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Abortion Issues
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| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion. | | | a) Abortions should always be illegal. | | | b) Abortions should always be legal. | | | c) Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy. | | | d) Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape. | | X | e) Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered. | | X | f) Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions. | | X | g) Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors. | | | h) Other or expanded principles | | Abortions should be illegal except when the mother's life is endangered. |
Budget and Tax Issues
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| State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category. | | Maintain Status | a) Education (Higher) | | Slightly Increase | b) Education (K-12) | | Slightly Increase | c) Emergency preparedness | | Maintain Status | d) Environment | | Maintain Status | e) Cover Tennessee | | Maintain Status | f) TennCare | | Slightly Increase | g) Health care | | Slightly Increase | h) Law enforcement | | Slightly Increase | i) Transportation and highway infrastructure | | Maintain Status | j) Welfare | | | k) Other or expanded categories | | State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax. | | Maintain Status | a) Alcohol taxes | | Greatly Decrease | b) Capital gains taxes | | Maintain Status | c) Cigarette taxes | | Maintain Status | d) Corporate taxes | | Maintain Status | e) Gasoline taxes | | Slightly Decrease | f) Sales taxes | | Maintain Status | g) Vehicle taxes | | | h) Other or expanded categories | | No | i) Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales? | | No | j) Should accounts such as a rainy day fund be used to balance the state budget? | | No | k) Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget? | | | l) Other or expanded principles |
Campaign Finance and Governmental Reform Issues
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| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform. | | Yes | a) Do you support the current limit of terms for Tennessee governors? | | No | b) Do you support limiting the number of terms for Tennessee state senators and representatives? | | c) Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative candidates? | | Yes | 1) Individual | | Yes | 2) PAC | | Yes | 3) Corporate | | Yes | 4) Political Parties | | Yes | d) Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information? | | No | e) Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns? | | Yes | f) Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes? | | Yes | g) Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Tennessee are closed? | | No | h) Should Tennesse recognize civil unions between same-sex couples? | | No | i) Do you support a pension increase for Tennessee lawmakers? | | | j) Other or expanded principles |
Crime Issues
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| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime. | | | a) Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff. | | X | b) Support the death penalty in Tennessee. | | X | c) Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released. | | X | d) End parole for repeat violent offenders. | | X | e) Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders. | | | f) Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. | | X | g) Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes. | | X | h) Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults. | | | i) Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes. | | | j) Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth. | | X | k) Strengthen sex-offender laws. | | X | l) Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine). | | | m) Other or expanded principles |
Education Issues
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| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education. | | X | a) Support national standards and testing of public school students. | | X | b) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school. | | | c) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school. | | | d) Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure). | | | e) Increase funds for hiring additional teachers. | | X | f) Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay. | | X | g) Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools. | | X | h) Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams. | | X | i) Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries. | | | j) Increase funding for Head Start programs. | | | k) Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable. | | | l) Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods. | | X | m) Support abstinence-only sexual education programs. | | | n) Other or expanded principles |
Employment and Affirmative Action Issues
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| Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment. | | | a) Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in todays job market. | | X | b) Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion. | | X | c) Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses. | | X | d) Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families. | | | e) Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families. | | | f) Include sexual orientation in Tennessee's anti-discrimination laws. | | | g) Increase the state minimum wage. | | | h) Other or expanded principles | | Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies decisions on: | | No | a) Public employment | | No | b) State college and university admissions | | No | c) State contracting | | d) Other or expanded principles | | No Answer |
Environment & Energy Issues
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| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy. | | X | a) Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology. | | X | b) Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil). | | | c) Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned. | | | d) Increase funding for improvements to Tennessee's power generating and transmission facilities. | | X | e) Support funding for open space preservation. | | | f) Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law. | | | g) Other or expanded principles |
Gun Issues
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| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns. | | | a) Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | | | b) Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | | | c) Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | | X | d) Allow citizens to carry concealed guns. | | | e) Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows. | | | f) Require a license for gun possession. | | | g) Other or expanded principles |
Health Issues
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| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health. | | | a) Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary. | | | b) Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs. | | X | c) Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits. | | | d) Support patients' right to sue their HMOs. | | X | e) Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government. | | | f) Legalize physician assisted suicide in Tennessee. | | | g) Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes. | | | h) Other or expanded principles |
Immigration Issues
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| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding immigration. | | X | a) Permit the Tennesse Highway Patrol to enforce immigration laws. | | X | b) Require the Tennesse state driver's license exam to be given only in English. | | X | c) Impose a fine to any employer who knowingly hires an undocumented immigrant. | | X | d) Prohibit any employer who knowingly hired an undocumented immigrant from contracting with the state. | | | e) Other or expanded principles |
Welfare and Poverty Issues
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| Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare. | | X | a) Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients. | | | b) Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients. | | | c) Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work. | | X | d) Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations. | | X | e) Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor. | | X | f) Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients. | | | g) Eliminate government-funded welfare programs. | | | h) Other or expanded principles |
Legislative Priorities
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| 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. | | No Answer |
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