Frank Nice's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Frank Nice has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2022 Political Courage Test.
Maryland State Legislative Election 2022 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | a) Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| No | b) Do you support legalizing abortion when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape? | ||
| No | c) Do you support the prohibition of public funds for organizations that perform abortions? | ||
| I have spent my whole life as a pharmacist healthcare activist working with pregnant women to have successful outcomes of healthy, cared for, breastfed babies. | |||
| Yes | a) In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing state employee salaries AND/OR pensions? | ||
| No | b) Do you support raising taxes on any income or on any entity, to promote economic growth? | ||
| I support common sense processes | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Yes | b) Should an individual under 18 accused of a violent crime be prosecuted as an adult? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support the use of private prisons? | ||
| No | e) Do you support mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders? | ||
| No | f) Do you support legalizing recreational use of marijuana for anyone above 21 years of age in Maryland? | ||
| g) Other or expanded principles: | |||
| No | a) Do you support state government spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector? | ||
| No | c) Do you support an increase of the minimum wage of Maryland? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| Yes; for COVID support if governments created the outcomes | |||
| No | a) Do you support adopting federal education standards in Maryland? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support state funding for charter schools? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support increasing teacher salaries AND/OR benefits in Maryland? | ||
| No | d) Should immigrants unlawfully present in the United States who graduate from Maryland's high schools be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities? | ||
| Everyone citi=zen should have equal treatment among themselves | |||
| No | a) Do you support state funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
| No | b) Do you support government regulations of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support increasing state funding for clean drinking water initiatives? | ||
| Private industry can do most of this best | |||
| No | a) Do you support the regulation of campaign contributions from corporations, unions, and individuals? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support the use of an independent AND/OR bipartisan commission for redistricting? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support requiring a government-issued photo identification in order to vote at the polls? | ||
| No | d) Do you support automatic voter registration? | ||
| We need to act as the Republic we are. | |||
| No | a) Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| No | b) Should background checks be required on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows? | ||
| No | c) Should a license be required for gun ownership? | ||
| The Second Amendment should prevail on these issues. | |||
| No | a) Should the state government increase funding for treatment facilities to combat opioid abuse? | ||
| No | b) Do you support a government-run (single-payer) healthcare program such as Medicare-for All? | ||
| No | c) Should an individual have the right to choose to die through euthanasia? | ||
| No | d) Do you support eliminating religious exemptions for vaccinations? | ||
| No | e) Do you support expanding paid family AND/OR medical leave opportunities? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support lowering the cost of prescription drugs? | ||
| Support or do not support based on what non-governmental organizations can do better then governments, which is almost everything. I know as I am a pharmacist healthcare activist. | |||
| No | a) Do you support the inclusion of sexual orientation in Maryland's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| No | b) Do you support the inclusion of gender identity in Maryland's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support greater efforts by Maryland's state government in closing gender, racial and other wage gaps? | ||
| I support my yes or no answers under freedom of religion | |||
| Access to proper healthcare, especially for mental health conditions, especially in the Veterans' and school children's populations; access to an excellent education, enabled by parenteral rights, student directed funding, and transparent curricula; and access to adequate (which includes and goes beyond affordable) housing in safe communities, provided by law enforcement support and funding of police. | |||
| Access to an excellent education, which is the basis for most life decisions regarding all other issues that are important. There is sufficient current misdirected and misapplied funding provided by current taxation. In fact. my proposals should, and most probably would, decrease current funding that throws money from the top at outcomes rather than working from the bottom up on the root causes of the outcomes. |
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