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John Fitzgerald's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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John Fitzgerald 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.

  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "[…] I propose a Military Readiness Funding Act that reduces the size of the military and thus the size of government and thus hugely reduces the tax burden on everyone." (johnfitzgeraldforcongress.com)
  • "The defense budget no longer bears any relationship to our national security. Maintaining an empire is destroying our economy and society. The military budget is an underlying cause of America’s fiscal woes." (johnfitzgeraldforcongress.com)
  • "I strongly favor campaign finance reform." (johnfitzgeraldforcongress.com)
  • "Corporations are not people and yet corporations are afforded the same rights as a person. The result is that giant corporations can control the entire political landscape by donating to its favored candidates, political action committees (PACs), political parties, issue groups, and legislators. Real campaign finance reform is impossible so long as corporations are able to purchase power. " (johnfitzgeraldforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
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  • "The science is *not* in, and we certainly should not be setting global policy on bad science, let alone pay global carbon taxes to the banks for producing an essential, life giving gas. It is not a toxic gas, as the EPA has ruled. I will resist all attempts to impose a carbon tax on the American people." (johnfitzgeraldforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "The Obama Administration, however, calling this a "crisis," has already inserted U.S. troops into parts of Iran, and is refusing to take the option to use military force off the table. (Sounds like Iraq all over again, doesn’t it?)" (johnfitzgeraldforcongress.com)
  • "I will vote to de-fund and end both our overt wars on Iraq and Afghanistan and our covert wars in Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Syria and Iran." (johnfitzgeraldforcongress.com)

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