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David Shapiro's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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David Shapiro has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2018 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.

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Issue Positions

For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2018.

  • "As your Congressman, David will fight to make sure everyone will be protected equally under the law. That means adding LGBTQ Americans to the groups protected by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and fighting to end the divide between races and religions. Finally, David will continue to protect women’s access to basic health care through Planned Parenthood, including a woman’s right to make decisions about her healthcare without interference from politicians in Washington." (voteshapiro2018.com)
  • "As your Congressman, David will fight for a higher minimum wage, job training for the 21st Century, and tax cuts that help working families, not just the wealthiest in this country." (voteshapiro2018.com)
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  • "As your Congressman, David will work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support investments in alternative clean and renewable energy. By doing so, we can focus on our infrastructure, and create jobs now and in the future." (voteshapiro2018.com)
  • "As your Congressman, David will work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support investments in alternative clean and renewable energy. By doing so, we can focus on our infrastructure, and create jobs now and in the future." (voteshapiro2018.com)
  • "As your Congressman, David will fight to protect our families by pushing for background checks for gun purchases, keeping assault weapons out of the hands of criminals and the mentally unstable, and closing dangerous gun show loopholes to make communities safer." (voteshapiro2018.com)
  • "As your Congressman, David will fight for healthcare that families in Florida can actually afford. David will work to fix the problems with the Affordable Care Act, starting by lowering prescription costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, and lower premiums by stabilizing the insurance market." (voteshapiro2018.com)
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This candidate has responded to a Political Courage Test in a previous election. As a continued effort to provide the American public with factual information on candidates running for public office, these archived responses are made available here.
The Political Courage Test asks candidates which items they will support if elected. It does not ask them to indicate which items they will oppose. Through extensive research of public polling data, we discovered that voters are more concerned with what candidates would support when elected to office, not what they oppose. If a candidate does not select a response to any part or all of any question, it does not necessarily indicate that the candidate is opposed to that particular item.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.

a) Abortions should always be illegal.
b) Abortions should always be legal.
X 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)
Greatly Increase c) Environment
Greatly Increase d) Emergency preparedness
Greatly Increase e) Health care
Slightly Increase f) Law enforcement
Greatly Increase g) Transportation and highway infrastructure
Maintain Status h) Welfare
i) Other or expanded categories
Slightly Increase a) Alcohol taxes
Slightly Increase b) Capital gains taxes
Maintain Status c) Cigarette taxes
Slightly Increase d) Corporate taxes
Slightly Decrease e) Gasoline taxes
Slightly Decrease f) Property taxes
Maintain Status g) Sales taxes
Slightly Decrease h) Vehicle taxes
i) Other or expanded categories
Undecided j) Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
No k) Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget?
Undecided l) Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
m) 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 Florida governors?
Yes b) Do you support the current limit of terms for Florida state senators and representatives?
Yes 1) Individual
Yes 2) PAC
Yes 3) Corporate
Yes 4) Political Parties
Yes d) Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
Yes e) Do you support the power to amend the state constitution through ballot initiative petitions?
Yes f) Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
Yes g) Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
Undecided h) Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Florida are closed?
Yes i) Should Florida recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
k) Other or expanded principles
Property Insurance: I would create a Hurricane Fund that would cover the first $100,000 to $200,000 in damage due to hurricanes. I would expand the coverage to all properties in Florida, not just high risk. The private carrier would be excess over the Hurricane Fund, thereby reducing their exposure, encouraging them to write the policies.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime.

a) Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
b) Support the death penalty in Florida.
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.
f) Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
g) Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
h) Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
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) Strengthen sex-offender laws.
X l) Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
a) with regard to increase state funding for prisons, I would have to understanding if there is a legitimate need.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.

a) Support national standards and testing of public school students.
b) Support a constitutional amendment to provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
c) Support a constitutional amendment to provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
X d) Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
X e) Increase funds for hiring additional teachers.
X f) Require that 65 percent of Florida's education funding be spent in the classroom.
g) Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
h) Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
i) Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
X j) Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
X k) Increase funding for Head Start programs.
X l) Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
m) Relax class-size limits for Florida public schools.
X n) Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
o) Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
a) If used as a diagnostic tool, I would support.

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.
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 Florida's anti-discrimination laws.
X g) Increase the state minimum wage.
h) Other or expanded principles
a) Public employment
b) State college and university admissions
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.
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.
d) Increase funding for improvements to Florida's power generating and transmission facilities.
X e) Support funding for open space preservation.
X f) Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
d) unsure. I would have to educate myself.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns.

X 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.
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.
X b) Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
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 Florida.
X 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.
f) Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
g) Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
X h) Remove the cap on affordable housing spending in Florida.
i) Other or expanded principles
I would resolve the property insurance crisis by disbanding Citizens' Insurance and create a Hurricane Fund with the revenue from Citizens. I will open it up to all Floridia properties. I would address the affordable housing crisis by removing the caps on the Sedowski Fund, created to provide no/low interest loans for down payments to individuals that qualify. I would address the shortfall in education spending in Florida. I would look for the funds in the Bright Futures program, which is being given to children of affluent families.

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