdp.com
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keform Party:
To renew democracy, the Reform
Party’s mission is to stimulate citizen par
ticipation in the pohtical process, break
the two-party monopoly, and guarantee
free elections.
MISSION STATEMENT OF
REFORM PARTY:
We, the members of the Reform Party,
commit ourselves to reform our political
system. Together we wUl work to re
establish trust in our government by
electing ethical officials, dedicated to fis
cal responsibility and pohtical account
ability.
Adopted in Kansas City, Missouri at
Convention. No
vember 2,1997.
EDUCATION: bring back prayer
in school, supports tuition vouchers and
magnet, charter schools, abohsh the Dept,
of Education, rejects multicultural cur
ricula, oppose national testing and teach
ing standards
ENVIRONMENT: support poh-
cies for clean air, clean water, endangered
species, and land and water conservation,
also to conserve open spaces for human
enjoyment and natural habitats for wild
life, and eliminate subsidies to companies
that pollute natural resources
Presidential Candidate - PAT BUCHANAN
Vice-Presidential Candidate - EZDLA FOSTER
versal single-payer health program across
the states and the nation
CREATE A NEW TAX SYS
TEM: simplify tax code, shift to gradu
ated flat tax, and negative impact of IRS
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND
TRADE: Keep UN dues current,
meet int’l obligations and humanitar
ian needs, stay in world affairs as a
leader of the free world, restore normal
relations with Cuba, eliminate trade
deficit, pursue fair-trade policies, re
quire congressional accountability, re
quire trading partners to meet stan
dards in human rights, workers rights,
Jabo^nj_eimronmental laws
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Pat Buchanan
For further information:
www.reformparfv com