Gerrie Schipske: Challenging the incumbent
RACE FOR U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 46TH DISTRICT
NAME: Gerrie Schipske
AGE: 52
FAMILY: Single, with three children
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Teaches classes at Cal State Long Beach in
municipal law and women’s health. Practices labor law in Long Beach.
Registered nurse who worked in the neo-natal unit at UC Irvine
Medical Center in the early 1980s.
EDUCATION: Associate’s from Fullerton Community College;
associate’s from Golden West College; bachelor’s from UCI; master’s
from George Washington University; doctorate from Pacific Coast
University’s law school.
SCHIPSKE ON:
* REP. DANA ROHRABACHER:
“There’s got to be some temperance in his remarks.”
Schipske said she is bothered by Rohrabacher’s outspoken and often
controversial public statements. She has criticized the congressman
for taking trips to Afghanistan, Qatar and other Middle Eastern
countries to meet with Taliban and moujahedeen leaders.
* FUNDING FOR PUBLIC HEALTH:
“We need to commit more resources to public health and
communicable diseases.” Schipske wants to beef up funding for county
hospitals and clinics to eradicate outbreaks of tuberculosis and
other diseases.
* EDUCATION AND HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS:
“We need to educate those kids. We need to be able to make certain
the people we are going to Disneyland with are healthy.”
Schipske said she was opposed to Proposition 187, the 1994 Orange
County-born state initiative that attempted to drive out
“undocumented aliens” by denying them healthcare and education.
* IMMIGRATION:
“We need to enforce immigration laws against employers.”
Schipske wants the federal government to enforce laws prohibiting
employers from hiring illegal immigrants for cheap labor.
* PRESCRIPTION DRUGS:
Schipske supports lowering the cost of prescription drugs for
needy seniors and lowering the cost of designer drugs for other
people who need them. She supports more regulation on drug
advertising.
“Take the purple pill off the CBS advertisement and you can cut
the cost of that purple pill.”
* WAR ON IRAQ:
“I don’t want our country to become the aggressor.” Schipske
supports special operations missions in Iraq and diplomacy as an
approach to dealing with Saddam Hussein. She also supports
humanitarian aid to the country.
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