Member, Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee
— Awards:
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.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Allow pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptive pills without a prescription.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- X
1. Education (higher)
- Slightly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Maintain Status
3. Environment
- Slightly Increase
4. Health care
- Slightly Increase
5. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase
6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Greatly Increase
7. Welfare
- Slightly Increase
8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- No Answer
2. Capital gains taxes
- No Answer
3. Cigarette taxes
- No Answer
4. Corporate taxes
- No Answer
5. Gasoline taxes
- No Answer
6. Property taxes
- No Answer
7. Vehicle taxes
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded categories
- Depends on legislation.
9. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Undecided
1. cap spending at the rate of inflation plus population growth?
- Undecided
2. require a two-thirds majority to override the cap?
- Undecided
3. require a two-thirds majority to raise taxes?
- Undecided
4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New Hampshire governors?
- No
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New Hampshire 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?
- Yes
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 New Hampshire are closed?
- Yes
9. Should New Hampshire recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No
10. Should New Hampshire restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes
1. Other or expanded principles
- Marriage should only be man-woman
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- X
2. Support the death penalty in New Hampshire.
- No Answer
3. Raise the minimum execution age in New Hampshire from 17 to 18.
- X
4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
5. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- No Answer
6. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- No Answer
7. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
8. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- X
9. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
11. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
- X
12. Other or expanded principles
- X
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.
- No Answer
3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X
5. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X
6. Funds from affluent school districts should be redirected to meet the needs of poorer districts.
- No Answer
7. Increase the cigarette tax to raise revenue for education.
- 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.
- No Answer
11. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- No Answer
12. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- X
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.
- X
15. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
16. Other or expanded principles
- X
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today?s job market.
- No Answer
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.
- No Answer
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer
6. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- X
1. Public employment
- No
2. State college and university admissions
- No
3. State contracting
- No
4. Other or expanded principles
- We should never have race as an issue. Humans should all be treated equal jobs, school,
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
- X
3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- No Answer
4. Increase funding for New Hampshire?s Land and Community Heritage Investment program.
- No Answer
5. Increase the penalty for taking land out of Current Use status.
- No Answer
6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- X
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.
- No Answer
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.
- X
6. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer
7. Require a license for gun possession.
- X
8. Other or expanded principles
- X
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X
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.
- X
5. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
- X
6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
7. Legalize physician assisted suicide in New Hampshire.
- No Answer
8. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- X
1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X
2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- No Answer
4. Limit benefits given to recipients if they have additional children while on welfare.
- No Answer
5. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer
6. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X
7. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- X
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
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