Alaska State Legislative Election 2006 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.
- No Answer

3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- X

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 to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer

7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- We need to concentrate on providing opportunities for families to make abortions rare.

Budget and Tax

State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category.

1. Education (Higher)
- Greatly Increase

2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase

3. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status

4. Environment
- Maintain Status

5. Health care
- Greatly Increase

6. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase

7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase

8. Welfare
- Maintain Status

9. Other or expanded categories
- I will fight for a long term fiscal plan so we can provide necessary services while living within our means.

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

1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status

2. Capital gains taxes
- No Answer

3. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status

4. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Increase

5. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status

6. Property taxes
- Greatly Decrease

7. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status

8. Other or expanded categories
- Greatly increase Alaska's fair share of oil & gas revenue.

9. Should the state tax Internet sales?
- No

10. Should accounts such as a ?rainy day? fund be used to balance the state budget?
- No

11. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- No

12. Other or expanded principles
- By receiving a fair share of our resources, we can reinstate municipal revenue sharing to decrease property taxes. We will also be able to eliminate the need to increase user fees and other taxes.

Campaign Finance and Governmental Reform

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.

1. Do you support the current limit of terms for Alaska governors?
- Yes

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

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative candidates?

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 imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- Yes

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

8. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Alaska are closed?
- No

9. Should Alaska recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative candidates?

1. Other or expanded principles
- There needs to be full disclosure anytime a representative "consults" for a corporation or industry.

Crime

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime.

1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- X

2. Implement the death penalty in Alaska.
- 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.
- X

5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X

6. Support recriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer

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

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

9. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- No Answer

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

11. Strengthen sex-offender laws.
- X

12. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
- X

13. Other or expanded principles
- Increasing enforcement and incarceration isn't good enough. We need to create a strong economy to support healthy communities to make crime obsolete.

Education

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.

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 funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X

6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- No Answer

7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- X

8. Support requiring 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.
- No Answer

13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer

14. Other or expanded principles
- We need to bring back Post Secondary Education Commission back to where it once was. Offer low interest loans to Alaska High School graduates and loan forgiveness to those who pursue their careers in Alaska.

Employment and Affirmative Action

Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.

1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain 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. Include sexual orientation in Alaska's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer

7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X

8. Support replacing the state's retirement system with privatized 401(k)-type accounts.
- No Answer

9. Support a constitutional amendment banning same-sex partners of public employees from receiving benefits.
- No Answer

10. Other or expanded principles
- The government should partner with private enterpreneurship to create opportunities for Alaskans

Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies? decisions on:

1. Public employment
- No

2. State college and university admissions
- No

3. State contracting
- No

4. Other or expanded principles
- Is this question meant for Arkansas?

Environment & 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).
- X

3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- No Answer

4. Increase funding for improvements to Alaska's power generating and transmission facilities.
- X

5. Support funding for open space preservation.
- No Answer

6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer

7. Other or expanded principles
- The state should require clean up and remediation bonds for heavy industry.

Gas Pipeline

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the natural gas pipeline.

1. Require oil companies to guarantee the construction of a gas pipeline as part of a contract with Alaska.
- X

2. Support 20 percent state ownership in the gas pipeline.
- No Answer

3. Tax oil companies if they do not build a gas pipeline or sell the gas they have under lease.
- No Answer

4. Freeze oil taxes for 30 years as an incentive for building the gas pipeline.
- No Answer

5. Freeze gas taxes for 45 years as an incentive for building the gas pipeline.
- No Answer

6. At what rate should Alaska tax oil profits?
- No Answer

7. At what rate should Alaska tax oil production?
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- We need to negotiate from the position of strength. Al lthe experts agree - Alaska's gas is not stranded. We should not sell the sovereignty of the state. We must act now before we miss the opportunity to get our gas to market.

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.
- No Answer

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.
- X

5. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer

6. Require a license for gun possession.
- X

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health.

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

2. Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer

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.
- No Answer

5. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer

6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Alaska.
- No Answer

7. Continue to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- X

8. Other or expanded principles
- Alaskan's should all have acess to affordable health care. We need to reverse the attack on Denali Kid Care.

Welfare and Poverty

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare.

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.
- X

4. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer

5. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X

6. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer

7. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- Welfare programs should only be a bridge to independence. Abuses need to be eliminated.

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.
- My top priority is to return to the simple method of gross revenue for Alaska's share of the oil revenues, eliminating government overhead and litigation. Next, we need a long term fiscal plan that will provide necessary services within our means and create confidence for industry to flourish in Alaska. Also, we need a gas line that will provide new revenues, create Alaskan jobs, and provide low cost power and energy to new industries.