Gilda Cobb-Hunter
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Gilda Cobb-Hunter (b. November 5, 1952) is a Democratic member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, representing District 66. She was first elected to the chamber in 1992. From 1997 to 2000, she served as State House Minority Leader.
Hunter earned her B.S. from Florida A&M University in 1973. She went on to receive her M.A. from Florida State University in 1978. She then earned her LISW from the South Carolina Board of Social Work Examiners in 1990.
Hunter was a Teacher at Belleville Middle School in 1978. In 1979, she worked as an Instructor at South Carolina State University. She then worked as a Caseworker for the Orangeburg Department of Social Services from 1979 to 1984. She has been Executive Director of CASA Family Services since 1985. She currently works as a Social Work Administrator.
Member, Democratic Legislators' Campaign Commission
Former Member, Economic Development, Capital Improvement and Other Taxes Committee, South Carolina State House of Representatives
Former Member, Joint Bond Review Committee, South Carolina State House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Technical Colleges, South Carolina State House of Representatives
Member, Budget Subcommittee on Higher Education
Member, Joint Committee on Bond Review
Member, Joint Committee on Pension Reform
Member, Proviso Subcommittee
Chair, Subcommittee on General Government
Member, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Technical Colleges
First Vice Chair, Ways and Means Committee
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Date of Wedding Anniversary:
August 30, 1975
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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.
- X
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X
6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- Parental notification is not the best principle, particularly in cases of incest where the father's actions have resulted in a pregnancy.
1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase
3. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status
4. Environment
- Maintain Status
5. Health care
- Greatly Increase
6. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Greatly Increase
8. Welfare
- Slightly Increase
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Slightly Increase
2. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status
3. Cigarette taxes
- Greatly Increase
4. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status
5. Gasoline taxes
- Slightly Increase
6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status
7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Greatly Increase
8. Property taxes
- Maintain Status
9. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Vehicle taxes
- Slightly Increase
11. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
12. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Yes
13. Should accounts such as a ?rainy day? fund be used to balance the state budget?
- No
14. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- No
15. Should South Carolina increase the state sales tax to reduce local property taxes?
- No
16. Should South Carolina raise cigarette taxes to provide funding for health initiatives?
- Yes
17. Other or expanded principles
- SC has already increased the sales tax to pay for property tax relief
1. Do you support the current limit of terms for South Carolina governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for South Carolina state senators and representatives?
- No
1. Individual
- No
2. PAC
- No
3. Corporate
- No
4. Political Parties
- No
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 media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in South Carolina are closed?
- Yes
9. Should South Carolina recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes
10. 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 South Carolina.
- No Answer
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.
- X
7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer
8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X
9. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- X
10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
11. Support seeking the death penalty for multiple convictions of sexually molesting a child younger than 11.
- No Answer
12. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
- X
13. 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.
- X
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 funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X
6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- X
7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer
8. Support requiring 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.
- X
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.
- X
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 retrain 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.
- 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 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 sexual orientation in South Carolina's anti-discrimination laws.
- X
7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X
8. Require public agencies and contractors to check the legal status of new employees.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Public employment
- Yes
2. State college and university admissions
- Yes
3. State contracting
- Yes
4. 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, and oil).
- No Answer
3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X
4. Increase funding for improvements to South Carolina's power generating and transmission facilities.
- X
5. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X
6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
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.
- X
5. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- X
6. Require a license for gun possession.
- X
7. 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 current 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. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in South Carolina.
- X
7. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- X
8. Ban smoking in all restaurants, bars, lounges and recreational facilities.
- X
9. 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.
- X
3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X
4. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer
5. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X
6. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
7. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
8. 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.
- No Answer
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