Ed Borey's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Washington State Legislative Election 2010 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | a) Do you consider yourself pro-choice or pro-life? | ||
| Yes | b) Should abortion be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy? | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support requiring parental notification before an abortion is performed on a minor? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support requiring parental consent before an abortion is performed on a minor? | ||
| Yes | g) Do you support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods? | ||
| No | h) Do you support abstinence-only sexual education programs? | ||
| I support the general rule that abortions should only be performed in the first trimester. However there should be allowance for exceptions. For example endangerment of a womans life latter in the pregnancy would be an exception to the first trimester rule. | |||
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 Washington's budget.
| Slightly Decrease | a) Education (higher) | ||
| Slightly Decrease | b) Education (K-12) | ||
| Slightly Decrease | c) Environment | ||
| Slightly Decrease | d) Health care | ||
| Slightly Decrease | e) Law enforcement | ||
| Slightly Decrease | f) Transportation and highway infrastructure | ||
| Slightly Decrease | g) Welfare | ||
| Maintain Status | a) Alcohol taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | b) Cigarette taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | c) Corporate taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | d) Gasoline taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | e) Property taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | f) Sales taxes | ||
| No | a) Tapping into Washington's "rainy day" fund | ||
| No | b) Instituting an income tax on high-earners | ||
| No | c) Extending the suspension of Initiative 960, the Taxpayer Protection Act | ||
| Yes | d) Issuing the early release of certain non-violent offenders | ||
| No | e) Increasing tuition rates at public universities | ||
| No | f) Instituting mandatory furloughs and layoffs for state employees | ||
| No | g) Reducing benefits for Medicaid recipients | ||
| Yes | h) Privatizing certain government services | ||
| We have to reduce spending by $3B to $5B accoss the board in the state. That will require a restructuring and reformation of state spending; establishiment of spending priorities and establishment of pay as you go rules for all programs for program life. In addition to spending issues is the unfunded public employee retirement system that needs to be brought current over the next 10 to 15 years further reducing available funding. Key priorities are education and public safety. | |||
| In this time of high debt, slow recovery and recession we should not be increasing taxes, nor decreasing them. We need to first reform and restructure spending. Once we have have identified how much government that we want and what we can afford we can look at the tax/financing of the government. That does not mean increasing taxes. It means putting a rationale scheme of taxation to support our spending and replace our patchwork quilt of opportunistically based taxes. | |||
| We need to address our spending issues. | |||
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 Washington governors? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support limits on the number of terms for Washington 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? | ||
| f) Other or expanded principles | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | c) Should the possession of small amounts of marijuana be decriminalized? | ||
| Yes | d) Should a minor accused of a violent crime be prosecuted as an adult? | ||
| No | e) Should a minor who sends sexually-explicit or nude photos by cell phone face criminal charges? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police? | ||
| The judical system needs to have the flexibility to determine if a minor accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as an adult or a minor. Regarding decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana down to the level of say traffic violation, I think this has already been affected at a practical level in the field by the police. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support the privatization of liquor sales? | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| No | e) Do you support providing financial incentives to the private sector for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| No | 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? | ||
| I don't think that most of the short term government incentives to stimulate the economy work. We have seen that over the past sixty years and have seen it in particular over the last 2 years. Let not spend the unspent but allocated dollars and avoid further increasing our national debt. What stimulates the economy is an environment of certainy, good tax policy, taxes and spending in rough alignment, a Fed rate of 5% and an inflation rate below 2%. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support national education standards? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support using a merit pay system for teachers? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support state funding for charter schools? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support the state government providing college students with financial aid? | ||
| No | f) Should illegal immigrants who graduate from Washington high schools be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities? | ||
| g) Other or expanded principles | |||
| No | a) Do you support state funding for the development of alternative energy? | ||
| No | 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 Washington's energy infrastructure? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support state funding for open space preservation? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support enacting environmental regulations aimed at reducing the effects of climate change? | ||
| Fed and State funding for alternative fuels should be limited to R&D and Protyping of new technologies not the long term subsidy of diseconomic solutions. The funding should be in the form of investment tax credits. Most other energy solutions have the option of self funding through market capitalization or profitability. However, I would entertain investment tax credits there also. I do support open space preservation and regulations to address the effects of climate change but not a carbon tax or cap and trade. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| No | e) Do you support a ban on assault weapons? | ||
| I support background checks and keeping guns out of the hands of felons and the mentally disturbed. | |||
| 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 continuing to allow physician-assisted suicide in Washington? | ||
| No | g) Do you support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes? | ||
| h) Other or expanded principles | |||
| Yes | a) Should marriage only be between one man and one woman? | ||
| Yes | b) Should Washington continue to allow same-sex couples to form domestic partnerships? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support state funding for stem cell research? | ||
| No | d) Do you support state funding for embryonic stem cell research? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support the state's use of affirmative action? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support the inclusion of sexual orientation in Washington's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| No | g) Do you support the inclusion of gender identity in Washington's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| h) Other or expanded principles | |||
| Fiscal Responsibility: balenced budget, no new taxes, reform/restructured spending, pay as you go for all spending for program life and priorities of government. Jobs:create a competitive business environment, privatize WC and Liquor Sales, reform unemployment, regulatory reform and replace the B & O tax. Education: Student centric funding, mentoring in middle and high schools, limit social promotion, strengthen math, science and english programs and include student performance metrics in teacher evaluations, tenure and pay reviews. |
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