1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
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
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- No
Do you support increasing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
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
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position
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
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
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
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
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)?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- Yes
Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes
1. Abortions should always be legally available.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should be legally available when the procedure is completed within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer
3. Abortions should be legal only when the pregnancy resulted from incest, rape, or when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be limited by waiting periods and parental notification requirements.
- No Answer
6. California government funding should not be provided to clinics and medical facilities that provide abortion services.
- No Answer
1. California government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public and private sector.
- X
2. California government should provide no affirmative action programs.
- No Answer
3. Support legislation to require that appointments to government agencies be balanced with respect to various minority groups.
- No Answer
4. California state university system should consider preferences to minority students applying for college admission.
- No Answer
5. Do you believe that California government should recognize same-sex marriages?
- Undecided
6. Do you support the California Civil Rights Initiative to end most affirmative action in California?
- No
1. Abortion
- Maintain Status
2. Affirmative Action
- Maintain Status
3. Border Security
- Slightly Increase
4. Education
- Greatly Increase
5. Environment
- Slightly Increase
6. Health Care
- Greatly Increase
7. Law enforcement
- Greatly Increase
8. Welfare
- Maintain Status
1. Increase funding for family support programs to prevent teen pregnancy and family break-up.
- X
2. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
- X
3. Deny or suspend state-issued permits and licenses to parents who are delinquent in paying court-ordered child support.
- X
1. Increase funds for more state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- X
2. Expand and promote "community policing" programs.
- X
3. Support "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve their full sentences without parole.
- X
4. Expand the use of the death penalty for additional circumstances relating to murder.
- X
5. Oppose the death penalty.
- No Answer
6. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenses.
- X
7. Require mandatory life sentences for third-time, violent felons.
- X
8. Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
- X
9. Increase state funds for programs which rehabilitate and educate inmates during and after their prison sentences.
- X
10. Decriminalize the possession and private use of certain illegal drugs such as marijuana.
- No Answer
11. Strengthen penalties and sentences associated with drug-related crimes.
- X
12. Implement a chain gang program for prisoners which requires inmates to perform labor wearing leg irons in chained work groups.
- X
13. Require affluent prisoners to pay the cost of their incarceration in state prison.
- X
14. Support laws requiring restitution to victims of violent crime at the personal expense of the criminal.
- X
1. Prosecute juveniles who commit murder or other serious violent crimes as adults.
- X
2. Provide state funding for military-style "boot-camps" for juvenile first-time felons.
- X
3. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
4. Support state government funding of programs for at-risk youth such as guaranteed college loans and job training and placement.
- X
5. Support "zero-tolerance" policies requiring expulsion of students who bring weapons to school or sell drugs on school grounds.
- X
6. Allow cities to impose mandatory curfews for minors in high crime areas.
- X
7. Increase state funding for community programs that focus on preventing youths from joining gangs.
- X
8. Allow courts to hold parents accountable for a minor child who possesses a firearm.
- X
1. Increase state funds for improving the state's transportation system, including major roadways, railways, public transit, and airports.
- X
2. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for expanding, start-up or relocating businesses.
- X
3. Expand legalized gambling (e.g. casino gambling, slot machines).
- No Answer
4. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector.
- X
5. Remove state government controls or caps from wages, prices, rents, profits, production, and interest rates.
- No Answer
6. Support limits on cash damages in lawsuits against businesses and professionals for product liability or malpractice.
- No Answer
7. Increase state funding for programs to re-train unemployed workers.
- X
8. Increase state taxes on gasoline to pay for mass transit services and safety improvements to streets and highways.
- X
9. Support the phasing out of rent control.
- No Answer
10. Create tax incentives for first-time home buyers.
- X
11. Support legislation to increase the California minimum wage.
- X
12. Grant employers the legal right to require employees to work more than eight hours per day.
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for professional development and salaries of public school faculty.
- X
2. Endorse teacher-led voluntary school prayer in public schools.
- X
3. Encourage private or corporate investment in certain public school programs.
- X
4. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any participating school (public, private, religious, technical).
- No Answer
5. Support charter schools where teachers and professionals receive state authorization and funding to establish new schools.
- No Answer
6. Require the use of state-wide achievement standards for all state public schools.
- No Answer
7. Emphasize local control of education as long as the school district meets basic state standards.
- X
8. Support sex education programs which stress abstinence.
- X
9. Support sex education programs which stress safe sexual practices.
- No Answer
10. Increase state funds for school security (e.g. metal detectors, truancy officers).
- X
11. Provide state funding for programs which increase students' access to the Internet and other telecommunications networks.
- X
12. Allow teachers to be fired for "unsatisfactory performance" rather than the stricter "incompetence" standard.
- No Answer
13. Advocate bilingual education programs in public schools.
- No Answer
14. Establish single-sex magnet schools as options for parents and students.
- No Answer
1. Enact tougher environmental standards to encourage the sale of cleaner burning fuels throughout California.
- No Answer
2. Support "self-audit" legislation which creates immunity incentives for polluting industries to clean up pollution.
- No Answer
3. Require a cost/benefit analysis be completed to determine the economic impact of any proposed environmental regulations before they are implemented.
- No Answer
4. Require the state to reimburse citizens limited in utilizing privately owned lands due to state-sponsored environmental regulations.
- No Answer
5. Provide funding for recycling programs in California.
- X
6. Request flexibility from the federal government in enforcing and funding federal environmental regulations.
- No Answer
7. Suspend California's participation in unfunded, federally mandated environmental protection legislation.
- No Answer
8. Maintain minimum environmental quality as mandated by current federal regulations.
- No Answer
9. Promote the sale of pollution credits to encourage industries to decrease the amount of pollution.
- No Answer
10. Support legislation which would give more control to states and localities in dealing with environmental issues in border areas.
- No Answer
11. Provide state funds for incentive programs that reward farmers for conserving soil and using minimal fertilizers and pesticides.
- X
12. Do you support the construction of facilities to house commercial low-level radioactive waste in California?
- Undecided
1. State Senators (8 years) and Representatives (6 years)
- Yes
2. Governor (two 4-year terms)
- Yes
3. Do you support amending the U.S. Constitution to require a balanced federal budget?
- Undecided
4. Do you support requiring limits on individual contributions to state legislative candidates?
- Yes
5. Do you support requiring limits on PAC contributions to state legislative candidates?
- Yes
6. Do you support requiring limits on corporate contributions to state legislative candidates?
- 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 partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
- Yes
10. Do you support initiatives to privatize segments of California state government?
- No
11. Do you support limits or bans on campaign contributions from out-of-state contributors?
- Yes
1. Support expanding the nationwide federal ban on the public sale of assault weapons to include all forms of semi-automatic weapons.
- No Answer
2. Increase state restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms.
- No Answer
3. Maintain all state registration procedures and state restrictions on possessing firearms.
- No Answer
4. Ease state registration procedures and restrictions on the purchase and registration of firearms.
- No Answer
5. Eliminate all state bans and measures that restrict law-abiding citizens from obtaining firearms.
- No Answer
6. Allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms that are legally owned and registered.
- No Answer
1. Expand state funding for pre-natal and infant care programs available in the state, including immunizations.
- X
2. Provide tax incentives to assist small businesses in providing health care to their employees.
- X
3. Ensure that California citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state funded care where necessary.
- X
4. Guaranteeing medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of government.
- No Answer
5. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
6. Allow otherwise uninsured families and the self-employed to deduct health insurance premium costs from their pre-tax income.
- X
7. Assist seniors and disabled persons in having access to home- and community-based health care to enable them to remain at home.
- X
8. Enact legislation which allows citizens and small employers to pool their health insurance purchasing power.
- X
9. Request a waiver from the federal government to provide Medicaid services through managed care programs.
- No Answer
10. Support legislation requiring health insurance providers to cover certain medical services (as in new regulation requiring coverage to domestic violence victims).
- No Answer
11. Support programs in schools and workplaces which will provide California residents with AIDS/HIV prevention information.
- X
12. Require reporting of HIV infection by health care professionals in the same manner that other communicable diseases are reported.
- No Answer
13. Support increased government regulation of managed care facilities.
- No Answer
1. States with higher numbers of immigrants should receive extra federal aid to provide necessary medical and social services.
- No Answer
2. Support legislation to establish English as the official and recognized language of California.
- No Answer
3. Provide state-funded health care and education for children of illegal immigrant parents.
- X
4. Follow Proposition 187 requirement that all state benefits for illegal immigrants, except emergency medical assistance, be terminated.
- No Answer
5. Support legislation which would sanction employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
- No Answer
1. Alcohol Taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Business Taxes
- Greatly Decrease
3. Capital Gains
- Slightly Decrease
4. Income Taxes (incomes less than $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease
5. Income Taxes (incomes greater than $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease
6. Property taxes
- No Answer
7. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
8. State Fees
- Slightly Decrease
9. Do you support a flat tax structure for state income taxes?
- Yes
1. Provide child care services for welfare recipients who work or attend school.
- X
2. Allow welfare recipients with small children to work and still receive state health and child care until they become self-sufficient.
- X
3. Require that able-bodied welfare recipients receive job training, attend school, or work in order to receive welfare benefits.
- X
4. Require that unwed mothers under the age of 18 live with a parent or guardian (if possible) to receive welfare benefits.
- X
5. Limit the welfare benefits given to recipients if they have additional children.
- X
6. Provide two parent families living in poverty the same welfare benefits as one parent families.
- No Answer
7. Eliminate government-funded welfare and advocate privately funded assistance to people in need.
- No Answer
8. Impose a two-year limit on welfare benefits for recipients who are able to work.
- No Answer
9. Require mothers to identify their child(ren)'s father in order to receive welfare benefits.
- X
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
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?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position
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?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
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
Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Yes
1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Unknown Position