New York Local Executive Election 2001 National Political Awareness Test

Budget and Tax

Local Budget: Indicate the funding levels you will support for the following general categories.

1. Education (K-12)
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2. Environment
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3. Low Income Housing
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4. Law enforcement
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5. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- No Answer

6. City-wide Mass Transit System
- No Answer

7. Revitalizing and Redeveloping Downtown Neighborhoods
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8. Water and Sewer Infrastructure
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9. Workforce Development (job creation/training program)
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10. Other
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Local Taxes: Indicate the tax levels you will support

1. Business and Corporate taxes
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2. E-Commerce/Internet sales taxes
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3. Hotel taxes
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4. Parcel taxes
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5. Property taxes
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6. Sales taxes
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7. Use taxes and fees
- No Answer

8. Vehicle taxes
- No Answer

9. Other
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Crime

Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning crime.

1. Enact or enforce city ordinances designed to curb gang related violence.
- X

2. Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
- X

3. Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.
- X

4. Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.
- X

5. Prosecute as adults, youths accused of a felony.
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6. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- X

7. Other
- X

Education

Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning education.

1. Encourage private or corporate investment in public school programs.
- X

2. Increase local funds for school capital improvements (e.g., buildings and infrastructure).
- X

3. Endorse teacher-led voluntary prayer in public schools.
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4. Support posting the Ten Commandments in public schools.
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5. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any participating schools (public, private or religious).
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6. Support charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.
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7. Restructure local school districts to make the system more manageable for administrators.
- X

8. Other
- X

Employment and Affirmative Action

Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning employment.

1. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X

2. Increase funding for existing job-training programs locally that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X

3. Other
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Affirmative Action Which of the following agencies should take race and sex into account when making employment decisions?

1. Public college and university admissions
- Undecided

2. Public employment
- Undecided

3. State contracting
- Undecided

4. Other
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Environment and Growth

Environment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning the environment.

1. Require cities to fully compensate citizens when environmental regulations limit uses on private land.
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2. Support funding for recycling programs.
- X

3. Encourage allocating federal funds to assess and clean up abandoned and underutilized Brownfield sites.
- X

4. Other
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Growth: Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning growth.

1. Provide tax credits, low interest loans, or other incentives to businesses to either revitalize or maintain downtown business districts.
- X

2. Encourage cluster development or open space zoning that divides land into large lots and allows development on only a portion of the land while conserving the remainder as open space.
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3. Purchase available land within the city for public parks and recreation.
- X

4. Development of a long range growth plan that advocates patterns for newly developing areas that promote a balanced mix of land uses.
- X

5. Other
- X

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning health issues.

1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or government funded care where necessary.
- X

2. Provide health education to the community on diseases such as Aids, Cancer, and Tuberculosis.
- X

3. Provide sterile syringes to intravenous drug users.
- X

4. Other
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Welfare

Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning welfare issues.

1. Maintain current time limits on welfare benefits.
- X

2. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X

3. Provide childcare for welfare recipients who work.
- X

4. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
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5. Other
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Priorities

Please explain what your two main priorities will be if elected. Please explain how you would obtain any additional government funding needed to implement these priorities (In a total of 75 words or less).
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