ELAINE HILDEBRANDT – 6th DISTRICT
Green Party
Former elementary school teacher Elaine Hildebrandt is running for a seat in the U.S House of Representatives in Virginia’s 6th District in the upcoming election. Elaine Hildebrandt is the second Hildebrandt to run for Congress under the Green Party this coming November. Her husband, Ken Hildebrandt, is also running in the race in Virginia’s 5th District.
Elaine Hildebrandt is voicing the same environmental and social issues under her campaign as her husband. While her husband Ken Hildebrandt did most of the reporting during his freelance journalism career, Elaine Hildebrandt focused on the background research, according to her campaign web page.
One of Elaine Hildebrandt’s main concerns this coming November is the legalization of hemp. According to Elaine Hildebrandt, this is a primary issue in the U.S., due to the lucrative benefits it provides.
“Hemp has now been estimated to be over a trillion-million dollar crop, which can be used to make over 25,000 products, including fuel, food, fabric and medicine, yet it’s illegal,” Elaine Hildebrandt said. “It is the economic shot in the arm our nation and Virginia’s sixth district needs now.”
Elaine described the roles she and Ken will take as candidates at dailyprogress.com
“I’m a teacher and Ken is a healer, and so that’s what we do — we look to teach and to help and to heal,” Elaine Hildebrandt said. “It must be borne in mind first and foremost, that the very survival of our species is at stake. Is superfluous income worth more than that?”
According to Elaine Hildebrandt, she wants voters to understand she is for the people, the health of the economy and the world.
“People want something other than what’s being offered,” Elaine Hildebrandt said. “People are ready to be represented by people, not puppets.”
Q: Why should a college student vote for you?
A: Between my husband Ken and I, we have worked full-time for more than 25 years without pay, even though we are not wealthy, trying to inform Americans about solutions that were right at our fingertips but that we were not using. Now, we have a chance to present those solutions to a wider audience and finally begin to steer in a more reasonable direction putting people over profit instead of the other way around.
Q: What, if any, legislation could be considered to give religious institutions, such as Liberty University, the right to be exempt from federal mandates that violate their conscience?
A: I disagree with a lot of my government’s policies, but I still have to fund them by law. I do not like it. I think we should focus on making our laws more reasonable.
Q: What plans do you have or support to help alleviate student loan debt while simultaneously ensuring quality higher education?
A: Reduce our spending on the military, which equals or exceeds that of the rest of the world combined, and follow the path of Germany, who is offering free university educations to its citizens.
Q: What is your position on abortion?
A: It is largely a distraction issue aimed at getting the oppressed to vote for their oppressors. I am not saying it is not important, yet we can tell from history that Republican leaders do not care about abortion, or they would have tried to do something about it when they had both houses of Congress, the presidency and the judiciary, but they did not. So, the best thing to do is provide education, make embryology mandatory high school curriculum and push for legislation that would make abortion illegal (except in cases of rape in which the victim did not have the option of abortion earlier) once the embryo can feel pain, which is about 20 weeks.
Q: With the recent spread of terrorism, particularly ISIS, how do you think the U.S. should respond?
A: We should learn from our past, and do what a two-tour Iraq War veteran said to Ken: “Nothing.”
Q: What are your thoughts on the use of executive action?
A: If Obama was to use this somehow to save the thousand children who die every hour of neglect for what just a fraction of the Pentagon budget could easily cover, as discussed below, I would be all for that, but otherwise, generally speaking, it is not a good thing.
Q: What are your top three priorities concerning congressional legislation?
A: Legalize all what many refer to as “God-given plants,” including industrial hemp and marijuana.
Revert the tax structure to something similar to what it was all the way until Ronald Reagan.
Enact legislation to help rapidly put an end to the silent slaughter of children who die of neglect at a rate of a thousand per hour, meaning a holocaust of children every 250 days, and that estimate is low. This slaughter must stop. How would we explain this to an outside intelligence? How will future historians, if there are any, look back at this time when we allowed profit to come before people at the very risk of life on earth as we know it, while discarding innocent children en masse as if they are not even real?
Q: What separates you from other candidates?
A: My focus on those children who are dying of neglect at a rate of at least 24,000 per spin of the earth.