The Candidates: U.S. Representative - District 2
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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1. What do you feel needs to be done to create jobs in the district?
2. What are issues important to you and why?
3. What are your thoughts on keeping taxes low for your district?
4. What would you like to accomplish if elected?
Jackie Walorski
Republican
Jackie Walorski, a Republican from South Bend, is seeking the 2nd district congressional seat.
Walorski is a native Hoosier, born and raised in South Bend. She attended high school there and started her career as a reporter for WSBT. Later she worked to raise funds for local colleges.
Shortly after marrying her husband Dean, a Mishawaka school teacher, Jackie and Dean moved to Romania where they founded their own agency to help provide much-needed medical supplies to the country's impoverished children.
Shortly after returning home, she was elected to her first of three terms in the Indiana House of Representatives in 2004. She rose quickly to leadership, becoming the assistant floor leader for the Republican caucus.
In the legislature, Walorski developed a reputation as a solid conservative leader in the fight for lower taxes and against wasteful government spending. Now she wants to take her conservative philosophy to represent the shared conservative values in the United States Congress.
She served in the Indiana House District 21 for six years as an assistant floor leader.
2. I believe the federal government must reduce the burdensome, costly regulations that cost small business a great deal of money. In addition, we must bring stability to the economy and allow private business to have the confidence to hire.
3. The important issues to me are the ones that come directly from the voters: Be an independent voice to a highly partisan, broken system in DC. Require a balanced budget, reduce the debt and provide an infrastructure for job growth.
4. I don’t support raising taxes. We need to cut spending and reduce debt, which will allow for private industry to have confidence in “new found” stability in the economy.
5. I would like to accomplish the reduction of the size of the federal government, bringing Hoosiers to the table, stabilizing the economy and providing good jobs for the second district in Indiana.
Greg Andrews
Republican
Greg Andrews, a Republican of South Bend, is seeking the 2nd district congressional seat.
Andrews most recently worked as a family physician at the Indiana Health Center and Project Homecoming clinics. He is trained at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, South Bend.
He earned a law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School.
He is board certified in legal medicine.
1. Elected officials from local to federal must work together to retain businesses that are here and to recruit new ones. A well educated workforce, excellent healthcare institutions and provider, a strong infrastructure, less regulation, tax incentives and affordable energy options would all serve as major factors in creating jobs in the district.
2. The economy and healthcare are the top issues. When one of the two sectors is ailing or sick, so is the other. Healthcare is also approaching a 20 percent share of our economy and healthcare costs must be controlled so that economic growth is not inhibited.
3. Low taxes provide an incentive for companies to invest in both capital goods and human capital as long as our district offers and maintains an educated and well-trained workforce.
4. We must bring meaningful healthcare reform by repealing the present healthcare law. Some of my goals include stopping and preventing any attempts at rationing medical care and keeping Washington bureaucrats from coming between patients and their doctor and hospital. Patients should also be able to keep their own doctor and health insurance if they so choose.
Brendan Mullen
Democrat
Brendan Mullen, a Democrat from South Bend, is seeking the 2nd district congressional seat.
He graduated from John Adams High School, South Bend and the United States Military Academy at West Point.
He is a small business owner.
1. Growing up in South Bend, I learned the importance of family, fellowship, public service and hard work. Public service is deeply rooted within me. After graduating from West Point I had the chance to serve as a U.S. Army officer. I believe in the freedom, promise and greatness of our nation and I started a small business to create good jobs here where they belong. I am running for Congress to give Indiana a strong, independent voice and to get our economy back on track.
2. Right now in Washington, we are seeing failed politicians push a failed agenda that doesn’t represent the Hoosier values we believe in. Instead of finger pointing and plans to privatize Social Security and end Medicare as we know it, we need to focus on what matters: cutting down on runaway spending and getting Hoosiers back to work. Instead of career politicians who spend their time playing the same old political games that work only for the special interests, we need someone who’ll fight for what’s right, who’ll fight for the middle class. To change the way Washington works, we need people who know how to come together and solve problems to create jobs and get our economy back on track.[[In-content Ad]]
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1. What do you feel needs to be done to create jobs in the district?
2. What are issues important to you and why?
3. What are your thoughts on keeping taxes low for your district?
4. What would you like to accomplish if elected?
Jackie Walorski
Republican
Jackie Walorski, a Republican from South Bend, is seeking the 2nd district congressional seat.
Walorski is a native Hoosier, born and raised in South Bend. She attended high school there and started her career as a reporter for WSBT. Later she worked to raise funds for local colleges.
Shortly after marrying her husband Dean, a Mishawaka school teacher, Jackie and Dean moved to Romania where they founded their own agency to help provide much-needed medical supplies to the country's impoverished children.
Shortly after returning home, she was elected to her first of three terms in the Indiana House of Representatives in 2004. She rose quickly to leadership, becoming the assistant floor leader for the Republican caucus.
In the legislature, Walorski developed a reputation as a solid conservative leader in the fight for lower taxes and against wasteful government spending. Now she wants to take her conservative philosophy to represent the shared conservative values in the United States Congress.
She served in the Indiana House District 21 for six years as an assistant floor leader.
2. I believe the federal government must reduce the burdensome, costly regulations that cost small business a great deal of money. In addition, we must bring stability to the economy and allow private business to have the confidence to hire.
3. The important issues to me are the ones that come directly from the voters: Be an independent voice to a highly partisan, broken system in DC. Require a balanced budget, reduce the debt and provide an infrastructure for job growth.
4. I don’t support raising taxes. We need to cut spending and reduce debt, which will allow for private industry to have confidence in “new found” stability in the economy.
5. I would like to accomplish the reduction of the size of the federal government, bringing Hoosiers to the table, stabilizing the economy and providing good jobs for the second district in Indiana.
Greg Andrews
Republican
Greg Andrews, a Republican of South Bend, is seeking the 2nd district congressional seat.
Andrews most recently worked as a family physician at the Indiana Health Center and Project Homecoming clinics. He is trained at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, South Bend.
He earned a law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School.
He is board certified in legal medicine.
1. Elected officials from local to federal must work together to retain businesses that are here and to recruit new ones. A well educated workforce, excellent healthcare institutions and provider, a strong infrastructure, less regulation, tax incentives and affordable energy options would all serve as major factors in creating jobs in the district.
2. The economy and healthcare are the top issues. When one of the two sectors is ailing or sick, so is the other. Healthcare is also approaching a 20 percent share of our economy and healthcare costs must be controlled so that economic growth is not inhibited.
3. Low taxes provide an incentive for companies to invest in both capital goods and human capital as long as our district offers and maintains an educated and well-trained workforce.
4. We must bring meaningful healthcare reform by repealing the present healthcare law. Some of my goals include stopping and preventing any attempts at rationing medical care and keeping Washington bureaucrats from coming between patients and their doctor and hospital. Patients should also be able to keep their own doctor and health insurance if they so choose.
Brendan Mullen
Democrat
Brendan Mullen, a Democrat from South Bend, is seeking the 2nd district congressional seat.
He graduated from John Adams High School, South Bend and the United States Military Academy at West Point.
He is a small business owner.
1. Growing up in South Bend, I learned the importance of family, fellowship, public service and hard work. Public service is deeply rooted within me. After graduating from West Point I had the chance to serve as a U.S. Army officer. I believe in the freedom, promise and greatness of our nation and I started a small business to create good jobs here where they belong. I am running for Congress to give Indiana a strong, independent voice and to get our economy back on track.
2. Right now in Washington, we are seeing failed politicians push a failed agenda that doesn’t represent the Hoosier values we believe in. Instead of finger pointing and plans to privatize Social Security and end Medicare as we know it, we need to focus on what matters: cutting down on runaway spending and getting Hoosiers back to work. Instead of career politicians who spend their time playing the same old political games that work only for the special interests, we need someone who’ll fight for what’s right, who’ll fight for the middle class. To change the way Washington works, we need people who know how to come together and solve problems to create jobs and get our economy back on track.[[In-content Ad]]
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