Sarah Shorter's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Sarah Shorter has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2022 Political Courage Test.
Missouri State Legislative Election 2022 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | a) Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| d) Other or expanded principles: | |||
| No | a) In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing state employee salaries AND/OR pensions? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support raising taxes on any income or on any entity, to promote economic growth? | ||
| I believe in taxing billionaires and corporations. "Reducing state employee salaries" doesn't mean the big money earning people. The reality is that the people getting pay cuts will be the social service workers, who already don't get paid enough. | |||
| a) Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | |||
| b) Should an individual under 18 accused of a violent crime be prosecuted as an adult? | |||
| No | c) Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police? | ||
| d) Do you support the use of private prisons? | |||
| No | e) Do you support mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support the legalization of recreational marijuana in Missouri? | ||
| I believe that most of these questions are far too nuanced for a flat answer. If a 15 year old stabs someone, should she be tried as an adult? What if she is killing her rapist? There are too many girls and women who have gone to jail for that for me to say outright what the answer is. Federal immigration laws need to be overhauled before they get enforced. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support state government spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | b) Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support an increase of the minimum wage of Missouri? | ||
| No | d) Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| I believe that businesses impacted by COVID should absolutely get money. Unfortunately, the money intended for small businesses didn't go to them. We need to find out how to make the financial relief process more accessible and navigable for small business owners. Helping corporations by deregulating industries, allowing them to not pay their workers a living wage, and giving them bailouts does not help our economy. It's worse for their employees and can be devastating to small businesses, particularly in small towns. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support adopting federal education standards in Missouri? | ||
| No | b) Do you support state funding for charter schools? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support increasing teacher salaries AND/OR benefits in Missouri? | ||
| Yes | d) Should immigrants unlawfully present in the United States who graduate from Missouri's high schools be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities? | ||
| Let's look good and hard at our immigration laws. How much it costs, how long it takes, how backed up the system is. Also, it's not like people who are "unlawfully present" don't contribute to taxes, communities, and the economy. They aren't freeloading. And if we're talking about people who are unlawful residents, we need to talk about how we're all on stolen land. So there's that. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support state funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support government regulations of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support increasing state funding for clean drinking water initiatives? | ||
| d) Other or expanded principles: | |||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| No | c) Do you support requiring a government-issued photo identification in order to vote at the polls? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support automatic voter registration? | ||
| e) Do you support Missouri holding a state constitutional convention? | |||
| f) Other or expanded principles: | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | c) Should a license be required for gun ownership? | ||
| d) Other or expanded principles: | |||
| Yes | a) Should the state government increase funding for treatment facilities to combat opioid abuse? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support a government-run (single-payer) healthcare program such as Medicare-for All? | ||
| c) Should an individual have the right to choose to die through euthanasia? | |||
| d) Do you support eliminating religious exemptions for vaccinations? | |||
| Yes | e) Do you support expanding paid family AND/OR medical leave opportunities? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support lowering the cost of prescription drugs? | ||
| Health care is a right! We need more mental healthcare support in Missouri. People should not have to choose between rent and their medication. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support the inclusion of sexual orientation in Missouri's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support the inclusion of gender identity in Missouri's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support greater efforts by Missouri's state government in closing gender, racial and other wage gaps? | ||
| d) Other or expanded principles: | |||
| Mental health care for everyone, but in particular teens and children. Along with this, better funding for Children's Division and our Medicaid offices. School protections for trans kids. Supporting rural EMS and firefighters with more funding. | |||
| We are going to fully fund and staff our Medicaid office. Here's what we're going to do: we're going to stop giving tax breaks to people who make over 500k a year. We're going to stop giving the majority of income earners a cut that saves $60 and acting like it's such a great gift. We'll also use that money to build community mental health centers, particularly in rural areas, as a little treat. People will save money on healthcare, spending it in their communities, boosting local economies and providing more tax money, which government can spend on healthcare etc. |
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