Chair, Larimer County Planning Commission, 1987-1997
No committee memberships found.
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.
- 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.
- X
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- X
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (Higher)
- Greatly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase
3. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status
4. Environment
- Maintain Status
5. Health care
- Maintain Status
6. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Greatly Increase
8. Welfare
- Slightly Decrease
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status
3. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
4. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status
5. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status
7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Maintain Status
8. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
9. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Other or expanded categories
- Eliminate business personal property tax
11. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- No
12. Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget?
- Yes
13. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- No
14. Other or expanded principles
- Protect Ref. C monies and spend exactly as voters directed.
1. Do you support the current limit of terms for Colorado governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support the current limit of terms for Colorado state senators and representatives?
- Yes
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 Colorado are closed?
- Undecided
9. Should Colorado recognize domestic partnerships between same-sex couples?
- No
10. Do you support a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage?
- Yes
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- X
2. Support the death penalty in Colorado.
- 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.
- X
5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
6. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- X
7. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X
8. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- No Answer
9. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
10. Strengthen sex-offender laws.
- X
11. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
- X
12. Other or expanded principles
- implement substance abuse treatment as an out-patient Medicaid benefit. Expand mental health treatment to reduce incarcerations
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.
- X
3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- X
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.
- X
8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X
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.
- No Answer
13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
14. Other or expanded principles
- sex education should be left to local school district direction
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 Colorado's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer
8. Penalize businesses that hire undocumented immigrants.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- support tourism promotion
1. Public employment
- No
2. State college and university admissions
- No
3. State contracting
- No
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).
- X
3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X
4. Provide incentives for improvements to Colorado'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.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- promote public-private partnerships that improve air quality
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.
- 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.
- No Answer
6. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer
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.
- X
3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X
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 Colorado.
- No Answer
7. Continue to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
8. Allow pharmacists to dispense emergency contraception without a prescription.
- No Answer
9. Support forming a drug-purchasing cooperative of states to purchase prescription drugs at reduced prices.
- X
10. Create a Colorado discount drug program to negotiate prescription drug purchases for low-income citizens.
- X
11. Protect health care workers who file reports alleging mistreatment of patients.
- X
12. Other or expanded principles
- simplify & disclose terms of contracts between physicians & health plans
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.
- X
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.
- X
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.
- I have worked for opportunity in Colorado: for transportation improvements that meet the demands of a growing state, for patient choice over health care decisions, and for common-sense measures that preserve the beautiful environment that attracted many of us to Colorado.
I've sponsored major legislation that has made our state a better place- our No Sales Call list and Referendum C that allowed our state to recover from the recession and invest in Colorado's future.