Candidate Questionnaire - CD 10 -Ted Ankrum

Candidate Questionnaire - CD 10 -Ted Ankrum

Note: We mistakenly sent the State Candidate Questionnaire to some of the Congressional Candidates (although some of the questions are the same on both questionnaires).

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?

Response: YES

2. Would you support single payer universal health care?

Response: YES, I am actively campaigning on this. See my website ww.tedankrum.com

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?

Response: YES. I am actively campaigning on this and use Santa Fe as an example.

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?

Response: YES

5. Would you consider implementing a state income tax to be used to fund health care and public education?

Response: NOT A FEDERAL ISSUE

6. Would you support a ban on the death penalty?

Response: YES

7. Would you support increased funding for renewable energy and ending subsidies to the oil and gas industry?

Response: YES. I want a requirement for electric vehicles to get 10% from renewables, rising to 30%

8. Would you support programs to restore full funding for mental health/mental retardation adequate to provide food, shelter and medical/mental health treatment for the homeless?

Response: YES

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?

Response: YES

10. Would you support Instant Runoff Voting?

Response: YES

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?

Response: YES I have a specific proposal for this. See my "education" issue page on my website

12. How would you improve the environment of Texas i.e. TCEQ accountability, grandfathering of refineries, power plants etc and clean air emissions standards?

Response: 1) Need teeth in state enforcement 2) Stop exempting old plant expansions from new souce protection standards, as in the "GAS Bill" 3) Require CO2 scrubbing from coal plants and re-injection into the ground, etc.

13. Are you dissatisfied with the way legislative districts are configured in Texas? If yes, what will you do about it?

Response: NOT A FEDERAL ISSUE