Maine State Legislative Election 2008 Political Courage 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.
- 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. Abortions should be subject to a mandatory waiting period.
- X

7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- X

8. Other or expanded principles
- g) unless parent problem, then 3rd party adult notification.

Budget and Tax

State Budget: Indicate what state funding levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one level per category, you can use a number more than once.

1. Education (Higher)
- Maintain Status

2. Education (K-12)
- Maintain Status

3. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status

4. Environment
- Maintain Status

5. Health care
- Maintain Status

6. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status

7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status

8. Welfare
- Maintain Status

9. Other or expanded categories
- Maintain Status

State Taxes: Indicate what state tax levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one level per category, you can use a number more than once.

1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status

2. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status

3. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status

4. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status

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

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

7. Property taxes
- Maintain Status

8. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status

9. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status

10. Other or expanded categories
- Maintain Status

11. Should state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Yes

12. Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget?
- No

13. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- No

14. Should state funding to local school districts be reduced to help balance the state budget?
- No

15. Other or expanded principles
- 1) Not fair to local businesses, but any tax should be the same nation wide to make easy for internet companies to comply.

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 terms for Maine governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support the current limit of terms for Maine state senators and representatives?
- Yes

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

1. Individual
- No

2. PAC
- No

3. Corporate
- No

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?
- Undecided

7. Should Maine participate in the federal REAL ID program?
- Yes

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

1. Other or expanded principles
- f) Yes, if Maine will not secure its licences, and allow illegals to get licences.I don't believe in TAXPAYER funded elections, tax money can be use for better purposes, then paying for bumper stickers or yard signs.

Crime

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

1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer

2. Establish the death penalty in Maine.
- X

3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X

4. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X

5. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X

6. Support state and local law enforcement officials enforcing federal immigration laws.
- X

7. Support hate crime legislation.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Education

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

1. Support state funding of universal pre-K programs.
- No Answer

2. Support federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students (No Child Left Behind).
- X

3. Support state education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students.
- X

4. Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X

5. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- X

6. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- X

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

8. Support using a merit pay system for teachers.
- X

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

10. Support allowing illegal immigrant high school graduates of Maine to pay in-state tuition at public universities.
- No Answer

11. Other or expanded principles
- Not for more spending, I like (i) if we can get outside funding. j) WHY DO WE HAVE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GRADUATES????????

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.
- No Answer

2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector.
- 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. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer

7. Support laws that prevent employers from dismissing employees at will.
- No Answer

8. Support financial punishments for those who knowingly employ illegal immigrants.
- X

9. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X

10. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer

11. Other or expanded principles
- NO INCREASE IN STATE SPENDING. b) I'm a lobsterman, state and federal regulations are going to kill our industry, thats about 50,000 direct and in-direct jobs in Maine.

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, oil, etc).
- X

3. Support providing financial incentives to farms that produce biofuel crops.
- No Answer

4. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- No Answer

5. Support funding for improvements to Maine's power generating and transmission facilities.
- No Answer

6. Support funding for open space preservation.
- No Answer

7. Limit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
- No Answer

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

9. Other or expanded principles
- g) GLOBE HAS BEEN COOLING FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS.c) WE SHOULD NOT BE PUTTING FOOD IN OUR GAS TANKS.

Gun

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

1. Should background checks be required on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows?
- Yes

2. Should citizens be allowed to carry concealed guns?
- Yes

3. Should a license be required for gun possession?
- No

4. Do you support current levels of enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Undecided

5. Do you support current state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Undecided

6. Other or expanded principles
- d+e) Need to see what current restrictions are. Law abiding citizens should have very little restrictions.

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.
- X

2. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- X

3. Support Dirigo Health in Maine.
- No Answer

4. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X

5. Allow patients to sue their HMOs.
- X

6. Require hospitals and labs to release reports on infections that are a risk to public health, while not compromising patient confidentiality.
- No Answer

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

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

9. Other or expanded principles
- a) If we have insurance reform, we would not need state funded care.d) Limit amount to lawyers, limit damages to medical bills and lost wages, people don't need to win the lottery. Good doctors should not have to pay for bad ones. Bad doctors should not be doctors anymore.e) Don't like any law sues, but if someone has paid for insurance, the insurance company should pay.

Social

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding social issues.

1. Should Maine recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes

2. Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry?
- No

3. Should Maine provide state-level spousal rights to same-sex couples?
- Undecided

4. Do you support a moment of silence in public schools?
- Yes

5. Do you support voluntary prayer in public schools?
- Yes

6. Do you support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods?
- Undecided

7. Do you support abstinence-only sexual education programs?
- Yes

8. Should the state government consider race and gender in state government contracting and hiring decisions?
- No

9. Do you support affirmative action in public college admissions?
- No

10. Should Maine continue affirmative action programs?
- No

11. Do you support state funding of stem cell research?
- No

12. Do you support state funding of embryonic stem cell research?
- No

13. Do you support allowing pharmacists who conscientiously object to emergency contraception to refuse to dispense it?
- Undecided

14. Other or expanded principles
- c) This depends on what you mean by "state level spousal rights".f+g) This would depend on age. I would NOT be for giving birth control pills to 11 year olds, (like Portland did) or showing them how to use a condom.

Legislative Priorities

1. Please explain in a total of 100 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) FREEZE SPENDING, the government takes enough from us now! We need to prioritize spending, the TAXPAYERS can give no more. Any surplus 1/2 refund 1/2 emergency fund.2) BACK FUND BUDGETS, (after a 2-bienniem freeze) spend only what we took in the last budget cycle, and refund any surplus to the income tax payers.3) Healthcare Reform, open up competition, cut out state regulations that stops affordable healthcare. Allow people that are paying cash for healthcare to get the best pricing, that the big insurance companies get.