Wisconsin State Legislative Election 2002 National Political Awareness Test

Abortion

1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer

2. Abortions should always be legally available.
- 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.
- X

5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X

6. Eliminate public funding for abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budgetary, Spending and Tax

1. Education (Higher)
- Maintain Funding Status

2. Education (K-12)
- Maintain Funding Status

3. Environment
- Maintain Funding Status

4. Health care
- Greatly Increase Funding

5. Law enforcement
- Maintain Funding Status

6. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase Funding

7. Welfare
- Maintain Funding Status

8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

1. Alcohol taxes
- Slightly Increase

2. Capital gains taxes
- Slightly Increase

3. Cigarette taxes
- Slightly Increase

4. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Increase

5. Estate taxes
- Slightly Increase

6. Gasoline taxes
- Slightly Increase

7. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease

8. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Slightly Increase

9. Property taxes
- Slightly Decrease

10. Sales taxes
- Slightly Increase

11. Vehicle taxes
- Slightly Increase

12. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

13. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Yes

14. Should increases in state taxes require prior approval by voters?
- No

15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

1. Build reserve funds.
- X

2. Decrease government spending.
- X

3. Raise state taxes.
- X

4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Campaign Finance and Governmental Reform

1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Wisconsin governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Wisconsin state senators and representatives?
- No

1. Individual
- Yes

2. PAC
- Yes

3. Corporate
- Yes

4. Political Parties
- No

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

6. Do you support partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
- Yes

7. Do you support voting on-line?
- Undecided

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 Wisconsin are closed?
- Undecided

10. Should Wisconsin recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes

11. Should Wisconsin restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- No

12. Should Wisconsin prohibit drivers from using hand-held cellular phones while driving?
- Yes

13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

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

2. Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
- No Answer

3. Implement the use of the death penalty in Wisconsin.
- No Answer

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.
- No Answer

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

7. Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
- X

8. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer

9. Lower the .10 blood-alcohol-content limit defining drunk driving.
- No Answer

10. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer

11. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- No Answer

12. Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.
- X

13. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X

14. Increase state funding for additional security of critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks.
- No Answer

15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Educational

1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- No Answer

2. Support state funding for vouchers that allow parents to send their children to any participating school (public, private, religious).
- No Answer

3. Support public funding for online charter schools.
- 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. Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
- No Answer

7. Support displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools.
- No Answer

8. Endorse teacher-led voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer

9. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer

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

11. Increase state funding to expand Head Start programs.
- No Answer

12. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X

13. Support age-appropriate sexual education programs that teach about abstinence, contraceptives and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X

14. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer

15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Employment and Affirmative Action

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

2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector 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 their employees.
- X

5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children of low-income working families.
- No Answer

6. Include sexual orientation in Wisconsin's anti-discrimination laws.
- X

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

1. College and university admissions
- Yes

2. Public employment
- No

3. State contracting
- Yes

4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Environmental and Energy

1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X

2. Increase financial incentives to municipalities that allow construction of power plants in their communities.
- No Answer

3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused or abandoned.
- X

4. Should Wisconsin increase state funding to combat chronic wasting disease (CWD)?
- Yes

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

6. Should state environmental regulations be stricter than federal law?
- Undecided

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Gun

1. Ban the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
- No Answer

2. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X

3. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

4. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

5. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- No Answer

6. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- X

7. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- X

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

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

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 damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer

4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- X

5. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied by their HMO.
- X

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

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

8. Increase state funding for training health workers to recognize and respond to the release of biological agents.
- X

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Welfare and Poverty

1. Support current time limits on welfare benefits.
- No Answer

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

3. Provide tax incentives to businesses that hire welfare recipients.
- No Answer

4. Provide child care for welfare recipients who work.
- X

5. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X

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

7. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer

8. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to expand state services to include the working poor.
- X

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Legislative Priorities

In a total of seventy-five (75) words or less, please explain what your two main legislative priorities will be if elected. Please explain how you would obtain any additional government funding needed to implement these priorities.
- 1. Return all 3,000 out-of-state prisoners by releasing non-violent prisoners to extensive supervision. The resulting savings to be used to increae the number of parole officers, reducing parole caseloads and enhancing opportunities for successful integration to civil society. Taxes on the income earned by 3,000 new parolees will slightly enhance state revenues. 2. Increase Renewable Energy Portfolio from 2.5% of generated energy by 2010 to 11%. 2.5% is already achieved.