Bob Williams' Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Ohio State Legislative Election 2010 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | a) Do you consider yourself pro-choice or pro-life? | ||
| No | b) Should abortion be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy? | ||
| No | c) Should abortion be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape? | ||
| Yes | d) Should abortion be legal when the life of the woman is endangered? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support requiring parental notification before an abortion is performed on a minor? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support requiring parental consent before an abortion is performed on a minor? | ||
| No | g) Do you support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods? | ||
| Yes | h) Do you support abstinence-only sexual education programs? | ||
| g) I support biological education programs but do not support the teaching of "methods", which too often serve to reduce fears among students to then go ahead and engage in the very activity the program was intended to discourage! | |||
1) State SpendingIndicate what state funding levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one level per category- you can use a number more than once.2) State TaxesIndicate what state tax levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one level per category- you can use a number more than once.3) Budget StabilizationIndicate which proposals you support (if any) for balancing Ohio's budget.
| Greatly Decrease | a) Education (higher) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | b) Education (K-12) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | c) Environment | ||
| Greatly Decrease | d) Health care | ||
| Slightly Decrease | e) Law enforcement | ||
| Slightly Decrease | f) Transportation and highway infrastructure | ||
| Slightly Decrease | g) Welfare | ||
| Eliminate | a) Alcohol taxes | ||
| Eliminate | b) Cigarette taxes | ||
| Greatly Increase | c) Corporate taxes | ||
| Eliminate | d) Gasoline taxes | ||
| Eliminate | e) Property taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | f) Sales taxes | ||
| Eliminate | g) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | h) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | i) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Yes | a) Issuing the early release of certain non-violent offenders | ||
| Yes | b) Increasing tuition rates at public universities | ||
| No | c) Instituting mandatory furloughs and layoffs for state employees | ||
| No | d) Reducing benefits for Medicaid recipients | ||
| No | e) Privatizing certain government services | ||
| b) Ohio's unconstitutional school funding must be brought into accordance with the law while spending is greatly decreased - school vouchers issued directly to parents who then go shopping for the schools that best meet their individual needs to educate their children is a basic step in moving down this lawful path. | |||
| i) Wage-earners and profit-makers should not be penalized for working better and/or smarter by being punished for doing so with higher taxes! That is the equivalent of giving a high school student a two-day in-school suspension for every grade of "A" that he earns, but those students who get "B"s or less are exempted. Such thinking is topsy-turvy! | |||
| e) Too often "privatization" is confused with "corporatization" and although I am for privatization, I am opposed to the corporatization of government services. Corporations are creations of the State and as such they are just as bureaucratic and inefficient as their parent. In a free market, there are no corporations. | |||
c) Do you support limits on the following types of contributions to candidates for state government?
| Yes | a) Do you support limits on the number of terms for Ohio governors? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support limits on the number of terms for Ohio state legislators? | ||
| No | 1) Individual | ||
| Yes | 2) Political Action Committee | ||
| Yes | 3) Corporate | ||
| No | 4) Political Party | ||
| No | d) Should candidates for state office be encouraged to meet voluntary spending limits? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information? | ||
| Elected officials should be limited to one term to prevent rackets and corruption. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support alternatives to incarceration for certain non-violent offenders, such as mandatory counseling or substance abuse treatment? | ||
| Yes | c) Should the possession of small amounts of marijuana be decriminalized? | ||
| No | d) Should minors accused of a violent crime be prosecuted as adults? | ||
| No | e) Should minors who send sexually-explicit or nude photos by cell phone face criminal charges? | ||
| No | f) Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police? | ||
| a) Although I support capital punishment in theory, too many innocent people on death row have been exonerated by genetic testing so that I support it only when overwhelming eye-witness and genetic evidence support it. b)Half of Ohio's inmate population is there because of drugs; prison is the wrong place for these addicts. d) I saw two 12-year olds processed into an adult prison in 1993 because a judge didn't like the response he got from the tweeners. Kids should be tried as kids for the very simple reason that they are NOT adults! | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector? | ||
| No | b) Do you support increased state funding for job-training programs that re-train displaced workers? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support expanding access to unemployment benefits? | ||
| No | d) Do you support providing financial incentives to the private sector for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| No | e) Do you support increased spending on infrastructure projects for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support the construction of passenger rail lines between Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati? | ||
| Yes | g) Do you support providing direct financial assistance to homeowners facing foreclosure? | ||
| a) government regulations give consumers a false sense of security. c) I support expanding NOT governmetn unemployment benefits, but private benefits. f) I support PRIVATE rail lines, not government rail lines. Private means there's a market; government means there is no market so that tax victims foot the bill. | |||
| No | a) Do you support national education standards? | ||
| No | b) Do you support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams? | ||
| No | c) Do you support adding more days to Ohio's 180-day school calendar? | ||
| No | d) Do you support using a merit pay system for teachers? | ||
| No | e) Do you support state funding for charter schools? | ||
| No | f) Do you support the state government providing college students with financial aid? | ||
| Yes | g) Should illegal immigrants who graduate from Ohio high schools be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities? | ||
| I support the separation of school and state just as I support the separation of church and state. Schooling was originally the province of "church" and government has no business in it. | |||
| No | a) Do you support state funding for the development of alternative energy? | ||
| No | b) Do you support state funding for the development of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil)? | ||
| No | c) Do you support providing financial incentives to farms that produce biofuel crops? | ||
| No | d) Do you support state funding for improvements to Ohio's energy infrastructure? | ||
| No | e) Do you support state funding for open space preservation? | ||
| No | f) Do you support enacting environmental regulations aimed at reducing the effects of climate change? | ||
| a) Government funding misdirects money into areas that there is no market whereas the private sector invests in profitable enterprises. b) The earth's climate will continue to warm as we continue out of the last Ice Age until alligators are swimming in the everglades of Minnesota - that's right, Minnesota! That is the earth's normal temperature when Minnesota becomes that warm. Fighting against the Earth returning to normal is a ruse to ensure that energy becomes the monopoly of the privileged. | |||
| No | a) Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? | ||
| No | b) Do you support requiring background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support allowing individuals to carry concealed guns? | ||
| No | d) Do you support requiring a license for gun possession? | ||
| Our 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms ensures that a tyrannical government cannot emerge here as it did when we used to be British - such tyranny forced our Founding Fathers to arms, hence the need for an armed citizenry that is alert to government tyranny. | |||
| No | a) Do you support a universally-accessible, publicly-administered health insurance option? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support expanding access to health care through commercial health insurance reform? | ||
| No | c) Do you support interstate health insurance compacts? | ||
| No | d) Should individuals be required to purchase health care insurance? | ||
| No | e) Do you support monetary limits on damages that can be collected in malpractice lawsuits? | ||
| No | f) Do you support legalizing physician-assisted suicide in Ohio? | ||
| Yes | g) Do you support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes? | ||
| e) Tort damages are an effective way to police bad doctors and other professionals who endanger consumers; there should be no limit to righting their wrongdoing. | |||
| No | a) Should marriage only be between one man and one woman? | ||
| No | b) Should Ohio allow same-sex couples to form civil unions? | ||
| No | c) Do you support state funding for stem cell research? | ||
| No | d) Do you support state funding for embryonic stem cell research? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support the state's use of affirmative action? | ||
| No | f) Do you support the inclusion of sexual orientation in Ohio's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| No | g) Do you support the inclusion of gender identity in Ohio's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| a) Government has no business involving itself in marriage. Marriage should be only between men and women as prescribed by their various religious beliefs. e) Where government jobs are concerned, affirmative action should be used to ensure that all stakeholders are having a voice so that one faction can dominate to the detriment of others. | |||
| When elected to House District 58 I will attack the funding of the export of Ohio jobs to Communist China and other countries off the backs of Ohio's tax victims, who fund it. I will also work with my colleagues across the aisle in order to stop the bleeding of jobs to Communist China... |
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