New Hampshire State Legislative Election 2018 Political Courage Test

Abortion & Reproductive

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

2. Should abortion be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape?
- Yes

3. Do you support the prohibition of public funds for organizations that perform abortions?
- No

4. Other or expanded principles
- The best way to prevent abortions is to provide contraception to all reproductive age women who want it. It is also vital to their ability to engage fully in our economy and society. Cutting off funds to organizations that provide abortions as a final safety measure is guaranteed to increase illegal abortions, women's deaths, and destruction of the families they leave behind.

Budget, Spending, & Tax

1. Reducing state employee salaries AND/OR pensions?
- No

2. Instituting mandatory furloughs AND/OR layoffs for state employees?
- No

3. Reducing benefits for Medicaid recipients?
- No

4. Other or expanded principles
- a) I will work to pass an income tax IF the majority of the population comes to understand the need for greater revenue, and ONLY AFTER we have invited all ideas on how to get that revenue and evaluated them.b,c) will further decimate our state workforce, reducing public services needed by public and businesses.d) will increase our opioid death rate and decimate the workforce available to the private and public sectors.

Campaign Finance & Government Reform

1. Do you support any limits on campaign contributions to state candidates?
- Yes

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

3. Do you support the use of an independent AND/OR bipartisan commission for redistricting?
- Yes

4. Do you support requiring a government-issued photo identification in order to vote at the polls?
- No

5. Do you support imposing penalties on state legislators who fail to attend legislative sessions?
- No

6. Other or expanded principles
- c) NH Senate is most gerrymandered body in country!d) While they have been agitating about this, the Rs have made it extremely difficult for people with long shifts, bad or no cars, and too old to drive to get to DMV offices to renew or get drivers licenses or non-driving id. They moved the DMV out of my town as far away as they could get from the population centers it serves.e) we don't pay our legislators - if we impose penalties like this, when many have weather/job/family problems that prevent them, who will run?

Crime & Public Safety

1. Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes?
- No

2. Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- No Answer

3. Should a minor accused of a violent crime be prosecuted as an adult?
- No

4. Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police?
- No

5. Other or expanded principles
- b} Not sure yet. There is a Commission Report coming. Banking and toxicology issues still seem a major problem. But soon we will be surrounded by others with the problems and it may be time.e) State and local police have their hands full with their own jobs, and our society becomes less safe if they compound them by becoming feared by workers and workers' families amongst us.

Economic

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

2. Do you support lowering state taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No

3. Do you support reducing state government regulations on the private sector?
- No Answer

4. Do you support expanding access to unemployment benefits?
- No Answer

5. Do you support requiring welfare applicants to pass a drug test in order to receive benefits?
- No

6. Do you support an increase of the minimum wage of New Hampshire?
- Yes

7. Other or expanded principles
- a) with great care. b) doesn't work, it just deprives the state of money that all the businesses need spent to thrive.c) when we can actually find ones that do more harm than good for citizens and economy.d) don't know enoughe) failed totally in Florida when they tried it, cost a lot more gov't money than it saved, degrading for decent people earning too little to survive without gov't support.f) Too many NH households working 16-hour days and failing with the first emergency.

Education

1. Do you support adopting federal education standards in New Hampshire?
- No Answer

2. Do you support state funding for charter schools?
- Yes

3. Should immigrants unlawfully present in the United States who graduate from New Hampshire high schools be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities?
- Yes

4. Other or expanded principles
- a) don't know enoughb) but where do we find the money?c) yes, if they've lived here for 4 years already. We need young people!

Environment & Energy

1. Do you support state funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- No

2. Do you support state government regulations of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes

3. Do you support increasing state funding for clean drinking water initiatives?
- Yes

4. Other or expanded principles
- a) we have an incentive system which only has to be tweaked to allow local government and other non-commercial projects to be eligible for net metering to be adequateb) if the youngest generation now alive is to survive a normal lifespan on this planet we mustc) but it depends on finding the money for our top priorities

Gun

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

2. Should background checks be required on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows?
- Yes

3. Should teachers be allowed to bring guns into the classroom?
- No Answer

4. Should a license be required for gun ownership?
- No Answer

5. Other or expanded principles
- a) when it meets our state constitutional mandates and is reasonable.c) The elected school board officials should decide for the safety of the buildings they are responsible for. Ditto for selectboards and city councils for the buildings and public spaces they are responsible for. Not the state legislature, which is a small minority sneaking an amendment onto a bill that all of a sudden overrules all local decision-making.d) not sure, constitutionality in question

Health

1. Should the state government increase funding for treatment facilities to combat opioid abuse?
- Yes

2. Do you support Medicaid expansion through New Hampshire's health care programs?
- Yes

3. Do you support requiring individuals to purchase health care insurance?
- Yes

4. Do you support legislation that grants citizens the right to choose to die through euthanasia?
- Yes

5. Do you support eliminating religious exemptions for vaccinations?
- No

6. Other or expanded principles
- a,b,c) Over decades our legislation has defunded addiction treatment, creating a treatment and prevention desert that has made us the highest or 2nd highest opioid death rates and likely also alcohol death rates in US. This harms all our citizens and businesses. We have to reverse course and it's painful financially but we must.d) I have watched loved ones die a painful lingering degrading death. Other states have proper safeguards for consent. The state has no right to tell anyone they have to go through that.e) But I do support making the religious proof more rigorous.

Social

1. Do you support the inclusion of sexual orientation in New Hampshire's anti-discrimination laws?
- Yes

2. Do you support the inclusion of gender identity in New Hampshire's anti-discrimination laws?
- Yes

3. Do you support greater efforts by New Hampshire state government in closing the pay gap between men and women?
- No Answer

4. Other or expanded principles
- c) not sure what exactly more we can do, would review bill by bill. Goal is good, methods hazy

Legislative Priorities

In the following area, 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.
- 1) Reversing a range of tax cuts and credits for wealthy, mostly out-of-state businesses that are a serious threat to the state budget that provides the services all businesses say they want. Exceptions for those credits that can be directly linked to increasing taxable revenues in NH.2) Making state more efficient by identifying non-working programs and regulations more cumbersome than necessary to state goals.3) Reforming NH laws for condominiums and homeowner associations (possibly 1 in 6 NH households) to provide self-repair mechanisms for associations gone wrong. Needs about $80,000 a year for the most important measure.