Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion. | |
a) Abortions should always be illegal. | |
✕ | b) Abortions should always be legal. |
✕ | c) Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy. |
✕ | d) Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape. |
✕ | e) Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered. |
f) Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions. | |
✕ | g) Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors. |
h) Other or expanded principles |
State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category. | |
Maintain Status | a) Education (Higher) |
Greatly Increase | b) Education (K-12) |
c) Emergency preparedness | |
d) Environment | |
Slightly Increase | e) Health care |
Greatly Decrease | f) Law enforcement |
g) Transportation and highway infrastructure | |
Slightly Decrease | h) Welfare |
i) Other or expanded categories | |
State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax. | |
Maintain Status | a) Alcohol taxes |
Slightly Decrease | b) Capital gains taxes |
Slightly Increase | c) Cigarette taxes |
Greatly Increase | d) Corporate taxes |
e) Gasoline taxes | |
f) Income taxes (incomes below $75,000) | |
Greatly Decrease | g) Income taxes (incomes above $75,000) |
h) Property taxes | |
i) Sales taxes | |
Eliminate | j) Vehicle taxes |
k) Other or expanded categories | |
No | l) Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales? |
Yes | m) Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget? |
No | n) Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget? |
No | o) Do you support leasing the New Jersey Turnpike to a private company to help reduce the state's debt? |
p) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform. | |
No | a) Do you support the current limit of terms for New Jersey governors? |
Yes | b) Do you support limiting the number of terms for New Jersey state senators and representatives? |
c) Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative candidates? | |
Yes | 1) Individual |
Yes | 2) PAC |
Yes | 3) Corporate |
Yes | 4) Political Parties |
Yes | d) Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information? |
Yes | e) Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns? |
Yes | f) Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes? |
Yes | g) Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in New Jersey are closed? |
No | h) Should New Jersey continue to recognize civil unions between same-sex couples? |
No | i) Should New Jersey recognize marriages between same-sex couples? |
Yes | j) Do you support a New Jersey constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman? |
Undecided | k) Do you support the New Jersey state government using eminent domain to seize private property for the purpose of private development? |
l) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime. | |
a) Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff. | |
b) Support the death penalty in New Jersey. | |
✕ | c) Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released. |
✕ | d) End parole for repeat violent offenders. |
✕ | e) Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders. |
✕ | f) Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. |
g) Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes. | |
✕ | h) Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults. |
i) Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes. | |
✕ | j) Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth. |
✕ | k) Strengthen sex-offender laws. |
✕ | l) Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine). |
m) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education. | |
✕ | a) Support national standards and testing of public school students. |
b) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school. | |
c) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school. | |
✕ | d) Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure). |
✕ | e) Increase funds for hiring additional teachers. |
f) Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay. | |
✕ | g) Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools. |
✕ | h) Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams. |
✕ | i) Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries. |
✕ | j) Increase funding for Head Start programs. |
✕ | k) Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable. |
✕ | l) Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods. |
m) Support abstinence-only sexual education programs. | |
n) Other or expanded principles |
Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment. | |
✕ | a) Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market. |
b) Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion. | |
✕ | c) Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses. |
✕ | d) Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families. |
✕ | e) Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families. |
✕ | f) Support the inclusion of sexual orientation in New Jersey's anti-discrimination laws. |
✕ | g) Increase the state minimum wage. |
h) Other or expanded principles | |
Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on: | |
No | a) Public employment |
No | b) State college and university admissions |
No | c) State contracting |
d) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy. | |
✕ | a) Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology. |
✕ | b) Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil). |
✕ | c) Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned. |
✕ | d) Increase funding for improvements to New Jersey's power generating and transmission facilities. |
✕ | e) Support funding for open space preservation. |
✕ | f) Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law. |
g) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns. | |
a) Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |
b) Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |
c) Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |
d) Allow citizens to carry concealed guns. | |
✕ | e) Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows. |
✕ | f) Require a license for gun possession. |
g) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health. | |
✕ | a) Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary. |
✕ | b) Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs. |
c) Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits. | |
✕ | d) Support patients' right to sue their HMOs. |
e) Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government. | |
f) Legalize physician assisted suicide in New Jersey. | |
✕ | g) Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes. |
h) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare. | |
✕ | a) Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients. |
✕ | b) Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients. |
✕ | c) Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work. |
d) Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations. | |
e) Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor. | |
✕ | f) Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients. |
g) Eliminate government-funded welfare programs. | |
h) Other or expanded principles |