Hawaii State Legislative 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.
- 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. Require all hospitals to inform sexual assault victims about emergency contraception and to provide it if requested.
- No Answer

8. Exempt religious hospitals from the requirement to inform sexual assault victims about emergency contraception and to provide it if requested.
- X

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budget, Spending, and Tax

State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category.

1. Education (higher)
- Maintain Status

2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase

3. Environment
- Slightly Increase

4. Health care
- Maintain Status

5. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase

6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase

7. Welfare
- Maintain Status

8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax.

1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status

2. Capital gains taxes
- No Answer

3. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status

4. Corporate taxes
- No Answer

5. Estate taxes
- Maintain Status

6. Gasoline taxes
- No Answer

7. General excise taxes
- Maintain Status

8. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status

9. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Maintain Status

10. Property taxes
- Maintain Status

11. Sales taxes
- No Answer

12. Vehicle taxes
- No Answer

13. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

14. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Undecided

15. 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. Do you support the current limit of two consecutive four-year terms for Hawaii governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Hawaii state senators and representatives?
- Undecided

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

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?
- Yes

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 Hawaii are closed?
- No

9. Should Hawaii recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No Answer

10. Should Hawaii restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- No Answer

11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

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

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

2. Implement the death penalty in Hawaii.
- 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.
- X

5. Strengthen Hawaii?s electronic surveillance laws.
- No Answer

6. Legalize Hawaii?s "walk and talk" and "knock and talk" programs.
- No Answer

7. Endorse mandatory and minimum sentencing laws for repeat offenders.
- X

8. Support the zero tolerance rule for public school students who are charged with drug offenses.
- No Answer

9. Send first time non-violent drug offenders to treatment centers, not correctional facilities.
- X

10. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer

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

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

13. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
- X

14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Education

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

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.
- 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).
- X

5. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X

6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- X

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.
- X

10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- No Answer

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. Replace the state Department of Education with locally elected school boards.
- No Answer

15. Increase the percentage of education funds that are to be used at the discretion of a school?s principal.
- X

16. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Employment and Affirmative Action

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

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. Require all businesses applying for high-tech tax credits under Hawaii?s Act 221 to disclose their company type, product, and job creation potential.
- X

6. Prohibit ?one-shot? movie or television productions from qualifying for tax credits under Hawaii?s Act 221.
- No Answer

7. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X

8. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer

9. Require employees to see an employer-approved doctor or physicians' group for the first 120 days after an injury.
- No Answer

10. Authorize the insurance commissioner to investigate all cases of alleged workers? compensation fraud.
- No Answer

11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity, or gender be taken into account in state agencies? decisions on:

1. Public employment
- Yes

2. State college and university admissions
- Yes

3. State contracting
- Undecided

4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Environment and Energy

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

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.
- No Answer

4. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X

5. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- X

6. Support the cap on retail and wholesale gas prices.
- X

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Gun

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

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.
- 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.
- No Answer

6. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- X

7. Support current licensing requirements for gun possession.
- X

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Health

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

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.
- 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 Hawaii.
- No Answer

8. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Welfare and Poverty

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

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.
- No Answer

4. Limit benefits given to recipients if they have additional children while on welfare.
- No Answer

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.
- No Answer

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

Legislative Priorities

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 am dedicated to working hard for all of us and making our neighborhoods safe for our children to grow, learn and work. These are my legislative priorities: 1) increase and improving our educational facilities for students 2) address our growing problems with traffic, parking and street racing 3) reduce crime in our community and fight our "ice" epidemic, 4) stimulate economic growth and reduce wasteful spending, and 5) promote accountability of our elected officials.