1. Do you consider yourself pro-choice or pro-life?
- Pro-life
2. Should abortion be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy?
- No
3. Should abortion be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape?
- No
4. Should abortion be legal when the life of the woman is endangered?
- Yes
5. Do you support requiring parental notification before an abortion is performed on a minor?
- Yes
6. Do you support requiring parental consent before an abortion is performed on a minor?
- Yes
7. Do you support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods?
- Yes
8. Do you support abstinence-only sexual education programs?
- Yes
9. Other or expanded principles
- AS A FATHER AND GRANDFATHER, I OPPOSE ABORTION. IN THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE I HAVE CONSISTENTLY VOTED FOR 'LIFE' WHEN GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY. I ALSO APPRECIATE THE ENDORSEMENT I RECEIVED FROM NEBRASKA RIGHT TO LIFE IN THE MAY 2010 PRIMARY ELECTION.
1. Education (higher)
- Maintain Status
2. Education (K-12)
- Maintain Status
3. Environment
- Maintain Status
4. Health care
- Maintain Status
5. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase
6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase
7. Welfare
- Slightly Decrease
8. Other or expanded categories
- Eliminate
1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
3. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status
4. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
5. Property taxes
- Slightly Decrease
6. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
7. Income taxes (low-income families)
- Maintain Status
8. Income taxes (middle-income families)
- Maintain Status
9. Income taxes (high-income families)
- Maintain Status
10. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Tapping into Nebraska's "rainy day" fund
- No
2. Issuing the early release of certain non-violent offenders
- Yes
3. Increasing tuition rates at public universities
- Yes
4. Instituting mandatory furloughs and layoffs for state employees
- Yes
5. Reducing benefits for Medicaid recipients
- No
6. Privatizing certain government services
- Yes
7. Other or expanded principles
- Eliminate the redundancies and the reduce the size of State Government
1. Individual
- No
2. Political Action Committee
- Yes
3. Corporate
- Yes
4. Political Party
- Yes
5. Should candidates for state office be encouraged to meet voluntary spending limits?
- Yes
6. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes?
- Yes
2. Do you support alternatives to incarceration for certain non-violent offenders, such as mandatory counseling or substance abuse treatment?
- Yes
3. Should the possession of small amounts of marijuana be decriminalized?
- No
4. Should minors accused of a violent crime be prosecuted as adults?
- Yes
5. Should minors who send sexually-explicit or nude photos by cell phone face criminal charges?
- Yes
6. Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police?
- Yes
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector?
- Yes
2. Do you support increased state funding for job-training programs that re-train displaced workers?
- Yes
3. Do you support expanding access to unemployment benefits?
- No
4. Do you support providing financial incentives to the private sector for the purpose of job creation?
- Yes
5. Do you support increased spending on infrastructure projects for the purpose of job creation?
- Yes
6. Do you support providing direct financial assistance to homeowners facing foreclosure?
- No
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support national education standards?
- Yes
2. Do you support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams?
- Yes
3. Do you support using a merit pay system for teachers?
- Yes
4. Do you support state funding for charter schools?
- Yes
5. Do you support the state government providing college students with financial aid?
- Yes
6. Should illegal immigrants who graduate from Nebraska high schools be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities?
- No
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support state funding for the development of alternative energy?
- Yes
2. Do you support state funding for the development of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil)?
- Yes
3. Do you support providing financial incentives to farms that produce biofuel crops?
- Yes
4. Do you support state funding for improvements to Nebraska's energy infrastructure?
- Yes
5. Do you support state funding for open space preservation?
- Yes
6. Do you support enacting environmental regulations aimed at reducing the effects of climate change?
- No
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- No
2. Do you support requiring background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows?
- Yes
3. Do you support allowing individuals to carry concealed guns?
- Yes
4. Do you support requiring a license for gun possession?
- No
5. Other or expanded principles
- I SUPPORT THE 2ND AMENDMENT TO OUR US CONSTITUTION WHICH ALLOWS CITIZENS TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. THERE ARE TIMES, HOWEVER, WHEN BACKGROUND CHECKS ARE APPROPRIATE.
1. Do you support a universally-accessible, publicly-administered health insurance option?
- No
2. Do you support expanding access to health care through commercial health insurance reform?
- Yes
3. Do you support interstate health insurance compacts?
- Yes
4. Should individuals be required to purchase health care insurance?
- No
5. Do you support monetary limits on damages that can be collected in malpractice lawsuits?
- Yes
6. Do you support legalizing physician-assisted suicide in Nebraska?
- No
7. Do you support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes?
- No
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should marriage only be between one man and one woman?
- Yes
2. Should Nebraska allow same-sex couples to form civil unions?
- No
3. Do you support state funding for stem cell research?
- No
4. Do you support state funding for embryonic stem cell research?
- No
5. Do you support the state's use of affirmative action?
- Yes
6. Do you support the inclusion of sexual orientation in Nebraska's anti-discrimination laws?
- No
7. Do you support the inclusion of gender identity in Nebraska's anti-discrimination laws?
- No
8. Do you support lowering the age of legal adulthood in Nebraska to eighteen years of age?
- Yes
9. Other or expanded principles
- I SUPPORT RESEARCH USING ADULT STEM CELLS, AS THEY HAVE SHOWN GREAT PROMISE. I OPPOSE RESEARCH USING EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS. ALSO IN CONCURRENCE WITH PREVIOUS LEGISLATURES, I TOO OPPOSE THE INCLUSION OF "SEXUAL ORIENTATION" OR "GENDER IDENTITY" TO OUR STATE'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS.
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.
- No Answer