2021

Abortion

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

Budget

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

2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
- Yes

Campaign Finance

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

Crime

1. Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- No

Defense

Do you support increasing defense spending?
- No

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. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
- Yes

Education

1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position

Energy and Environment

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

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

Guns

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

Health Care

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

2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
- Yes

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

National Security

1. Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
- No

2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- Unknown Position

Trade

Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes

New York 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.
- 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.
- 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. Authorize pharmacists and nurses to dispense emergency contraception (?morning-after? pill).
- X

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

1. Education (higher)
- Greatly Increase

2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase

3. Environment
- Slightly Increase

4. Health care
- Slightly Increase

5. Law enforcement
- Greatly Increase

6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status

7. Welfare
- Maintain Status

8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

9. Should the Assembly adopt a contingency budget when a budget is not approved for the new fiscal year?
- Yes

10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

11. Alcohol taxes
- Greatly Increase

12. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status

13. Cigarette taxes
- Greatly Increase

14. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status

15. Estate taxes
- Slightly Increase

16. Gasoline taxes
- Greatly Decrease

17. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease

18. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Greatly Increase

19. Property taxes
- Maintain Status

20. Sales taxes
- Eliminate

21. Vehicle taxes
- Greatly Decrease

22. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Yes

Campaign Finance and Government Reform

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.c) Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New York governors?
- No

2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New York state senators and representatives?
- No

3. Individual
- Yes

4. PAC
- Yes

5. Corporate
- Yes

6. Political Parties
- Yes

7. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes

8. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- Yes

9. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying, and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes

10. Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in New York are closed?
- Yes

11. Should New York recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes

12. Should New York restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Undecided

13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime.Drug Law Issues: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding drug laws in New York.

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

2. Support the death penalty in New York.
- 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.
- No Answer

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

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

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

8. Allow prosecutors to try an accused terrorist based solely on the testimony of an accomplice.
- No Answer

9. Let prosecutors get a single warrant to tap every telephone used by a suspected terrorist.
- No Answer

10. Prevent judges from tossing terror evidence out of court if the authorities seized it in good faith under a warrant that later proved defective.
- No Answer

11. Give prosecutors the right to obtain state tax information about suspected terrorists.
- X

12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

13. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer

14. Strengthen penalties for those convicted of distributing drugs while armed.
- X

15. Strengthen penalties for those convicted of distributing drugs to, or with the aid of, minors.
- X

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

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

18. Expand the degree of judicial discretion in drug law sentencing.
- X

Education

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.Education Funding Issues: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education funding.

1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- No Answer

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.
- X

11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X

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. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

15. Schools should be funded equally by state funds and local property taxes.
- X

16. Schools should be funded primarily by local property taxes.
- No Answer

17. Schools should be funded primarily by state funds.
- No Answer

18. Funds from affluent school districts should be redirected to meet the needs of poorer districts.
- No Answer

19. New York should increase the number of video lottery machines to help pay for education.
- No Answer

Employment and Affirmative Action

Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity, or gender be taken into account in state agencies? decisions on:

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

6. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

8. Public employment
- Yes

9. State college and university admissions
- Yes

10. State contracting
- Yes

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.
- X

4. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X

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

6. 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.
- X

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.
- X

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

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

8. Ban .50-caliber rifles.
- X

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health.Medicaid Funding Issues: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding Medicaid funding.

1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X

2. Require insurance companies to provide mental health services at parity with physical health services.
- X

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 New York.
- No Answer

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

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

10. Funding for Medicaid should come primarily from the state government.
- X

11. Funding for Medicaid should come exclusively from the state government.
- No Answer

12. Funding for Medicaid should come from both the state and county governments.
- X

13. Shift long-term care Medicaid payments currently made by individual counties to the state.
- No Answer

14. Cap every county?s portion of Medicaid payments at present levels.
- No Answer

15. Create a preferred drug list to reduce Medicaid costs.
- No Answer

16. Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- 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.
- No Answer

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.
- No Answer

2019

Abortion

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

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

Campaign Finance

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

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

Education

1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Yes

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

Guns

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

Health Care

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

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

Marijuana

Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Unknown Position

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?
- Unknown Position