Philip Donohue's campaign website highlights the following issues:
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion. | |
a) Abortions should always be legally available. | |
b) Abortions should always be legal. | |
c) Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy. | |
✕ | d) Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape. |
✕ | e) Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered. |
f) Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions. | |
g) Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors. | |
h) Other or expanded principles |
State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category. | |
Maintain Status | a) Education (Higher) |
Maintain Status | b) Education (K-12) |
Slightly Increase | c) Emergency preparedness |
Eliminate | d) Environment |
Slightly Increase | e) Health care |
Slightly Increase | f) Law enforcement |
Slightly Decrease | g) Transportation and highway infrastructure |
Eliminate | h) Welfare |
i) Other or expanded categories | |
All of these issues are too complex to simply write increase, decrease or eliminate. I would like to eliminate our state's subsidy for public transportation but by carefully raising the fares in those areas that benefit most from the subsidized rides. Yet at the same time I would legislate to grant a tax deduction for people who use our transit system on a daily basis. | |
State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax. | |
Maintain Status | a) Alcohol taxes |
Slightly Decrease | b) Capital gains taxes |
Slightly Decrease | c) Cigarette taxes |
Slightly Decrease | d) Corporate taxes |
Maintain Status | e) Gasoline taxes |
Maintain Status | f) Income taxes (incomes below $75,000) |
Slightly Decrease | g) Income taxes (incomes above $75,000) |
Greatly Decrease | h) Property taxes |
Greatly Decrease | i) Sales taxes |
Slightly Increase | j) Vehicle taxes |
k) Other or expanded categories | |
No | l) Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales? |
No | m) Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget? |
Yes | n) Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget? |
Undecided | o) Do you support leasing the New Jersey Turnpike to a private company to help reduce the state's debt? |
p) Other or expanded principles | |
If we get $100 Billion - SOLD! But I still have a number of questions. Why was this turned over to the Governor? Shouldn't the legislature play a major role in this. And since our Governor is a millionaire and has contributed $900,000.00 to all of the Democratic legislative candidates Has he not already bought a yes vote. AH, Aristocracy isn't it wonderful! |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform. | |
Yes | a) Do you support the current limit of terms for New Jersey governors? |
No | b) Do you support limiting the number of terms for New Jersey state senators and representatives? |
c) Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative candidates? | |
No | 1) Individual |
No | 2) PAC |
No | 3) Corporate |
No | 4) Political Parties |
No | d) Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information? |
No | e) Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns? |
No | f) Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes? |
Undecided | g) Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in New Jersey are closed? |
Yes | h) Should New Jersey continue to recognize civil unions between same-sex couples? |
No | i) Should New Jersey recognize marriages between same-sex couples? |
Undecided | j) Do you support a New Jersey constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman? |
No | k) Do you support the New Jersey state government using eminent domain to seize private property for the purpose of private development? |
l) Other or expanded principles | |
State Senator Fred H. Madden of the 4th Dist. must hold the world's recxord for amount of money spent per vote. He spent something like $160.00+ per vote received. I hope to spend 1/1000th or less. I also plan on using more technology to get out my message. And I'm going to win. That'll have dramatic effects on "business as usual." |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime. | |
a) Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff. | |
✕ | b) Support the death penalty in New Jersey. |
✕ | c) Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released. |
d) End parole for repeat violent offenders. | |
✕ | e) Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders. |
f) Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. | |
g) Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes. | |
✕ | h) Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults. |
i) Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes. | |
j) Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth. | |
k) Strengthen sex-offender laws. | |
✕ | l) Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine). |
m) Other or expanded principles | |
An over-arching issue in the 3rd dist. is what happens with sex offenders in prison and after they are released. The incumbents held a "Protest Rally" to urge the prison system to not put all of the sex offenders in one of our prisons in this district. My Response. WHY? You are legislators why do you need a phony protest? You can write legislation to control executive authority? Can't you? Well DO IT! |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education. | |
✕ | a) Support national standards and testing of public school students. |
✕ | b) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school. |
c) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school. | |
d) Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure). | |
e) Increase funds for hiring additional teachers. | |
f) Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay. | |
g) Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools. | |
✕ | h) Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams. |
i) Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries. | |
j) Increase funding for Head Start programs. | |
✕ | k) Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable. |
l) Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods. | |
m) Support abstinence-only sexual education programs. | |
n) Other or expanded principles |
Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment. | |
✕ | a) Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market. |
✕ | b) Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion. |
✕ | c) Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses. |
✕ | d) Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families. |
e) Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families. | |
f) Support the inclusion of sexual orientation in New Jersey's anti-discrimination laws. | |
g) Increase the state minimum wage. | |
h) Other or expanded principles | |
Alexis de'Toqueville warned when he wrote, "...regulating, restrictive administration which seeks to anticipate everything, take charge of everything, always know better than those it administers what is in their interest." Was Toqueville from Trenton? | |
Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on: | |
No | a) Public employment |
No | b) State college and university admissions |
No | c) State contracting |
d) Other or expanded principles | |
I'd rather see affirmative action focused on socio-economic factors rather than just race. |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy. | |
✕ | a) Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology. |
✕ | b) Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil). |
c) Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned. | |
d) Increase funding for improvements to New Jersey's power generating and transmission facilities. | |
✕ | e) Support funding for open space preservation. |
f) Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law. | |
g) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns. | |
a) Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |
b) Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |
c) Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |
d) Allow citizens to carry concealed guns. | |
e) Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows. | |
f) Require a license for gun possession. | |
g) Other or expanded principles | |
Enough gun legislation has been passed. ENFORCEMENT! |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health. | |
✕ | a) Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary. |
b) Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs. | |
✕ | c) Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits. |
✕ | d) Support patients' right to sue their HMOs. |
✕ | e) Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government. |
f) Legalize physician assisted suicide in New Jersey. | |
g) Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes. | |
h) Other or expanded principles | |
We need better coordination and information regarding existing health programs funded by the state. |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare. | |
✕ | a) Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients. |
✕ | b) Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients. |
✕ | c) Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work. |
✕ | d) Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations. |
✕ | e) Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor. |
✕ | f) Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients. |
✕ | g) Eliminate government-funded welfare programs. |
h) Other or expanded principles | |
We should always be focused on ending the cycle of welfare. The system seems self-perpetuating. |