Former Member, Education Committee, New Hampshire State House of Representatives
Favorite Quote:
"People turn to the front pages to read about men's failures. They turn to the sports pages to read about men's achievements." - Earl Warren
— Publications:
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.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- X
7. Allow pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptive pills without a prescription.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (higher)
- Maintain Status
2. Education (K-12)
- Maintain Status
3. Environment
- Maintain Status
4. Health care
- Slightly Increase
5. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status
6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status
7. Welfare
- Slightly Decrease
8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Capital gains taxes
- Eliminate
3. Cigarette taxes
- Slightly Increase
4. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Decrease
5. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
6. Property taxes
- Slightly Decrease
7. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
9. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- No
1. cap spending at the rate of inflation plus population growth?
- Yes
2. require a two-thirds majority to override the cap?
- Yes
3. require a two-thirds majority to raise taxes?
- Yes
4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New Hampshire governors?
- No
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New Hampshire state senators and representatives?
- No
1. Individual
- No
2. PAC
- No
3. Corporate
- No
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. 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 Hampshire are closed?
- Undecided
9. Should New Hampshire recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Undecided
10. Should New Hampshire restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes
11. 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 Hampshire.
- No Answer
3. Raise the minimum execution age in New Hampshire from 17 to 18.
- No Answer
4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
5. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X
6. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
7. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
8. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- X
9. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- No Answer
11. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
- No Answer
12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- X
2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- X
3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- X
4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- No Answer
5. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- No Answer
6. Funds from affluent school districts should be redirected to meet the needs of poorer districts.
- No Answer
7. Increase the cigarette tax to raise revenue for education.
- X
8. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- X
9. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- X
10. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X
11. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- No Answer
12. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- No Answer
13. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- No Answer
14. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X
15. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
16. 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.
- No Answer
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.
- X
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. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Public employment
- No
2. State college and university admissions
- No
3. State contracting
- No
4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- No Answer
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. Increase funding for New Hampshire?s Land and Community Heritage Investment program.
- No Answer
5. Increase the penalty for taking land out of Current Use status.
- No Answer
6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
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.
- X
3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- X
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
- No Answer
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.
- No Answer
3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X
4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- No Answer
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.
- X
7. Legalize physician assisted suicide in New Hampshire.
- No Answer
8. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X
2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- No Answer
4. Limit 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.
- X
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.
- X
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.
- My priorities would involve working to return control of education policies and funding to the legislature and to local communities, as opposed to the courts. I'd also like to encourage an appreciation of our American heritage (history and civics requirements).
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