Arizona State Legislative Election 2004 National Political Awareness Test

Abortion

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.

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 of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budget, Spending, and Tax

State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category.

1. Education (higher)
- Maintain Status

2. Education (K-12)
- Maintain Status

3. Environment
- Slightly Increase

4. Health care
- Maintain Status

5. Law enforcement
- Greatly Increase

6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status

7. Welfare
- Slightly Decrease

8. Other or expanded categories
- A & B are mandates by prop 301

State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax.

1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status

2. Capital gains taxes
- Slightly Decrease

3. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status

4. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status

5. Estate taxes
- Eliminate

6. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status

7. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status

8. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Maintain Status

9. Property taxes
- Maintain Status

10. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status

11. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status

12. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

13. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- No

14. Other or expanded principles
- X

Campaign Finance and Government Reform

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.

1. Do you support the current limit of two consecutive four-year terms for Arizona governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support the current limit of four consecutive two-year terms for Arizona state senators and representatives?
- Yes

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

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 Arizona's "Clean Elections" initiative, which allocates public funds for use in political campaigns?
- Yes

8. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying, and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes

9. Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in Arizona are closed?
- Yes

10. Should Arizona prohibit smoking in enclosed public places and places of employment?
- Yes

11. Should Arizona deny state and local social services to illegal immigrants?
- Yes

12. Should Arizona require proof of citizenship before allowing people to vote?
- Yes

13. Should Arizona recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No

14. Should Arizona restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

1. Other or expanded principles
- Emergency care is mandated by federal law.

Crime

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

1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- X

2. Support the death penalty in Arizona.
- 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. 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.
- No Answer

9. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- No Answer

10. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
- No Answer

11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Education

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

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. Create a corporate tax credit program for businesses that contribute to private school scholarship funds.
- X

5. Continue to offer individual income tax credits for contributions to private schools.
- X

6. Continue to offer individual income tax credits for contributions to public schools.
- X

7. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- No Answer

8. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- No Answer

9. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- No Answer

10. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- X

11. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X

12. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- No Answer

13. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- No Answer

14. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- No Answer

15. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- No Answer

16. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- X

17. Other or expanded principles
- X

Employment and Affirmative Action

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

1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X

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. Include sexual orientation in Arizona's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer

7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on:

1. Public employment
- No

2. State college and university admissions
- No

3. State contracting
- No

4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Environment and Energy

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.

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. Support funding for open space preservation.
- No Answer

5. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer

6. Offer tax breaks to companies that remove dead trees and undergrowth from forests and convert it to fuel.
- X

7. Allow municipalities to require property owners in forest communities to clear excessive growth from their land.
- X

8. Allow land held in trust by the state to be set aside for conservation purposes.
- X

9. Grant longer grazing leases of public land to ranchers who practice enhanced conservation methods.
- No Answer

10. Permit the Land Department to use 15 percent of annual proceeds from land dispositions for administration and other management functions.
- No Answer

11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Gun

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns.

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.
- No Answer

6. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer

7. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health.

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 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.
- No Answer

5. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
- No Answer

6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer

7. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Arizona.
- No Answer

8. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Welfare and Poverty

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare and poverty.

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. Support current limit on benefits given to recipients if they have additional children while on welfare.
- X

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.
- No Answer

7. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer

8. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Legislative Priorities

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