THE OREGONIAN CANDIDATE
QUESTIONNAIRE
U.S.
SENATE
Please complete this
form and return it with a glossy color photograph no later than
Monday, March 22, to: Voter Guide, c/o
Politics Team, The Oregonian, 1320 S.W. Broadway,
Portland
OR
97221. You also can send it
by fax to 503-294-4019 or by e-mail to kmcdonald@news.oregonian.com. If
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Biographical
section
Name: Dr. Thomas Lee Abshier
Age (also include
birth date): Age: 52, DOB:
7/10/1951
City of
residence:
Portland
Occupation:
Education:
-
UCLA, BS
Electrical
Engineer,
1974
-
US Naval Nuclear Power
School, 1975
-
Naturopathic
Physician, ND, National
College of Naturopathic
Medicine, 1987
Public
service: Legislative
Committee, Naturopathic Association
Spouse/name: Dr. Margo Diann
Abshier
Number of children
(and ages):
none
Favorite way to
unwind: Walking, writing,
reading, travel, camping, home and computer repairs
What slogan would you
write for Oregon?
A New ERA:
Prosperity through Energy, Righteousness, & Accountability
Short-answer
questions
(Please answer each
question in no more than 50 words; longer responses will be
edited)
Should President
Bush's tax cuts be made permanent? Why or why
not?
- Yes. Taxes
concentrate resources for large group purchases.
- Our society now
supports many who cannot or do-not work. Maintaining this support
requires increased national & worldwide productivity.
- Solution: Massively
export solar energy technology (jobs at home) to the developing world
& raise everyone’s standard of living (increased
production).
What, if anything,
should be done to bring back the thousands of manufacturing jobs
Oregon has lost since the
recession?
- Reduce excessive
regulatory & tax burden.
- R&D &
deployment of Solar (renewable) technologies for energy generation. Begin establishing a
Solar-Hydrogen economy at the most rapid pace possible for
transportation sector.
- Given
Oregon’s high tech-silicon
infrastructure, promote Oregon as a center of
manufacturing for this new technology.
Would you push the
Bush administration to make any changes in how it has handled the postwar
situation in Iraq? Why or why
not?
- America should use its
influence as the liberator of
Iraq to insure the free
practice of religion without persecution.
- As a nation, we will
always be in danger living in a world with a people dedicated to our
destruction. Changing
hearts is the only permanent solution.
How well do you think
the No Child Left Behind education law has worked for
Oregon? Would you try to
change it? How?
- Feedback and
performance marker monitoring is good to monitor educational
outcome.
- We should also study
teachers, examine their methods, determine why they are effective, and
then duplicate their excellence by modeling.
- Discipline and
teaching of Christian moral standards should be returned to the
school.
With health care costs
now 15 percent of the economy, and fewer people having health insurance,
what would you do to control rising costs while trying to reduce the
number of Oregonians without insurance?
- Establish a national
anonymous feedback system to track the efficacy of various therapeutic
interventions (both Alternative & Conventional) Vs. cost.
- The drug paradigm of
medicine is unbalanced.
Medicine should also include an emphasis on preventive medicine
and nourishing strategies to body prevent genetic weakness and lifestyle
induced disease.
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