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Agnes Gibboney
Agnes Gibboney (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 31st Congressional District. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Gibboney completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Agnes Gibboney was born in Budapest, Hungary. She attended Rio Hondo College, Cypress College, Citrus College, and Chaffey College and received an undergraduate degree in 1989. Before retiring, Gibboney's professional experience includes working as an education assistant, flight attendant, and ticket agent. She has been affiliated with the California Republican Party, San Bernardino County Republican Party Central Committee, Mountain View Republican Club, Chaffey Community Republican Women, Redlands Tea Party Patriots, Howard Jarvis Tax Payers Association, National Rifle Association, and Parents of Murdered Children, Inland Empire Chapter.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: California's 31st Congressional District election, 2020
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 31
Incumbent Pete Aguilar defeated Agnes Gibboney in the general election for U.S. House California District 31 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Pete Aguilar (D) | 61.3 | 175,315 |
 | Agnes Gibboney (R)  | 38.7 | 110,735 | |
| Total votes: 286,050 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 31
Incumbent Pete Aguilar and Agnes Gibboney defeated Eugene Weems in the primary for U.S. House California District 31 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Pete Aguilar (D) | 62.1 | 81,994 |
| ✔ | | Agnes Gibboney (R) | 37.8 | 49,889 |
 | Eugene Weems (Unaffiliated) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 51 | |
| Total votes: 131,934 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Agnes Gibboney completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Gibboney's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I have always put my experiences to use to help others and volunteered in classrooms, as a team mom for youth sports, as a translator, counselor for battered women, for Citizen Patrol with Rancho Cucamonga Police Department, and started a hospital support group for parents with children in the NICU.
After Ronald was murdered by a previously deported illegal alien gang member, I ran support groups for family and friends of murder victims and became an advocate for victims' rights and an advocate for securing our border and enforcing immigration laws.
I am not a politician. I am strong woman, driven, accomplished, and have faced adversity and kept going.- Stop Runaway Government Spending: I sometimes hear people refer to the Corona Virus stimulus payments as coming from their tax dollars. The sad truth is we ran out of tax dollars many trillions of dollars ago. Even before the virus struck, our federal government has had deficit spending every year, creating a national debt of over $23 trillion. Since the virus, Congress has gushed money, adding trillions to the debt in just weeks, without planning or controls. It is really IOU's for our grandchildren and great grandchildren. We are risking hyperinflation and a severe economic downturn.
- Improve Public Safety: People deserve to be able to walk their city streets at night and feel safe and not have their property stolen. Improving public safety starts with supporting law enforcement to have the personnel, equipment, and jail space to do their jobs as well as creating an atmosphere in which they do not feel at risk for doing their jobs. Crime committed by illegal aliens is preventable by securing our border and enforcing immigration laws. California is turning criminals loose on our streets. This must stop.
- Providing School Choice: Parents and students should be able to attend the school of their choice. I support the plan for a state ballot initiative using existing school funding to provide students an education account and will support using federal funds if needed. A federal tax credit to support organizations offering private school scholarships will supplement the state plan. This will put parents and students in charge of their education.
Our country fails to keep statistics on crime committed by illegal aliens because it would have to be done at the state and local level and very few states keep those statistics. The two states with the most illegal aliens present do not keep or provide data on crime or costs associated with them, but instead offer sanctuary and benefits that encourage illegal immigration. But very state and county does know the number of illegal aliens they house in jail and prisons to submit for federal reimbursement which amounts to millions of dollars every year.
The tanks on the streets of Brasilia increased my mother's desire to immigrate to the U.S. It was six years later, after coming to the United States and being old enough to understand that I learned my mother's tension and fear had been so great because it reminded her of how we came to Brazil. I was just two, when we escaped communist Hungary after the 1956 Revolution. It was put down by a massive invasion of the Soviet military, including tanks.
Illegal immigration costs billions of dollars every year. The federal government reimburses states and counties billions of dollars for housing illegal aliens in jails and prisons. That doesn't even include the costs associated with "non-criminal" illegal aliens: schooling, welfare, (yes, illegal alien parents of children born here are paid billions of dollars in welfare benefits), medical care, and more. We need to enforce our immigration laws and secure our borders. Even the last president of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, said both our countries would be safer if our border was more secure. Making E-Verify mandatory and sanctioning employers who hire illegal aliens would help stop illegal immigration.
Congress was meant to be a citizen legislature. Our representatives were supposed to go to Washington, serve for a short time, then return to their lives under the laws they made. This vision has been lost. Many consider Congress like a resort for career politicians who with a 95% re-election rate due to the nearly unbreakable power of incumbency, put their own power, perks and privileges ahead of public service.
The attack and knowing someone directly affected reminds me of the great importance of vetting people who want to come to this country to live or even visit and the need for law enforcement, including the FBI to have the tools and personnel to be able to do adequate investigations into leads that come from the public recommendation to "see something, say something".
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 18, 2020
