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Print ShareRepresentative Lorraine M. Fende (OH)

Current Office: State HouseCurrent District: 62Office Seeking: State House (Won, Primary)District Seeking: 62Party: Democratic

Biographical

Voting Record

Issue Positions(Political Courage Test)

Interest Group Ratings

Campaign Finances

The 2010 Political Courage Test will be sent to all candidates who qualify for the General Election.

What is the Political Courage Test?

This candidate has responded to a different Political Courage Test. As a continued effort to provide the Americanpublic with factual information on candidates running for public office, these archived responses are made available

here.

Ohio State Legislative Election 2004 National Political Awareness Test

Please Note

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 moreconcerned 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.

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Abortion IssuesBudget, Spending and Tax IssuesCampaign Finance and Governmental Reform IssuesCrime IssuesEducation IssuesEmployment and Affirmative Action IssuesEnvironment and Energy IssuesGun Issues

Health IssuesWelfare and Poverty IssuesLegislative Priorities

Abortion Issues

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

a) Abortions should always be illegal.

b) Abortions should always be legal.

c) Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.

X d) Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.

X e) Abortions should be legal when the li fe of the woman is endangered.

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abortions.

g) Other or expanded principles

Budget, Spending and Tax Issues

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

level per category.

Greatly Increase a) Education (Higher)

Greatly Increase b) Education (K-12)

Maintain Status c) Environment

Greatly Increase d) Health care

Slightly Increase e) Law enforcement

Maintain Status f) Transportation and highway infrastructure

Maintain Status g) Welfare

h) Other or expanded categories

State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax.

Maintain Status a) Alcohol taxes

Slightly Decrease b) Capital gains taxes

Maintain Status 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

Greatly Decrease i) Property taxes

Slightly Decrease j) Sales taxes

Maintain Status k) Vehicle taxes

l) Other or expanded categories

Undecided m) Should Internet sales be taxed?

Yesn) Should the Budget Stabilization Fund (rainy day fund) be used to balance the state

budget?

o) Other or expanded principles

Campaign Finance and Governmental Reform Issues

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Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.

Yesa) Do you support the current limit of two consecutive four-year terms for Ohiogovernors?

Nob) Do you support the current limit of four two-year terms for Ohio state representatives

and two four-year terms for Ohio state senators?

c) Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

Yes 1) Individual

Yes 2) PAC

Yes 3) Corporate

Yes 4) Political Parties

Yes d) Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?

Yes e) Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?

Yesf) Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring

accuracy of votes?

Yesg) Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling

locations in Ohio are closed?

Undecided h) Should Ohio recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?

Yes i) Should Ohio restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?

j) Other or expanded principles

Crime Issues

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

a) Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional

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prison staff.

b) Support the death penalty in Ohio.

Xc) Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and

job-placement assistance when released.

X d) End parole for repeat violent offenders.

X e) Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.

f) Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.

X g) Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.

h) Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.

i) Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with

at-risk youth.

Xj) Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to

terrorist attacks.

k) Other or expanded principles

Education Issues

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

a) Support national standards and testing of public school students.

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.

Xd) Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and

infrastructure).

X e) Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.

X f) Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.

g) Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.

X h) Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.

X i) Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.

X j) Increase funding for Head Start programs.

k) Support legalizing video slot machines at horse racing tracks to provide funding for

college scholarships and school construction.

Xl) Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more

affordable.

X m) Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence,contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.

n) Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.

o) How would you propose to reform funding for Ohio schools? Please use forty (40) words or less.

No Answer

p) Other or expanded principles

Employment and Affirmative Action Issues

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Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.

Xa) Increase funding for state job-training programs that re -train displaced workers and

teach skills needed in today's job market.

Xb) Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage

investment and economic expansion.

Xc) Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocatingbusinesses.

Xd) Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income

working families.

Xe) Continue state funding for the Third Frontier Project, which provides seed capital forthe development of high-tech industries in Ohio.

X f) Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.

X g) Include sexual orientation in Ohio's anti-discrimination laws.

X h) Increase the state minimum wage.

X i) Other or expanded principles

The feasibility of these issues depends on available funding

Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity, or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on:

Yes a) Public employment

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Yes b) State college and university admissions

Yes c) State contracting

d) Other or expanded principles

No Answer

Environment and Energy Issues

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

X a) Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.

Xb) Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural

gas, and oil).

Xc) Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are

contaminated, unused, or abandoned.

X d) Support funding for open space preservation.

e) Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.

f) Other or expanded principles

Gun Issues

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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.

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.

X e) Require manufacturers to provide chi ld-safety locks on guns.

X f) Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.

g) Require a license for gun possession.

h) Other or expanded principles

Health Issues

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

Xa) 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.

Xe) Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists whenservices are denied.

f) Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.

g) Legalize physician assisted suicide in Ohio.

h) Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.

i) Prohibit self-referrals by physicians to hospitals in which they have a financial interest.

Xj) Require insurance companies to provide mental health services at parity with physical

health services.

k) Require counties to provide treatment for uninsured mentally ill children, while

allowing parents to retain custody.

l) Other or expanded principles

Welfare and Poverty Issues

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

X a) Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.

X 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.

Xf) Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health

and child care subsidies to the working poor.

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g) Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.

h) Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.

i) Other or expanded principles

Legislative Priorities

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Please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional

funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.

No Answer

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