Positions
- Voter ID Law: OK with requirement that everyone have a photo
ID, but not OK with haste or method of implementation.
Need to re-visit.
- Pro-Life/Abortion: Pro-Life.
- Taxing internet sales: Support.
- Alternative Funding for Schools: Opposed.
- Vouchers for Schools: Opposed.
- HOPE Scholarship Restrictions proposed by Governor Perdue:
Restrictions don't go far enough. Eliminate use
of HOPE funds for remedial classes and restrict Pre-K to
socio-economically depressed. Additionally, repeal limits on
books, fees and hours enacted in the '04 and '05 legislative
sessions.
- Gay marriage: Opposed.
- I-3: Opposed.
- Commuter Rail Lines: Opposed to all except extensions
of MARTA outside of existing interstates.
- Toll Roads in Georgia: Opposed.
- Streetcars in Atlanta: Support.
- New International Airport: Support in
Savannah.
- TABOR (Taxpayer Bill of Rights): Supportive of the
obvious intent to limit budget growth. Am suspicious of a hidden
agenda. We'll flush it out, then decide.
- DNR "scare tactic" threat of closing state parks. Where
there's a will, there's a way. We won't close any state
parks or historical sites.
- NCLB/Connecticut lawsuit: Would consider joining the
suit to force federal government to fully fund mandates. Would
also consider throwing out NCLB requirements and forfeiting
federal governments $474/student contribution to the
$7,500/student Georgia spends on education.
- Seatbelts in Trucks: Support.
- "Jessica's Laws": Support.
- SB 3 (Tort Reform): Re-visit.
- SB 5 ("Eminent Domain"-private development of public
property): Opposed.
- SB 25 (lengthens waiting periods for divorce when children
involved): Support.
- SB 34 (Master Teacher program): Opposed.
- SR 49: Faith Based Initiative. Support. Would
support specific language that prohibited vouchers.
- SB 313, HB 935 (permit nurse practitioners prescriptive
ability): Support.
- SB 365 (permits insurance carriers to increase premiums,
cancel and renew policies electronically):
Support.
- SR 632 (elimination of business income taxes):
Opposed.
- HB 48 (Ethics in Government): Re-visit.
- HB 145 (prohibit state elected officials or candidates from
appearing in public service messages funded, even partly, by
public funds): Support.
- HB 218 (Secrecy in Negotiation): Partial
support. Support secrecy until elements of deal are
complete and on the table. Then, for full public disclosure and
public hearings.
- HB 340 (Secrecy of donors names): Opposed.
- HB 352 (illegal dumping of sewage pumped from septic tanks):
Support.
- HB 437 (Secrecy of state employees names):
Opposed.
- HB 528 ("open primary elections" without run-offs):
Support.
- HB 927 (Reduce number of signatures needed for independent
candidate to qualify for general ballot): STRONGLY
SUPPORT!!!!
- Need to permit independent to begin collecting signatures on
nomination petitions the day after the first party candidate
conducts a fund-raiser, or announces their candidacy.
- Time limits should be imposed on Secretary of State and
local election officials for processing nomination petitions.
- HB 892 (non-partisan elections for sheriffs, tax
commissioners, county commissioners, clerks of the court and
superior court judges): Support.
- HB 899 (optometrist ability to write prescriptions for wider
range of oral and topical agents): Support.
- HB 903 (eliminates conflict of interest of home inspectors):
Support.
- HB 911 (Deny Illegal Immigrants access to public subsidized
programs): "For a thorough discussion visit these links." Georgia:
Where Are We Now - "Illegal Immigrants" and "John's
Vision" - "Illegal Immigrants".
- HB 913 (compensation to small businesses for traffic flow
decreases resulting from installation of median strips):
Support.
- HB 923 (permit licensed psychologist prescriptive authority):
Need more info.
- HB 914 (Ten Commandments, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of
Independence, etc.): Support.
- HB 931 (Sale of delinquent property taxes):
Support.
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