Candidates who qualify will be invited to take the 2020 Political Courage Test.
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.
a) Abortions should always be illegal. | |||
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. | |||
X | g) Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors. | ||
h) Other or expanded principles |
State Budget: Using the key, indicate what funding levels you support for the following general categories. Select one level per category, you can use a number more than once.State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax.
Greatly Increase | a) Education (Higher) | ||
Greatly Increase | b) Education (K-12) | ||
Maintain Status | c) Environment | ||
Greatly Increase | d) Health care | ||
Slightly Increase | e) Law enforcement | ||
Maintain Status | f) Transportation and highway infrastructure | ||
Greatly Decrease | g) Welfare | ||
Maintain Status | h) Emergency preparedness | ||
i) Other or expanded categories | |||
Maintain Status | a) Alcohol taxes | ||
Slightly Decrease | b) Capital gains taxes | ||
Maintain Status | c) Cigarette taxes | ||
Maintain Status | d) Corporate taxes | ||
Eliminate | e) Gasoline taxes | ||
Greatly Decrease | f) Income taxes (incomes below $75,000) | ||
Slightly Decrease | g) Income taxes (incomes above $75,000) | ||
Greatly Decrease | h) Property taxes | ||
Eliminate | i) Sales taxes | ||
Maintain Status | j) Vehicle taxes | ||
k) Other or expanded categories | |||
No | l) Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales? | ||
Yes | m) Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget? | ||
No | n) Should fee increases be used to balance the state 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?
Yes | a) Do you support the current limit of terms for West Virginia governors? | ||
Yes | b) Do you support limiting the number of terms for West Virginia state senators and representatives? | ||
No | 1) Individual | ||
Yes | 2) PAC | ||
Yes | 3) Corporate | ||
No | 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 West Virginia are closed? | ||
No | h) Should West Virginia recognize civil unions between same-sex couples? | ||
Yes | i) Should racetracks be able to offer casino-style table games? | ||
No | j) Should the use of eminent domain be restricted to seizures of property necessary for public use? | ||
k) 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) Implement the death penalty in West Virginia. | ||
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. | ||
e) Implement other penalties than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders. | |||
f) Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. | |||
X | g) Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes. | ||
X | h) Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults. | ||
X | i) Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes. | ||
X | j) Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth. | ||
X | k) Increase state funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent or respond to terrorism. | ||
X | l) Increase sentences on sex offenders. | ||
X | m) Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make Methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing Pseudophedrine, Ephedrine and Phenylpropanolamine.) | ||
n) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.
X | a) Support national standards and testing of public school students. | ||
X | b) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school. | ||
X | 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). | |||
X | e) Increase funds for hiring additional teachers. | ||
X | f) Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay. | ||
X | g) Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools. | ||
X | h) Require public schools to administer high school exit exams. | ||
X | 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 today's 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) Include sexual orientation in West Virginia'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). | ||
c) Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned. | |||
d) Increase funding for improvements to West Virginia's power generating and transmission facilities. | |||
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. | ||
X | e) Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows. | ||
X | f) Require a license for gun possession. | ||
g) Other or expanded principles |
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. | ||
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. | ||
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 West Virginia. | |||
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. | ||
b) Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients. | |||
c) Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work. | |||
d) Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations. | |||
e) Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor. | |||
f) Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients. | |||
g) Eliminate government-funded welfare programs. | |||
h) Other or expanded principles |
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