Election Guide: Republican Primary, U.S. Senator

This guide is for the Republican Party Primary, United States Senator.

The three candidates and their platforms:

1) William Escoffery III.

• He is "no career politician."
  
• Physician with 40 years of experience.
  
• Attorney with Constitutional law training.
  
• Founder of The Medical Chiefs of Staff Coalition.
  
• Supports legislation to "roll-back the federal regulatory burden so that private enterprise can lead our nation back to prosperity."
  
• Against abortion.
  
• Believes Obama is a "radical Muslim sympathizer."
• Against government bail-outs.
  
• Opposes all restrictions on gun ownership (except by "certified, crazy people."
• "Absolutely opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens."
  
• Supports legal immigration and wants to require an English proficiency test for citizenship.
  
• Supports English as the official language of the U.S.
  
• "100% against the Obama Health-Care Plan."
  
• Advocates tort reform, use of Heath Savings Accounts, eliminating most federal government involvement in health care, private Medicare/Medicaid and allow importation of low-cost drugs.
  

Sources: http://www.senatebill.us/Health%20Care.htm


2) William Billy Kogut.

• Opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants.
  
• Audit U.N. and Federal Reserve.
  
• Fair Tax proponent.
  
• Provide "all necessary funding" for the War against Global Terrorism.
  
• Support gun rights.
  
• Penalize employers of illegal immigrants to the point where it "would not profit them to hire them."
  
• Supports traditional marriage.
  

Sources: http://kogut2010.intuitwebsites.com/
Video of Kogut.


3) Marco Rubio.

• Hire one civilian employee for every two that leave government.
  
• Use TARP funds to pay the debt.
  
• Cancel unspent stimulus funds which "could save nearly $300 billion."
  
• Ban all earmarks.
  
• Pass a Constitutional Amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget.
  
• Require any new federal tax to be approved only by a 2/3 vote of Congress.
  
• Supports proposals that "would allow individuals and businesses to check-off an amount, up to 10% of their tax bill, to be dedicated to retiring the national debt. Congress would have to match the amount."
  
• Freeze federal non-defense, non-veterans spending at 2008 levels.
  
• Give the president the line-item veto.
  
• Permanently extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.
  
• Permanently end the death tax.
  
• Stop the Value Added Tax.
  
• Repeal "ObamaCare."
  
• Prevent a national energy tax.
  
• Oppose efforts to strip away workers' right to a secret ballot.
  
• Allow individuals to purchase health insurance across state lines.
  
• Incentivize the use of electronic medical records.
  
• Give individuals the same tax break given to businesses when they buy health insurance.
  
• Increase the number of Community Health Centers.
  
• Allow "patients to switch insurance coverage...without risking pre-existing condition exclusion."
  

Sources: http://www.marcorubio.com/
"Rubio Calls for Federal Layoffs" article.
Rubio interview with Wolff Blitzer.