2020

Abortion

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

Budget

1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No

2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
- Unknown Position

Campaign Finance

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

Crime

1. Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- Unknown Position

Defense

Do you support increasing defense spending?
- Unknown Position

Economy

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

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

3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
- Yes

Education

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

Energy and Environment

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

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

Guns

Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No

Health Care

1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes

2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
- Unknown Position

Immigration

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

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

National Security

1. Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- Unknown Position

Trade

Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes

Minnesota State Legislative Election 1996 National Political Awareness Test

Abortion

Please indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning abortion.

1. Abortions should always be legally available.
- No Answer

2. Abortions should be legally available when the procedure is completed within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer

3. Abortions should be legal only when the pregnancy resulted from incest, rape, or when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer

4. Abortions should be legal only when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X

5. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer

6. Abortions should be limited by waiting periods and parental notification requirements.
- No Answer

7. Should Minnesota government funding be provided to clinics and medical facilities that provide abortion services?
- No Answer

Affirmative Action/Civil Rights

Please indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding affirmative action and civil rights in Minnesota.

1. The Minnesota government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public and private sectors.
- No Answer

2. The Minnesota government should provide no affirmative action programs.
- No Answer

3. Do you believe that the Minnesota government should recognize same-sex marriages?
- No

Children & Families

Please indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding children & family issues in Minnesota.

1. Increase state funding for programs to prevent teen pregnancy.
- No Answer

2. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
- X

3. Deny or suspend state-issued permits and licenses to parents who are delinquent in paying court-ordered child support.
- No Answer

Crime

Please indicate which principles you support (if any) to address crime in Minnesota.

1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer

2. Expand and promote "community policing" programs.
- X

3. Support "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve their full sentences with no chance of parole.
- X

4. Institute the death penalty in Minnesota.
- No Answer

5. Oppose the death penalty.
- No Answer

6. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- No Answer

7. Require mandatory life sentences for third-time, violent felons.
- X

8. Support the current law which requires that communities be informed when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
- X

9. Increase state funds for programs which rehabilitate and educate inmates during and after their prison sentences.
- No Answer

10. Decriminalize the possession and private use of certain illegal drugs such as marijuana.
- No Answer

11. Strengthen penalties and sentences associated with drug-related crimes.
- No Answer

12. Implement chain gangs in which prison inmates work together in chained work groups.
- No Answer

13. Support laws requiring restitution to crime victims at the personal expense of the criminal.
- No Answer

14. Implement restrictions on living conditions of state prison inmates (e.g. no weight rooms, no smoking, no frivolous lawsuits).
- X

15. Require inmates to help pay for their health care services.
- X

Crime (Juvenile)

Please indicate which principles you support (if any) to address juvenile crime in Minnesota.

1. Prosecute juveniles who commit murder or other serious, violent crimes as adults.
- X

2. Provide state funding for military-style "boot-camps" for juvenile first-time felons.
- X

3. Increase state funding for local community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X

4. Support state government funding of programs for at-risk youth such as guaranteed college loans and job training and placement.
- No Answer

5. Increase state funding for mentor programs that pair troubled juveniles with qualified college and graduate students.
- No Answer

Economic Development

Please indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning Minnesota's economic development.

1. Increase state funds for improving the state's transportation system, including major roadways, railways and airports.
- No Answer

2. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for expanding, start-up, or relocating businesses.
- No Answer

3. Expand legalized gambling (either state lottery, slot machines or video gambling).
- No Answer

4. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector.
- X

5. Remove state government controls or caps from wages, prices, rents, profits, production and interest rates.
- No Answer

6. Support limits on cash damages in lawsuits against businesses and professionals for product liability or malpractice.
- No Answer

7. Increase state funding for programs to re-train unemployed workers.
- No Answer

Education

Please indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding Minnesota's education system.

1. Increase state funds for professional development and salaries of public school faculty.
- No Answer

2. Endorse teacher-led voluntary school prayer in public schools.
- X

3. Encourage private or corporate investment in certain public school programs.
- No Answer

4. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any participating school (public, private, religious, technical).
- X

5. Support continuation of charter schools where teachers and other professionals receive state authorization and funding to establish new schools.
- No Answer

6. Require the use of state-wide achievement standards for all state public schools.
- No Answer

7. Emphasize local control of education as long as the school district meets state health and safety standards.
- X

8. Support sex education programs which stress abstinence.
- No Answer

9. Support sex education programs which stress safe sexual practices.
- No Answer

10. Provide state funding for programs which increase Minnesota students' access to the Internet and other telecommunications networks.
- No Answer

11. Require periodic competency testing for private and public school teachers.
- No Answer

12. Increase state funds for higher education.
- No Answer

Environment

Please indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning Minnesota's environment and natural resources.

1. Enact tougher environmental standards to encourage the sale of cleaner burning fuels throughout Minnesota.
- No Answer

2. Support "self-audit" legislation which creates incentives for polluting industries to audit themselves and clean up pollution.
- X

3. Require a cost/benefit analysis be completed on the economic impact of proposed environmental regulations before they are implemented.
- X

4. Require the state to reimburse citizens when state-sponsored environmental regulations limit the use of privately owned land.
- X

5. Continue to provide funding for recycling programs in Minnesota.
- No Answer

6. Request flexibility from the federal government in enforcing and funding federal environmental regulations.
- No Answer

7. Suspend Minnesota's participation in unfunded, federally mandated environmental protection legislation.
- X

8. Maintain minimum environmental quality as mandated by current federal regulations.
- No Answer

9. Support recent modifications to the Wetlands Conservation Act which provide greater flexibility in fulfilling former requirements for wetlands replacement.
- X

Government Reform

Would you support amending the Minnesota Constitution to limit the terms of the following state officials?

1. State Senators
- Yes

2. State Representatives
- Yes

3. Governor
- Yes

4. Do you support amending the US Constitution to require an annual balanced federal budget?
- Yes

5. Do you support requiring limits on individual contributions to state legislative candidates?
- No

6. Do you support requiring limits on PAC contributions to state legislative candidates?
- Undecided

7. Do you support the current ban on corporate contributions to state legislative candidates?
- Undecided

8. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes

9. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- No

10. Do you support partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
- No

Gun

Please indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning gun issues.

1. Support expanding the nationwide federal ban on the public sale of assault weapons to include all forms of semi-automatic weapons.
- No Answer

2. Increase state restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms.
- No Answer

3. Maintain all state registration procedures and state restrictions on possessing firearms.
- No Answer

4. Ease state procedures and restrictions on the purchase and registration of firearms.
- X

5. Repeal all state bans and measures that restrict law-abiding citizens from obtaining firearms.
- X

6. Allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms.
- No Answer

Health Care

Please indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning Minnesota's health care system.

1. Expand state funding for pre-natal and infant care programs available in the state, including immunizations.
- No Answer

2. Provide tax incentives to assist small businesses in providing health care to their employees.
- X

3. Ensure that Minnesota citizens have access to basic health care, through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- No Answer

4. Guaranteeing medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer

5. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer

6. Provide tax credits or state-funded vouchers to assist the working poor in receiving health insurance.
- No Answer

7. Support legislation requiring health insurance providers to cover certain medical services (e.g. 48 hr. hospital stay for mothers after childbirth).
- No Answer

State Budget

Indicate what changes you support (if any) concerning levels of funding for the following categories. Select one option only.

1. Abortion
- Eliminate

2. Affirmative Action
- No Answer

3. Agriculture
- No Answer

4. AIDS Programs
- No Answer

5. Education
- No Answer

6. Environment
- No Answer

7. Health care
- No Answer

8. Law enforcement
- No Answer

9. Welfare
- Slightly Decrease

State Taxes

Please indicate the changes you support (if any) concerning Minnesota's tax levels. Select one option only.

1. Alcohol Taxes
- Slightly Decrease

2. Business Taxes
- Slightly Decrease

3. Capital gains taxes
- Slightly Decrease

4. Cigarette taxes
- Slightly Decrease

5. Income Taxes (incomes less than $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease

6. Income Taxes (incomes greater than $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease

7. Property taxes
- Slightly Decrease

8. Sales taxes
- Slightly Decrease

9. State Fees
- Slightly Decrease

10. Do you support a flat tax structure for state income taxes?
- Undecided

Welfare

Please indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding Minnesota's welfare system.

1. Provide child care services to welfare recipients who work or attend school.
- X

2. Allow welfare recipients to work and still receive state-funded health care and child care (if needed) until they become self-sufficient.
- No Answer

3. Require that able-bodied welfare recipients receive job training, attend school, or work in order to receive welfare benefits.
- X

4. Require that unwed mothers under the age of 18 attend school and live with a parent or guardian (if possible) to receive welfare benefits.
- X

5. Limit the welfare benefits given to recipients if they have additional children.
- No Answer

6. Provide two-parent families living in poverty the same welfare benefits as one-parent families.
- X

7. Eliminate government-funded welfare and advocate privately-funded assistance to people in need.
- No Answer

8. Impose a two-year limit on welfare benefits for recipients who are able to work.
- X

Legislative Priorities

Explain what your two main legislative priorities will be if elected to the Minnesota State Legislature. If any of your priorities will require additional government funding, explain how you intend to obtain the additional funding.
- No Answer