2012 Presidential Voter Guide
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Cornerstone 2012 FAMILIES FIRST VOTER GUIDE – GENERAL ELECTION About This Voter Guide Cornerstone’s 2012 Families First Voter Guide Contents presents information that should help you Presidential Voter Guide ....................................2 choose the best pro-family candidates in your Congressional District 1 Voter Guide ...............3 district. This guide compiles, to the greatest extent possible, the voting record of incumbent Congressional District 2 Voter Guide ...............4 candidates, or for those candidates who are non- Gubernatorial Voter Guide ................................5 incumbents, their public statements. For state Executive Council Voter Guide .........................6 House and Senate races, the guide lists scores from the 2011-12 Cornerstone Scorecard, and for Senate Voter Guide ..............................................6 all races, the guide makes note of whether each House Voter Guide ..............................................7 candidate has signed and returned Cornerstone’s Find Your House District .................................17 Families First Pledge, a sample of which is included on the last page of this guide. Find Your Senate District .................................19 Each candidate running for legislative or Sample Family First Pledge ..............................21 executive offices was given the opportunity to sign the Families First Pledge, regardless of party or whether running for the first time or running Note About New Hampshire for reelection. State House Districts You will notice that some communities or city How to Use This Voter Guide for State Offices wards have multiple House districts associated 1. Use the “Find Your House District” and with them. This is not a mistake. Because of “Find Your Senate District” pages to look up redistricting and the Legislature’s effort to your state House and Senate districts. balance the requirements of the state and (Note: Some communities will have more federal constitutions, some communities will than one House district. To learn why that have representatives devoted completely to is, consult the “Note About New Hampshire their community. Other communities will have House Districts” section to the right.) representatives devoted solely to their community as well as representatives for their community 2. Once you have found your districts, turn to and neighboring communities (these are called the House Voter Guide and the Senate Voter “floatorial” districts). Those communities that Guide and look up the candidates running in didn’t qualify for their own district will only have your districts. The House Voter Guide makes representatives that they share with neighboring note of the number of seats in each district. communities. You will have the opportunity to vote for as many candidates as there are seats available. 1 2012House Presidential Voter Guide Voter Guide By District Cornerstone Barack Obama Mitt Romney TAXPAYER FUNDING OF ABORTION SUPPORT1 OPPOSE2 Do you support or oppose taxpayer funding of abortions? GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD SUPPORT3 OPPOSE4 Do you support or oppose giving tax dollars to Planned Parenthood? TAXPAYER FUNDING OF HUMAN EMBRYONIC 5 6 STEM CELL RESEARCH SUPPORT OPPOSE Do you support or oppose the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research? BAN HUMAN CLONING Do you support or oppose federal legislation prohibiting human cloning of all kinds, OPPOSE7 SUPPORT8 both “therapeutic” and “reproductive”? FULL REPEAL OF THE ESTATE TAX OPPOSE9 SUPPORT10 Do you support or oppose the repeal of the federal estate tax? PARENTAL CHOICE IN EDUCATION OPPOSE11 SUPPORT12 Do you support or oppose parental rights in education (educational choice)? STATE MARRIAGE AMENDMENTS 13 14 Do you support or oppose the state constitutional amendments preserving natural marriage? OPPOSE SUPPORT FEDERAL DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT 15 16 Do you support or oppose enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)? OPPOSE SUPPORT MARRIAGE AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION Do you support or oppose a marriage protection amendment to the U.S. Constitution OPPOSE17 SUPPORT18 that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman? ENDA - SPECIAL EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS BASED UPON SEXUAL BEHAVIOR Do you support or oppose the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act? SUPPORT19 OPPOSE20 APPOINTMENT OF CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES Do you support or oppose strict constructionist judges? OPPOSE21 SUPPORT22 MILITARY SOCIAL ENGINEERING SUPPORT23 SUPPORT24 Do you support or oppose open homosexuality in the military? GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF HEALTHCARE 25 26 Do you support or oppose the healthcare law known as “Obamacare”? SUPPORT OPPOSE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY 27 28 Do you support or oppose protections for institutions, organizations and individuals that prevent OPPOSE SUPPORT the government from forcing them to violate their moral or religious beliefs? Visit www.iVoteValues.org for more Visit www.nhcornerstone.org/election2012/sources 2012 election information 2 for position sources. 2012House Congressional Voter Guide District 1 Voter Guide By District Cornerstone Carol Shea-Porter Frank Guinta HAS SIGNED THE Cornerstone FAMILIES FIRST PLEDGE NO YES GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF HEALTHCARE SUPPORT1 OPPOSE2 Do you support or oppose the healthcare law known as “Obamacare”? BALANCED budget AMENDMENT OPPOSE3 SUPPOrt4 Do you support or oppose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution requiring a balanced budget? taxing CARBON emissions – CAP AND TRADE SUPPOrt5 OPPOSE6 Do you support or oppose federal cap and trade that taxes carbon emissions (Waxman-Markey)? FULL REPEAL OF THE ESTATE TAX OPPOSE7 SUPPOrt8 Do you support or oppose the repeal of the federal estate tax? PARENTAL CHOICE IN EDUCATION OPPOSE9 SUPPOrt10 Do you support or oppose parental rights in education (educational choice)? TAXPAYER FUNDING OF HUMAN EMBRYONIC SUPPOrt11 OPPOSE12 STEM CELL RESEARCH Do you support or oppose the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research? GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD SUPPOrt13 OPPOSE14 Do you support or oppose giving tax dollars to Planned Parenthood? FEDERAL DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT OPPOSE15 SUPPOrt16 Do you support or oppose enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)? energy INDEPENDENCE – keystone PIPELINE OPPOSE17 SUPPOrt18 Do you support or oppose authorizing the Keystone Pipeline to increase domestic energy production? audit THE federal reserve OPPOSE19 SUPPOrt20 Do you support or oppose an audit of the Federal Reserve? RELIGIOUS LIBERTY UNKNOWN SUPPOrt21 Do you support or oppose protections for institutions, organizations and individuals that prevent the government from forcing them to violate their moral or religious beliefs? Visit www.nhcornerstone.org/election2012/sources Note: Libertarian candidate Brendan Kelly also signed the for position sources. Families First Pledge, but was not included in this guide because not enough information could be found about his positions. 3 2012House Congressional Voter Guide District 2 Voter Guide By District Cornerstone Ann McLane Kuster Charlie Bass HAS SIGNED THE Cornerstone FAMILIES FIRST PLEDGE NO NO GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF HEALTHCARE SUPPORT1 OPPOSE2 Do you support or oppose the healthcare law known as “Obamacare”? BALANCED budget AMENDMENT UNKNOWN SUPPOrt3 Do you support or oppose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution requiring a balanced budget? taxing CARBON emissions – CAP AND TRADE UNKNOWN OPPOSE4 Do you support or oppose federal cap and trade that taxes carbon emissions (Waxman-Markey)? FULL REPEAL OF THE ESTATE TAX UNKNOWN SUPPOrt5 Do you support or oppose the repeal of the federal estate tax? PARENTAL CHOICE IN EDUCATION UNKNOWN SUPPOrt6 Do you support or oppose parental rights in education (educational choice)? TAXPAYER FUNDING OF HUMAN EMBRYONIC UNKNOWN SUPPOrt7 STEM CELL RESEARCH Do you support or oppose the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research? GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD SUPPOrt8 SUPPOrt9 Do you support or oppose giving tax dollars to Planned Parenthood? FEDERAL DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT OPPOSE10 SUPPOrt11 Do you support or oppose enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)? energy INDEPENDENCE – keystone PIPELINE UNKNOWN OPPOSE12 Do you support or oppose authorizing the Keystone Pipeline to increase domestic energy production? audit THE federal reserve UNKNOWN SUPPOrt13 Do you support or oppose an audit of the Federal Reserve? RELIGIOUS LIBERTY UNKNOWN OPPOSE14 Do you support or oppose protections for institutions, organizations and individuals that prevent the government from forcing them to violate their moral or religious beliefs? Visit www.nhcornerstone.org/election2012/sources for position sources. 4 2012House Gubernatorial Voter Guide Voter Guide By District Cornerstone Maggie Hassan Ovide Lamontagne HAS SIGNED THE Cornerstone FAMILIES FIRST PLEDGE NO YES Broad BASED taxes OPPOSE1 OPPOSE1 Do you support or oppose enacting a state income or sales tax? increased taxes AND SPENDING SUPPOrt2 OPPOSE3 Do you support or oppose increased state spending and additional taxes and fees? NO INCOME tax AMENDMENT OPPOSE4 SUPPOrt5 Do you support or oppose the constitutional amendment prohibiting an income tax? LOCAL control OF education OPPOSE6 SUPPOrt6 Do you support or oppose reversing the Claremont decision to return control of schools to local communities? SCHOOL CHOICE OPPOSE7 SUPPOrt8 Do you support or oppose business tax credits to fund scholarships for children from needy families? RIGHT to WORK OPPOSE9 SUPPOrt10 Do you support or oppose worker freedom to