Gordon Johnson
DWon the General, 2019 New Jersey State Assembly District 37
New Jersey State Assembly, District 37 (2002 - Present)
To be claimed
Member, New Jersey Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing, 2002-present
Former Chair, Commerce and Economic Development Committee, New Jersey State General Assembly
Former Vice Chair, Judiciary Committee, New Jersey State General Assembly
Member, Budget Committee
Chair, Commerce and Economic Development Committee
Member, Judiciary Committee
Member, Select Committee on Legislative Oversight
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. Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (higher)
- Slightly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase
3. Environment
- Maintain Status
4. Health care
- Slightly Increase
5. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status
6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Greatly Increase
7. Welfare
- Maintain Status
8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Slightly Decrease
2. Capital gains taxes
- Slightly Decrease
3. Cigarette taxes
- Eliminate
4. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Decrease
5. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- No Answer
6. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- No Answer
7. Inheritance taxes
- Greatly Increase
8. Property taxes
- No Answer
9. Sales taxes
- No Answer
10. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
11. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
12. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Undecided
13. Do you support raising the gasoline tax to help balance the state budget?
- Undecided
14. Do you support raising the gasoline tax to finance road improvements?
- Undecided
15. Do you support installing video lottery terminals at the Meadowlands horse track to increase state revenue?
- Yes
16. Should New Jersey convene a constitutional convention to address its property tax system?
- Yes
17. Should New Jersey convene a special session of the state legislature to address its property tax system?
- No Answer
18. What are your proposals for correcting New Jersey?s structural budget deficit? Please use forty (40) words or less. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- A constitutional convention seems like the best to correct the structural budget deficit. The convention should be limited in scope to addressing this problem.
19. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the current limit of two consecutive four-year terms for New Jersey governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New Jersey state senators and representatives?
- No
1. Individual
- Yes
2. PAC
- Yes
3. Corporate
- Yes
4. Political Parties
- Yes
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?
- Undecided
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 New Jersey are closed?
- Yes
9. Should New Jersey prohibit ?wheeling,? the practice of funneling funds into a local campaign from various entities across the state in order to circumvent contribution limits?
- Yes
10. Should New Jersey prohibit contributors to municipal level campaigns from being awarded state contracts worth more than $17,500?
- Yes
11. Should New Jersey prohibit elected officials from holding more than one office at the same time?
- Yes
12. Should New Jersey amend its constitution to create the office of lieutenant governor?
- Yes
13. Should New Jersey recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes
14. Should New Jersey restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- No Answer
15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
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 Jersey.
- No Answer
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.
- No Answer
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.
- X
10. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
- X
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
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.
- X
6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- No Answer
7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer
8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer
9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- No Answer
10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- X
11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- No Answer
12. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X
13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
14. 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 in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer
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.
- No Answer
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Public employment
- Yes
2. State college and university admissions
- Undecided
3. State contracting
- Yes
4. 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, and oil).
- No Answer
3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X
4. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X
5. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- X
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
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.
- X
7. Support current licensing requirements for gun possession.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- X
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.
- X
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.
- X
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 Jersey.
- No Answer
8. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
9. Support a $200 million housing trust fund for individuals with mental illness or other disabilities.
- X
10. Forgive up to $20,000 in student loans for New Jersey residents who work in a state, county, or non-profit mental health or social service agency.
- X
11. Allocate $150 million in capital funds to build a stem cell institute in New Jersey.
- X
12. Support a $230 million bond referendum to increase funding for stem cell research.
- No Answer
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
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. 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.
- 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.
- I plan to continue to fight for sorely needed increased transportation infrastructure improvements in New Jersey despite this being a low priority to the Republican Congress and White House. I also plan to continue working toward improvement in the Homeland Security Readiness in New Jersey as we are one of the most at risk state but receive comparatively little in federal funding.
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