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Patricia Morgan's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Issue Positions

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  • "Abortion affects more than one person. And one of them is unable to give informed consent. The time for women to choose is before they become pregnant." (x.com)
  • "Abortion is a serious issue that needs more than a two-word answer. I am pro-life because I think that life is precious. But I believe that the goal should be safe, legal, and rare, not criminal. I don’t want young parents forced to either have an unwanted child or be forced to make a terrible choice. For me the answer is to make contraceptives readily available and inexpensive. Contraceptive methods have made enormous strides over the past decades. They are no longer restricted to daily pills. Some last for 3 years, 5 years, even 10 years and are not just hormonal. I want to make it easy for couples to find the method that works best for them and to use it. Preventing pregnancy with contraceptive use is without a doubt the best course of action. Of course, nothing is full proof. So, of course, I believe in exceptions. But with a diligent use of contraceptives, those exceptions should be rare." (www.patriciamorgan.com)
  • "Here's the right to choose women have: Be responsible and choose one of the dozens of contraceptives that work for you. Abortion is not a contraceptive. Abortion is not healthcare. Abortion is not a constitutional right." (x.com)
  • "I believed then, as I do now, that women should be able to use their talents to be the best that they can be. I am also pro-life. To me that means that life is precious. I don’t believe the two are contradictory. Abortion is a hot topic in America. But for all the debate, one word that is rarely mentioned is contraceptives. If the goal remains, safe, legal, and rare. We should be using that word much, much more." (www.facebook.com)
  • "Republicans want to extend Social Security/Medicare solvency. The best way is to spend tax dollars more wisely. The $6T @SenWhitehouse approved could have been used to shore up SS. Wasteful programs have proliferated with his blessing. And those $$ are being borrowed from our enemies or printed out of thin air...fueling the inflation that is crushing retirees." (x.com)
  • "Social security and Medicare are a critical part of everyone’s retirement plans. It must be strengthened and secure." (x.com)
  • "The truth is that approximately 50% of our seniors depend on social security as their only source of income. Without it they would live in poverty and/or dependent on others. Saving and strengthening it is a necessity. We must act now before our retirees are faced with diminished benefits. Medicare is also critically important to our seniors. It must be well funded and able to provide the necessary medical care of every senior. That is the philosophy with which I will look at any of the many solutions that will be proposed to fix its underfunded status. It must be strengthened. Our nation made a promise to our seniors, they have contributed to our country throughout their lifetime, and I will fight each day to honor that promise and preserve the benefits they have earned." (www.patriciamorgan.com)
  • "Reagan's Tax Cut proved that when you let people keep more of their hard-earned money that the economy will strengthen and grow. More prosperity for all." (x.com)
  • "Stark contrast. By this time in his presidency Trump and GOP had passed the largest tax cut in history. Biden and Democrats want to pass the largest tax increase. Big Government Tax and Spend Democrats hurt working class Americans." (x.com)
  • "To drop unemployment, Govt should lower taxes and regulations. When we tried that over the past 4 years, employment soared and every demographic experienced the best numbers in decades. Wages went up, too." (x.com)
  • "Keeping the estate tax encourages people to leave our state and take their wealth, their charitable contributions, their spending, and their income taxes with them. It's time for RI to stop shooting itself in the foot." (x.com)
  • "Reagan's Tax Cut proved that when you let people keep more of their hard-earned money that the economy will strengthen and grow. More prosperity for all." (x.com)
  • "The Democrat Socialists have no plan to bring our state back to prosperity. When you tax wealth, it leaves and goes to all those income tax free states. They take their small businesses with them." (x.com)
  • "Biden Democrats have built an empire of Dark Money to attack the integrity of our elections. Fair-and Honest Elections is not their goal." (x.com)
  • "During a recent climate hearing @SenWhitehouse complaint about the Citizens United case was so bizarre and incorrect that one wonders just how dumb Whitehouse is. (First, Citizens United had and has no effect on donations to nonprofit organizations like AEI; second, as far as money goes, the climate campaign dwarfs—by an order of magnitude at least—the funding level of any climate dissenting organizations." (x.com)
  • "This happens when we demonize police and pretend they are the problem, instead of prosecuting criminals for breaking our laws. #BackTheBlue" (x.com)
  • "@SenWhitehouse has hurt our military members again. Too busy spending massive amounts of US taxpayers' money on his renewable industry friends to care about our national security and veterans." (x.com)
  • "In the last three years, Biden Democrats have put our military readiness and strength on the backburner, canceling and delaying ships that are already in the pipeline and refusing to authorize any additional ones. On the other side of the world, China’s military is bigger and better equipped and manned. The CCP is expanding its capabilities at a breakneck pace. They are rapidly expanding their nuclear arsenal and today their Navy dwarfs ours. They continue to add aircraft carriers to their fleet and use it to menace and harass our allies. This is unacceptable. We must rebuild our military. That begins with: Eliminating the woke culture. Renewing the warrior spirit. Improving the pay and living conditions for active-duty servicemen. Improving GI bill benefits to increase recruitment by rewarding those who put themselves in harm’s way for our country. Expanding the size of the Navy’s fleet and adding to our aircraft. Investing in modern weapons platforms. It means prioritizing America’s readiness and if we deploy our servicemen, we must do so only with the knowledge of why we go, that it benefits us or our allies, and that we have clearly defined conditions for victory." (www.patriciamorgan.com)
  • "It definitely is not bloated! Our military budget has been cut. Today the military has the lowest number of ships that we have had since before WWII and the number of troops has shrunk. Biden Democrats are weakening our military. It’s a security problem. We need to reverse the decline!" (x.com)
  • "Good news! Only $110 billion of this $1.2 trillion bill actually repairs roads, bridges and ports. Just another costly and damaging piece of legislation from the Big Government Tax and Spend Democrats." (x.com)
  • "Here is the dirty secret. The money to pay for all that spending does not exist! It was printed from thin air and is the primary reason for the inflation that is eroding our quality of life and financial well-being."
  • "Reducing wasteful, abusive spending and putting the brakes on the inflation it causes will be my priority!" (www.patriciamorgan.com)
  • "The progressive, big government, throw money around, tax and spend experiment is failing hardworking Americans. It's not surprising." (x.com)
  • "Biden Democrats across our federal and state governments have been pushing ‘affordable housing’. That is a misrepresentation. In truth, it is government housing and the only thing that makes it ‘affordable’ is taxpayer subsidies. Government housing does not allow the tenant to accumulate wealth. They become subsidized renters. The rent is cheap because taxpayers chip in a sometimes hefty amount to keep it that way. In Washington DC, my opponent is proposing a program that will give $17,500 to low-income residents for a mortgage downpayment. It shows how out of touch he is; that small amount of money for a low-income buyer won’t buy a shed! And what about our other young adults. Just because they aren’t poor doesn’t mean they should be ignored. Rhode Island has created a new and expensive Department of Housing and has allocated $250 million to build government housing. This year it will receive another $100 million. The spending on taxpayer funded housing has just begun and with a bureaucracy in place, you can be assured it will not stop. And operating subsidies will last for lifetimes." (www.patriciamorgan.com)
  • "Public housing wipes out the idea of homeownership and accumulation of wealth." (x.com)
  • "As I already indicated Free Markets Work. Get government out of the way. Stopping passing laws and creating regulations that weigh down the economy and look at small businesses as if they were cookie jars full of money to hand out to others." (x.com)
  • "Every time the government spends money, it takes that money from the wallets of hard-working Americans. Not just in income taxes, but now through inflation and an economy that is sputtering." (x.com)
  • "Here is the dirty secret. The money to pay for all that spending does not exist! It was printed from thin air and is the primary reason for the inflation that is eroding our quality of life and financial well-being."
  • "Installing socialism, expanding entitlements and driving up the national debt to bludgeon the working class with inflation are the new tenets of Democrat politicians' 'infrastructure'." (x.com)
  • "Biden's student loan policy is not forgiveness, it's theft." (x.com)
  • "Only about 36% of Americans get a college degree. So why should 64% of Americans who don't go to college pay for the student loan debt of the elite minority who do?" (x.com)
  • "Student loan forgiveness 'would benefit the affluent at the expense of those who don’t attend college; and it would benefit the spendthrift over the responsible who repaid their loans or decided to go to a school that costs less. It’s vote-buying at its most raw." (x.com)
  • "All mail in ballots should require voter id and additional safeguards to ensure they are legitimate. ALL Ballots: mail-in and in person." (x.com)
  • "Our elections should not allow drop boxes or ballot harvesting. Mail in ballots must be accompanied by Voter ID. Our elections are the bedrock of our republic. Easy to Vote, But Hard to Cheat!" (x.com)
  • "The fraud is in on line registration and mail in ballots, neither of which require a voter ID." (x.com)
  • "We call on Rhode Island's legislative leaders to remain opposed to mail-ballot elections for this year's September primary and November general elections. We ask them to protect the state's hard-won voter ID law." (x.com)
  • "Average Americans are being asked to pay mind boggling amounts of money, live diminished lives and accept the destruction of natural habitats on land and sea for renewable energy, an unreliable and intermittent power source that is incapable of fueling modern society." (x.com)
  • "Climate alarmists keep telling us that renewable energy is the cheapest form of electricity. But have you noticed? As we add more and more solar and wind to our grid, our bills keep climbing - by a lot. The bill isn’t going down!" (x.com)
  • "Higher energy costs are the price of electing Joe Biden and Democrat politicians. They collect $$$ and votes from the climate change grifters. They simply do not care about the impact of green policies on working class Americans." (x.com)
  • "Today’s renewable technology cannot fuel modern society. All it will do is destroy our economy and our jobs with it. If we continue to go down this path, our quality of life will be devastated. We have time to develop better, more reliable methods. Subjugating our economy, our electric grid and our future prosperity to China is the wrong path forward." (www.patriciamorgan.com)
  • "Biden’s climate plans are riddled with meaningless progressive platitudes and try to hide what they really mean for our country and economy. But the bottom line is that he doesn’t care about American energy independence, and will do everything in his power to cede it." (x.com)
  • "Biden’s policies of canceling pipelines, reducing drilling permits, and establishing anti-fossil fuel EPA rules are costing the U.S. $2B a wk. His climate/tax bill hits the domestic oil industry with massive fee and royalty increases. Democrats do NOT care about the Little Guys." (x.com)
  • "By promoting so-called environmental, social, and governance investment standards to choke off fossil fuel investments, by canceling pipelines, and by limiting federal oil and gas leasing, the left has reduced US energy production and left America vulnerable to rest of the world." (x.com)
  • "The price of oil reached $85.37 this morning. The highest in 7 years. That's what happens when President Biden stops pipelines, drilling and actively works to reverse our energy independence." (x.com)
  • "Guns are inanimate objects. It is the person holding the gun who is responsible for the crimes. We have a crime problem and we know how to deal with it. Support and trust our police, prosecute and punish the criminals." (x.com)
  • "I am a gun owner. I shoot trap and have guns for protection. I will always protect the rights of law-abiding citizens to possess and use guns. Despite having once been an attorney, it appears my opponent didn’t spend any time studying the Constitution. He wants to restrict/remove our rights. He relentlessly attacks the U S Supreme Court, trying to bully them into ruling for ownership restrictions. And he must be stopped. Homicides committed with guns are not gun violence. They are crimes. A recent study of data from Rhode Island revealed that 85% of the homicides involving a gun were gang and drug related. Instead of Defunding the Police, we should give them the trust and resources they need to pursue these criminals and keep our neighborhoods safe. All Rhode Islanders should be able to defend themselves with a gun for those times when a police officer isn’t close by." (www.patriciamorgan.com)
  • "The key fallacy of so-called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available." (x.com)
  • Rated 92% by the National Rifle Association (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • "Obamacare has not solved the issue of increasing healthcare costs. People were not allowed to keep their favorite doctors. It did not bend the cost curve or save every family $2000. In fact, families have struggled with premiums and deductibles that have doubled/tripled." (x.com)
  • "Obamacare, which was rammed thru Congress without bipartisan support, has given Americans crushing premiums and deductibles. Average families have seen their costs triple. That's not affordable. It's harmful." (x.com)
  • "Since cost is a priority, why on earth would we want to build on the "Affordable" Care Act after it caused premiums for individual coverage to more than double between 2013 and 2017—largely because of Obamacare’s regulations? Answer: we don't." (x.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "@realDonaldTrump is working to lower healthcare costs. "Today I'm proud to announce that we have reached a breakthrough agreement to dramatically slash the out-of-pocket cost of insulin," Trump said. New agreement caps cost at $35 mo. More to relief to come." (x.com)
  • "Border security is national security, and Joe Biden’s failure to secure our Southern Border has made all our communities less safe." (x.com)
  • "Have Democrats acknowledged the wisdom, safety and necessity of border security yet? They are so eager to denigrate President Trump that they forget their prime responsibility to the health and safety of Americans." (x.com)
  • "I will work to close the border: Finish the wall. The $11 billion one-time cost is a fraction of what taxpayers are now spending annually. Demand that laws already on the books are enforced. Reinstate the Remain in Mexico policy. Use our trade leverage to secure the cooperation of our neighboring countries to stop the flow of illegal aliens to our border. These policies worked before. With responsible leaders, they will work again!" (www.patriciamorgan.com)
  • "Without a border there is no country. And without security, there is no border. We must say ‘no’ to illegal immigration so we can continue to say ‘yes’ to legal immigration," (x.com)
  • "Biden's amnesty plan provides 11 - 22 million illegal aliens a fast-track pathway to green cards and, eventually, U.S. citizenship as 18 million Americans remain jobless and another 6.2 million are underemployed." (x.com)
  • "By law, immigrants, including those claiming asylum, are required by law to be detained while immigration courts determine if there is a valid basis to enter US. As a result of admin’s illegal abdication of duty, CBP has already released more than 225k illegal border crossers." (x.com)
  • "I will work to close the border: Finish the wall. The $11 billion one-time cost is a fraction of what taxpayers are now spending annually. Demand that laws already on the books are enforced. Reinstate the Remain in Mexico policy. Use our trade leverage to secure the cooperation of our neighboring countries to stop the flow of illegal aliens to our border. These policies worked before. With responsible leaders, they will work again!" (www.patriciamorgan.com)
  • "Over the past three years more than 11 million illegal immigrants have entered our country. Unbelievably, instead of working with his buddy Joe Biden to stem the flow, my opponent has advocated for more immigration. How much is enough for him? I know I have had enough. And hardworking Rhode Islanders have had enough, too." (www.patriciamorgan.com)
  • 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.
  • "Biden administration is now colluding with its Big Tech allies to remove information they don't want on social media. Starts with medical 'misinformation ', then protecting Biden relatives, then inconvenient economic data, then...." (x.com)
  • "Social media giants believe they have the only 'good' opinions. They'll tell us what we can hear and what we should believe. That's the attitude that brought the Pilgrims to America to stop." (x.com)
  • "The erosion of free speech has been radically accelerated by the Big Tech and social media companies. The level of censorship and viewpoint regulation has raised questions of a new type of state media where companies advance an ideological agenda with political allies." (x.com)

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