1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No
2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
- No
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- Unknown Position
Do you support increasing defense spending?
- Yes
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes
2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Yes
1. Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- Unknown Position
Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes
1. Abortions should always be legally available.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should be legally available when the procedure is completed within the first trimester of the pregnancy.
- No Answer
3. Abortions should be legal only when the pregnancy resulted from incest, rape, or if the life of the woman is endangered.
- X
4. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be limited by waiting periods and parental notification requirements.
- No Answer
6. Ohio government funding should not be provided to clinics and medical facilities that provide abortion services.
- X
1. Ohio government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public and private sector.
- No Answer
2. Ohio government should provide no affirmative action programs.
- No Answer
3. Ohio government should add sexual orientation to Ohio's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
4. Ohio government should not add sexual orientation to Ohio's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
1. Abortion
- Eliminate
2. Affirmative Action
- Slightly Decrease
3. Agriculture
- Slightly Increase
4. Education
- Slightly Increase
5. Environment
- Slightly Decrease
6. Health Care
- Maintain Status
7. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase
8. Welfare
- Maintain Status
1. Increase state funding for programs to prevent teen pregnancy.
- X
2. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
- X
3. Deny or suspend state-issued permits and licenses to parents who are delinquent in paying court-ordered child support.
- X
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Expand and promote "community policing" programs.
- X
3. Support "truth in sentencing" legislation for violent criminals so they serve their full sentences with no chance of parole.
- X
4. Expand the use of the death penalty for additional circumstances relating to murder.
- X
5. Oppose the death penalty.
- No Answer
6. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
7. Require mandatory life sentences for third time, violent felons.
- X
8. Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
- X
9. Increase state funds for programs which rehabilitate and educate inmates during and after their prison sentence.
- No Answer
10. Decriminalize the possession and private use of certain illegal drugs such as marijuana.
- No Answer
11. Strengthen penalties and sentences associated with drug-related crimes.
- X
12. Implement chain gangs in which prison inmates work together in chained work groups.
- No Answer
1. Prosecute juveniles who commit murder or other serious violent crimes as adults.
- X
2. Provide state funding for military-style "boot-camps" for first-time juvenile felons.
- X
3. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
4. Support state government funding of programs for at-risk youth such as guaranteed college loans and job training and placement.
- X
5. Support mandatory curfews for minors in high crime areas.
- X
1. Increase state funds for improving the state's transportation system, including major roadways, railways and airports.
- X
2. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for expanding, start-up or relocating businesses.
- X
3. Expand legalized gambling (e.g. riverboat casinos).
- No Answer
4. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector.
- X
5. Remove state governmental controls or caps from wages, prices, rents, profits, production, and interest rates.
- No Answer
6. Support limits on cash damages in lawsuits against businesses and professionals for product liability or malpractice.
- X
7. Increase state funding for programs to re-train unemployed workers.
- X
8. Require a cost/benefit analysis of all state laws and regulations to determine their economic impact.
- X
9. Create state-funded incentives for housing development in rural and urban areas.
- No Answer
10. Support the use of state funding for the construction of sports stadiums and arenas in Ohio.
- No Answer
11. Oppose the use of state funding for the construction of sports stadiums and arenas in Ohio.
- X
1. Increase state funds for professional development and salaries of public school faculty.
- No Answer
2. Endorse teacher-led voluntary school prayer in public schools.
- X
3. Encourage private or corporate investment in certain public school programs.
- X
4. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any participating school (public, private, religious, technical).
- X
5. Implement charter schools where teachers and other professionals get state authorization and funding to establish schools.
- X
6. Require the use of state-wide achievement standards for all state public schools.
- X
7. Emphasize local control of education as long as the school district meets state health and safety standards.
- X
8. Support sex education programs which stress abstinence.
- X
9. Support sex education programs which stress safe sexual practices.
- No Answer
10. Fund public school education in Ohio by increases in state taxes rather than by using local property taxes.
- No Answer
11. Provide state funding for programs which increase student access to the Internet and other telecommunications networks.
- X
12. Increase state funding for school building improvement and maintenance.
- No Answer
13. Support allocating more state education funding to Ohio's lowest-wealth districts and less to the highest-wealth districts.
- No Answer
14. Restrict driving privileges and/or sports participation of students with poor academic performance.
- X
15. Support Ohio schools' participation in "Goals 2000", the federal program which establishes academic standards.
- No Answer
1. Enact tougher environmental standards to encourage the sale of cleaner burning fuels throughout Ohio.
- No Answer
2. Support "self-audit" legislation which creates incentives for polluting industries to clean up pollution.
- X
3. Require a cost/benefit analysis be completed to determine the economic impact of proposed environmental regulations before they are implemented.
- X
4. Require the state to reimburse citizens when state-sponsored environmental regulations limit use of privately owned land.
- X
5. Provide funding for recycling programs in Ohio.
- X
6. Request flexibility from the federal government in enforcing and funding environmental regulations.
- X
7. Suspend Ohio's participation in unfunded, federally mandated environmental protection legislation.
- X
8. Maintain minimum environmental quality as mandated by current federal regulations.
- X
9. Support "right to know" laws for workers exposed to hazardous substances.
- X
10. Support legislation which would require polluting industries to pay for environmental cleanup.
- X
11. Support construction of a facility in Ohio to house low-level radioactive waste from Ohio and five other states.
- No Answer
12. Support and enforce fuel price cap legislation.
- No Answer
13. Provide state funding for programs that reward farmers for conserving soil and using minimal fertilizers and pesticides.
- X
1. State Senators and Representatives (8 years)
- Yes
2. Governors (two 4 year terms)
- Yes
3. Certain elected statewide officials (e.g. Attorney General, Secretary of State) (two 4 year terms)
- Yes
4. Do you support amending the U.S. Constitution to require an annual balanced federal budget?
- Yes
5. Do you support requiring limits on individual contributions to state legislative candidates?
- Yes
6. Do you support requiring limits on PAC contributions to state legislative candidates?
- Yes
7. Do you support requiring limits on corporate contributions to state legislative candidates?
- No Answer
8. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
9. Do you support imposing spending limits on political campaigns?
- Yes
10. Do you support partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
- No
11. Do you support decentralizing some state agencies to outside Columbus?
- Yes
1. Support expanding the nationwide ban on the public sale of assault weapons to include all forms of semi-automatic weapons.
- No Answer
2. Increase state restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms.
- No Answer
3. Maintain all state registration procedures and state restrictions on possessing firearms.
- No Answer
4. Ease state procedures and restrictions on the purchase and registration of firearms.
- X
5. Repeal all state bans and measures that restrict law-abiding citizens from obtaining firearms.
- X
6. Allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms.
- X
7. Support legislation which would ban guns in school zones.
- X
1. Expand state funding for pre-natal and infant care programs available in the state, including immunizations.
- X
2. Provide tax incentives to assist small businesses in providing health care to their employees.
- X
3. Ensure that Ohio citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state funded care where necessary.
- No Answer
4. Guaranteeing medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- X
5. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X
6. Request a waiver from the federal government to provide Medicaid services through privately operated insurance systems.
- X
7. Provide state financial assistance to seniors who wish to remain at home as an alternative to a nursing home.
- X
8. Allow citizens to open tax-free medical savings accounts to be taxed if used for other than medical purposes.
- X
9. Continue trend toward removing most medical services (except long term/nursing home care) from state regulation.
- X
10. Encourage local health departments to distribute condoms as a preventive measure against AIDS.
- No Answer
11. Create incentives that increase the supply and retention of health professionals in rural areas and inner cities.
- X
1. Alcohol Taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Business Taxes
- Slightly Decrease
3. Capital Gains
- Slightly Decrease
4. Income Taxes (incomes less than $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease
5. Income Taxes (incomes greater than $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease
6. Property taxes
- Slightly Decrease
7. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
8. State Fees
- Maintain Status
9. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Do you support a flat tax structure for state income taxes?
- Yes
1. Provide child care services to welfare recipients who work or attend school.
- No Answer
2. Allow welfare recipients to work and still receive state-funded health care and child care until they become self-sufficient.
- X
3. Require that able-bodied recipients receive job training, attend school, or work in order to receive welfare benefits.
- X
4. Require that unwed mothers under the age of 18 attend school and live with a parent or guardian (if possible) to receive welfare benefits.
- X
5. Limit the welfare benefits given to recipients if they have additional children.
- No Answer
6. Provide two-parent families living in poverty the same welfare benefits as one-parent families.
- No Answer
7. Eliminate government-funded welfare and advocate privately funded assistance to people in need.
- No Answer
8. Impose a two-year limit on welfare benefits for recipients who are able to work.
- X
9. Support "Communities of Opportunity" program in which the state of Ohio would subsidize employers who hire welfare recipients.
- No Answer
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No
2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- No
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Yes
Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Unknown Position
1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Unknown Position