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Primary Education: I am absolutely pro-choice when it comes to the education of our children. Parents should be able to choose the school and environment best suited for their child. Nowhere is the misguided “one size fits all” mentality more prominently displayed than our approach to education. In today’s world, we need to free parents of the antiquated mindset that your child is relegated to the local public school and equip and empower them to discover the wealth of opportunity that exists in the forms of public, public online, private, charter and home schools. Additionally, we need to bring back vocational classes as early as middle school. Not every child is meant for college. We need to recognize that fact and provide ample opportunity for those children as well. Secondary Education: Norma Torres supports D.E.I. (institutionalized racism) and race-based admission to colleges and universities. Unfortunately, we have allowed our colleges and universities to deteriorate into profit centers instead of institutions of free thought and higher education. If there is one positive aspect of the pandemic, it is that it has brought to the forefront, the malicious practices of many of our top universities. It is unconscionable that these schools are allowed to charge full tuition (and all the accompanying “fees” and “charges”) while students are not allowed on campus and relegated to an online only learning experience, akin to what they would receive at any local or community college. What makes this unfair business practice even more egregious is the fact that these same institutions enjoy endowment and alumni funding in the BILLIONS of dollars. If there was ever a time for a university to place the education of its students above its own financial interests, that time is now! Instead, these State and Federally-funded universities display their true agendas, which is a profit margin bo","source_url":"https://www.cargileforcongress.com/education-1","source_date":"2026-07-21"},{"topic":"Immigration","stance":"(H.R. 7343, which includes Fire and First Responders). She also voted not to prosecute and deport illegal aliens who commit crimes in the United States (Laken Riley Act – H.R. 7511), Mike stands WITH ","detail":"(H.R. 7343, which includes Fire and First Responders). She also voted not to prosecute and deport illegal aliens who commit crimes in the United States (Laken Riley Act – H.R. 7511), Mike stands WITH our Law Enforcement and First Responders. He also supports Qualified Immunity for officers (which Norma opposes) and stands against an open border (which Norma supports).To read more, click HERE . SENIORS Seniors are the most used and abused demographic in our country. Every election cycle politicians vie for their votes and attention, only to kick them to the curb once the election passes. To","source_url":"https://WWW.CARGILEFORCONGRESS.COM/issues-1","source_date":"2026-06-20"},{"topic":"Economy","stance":"the fact that our current leadership (Norma Torres) has incentivized and developed an entire economy around it. While politicians and real estate developers line their pockets, pretending to address t","detail":"the fact that our current leadership (Norma Torres) has incentivized and developed an entire economy around it. While politicians and real estate developers line their pockets, pretending to address the issue, the root causes are never confronted. As a result, the rest of us become victims of the crime and lawlessness that ensue as a natural consequence. To read more, click HERE . CANNABIS Cannabis should be legalized across the country and regulated in the same way as alcohol. Only adults should be able to purchase it. If your cognitive functions have been impaired, it should illegal","source_url":"https://WWW.CARGILEFORCONGRESS.COM/issues-1","source_date":"2026-06-20"},{"topic":"Abortion","stance":"support of the above. LIFE Norma Torres voted to withhold medical help to babies who survive an abortion (H.R. 26). That's infanticide. Mike is Pro-Life... ALL life. From the womb to the tomb. It all ","detail":"support of the above. LIFE Norma Torres voted to withhold medical help to babies who survive an abortion (H.R. 26). That's infanticide. Mike is Pro-Life... ALL life. From the womb to the tomb. It all begins at conception and ends with the last beat of your heart and should be safe-guarded every moment between those two events. If we cheapen it anywhere... we cheapen it everywhere. This was most graphically illustrated during Covid when the elderly were killed by the thousands, almost like Jews in Nazi Germany, by Democrat governors who had ZERO regard for the life of those seniors. 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