Peggy Judd's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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- Supervisor (Cochise County, AZ) - District 3
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Arizona 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? | ||
| e) Do you support requiring parental notification before an abortion is performed on a minor? | |||
| 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? | ||
| Life begins at conception. The young woman makes the choice to be a mother when she engages in sexual activity. The choice needs to be made at that point, not after she is pregnant. 9 months and an adoption is a small price to pay to avoid a murder of an innocent baby. | |||
1) State SpendingIndicate what state funding levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one level per category; you may 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 may use a number more than once.3) Budget StabilizationIndicate which proposals you support (if any) for balancing Arizona's budget.
| Maintain Status | a) Education (higher) | ||
| Maintain Status | b) Education (K-12) | ||
| Slightly Decrease | c) Environment | ||
| Maintain Status | d) Health care | ||
| Slightly Increase | e) Law enforcement | ||
| Slightly Increase | f) Transportation and highway infrastructure | ||
| Slightly Increase | g) Welfare | ||
| Greatly Decrease | h) Other or expanded categories | ||
| Greatly Increase | a) Alcohol taxes | ||
| Greatly Increase | b) Cigarette taxes | ||
| Slightly Decrease | c) Corporate taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | d) Gasoline taxes | ||
| Slightly Decrease | e) Property taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | f) Sales taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | g) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | h) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | i) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | j) Other or expanded categories | ||
| Yes | a) Issuing the early release of certain non-violent offenders | ||
| No | b) Increasing tuition rates at public universities | ||
| Yes | c) Instituting mandatory furloughs and layoffs for state employees | ||
| No | d) Reducing benefits for Medicaid recipients | ||
| No | e) Privatizing certain government services | ||
| Cut size of governement, including programs and agencies that duplicate others. Many have hundreds of employees with very high wages and benefit packages, not to mention the overhead for office space and maintanance. This would leave the money to fully fund essential people in the government positions. This includes schools, years ago the Superintendant and the Principal handled each school, now there are all kinds of highly paid assistants to these positions, this extra managerial baggage in all levels of education, needs to be dropped. | |||
| I would like to see a fair tax and cut out the IRS altogether. It would me nice for everyone, who had money (including underground, cash only, odd jobs, illegal money collectors) paid their fair share of taxes, when they spent their "millions". The cost of preparing taxes and the IRS system is broken, why not start with something fresh? Not really a rate adjustment, but everyone pays when they make their purchases. | |||
| c) The public sector has suffered more in the job losses than the state employees and there are still extra people on the state payroll, that are making too much money or who's positions are not essential to function of programs they administer. The economy has forced private sector employees out of work and it is not nice to continue to coddle the state employees as the expense of the whole state, right under the noses of the unemployed private sector. | |||
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 Arizona governors? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support limits on the number of terms for Arizona state legislators? | ||
| Yes | 1) Individual | ||
| Yes | 2) Political Action Committee | ||
| Yes | 3) Corporate | ||
| Yes | 4) Political Party | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| The above require candidates to approach and be supported by many different people and organizations and that is a safety net to indicate they have widespread support rather than a campaign run by one interest, resulting in a representation of a single-minded, narrowly focused legislator | |||
| 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? | ||
| No | c) Should the possession of small amounts of marijuana be decriminalized? | ||
| No | d) Should a minor accused of a violent crime be prosecuted as an adult? | ||
| Yes | e) Should a minor who sends sexually-explicit or nude photos by cell phone face criminal charges? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support a comprehensive ban on text messaging while driving? | ||
| Yes | g) Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police? | ||
| Parents of minors should be held responsible for their childrens actions and they, without compensation for it should administer and oversee the probation and control of the child. If they refuse they should bear the cost burden of the incarceration and state control of this child. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector? | ||
| No | b) Do you support the reauthorization of the payday lending industry? | ||
| No | c) Do you support increased state funding for job-training programs that re-train displaced workers? | ||
| No | d) Do you support expanding access to unemployment benefits? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support providing financial incentives to the private sector for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support increased spending on infrastructure projects for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| No | g) Do you support providing direct financial assistance to homeowners facing foreclosure? | ||
| h) Other or expanded principles | |||
| Yes | 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 using a merit pay system for teachers? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support state funding for charter schools? | ||
| No | e) Do you support the state government providing college students with financial aid? | ||
| No | f) Should illegal immigrants who graduate from Arizona high schools be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities? | ||
| c) Teachers need to be paid fairly and have regular raises, if they are not deserving of merit, then they should work somewhere else. d) Charter schools need to have state certified teachers. f) Illegals, K-12 should have to pay out of district tuition to attend our public schools. | |||
| No | a) Do you support state funding for the development of alternative energy? | ||
| Yes | 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 Arizona'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? | ||
| f) absolutely NO! There is NO man-made climate change. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Criminals have guns regardless of regualtions. The citizens need to have a way to protect themselves and property. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support interstate health insurance compacts? | ||
| No | d) Should individuals be required to purchase health care insurance? | ||
| Yes | 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 Arizona? | ||
| No | g) Do you support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes? | ||
| f) and g) I need to take some time researching these and feel each would need to have a lot of controls and restrictions in place to not get out of hand. For instance, medical marijuana, should be limited to administration inside a medical facility only, and physician-assisted suicide should only be performed after a reasonable waiting period, to allow for healing or improvement or all family to become "aware" and have an opportunity to be unified on the decision. | |||
| Yes | a) Should marriage only be between one man and one woman? | ||
| No | b) Should Arizona allow same-sex couples to form civil unions? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support state funding for stem cell research? | ||
| No | d) Do you support state funding for embryonic stem cell research? | ||
| No | e) Do you support the state's use of affirmative action? | ||
| No | f) Do you support the inclusion of sexual orientation in Arizona's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| No | g) Do you support the inclusion of gender identity in Arizona's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| I am a strong believer in "if you don't love Arizona, leave it" that goes for people who just have to be different. There is no way to change the bias against unnatural behaviors in the general population and it is not the public outrage I fear at the acceptance of homosexual relationships but the open practice of this, leads children to believe it is acceptable and actually it is, by clearly defined principals, "An Abomination" and will cause ruin in our society. | |||
| Educational Kiosks in every DES office where people applying for foodstamps will be required to review an educational program and take a test that explains the financial source of the resources they recieve, (that one day they will be able and required to help others through their own taxes), how to manage the money, foodstamps, ahhhcs benefits with efficiency, as to reduce costs to the state (and possibly be able to reduce the benefit amount if recipients are trained to use less), including teaching to use the doctors more sparingly via basic home care principles, before rushing off to DR. |
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