Clifford Crouch has not completed the 2018 Political Courage Test.
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.
a) Abortions should always be illegal. | |||
X | b) Abortions should always be legal. | ||
c) Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy. | |||
X | d) Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape. | ||
X | e) Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered. | ||
f) Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions. | |||
g) Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors. | |||
h) Other or expanded principles |
State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category.State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax.
Slightly Increase | a) Education (Higher) | ||
Greatly Increase | b) Education (K-12) | ||
Maintain Status | c) Emergency preparedness | ||
Maintain Status | d) Environment | ||
Slightly Increase | e) Health care | ||
Maintain Status | f) Law enforcement | ||
Slightly Increase | g) Transportation and highway infrastructure | ||
Slightly Decrease | h) Welfare | ||
i) Other or expanded categories | |||
a) Alcohol taxes | |||
b) Capital gains taxes | |||
c) Cigarette taxes | |||
d) Corporate taxes | |||
e) Gasoline taxes | |||
f) Income taxes (incomes below $75,000) | |||
g) Income taxes (incomes above $75,000) | |||
h) Sales taxes | |||
i) Vehicle taxes | |||
j) Other or expanded categories | |||
Yes | k) Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales? | ||
No | l) Should accounts such as a rainy day fund be used to balance the state budget? | ||
No | m) Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget? | ||
Yes | n) Should the New York Legislature list discretionary spending item by item in the budget? | ||
o) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.c) Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative candidates?
No | a) Do you support limiting the number of terms for New York governors? | ||
No | b) Do you support limiting the number of terms for New York state senators and representatives? | ||
1) Individual | |||
2) PAC | |||
3) Corporate | |||
4) Political Parties | |||
Yes | d) Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information? | ||
No | e) Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns? | ||
Yes | f) Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes? | ||
Yes | g) Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in New York are closed? | ||
Yes | h) Should New York recognize civil unions between same-sex couples? | ||
i) Describe what you believe must be done to complete rebuilding efforts near Ground Zero in New York City. Please use forty (40) words or less. | |||
j) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime.
a) Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff. | |||
X | b) Support the death penalty in New York. | ||
X | c) Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released. | ||
X | d) End parole for repeat violent offenders. | ||
X | e) Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders. | ||
X | f) Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes. | ||
X | g) Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults. | ||
X | h) Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes. | ||
X | i) Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth. | ||
X | j) Eliminate the statute of limitations for criminal sex cases. | ||
X | k) Eliminate the statute of limitations for civil lawsuits seeking damages in sex cases. | ||
X | l) Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine). | ||
Civil confirnement for certain level 3 sex offenders |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.
a) Support national standards and testing of public school students. | |||
b) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school. | |||
c) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school. | |||
d) Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure). | |||
e) Increase funds for hiring additional teachers. | |||
f) Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay. | |||
X | g) Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools. | ||
h) Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams. | |||
i) Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries. | |||
X | j) Increase funding for Head Start programs. | ||
X | k) Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable. | ||
X | l) Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods. | ||
m) Support abstinence-only sexual education programs. | |||
n) Other or expanded principles |
Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies decisions on:
X | a) Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in todays job market. | ||
X | b) Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion. | ||
X | c) Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses. | ||
X | d) Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families. | ||
X | e) Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families. | ||
X | f) Support the inclusion of sexual orientation in New York's anti-discrimination laws. | ||
g) Increase the state minimum wage. | |||
h) Other or expanded principles | |||
No | a) Public employment | ||
No | b) State college and university admissions | ||
No | c) State contracting | ||
d) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.
X | a) Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology. | ||
X | b) Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil). | ||
X | c) Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned. | ||
X | d) Increase funding for improvements to New York's power generating and transmission facilities. | ||
X | e) Support funding for open space preservation. | ||
f) Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law. | |||
g) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns.
a) Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |||
b) Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |||
c) Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |||
X | d) Allow citizens to carry concealed guns. | ||
e) Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows. | |||
f) Require a license for gun possession. | |||
License to carry following a background check |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health.
X | a) Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary. | ||
X | b) Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs. | ||
X | c) Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits. | ||
X | d) Support patients' right to sue their HMOs. | ||
e) Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government. | |||
f) Legalize physician assisted suicide in New York. | |||
g) Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes. | |||
h) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare.
X | a) Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients. | ||
X | b) Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients. | ||
X | c) Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work. | ||
d) Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations. | |||
X | e) Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor. | ||
X | f) Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients. | ||
g) Eliminate government-funded welfare programs. | |||
h) Other or expanded principles |
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