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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?
- Unknown Position
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?
- No
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No
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?
- No
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Yes
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 to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- X
1. Education (Higher)
- Maintain Status
2. Education (K-12)
- Maintain Status
3. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status
4. Environment
- Maintain Status
5. Health care
- Slightly Decrease
6. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase
8. Welfare
- Maintain Status
9. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Capital gains taxes
- Eliminate
11. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
12. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Decrease
13. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
14. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Eliminate
15. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease
16. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
17. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
18. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- No Answer
19. Should accounts such as a ?rainy day? fund be used to balance the state budget?
- No
20. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- No
21. Should the New York Legislature list discretionary spending item by item in the budget?
- Yes
22. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
23. Greatly decrease Cap school property taxes; double STAR exemptions
- Overall, next year's budget will not spend a penny more compared to this year.
1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New York governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New York state senators and representatives?
- No
3. Individual
- Yes
4. PAC
- Yes
5. Corporate
- Yes
6. Political Parties
- Yes
7. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
8. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- No
9. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes
10. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in New York are closed?
- No
11. Should New York recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes
12. I support term limits for legislative leaders - not rank and file legislators.
- There have been recent important developments to ensure that Ground Zero is rebuilt in a timely fashion. As Governor, I will ensure these agreements are completed on time and on budget
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support the death penalty in New York.
- 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.
- No Answer
6. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- X
7. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X
8. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- X
9. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- No Answer
10. Eliminate the statute of limitations for criminal sex cases.
- X
11. Eliminate the statute of limitations for civil lawsuits seeking damages in sex cases.
- No Answer
12. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
- 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.
- X
3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- X
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.
- No Answer
8. Support requiring 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.
- X
12. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X
13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
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.
- 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. Support the inclusion of sexual orientation in New York's anti-discrimination laws.
- X
7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer
8. Public employment
- No
9. State college and university admissions
- No
10. State contracting
- No
11. 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.
- X
4. Increase funding for improvements to New York'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
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.
- No Answer
5. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer
6. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X
2. Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- X
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 New York.
- No Answer
7. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- 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.
- No Answer
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.
- X
7. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
