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Former Member, Executive Subcommittee, South Carolina State House of Representatives
Former Member, Executive Subcommittee, South Carolina State House of Representatives
Member, Joint Legislative Oversight Review of the South Carolina Public Service Authority
Member, Joint Screening Committee for the Legislative Audit Council
Chair, Labor, Commerce, and Industry Committee
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1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should always be legal.
- No Answer
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- X
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X
6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (higher)
- Slightly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase
3. Environment
- No Answer
4. Health care
- Slightly Increase
5. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase
6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status
7. Welfare
- Maintain Status
8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Capital gains taxes
- Slightly Decrease
3. Cigarette taxes
- Slightly Increase
4. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status
5. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease
7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease
8. Inheritance taxes
- Greatly Decrease
9. Property taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
11. Vehicle taxes
- Slightly Decrease
12. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
13. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Undecided
14. Do you support a revenue-dependent income tax reduction in South Carolina?
- Yes
15. Do you support allowing the Governor to appoint constitutional officers rather than having voters elect them?
- No Answer
16. Other or expanded principles
- X
1. Do you support the current limit of two consecutive four-year terms for South Carolina governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for South Carolina state senators and representatives?
- No
1. Individual
- Yes
2. PAC
- Yes
3. Corporate
- Yes
4. Political Parties
- Yes
5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- No
7. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying, and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes
8. Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in South Carolina are closed?
- Yes
9. Should South Carolina recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No
10. Should South Carolina restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support the death penalty in South Carolina.
- X
3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- No Answer
4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X
5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- No Answer
6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- X
8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X
9. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- No Answer
10. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
- X
11. Allow police to ticket motorists for not wearing their safety belts, even if they have committed no other traffic violation.
- No Answer
12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- X
2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- X
3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
4. Allow families making less than $75,000 annually to receive an education tax credit on property or income taxes to use toward private education, home schooling, or the cost of transferring a child to another school district.
- X
5. Establish a statewide charter school district through which charter schools in South Carolina would be authorized and funded.
- X
6. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- No Answer
7. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- No Answer
8. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- X
9. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- X
10. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X
11. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- No Answer
12. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- No Answer
13. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- No Answer
14. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- No Answer
15. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- X
16. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- X
3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer
6. Include sexual orientation in South Carolina's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Public employment
- No
2. State college and university admissions
- No
3. State contracting
- No
4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- No Answer
2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
- No Answer
3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- No Answer
4. Support increased funding for open space preservation. (e.g. Conservation Bank)
- No Answer
5. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
2. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- X
5. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- No Answer
6. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer
7. Require a license for gun possession in South Carolina.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- No Answer
2. Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer
3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X
4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- No Answer
5. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
- No Answer
6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- X
7. Legalize physician assisted suicide in South Carolina.
- No Answer
8. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X
2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- No Answer
4. Support current limits on benefits given to recipients if they have additional children while on welfare.
- X
5. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- X
6. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- No Answer
7. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
8. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
Please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- No Answer
According to an October, 2010, report by The Nerve, Sandifer recorded salary and expenses of $102,226 for the two-and-a-half-year period from January 1, 2008, through mid-2010, making him the fifth-highest-compensated legislator in South Carolina during that period.
Sandifer was one of several South Carolina lawmakers who traveled to Panama in September 2010 for a three-day trip paid for by the South Carolina State Ports Authority, even though he was a member of a commission that oversaw the authority. At least $29,000 was spent on the Ports Authority-sponsored trip, which sought to promote South Carolina ports to Panama Canal officials. Information gathered by The Nerve showed that the authority covered most of the costs for the seven-member legislative group, which included five legislators: Sandifer, Sen. Lawrence Grooms (R-Berkeley), Sen. Phillip Shoopman (R-Greenville), Rep. J. David Weeks (D-Sumter) and then-Rep. Harry Cato (R-Greenville). Sandifer spent an extra day in Panama, after he was injured in his hotel room, according to Ports Authority spokesman Byron Miller.
