2021

Abortion

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

Budget

1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Yes

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

Campaign Finance

Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- 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?
- No

Education

1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Yes

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?
- Yes

Guns

Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes

Health Care

Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No

Immigration

1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- No

2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No

Marijuana

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

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?
- No

2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Yes

Arizona State Legislative Election 2006 National Political Awareness Test

Abortion

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.
- No Answer

5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer

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. Require doctors to tell women considering an abortion that the fetus can feel pain after 20 weeks.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budget and Tax

1. Education (Higher)
- Greatly Increase

2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase

3. English Language Learning Program
- Greatly Increase

4. Emergency preparedness
- Slightly Increase

5. Environment
- Greatly Increase

6. Health care
- Greatly Increase

7. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status

8. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status

9. Welfare
- Slightly Increase

10. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

11. Alcohol taxes
- Slightly Increase

12. Capital gains taxes
- Greatly Increase

13. Cigarette taxes
- Slightly Increase

14. Corporate taxes
- Greatly Increase

15. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status

16. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status

17. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Greatly Increase

18. Property taxes
- Slightly Increase

19. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status

20. Vehicle taxes
- Slightly Increase

21. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- No

22. Should accounts such as a ?rainy day? fund be used to balance the state budget?
- No

23. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- No

24. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Campaign Finance and Governmental Reform

1. Do you support the current limit of terms for Arizona governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Arizona state senators and representatives?
- Yes

3. Individual
- Yes

4. PAC
- Yes

5. Corporate
- Yes

6. Political Parties
- Yes

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

8. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- Yes

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

10. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Arizona are closed?
- Yes

11. Should Arizona recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes

12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

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

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

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. Increase state funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent or respond to terrorism.
- No Answer

12. Strengthen sex-offender laws.
- No Answer

13. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
- X

14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Education

1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- No Answer

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 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. Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer

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

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

Employment and Affirmative Action

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.
- 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.
- X

6. Include sexual orientation in Arizona's anti-discrimination laws.
- X

7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X

8. Public employment
- Yes

9. State college and university admissions
- Yes

10. State contracting
- Yes

11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Environment & 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.
- X

4. Increase funding for improvements to Arizona?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

Gun

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.
- No Answer

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

Health

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 Arizona.
- X

7. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- X

8. Criminalize the sale or purchase of a human egg for research.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Immigration

1. Deploy Arizona's National Guard to the border to stop illegal immigration.
- No Answer

2. Criminalize the employment of an illegal immigrant in Arizona.
- No Answer

3. Expand Arizona's trespassing laws to include undocumented immigrants.
- No Answer

4. Build a ground-based radar system, or smart fence, along the border.
- No Answer

Welfare and Poverty

1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- No Answer

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

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