Daniel Watts has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2021 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning 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) Eliminate public funding for abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions. | |||
g) Other or expanded principles |
State Budget: Indicate the funding levels you will support for the following general categories.State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels you will support.
Slightly Increase Funding | a) Education (Higher) | ||
Slightly Decrease Funding | b) Education (K-12) | ||
Maintain Funding Status | c) Environment | ||
Slightly Decrease Funding | d) Health care | ||
Maintain Funding Status | e) Law enforcement | ||
Maintain Funding Status | f) Transportation and Highway infrastructure | ||
Greatly Decrease Funding | g) Welfare | ||
h) Other or expanded categories | |||
Slightly Increase | a) Alcohol taxes | ||
Slightly Decrease | b) Capital gains taxes | ||
Slightly Increase | c) Cigarette taxes | ||
Slightly Decrease | d) Corporate taxes | ||
Slightly Decrease | e) Gasoline taxes | ||
Greatly Decrease | f) Income taxes (incomes below $75,000) | ||
Greatly Decrease | g) Income taxes (incomes above $75,000) | ||
Eliminate | h) Inheritance taxes | ||
Maintain Status | i) Property taxes | ||
Greatly Decrease | j) Sales taxes | ||
Greatly Decrease | k) Vehicle taxes | ||
l) Other or expanded categories | |||
No | m) Should Internet sales be taxed? | ||
Reduce spending across the board, but sparing higher education | |||
K-12 standardized testing wastes money -->I will greatly reduce it. |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.d) Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?
Yes | a) Do you support the current two term, eight year limit for California governors? | ||
Yes | b) Do you support the current two term, eight year limit for California state senators? | ||
Yes | c) Do you support the current three term, six year limit for California assembly members? | ||
No | 1) Individual | ||
No | 2) PAC | ||
No | 3) Corporate | ||
No | 4) Political Parties | ||
Yes | e) Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information? | ||
Yes | f) Do you support partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns? | ||
No | g) Do you support voting on-line? | ||
Yes | h) Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes? | ||
No | i) Do you support allowing voter registration on Election Day? | ||
No | j) Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in California are closed? | ||
Yes | k) Do you support human services (medical care, education, etc.) for legal immigrants and their children? | ||
Undecided | l) Should California recognize civil unions between same-sex couples? | ||
Yes | m) Should California restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman? | ||
Yes | n) Other or expanded principles | ||
Lower Student fees |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) to address crime.
a) Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff. | |||
X | b) Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons. | ||
c) Support the use of the death penalty in California. | |||
X | d) Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released. | ||
e) End parole for repeat violent offenders. | |||
X | f) Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders. | ||
g) Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. | |||
h) Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes. | |||
X | i) Amend the three-strikes law so that it is applied only when the third offense is a serious or violent felony. | ||
j) Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults. | |||
k) Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes. | |||
l) Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers. | |||
X | m) Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth. | ||
X | n) Increase state funding for additional security of critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks. | ||
o) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.
a) Support national standards and testing of public school students. | |||
X | b) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any participating public, private, or religious school. | ||
X | c) Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure). | ||
d) Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers. | |||
e) Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay. | |||
f) Support displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools. | |||
g) Endorse teacher-led voluntary prayer in public schools. | |||
h) Require public schools to administer high school exit exams. | |||
i) Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries. | |||
j) Increase state funding to expand Head Start programs. | |||
X | k) Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable. | ||
X | l) Support age-appropriate sexual education programs that teach about abstinence, contraceptives and HIV/STD prevention methods. | ||
X | m) Support abstinence-only sexual education programs. | ||
n) Support funding for multi-lingual education. | |||
X | o) Other or expanded principles | ||
Lower college fees |
Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning employment.Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on:
a) Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market. | |||
X | b) Reduce state government regulations on the private sector to encourage investment and economic expansion. | ||
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 their employees. | ||
e) Increase state funds to provide child care for children of low-income working families. | |||
f) Include sexual orientation in California's anti-discrimination laws. | |||
g) Create a 'living wage' standard for state employees and firms accepting state contracts. | |||
X | h) Other or expanded principles | ||
No | a) College and university admissions | ||
No | b) Public employment | ||
No | c) State contracting | ||
Yes | d) Should California ban the collection and use of racial and ethnic data by state government agencies? | ||
Lower college fees to make education more accessible to minorities | |||
Lower fees to make education more accessible to minorities |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.
X | a) Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology. | ||
X | b) Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused or abandoned. | ||
c) Support reductions in greehouse gas emissions. | |||
d) Ban drilling for oil and gas in waters off the California coast. | |||
e) Support a bond for construction of a high-speed train linking the San Francisco Bay area to Los Angeles via the Central Valley. | |||
f) Increase funding for open space preservation. | |||
g) Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law. | |||
h) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning gun issues.
a) Ban the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting. | |||
b) Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |||
X | c) Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | ||
d) Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns. | |||
e) Allow citizens to carry concealed guns. | |||
X | f) Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns. | ||
X | g) Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows. | ||
X | h) Require a license for gun possession. | ||
i) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health issues.
a) Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms or state-funded care where necessary. | |||
b) Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs. | |||
c) Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits. | |||
d) Support patients' right to sue their HMOs. | |||
X | e) Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied by their HMO. | ||
X | f) Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government. | ||
g) Legalize physician-assisted suicide in California. | |||
h) Increase state funding for training health workers to recognize and respond to the release of biological agents. | |||
i) Other or expanded principles |
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare.
X | a) Support current time limits on welfare benefits. | ||
b) Increase employment and job training programs for welfare recipients. | |||
c) Provide tax incentives to businesses that hire welfare recipients. | |||
X | d) Provide child care for welfare recipients who work. | ||
X | e) Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work. | ||
f) Eliminate government-funded welfare programs. | |||
g) Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations. | |||
h) Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to expand state services to include the working poor. | |||
X | i) Maintain current spending levels for affordable housing. | ||
j) Other or expanded principles |
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