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Gilbert Villegas' Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Issue Positions

For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2022.

  • "As your representative in Congress, I will fight to protect a woman’s right to choose and prevent Republicans’ attacks on women’s health care and their efforts to enact extreme anti-choice legislation." (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • "With the U.S. Supreme Court signaling an openness to overturning the constitutional right to an abortion – or, at a minimum, chipping away at those protections – it is past time for Congress to act now to codify the right to choose with the passage of strong pro-choice legislation." (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "As your representative in Congress, I will ensure that seniors’ hard-earned benefits are protected from attempts to undermine them, so that we all have economic security as we grow older." (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • "I support creating a public health insurance option for all Americans, so that everyone has the ability to buy affordable health insurance who wants it. By doing so, we can achieve universal health care coverage while actually providing more, not fewer, options to families across the country; and bringing down costs through greater competition in the insurance marketplace." (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • "I will also oppose efforts by Republicans to privatize Social Security or to turn Medicare into a voucher program – changes that would put seniors’ savings and financial security at risk." (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "This is a big deal! Now to the President’s desk for signage. This investment in America’s infrastructure is decades in the making and I want to thank those that voted for this once in a lifetime opportunity. Now let’s get to work." (twitter.com)
  • "Today, @POTUS will sign the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law. From replacing lead service lines, investing in mass transit, clean water investments, broadband investments, access to high speed internet, roads and bridges. #letsgettowork" (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "While the Paycheck Protection Program, American Rescue Plan, and other Covid-19 relief legislation helped save us from falling into a depression, so much work remains to be done to move our economy, and our country, forward. As your representative in Congress, I will do all I can to get our economy back to full strength and put the Covid-19 pandemic behind us for good, putting Americans, and American businesses, back to work." (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "In 2019, we became the largest city in America to commit to 100% renewable energy by 2035; we also committed to the complete electrification of the Chicago Transit Authority’s fleet by 2040. But we need action in Congress, and we need it now." (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • "We need to make significant new investments in building out electric vehicle charging stations nationally; and improving the electrical grid to utilize renewable energy sources more efficiently; and we should create new tax incentives for renewable energy producers in solar and wind. These measures will help us reach aggressive goals to cut emissions and become carbon neutral by 2050 as a nation, all while creating good-paying clean energy jobs." (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • "As your representative in Congress, I will work to address climate change so that our children, and our children’s children, have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and a safe environment to live in and share with generations to come." (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • "We need to make significant new investments in building out electric vehicle charging stations nationally; and improving the electrical grid to utilize renewable energy sources more efficiently; and we should create new tax incentives for renewable energy producers in solar and wind. These measures will help us reach aggressive goals to cut emissions and become carbon neutral by 2050 as a nation, all while creating good-paying clean energy jobs." (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • "As a Marine, I fought to defend our country. In Congress, I will fight to protect our community by demanding federal funds to hire more police officers and add more FBI and ATF agents to help get illegal guns off our streets. I will also push for stricter sentences for gun crimes and strategies to bring investment and job opportunities to disadvantaged communities." (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • "Gangs are out of control and we need the Fed, State, County and City to develop a strategy to get gun violence under control." (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "We need to push an aggressive working families agenda in Congress today, including: Passing Paid Family and Medical Leave at the federal level for at least four weeks (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "As your representative in Congress, I will fight for passage, finally, of comprehensive immigration reform, so that millions of undocumented immigrants in this country can come out from the shadows and continue to contribute to our state and our nation." (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • "We need to pass legislation providing a pathway to citizenship for documented Dreamers – the millions of young people who have lived in this country legally for years as children but still might never qualify for citizenship. For too long, these Americans have been forced to live with the day-to-day uncertainty over their future—all while continuing to pay taxes and work essential jobs on the frontlines of a global pandemic." (www.gilforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.

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