Lucy Weber
DWon the General, 2022 New Hampshire House of Representatives District Cheshire 5
New Hampshire State House, Cheshire 1 (2006 - Present)
To be claimed
Former Member, Children and Family Law Committee, New Hampshire State House of Representatives
Former Assistant Democratic Leader, Committee on Redistricting, New Hampshire State House of Representatives
Former Member, Judiciary Committee, New Hampshire State House of Representatives
Former Member, Legislative Administration Committee, New Hampshire State House of Representatives
Former Chair, Legislative Administration Committee, New Hampshire State House of Representatives
Chair, Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee
Member, Rules Committee
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.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
6. Abortions should be subject to a mandatory waiting period.
- No Answer
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (Higher)
- Maintain Status
2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase
3. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status
4. Environment
- Slightly Increase
5. Health care
- Slightly Increase
6. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status
8. Welfare
- Slightly Increase
9. Other or expanded categories
- Revenues raised to fund the increase in state funding for education should be offset by a decrease in property tax.
1. Alcohol taxes
- Slightly Increase
2. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
3. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Increase
4. Gasoline taxes
- Slightly Increase
5. Property taxes
- Greatly Decrease
6. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
7. Other or expanded categories
- We should fund education with an income tax dedicated solely to education, and offset by a reduction in the statewide and local property tax.
8. Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget?
- No
9. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- Yes
10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New Hampshire governors?
- No
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New Hampshire state senators and representatives?
- No
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. Should New Hampshire participate in the federal REAL ID program?
- No
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support the death penalty in New Hampshire.
- No Answer
3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
4. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
5. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- X
6. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
7. Support state and local law enforcement officials enforcing federal immigration laws.
- No Answer
8. Support hate crime legislation.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support state funding of universal pre-K programs.
- No Answer
2. Support federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students (No Child Left Behind).
- No Answer
3. Support state education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students.
- X
4. Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer
5. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer
6. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
7. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X
8. Support using a merit pay system for teachers.
- No Answer
9. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X
10. Support allowing illegal immigrant high school graduates of New Hampshire to pay in-state tuition at public universities.
- No Answer
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
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.
- 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 gender identity in New Hampshire's anti-discrimination laws.
- X
7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer
8. Support laws that prevent employers from dismissing employees at will.
- No Answer
9. Support financial punishments for those who knowingly employ illegal immigrants.
- No Answer
10. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- No Answer
11. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil, etc).
- No Answer
3. Support providing financial incentives to farms that produce biofuel crops.
- No Answer
4. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X
5. Support funding for improvements to New Hampshire's power generating and transmission facilities.
- No Answer
6. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X
7. Limit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
- X
8. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- Support tax credits and incentives for those developing alternative, renewable energy sources.
1. Should background checks be required on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows?
- Yes
2. Should citizens be allowed to carry concealed guns?
- No Answer
3. Should a license be required for gun possession?
- No Answer
4. Do you support current levels of enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Yes
5. Do you support current state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Yes
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X
2. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
3. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
4. Allow patients to sue their HMOs.
- X
5. Require hospitals and labs to release reports on infections that are a risk to public health, while not compromising patient confidentiality.
- X
6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in New Hampshire.
- No Answer
7. Support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- X
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should New Hampshire continue to recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes
2. Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry?
- Yes
3. Should New Hampshire provide state-level spousal rights to same-sex couples?
- Yes
4. Do you support a moment of silence in public schools?
- No Answer
5. Do you support voluntary prayer in public schools?
- No
6. Do you support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods?
- Yes
7. Do you support abstinence-only sexual education programs?
- No
8. Should the state government consider race and gender in state government contracting and hiring decisions?
- Undecided
9. Do you support affirmative action in public college admissions?
- Yes
10. Should New Hampshire continue affirmative action programs?
- Yes
11. Do you support state funding of stem cell research?
- Undecided
12. Do you support state funding of embryonic stem cell research?
- Undecided
13. Do you support allowing pharmacists who conscientiously object to emergency contraception to refuse to dispense it?
- No
14. Other or expanded principles
- I support the concept of both stem cell and embryonic stem cell research. Given the current budget issues, I see no need for the State of NH to fund programs at this time.
1. 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.
- Address the current budget deficet while preserving the safety net for our most vulnerable citizens--children, the elderly, the ill or mentally ill, and the poor.Fully fund an adequate education at the state level.Continue progress on civil liberties, environmental and health issues.
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