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Greg Sagan's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Greg Sagan has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2020 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 2020.

  • "I have no problem giving sole and unreserved discretion over pregnancy to the mother. If she is the only one who can carry the child then she is the only one who can decide to." (futuretense.blog)
  • "In the spectrum of issues wrapped up in the emotionally loaded term "abortion," social conservatives must yield one end of the spectrum or the other. Either they drop their objections to fact-based sex education, contraception and family planning in our schools, or they drop their objections to abortion. I favor the approach the Netherlands has adopted, but if we aren't going to do this then we'd better reconcile ourselves to the inevitable demand for abortion." (votesmart.org)
  • "I completely oppose the new Republican tax scheme because it adds trillions of dollars to the federal debt -- in violation of generations of Republican ideology" (votesmart.org)
  • "When we institute universal, single-payer healthcare (as I believe we should), we will then be able to focus our attention on solutions that ensure Social Security's continuing solvency." (votesmart.org)
  • "This was never truer than it has been since the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizen United case. Now corporations and other organizations with a lot of money can "bid up" their influence on politics at all levels, and individual citizens who aren't blessed with fabulous wealth must watch helplessly from the sidelines while these enormous sums of money decide what "government" is going to mean to them. This is fundamentally wrong." (votesmart.org)
  • "I believe America's military can and should be, first and foremost, the guarantor of our borders and our collective safety. A military capable of defending our interests around the world is a worthy pursuit as long as it is not a threat to the legitimate interests of other nations. We can achieve this for far less than we are currently spending." (votesmart.org)
  • "It’s also not as if the Department of Defense would be permanently denied this boost. At the end of the three months the new budget would be approved and the 7% boost would be spread over three fiscal quarters instead of four. I don’t see how this 7% reduction can create "enormous damage," and I don’t see how waiting three months can create "lasting damage." As far as I can tell, Congressman Thornberry’s argument is the Congressional equivalent of "the dog ate my homework."" (futuretense.blog)
  • "I also believe America is overdue for an investment in infrastructure, and I would support a bill that rebuilds America's roads and bridges and brings high-speed internet access to every home in America." (votesmart.org)
  • 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.
  • "I also support subsidizing renewable energy sources to enable easy market entry and rapid development of technology." (votesmart.org)
  • "Other nations are rapidly outpacing us in renewable energy, and we are forfeiting our role of leadership. Renewable energy can create millions of new, high-paying, long-term employment opportunities for the countries that stay at the leading edge of technology. To cede this advantage to others, especially those with whom we may be in political competition, is unnecessary and poses a threat to our own industry and way of life." (votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "But I believe we can maintain the Second Amendment without arming those who are a threat to society or themselves, without arming those who are dangerously maladjusted, and without adding to someone's personal arsenal weapons for which there is no legitimate self-defense or sporting need." (votesmart.org)
  • "I also believe in certain restrictions to the second amendment." (futuretense.blog)
  • "It is no threat to the Second Amendment to remove from civilian hands weapons that are designed exclusively to kill other human beings. There are many military weapons that the average civilian cannot own, and whatever laws, regulations and security practices keep them out of the hands of mass murderers should be applied to assault weapons." (votesmart.org)
  • "Much of the nation's attention on the way Republicans want to run America is focused on health care, and the mesmerizing object of that focus is the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. For six years the Republicans have been telling us that Obamacare is a blight on the body politic, that they would repeal it as soon as they had the power to do so, and that their own version of an American health care bill would be vastly superior. When they did finally capture the country's governmental power, we found that they had no plan at all, far less a better one." (votesmart.org)
  • "His stated intention to build an impregnable wall between the United States and Mexico will inflict major economic damage on the communities along both sides of the border." (votesmart.org)
  • "I will do everything in my power to prevent or halt construction on the stupid, wasteful and ultimately futile southern border wall that will be billed to America and not to Mexico." (votesmart.org)
  • "On a larger scale, and our southern border represents a pretty large scale, a physical wall embellished with armed guards, searchlight towers, sensors, mines and whatever other forms of denial we can contrive is still vulnerable. For one thing, we cannot and do not want to completely isolate the US from Mexico. American businesses have facilities and customers in Mexico, as Mexican businesses have here. So there must be passage points in the wall. A passage point is an invitation for human creativity to defeat." (futuretense.blog)
  • "I support comprehensive immigration reform that recognizes how every arriving immigrant is also a market for American goods and services, since they must eat, work and sleep here, and establishes an accelerated path to full citizenship for Dreamers." (votesmart.org)
  • 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.
  • "His retreat from NAFTA will hit Texans especially hard, mainly cattle ranchers and wheat farmers." (votesmart.org)

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