1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
2. Do you support lowering taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
1. Do you generally support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Yes
1. Do you support building the Keystone XL pipeline?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Yes
Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
Do you support same-sex marriage?
- Yes
Do you support increased American intervention in Iraq and Syria beyond air support?
- Yes
Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts?
- No
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should always be legal.
- X
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.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Allow pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptive pills without a prescription.
- X
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category.State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax.j) Do you support the adoption of a taxpayers? bill of rights, which would:
1. Education (higher)
- Slightly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Maintain Status
3. Environment
- Slightly Increase
4. Health care
- Slightly Increase
5. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status
6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status
7. Welfare
- Maintain Status
8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
9. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status
11. Cigarette taxes
- Slightly Increase
12. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status
13. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
14. Property taxes
- Slightly Decrease
15. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
16. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Undecided
17. cap spending at the rate of inflation plus population growth?
- No
18. require a two-thirds majority to override the cap?
- No
19. require a two-thirds majority to raise taxes?
- No
20. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.c) Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?
1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New Hampshire governors?
- No
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New Hampshire state senators and representatives?
- No
3. Individual
- Yes
4. PAC
- Yes
5. Corporate
- Yes
6. Political Parties
- Undecided
7. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
8. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- Undecided
9. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying, and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes
10. Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in New Hampshire are closed?
- Yes
11. Should New Hampshire recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes
12. Should New Hampshire restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Undecided
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
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.
- No Answer
2. Support the death penalty in New Hampshire.
- No Answer
3. Raise the minimum execution age in New Hampshire from 17 to 18.
- X
4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
5. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X
6. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
7. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
8. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer
9. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
11. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
- X
12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.
1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- No Answer
2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer
3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- No Answer
5. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- No Answer
6. Funds from affluent school districts should be redirected to meet the needs of poorer districts.
- X
7. Increase the cigarette tax to raise revenue for education.
- X
8. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- No Answer
9. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer
10. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer
11. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- No Answer
12. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- X
13. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- No Answer
14. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X
15. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
16. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity, or gender be taken into account in state agencies? decisions on:
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.
- No Answer
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.
- X
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer
6. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
8. Public employment
- Yes
9. State college and university admissions
- Yes
10. State contracting
- Yes
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).
- No Answer
3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X
4. Increase funding for New Hampshire?s Land and Community Heritage Investment program.
- X
5. Increase the penalty for taking land out of Current Use status.
- No Answer
6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
- X
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.
- No Answer
5. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- X
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
- X
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. 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.
- No Answer
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.
- X
6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
7. Legalize physician assisted suicide in New Hampshire.
- No Answer
8. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare and poverty.
1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- No Answer
2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X
4. Limit benefits given to recipients if they have additional children while on welfare.
- No Answer
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.
- X
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
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
