Florida State Legislative Election 2004 National Political Awareness 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. Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer

7. Require parental notification prior to a minor receiving an abortion.
- X

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budget, Spending, and Tax

State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category.

1. Education (higher)
- No Answer

2. Education (K-12)
- No Answer

3. Environment
- No Answer

4. Health care
- No Answer

5. Law enforcement
- No Answer

6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- No Answer

7. Welfare
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded categories
- Florida is in a hurricane rebuild-mode. Impossible to tell how much money we will have to spend & what the priorities will be until after assessments of need are completed.

State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax.

1. Alcohol taxes
- No Answer

2. Capital gains taxes
- No Answer

3. Cigarette taxes
- No Answer

4. Corporate taxes
- No Answer

5. Estate taxes
- No Answer

6. Gasoline taxes
- No Answer

7. Property taxes
- No Answer

8. Sales taxes
- No Answer

9. Vehicle taxes
- No Answer

10. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

11. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- No

12. Should Florida repeal the bullet train amendment passed in 2000?
- Yes

13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

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 eight consecutive years served for Florida governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support the current limit of eight consecutive years served for Florida state senators and representatives?
- No

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

1. Individual
- Yes

2. PAC
- Yes

3. Corporate
- Yes

4. Political Parties
- Undecided

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?
- No

7. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying, and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes

8. Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in Florida are closed?
- Yes

9. Should Florida change the requirement for voters to amend the state Constitution from a simple majority to a three-fifths majority?
- Yes

10. Should Florida repeal the telephone rate increase that went into effect last year?
- Undecided

11. Should Florida recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes

12. Should Florida restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes

13. Other or expanded principles
- Yes

Crime

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 Florida.
- X

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

4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X

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

6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer

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

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

9. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- No Answer

10. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
- X

11. Other or expanded principles
- X

Education

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

1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- X

2. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- No Answer

3. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- No Answer

4. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- X

5. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer

6. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X

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

8. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- No Answer

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

10. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- No Answer

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

12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Education Vouchers Issues: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education vouchers.

1. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- X

2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer

3. School districts that accept vouchers should give students standardized tests.
- X

4. School districts that accept vouchers should conduct background checks on people who have direct contact with students.
- X

5. Schools districts that accept vouchers should demonstrate fiscal soundness before being approved to take tax dollars.
- X

6. Vouchers should not be given to home-schooled students.
- No Answer

7. Other or expanded principles
- X

Employment and Affirmative Action

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.
- X

2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- X

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.
- No Answer

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

6. Include sexual orientation in Florida's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer

7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- X

Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on:

1. Public employment
- No

2. State college and university admissions
- No

3. State contracting
- No

4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

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, and oil).
- X

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

4. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X

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

6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Gun

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.
- No Answer

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

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.
- No Answer

2. Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer

3. Make medical malpractice records public.
- No Answer

4. Limit the fees attorneyes can receive from medical malpractice jury awards.
- X

5. Deny licenses to physicians who commit malpractice three times.
- No Answer

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

7. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
- X

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

9. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Florida.
- No Answer

10. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer

11. Other or expanded principles
- X

Welfare and Poverty

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare and poverty.

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

2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X

3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- No Answer

4. Support current limits on benefits given to recipients if they have additional children while on welfare.
- X

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.
- No Answer

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

Legislative Priorities

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