Ray Moors' Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Ray Moors refused to tell citizens where he/she stands on any of the issues addressed in the 2012 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.
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.
California 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? | ||
| The prospect of abortion is a decision to be made by families, parents and doctors, not governments. Abortion can not be criminalized because with the technology of today there is no way to prevent those that are dedicated to terminating their pregnancy from following through. We should continue to offer family and community support with alternatives for the lives of unwanted children. Before considering abortion please be advised: To date, history has yet to record the name of the woman that regrets looking into her own childs' eyes. | |||
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 California's budget.
| Greatly Increase | a) Education (higher) | ||
| Greatly Increase | b) Education (K-12) | ||
| Maintain Status | c) Environment | ||
| Maintain Status | d) Health care | ||
| Maintain Status | e) Law enforcement | ||
| Greatly Increase | f) Transportation and highway infrastructure | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) Welfare | ||
| Greatly Decrease | h) Other or expanded categories | ||
| Maintain Status | a) Alcohol taxes | ||
| Greatly Increase | b) Cigarette taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | c) Corporate taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | d) Gasoline taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | e) Property taxes | ||
| Slightly Decrease | f) Sales taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | g) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Slightly Decrease | h) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | i) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Slightly Decrease | j) Other or expanded categories | ||
| No | a) Tapping into California's "rainy day" fund | ||
| No | b) Issuing the early release of certain non-violent offenders | ||
| Yes | c) Instituting mandatory furloughs and layoffs for state employees | ||
| Yes | d) Reducing benefits for Medicaid recipients | ||
| Yes | e) Privatizing certain government services | ||
| Greatly decrease the number of government employees, their salaries, benefits till budgets are balanced and increase the age of retirement to 60 as well as decrease retirement benefits. | |||
| Unsecured property taxes for improvements and equipment purchased when opening a private sector business should be based on whether that business is making or losing monies. The people that have the courage to open a private sector business should not be financially punished when they are also losing money. Presently, county governments are punishing those that have had the audacity to open a business and employ people. | |||
| Like with the private sector, all government employees wages and benefits should be based on revenues. When the private sector goes into recession all of the middle class taxpayers bear the brunt of the downturn in the economy. However, government employees just wave their contracts in the air demanding to be paid by the very hand that feeds them. Whilst we in the private sector have been furloughed, laid off, salaries decreased and homes lost the government employees only offer to forgo their raises. It's time to invite all government employees to "Our Recession"! | |||
e) Do you support limits on the following types of contributions to candidates for state government?
| Yes | a) Should California hold a constitutional convention to rewrite the state constitution? | ||
| No | b) Do you support changing the requirement for state budget passage from a two-thirds vote to a majority vote? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support limits on the number of terms for California governors? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support limits on the number of terms for California state legislators? | ||
| No | 1) Individual | ||
| Yes | 2) Political Action Committee | ||
| Yes | 3) Corporate | ||
| Yes | 4) Political Party | ||
| Yes | f) Should candidates for state office be encouraged to meet voluntary spending limits? | ||
| Yes | g) Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information? | ||
| Presently, our Fair Political Practices Commission rules are very unfair to those that challenge incumbents. It is very difficult to raise funds for those opposing special interests because they hold the purse strings and have limited the amount of monies available from individual sources. The most powerful special interest groups are the State Employee Unions who have hi-jacked our democracy and have run our state broke. We must slay this dragon and take back control of our states' economy. Limiting campaign expenditures will cause the voters to educate their vote by reading newspapers, going on-line and studying the issues. | |||
| 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? | ||
| 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? | ||
| (d) Depending on the age and the severity of the crime. (e) A minor who sends sexually-explicit or nude photos by cell phone should have his parents informed and the problem will get solved "in-house". | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector? | ||
| No | b) Do you support increased state funding for job-training programs that re-train displaced workers? | ||
| No | c) Do you support expanding access to unemployment benefits? | ||
| No | d) Do you support providing financial incentives to the private sector for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support increased spending on infrastructure projects for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| No | f) Do you support providing direct financial assistance to homeowners facing foreclosure? | ||
| Yes | g) Do you support suspending the sale of bonds that would finance the California high-speed rail? | ||
| (d) The "Free Market" needs no financial incentives or help from government. When government stops helping jobs will be created. (e) We absolutely need to increase spending on infrastructure and highways. Infrastructure and highways are the means by which jobs are created and commerce flows. | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| No | 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 California high schools be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities? | ||
| (a) not when federal funds are tied to national standards. Tenure should not be the basis considered for pay or layoffs but student performance and teacher competence. (f) Illegal immigrants who have graduated from high school in California have already been the beneficiaries of many years of education funded by United States citizen, middle class taxpayers. Let them go back to their own countries and be of benefit there. | |||
| 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 California's energy infrastructure? | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| "Greeniacs"(combination of the words Green and Maniacs) believe that climate change and the deterioration of ice on earth is the result of human activities. Ice has been melting ever since the conclusion of the Ice Age 15,000 years ago. If human activity is to blame then the humans of 15,000 years ago must have had vastly more cars on the freeways and coal burning electrical plants on every corner. There is no way to stop climate change unlsess you can change the proximity of the earth to the sun which itself changes over the millenia. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support requiring a license for gun possession? | ||
| (a) those of violent criminal behavior should not be allowed to purchase a gun. (c) & (d) I support the licensing of peoples to carry concealed and unconcealed guns. | |||
| No | a) Do you support the establishment of a single-payer, publicly-administered health care system for California? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support a universally-accessible, publicly-administered health insurance option? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support expanding access to health care through commercial health insurance reform? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support interstate health insurance compacts? | ||
| No | e) Should individuals be required to purchase health care insurance? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support monetary limits on damages that can be collected in malpractice lawsuits? | ||
| Yes | g) Do you support legalizing physician-assisted suicide in California? | ||
| Yes | h) Do you support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes? | ||
| (g) recently my best friend dying of pancreatic cancer with no hope of improvement and in literal uncontrollable pain asked for the last overdose of pain relief from his physician that did finally put and end to his unendurable agony and his life. These decisions are not for government bureaucrats but for the patients and doctors. | |||
| Yes | a) Should marriage only be between one man and one woman? | ||
| Yes | b) Should California 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? | ||
| No | e) Do you support the state's use of affirmative action? | ||
| No | f) Do you support the inclusion of sexual orientation in California's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| No | g) Do you support the inclusion of gender identity in California's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| (e), (f) & (g) every person should be judged not by the color of their skin but on the content of their character and competence. | |||
| All of my priorities are related to saving jobs, businesses and making California a state of opportunity again. We must make California a business friendly state again. No funding is needed to prevent government bureaucrats from running businesses out of California. In reality we will save huge by laying off these "Greeniac" (combination of the words green and maniac) bureaucrats and inviting businesses back to California. No good can come to a state that does not have employers and a successful tax paying population. |
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