State Candidate Questionnaire
1. Would you support requiring all electronic voting machines to print on paper for each voter a complete summary of their voting choices, which will become, after their inspection, the authoritative record of their vote?
2. Would you support single payer universal healthcare?
3. In February 2003 Santa Fe, New Mexico enacted a minimum wage ordinance which raised the minimum wage to $8.50/hour for all business and non-profits with 25 or more employees. The wage will increase to $9.50/hour in 2006 and $10.50/hour in 2008. Would you support similar legislation and an escalator clause that would guarantee cost of living adjustments?
4. Would you support enactment of legislation providing for public financing of general election campaigns for elective office at the local, state and federal levels?
5. Would you consider implementing a state income tax to be used to fund healthcare and public education?
6. Would you support a ban on the death penalty?
7. Would you support increased funding for renewable energy and ending subsidies to the oil and gas industry?
8. Would you support programs to restore full funding for MR/MH adequate to provide food, shelter and medical/mental health treatment for the homeless?
9. Would you be in favor of changing the Texas method of selecting electors to the Electoral College from “winner take all” to proportional representation by popular vote?
10. Would you support Instant Runoff Voting?
11. Would you support a substantial increase in teacher compensation? What other approaches would you take to improve the quality of public education in Texas?
12. How would you improve the environment of Texas i.e. TCEQ accountability, grandfathering of refineries, power plants etc and clean air emissions standards?
13. Are you dissatisfied with the way legislative districts are configured in Texas? If yes, what will you do about it?
Compiled by members of the Progressive Action Alliance, Democracy for America, and the Progressive Populist Caucus
revised Feb. 4, 2006