Alabama State Legislative Election 2010 Political Courage Test

Abortion and Reproductive

1. Do you consider yourself pro-choice or pro-life?
- Pro-life

2. Should abortion be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy?
- No Answer

3. Should abortion be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape?
- No

4. Should abortion be legal when the life of the woman is endangered?
- Yes

5. Do you support requiring parental notification before an abortion is performed on a minor?
- Yes

6. Do you support requiring parental consent before an abortion is performed on a minor?
- Yes

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

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

9. Other or expanded principles
- b) I don't believe abortion should be legal at any stage of the pregnancy. \d) When the life of the Mother is in jeopardy the life of the Baby is usually at risk as well. These are medical decisions made to save a life not end on. Medical doctors in these instances will try and let the mother carry as long as possible and induce labor. Then try and keep the baby alive. Very rarely is a pregnancy needed to be terminated for health reasons in the first or second trimester.

Budget, Spending, and Tax

1. Education (higher)
- Maintain Status

2. Education (K-12)
- Maintain Status

3. Environment
- Maintain Status

4. Health care
- Maintain Status

5. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status

6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status

7. Welfare
- Slightly Decrease

8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status

2. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status

3. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Decrease

4. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status

5. Property taxes
- Slightly Decrease

6. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status

7. Sales taxes (grocery)
- Maintain Status

8. Income taxes (low-income families)
- Maintain Status

9. Income taxes (middle-income families)
- Maintain Status

10. Income taxes (high-income families)
- Maintain Status

11. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

1. Tapping into Alabama's "rainy day" fund
- Yes

2. Regulating and taxing gaming proceeds
- Yes

3. Issuing the early release of certain non-violent offenders
- Yes

4. Increasing tuition rates at public universities
- No

5. Instituting mandatory furloughs and layoffs for state employees
- Yes

6. Reducing benefits for Medicaid recipients
- No

7. Privatizing certain government services
- Yes

8. Other or expanded principles
- b) If the State is going to continue to allow gaming (bingo machines) then they need to be taxed and regulated.f) The way medicaid is funded has to be revised. We need to be proactive in our Medicaid billing. Instead of trying to reimburse physicians for seeing Medicaid patients, we should give them a tax write-off for seeing these patients. This would reduced administrative cost of Medicaid and encourage doctors to see more Medicaid patients.

Campaign Finance and Government Reform

1. Individual
- No

2. Political Action Committee
- No

3. Corporate
- No

4. Political Party
- No

5. Should candidates for state office be encouraged to meet voluntary spending limits?
- No

6. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes

7. Should the Alabama Ethics Commission have the power of subpoena?
- Yes

8. Should current elected officials be prohibited from holding additional state jobs?
- Yes

9. Should Alabama hold a constitutional convention to rewrite the state constitution?
- No

10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime and Public Safety

1. Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes?
- Yes

2. Do you support alternatives to incarceration for certain non-violent offenders, such as mandatory counseling or substance abuse treatment?
- Yes

3. Should the possession of small amounts of marijuana be decriminalized?
- No Answer

4. Do you support increasing penalties for illegal cockfighting?
- No Answer

5. Should a minor accused of a violent crime be prosecuted as an adult?
- No

6. Should a minor who sends sexually-explicit or nude photos by cell phone face criminal charges?
- No

7. Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police?
- Yes

8. Other or expanded principles
- c) I feel we should look at how we handle marijuana possession. Are we effectively preventing its use and further more are we crippling people early in life for foolish mistakes that may prevent them from being productive members of society.d) I don't know enough about this topic to respond.

Economic

1. Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector?
- Yes

2. Do you support increased state funding for job-training programs that re-train displaced workers?
- No

3. Do you support expanding access to unemployment benefits?
- No

4. Do you support providing financial incentives to the private sector for the purpose of job creation?
- Yes

5. Do you support increased spending on infrastructure projects for the purpose of job creation?
- Yes

6. Do you support providing direct financial assistance to homeowners facing foreclosure?
- No

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Education

1. Do you support national education standards?
- Yes

2. Do you support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams?
- Yes

3. Do you support using a merit pay system for teachers?
- Yes

4. Do you support state funding for charter schools?
- No Answer

5. Do you support the state government providing college students with financial aid?
- Yes

6. Should illegal immigrants who graduate from Alabama high schools be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities?
- No

7. Other or expanded principles
- d) I believe competition at all levels is necessary for improvement. However the last bill that was introduced for charter schools was under funded and would have likely caused our children to suffer the consequences.

Environment and Energy

1. Do you support state funding for the development of alternative energy?
- Yes

2. Do you support state funding for the development of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil)?
- Yes

3. Do you support providing financial incentives to farms that produce biofuel crops?
- Yes

4. Do you support state funding for improvements to Alabama's energy infrastructure?
- Yes

5. Do you support state funding for open space preservation?
- Yes

6. Do you support enacting environmental regulations aimed at reducing the effects of climate change?
- No

7. Other or expanded principles
- c) For the short term. If a bio fuel crop is viable the market will provide the incentives.e) Not at the expense of sacrificing farmland.f) I do not want to enact another regulation to break the back of industry in our State. Our Nation is already so ant business that they find it financially feasible to leave this country and produce goods elsewhere.

Gun

1. Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Yes

2. Do you support requiring background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows?
- Yes

3. Do you support allowing individuals to carry concealed guns?
- Yes

4. Do you support requiring a license for gun possession?
- Yes

5. Other or expanded principles
- a) only for convicted felons.

Health

1. Do you support a universally-accessible, publicly-administered health insurance option?
- No

2. Do you support expanding access to health care through commercial health insurance reform?
- Yes

3. Do you support interstate health insurance compacts?
- Yes

4. Should individuals be required to purchase health care insurance?
- No

5. Do you support monetary limits on damages that can be collected in malpractice lawsuits?
- Yes

6. Do you support legalizing physician-assisted suicide in Alabama?
- No

7. Do you support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes?
- No

8. Other or expanded principles
- g) I have seen no absolute medical evidence that marijuana use has any Medical benefits vs other medications for patient treatment. If there is such information I will be open to looking at it. However Prescription medications are so abused at this time I feel this would just be another opportunity for abuse.

Social

1. Should marriage only be between one man and one woman?
- Yes

2. Should Alabama allow same-sex couples to form civil unions?
- Yes

3. Do you support state funding for stem cell research?
- Yes

4. Do you support state funding for embryonic stem cell research?
- No

5. Do you support the state's use of affirmative action?
- No

6. Do you support the inclusion of sexual orientation in Alabama's anti-discrimination laws?
- No

7. Do you support the inclusion of gender identity in Alabama's anti-discrimination laws?
- No

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Legislative Priorities

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.
- First and foremost I feel we must address the corruption in Montgomery. We need Ethics Laws with stiff penalties for our Legislators.Second we have to be business friendly. Without jobs that produce something our economy will continue to falter.Third we must address Illegal Immigration. It is straining our system to the point of collapse.