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Michael Callis

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Quick Facts
Personal Details

Education

  • Attended, University of New Hampshire

Professional Experience

  • Attended, University of New Hampshire
  • Sole Proprietor, Stone Works, 1972-present
  • Acting Supervisor, Department of Works, University of New Hampshire

Political Experience

  • Attended, University of New Hampshire
  • Sole Proprietor, Stone Works, 1972-present
  • Acting Supervisor, Department of Works, University of New Hampshire
  • Candidate, United States House of Representatives, New Hampshire, District 1, 2006, 2016, 2018, 2020
  • Candidate, New Hampshire State House of Representatives, District Carroll 7, 2012, 2014
  • Candidate, President of the United States, 2004

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • Attended, University of New Hampshire
  • Sole Proprietor, Stone Works, 1972-present
  • Acting Supervisor, Department of Works, University of New Hampshire
  • Candidate, United States House of Representatives, New Hampshire, District 1, 2006, 2016, 2018, 2020
  • Candidate, New Hampshire State House of Representatives, District Carroll 7, 2012, 2014
  • Candidate, President of the United States, 2004
  • Volunteer Forest Fire Warden
Policy Positions

2019

Abortion

1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Unknown Position

Budget

1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Unknown Position

2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- Unknown Position

Campaign Finance

Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position

Economy

1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Unknown Position

Education

1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position

Energy & Environment

1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Unknown Position

Guns

Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Unknown Position

Health Care

Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Unknown Position

Immigration

1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Unknown Position

Marijuana

Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Unknown Position

National Security

1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Unknown Position

Presidential 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.
- 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.
- No Answer

5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer

6. Abortions should be limited by waiting periods and notification requirements as decided by each state government.
- No Answer

7. Prohibit the dilation and extraction procedure, also known as "partial-birth" abortion.
- No Answer

8. Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer

9. Provide funding for family planning programs as a means to decrease the number of abortions.
- X

10. Other or expanded principles
- X

Budgetary, Spending, and Tax Issues, Part 1: Budget Priorities

Budget Priorities

Using the key below, indicate what levels of federal funding you support for the following general categories. Select one number per category.

1. Agriculture
- Greatly Decrease Funding

2. Arts
- Slightly Increase Funding

3. Defense
- Slightly Decrease Funding

4. Education
- Slightly Increase Funding

5. Environment
- Maintain Funding Status

6. Homeland security
- Maintain Funding Status

7. International aid
- Maintain Funding Status

8. Law enforcement
- Maintain Funding Status

9. Medical research
- Maintain Funding Status

10. National parks
- Maintain Funding Status

11. Public health services
- Slightly Increase Funding

12. Scientific research
- Slightly Increase Funding

13. Space exploration programs
- Slightly Decrease Funding

14. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase Funding

15. Welfare
- Maintain Funding Status

16. Other
- No Answer

Budgetary, Spending, and Tax Issues, Part 2: Defense Spending

Defense Spending

Using the key below, indicate what levels of federal funding you support for the following categories. Select one number per category.

1. Armed Forces personnel training
- Maintain Funding Status

2. Intelligence operations
- Maintain Funding Status

3. Military hardware
- Maintain Funding Status

4. Modernization of weaponry and equipment
- Maintain Funding Status

5. National missile defense
- Slightly Decrease Funding

6. Pay for active duty personnel
- Maintain Funding Status

7. Programs to improve troop retention rates
- Slightly Decrease Funding

8. Research and development of new weapons
- Greatly Decrease Funding

9. Troop and equipment readiness
- Slightly Increase Funding

10. Other
- No Answer

Budgetary, Spending, and Tax Issues, Part 3: Taxes (A)

Taxes

Using the key below, indicate what levels you support regarding taxes, deductions, and tax credits in the following categories. Select one number per category.

Income Taxes:

Family Income

1. Less than $25,000
- Slightly Decrease

2. $25,000-$75,000
- Slightly Decrease

3. $75,000-$150,000
- Slightly Increase

4. Over $150,000
- Slightly Increase

5. Other
- No Answer

Retiree Income

1. Over $40,000
- No Answer

2. Other
- No Answer

Other Taxes:

1. Alcohol taxes
- Slightly Increase

2. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status

3. Cigarette taxes
- Greatly Decrease

4. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status

5. Gasoline taxes
- Slightly Increase

6. Inheritance taxes
- Maintain Status

7. Other
- Marijuana

Deductions/Credits:

1. Charitable contributions
- Slightly Increase

2. Child tax credit
- Slightly Increase

3. Earned income tax credit
- Maintain Status

4. Medical expense deduction
- Slightly Increase

5. Mortgage deduction
- Slightly Decrease

6. Student loan credit
- Maintain Status

7. Other
- No Answer

Budgetary, Spending, and Taxes, Part 3: Taxes (B)

1. Do you support permanent repeal of the federal estate tax?
- Undecided

2. Do you support eliminating taxes on dividends paid to individual investors?
- Undecided

3. Should a married couple filing jointly pay the same taxes as if they were an unmarried couple filing separately?
- Yes

4. 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. Support public taxpayer funding for federal candidates who comply with campaign spending limits.
- No Answer

2. Eliminate publicly financed matching funds for presidential campaigns.
- X

3. Raise campaign spending limits for presidential candidates who wish to receive matching funds.
- No Answer

4. Increase the amount individuals are permitted to contribute to federal campaigns.
- No Answer

5. Prohibit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions to candidates for federal office.
- X

6. Ban unregulated soft money campaign contributions to political parties or committees.
- X

7. Ban ads paid for by soft money that support or attack a candidate for federal office.
- X

8. Ban issue advocacy commercials by corporations, labor unions, and non-profit groups which appear within 60 days of a general election and within 30 days of a primary election.
- X

9. Remove all contribution limits on federal campaigns and parties.
- No Answer

10. Require unions to give members the option of not having dues used for political purposes.
- X

11. Do you support instant run-off voting (IRV)?
- Undecided

12. Should Election Day be a national holiday?
- Undecided

13. Should same-sex couples be allowed to form civil unions?
- Undecided

14. Should marriage be restricted to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes

15. Other or expanded principles
- IRS return forms should not be used to allocate funds for any cause. Using the forms for reasons other than tax collection is a slippery slope.

Crime

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

1. Support the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
- No Answer

2. Eliminate the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
- X

3. Impose "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
- No Answer

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

5. Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
- X

6. Increase funding for community policing programs.
- No Answer

7. Reduce prison sentences for those who commit non-violent crimes.
- No Answer

8. Support additional criminal penalties if a fetus is killed in the commission of a federal crime against a pregnant woman.
- X

9. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, and disability be prosecuted as federal hate crimes.
- No Answer

10. Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.
- X

11. Impose stricter penalties for those convicted of white-collar crimes.
- No Answer

12. Enforcement of civil rights should primarily be the responsibility of the federal government.
- No Answer

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

14. Other or expanded principles
- X

Drug

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

1. Support mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs.
- No Answer

2. Expand federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
- X

3. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- X

4. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- X

5. Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S.
- No Answer

6. Eliminate federal funding for programs associated with the "war on drugs."
- X

7. Other or expanded principles
- X

Education

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

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

2. Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer

3. Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any private school.
- No Answer

4. Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any religious school.
- No Answer

5. Allow teachers and professionals to receive authorization and funding to establish charter schools.
- No Answer

6. Increase funding for block grants to states to help them hire additional teachers.
- X

7. Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
- No Answer

8. Increase funding for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings, infrastructure, and technology).
- X

9. Eliminate restrictions on federal education funding, giving educators or local school districts more flexibility to design and to implement programs.
- X

10. Support granting states limited control over Head Start programs.
- No Answer

11. Support changing the mission of Head Start to improving the math and reading skills of disadvantaged children.
- No Answer

12. Providing education is not a responsibility of the federal government.
- No Answer

13. Support affirmative action in public college admissions.
- No Answer

14. Increase funding of programs such as Pell grants and Stafford loans to help students pay for college.
- No Answer

15. Support federal tax incentives to help families save for college.
- X

16. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Employment and Affirmative Action

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

1. Increase funding for national job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
- No Answer

2. Reduce government regulation of the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer

3. Provide tax credits or grants to businesses that offer employee child care services.
- No Answer

4. Encourage employers to offer flex-time scheduling, comp-time, and unpaid leave for family emergencies.
- X

5. Eliminate all federal programs designed to reduce unemployment.
- No Answer

6. Increase the federal minimum wage.
- No Answer

7. Support the right of workers to strike without fear of being permanently replaced.
- X

8. Allow workers to sell company stock and to diversify their company retirement funds into other investment options.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding affirmative action.

1. The federal government should consider race and gender in government contracting decisions.
- No Answer

2. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs.
- No Answer

3. The federal government should continue affirmative action programs.
- No Answer

4. Include sexual orientation in federal anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer

5. Other or expanded principles
- X

Environment and Energy

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.

1. Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Water Act.
- X

2. Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Air Act.
- X

3. Require states to compensate citizens when environmental regulations limit uses of privately-owned land.
- No Answer

4. Exempt the military from some environmental regulations.
- No Answer

5. Relax logging restrictions on federal lands.
- No Answer

6. Relax standards on federal lands to allow increased recreational usage.
- No Answer

7. Support increased development of traditional energy resources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil).
- No Answer

8. Strengthen emission controls and fuel efficiency standards on all gasoline and diesel-powered engines, including cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles.
- X

9. Support opening a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil exploration.
- No Answer

10. Encourage further development and use of alternative fuels to reduce pollution.
- X

11. Support use of ethanol as an alternative fuel.
- No Answer

12. Allow energy producers to trade pollution credits.
- No Answer

13. Support the U.S. re-entering the Kyoto treaty process to limit global warming.
- No Answer

14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Gun

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

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

2. Maintain the current level of enforcement of existing federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X

3. Strengthen the enforcement of existing federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

4. Ease federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

5. Repeal federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

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

7. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- No Answer

8. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer

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

10. Establish a national database of ballistic "fingerprints" to track guns used in criminal activities.
- No Answer

11. Support legislation that would protect manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and importers of firearms from civil lawsuits by crime victims.
- No Answer

12. Other or expanded principles
- X

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health care.

1. Providing health care is not a responsibility of the federal government.
- No Answer

2. Implement a universal health care program to guarantee coverage to all Americans regardless of income.
- No Answer

3. Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes appeal mechanisms when claims are denied.
- No Answer

4. Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes the right to sue when claims are denied.
- No Answer

5. Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts.
- X

6. Establish limits on the amount of punitive damages awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X

7. Support prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
- No Answer

8. Support prescription drug coverage under private managed care plans.
- No Answer

9. Offer tax credits to individuals and small businesses to offset the cost of insurance coverage.
- X

10. Support automatic enrollment of children in federal health care programs such as CHIP and Medicaid.
- X

11. Allow 55-65 year-olds to buy into Medicare.
- No Answer

12. Support stem cell research on existing lines of stem cells.
- No Answer

13. Allow laboratories to create lines of stem cells for additional research.
- No Answer

14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Immigration

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

1. Decrease the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country.
- X

2. Establish English as the official national language.
- No Answer

3. Increase the number of visas issued for agricultural workers.
- No Answer

4. Relax restrictions barring legal immigrants from using social programs (e.g. public housing, food stamps).
- No Answer

5. Support amnesty for certain illegal immigrants who already reside in the United States.
- X

6. Support the detention of asylum seekers from countries known to sponsor terrorism.
- No Answer

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

International Aid, International Policy, and Trade Issues, Part 1: International Aid

International Aid

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding U.S. economic assistance.

1. Aid should be granted to countries when extraordinary circumstances cause disaster and threaten civilian lives.
- X

2. Aid should be granted to countries when it is in the security interests of the U.S.
- X

3. Aid should be eliminated for any nation with documented human rights abuses.
- X

4. Aid programs should be scaled back and eventually eliminated.
- No Answer

5. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

International Aid, International Policy, and Trade Issues, Part 2: International Policy

International Policy

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the Middle East.

1. Should the United States continue to provide leadership in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?
- Yes

2. Should the United States support the creation of a Palestinian state?
- Yes

3. Should the United States withdraw its troops from Iraq?
- No Answer

4. Discuss your proposals for the reconstruction of Iraq. What funding sources would you use to implement these proposals? (100 words or less. Please use an attached page if the space below is not adequate.)
- I would establish an institution similar to the Freemason's of 1776 and earliar. It coould be implemented by moderate Islamic influences as a compartmentalized cell structure for defending liberty and promoting charity. For every cell of ten individuals a stiphon of $1,000 a month would be allowed and serve as a bridge until they were employed by private enterprise.

5. Other or expanded principles
- The ideology of war promoted by the administration is shortsited and counterproductive in short I would fire Donald Rumsfeld for his use of fear and obtuse terminology.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding Central and East Asia.

1. Should the U.S. use diplomatic pressure to encourage North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program?
- Yes

2. Should the U.S. use economic pressure to encourage North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program?
- No

3. Should the U.S. use military force to destroy the North Korean nuclear weapons program?
- Undecided

4. Should the U.S. remove the North Korean government from power?
- No

5. Should the U.S. increase financial support to Afghanistan?
- Undecided

6. Should the U.S. increase military support to Afghanistan?
- Undecided

7. Other or expanded principles
- I would apply the same solution or approach as that for Iraq.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the United Nations.

1. Should the U.S. increase participation in United Nations peacekeeping missions?
- Yes

2. Should the U.S. commit military troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions?
- Yes

3. Should the U.S. withdraw completely from the United Nations?
- Undecided

4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

5. Should the U.S. have full diplomatic relations with Cuba?
- Yes

6. Should the U.S increase its financial support to Colombia to combat "the War on Drugs"?
- No

7. Should aid to African nations for AIDS prevention programs fund abstinence education and distribution of contraceptives?
- Yes

8. Should aid to African nations for AIDS prevention fund abstinence education only?
- No

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

International Aid, International Policy, and Trade Issues, Part 3: International Trade

International Trade

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding international trade.

1. Do you support the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
- Yes

2. Do you support the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
- Undecided

3. Do you support continued U.S. membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
- Undecided

4. Should a nation's human rights record affect its normal trade relations (most favored nation) status with the United States?
- Yes

5. Do you support the trade embargo against Cuba?
- No

6. Should trade agreements include provisions to protect workers' rights and to address environmental concerns?
- Undecided

7. Other or expanded principles
- I support free trade.

National Security

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding national security.

1. Do you support using military tribunals to try suspected terrorists when ordinary civil courts are deemed inappropriate or impractical?
- Yes

2. Should the U.S. adopt stricter rules for student visa applications from nations known to sponsor terrorism?
- Undecided

3. Should the U.S. grant law enforcement agencies greater discretion to read mail and email, tap phones, and conduct random searches to prevent future terrorist attacks?
- Undecided

4. Should the U.S. hold foreign states accountable for terrorists who operate in their country?
- Undecided

5. Should the federal government increase funding to states and cities for homeland security?
- Yes

6. Do you support a policy of pre-emptive strikes against countries deemed to be a threat to national security?
- Undecided

7. Other or expanded principles
- Answer A would be an extreme case, answer F would not be a policy but inherent right in the face of no alternative.

Social Security

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding Social Security.

1. Allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in private accounts which they manage themselves.
- No Answer

2. Allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in private accounts managed by private firms contracted by the government.
- No Answer

3. Invest a portion of Social Security's assets collectively in stocks and bonds instead of U.S. Treasury securities.
- No Answer

4. Increase the payroll tax to better finance Social Security in its current form.
- No Answer

5. Lower Social Security's annual cost-of-living increases.
- X

6. Raise the retirement age for when individuals are eligible to receive full Social Security benefits.
- X

7. Other of expanded principles
- No Answer

Technology and Communication

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding technology and communication.

1. Collect taxes on commercial Internet transactions.
- No Answer

2. Continue the moratorium on Internet taxation.
- No Answer

3. Implement regulation of Internet content.
- No Answer

4. Support government mandates to curtail violent and sexual content on television.
- X

5. Support strict penalties for Internet crimes such as hacking.
- X

6. Support legislation to detail how personal information can be collected and used on the Internet.
- No Answer

7. Regulating the Internet is not a responsibility of the federal government.
- X

8. Impose regulations on "spam" emails.
- X

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Welfare and Poverty

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

1. Require welfare recipients to spend at least 40 hours a week in a combination of work and training programs.
- No Answer

2. Increase funding for child care programs.
- X

3. Continue to give states and local governments flexibility in and responsibility for welfare programs through federal block grants.
- No Answer

4. Direct federal poverty aid through religious, community-based, or other non-profit organizations.
- No Answer

5. Abolish all federal welfare programs.
- No Answer

6. Support housing assistance for low-income families.
- X

7. Support funding for programs to promote marriage.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Presidential Priorities

Explain in a total of 200 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected President of the United States. If these priorities require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- ...I would look carefully at the way government policy influences crop production by appropriating money to corn and soybean production and divert the money to more diverse and healthful crops and encourage local farms. This would require less money than what is going to A.D.M. which is a result of their strong lobbying connections rather then the health and diversity of this countries best interests. Although this may not be considered a policy I would recommend a study of the election process and the abuse of it. I think it is important to have a full study of the Florida election and how it failed in the last presidential election and the lessons from Watergate and Carter papers and to the most recent assault on the electoral (Federal) vote process in Texas. he most important policy is that concerning the environment and I would promote Environmentally sound technologies which could become a major export and an economically sound direction and focus for the new millennia. America has great untapped resources to bring to the rest of the world and insure that we stay in the lead as the worlds most sound and productive economy. This approach will also insure our security and that of World health and the fragile balance of life that will confront the next generation if this is not a priority.

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