The following are questions and answers to a survey for PROMO PAC:
1) Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation” to Missouri’s Human Rights Statute? This would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, employment, and access to public accommodations.
Answer: Oppose. You currently have the same rights as everyone else.
2) Some states have extended all or nearly all of the benefits of marriage to same-sex couples under state law (ex. Hospital visitation, mutual responsibility for debt, inheritance rights, health insurance, and joint taxes). Do you support or oppose similar laws in Missouri?
Answer: Oppose. Natural relations only please.
3) Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender parents are often denied custody of their children following separation of the parents. PROMO believes that the sexual orientation and/or gender identity of parents should not be a determining factor in deciding custody of children. Do you support or oppose the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender parents to have legal custody of their children?
Answer: Oppose. Children need a mother and a father.
4) Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender citizens are regularly denied the opportunity to adopt children or to provide foster care for children in need. PROMO believes that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people should be assessed the same as any other applicant and that excluding people based on their sexual orientation and/or gender identity from becoming foster or adoptive parents works against children’s best interests. Do you support or oppose lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as adoptive or foster parents?
Answer: Oppose. Children need a mother and father.
5) PROMO believes that all Missourians should have access to a full range of family planning services and reproductive options. Do you support or oppose access to family planning services and programs?
Answer: Oppose. Everyone deserves a chance at life.
6) Discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying, like other disruptive or violent behaviors, is conduct that disrupts both a student’s ability to learn and the school’s ability to educate its students. PROMO believes it is essential to enact a law that seeks to protect the health and welfare of all Missouri students and improve the learning environment in Missouri schools. Do support or oppose such a law in Missouri?
Answer: My support or opposition would depend on the language of the bill. However, I would like to see bullying in schools go away.
7) Many public school boards are voting to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their non-discrimination policies. Do you support or oppose state interference with these local school board decisions?
Support. This is something that should be decided by the state.
8) Some elected officials are trying to change Missouri law and force public schools to teach abstinence only sex education. PROMO believes that the current law, requiring public schools to teach comprehensive sexuality education courses, should not be undermined. Do you support or oppose teaching comprehensive sexuality education in public schools?
Answer: Oppose. Abstinence is the only way to not get an STD or get pregnant.
9) PROMO believes that sexual orientation and gender identity should be included on the list of protected classes in hate crime laws. Do you support the inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes in Missouri’s hate crimes law?
Answer: Oppose. I’m sorry, but since you were not born homosexual, it should not be included.
END OF SURVEY
The following are the questions and answers to survey by NARAL (National Abortionists Rights Activists League).
The United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade ruled that the right to privacy includes
a pregnant woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. Accordingly, a state: (1) may not unduly restrict a woman’s access to abortion during the first three months of pregnancy (2) may regulate abortion after the first three months of pregnancy to protect a woman’s health; and (3) may ban abortion after fetal viability (usually after 26-28 weeks of pregnancy) so long as exceptions are permitted to protect a woman’s life or health.
1) Do you support a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion?
Answer: No.
2) If Roe v. Wade is overturned, would you vote for legislation guaranteeing a woman’s right to choose to have a legal abortion in Missouri?
Answer: No.
Under current Missouri law, no publicly-funded facility may be used to perform an abortion unless it is to preserve a woman’s life. No state employee may participate in providing an abortion not necessary to save a woman’s life, and the University of Missouri Medical School cannot teach students abortion procedures. A woman eligible for state medical assistance may not obtain public funds for an abortion unless the abortion is necessary to preserve her life. Finally under the so-called Gag rule, state-employed counselors and physicians cannot provide a pregnant woman with information about abortion or abortion providers unless necessary to preserve her life.
3) Would you vote to repeal the current ban on the use of state facilities and state employees for performing or teaching abortions?
Answer: No.
4) Would you vote to repeal the current ban on funding and allow public funding for abortions:
Answer: No.
5) Would you vote to repeal the Gag Rule that bans state employees from providing a woman with information about abortion, including referrals to abortion providers?
Answer: No.
Under current Missouri law, a woman must make at least two separate visits to a physician and wait at least 24 hours before obtaining an abortion. Physicians must also provide the woman with state-mandated information and counseling. This law is currently being challenged in court and is not yet in effect. However, if enforced, this law would likely have a disparate impact on low-income and rural women, who can ill-afford the additional requirements. In addition, this law is so extreme it has no exception for victims of rape or incest.
6) Would you vote to repeal that part of the law requiring a mandatory delay of 24 hours?
Answer: No.
7) Would you vote to repeal that part of the law requiring physicians to provide state man-dated information and counseling?
Answer: No.
The Missouri General Assembly has eliminated all state funding for family planning, including funding for cancer screenings, gynecological exams, HIV testing, pre-natal care, diabetes screening, and breast exams, as well as funding for birth control services and education. Many low-income women now have no access to these services.
8) Would you vote to include funding for family planning in the state appropriations bill?
Answer: No.
9) Would you vote to give this family planning funding to facilities that refer women to abortion providers, or perform abortions, so long as none of the funding is used for those purposes?
Answer: No.
Emergency contraception reduces the need for abortion by preventing pregnancy if administered within 72 hours of intercourse. Emergency contraception does not cause an abortion; instead, like other forms of contraception, it prevents pregnancy. However, the Missouri General Assembly is currently considering bills that would make it mire difficult for women to access all forms of contraception. The bills would give individual pharmacists the right to prescriptions for emergency contraception. If passed, the bills would apply even in rural areas where there may be no other pharmacy in which to obtain the needed medication. In addition, hospital emergency rooms are currently not required to offer emergency contraception to a woman who has been sexually assaulted.
10) Would you vote for a bill requiring pharmacies to fill physicians’ prescriptions, including prescriptions for oral contraceptive pills and emergency contraception?
Answer: No.
11) Would you vote for a bill requiring pharmacies that do not stock contraceptives (as is the case with nine out of 10 rural pharmacies) to either order contraceptives or refer patients to another local pharmacy?
Answer: No.
12) Would you vote for a bill requiring hospitals to offer emergency contraception to rape survivors in the emergency room?
Answer: No.
Medically accurate and comprehensive sex education also reduces the need for abortion. Current Missouri law requires all public schools to provide age-appropriate information about the health benefits and side effects of all forms of contraception. However, the Missouri General Assembly is considering bills that would eliminate this requirement, thereby, permitting schools to provide information about abstinence only. Teenagers would thereby be deprived of information about all or the ways to prevent unintended pregnancies, as well as all of the ways to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. In addition, the General Assembly is also considering a bill that would deny minors access to contraception without the consent of a parent. This bill would do nothing to prevent young people from becoming sexually active, but it would prevent them from protecting themselves from unintended pregnancy.
13) Do you support current state law requiring public schools to provide age-appropriate and medically accurate information about contraception?
Answer: No.
14) Would you vote against any bill that would permit public schools to exclude from their sex-education curriculum any mention of contraception, family planning, or disease prevention?
Answer: No.
15) Would you vote against a bill requiring minors to obtain the consent of a parent before receiving contraception?
Answer: No.
Current Missouri law mandates that a minor under 18 years of age must obtain the consent of one of her parents before obtaining an abortion. If a minor cannot obtain parental consent, she must obtain a “judicial bypass procedures are not a realistic alternative for some young women who are forced to go out of state to obtain confidential health care. However, Missouri law also imposes civil liability on anyone who—for good reason—choose not to involve a parent in their decision to have an abortion. The government cannot mandate healthy family communication where it does not already exist.
16) Would you vote to repeal the current law that prevents a minor from choosing abortion unless she obtains parental consent or a judicial bypass?
Answer: No.
17) Would you vote to repeal the current law that imposes civil liability on anyone trying to help a minor obtain an abortion outside of Missouri?
Answer: No.
18) Do you want the endorsement of NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri?
Answer: No.
END OF SURVEY
The Following is a survey by the Missouri State Teachers Association Legislative Impact Committee.
1) Vouchers: Support
Tuition tax credits: Support
Tuition tax deductions: Support
We need to bring our education system back to the way it was for our founding fathers when in order to become a state your territory had to agree to teach religion, morality, and knowledge in that order.
2) HB1783, providing tax credits for scholarships for certain students, was filed during the 2006 session. Would you support or oppose the legislation as filed?
Answer: Support. I support this idea.
3) Currently, bond issues require a four-sevenths majority for approval if voted in April (each year) or August and November (even-numbered years). A two-thirds majority is required if voted on other election dates. Would you support of oppose legislation to allow Missouri citizens to decide if school bond issues should be approved by a simple majority vote?
Answer: Support. Unless there is a good reason that this type of measure is not a simple majority vote that I am currently unaware of, I would support it.
4) For a number of years, the General Assembly has considered bills that would mandate some form of collective bargaining for state employees and political subdivisions, including public schools. If elected, what will be your position on collective bargaining for teachers? For state employees?
Answer: This idea used to be needed when employees were treated badly. Times have changed and so has the treatment of employees. I am against collective bargaining for teachers and for state employees.
5) Property taxes are a major source of revenue for Missouri schools. There are many proposals that would provide property tax relief for Missouri senior citizens. Would you support a limitation on those proposals to include an income cap, or do you favor another method? If so, what?
Answer: Yes and there has to be an income cap or people will take advantage of the system.
6) Career Ladder is a program that encourages teachers to remain in the classroom by paying them for after-school work with students. The program currently pays teachers in three stages, with a portion of each payment coming from the state and a portion from the local school district: Stage I teachers receive $1,500 each year, Stage II receives $3,000, and Stage III receives $5,000. These levels have not changed since the program was established in 1985. Would you support or oppose legislation to increase these levels?
Answer: Support. Teachers in general should receive more pay.
7) If elected, what would be your committee assignment preference?
Answer: Legislative Research, Oversight Committee
8) If elected what if any would be among the first bills you would sponsor or cosponsor?
Education bill: For each school district to teach both evolution theory and intelligent design theory equally.
Non- education bill: A bill that would mandate that no bill shall die just because it didn’t come up for a vote before the main body because of limitations of time in the legislature. This bill would demand that each bill introduced to the Missouri General Assembly exhaust the process due a bill until it has either died by a vote or passed the legislature. This would enable many good bills to be finally truly agreed to and passed.
9) What do you believe is the number one issue facing Missourians?
Answer: Having the best education system possible. This is because; the education process is the foundation of our public society that everyone goes through.
10) What do you believe is the number one issue facing education?
Answer: What to teach in the science classroom.
11) There is a movement to have all school districts spend 65 percent of their budgets on “classroom.” Do you support having every school district meet the same spending requirements?
Answer: Support.
12) Would you support or oppose the expansion of the charter school legislation to allow for charter schools statewide?
Answer: Support.
13) Would you support the expansion of charter schools if it applied only to school districts that are provisionally accredited or unaccredited?
Answer: Support.
14) Do you believe teachers should be paid according to a salary schedule based on education and years of experience, or should salaries be modified based on student performance? Why?
Answer: They should be modified based on student performance, there by allowing better teachers to ahead financially while giving other teachers a reason to improve.
END OF SURVEY
The Following is a Candidate survey sponsored by the MNEA (Missouri National Education Association).
Preserving and Strengthening Public Education
1) For Fiscal Year 2006, the foundation formula for distributing state money to public schools will be at least $700 million under funded and a recent adequacy study showed the fully funded formula was over $900 million short of adequate funding to meet state and federal requirements. A new funding formula was enacted in 2005 that will take eight years to implement and that does not increase overall adequacy of school funding. Would you support efforts to improve the new foundation formula bill so as to increase the overall adequacy of funding for all schools?
Answer: Yes
2) The newly enacted school aid formula substantially reduces the overall state funding targeted to districts educating students living in poverty. Would you support efforts to improve the new foundation formula by providing greater support for districts with high concentrations of poverty, even if this required an increase in state revenues?
Answer: Yes
3) Missouri NEA supports efforts to promote success for all students in school and in life. Research has indicated for over 40 years that social and economic factors play a large role in student success. Would you support expanded health care coverage for poor children to ensure that all students have access to adequate health care services needed for learning?
Answer: Yes
Would you support increased school funding for schools with poor students if the funds were targeted for reducing class size or providing after school tutoring, before, and after school programs, adult basic education for poor parents or providing public school choice options via magnet schools, intradistrict, and interdistrict school choice?
Answer: Yes
Would you support increase funding for higher education access for poor students, such as programs like the Taylor Plan, named after a Mississippi legislator, that gives a college scholarship guarantee to any poor students who commits, during grade school, to complete high school?
Answer: Yes
4) Would you vote to provide public tax dollars to private and/or religious elementary and/or secondary schools through so-called “scholarship charities” that provide state tax credits for donations by parents or other entities used to offset the cost of their child (children) attending private of religious elementary and/or secondary schools?
Answer: Yes
5) Missouri NEA is committed to educational reform within the local public school system. Well-designed and operated charter schools within the public schools can provide creative ways of teaching and learning. Current law allows charter schools only in Kansas City and St. Louis. Would you vote to expand charter schools beyond Kansas City and St. Louis?
Answer: Yes
Would you vote to require charter schools to within the public school system and accountable to the local school board?
Answer: Yes
A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom
1) The Missouri NEA believes Missouri’s children deserve the best teachers. Teachers who strive to attain National Board Certification should be supported by the state and their local school districts. Would you vote to give financial assistance and release time to teachers seeking national cerification?
Answer: Yes
2) Recent legislative efforts have sought to weaken Missouri’s already flexible teacher certification law by forcing the State Board to adopt test-based certification from the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE) as a valid Missouri certification?
Answer: No
Respect for Caring Education Professionals
1) Currently, public school employees do not have the right to organize and bargain. Would you vote for a bill to give public school employees the right to organize and bargain collectively with a strong no strike clause?
Answer: No
2) Current law provides that teachers shall be paid according to a uniformly-applied salary schedule based on experience and educational and professional attainment. Would you vote to allow districts to make arbitrary changes to teacher pay, such as so-called “merit pay,” special hiring or retention incentives for selected teachers or differential pay for selected subject matter or grade level categories?
3) Other public employees can appeal any dismissal to an administrative hearing officer; tenured teachers can appeal, but only to the school board that dismissed them. School board members are forced to conduct these lengthy hearings if issues are resolved and must often make a no-win choice between acting impartially to protect a deserving teacher or preserving the working relationship with the superintendent and adopting the recommendation to dismiss a teacher. Would you vote to give teachers and school board s each the right to refer a teacher dismissal case to an independent hearing officer for a preliminary hearing?
Answer: Yes
4) Efforts have been undertaken in several states to change the “defined benefit” structure of public school retirement systems, such as the Missouri PSRS, and replace that system with a “defined contribution” system similar to a 401(k) investment fund where the risk is borne (sic) by entirely by the member. Would you support efforts to change PSRS benefits from defined benefit to defined contribution?
Answer: Yes
END OF SURVEY
The following is a survey sponsored by the Missouri (NFIB) National Federation of Independent Business.
Taxes
1) A state sales tax on services?
Answer: Favor
2) Restoring the state deduction for federal corporate income taxes?
Answer: Oppose
3) Repealing the franchise tax?
Answer: Oppose
4) The state of Missouri enacting their own inheritance or, death tax, separate from that imposed by the federal government?
Answer: Oppose
5) Real of the 2 percent collection allowance for employers who file business taxes in a timely manner?
Answer: Favor
Health Care
6) A tax credit for all small businesses who are first-time purchasers of health insurance?
Answer: Favor
7) Establishing a review committee to examine the costs associated with health-care mandate legislation?
Answer: Favor
8) Requiring all employers to provide health insurance?
Answer: Oppose
9) Legislation creating a universal, state-administered health-insurance program, which would cover all citizens in Missouri?
Answer: Oppose
10) Allowing small businesses to band together across state lines to purchase health insurance to achieve the economies of scale of a large company?
Answer: Favor
Regulatory Reform
11) Streamlining the environmental permit process for small businesses?
Answer: Favor
Labor
12) Raising the minimum wage?
Answer: Oppose
13) Repealing the state prevailing wage laws?
Answer: Favor
Eminent Domain
14) Restricting the government’s power of eminent domain to prevent private property from being seized for private commercial enterprise for the purpose of economic development?
Answer: Favor
Miscellaneous
1) What are your top two priorities for your first term in the legislature?
Answer: 1) To pass a law in which all school districts are required to teach the evolution theory and the intelligent design theory equally so that the students can once again learn the truth in the classroom.
2) To form a Statesman Club that in time could grow to such an extent that in order to pass a bill in the legislature a bill would need this group’s endorsement. The Statesman Club would try to help bring the dignity back to the government arena that our U.S. government originally had with our founding fathers when in order to be a politician it was also necessary to be a Statesman.
2) List at least two reasons why small-business owners should support your candidacy.
Answer: 1) I will attempt to restore our education system to our founding father’s era. At that time the students became much wiser than they do today. This would in turn produce far better employees across the board than we have today.
2) We are first, the government as individuals and secondly, employees or entrepreneurs in our areas of interest. I would first represent the people and secondly the businesses we all make up together.
END OF SURVEY
The following is a survey sponsored by FRONT LINE Publications
You can go to www.frontline-online.com for more information.
I. Principles
1) Free people are not equal, and equal people are not free.
Answer: Agree
2) The Declaration of Independence’s preamble says, “all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life….” Does “all Men” mean all women, men, children, born and unborn?
Answer: Yes
3) What belongs to you, you tend to take care of; what belongs to no one or everyone, tends to fall into disrepair.
Answer: Agree
4) Sound policy requires that we consider the long-term effects and all people, not simply short-term effects and a few people.
Answer: Agree
5) If you encourage or subsidize something, you get more of it; if you discourage or tax something, you get less of it.
Answer: Agree
6) Our rights as Americans come from our Creator, not our government.
Answer: Agree
7) Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
Answer: Agree
8) Government has nothing to give anybody except what it first takes from somebody.
Answer: Agree
9) A government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you’ve got.
Answer: Agree
10) “He who gives us essential liberty for a little temporary security deserves neither liberty or security.” (Benjamin Franklin)
Answer: Agree
II. Issues of Control
For questions 11 through 16 there will be 4 different choices for an answer. They are Individual/Family, local government, state government, and the federal government. The main question for this section is: Where should the ultimate power rest?
11) …should be responsible for a child’s education
Answer: Individual/family
12) …should be responsible for providing health care
Answer: Individual/family
13) …should be responsible for care of the elderly
Answer: Individual/family
14) …should have control over gun ownership
Answer: Individual/family
15) …should determine how one’s property is used.
Answer: Individual/family
16…should protect the nation from foreign attack
Answer: Federal government
III. Legislative Issues
17) “Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer” (cloning embryos) for research [go to www.frontline-online.com for more information]
Answer: Favor
18) Requiring professors at state universities to teach traditional academics vs. political agendas [go to “professors” at www.FrontPageMagazine.com for more information]
Answer: Favor
19) Tightly defining ”blight” in eminent domain issues
Answer: Favor
20) Abortion on demand
Answer: Oppose
21) Teaching abstinence-only sex education in schools
Answer: Favor
END OF SURVEY
The Following survey is sponsored by the Missouri Right to Life PAC.
Abortion is legal throughout pregnancy due to U.S. Supreme Court rulings. It is possible in coming years to see a reversal of these permissive court decisions.
If Roe versus Wade is reversed, abortion laws most likely will be determined by state legislatures, state courts, or by voter initiatives or referendum.
1) I would VOTE FOR legislation to PROHIBIT abortion:
Answer: A) under all circumstances.
2) Would you VOTE FOR legislation requiring abortion providers inform patients of scientific evidence that unborn children experience pain during abortion?
Answer: Yes
3) Would you VOTE FOR legislation prohibiting any entity that promotes abortion from sponsoring, conducting, or otherwise participating in a sex-education program in Missouri public elementary or secondary schools?
Answer: Yes
Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion business, has criticized the lack of state funding for “family planning” appropriations. In the past, hundreds of thousands of tax dollars have been distributed to Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri, which indirectly subsidized the abortion industry in Missouri. The 1980’s statute that tried to protect taxpayers from supporting agencies that refer or promote abortions is still enjoined by federal courts, but a 1991 U.S. Supreme Court decision would allow a better-worded statute to be effective.
4) Would you VOTE FOR legislation that PROHIBITS state funding of agencies or organizations that perform, promote, or refer women for abortions that are not a medical emergency?
Answer: Yes
5) Would you VOTE AGAINST state ratification of the federal Equal Rights Amendment, the wording of which, when used in state constitutions, has been interpreted by some state courts to require governmental funding of abortion?
Answer: Yes
Abortion advocates are pressuring states and health care professionals to distribute abortion-causing drugs. This is evident in the debate over the so-called “morning after pill”, which has the chemical ability to cause the death of a new human embryo. These drugs are often referred to as “emergency contraception”, although they can end life AFTER conception has occurred.
Despite objections from medical professionals, employers, and trade groups, some officials are forcing pharmacists and others to violate their own ethical views on abortion by requiring them to prescribe abortion-causing drugs.
6) Would you VOTE FOR legislation protecting health-care professionals who refuse to prescribe or dispense drugs that cause abortion, suicide, or other destruction of life from discrimination or legal liability (a.k.a. “Conscience Clause”)?
Answer: Yes
Human cloning is currently legal in Missouri, although no scientist has yet successfully claimed to have performed human cloning. The most common cloning technique in animals is “Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer” or SCNT. Some researchers plan to use SCNT to clone human beings in order to harvest Embryonic Stem Cells (ESC’s).
Harvesting embryonic stem cells destroys a living human being.
7) I would VOTE FOR legislation to PROHIBIT:
Answer: A) all human cloning, both reproductive and therapeutic, including the method known as Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, or SCNT.
Please comment on your answer to question 7: Adult stem cells have helped people with over 70 different disease, while embryonic stem cells has yet to be tried on a human being, ever.
8) I would VOTE FOR legislation to PROHIBIT abortion and human cloning (SCNT) despite political party platforms or loyalty to leadership/caucus.
Answer: Yes
9) Do you support or oppose the ballot initiative to amend the Missouri Constitution, the so-called Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, being proposed by the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures (see attachment)? Please circle your response below:
Answer: I oppose the amendment and will speak against it publicly
There is great debate over using government funds for research on human embryos, whether obtained from cloning or in-vitro fertilization. In 2001, President Bush halted federal funding of research that requires destruction of human embryos.
Funding for research that advances adult stem therapies is not limited by the Bush policy.
10) Would you VOTE FOR legislation that PROHIBITS state funding of agencies, organizations, universities, or research labs that promote, encourage, or accommodate human cloning (SCNT) or destructive research on living human embryos or fetuses?
Answer: Yes
The Terri Schindler-Schiavo case highlighted the confusing maze of laws concerning euthanasia and the ethics of withholding food and water from disabled patients. Health care professionals, ethics boards and facilities have loose guidelines to follow in many cases where laws are not specific.
If an incapacitated person has no recorded documentation of his or her wishes, he or she may be subject to involuntary starvation and dehydration.
11) Would you VOTE AGAINST legislation allowing a health care provider to remove or withhold ordinary means of sustaining life (food, water, sanitary care) without a patient’s specific prior written directive (consent)?
Answer: Yes
12) Would you VOTE AGAINST legislation allowing a health care provider to remove or withhold ordinary means of sustaining life (food, water, sanitary care) without a patient’s specific prior written directive (consent)?
Answer: Yes
END OF SURVEY
The Following is a survey sponsored by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Action Fund ADVOCATES, the political arm of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region
Planned Parenthood believes in access to family planning and reproductive healthcare and choice. We believe that every women – regardless of income, age, or marital status – has the fundamental right to decide when and whether to have a child. It is Government’s role to support personal childbearing decisions with medically accurate reproductive health information including sex education and access to contraceptives and safe, legal abortion.
1) Access To All FDA- Approved Contraceptives:
Anti-Choice organizations characterize FDA-approved, hormonal contraceptive methods (including birth control pills, emergency contraception and IUDs) as abortion agents and have attempted to restrict access to them. Do you support women’s access to all FDA-approved birth control options?
Answer: No. Everyone deserves a chance at life.
2) Funding For Family Planning:
For a decade, Missouri funded a program that served low-income, uninsured Missourians. Services offered through this program included: pelvic and breast exams; screening for anemia, diabetes, and high blood pressure; testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections; safer sex counseling; basic infertility screening; contraceptive services; family planning counseling; and referrals to specialized health care. Do you: Support state funding for family planning services?
Answer: No
Support Planned Parenthood’s participation in the program?
Answer: No
3) Confidential Health Services:
Planned Parenthood believes that minors, as well as adults, should have confidential access to reproductive health services, including family planning and disease prevention. Most teens have already been sexually active for about one year before seeking contraceptive services, and most teens involve their parents in their decision to seek birth control. A small minority of teens cannot, for good reason, involve a parent. Would you oppose government-mandated parental involvement in a minor’s access to birth control?
Answer: No
4) Emergency Contraception:
In 1998, the FDA approved the first packaging of emergency contraception, also known as “the morning after pill.” Emergency contraception is a high dose combination of oral contraceptives that if taken within days of unprotected sex, can safely prevent a pregnancy from occurring. Do you support efforts to increase access to emergency contraception?
Answer: No
5) Responsible Sex Education:
Despite the fact that 80% of Missourians support responsible, age appropriate, medically accurate sex education in schools, Missouri receives significant funds from Congress for abstinence-only sex education, which excludes any mention of contraception, family planning, or disease prevention. Do you support the teaching of responsible, age-appropriate, medically accurate sex education, including information about both abstinence and contraception, in public schools?
Answer: No
6) Refusal Clauses:
Refusal clauses sometimes called “conscience” clauses) permit a broad range of individuals and institution – including hospitals, hospital employees, health care providers, pharmacists, employers, and insurers – to refuse to provide, pay, counsel, or even refer for medical treatment based on their moral or religious views. Planned Parenthood believes that doctors and health care providers have a duty to ensure that patients receive accurate information and appropriate care and that medical science, not religious beliefs, should determine medical decisions. Do you support the position that medical science, not religious beliefs, should determine medical decisions?
Answer: No
7) Right To Choose:
Planned Parenthood believes that women have the right to obtain a medically safe, legal abortion under the standards set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Roe v. Wade decision. Do you support this position?
Answer: No
8) Gag Rule:
Anti-choice groups want to prevent any agency in the state from receiving state funds if they provide pregnant women with all options information regarding their pregnancy, even if the patient asks for such information. Do you oppose a gag rule on pregnancy options information?
Answer: No
9) State Mandated Misinformation:
Anti-choice organizations believe the state should mandate that physicians tell women seeking abortions about unsubstantiated links between abortion and health issues such as breast cancer, depression, and future premature births. Do you oppose state-mandated medical misinformation?
Answer: No
10) Government Intrusion In Medical Decisions:
Planned Parenthood believes that the decision to have an abortion is best left to the woman in consultation with her loved ones, her physician and her God. It is the policy of Planned Parenthood to ensure that a woman facing an unintended pregnancy has the right to seek and obtain a medically safe abortion under sanitary conditions and at reasonable cost. Examples of government intruding in women’s ability to make these medical decisions include mandatory counseling, misinformation, gag rules, mandatory delays and clinic regulations not reasonably related to protecting women’s health. Would you oppose further government intrusion in personal reproductive health and medical decisions?
Answer: No
11) Bans On Abortion:
Anti-choice organizations have tried to erode the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision (which ensures a woman’s constitutionally-protected right to choose) by advancing vaguely-worded and deceptive bans on abortion procedures, without exceptions for the woman’s health. Would you oppose a ban on abortion procedures that does not include an exception for the woman’s life and health?
Answer: No
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The following survey was sponsored by Missouri Votes Conservation.
1) What experience do you have working on conservation issues that will be relevant to your legislative voting record?
Answer: Nothing
2) Are you willing to support legislation making it more difficult to place new development in floodplains?
Answer: No
3) Would you support state legislation that would regulate the impacts of industrial forestry operations such as large scale clear-cutting on Missouri’s Ozark streams?
Answer: Yes
4) Would you support legislation that would limit Missouri’s environmental protections to the federal standard? (i.e. the state could not impose any protection more strict than the relevant federal standard)
Answer: Yes
5) There have been recent efforts to loosen regulations on gravel mining in Ozark streams. In general, do you favor looser regulations on gravel mining?
Answer: Yes
6) Do you support “audit privilege” legislation that would decrease the environmental reporting requirements of businesses operating in the State of Missouri and allow companies to hide records of environmental problems?
Answer: No
7) Do you feel that it is currently too difficult or too easy for businesses to appeal regulatory decisions by Missouri’s Department of Natural Resources (MO DNR.) Please explain.
Answer: Too difficult. Too much “red tape”.
8) Do you support funding mass transit with state transportation revenues?
Answer: No, this is pretty much a city issue.
9) Do you believe that the state government should be able to regulate the impacts of CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations)?
Answer: Yes
10) Do you believe that the local or county governments should be able to regulate the impacts of CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) on human health?
Answer: Yes
11) Columbia recently passed a referendum requiring that, by 2020, 18% of their electricity shall come from alternative energy sources such as wind or solar generators. (In Columbia, the requirement phases in over the next 15 years.) Would you support a bill to extend this kind of rule to other electric utilities in the state?
Answer: Yes
12) Do support decentralizing of the Automobile Inspection Maintenance System (auto emissions testing)?
Answer: No
13) Would you support state legislation that would establish limits on emissions of mercury and other airborne pollutants currently unregulated by the federal government?
Answer: Yes
14) Would you support legislation to exclude wetlands and floodplains from TIF districts and other similar subsidies?
Answer: Yes
15) Is funding for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources: (Please explain your answer.), too high, about right, or too low?
Answer: It’s about right.
16) If elected, what would be your top environmental priority? Please be specific.
Answer: To clean up Missouri’s rivers and streams.
17) Do you want MVC’s endorsement? At a minimum, we publicize our endorsement, particularly to pro-conservation voters in your district. As well, MVC endorsement can carry with it some monetary contributions or independent expenditures on your campaign.
Answer: Yes
Thank you for participating in the MVC endorsement process. We look forward to working with you to ensure the protection and preservation of Missouri’s environment.
END OF SURVEY
The following survey was sponsored by the Missouri Eagle Forum.
1. Education
A. Will you oppose efforts by public school administrators or teachers to force parents to administer psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin to their children as a requirement for school attendance?
Answer: Yes
B. Will you support teaching all theories of origins, including intelligent design (critical analysis) as well as evolution in science education courses in Missouri schools?
Answer: Yes
C. Will you support a bill requiring teachers to receive a course in intensive systematic phonics instruction?
Answer: Yes
D. Do you favor adopting abstinence-only curriculum n Missouri schools?
Answer: Yes
E. Do you favor giving parents more control over their children’s education through either school vouchers or scholarship tax credits?
Answer: Yes
2. Stem Cell Research
A. Do you favor the use of adult stem cells as opposed to embryonic stem cells for research?
Answer: Yes
B. Effectively, both reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning result in cloned embryos. Do you oppose cloning human cells specifically for the purposes of harvesting embryonic stem cells?
Answer: Yes
3. Immigration
A. Will you work to ensure that current federal immigration policies are enforced in the state of Missouri?
Answer: Yes
B. Will you oppose policies that allow illegal immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition at Missouri Universities?
Answer: Yes
C. Do you oppose allowing illegal immigrants to obtain state drivers’ licenses?
Answer: Yes
4. The Role of Government
A. Do you favor expanding the definition of minority groups to include sexual orientation?
Answer: No
B. Will you oppose spending state funds to build or coordinate databases of medical, financial, or insurance records, including registries of immunizations?
Answer: No
C. Will you work to overturn or repeal Executive Orders that by-pass representative government?
Answer: Maybe
C. Recognizing that it is the role of the family – not the state – to raise children, will you work to diminish the state’s involvement in childcare?
Answer: Yes
E. Will you oppose the use of eminent domain and public funds to support private projects?
Answer: Yes
F. Would an Equal Rights Amendment benefit or harm women?
Answer: Harm
G. Will you support the display of the 10 Commandments and other historical documents in public buildings?
Answer: Yes
H. Will you oppose the expansion of gambling in Missouri?
Answer: Yes
I. Missouri campaign finance laws are excessively restrictive. Will you work to allow citizens – as their right to free speech – to give monetary support to the candidate of their choice?
Answer: Yes
J. How do you propose to stop the growth of state government?
Reduce the pages of statutes and reduce the State Budget.
END OF SURVEY
This survey is sponsored by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce.
* 2. Do you support allowing corporate and individual tax paid to the federal government to be fully deductible from state income taxes?
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* 3. Do you support or oppose targeted tax incentives to enhance certain market sectors or activity?
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* 4. In a budget shortfall, would you support or oppose eliminating job training money from the budget?
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* 5. Do you support or oppose the notion that the elimination of double taxation should be paramount in any tax reform efforts?
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* 6. Do you support or oppose allowing a business to audit its own facility, operations, and financial structure and self report to the appropriate regulatory agency without penalty?
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* 7. Do you support or oppose creating additional incentives for Missouri companies to create new jobs in Missouri?
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* 8. Do you support or oppose limiting the number of gaming licenses in Missouri
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* 9. Do you support or oppose the removal of loss limits at gaming facilities in Missouri?
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* 10. Do you support or oppose having the burden of proof on taxpayers if they have the means to afford representation?
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* 11. Do you support or oppose requiring Missouri corporations to pay in addition to an income tax a tax on the value of assets in Missouri?
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* 12. Do you support or oppose increased competition by granting a statewide franchise to compete in local markets in the telecommunications industry?
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* 13. Do you support or oppose the use of the state’s “rainy day fund” for covering budget shortfalls?
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3. Civil Justice
* 14. Missouri is currently and employment at-will state, where employers generally have the right to terminate an employee at any time as long as it doesn’t violate a contract or the employee’s civil rights. Legislation is annually introduced to allow an employee to sue an employer over discharge issues. Do you support or oppose legislation that would abolish Missouri’s employment at-will law?
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* 15. Do you support reforming Missouri’s legal system as it relates to expert witness testimony in civil courts by requiring that such testimony is both relevant and reliable before it may be presented to a judge or jury?
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* 16. Do you believe that a landowner should be civilly liable for criminal acts that take place on his or her property without the landowner’s knowledge?
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* 17. Do you support or oppose legislation that would prohibit a plaintiff in a civil suit from being victorious if said plaintiff was responsible for causing any of the injury?
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* 18. Would you support barring individuals that have been exposed to asbestos or silica from bringing a claim in civil court before they have an injury?
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* 19. Do you support or oppose legislation that would protect a defendant in a civil claim from being liable for more of a plaintiff’s injury than the percentage of the injury the defendant caused?
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* 20. Do you support creating tax deductions or total abatement for small businesses to offer health insurance to its employees?
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* 21. Do your support or oppose legislation that would require medical providers to provide the cost of services prior to the commencement of any medical procedure?
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* 22. Do you support limited health benefit plans known as “mandate light” that would allow small businesses to provide health insurance without the burdens and expense of current health care mandates so that more people can be insured?
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* 23. Do you support or oppose providing incentives for consumer based health care models that encourage more consumer responsibility in the health care market?
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* 24. Do you support or opposed amending teacher certification so that business leaders can teach courses in issue areas specific to their expertise, education, or training?
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* 25. Do you support or oppose “high stakes” testing of students in the areas of math, science, and literacy requiring a student to pass before advancement or graduation?
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* 26. Do you support or oppose the implementation of a uniform school start date for all Missouri schools, with an opt-out provision for school districts that have a demonstrable need to be excluded?
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* 27. Do you support requiring the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to license environmental professionals to conduct permit reviews so that the permitting process can be streamlined?
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* 28. Do you support or oppose use of eminent domain for redevelopment of a heavily blighted area?
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* 29. Do you support or oppose banning eminent domain for all uses, including utilities, highways, and schools?
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8. Tourism
* 30. Do you support or oppose full funding for the Missouri Division of Tourism to promote Missouri's tourism industry?
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9. Transportation
* 31. Do you support or oppose tolling existing roadways in Missouri?
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* 32. Do you support or oppose the elimination of sales tax on construction materials purchased by contractors, manufacturers, and/or suppliers for use on MoDOT highway projects?
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10. Workers' Compensation
* 33. Do you support or oppose legislation that would move the defense of the workers’ compensation second injury fund from the Missouri Attorney General’s office to the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations?
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11. Workforce
* 34. Do you support or oppose public employee collective bargaining?
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The following survey has been sponsored by the Missouri Catholic Conference.
1) No Tax Dollars for Abortion – Taxpayers funds should not be used to provide or promote abortion nor should they be used to subsidize organizations that provide abortions.
Answer: Support
2) No Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning – The Missouri constitution and state laws should not be amended to allow for embryonic stem cell research and human cloning, including, including somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).
Answer: Support
3) Alternatives to Abortion – State funds should be used to promote alternatives to abortion services provided by faith and community-based organizations.
Answer: Support
4) Access to Health Care – State law should ensure access to basic health care regardless of ability to pay.
Answer: Oppose
5) Provide Tax Relief for School Parents – Public and private school parents should be eligible for tax deductions or credits for expenses incurred in educating their children.
Answer: Support
6) Federal Immigration Enforcement – Federal immigration laws and policies should be enforced by trained federal officials rather than local law enforcement officers.
Answer: Support
7) Death Penalty Moratorium – There are sufficient questions about Missouri’s death penalty that a moratorium should be enacted to review its fairness and effectiveness in protecting society.
Answer: Oppose
8) Alternatives to Incarceration – Missouri should provide alternative sentencing options for offenders who do not pose a threat to public safety, rather than expanding prison capacity.
Answer: Support
9) Health Care Rights of Conscience – State law should allow health care providers to refuse to provide health care that conflicts with their religious or moral beliefs.
Answer: Support
10) Family Farm Assistance – State agricultural programs should provide incentives and protections to smaller scale agriculture operations.
Answer: Oppose
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The following survey is sponsored by Missourians for Tax Justice.
I. Missouri’s state tax system does not produce sufficient revenue to meet citizens’ needs. Inadequate state revenues from 2001 to 2006 resulted in $1.8 billion cuts to vital state services. These include Medicaid, disease prevention, mental health, higher education and other important programs. Our K-12 public schools are underfunded by $900 million. Many school districts have had to ask for regressive property tax increases as a result.
Our state tax system is also inequitable and unfair. Taxpayers with the lowest income have a tax burden that is almost double that of the wealthiest taxpayers.
Missouri’s individual income tax structure is extremely outdated. The brackets are graduated only up to $9,000. Above that amount, all taxable income is taxed at the same 6 percent rate. The $9,000 figure was set in 1931. Brackets and rates were set in 1972. An income of $9,000 in 1931 is equivalent to an income of nearly $1.4 million in 2004.
A bill to revise our state individual income tax structure (HB1960) was introduced in the 2006 legislative session. This bill is a way to make our tax system more equitable, adequate, and sustainable. The bill would have reduced the tax burden for 60% of Missourians and produced one billion dollars in new revenue for essential state services.
Will you support a revision of our Individual Income Tax to make it more equitable and more productive?
Answer: Yes
II. Whether our state corporate taxes are fair is a controversial question. Do corporations pay their “fair share” of the revenue the state must have to provide needed public services? How can we know?
The federal Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) requires corporations to disclose their federal income tax liabilities and other financial information. A bill was introduced in the 2006 Missouri legislative session (HB 1727) to require corporations to file an annual state tax disclosure statement. The disclosure statement is required if the corporation is publicly traded, is a financial corporation, employs 50 or more full-time employees, or has sales in excess of $10 million annually.
The legislation’s purpose: to provide information that allows citizens, lawmakers, and the news media to assess whether corporate tax rates are too high or too low, whether the tax burden is distributed equitably among corporations in the same industry, among different industries, and between small and large corporations.
Will you support legislation to require an annual tax disclosure statement by corporations?
Answer: Yes
III. During the 2006 legislative session, a bill to eliminate the corporate franchise tax (HB 1619) was passed by the House and received approval from Senate Ways & Means committee. The state Department of Revenue collected $120 million from the franchise tax last year.
Missouri’s corporate taxes are already the lowest of the 46 states that have corporate taxes.
Do you support the elimination of the state corporate franchise tax?
Answer: No
IV. Tax expenditures include corporate and individual income tax credits, income tax exemptions, sales tax exemptions and other devices that reduce the state’s revenue. They have been defined as “revenue not collected.” It has been estimated that the cost to the state of tax expenditures is equal to the state’s General Revenue budget.
There is no statutory provision or regulation that requires a cost/benefit analysis or a review and oversight of the vast numbers of tax expenditures which have been enacted.
Tax credits that promise social service benefits are enacted instead of raising additional revenue for Missourians’ needs – with no assurance that there is enough discretionary wealth in Missouri to actually produce sufficient support for beneficial programs through tax credits.
Do support legislation to require review, oversight and analysis of state expenditures?
Answer: Yes
A state constitutional amendment for an appropriations spending limit was proposed in the 2004, 2005, and 2006 legislative sessions (HJR 48 in 2006), but has not passed. The appropriations (or spending) growth limit is the greater of zero or the sum of the annual rate of inflation and the annual Missouri population growth. An initiative petition proposed a similar constitutional amendment for a state spending limit, but the Secretary of State has ruled that the petition does not meet the statutory requirements so it is not expected to appear on the November 2006 ballot.
Our state constitution has safeguards for spending state tax dollars. It requires that any money spent by the state must be appropriated by the General Assembly. These elected officials are accountable to the people for the way the state’s dollars are spent. Our constitution also presently requires that the state’s budget must be balanced. (Only the money that the state has can be appropriated. No “deficit spending” is allowed). In addition, a state revenue limit was established in 1980 by the controversial “Hancock Amendment.” That amendment has resulted in many court cases and caused many problems for state lawmakers.
This proposed state spending limit would reduce the General Assembly’s power over state budget decisions.
Do you support a constitutional amendment for a state spending limit?
Answer: Yes
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The following was sponsored by the National Rifle Association of America Political Victory Fund.
1) Do you agree the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms?
Answer: Yes
2) Considering current Missouri state firearm laws, do support any additional restrictive state legislation regulating firearms?
Answer: D. No, current state firearm laws should be reformed or repealed to benefit laws-abiding gun owners and sportsmen of Missouri.
3) In 1994, the Omnibus Crime Act imposed a 10-year ban on the manufacture, for sale to private citizens, of various semi-automatic firearms, redefining them as “assault weapons*.” The law also prohibited the manufacture, for sale to private citizens, of ammunition magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. However, gun control advocates misstated the role of these types of guns and magazines in crime. State and local law enforcement agency reports, and two studies conducted for the National Institute of Justice, have all shown that the guns and magazines in question were never used in more than about 1% of violent crimes. There are more such guns and magazines now than ever before, yet they are still rarely used in crime, and violent crime is at a 27-year low. These federal provisions expired in 2004 and Congress refused to reauthorize it. Gun control advocates are currently pushing to enact a similar ban in Missouri. Would you support state legislation restricting the private possession, ownership, purchase, sale, and/or transfer of any semi-automatic firearms?
Answer: No, I would oppose such legislation.
4) Missouri is one of the few remaining states that still requires a “permit to purchase” a handgun after the National Instant Check System (NICS) was implemented by the Federal government. NICS accomplishes the same background check on firearms purchasers as the Missouri state permit, but without the additional cost to taxpayers. Would you support the repeal of the outdated “permit to purchase” system?
Answer: Yes, I would support such legislation.
5) Federal law requires licensed firearms dealers to keep records of the make, model, caliber, and serial number of all firearms sold, as well as information on all purchasers of firearms. Firearms dealers are required to make the information available to law enforcement for legitimate criminal investigations. However, Federal law also prohibits the creation of a centralized registry of firearms or firearms owners. Would you support legistlation restricting firearms sales by individuals at gun shows or anywhere else?
6) Federal law requires all federally licensed firearms dealers to conduct background checks at gun shows for all firearm transactions. Individuals who attend gun shows and are not “engaged in the business” of selling firearms are: (1) not required to be licensed; (2) not required to conduct records checks prior to transferring a firearm; and (3) not permitted to access the records check system used by licensed dealers. Would you support legislation restricting firearms sales by individuals at gun shows or anywhere else?
Answer: b. No, I would not support such legislation.
7) Would you support legislation restricting or regulating the sale or transfer of firearms between private individuals and family members?
Answer: b. No, I would oppose such legislation.
8) As the largest hunting rights organization in the world, NRA considers the protection of critical wildlife habitat to be a top priority. Recently in Missouri, some developers have attempted to use Tax Increment Financing (TIF) to fund commercial, industrial, and residential development projects in 100-year floodplains and other agricultural areas – areas home to critical wildlife habitat and some of the premier hunting lands in the state. By encouraging development in these areas, the use of TIF funding threatens wildlife habitat, restricts hunting opportunities, and even to local attempts to prohibit the discharge of firearms. Would you support legislation prohibiting the use of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) in all 100-year floodplains and other agricultural areas in Missouri?
Answer: a. Yes, I would support such legislation.
9) A doctrine in common law, known as the “Castle Doctrine,” provides that a man’s home is his castle and, hence, he may use any manner of force, including deadly force, to protect it and its inhabitants. Over the years, some courts have eroded this principal by establishing that there is a “duty to retreat” before meeting force with force.
Would you support reforming Missouri’s “Castle Doctrine” laws so that: (1) a person would have the right to meet force with force to protect himself/herself and family members regardless of their location, (2) a “duty to retreat” would no longer exist in any place a person may lawfully be, (3) a person justified in the use of force would be protected from criminal and civil liability?
Answer: a. Yes I would support such legislation.
10) When a gun is fired, markings are left on the bullet and cartridge case, referred to as “tool marks.” These markings may, at times, be used to identify a gun used in a crime, and some argue states should require that all guns sold be tested and ballistically “fingerprinted.” New York and Maryland have each spent millions of dollars creating ballistic “fingerprinting” databases, yet the systems have proven to be crime-solving failures. In fact, the Maryland State Police Forensic Sciences Division recently called for scrapping their system entirely. Would you support legislation that required the collection of ballistic “fingerprint” data for firearms sold in Missouri?
Answer: b. No, I would oppose such legislation.
11) In the United States, the number of privately owned guns has risen by more than 5 million annually, and has reached an all time high. Meanwhile, according to the National Center for Health Center for Health Statistics, firearm accident deaths have been decreasing and recently have fallen to all time lows, for both the whole population and for children as well. This trend is due to in part to an increasing use of NRA firearm safety training programs by tens of thousands of NRA Certified Instructors, schools, civic groups, and law enforcement agencies. Nevertheless, several states have recently considered legislation that would mandate the placement of locking devices on firearms kept in the home, or even more restrictive storage standards. These devices greatly restrict access to firearms for self-defense purposes and potentially increase the risk of accidental discharge of a firearm. Would you support legislation that would mandate the use of locking devices or other locking devices or other locking procedures for firearms stored in the home?
Answer: c. No, I would not support such legislation and would instead support a resolution encouraging Missouri public schools to adopt basic firearms safety programs as part of its curriculum.
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The following survey was sponsored by the Missouri Businesses United, Inc.
1) Do you believe that state-imposed mandated health care benefits are one of the major cost drivers behind rising premiums for employers?
Answer: No
2) Should the legislature initiate review procedures to evaluate these mandates prior to forcing employers to absorb the cost of these potentially costly government mandates?
Answer: Yes
3) Should health insurance premiums paid for by employers be tax deductible?
Answer: No
4) Should individuals taking leave under the current Family and Medical Leave Act be compensated through unemployment compensation benefits form the state’s trust fund?
Answer: No
5) Do you support public employee collective bargaining?
Answer: No
6) Do you support an increased mandatory minimum wage for Missouri?
Answer: No
7) Do support “right to work” legislation? Missouri is currently a “union shop” state. “Right to work” legislation would allow employees to be free to join or not join a union and would eliminate unions forcing employees to pay union dues as a requirement for employment.
Answer: Yes
8) Should state’s corporate franchise tax be reduced or eliminated?
Answer: No
9) Please list the campaign issues you will stress in your bid for election to the Missouri General Assembly. Please also make any comments regarding your position on issues that you believe are important to employers.
Answer: 1) Mandating that all schools teach both evolution and intelligent design.
2)Bringing back the overtly God-centered government that our founding fathers started.
Do you believe government regulation of Missouri business is …
Answer: More restrictive than necessary
END OF CANDIDATE SURVEYS
The following surveys are personal surveys only. They will be available for the public’s viewing any time they want to see them in an effort to allow the public to know as much about me and my values as possible.
The next following survey is a personal survey sponsored by the National Republican Congressional Committee, entitled as the ASK AMERICA SURVEY
WAR ON TERROR
1) Do you support President Bush in his efforts to wipe out terrorism worldwide even if this war goes on for many years?
Answer: Yes
2) Do you think American troops should pursue terrorists and their leaders even if it means going into countries where we are not invited?
Answer: Yes
HOMELAND SECURITY
3) How concerned are you that we potentially face more terrorism within the United States and that it will directly impact your family?
Answer: Somewhat Concerned
4) How confident are you that the Department of Homeland Security will be able to keep America safe from future terrorist attacks and other catastrophic threats?
Answer: Very Confident
5) Some critics say that in tracking down potential foreign terrorist, the FBI and other investigative agencies are infringing on individuals’ Constitutional rights. Do you think this is reasonable if it leads to exposing more terrorists in our country?
Answer: Yes
6) Do you believe that all foreigners within the United States whose visas have expired should be found and deported?
Answer: Yes
7) Do you support a comprehensive effort to develop and make available modern, effective drugs and vaccines to protect against attack by biological and chemical weapons?
Answer: Yes
8) When deciding where to spend Homeland Security dollars, what areas should Congress consider first? Number answers 1 through 4 with 1 being top priority.
Answer: 1 Tracking down terrorists already in our county (sic)
2 Strengthening our nation’s borders
3 Emergency preparedness and response
4 Additional training for emergency personnel in local communities
9) What is of greatest concern to you and your family right now?
Answer: Natural disaster readiness and response
ECONOMY
10) How confidant do you feel that America’s economy will continue to grow stronger in the next six months?
Answer: Very Confident
11) Which of the following factors is most adversely affecting our economy?
Answer: Burdensome Taxes … No
Threat of Terrorist ....... No
High Fuel Prices …….. Yes
Severe Government Regulation … No
Growth of Government Spending … No
12) Do you support eliminating the Death Tax?
Answer: Yes
13) Many of the tax cuts our Republican Congress passed during President Bush’s first term will expire in a few years. Considering how much these cuts have helped our economy, do you agree that Congress should make them permanent?
Answer: Yes
14) When it comes to debating reforms for our national tax system, Congress has many options. Which reform do you think would be fairest for the majority of Americans?
Answer: A value added tax … No
A national sales tax … No
A flat tax ... No
Additional personal tax cuts … No
No opinion … No
Other ... Yes, Capitation Tax (we had this until 1913)
SOCIAL SECURITY/MEDICARE
15) Do you believe it is imperative to modernize and restore soundness to Social Security?
Answer: Yes
16) Do you support President Bush’s proposal to allow individuals to choose to invest a certain portion of their Social Security money in order to build a stronger retirement fund?
Answer: Yes
17) Do you feel it is essential that Congress act today to ensure the financial stability of the Medicare program?
Answer: No
18) Do you think that all costs for prescription drugs should be covered under Medicare?
Answer: No
HEALTH CARE
19) Are you pleased with the quality of health care you currently receive?
Answer: Yes
20) Do you agree that there should be reasonable limits on punitive damages on the amount of the money patients and trial lawyers can collect when suing their doctors or HMOs?
Answer: Agree
21) How much of a role should the federal government have in an individual’s health care?
Answer: No role at all
22) Do you approve or disapprove of expanding federally funded stem cell research?
Answer: Disapprove
23) How concerned are you that the U.S. will be affected by a world flu pandemic in the near future?
Answer: Not Very Concerned
24) Do you think the United States is doing enough to prepare for a world flu pandemic?
Answer: Yes
EDUCATION
25) Should states be encouraged to develop methods to test teachers regularly to ensure they are proficient in the subject they teach?
Answer: Yes
26) Should a federally-funded voucher system be established to allow inner city parents to move their children from failing public schools to better performing schools?
Answer: Yes
27) What do you see as the major cause of the decline in America’s education?
Answer: Not enough discipline and taking the Bible and Prayer out of School. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
NATIONAL DEFENSE
28) Do you back President Bush’s efforts to build a “missile defense shield “to protect America from nuclear attack from rogue states such as North Korea and Iran?
Answer: Yes
29) Is America doing enough to revamp, restore and strengthen our armed forces to meet the needs and challenges of the 21st century?
Answer: Yes
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
30) In the last election, President Bush made it clear that “the United Nation’s (sic) will never dictate U.S. foreign policy.” Do you agree with that statement?
Answer: Yes
31) Which of the do you think will have the most impact on America in the next five years?
Answer: The situation in Iraq … No
Unstable economic markets in key areas of the world … No
The threat of terrorism … No
North Korea’s possession of nuclear weapons … No
The instability in the Middle East … Yes
The growing military and economic clout of China … No
32) Do you agree with President Bush’s policy that the establishment of a free Iraq in the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution?
Answer: Yes
IMMIGRATION
33) President Bush has proposed a temporary guest-worker program to match willing foreign workers with willing U.S. employers when no Americans can be found to fill the jobs. Are you in favor of this proposal?
Answer: Yes
34) Do you support increased funding for border control operations?
Answer: Yes
35) Do you agree that Congress must make it a top priority to get control of our nation’s borders and address the growing immigration crisis?
Answer: Yes
36) How worried are you that a lack of effective security on our nation’s borders opens a way for terrorists to enter our country?
Answer: Not Very Worried
SUPREME COURT/FEDERAL COURTS
37) How do you feel the current U.S. Supreme Court is positioned?
Answer: Too liberal
38) Do you believe it is acceptable to apply “litmus tests” about key issues to potential Supreme Court nominees?
Answer: No
39) Do you think that confirmation of federal and Supreme Court judges should simply require a majority vote of 51 U.S. Senators or should 60 votes be needed to break a Senate filibuster?
Answer: 51 votes … Yes
60 votes … No
SPENDING AND REGULATION
40) In recent years, has the federal government grown more or less intrusive in your personal and business affairs?
Answer: More Intrusive
41) In the wake of recent disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the federal government is going to have to spend more than $150 billion dollars on disaster relief. Do you think Congress should do all in its power to “offset” such spending by cutting spending on other programs?
Answer: Yes
42) To bring the federal deficit under control, President Bush has called on Congress to limit federal funding increases for many agencies and programs. Do you agree that it is time to tighten the federal budgets and restrict automatic spending increases in certain programs?
Answer: Yes
43) The federal deficit is estimated to reach record levels this year, and the federal government is expected to run deficits for the next decade. Would you support cuts in government spending as a way reduce the deficit?
Answer: Yes
44) How worried are that the current deficit spending in Congress will result in passing a massive federal debt on to future generations and create major economic problems for America in the long run?
Answer: Not Very Worried
GENERAL ISSUES
45) Does the national media accurately report the news without liberal bias?
Answer: No
46) Should Congress authorize additional oil exploration in Alaska to help alleviate America’s over reliance on Middle East oil in the future?
47) Considering the massive amount of money spent in the 2004 elections by so called “527 independent groups” which were allowed to take millions of dollars from single individuals, do you feel that additional reforms are needed for our campaign finance laws?
Answer: Yes
48) Do you think there should be a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage?
Answer: Yes
49) Do you support the President’s plan to unify our nation around a comprehensive energy plan that protects consumers while producing more reliable, affordable and environmentally clean energy?
Answer: Yes
THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS
50) Generally, are you satisfied with the accomplishments of the Republicans in Congress?
Answer: No
51) How do you rate President Bush’s job performance thus far?
Answer: Good
52) Do you agree that the obstructionist Democrats should not be allowed to gain control of the U.S. Congress in the 2006 elections?
53) In your opinion, how does the federal government best function?
Answer: When one party controls both the White House and Congress.
54) Which political party do you think is more in tune with American values?
Answer: Republican
55) What do you consider the most important steps the Republican Party can take in the coming months to enact President Bush’s agenda and ensure continued control of congress?
Answer: Pass legislation.
56) Additional Comments
Answer: Nothing
END OF SURVEY
The following personal survey was sponsored by the Republican National Committee.
CENSUS DOCUMENT QUESTIONNAIRE:
DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
1) Do you support President Bush’s initiatives to promote the safety and security of all Americans?
Answer: Yes
2) Do you support the use of air strikes against any country that offers safe harbor or aid to individuals or organizations committed to further attacks on America?
Answer: Yes
3) Do you continue to support increasing the amount of security at airports, train stations and all government buildings including monuments and museums?
Answer: Yes
ECONOMIC ISSUES
1) Should the Inheritance or “Death Tax” be permanently repealed?
Answer: Yes
2) Do you support President Bush’s pro-growth policies to create more jobs and improve the economy?
Answer: Yes
3) Do you think Congress should focus on cutting the federal budget deficit by reducing wasteful government spending?
Answer: Yes
EDUCATION ISSUES
1) Do you support President Bush’s plan to make our schools more our schools more accountable to parents and to restore local control of education?
Answer: Yes
2) Should students, teachers, principals and administrators be held to higher standards?
Answer: Yes
3) Do you agree that teaching our children to read and increasing literacy rates should be a national priority?
Answer: Yes
SOCIAL ISSUES
1) Do you support President Bush’s initiative to allow private religious and charitable groups to do more to help those in need?
Answer: Yes
2) Do you support the President’s efforts to save Social Security for future generations?
Answer: Yes
3) Do you support the President’s efforts to save Social Security for future generations?
Answer: Yes
4) Do you think Congress should pass legislation on the Federal Marriage Amendment?
Answer: Yes
DEFENSE ISSUES
1) Do you think U.S. troops should have to serve under United Nations’ commanders?
Answer: No
2) Do you agree that our top military priority should be fighting terrorists?
Answer: Yes
3) Should the U.S. continue work on building a defense shield against nuclear missile attack?
Answer: No
REPUBLICAN PARTY
1) Do you support the election of Republican candidates across the country and rebuilding our majorities over the next ten years?
Answer: Yes
2) a. Did you vote in the year 2000?
Answer: Yes
b. Did you vote in the year 2002?
Answer: Yes
c. Did you vote in the year 2004?
END OF SURVEY
The following personal survey was sponsored by The Heritage Foundation.
1) The War on Terror
a. Are the Bush administration and Congress doing enough to win the war in Iraq?
Answer: Yes
b. Are they doing enough to win the general war on terror?
Answer: Yes
c. Do you think it would help us to focus on our goals to call our fight a war against radical Islam rather than a war on terror?
Answer: No
d. Should Congress declare war?
Answer: No
e. Should more troops be sent to Iraq?
Answer: No
f. Do you think our treatment of detainees is too harsh?
Answer: No
g. Should we pull out of Iraq?
Answer: Yes, as soon as Iraqi troops can fight their own battles
2) Security at Home
a. Do you think it is wrong to use ethnic profiling in airport security and other situations?
Answer: No
b. Do you think we should continue to admit citizens of hostile countries into the United States?
Answer: Yes
c. Do you think we should deport citizens of hostile countries?
Answer: No
d. Do you think the government should be closely monitoring mosques for terrorist activity or incitement to terrorism?
Answer: No
e. In which areas do you think the government is not paying enough attention to our protection?
Answer: attacks with biological weapons … No
attacks with chemical weapons … No
attacks with nuclear weapons … No
communications in case of an attack … No
identifying enemies within our borders … Yes
3) Immigration
a. Do you think illegal immigration is an urgent problem?
Answer: Yes
b. If yes, do you think any plan offered by the Bush administration or Congress adequately addresses the problem of illegal immigration?
Answer: No
c. Do think illegal immigration is a national security problem?
Answer: Yes
4) Government Spending
a. What do you think about the size of the federal budget?
Answer: Too big
b. If you think the federal budget is too big, whose fault is it?
Answer: both, Congress and the President
c. How should we pay for the money the government will spend on rebuilding the Gulf Coast after the hurricanes?
Answer: Cut other spending from the budget
d. Do you think the federal government controls too many aspects of our lives?
Answer: Yes
5) Miscellaneous Issues
a. Do you believe Congress and the Bush administration are doing enough to protect your property from possible seizure by state, local, or federal government?
Answer: No
b. What do you think of the level of the federal government’s involvement in K-12 education?
Answer: Not involved enough
c. What measures would you like to see taken to improve our energy problems?
Answer: drilling for oil in ANWR in Alaska ... Yes
drilling for oil off the coasts … Yes
more nuclear power plants … No
more oil refineries … Yes
loosening of environmental regulations to allow more energy exploration … No
tax credits for research on alternative fuels … No
d. Do you support a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage?
Answer: Yes
e. What do you think about the current law on campaign finance reform?
Answer: Get rid of it.
6) The President’s Performance
a. What is your opinion of President Bush’s overall performance in the last year?
Answer: Fair
b. In what areas do you think the President should make an effort to improve his performance?
Answer: Presenting a leaner budget
c. What do you think of President Bush’s judicial appointments?
Answer: Excellent
d. What do you think of President Bush’s cabinet and agency appointments?
Answer: Excellent
e. What do you think about the current law on campaign finance reform?
Answer: Get rid of it
7) Congress’ Performance
a. What is your opinion of Congress’ overall performance in the last year?
Answer: Fair
b. In what areas do you think Congress should make an effort to improve its performance?
Answer: Spending, the war on terror, and domestic policy
c. Do you think members of Congress usually represent the people who elect them?
Answer: No
8) Leadership
Which of the following people do you think represent your beliefs and principles the best? Please number your top three choices.
1) Senator Sam Brownback
2) Sean Hannity
3) Phyllis Schlafly
END OF SURVEY
The following personal survey was sponsored by Judicial Watch®.
NATIONAL SURVEY
ON RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE
1) The first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.” Do you believe that the Founding Fathers intended for that “Establishment Clause” to be used to ban all references to God in public schools, at public events and on public buildings?
Answer: No
2) Do you believe that court-ordered stripping of religion from many areas of American public life, which extends back to the 1947 Supreme Court decision in Everson v. Board of Education, directly relates to the cultural and moral decline of the United States?
Answer: Yes
3) Do you believe that debates over matters like prayers at public events and the display of the Ten Commandments at places like courthouses, schools, and legislatures should be resolved by citizens at the state level, either at the ballot box or through their elected representatives, or by unelected federal judges who can impose one standard for the entire nation?
Answer: Citizens at the state level … Yes
Unelected federal judges … No
4) Do you believe it is important for Judicial Watch, America’s leading conservative public legal watchdog organization, to pursue an aggressive in-court legal strategy to challenge the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) whenever, as in the Ten Commandment cases, it attempts to move Establishment Clause cases into federal courts dominated by activist judges?
Answer: Yes, Judicial Watch needs to fight the ACLU!
END OF SURVEY
The following is a personal survey sponsored by National Republican Senatorial Committee, entitled as, Senate Majority Leader’s Survey
Part 1. General Questions
1) Please rank in order of importance (1-7) the issues you would like President Bush and the Republican Party to focus on this year?
Answer:
1) Education
2) Values Issues
3) Other: National Debt
4) National and Homeland Security
5) Litigation Reform
6) Energy Policy and Environment
7) Social Security and Healthcare
Part 2. Values Issues
2) Do you support federal funding for research on a limited number of embryonic stem cell lines?
Answer: No
3) Should we ban human cloning for experimental purposes even if there might be some promise for future treatments?
Answer: Yes
4) Should Congress continue to pursue a Constitutional amendment to protect marriage as the union of a man and a woman?
Answer: Yes
Part 3. National and Homeland Security
5) Should the United States increase spending to protect its borders and coastlines?
Answer: Yes
6) Should the United States hold accountable those nations and groups that support or shelter Al Qaeda?
Answer: Yes
7) Should the United States continue its current approach to dealing with the threats posed by Iran and North Korea’s nuclear programs?
Answer: Yes
8) Do you believe the federal government should strengthen the Patriot Act?
Answer: Yes
9) Should the United States accelerate the training of Iraqi security forces no matter what the cost?
Answer: Yes
10) Should the United States do everything in its power to stop proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Ballistic Missiles, and related materials?
Answer: Yes
11) Should the United States continue its first-ever deployment of Ballistic Missile defenses to protect the homeland?
Answer: No
Part 4. Economic Growth, Job Creation & Federal Budget
12) Should we make the tax cuts that have helped fuel our economic recovery permanent?
Answer: Yes
13) Do you believe making the tax code fairer and simpler will help sustain economic growth?
Answer: Yes
14) Do you feel the government has spent too much and lacked fiscal discipline over the past four years?
Answer: Yes
15) Do you favor elimination of the estate tax?
Answer: Yes
16) Do you favor further reduction of the capital gains tax?
Answer: Yes
17) Should we reduce spending for programs like farm price supports, Veteran’s benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc. to balance the federal budget?
Answer: Yes
18) Should we reduce spending for programs like education, research, FBI, Coast Guard, Customs Service, Housing, and Transportation to balance the budget?
Answer: Yes
19) Should we increase federal taxes to balance the budget?
Answer: No
20) Should we have some combination of all of the above to balance the budget?
Answer: No
21) Should we establish a constitutional amendment for a balanced budget?
Answer: Yes
Part 5. Litigation Reform
22) Do you favor medical liability reform to help reduce health costs and improve patients’ access to affordable health care?
Answer: Yes
23) Do you believe class action lawsuits drive up the cost of consumer products?
Answer: Yes
Part 6. Social Security and Healthcare
24) Should we reform Social Security by raising the official retirement age – which will increase to 67 under current law?
Answer: No
25) Should we reform Social Security by raising the early retirement age – currently 62?
Answer: No
26) Should we reduce Social Security benefits to make Social Security solvent?
Answer: No
27) Should we raise taxes to maintain Social Security benefits?
Answer: No
28) Do you favor allowing individuals to voluntarily invest part of their Social Security payroll tax into private investment accounts?
Answer: Yes
29) Do you favor legalizing the importation of lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada and other countries?
Answer: Yes
30) Should the government aggressively find solutions to provide affordable health coverage for the more than 40 million uninsured Americans?
Answer: No
31) Do you believe we are spending enough to combat domestic and global HIV/AIDS?
Answer: No
Part 7. Education
32) Do you believe the $70 billion the federal government currently spends on education is enough?
Answer: Yes
33) Should teachers be paid bonuses based on student performance?
Answer: Yes
34) Should teacher tenure be eliminated?
Answer: Yes
35) Do you believe in teacher testing to ensure we have quality educators?
Answer: Yes
Part 8. Energy Policy and Environment
36) Should we renegotiate the Kyoto Treaty?
Answer: Yes
37) Should we increase funding for our National Parks?
Answer: No
38) Should we be more aggressive on environmental issues?
Answer: Yes
39) Do you favor increasing the federal gasoline tax to discourage consumption?
Answer: No
40) Do you favor more stringent gas mileage requirements on SUVs?
Answer: Yes
41) Do you favor increasing federal spending on research into renewable energy resources, such as wind and solar energy and hydrogen fuel cells?
Answer: Yes
Part 9. Campaign 2006
42) Do you agree that strengthening our Republican Majority in the U.S. Senate is critical to passing President Bush’s agenda and fighting for America’s future?
Answer: Yes
43) Do you believe that the Republican Party’s investment at the local grassroots level is key to strengthening our Senate Majority from Democratic filibustering?
Answer: Yes
44) Will you support the NRSC’s efforts to help President Bush move his agenda forward for a freer, safer, and more prosperous future for America?
Answer: Yes
Part 10. Support Reply
45) Will you invest in building that local grassroots level foundation of Republicans for President Bush and his agenda by making a generous contribution to the NRSC today?
Answer: Yes! Senator Frist, I want to help strengthen our Republican Senate Majority and build a strong foundation of support at the local grassroots level for President Bush and his agenda. I am enclosing my most generous contribution of: $0.
END OF SURVEY
The following personal survey was sponsored by the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Question 1: Do you believe that our nation’s official position on marriage should be that it is the legal union of a man and a woman, and not of two people of the same sex?
Answer: Yes
Question 2: Congress passed, and President Bush signed into law a bill banning partial-birth abortions. Following up on this victory, do you think we should increase our efforts to revisit the entire Roe v. Wade decision that has made it easier to kill unborn babies for over 30 years in our country?
Answer: Definitely
Question 3: The liberal media finally woke up and realized that much of our success at the polls in 2004 was because of values issues. Do you want us to concentrate even more on moral, family, and values issues during this session of Congress than we did during the previous one?
Answer: Absolutely
Question 4: Even though we have captured Saddam Hussein and freed the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, the liberal Democrats persist in attacking President Bush’s steps and strategies in fighting the War on Terror. Do you approve of his policies for seeking out and destroying terrorists and their organizations?
Answer: Yes, 100%
Question 5: Do you feel that any inconvenience that may be caused by the burden of additional security at our airports, train stations and public buildings is worth the hassle?
Answer: Yes, it’s worth it to feel safe.
Question 6: Do you support President Bush’s pro-growth approach to solving our economic problems by creating more jobs and creating a more receptive climate for risk takers who start new businesses?
Answer: Yes
Question 7: Do you support our Republican insistence that making the recent tax cuts PERMANENT is the best way to ensure that America’s families, seniors, hard working job holders and small business owners can keep more of their hard-earned dollars?
Answer: Yes
Question 8: Speaking of taxes, support is growing in Washington for an overhaul of the way we pay federal taxes. If our tax laws are completely changed, how would you prefer to see it done?
Answer: By adopting a national flat tax where everyone pays the same percentage of tax on the money that they earn.
Question 9: As uncertainty over the huge problems that will arrive as the Baby Boomers soon begin retiring in record numbers, many Republicans have proposed that today’s younger workers be given a chance to invest a portion of their income into alternative retirement plans. How do you feel about this?
Answer: I agree with it.
Question 10: Congress and President Bush strengthened Medicare and provided seniors with their own choice of a health care plan that provides prescription drug coverage. Which approach would you support for future health care reform in our country:
Answer: More strong Republican approches to reforming the Medicare system.
Question 11: Despite the success of the President’s No Child Left Behind Act, many U.S. schools are still receiving failing grades. Do you think we should mandate that our schools and teachers abandon the burdensome “politically correct” requirements that are hamstringing their work and concentrate more on the basics of a sound education?
Answer: Yes
Question 12: In an effort to protect the religious heritage and character of our nation, the Bush administration asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s ruling and keep the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance as recited by public school students. Are you in favor of this action?
Answer: Yes
Question 13: Do you think that much of our legal system is now working harder to protect the rights of criminals than it is to safeguard the rights of citizens to be free of crime in their homes and on their streets?
Answer: Absolutely
Question 14: More than 3 million illegal aliens now crowd into our country each year. Our schools, hospitals, and social services are becoming overburdened by this influx. If you have an opinion of how to deal with these problems, would you rather see us:
Tighten our borders, restrict immigration to a specified number of people each year and beef up enforcement of our existing immigration laws …YES
Let the heavy influx continue as it has been to ensure the continuation of increased diversity in our country … NO
Question 15: As we continue to fight the War on Terror, do you think our U.S. troops should be required to serve under commanders from other nations or from the United Nations to achieve a multi-lateral fighting force, as some Democrats have suggested?
Answer: Definitely not
Question 16: How do you describe yourself politically?
Answer: Conservative
Question 17: Did you vote in: The 2002 Mid-term Election? Answer: Yes
The 2004 General Election? Answer: Yes
Question 18: The Democrats are gearing up to overthrow our majority in the next round of elections, when every single one of our 233 Republican representatives will be vulnerable. Knowing this, are you willing to help us prepare for these serious threats by making a generous donation to the National Republican Congressional Committee today?
Answer: No
END OF SURVEY
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