2021

Abortion

1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life

Budget

1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No

2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
- Unknown Position

Campaign Finance

1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position

Crime

1. Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- Unknown Position

Defense

Do you support increasing defense spending?
- Yes

Economy

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?
- Yes

3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
- Yes

Education

1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No

Energy and Environment

1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No

Guns

1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No

Health Care

1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes

2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
- Yes

Immigration

1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Yes

2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Yes

National Security

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?
- Unknown Position

Trade

Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes

Missouri State Legislative Election 2002 National Political Awareness Test

Abortion

Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning abortion.

1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- X

2. Abortions should always be legally available.
- 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. Eliminate public funding for abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- X

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budgetary, Spending and Tax

State Budget: Indicate the funding levels you will support for the following general categories.State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels you will support.

1. Education (Higher)
- Maintain Funding Status

2. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase Funding

3. Environment
- Slightly Decrease Funding

4. Health care
- Greatly Increase Funding

5. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase Funding

6. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Maintain Funding Status

7. Welfare
- Maintain Funding Status

8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

9. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status

10. Capital gains taxes
- Eliminate

11. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status

12. Corporate taxes
- Greatly Decrease

13. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status

14. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease

15. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease

16. Inheritance taxes
- Eliminate

17. Property taxes
- Maintain Status

18. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status

19. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status

20. Do you support providing tax dollars to fund construction of new sports complexes?
- No

21. Do you support providing tax credits for the renovation of sports complexes?
- No

22. Should Missouri repeal the gambling loss limit to generate additional revenue for education?
- No

23. Should Missouri raise casino taxes to generate additional revenue for education?
- No

24. Do you support spending a portion of the "rainy day" fund to help balance the state budget?
- No

25. Do you support increasing sales and fuel taxes to improve highways?
- No

26. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Undecided

27. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Campaign Finance and Governmental Reform

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.d) Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

1. Do you support the current limit of two, four-year terms for Missouri governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support the current limit of four, two-year terms for Missouri state representatives?
- Yes

3. Do you support the current limit of two, four-year terms for Missouri state senators?
- Yes

4. Individual
- Yes

5. PAC
- Yes

6. Corporate
- Yes

7. Political Parties
- Yes

8. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes

9. Do you support partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
- No

10. Do you support voting on-line?
- No

11. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes

12. Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in Missouri are closed?
- Yes

13. Should Missouri recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No

14. Should Missouri restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes

15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

Indicate which principles you support (if any) to address crime.

1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- X

2. Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
- No Answer

3. Support the use of the death penalty in Missouri.
- X

4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X

5. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X

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

7. Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer

8. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- X

9. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X

10. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- No Answer

11. Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.
- No Answer

12. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X

13. Increase state funding for additional security of critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks.
- X

14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Educational

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 participating school (public, private, religious).
- X

3. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X

4. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X

5. Lower the school bonds passage requirement to a simple majority.
- No Answer

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

7. Support displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools.
- X

8. Endorse teacher-led voluntary prayer in public schools.
- X

9. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer

10. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X

11. Increase state funding to expand Head Start programs.
- X

12. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X

13. Support age-appropriate sexual education programs that teach about abstinence, contraceptives and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- No Answer

14. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- X

15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Employment and Affirmative Action

Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning employment.Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on:

1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X

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

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 their employees.
- X

5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children of low-income working families.
- X

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

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

8. College and university admissions
- No

9. Public employment
- No

10. State contracting
- No

Environmental and Energy

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.

1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X

2. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused or abandoned.
- No Answer

3. Do you support state funding for open space preservation?
- No

4. Should state environmental regulations be stricter than federal law?
- No

5. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Gun

Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning gun issues.

1. Ban the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
- No Answer

2. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

3. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

4. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X

5. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- X

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

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

8. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health issues.

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 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 by their HMO.
- X

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

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

8. Increase state funding for training health workers to recognize and respond to the release of biological agents.
- X

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Welfare and Poverty

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

1. Support current time limits on welfare benefits.
- X

2. Increase employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer

3. Provide tax incentives to businesses that hire welfare recipients.
- X

4. Provide child care for welfare recipients who work.
- X

5. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X

6. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer

7. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- X

8. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to expand state services to include the working poor.
- X

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

2019

Abortion

1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life

Budget

1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No

2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- No

Campaign Finance

1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position

Economy

1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No

2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes

Education

1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No

Energy & Environment

1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Yes

2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No

Guns

1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No

Health Care

1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes

Immigration

1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Yes

Marijuana

Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Unknown Position

National Security

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?
- Yes