Ohio Congressional Election 2018 Political Courage Test

Abortion

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

2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budget

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

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

3. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Campaign Finance

1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes

2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

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?
- No

3. Other or expanded principles
- Lowering corporate taxes has been proven over and over again not to cause economic growth. If it didn't work then, it won't work now.

Education

1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No

2. Other or expanded principles
- I believe that states and local municipalities should be partners with the Federal government in determining the education standards we expect from our schools.

Energy & Environment

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

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

3. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Guns

1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes

2. Other or expanded principles
- I support the 2nd amendment. But all our rights need to be balanced between individual freedoms and community responsibilities.

Health Care

1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No

2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Immigration

1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- No

2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No

3. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Marijuana

1. Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Yes

2. Other or expanded principles
- At the Federal level, the most important thing we can do is allow individual states to make this determination for themselves without interference.

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?
- No

2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- No

3. Other or expanded principles
- Our military personnel entrust their lives to us. We owe it to them and to their families to ensure that we have diligently pursued diplomatic and other non-military means of conflict resolution before we risk their lives. They are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. We should hesitate to make them.

Administrative Priorities

Please explain in a total of 100 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 are for the well-being of the people in my district. We need infrastructure, including rural broadband. We need affordable, quality healthcare. We need a more diverse, forward-looking economy that protects workers' rights and encourages small business development. Our big infrastructure push of the 1950s was paid for through taxes on the rich and on corporations, because that is where the money was. That is still where the money is. Infrastructure will greatly benefit everyone, so I believe that increasing taxes for the rich and corporations will be a fair way to pay for the development we need.