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Former Ranking Member, Education Committee, Vermont State House of Representatives
Former Member, General, Housing and Military Affairs Committee, Vermont State House of Representatives
Member, Judiciary
Member, PreKindergarten-16 Council
Member, Subcommittee on Higher Education
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
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2. Abortions should always be legal.
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3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
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4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
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5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
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6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
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7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
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8. Other or expanded principles
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1. Education (Higher)
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2. Education (K-12)
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3. Emergency preparedness
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4. Environment
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5. Health care
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6. Law enforcement
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7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
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8. Vermont dairy farmer aid
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9. Welfare
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10. Other or expanded categories
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1. Alcohol taxes
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2. Capital gains taxes
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3. Cigarette taxes
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4. Corporate taxes
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5. Gasoline taxes
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6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
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7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
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8. Property taxes
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9. Sales taxes
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10. Vehicle taxes
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11. Other or expanded categories
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12. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
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13. Should accounts such as a ?rainy day? fund be used to balance the state budget?
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14. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
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15. Other or expanded principles
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1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Vermont governors?
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2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Vermont state senators and representatives?
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1. Individual
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2. PAC
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3. Corporate
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4. Political Parties
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5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
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6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
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7. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
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8. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Vermont are closed?
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9. Should Vermont continue to recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
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10. Other or expanded principles
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1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
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2. Implement the death penalty in Vermont.
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3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
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4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
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5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
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6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
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7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
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8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
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9. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
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10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
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11. Strengthen sex-offender laws.
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12. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
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13. Other or expanded principles
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1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
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2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
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3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
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4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
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5. Increase funds for hiring additional teachers.
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6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
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7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
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8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
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9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
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10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
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11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
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12. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
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13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
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14. Other or expanded principles
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1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in today?s job market.
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2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
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3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
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4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
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5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
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6. Include gender identity in Vermont's anti-discrimination laws.
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7. Increase the state minimum wage.
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8. Other or expanded principles
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1. Public employment
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2. State college and university admissions
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3. State contracting
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4. Other or expanded principles
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1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
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2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
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3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
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4. Increase funding for improvements to Vermont's power generating and transmission facilities.
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5. Support funding for open space preservation.
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6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
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7. Permit organic farmers to sue manufacturers of genetically modified seeds if their seeds drift into organic crops.
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8. Support the development of wind turbines in Vermont.
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9. Other or expanded principles
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1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
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2. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
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3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
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4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
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5. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
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6. Require a license for gun possession.
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7. Other or expanded principles
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1. Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
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2. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
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3. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
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4. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Vermont.
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5. Continue to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
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6. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
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7. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
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8. Support Catamount Health, which provides health insurance to the uninsured and underinsured.
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9. Please list what changes, if any, you would make to Catamount Health. Please use forty (40) words or less.
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10. Other or expanded principles
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1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
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2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
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3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
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4. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
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5. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
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6. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
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7. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
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8. Other or expanded principles
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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.
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Type: concurrent resolution Chamber: lower
Type: concurrent resolution Chamber: lower
Type: concurrent resolution Chamber: lower
