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Vermont Gubernatorial Election 2018 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | a) Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| Yes | b) Should abortion be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape? | ||
| No | c) Do you support the prohibition of public funds for organizations that perform abortions? | ||
| It is my spiritual position that we must not pass judgement on another, this is a base biblical principle, but of course we do all the time! I could of course, suggest that we create laws to geld men who rape women, but I suspect that men would not be happy with laws effecting their personal body, so neither should women have laws affecting their body ! It is my work to describe steps to an economy based on nurturing, which I believe the country and my state yearns for. I stand for a transformation of our political systems. | |||
Budget Stabilization:Indicate which proposals you support (if any) for balancing Vermont's budget.
| a) Should the education budget be funded by a new education income tax instead of property taxes? | |||
| b) Reducing state employee salaries AND/OR pensions? | |||
| c) Instituting mandatory furloughs AND/OR layoffs for state employees? | |||
| d) Reducing benefits for Medicaid recipients? | |||
| e) An income tax increase on any tax bracket? | |||
| "Give me control of a nation's money supply and I care not who makes the laws." My work on policy is to get at the root of the problem: a shortage of money for the work we need to do because money is not being circulated at the source by Congress, but by our commercial banking empire. Nathan Rothchild said those words, and Congress has surrendered control of our nation to bankers. Taxation is a ruse of intimidation, a means to single out groups. Its time we renegotiate our contractual obligations with government, with the safety of numbers. More: empeyton.com | |||
| a) Do you support any limits on campaign contributions to state candidates? | |||
| b) Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | |||
| c) Do you support the use of an independent AND/OR bipartisan commission for redistricting? | |||
| No | d) Do you support requiring a government-issued photo identification in order to vote at the polls? | ||
| Donations erode integrity of any leader. I do not seek them. Did Gandhi seek them? I am far more concerned with the exposure problem than the donation problem. I want every legally balloted candidate to have substantial exposure through media to voting people. I envision a forum in each county (14) on 14 topics, education, economy, environment etc. and the results posted on media, on cable access, and printed in local news, paid for the state budget. This is crucial to help expand our response to local & global crises politically. Not worried about voter fraud, rather lots about suppression. | |||
| No | a) Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes? | ||
| No | c) Should a minor accused of a violent crime be prosecuted as an adult? | ||
| No | d) Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police? | ||
| Peace Officers. This is what I will call them, and seek to rebuild their approach as such. The double standard of harm allowed by peace officers, soldiers and policy makers, and not by others is a matter of great concern. I believe we must immediately embark on a Truth and Reconciliation path, and end our fear based manipulation as a foundational matter. Combined with proper economic and monetary policy we can alter the course of history for a much more collaborative and safe State, Country and planet. Women's understanding of nurturing, as work, as an effective change maker is key. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support state government spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support lowering state taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| c) Do you support reducing state government regulations on the private sector? | |||
| Yes | d) Do you support expanding access to unemployment benefits? | ||
| No | e) Do you support requiring welfare applicants to pass a drug test in order to receive benefits? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support an increase of the minimum wage of Vermont? | ||
| g) Should Vermont breweries be permitted to terminate distribution agreements with beverage distributors for no cause? | |||
| All economy is dependent on monetary policy (currently made by the commercial banking empire). The question becomes, should the very same people who create the rules of money circulation be the same ones to benefit the most from them? There some tricks we have to increase the circulation of local money, a VT credit card, a public bank, creating alternative forms of credit, work trade systems, simplifying self directed IRA's for VT investment, but at some point we need to face the dragon. How do we democratize money? What is democratized money? What is the difference between wealth and greed? | |||
| No | a) Do you support adopting federal education standards in Vermont? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support state funding for charter schools? | ||
| Yes | c) Should immigrants unlawfully present in the United States who graduate from Vermont high schools be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities? | ||
| Are our children as free as they can be? Is their natural ability to learn and teach hindered by segregation in age groups? Are our teachers as free as they can be to practice their own teaching art ? IN an age when we need new answers, new approaches, should we be insisting on compliance? Should we be forcing 1st graders to sit and doping them when they fidget? Do teachers have too much power to designate "winners and losers?" Should data collected from the iPads and tablets be sold? We're not trusting or supporting a child's natural inquisitiveness well. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support state funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support state government regulations of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support increasing state funding for clean drinking water initiatives? | ||
| We need to move the entire state to organic practices and create the budget to do so. Not only for climate, but as well for health. It will serve our economy soon. The State should be more supportive of passive house standards for new construction, and use of sequestering materials like hempcrete; hempfullygreen.com. There is little more important than restoring the cleanest water and air. We must bring chemtrails to the public's attention and seek remedy for that. Creation of tiny/small home pocket neighborhoods with hempcrete type materials will be top on my list of to do items. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| Yes | b) Should background checks be required on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows? | ||
| No | c) Should teachers be allowed to bring guns into the classroom? | ||
| Yes | d) Should a license be required for gun ownership? | ||
| Again, the term peace officer must be restored for police, and I will use it. Its very important to have gun control or disarmament of government. No murder in the name of government excuses it. We have all kinds of nonlethal methods of suppressing any sort of unwanted activity. Lethal activity by government, or non government companies needs to be ended as much as lethal activity by people. It is a huge transformation that we must undertake, there is no choice about it. WE must rebuild trust, and utilize peaceful means for all activity. Liberty Union is dedicated to nonviolence. | |||
| a) Should the state government increase funding for treatment facilities to combat opioid abuse? | |||
| Yes | b) Do you support Medicaid expansion through Vermont's health care programs? | ||
| No | c) Do you support requiring individuals to purchase health care insurance? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support legislation that grants citizens the right to choose to die through euthanasia? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support eliminating religious exemptions for vaccinations? | ||
| I will always avoid war terminology for health issue, your question " to combat opioid abuse?" is a perfect illustration. The level of economic and societal violence is perhaps the most intrinsic reason that people turn to opioids, stemming from the violence of greed by big pharma and those tendencies of doctors who respond to their marketing efforts. To replace the constant competitive environment of capitalism, we look at Liberty Unionism, a concept of a nurture based economy where peaceful personal freedom is supported in peacefulness, and democratization of money allows for social needs without taxation or debt. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support the inclusion of sexual orientation in Vermont's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support the inclusion of gender identity in Vermont's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support greater efforts by Vermont state government in closing the pay gap between men and women? | ||
| As we look at our transformation to Liberty Unionism, and the people begin to feel a reaction of relief from multiple stressors created by a domination paradigm within capitalism, many of our issues will also find relief, racism will be reduced, as will homophobia, and other fears. This is not a forced change, it is a natural one, we are in a disaster time period - we need each other, we must work together. In Liberty. In Union. For a nurture based economy that breathes life, that restores faith, that gives us freedom, that we all partake in with dignity. | |||
| My top priority is to orient our budget for a nurture based economy. To do this we must create new sources of credit and create better use of existing monetary systems. WE are close to a Public Bank in VT, we just need to license VEDA, who is already acting like a bank. A Vermont Credit Card, a Vermont Validated Credit system, where work/service has direct value. An efficient and cost reduced method of self directed IRA's allowing Vermonters to support Vermont. No tax on VT made items. Nest steps are more transformative - crypto, discussion: 1 st amendment rights |
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