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Quick Facts
Personal Details

Education

  • MBA, Finance, Michigan State University, 1977-1978
  • BS, Business, State University of New York at Brockport, 1974-1976

Professional Experience

  • MBA, Finance, Michigan State University, 1977-1978
  • BS, Business, State University of New York at Brockport, 1974-1976
  • Former Employee, United States Congressman Michael Harrington
  • Former Employee, United States Department of Transportation
  • Former Employee, United States International Trade Commission
  • Corporate Planner, Nebraska Public Power District, 1998-2003
  • Director of Financial Analysis, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, 1979-1997
  • Consultant, Kirschner Association, 1978-1979

Political Experience

  • MBA, Finance, Michigan State University, 1977-1978
  • BS, Business, State University of New York at Brockport, 1974-1976
  • Former Employee, United States Congressman Michael Harrington
  • Former Employee, United States Department of Transportation
  • Former Employee, United States International Trade Commission
  • Corporate Planner, Nebraska Public Power District, 1998-2003
  • Director of Financial Analysis, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, 1979-1997
  • Consultant, Kirschner Association, 1978-1979
  • President of the Legislature, Nebraska State Legislature, 2014-present
  • Lieutenant Governor, State of Nebraska, 2014-present
  • Candidate, Nebraska State Governor, 2014
  • Auditor of Public Accounts, State of Nebraska, 2007-2014
  • Senator, Nebraska State Legislature, District 29, 2000-2006

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • MBA, Finance, Michigan State University, 1977-1978
  • BS, Business, State University of New York at Brockport, 1974-1976
  • Former Employee, United States Congressman Michael Harrington
  • Former Employee, United States Department of Transportation
  • Former Employee, United States International Trade Commission
  • Corporate Planner, Nebraska Public Power District, 1998-2003
  • Director of Financial Analysis, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, 1979-1997
  • Consultant, Kirschner Association, 1978-1979
  • President of the Legislature, Nebraska State Legislature, 2014-present
  • Lieutenant Governor, State of Nebraska, 2014-present
  • Candidate, Nebraska State Governor, 2014
  • Auditor of Public Accounts, State of Nebraska, 2007-2014
  • Senator, Nebraska State Legislature, District 29, 2000-2006
  • Member, Legion of Mary
  • Member, Saint Peter's Catholic Church
  • Commissioner, Washington District of Columbia Advisory Neighborhood Commission, 1986-1988
Policy Positions

Nebraska 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.
- No Answer

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. Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- X

7. Other or expanded principles
- X

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.

1. Education (higher)
- Slightly Increase

2. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase

3. Environment
- Maintain Status

4. Health care
- Maintain Status

5. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase

6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status

7. Welfare
- Maintain Status

8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

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

1. Alcohol taxes
- No Answer

2. Capital gains taxes
- No Answer

3. Cigarette taxes
- No Answer

4. Corporate taxes
- No Answer

5. Gasoline taxes
- No Answer

6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- No Answer

7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- No Answer

8. Inheritance taxes
- No Answer

9. Property taxes
- No Answer

10. Sales taxes
- No Answer

11. Vehicle taxes
- No Answer

12. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

13. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Yes

14. Do you support a limited expansion of gambling in Nebraska?
- No

15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

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 two consecutive four-year terms for Nebraska governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support the current limit of two consecutive four-year terms for Nebraska state senators?
- No

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial 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 the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in Nebraska are closed?
- No

9. Should Nebraska create a task force to study I-300 and its effects on agriculture?
- Undecided

10. Should Nebraska recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No

11. Should Nebraska restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes

12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

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

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

2. Support the death penalty in Nebraska.
- No Answer

3. Change the mode of inflicting capital punishment from electrocution to lethal injection.
- No Answer

4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- No Answer

5. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X

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

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

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

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

10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- No Answer

11. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
- No Answer

12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Education

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

1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- X

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).
- No Answer

5. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- No Answer

6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- X

7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- X

8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X

9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- No Answer

10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- No Answer

11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- No Answer

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.
- X

14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

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

1. Schools in Nebraska should be funded equally by state funds and local property taxes.
- No Answer

2. Schools in Nebraska should be funded primarily by local property taxes.
- No Answer

3. Schools in Nebraska should be funded primarliy by state funds.
- No Answer

4. The statewide funding formula for education should provide more money for districts with large numbers of "high needs" students.
- No Answer

5. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Employment and Affirmative Action

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

1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market.
- No Answer

2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- X

3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- No Answer

4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer

5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer

6. Include sexual orientation in Nebraska's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer

7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer

8. Institute broadened disclosure rules for Nebraska's corporate incentives program.
- No Answer

9. Extend Nebraska's corporate incentives program to small and medium-sized businesses.
- No Answer

10. Obligate businesses benefiting from Nebraska's corporate incentives program to meet wage requirements.
- No Answer

11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

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
- No Answer

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.
- No Answer

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

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

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.
- 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.
- No Answer

5. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- No Answer

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

7. Support current licensing requirements for gun possession.
- No Answer

8. 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.
- No Answer

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

3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X

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.
- No Answer

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

7. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Nebraska.
- No Answer

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

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Welfare and Poverty

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

1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X

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. Support current limits on 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.
- X

7. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- X

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

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