Valerie Longhurst
DTo be claimed
Former Member, Agriculture Committee, Delaware State House of Representatives
Former Majority Whip, Delaware State House of Representatives
Former Member, Gaming and Parimutuels Committee, Delaware State House of Representatives
Former Chair, Manufactured Housing Committee, Delaware State House of Representatives
Former Member, Revenue and Finance Committee, Delaware State House of Representatives
Chair, Administration Committee
Chair, Ethics Committee
Member, Gaming and Parimutuels Committee
Member, Legislative Council
Member, Manufactured Housing Committee
Chair, Rules Committee
Member, Subcommittee on Women's Suffrage Centennial
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should always be legally available.
- X
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. Eliminate public funding for abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (Higher)
- Maintain Funding Status
2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase Funding
3. Environment
- Greatly Increase Funding
4. Health care
- Slightly Increase Funding
5. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase Funding
6. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Maintain Funding Status
7. Welfare
- Maintain Funding Status
8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status
3. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
4. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Increase
5. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease
7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Maintain Status
8. Inheritance taxes
- Maintain Status
9. Property taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
11. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
12. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- No
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the current limit of two, four-year terms for Delaware governors?
- Yes
2. Do you limiting the number of terms for Delaware state senators and representatives?
- No
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 partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
- Undecided
7. Do you support voting on-line?
- Undecided
8. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes
9. Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in Delaware are closed?
- Yes
10. Do you support the ban on smoking in public places?
- Undecided
11. Do you support requiring proof of United States residency to obtain a Delaware driver's license?
- Yes
12. Should Delaware strengthen consumer protection provisions for manufactured-home residents?
- Yes
13. Should Delaware recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Undecided
14. Should Delaware restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes
15. 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 contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
- No Answer
3. Support the use of the death penalty in Delaware.
- 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 use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
8. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer
9. Lower the .10 blood-alcohol-content limit defining drunk driving.
- No Answer
10. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
11. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- X
12. Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.
- X
13. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
14. Increase state funding for additional security of critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks.
- No Answer
15. 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 participating school (public, private, religious).
- No Answer
3. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- No Answer
4. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X
5. Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
- No Answer
6. Support displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools.
- No Answer
7. Endorse teacher-led 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 state funding to expand Head Start programs.
- X
11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- No Answer
12. Support age-appropriate sexual education programs that teach about abstinence, contraceptives and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X
13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector 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 their employees.
- X
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children of low-income working families.
- X
6. Include sexual orientation in Delaware's anti-discrimination laws.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. College and university admissions
- No
2. Public employment
- No
3. State contracting
- No
4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused or abandoned.
- No Answer
3. Do you support state funding for open space preservation?
- Yes
4. Do you support the voluntary Transfer of Development Rights program?
- Yes
5. Should developers pay impact fees when building outside of state-designated growth areas?
- Yes
6. Should state environmental regulations be stricter than federal law?
- Yes
7. Other or expanded principles
- X
1. Ban the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
- X
2. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
3. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
5. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- No Answer
6. Require child-safety locks on all handguns sold in Delaware.
- X
7. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- X
8. Require a license for gun possession.
- X
9. 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 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 by their HMO.
- X
6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
7. Legalize physician-assisted suicide in Delaware.
- No Answer
8. Increase state funding for training health workers to recognize and respond to the release of biological agents.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support current time limits on welfare benefits.
- X
2. Increase employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
3. Provide tax incentives to businesses that hire welfare recipients.
- X
4. Provide child care for welfare recipients who work.
- X
5. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X
6. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
7. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer
8. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to expand state services to include the working poor.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
In a total of seventy-five (75) words or less, please explain what your two main legislative priorities will be if elected. Please explain how you would obtain any additional government funding needed to implement these priorities.
- No Answer
Type: concurrent resolution Chamber: lower
Type: bill Chamber: upper
Type: bill Chamber: lower