2008 Candidate Survey

2008 Voter's Guide Questions:

Do you support or oppose the following:

S = Support O = Oppose * = indicates candidate made comments on survey. Click on the candidates last name to see survey comments.
1. Allowing parents to use tax credits, vouchers, or education savings accounts to enable children to attend any public, private, or home school.
2. Prohibiting all forms of human cloning.
3. Legalizing physician-assisted suicide.
4. Excluding newborn children conceived while their mothers were receiving welfare from the calculation of the family’s welfare cash grant.
5. Prohibiting state and local government agencies, including police departments, from accepting matricula consular cards as a form of identification.
6. Amending the United States Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
7. Requiring informed consent for abortion to inform a woman considering an abortion about the medical and psychological risks, fetal development, and abortion alternatives, and to include a 24-hour period for the woman to review the information.
8. Establishing and maintaining a statewide public defender’s office to provide adequate legal representation to those facing the death penalty.
9. Making the presence of undocumented immigrants in Arizona a felony.
10. Mandating healthcare providers to facilitate the distribution of “emergency contraception” (i.e., morning after pills).
11. Exempting nonprofit religious organizations from any contraceptive mandates that may violate the tenets of their faith.
12. Simplifying the existing tax credit for donations made to nonprofit charitable organizations serving the working poor so that people who do not itemize their taxes are eligible to participate.
13. Creating a temporary guest worker program to provide foreign workers to Arizona employers experiencing a labor shortage.

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