Andy Caffrey
Democrat | California
Candidate Profile
Liberal
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Andy Caffrey
Party
Democrat
Election Year
2018
Election
Primary
Race
U.S. Rep., Dist. 2
Incumbent
No
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EDUCATION
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 1980
WORK & MILITARY
U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Midshipman, 1975
AFFILIATIONS
Healy Senior Center, Board of Directors, Co-Creative Center
Board of Directors, Secretary, Treasurer, Citizens Party, Founder-San Diego County Steering Committee member
KMUD-FM, Talk & Music Programmer, Mateel Community Center
Volunteer, San Diego Peace Coalition, Committee Member
Garberville Homeless & Veterans Emergency Shelter, Manager
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
(Candidate did not provide)
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
House of Representatives, 2012
House of Representatives, 2014
Race
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Disagree
I am in favor of construction of a wall and other necessary infrastructure on our border that gives complete control over entering and exiting the United States.
Strongly Disagree
Governments should not discriminate against individuals, organizations or small businesses because of their belief that marriage is only a union of one man and one woman.
Disagree
Governments should define marriage as between one man and one woman; no other definition of marriage should be legalized or supported with taxpayer or public funds.
Strongly Disagree
It is the government’s responsibility to be sure everyone has a livable income.
Strongly Agree
It is the government’s responsibility to be sure everyone has health insurance.
Strongly Agree
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality which permitted our system of limited government.
Disagree
More restrictive gun control is needed to protect public safety.
Agree
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Agree
Additional regulations are needed to prevent climate change.
Strongly Agree
Religious liberty is at risk in the United States and deserves the highest level of protection in the law.
Disagree
The United States should help defend Israel from attack by its enemies.
Disagree
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive funds from federal, state, or local governments.
Strongly Disagree
Islamic law (Sharia) should take precedence over national and state laws where there are Islamic majority communities in the U. S.
Strongly Disagree
Congress should pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
Strongly Disagree
People should be allowed to use public restrooms, showers, and changing rooms based on "gender identity."
Agree
I support sanctuary cities.
Agree
It is OK for Congress to exempt itself from compliance with laws applicable to all citizens.
Strongly Disagree
I support the death penalty.
Strongly Disagree
Tuition-free public education should be guaranteed through college.
Strongly Agree
The United States should protect its sovereignty from the United Nations.
Disagree
The best way to maintain peace is through a strong military.
Strongly Disagree
I voted in these primaries and general elections:
2010 General Election, 2010 Democratic Primary, 2012 General Election, 2014 General Election, 2016 General Election
Under what circumstances should abortion be allowed?
By choice of a pregnant woman
What should the United States do to help eradicate the threat of radical Islamic terrorism?
US militarism is out of control. US militarism has ravaged the Middle East. From the 1950s on our federal government supported dictators and fundamentalist Islamic religious leaders such as Osama bin Laden over secular leaders elected by the people of the Middle East nations. It has waged brutal wars, unleashed death squads, crushed nations out of existence, such as Iraq, Libya, Somalia, and Afghanistan. The Republican War of Terror in Iraq wiped out all of Christianity causing 2 million Christian refugees. President Bush and his illegal war planners must be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, and genocide. Republicans have no moral credibility until they uphold law and order within their own party and call for his prosecution. The US should stop running an empire for oil in those countries. President Bush murdered more Americans than radical islam will ever kill. 3,000 people were murdered on 9/11, but Bush has murdered over 5,000 American troops in an illegal war.
What in the nature of mankind caused America’s Founders to carefully define, separate, and limit powers in the Constitution?
The Enlightenment, social solidarity, science and rationality, a sense of brotherhood, as well as their experiences of religious prosecution from European monarchical tyrants.
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I'm inspired by the charitable and compassionate leadership of Jesus Christ, as well as insights and teachings of native Americans and Buddhism. I'm a scholar of the lives of the people of the Old and New Testaments. I believe Jesus did not die for our sins but lived to show us how to lead Godly lives of Love every day of our lives. I believe in my new proposed motto for the nation: "We're Americans, We Take Care of Each Other." My radio show on homelessness, which I've produced for the last ten years, is called "The Least Among Us." I live a simple life of charity, compassion, and good works every single day. I believe in the need for a New Christian Reformation in which Christians realize that literal psychopaths are often wolves in ministers' clothing and should be rejected for congregation around the charitable Christ-like lives and teachers.
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and immigration, which of the following best describes you overall?
No Answer
Please provide publicly available information validating your answer to the previous question.
Please see my web site pages on Environomics, my 100 Issue Positions, and New Green America proposals at andycaffrey.org. New Green America is a national agenda and vision to move the nation towards peace, security, liberty and sustainable jobs while addressing the climate crisis and threat of collapsing polar ice sheets and rapid sea level rise this century. NGA is 1) Fight the Climate Crisis as National Security Threat Number One. 2) Rebuild America's Infrastructure around Bioregions and Sustainability to meet all of our needs from as close to home as possible. 3) Tax the Rich. 4) Medicare for All and Expansion of the Social Safety Net. 5) Retreat the American Empire. Use the military only to defend Americans and their US property. 6) End Corporate Personhood 7) Legalize Marijuana and End the War on Drugs. 8) Prosecute the bush Administration for Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes, Torture, and Murder of U.S. troops. 9) Electoral Reform and Paper Ballots. No Corporate $.
How would you promote healthcare coverage that is adequate, affordable and accessible for all?
I support expanding the social safety net to include Medicare for All, expanding social security and medicare benefits so that all Americans are healthy. Inadequate healthcare for the poor is a public safety threat. We must give everyone preventive care and all the healthcare needed to prevent epidemics, especially now that tropical diseases are moving into the US.
What role should government play in boosting the economy?
We need a national emergency effort to get off fossil fuels in ten years. this requires an expanded social safety net and a guaranteed basic income. We must tax the rich, reduce our empire and military spending and end the War on Drugs. We need to invest in Americans, our infrastructure, healthy food production, and create demand for products, which is the best stimulus for economic growth. We have to decentralize our economy around the ecosystems in our nation in order to have an ecologically sustainable economy. This is called bioregionalism. I believe everything Americans use in their lives should be grown or produced as close to our homes as possible. Rebuild a Green America for Peace, Prosperity & Freedom!
What changes should be made to the tax code?
We need to tax bad things and give tax breaks and subsidies to good things. Carbon tax is a good example. I support restoring a 90% top tax bracket as Eisenhower implemented to pay for war costs. We still haven't paid for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars which have already cost us $7 trillion.
What is the best way to bring down unemployment?
By building a new post fossil-fuel infrastructure over the next ten years.
How would you guarantee Social Security benefits for future generations?
By organizing to elect out the politicians who threaten it.
What education or experience qualifies you to hold the office for which you seek election?
Did not answer
E-mail address and phone number for voters to reach you:
voter@andycaffrey.org
Is there anything else you would like voters to know about you?
Allowing Fossil Fuels to get beyond the natural limit of 280 ppm, now up to 410 ppm, has brought about a state of collapse of our polar ice sheets. In 2014 NASA JPL announced that the collapse of the West Antarctic ice Sheet is now "unstoppable." So 20 feet of rapid sea level rise is also now "unstoppable" because of the traitors in Congress and the white House who kept us on the fossil fuel path for the profits of oil, coal and natural gas investors, for way too long. They have undermined our national security with a conspiracy that has lasted for 70 years. We must oust these Petrocrats from Congress, and that is my aim. We need to rebuild America with a sustainable economic infrastructure and we must assure that every one is safe and free during this Great Transition. The nation needs a new kind of leadership that i aim to provide.
