Ed Buchanan
RWyoming Secretary of State (2018 - Present)
Wyoming Secretary of State (2018 - 2022)
To be claimed
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.
- X
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 to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- X
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- X
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (Higher)
- Maintain Status
2. Education (K-12)
- Maintain Status
3. Emergency preparedness
- Slightly Increase
4. Environment
- Maintain Status
5. Health care
- Maintain Status
6. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase
8. Welfare
- Slightly Decrease
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Capital gains taxes
- Slightly Decrease
3. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
4. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status
5. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
6. Property taxes
- Maintain Status
7. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
8. Vehicle taxes
- Slightly Decrease
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
10. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Yes
11. Should accounts such as a ?rainy day? fund be used to balance the state budget?
- Yes
12. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- Yes
13. Do you support a permanent repeal of the food tax?
- No
14. Other or expanded principles
- Food tax - should be biennially reviewed to see if we can still afford it. WY is still paying out the same amounts to local gov't that was generated by the food tax, but now w/o the revenue.
1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Wyoming governors?
- No
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Wyoming state senators and representatives?
- No
1. Individual
- No
2. PAC
- No
3. Corporate
- No Answer
4. Political Parties
- No
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 media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Wyoming are closed?
- Yes
9. Should Wyoming recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No
10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support the death penalty in Wyoming.
- X
3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X
5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
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. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- No Answer
10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- No Answer
11. Strengthen sex-offender laws.
- X
12. Support the creation of a cabinet-level position to fight methamphetamine use.
- No Answer
13. Increase funding for local law enforcement efforts to combat methamphetamine use.
- X
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- No Answer
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).
- No Answer
5. Increase funds for hiring additional teachers.
- No Answer
6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- X
7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- X
8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer
9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- No Answer
10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- No Answer
11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- No Answer
12. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- No Answer
13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
14. Other or expanded principles
- In the last two + yrs. we have spent increased amounts pretty much across the board on education and I supported it, but now we will have to hold steady.
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain 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.
- 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 Wyoming'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.
- 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 improvements to Wyoming's power generating and transmission facilities.
- X
5. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X
6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer
7. 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 background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer
6. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer
7. 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 current 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. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- X
6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Wyoming.
- No Answer
7. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
8. 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. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- X
5. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X
6. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
7. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
8. 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.
- (1) Economic Development - continued use of Wyoming Business Council and recently passed legislation for local programs(2) Strengthen Wyoming families by stabilizing and reducing divorce rate - only need is legislation, won't need much funding, if any.(3) Holding the line on new programs that necessitate recurring expenditures. We've spent money to invest in our infrastructure -- now we need to start slowing it down.