Former Chair, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, West Virginia House of Delegates
Former Chair, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, West Virginia State House of Delegates
Former Member, Energy Committee, West Virginia State House of Delegates
Former Member, Finance Committee, West Virginia State House of Delegates
Former Member, Interstate Cooperation Committee, West Virginia State Senate
Former Member, Joint Commission on Forest Management Review Committee, West Virginia State Senate
Former Member, Joint Economic Development Committee, West Virginia State Assembly
Former Member, Joint Economic Development Committee, West Virginia State Senate
Former Member, Joint Finance Committee, West Virginia General Assembly
Former Member, Joint Interstate Cooperation Committee, West Virginia State House of Delegates
Former Member, Joint Pensions and Retirement Committee, West Virginia State Assembly
Former Member, Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Subcommittee, West Virginia House of Delegates
Former Member, Pensions and Retirement Committee, West Virginia State Senate
Former Vice Chair, Pensions Committee, West Virginia State Senate
Former Member, Senior Citizen Issues Committee, West Virginia House of Delegates
Former Chair, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, West Virginia House of Delegates
Former Chair, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, West Virginia State House of Delegates
Former Member, Energy Committee, West Virginia State House of Delegates
Former Member, Finance Committee, West Virginia State House of Delegates
Former Member, Joint Economic Development Committee, West Virginia State Assembly
Former Member, Joint Finance Committee, West Virginia General Assembly
Former Member, Joint Pensions and Retirement Committee, West Virginia State Assembly
Former Member, Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Subcommittee, West Virginia House of Delegates
Former Member, Pensions and Retirement Committee, West Virginia State House of Delegates
Former Member, Senior Citizen Issues Committee, West Virginia House of Delegates
Member, Banking and Insurance Committee
Member, Economic Development Committee
Member, Employee Suggestion Award Board
Member, Energy, Industry and Mining Committee
Member, Finance Committee
Member, Joint Committee on Energy
Member, Joint Committee on Finance
Member, Joint Committee on Pensions and Retirement
Member, Joint Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Member, Joint Legislative Oversight Commission on State Water Resources
Member, Joint Legislative Oversight Commission on Workforce Investment for Economic Development
Member, Military Committee
Chair, Natural Resources Committee
Member, Subcommittee on Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources
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.
- 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. Abortions should be subject to a mandatory waiting period.
- No Answer
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (Higher)
- Maintain Status
2. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase
3. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status
4. Environment
- Maintain Status
5. Health care
- Slightly Increase
6. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Greatly Increase
8. Welfare
- Slightly Decrease
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Greatly Increase
2. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
3. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Decrease
4. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
5. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Greatly Decrease
6. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Greatly Increase
7. Property taxes
- Slightly Decrease
8. Sales taxes
- Slightly Decrease
9. Vehicle taxes
- Slightly Decrease
10. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
11. Should state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Undecided
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. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the current limit of terms for West Virginia governors?
- No
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for West Virginia state senators and delegates?
- No
1. Individual
- No
2. PAC
- No
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 imposing spending limits on state-level political campaigns?
- No
7. Should West Virginia participate in the federal REAL ID program?
- No
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Establish the death penalty in West Virginia.
- No Answer
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. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
6. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X
7. Support state and local law enforcement officials enforcing federal immigration laws.
- X
8. Support hate crime legislation.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- Support state offered substance abuse programs available to all who request! Support use of drug courts in all WV Judicial circuits.
1. Support state funding of universal pre-K programs.
- X
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.
- No Answer
5. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer
6. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
7. Require school districts to use excess school aid exclusively for raising teacher salaries.
- No Answer
8. Support using a merit pay system for teachers.
- No Answer
9. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X
10. Support allowing illegal immigrant high school graduates of West Virginia to pay in-state tuition at public universities.
- No Answer
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
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.
- 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.
- X
6. Include sexual orientation in West Virginia's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
7. Include gender identity in West Virgina's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
8. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X
9. Support laws that prevent employers from dismissing employees at will.
- X
10. Support financial punishments for those who knowingly employ illegal immigrants.
- X
11. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X
12. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
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 West Virginia's power generating and transmission facilities.
- X
6. Support funding for open space preservation.
- No Answer
7. Limit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
- X
8. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should background checks be required on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows?
- No
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?
- No
5. Do you support current state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- No
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- No Answer
2. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- X
3. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
4. Allow patients to sue their HMOs.
- X
5. Require hospitals and labs to release reports on infections that are a risk to public health, while not compromising patient confidentiality.
- X
6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in West Virginia.
- No Answer
7. Support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
8. Support a statewide public smoking ban.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should West Virginia recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No
2. Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry?
- No
3. Should West Virginia provide state-level spousal rights to same-sex couples?
- No
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?
- Yes
7. Do you support abstinence-only sexual education programs?
- No
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 West Virginia continue affirmative action programs?
- No
11. Do you support state funding of stem cell research?
- Undecided
12. Do you support state funding of embryonic stem cell research?
- Undecided
13. Do you support allowing pharmacists who conscientiously object to emergency contraception to refuse to dispense it?
- Undecided
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
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.
- No Answer
Type: resolution Chamber: lower
Type: concurrent resolution Chamber: lower
Type: concurrent resolution Chamber: lower