Member, Advisory Commission, WSBE/Channel 36 and Operating Permits
Former Secretary, Finance Committee, Rhode Island State House of Representatives
Former Member, House Committee on Municipal Authority, Rhode Island State House of Representatives
Member, Rhode Island Telecommunications Authority
Former Chair, Subcommittee on Education, Rhode Island State House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Human Services, Rhode Island State House of Representatives
Member, Conduct
Chair, Corporations
Member, Veterans' Affairs
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.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- X
1. Education (higher)
- Greatly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase
3. Environment
- Maintain Status
4. Health care
- Maintain Status
5. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status
6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status
7. Welfare
- Maintain Status
8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status
3. Cigarette taxes
- Slightly Decrease
4. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Decrease
5. Estate taxes
- Maintain Status
6. Gasoline taxes
- Slightly Decrease
7. Income taxes
- Slightly Decrease
8. Property taxes
- Greatly Decrease
9. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Vehicle taxes
- Slightly Decrease
11. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
12. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Yes
13. Do you support an expansion of casino gambling in Rhode Island?
- No Answer
14. Other or expanded principles
- m) I support allowing voters to decide
1. Do you support bonding for a biotechnology and life sciences center at the University of Rhode Island?
- Yes
2. Do you support bonding for a marine life sciences park at Quonset Point?
- Undecided
3. Do you support bonding for open space and recreation development?
- Undecided
4. Do you support bonding for a statewide emergency water interconnect?
- Undecided
5. Do you support bonding for highway and transportation improvements?
- Yes
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the current limit of two consecutive four-year terms for Rhode Island governors?
- No
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Rhode Island 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. 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 Rhode Island are closed?
- No
9. Should Rhode Island bar legislators and their appointees from state boards and commissions?
- Yes
10. Should Rhode Island create an independent ethics commission, with subpoena powers, to investigate ethics violations?
- No Answer
11. Should Rhode Island recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Undecided
12. Should Rhode Island restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Undecided
1. Other or expanded principles
- i) There is one!
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Implement the death penalty in Rhode Island.
- X
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.
- No Answer
5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
6. Decriminalize 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. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- No Answer
10. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
- No Answer
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
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).
- X
5. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X
6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- No Answer
7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer
8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer
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.
- 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
- 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 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.
- No Answer
6. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Public employment
- No Answer
2. State college and university admissions
- No Answer
3. State contracting
- No Answer
4. Other or expanded principles
- I support current practices
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
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.
- X
3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- X
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. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer
8. Require people subject to long-term domestic-violence restraining orders to surrender their guns.
- No Answer
9. 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. 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.
- No Answer
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.
- X
6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
7. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Rhode Island.
- No Answer
8. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
9. Require state employees to pay a share of their health-insurance premiums.
- No Answer
10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
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.
- No Answer
4. Limit 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.
- No Answer
7. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
8. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
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.
- 1. Economic initiatives2. Increased aid to education3. Increased aid to higher education
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