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Tim Weintz, Sr.'s Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Tim Weintz, Sr. refused to tell citizens where he stands on any of the issues addressed in the 2010 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.

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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 2004 National Political Awareness Test

The Political Courage Test asks candidates which items they will support if elected. It does not ask them to indicate which items they will oppose. Through extensive research of public polling data, we discovered that voters are more concerned with what candidates would support when elected to office, not what they oppose. If a candidate does not select a response to any part or all of any question, it does not necessarily indicate that the candidate is opposed to that particular item.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.

a) Abortions should always be illegal.
X b) Abortions should always be legal.
c) Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
d) Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
e) Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
f) Eliminate public funding for abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
g) Other or expanded principles

State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category.State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax.

Maintain Status a) Education (Higher)
Maintain Status b) Education (K-12)
Maintain Status c) Environment
Maintain Status d) Health care
Maintain Status e) Law enforcement
Maintain Status f) Transportation and highway infrastructure
Maintain Status g) Welfare
h) Other or expanded categories
Maintain Status a) Alcohol taxes
Maintain Status b) Capital gains taxes
Slightly Decrease c) Cigarette taxes
Maintain Status d) Corporate taxes
Maintain Status e) Gasoline taxes
Slightly Decrease f) Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
Maintain Status g) Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
Maintain Status h) Inheritance taxes
Maintain Status i) Property taxes
Slightly Increase j) Sales taxes
Maintain Status k) Vehicle taxes
l) Other or expanded categories
No m) Should Internet sales be taxed?
o) Other or expanded principles
Stop looking at the problem as simple with a simple answer. Limit all payroll deductions to a maximum percentage for all reasons. Child Support tax credits. Ensure access to Education for all persons mandate all doctors, Dentists HMO's accept Medicare/Medicaid and punish criminally fraud and shoddy work. Establish a more European style Health Care system with people getting meds from pharmacist keeping doctors for serious illness. Standardize all text books for required or core classes public & private. Establish a top down corporate style payroll structure for all employees paid with tax dollars.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.d) Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

Yes a) Do you support the current two term, eight year term limit for California governors?
Yes b) Do you support the current two term, eight year term limit for California state senators?
Undecided c) Do you support the current three term, six year term limit for California assembly members?
Yes 1) Individual
Yes 2) PAC
Yes 3) Corporate
Yes 4) Political Parties
Yes e) Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
Yes f) Do you support partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
Undecided g) Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
h) Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
Yes i) Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in California are closed?
Yes j) Do you support providing human services (medical care, education, etc.) for legal immigrants and their children?
Yes k) Should California recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
Undecided l) Should California restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
Actions or Individuals or groups which do not harm any but the isolated individuals participating must be legal.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime.

a) Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
b) Support the use of the death penalty in California.
X c) Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
d) End parole for repeat violent offenders.
X e) Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
X f) Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
g) Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
X h) Amend the three-strikes law so that it is applied only when the third offense is a serious or violent felony.
i) Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
j) Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
X k) Other or expanded principles
Decriminalize and remove from prosecution small drug crimes related offenses as well as other small offenses. Reasonable punishment and reasonable laws.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.

X a) Support national standards and testing of public school students.
X b) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
c) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
d) Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
e) Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
f) Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
g) Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
X h) Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
i) Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
j) Increase funding for Head Start programs.
X k) Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
X l) Support sexual education programs that teach about abstinence, contraceptives and HIV/STD prevention methods.
m) Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
X n) Support funding for multilingual education.
X o) Other or expanded principles
Multilingual Education must not be limited to teaching English, it must include teaching English only speakers in other useful languages.

Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on:

a) Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
b) Reduce state government regulations on the private sector to encourage investment and economic expansion.
c) Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding or relocating businesses.
X d) Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
e) Increase state funds to provide child care for children of low-income working families.
X f) Include sexual orientation in California's anti-discrimination laws.
X g) Create a 'living wage' standard for state employees and firms accepting state contracts.
h) Other or expanded principles
a) College and university admissions
b) Public employment
c) State contracting
Affirmative action must be on a case by case basis where all peoples can be protected from discrimination - harrassment not just a select few.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.

X a) Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
b) Support increased production of traditional domestic energy resources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
c) Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused or abandoned.
d) Support reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
e) Ban drilling for oil and gas in waters off the California coast.
f) Support a bond for construction of a high-speed train linking the San Francisco Bay area to Los Angeles via the Central Valley.
g) Increase funding for open space preservation.
h) Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
X i) Other or expanded principles
Require utilities to purchase excess power from private solar and wind power plants plus individuals or households. Encourage and promote low power prices and development of new tech power generations.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns.

a) Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
X b) Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
c) Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
X d) Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
e) Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
X f) Require background checks on gun sales between citizens at gun shows.
g) Require a license for gun possession.
X h) Establish a database of ballistic 'fingerprints' to track guns used in criminal activities.
X i) Other or expanded principles
Firearms must be protected and rights removed only for firearms related violations. People who use firearms for violent crimes must not be allowed to legally obtain them.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health.

X a) Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms or state-funded care where necessary.
b) Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
c) Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
X d) Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
X e) Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied by their HMO.
f) Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
g) Legalize physician-assisted suicide in California.
X h) Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
X i) Support stem cell research on existing lines of stem cells.
X j) Allow laboratories to create new lines of stem cells for additional research.
X k) Other or expanded principles
All of us benefit by the development of New Medical Procedures, Drugs, and this must be Vigorously Encouraged as long as Individual Rights are protected such as Reproductive freedoms.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare.

a) Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
b) Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
X c) Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
d) Limit benefits given to recipients if they have additional children while on welfare.
e) Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
X f) Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
g) Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
h) Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
i) Maintain current spending levels for affordable housing.
X j) Other or expanded principles
Eliminate laws requiring healthcare, housing and food to peoples convicted of crimes.
On an attached page, in a total of seventy-five (75) words or less, please explain what your two main legislative priorities will be if elected. Please explain how you would obtain any additional government funding needed to implement these priorities.

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