Candidates for U S House of Representatives, 1st Congressional District
May 11, 2010 Primary Election
OFFICE U. S. House of Representatives
1st Congressional District
CANDIDATE NAME Cindy Hall
COUNTY Ohio
PARTY Republican
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Qualifications for the office of US Congress, come in different forms. As a 30 year business owner, involved in community revitalization, mediation, business growth, leadership, and Tea Party participation, I have no commitment to special interest groups or unions, whose political philosophy is in opposition to my conservative values.
QUESTION 1. What do you think is necessary to address the issue of climate change?
ANSWER
Climate change is in debate. It appears that some misinformation have been presented which puts a cloud on the debate. Clean air, water, and landfill are important topics and should be addressed, but not under the Obama agenda, which is primarily for control and power.
QUESTION 2. What steps would you advocate to bring the federal budget into balance?
ANSWER
To balance the federal budget is to reduce the size of government, eliminate agencies and departments, whose responsibility could be handled by state government.
OFFICE U. S. House of Representatives
1st Congressional District
CANDIDATE NAME Patricia VanGilder Levenson
COUNTY Ohio
PARTY Republican
Candidate did not reply
OFFICE U. S. House of Representatives
1st Congressional District
CANDIDATE NAME David B. McKinley
COUNTY Ohio
PARTY Republican
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
David McKinley is a small businessman from Wheeling. After spending twelve years supporting his family with three jobs, he started his own company – McKinley & Associates. He has since developed this one man operation into a successful company, which is considered one of the top architectural and engineering firms in (exceeded word limit)
QUESTION 1. What do you think is necessary to address the issue of climate change?
ANSWER
We need to stop the war on coal in West Virginia. The Obama / Pelosi / Mollohan agenda of reducing the amount of coal we produce and use in the United States not only exports our jobs to foreign countries like China, but it also exports pollution because those counties (exceeded word limit)
QUESTION 2. What steps would you advocate to bring the federal budget into balance?
ANSWER
First of all, we have to stop the spending. Earmarks should be eliminated and foreign aid reduced. We also need to rein in the millions of dollars in duplication that occurs between bureaucracies. A Republican-controlled Congress balanced the budget from 1998 until 2001 – we can do it again.
OFFICE U. S. House of Representatives
1st Congressional District
CANDIDATE NAME Sarah Minear
COUNTY Monongalia
PARTY Republican
Candidate did not reply
OFFICE U. S. House of Representatives
1st Congressional District
CANDIDATE NAME Alan B. Mollohan
COUNTY Marion
PARTY Democratic
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Alan B. Mollohan was born in Fairmont and has represented the First District for 28 years. His top priority is economic development. He works to defend the area’s traditional industries against unfair attacks and also to diversify its base through high-tech, aerospace, tourism and government-service activities.
QUESTION 1. What do you think is necessary to address the issue of climate change?
ANSWER
Coal generates half of our electricity today, and coal will generate half – or more – of our electricity 30 years from now. I will continue to bring federal dollars to West Virginia for research into carbon capture and sequestration that will guarantee a future for our coal industry.
QUESTION 2. What steps would you advocate to bring the federal budget into balance?
ANSWER
The health care bill will rein in the cost of health care and actually reduce the deficit by more than $100 billion over the next decade. We also need to return to the balanced fiscal policies President Clinton adopted that left the federal budget in surplus and promoted economic growth.
OFFICE U. S. House of Representatives
1st Congressional District
CANDIDATE NAME Mike Oliverio
COUNTY Monongalia
PARTY Democratic
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
The grandson of Italian immigrants, Mike Oliverio has put himself through undergraduate and graduate school at WVU, where he became student body president. He achieved the rank of captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. He served two years in the West Virginia House of Delegates and 16 in the Senate.
QUESTION 1. What do you think is necessary to address the issue of climate change?
ANSWER
I believe we must seek sensible legislation that gradually reduces emissions. But we must make absolutely certain that the regulations coming from this lawmaking will not seriously wound our core extraction industries. Cap and trade, for example, is not good for coal and, therefore, not good for West Virginia.
QUESTION 2. What steps would you advocate to bring the federal budget into balance?
ANSWER
The answer is not so much an action as it is a mindset that needs to change. Washington has got to curtail spending now. The Bush Administration and Congress lost sight of the PAYGO (Pay-As-You-Go) rule that served as a check and balance regarding the use of federal dollars.
OFFICE U. S. House of Representatives
1st Congressional District
CANDIDATE NAME Thomas Stark
COUNTY Wood
PARTY Republican
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Christian; businessman, 62; wife, Mary; five children, eight grandchildren; Resident – WV almost 13 years, produces custom millwork, furniture, and custom decorated apparel. Vietnam veteran. Bachelors – Barry University, short 7 credits for Masters in Organizational Management. 27 years in management and security operations including 15 with local government in FL.
QUESTION 1. What do you think is necessary to address the issue of climate change?
ANSWER
Global temperature changes are cyclical events tied far more conclusively to solar radiation fluctuations than they have been to human activity. It is more important to expand domestic energy supplies to provide greater security for our country than to force higher energy costs on our citizens based on unproven science.
QUESTION 2. What steps would you advocate to bring the federal budget into balance?
ANSWER
Our Constitution permits government to do only those specified things listed in it. Eliminate all departments/functions not required to do those things to balance the budget. Federal =highly limited; States = nearly unlimited; People = limited only by state laws & Constitution. Government shouldn’t be a nanny or control everything.
OFFICE U. S. House of Representatives
1st Congressional District
CANDIDATE NAME Mac Warner
COUNTY Monongalia
PARTY Republican
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Mac attended West Point military academy. He graduated in 1977, and was commissioned as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army. In 1979, Mac was one of 25 officers selected to attend law school for the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He returned to the College of Law to obtain his (Exceeded word limit)
QUESTION 1. What do you think is necessary to address the issue of climate change?
ANSWER
We must find a way to balance People, Planet and Profits. Cap and trade legislation, as an example, is based on unproven science, and Congress should place a moratorium on further legislation until there is an open debate and general consensus reached on the legitimacy of the underlying science.
QUESTION 2. What steps would you advocate to bring the federal budget into balance?
ANSWER
We have to stop the out-of-control wasteful government spending and use a budget just like families in West Virginia do. We must encourage entrepreneurship and the growth of small businesses. The way to do that is not by increasing taxes, but by doing just the opposite – we must cut taxes. (Exceeded word limit)
