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INSIDE — CANDIDATE POSITIONS FOR: METRO ED Governor • Attorney General • Secretary of State • State Auditor • Legislature ITION Minnesota Family Institute 2014 Voter’s Guide GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 4, 2014 Major candidates for U.S. Senate Positions for all candidates are based on responses to a Minnesota Family Institute questionnaire, record- ed votes, media reports and/or public statements. Candidates who were sent a questionnaire but did not respond received follow-up phone calls and e-mails. Mike McFadden Al Franken* * = Incumbent — = No response or did not vote Q = qualified answer Republican Democrat De-Fund Planned Parenthood. Would you have voted to end taxpayer funding of Planned — No 1 Parenthood? (2011, Roll Call No. 60) Add “Sexual Orientation” and “Gender Identity” to Federal Discrimination Laws. — Yes 2 Would you have voted to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” among the categories receiv- ing protection in the federal employment non-discrimination law? (2013, Roll Call No. 231) Support the Affordable Care Act. Would you have voted for the Affordable Care Act that man- No Yes 3 dates all individuals have or purchase health insurance, subsidizes health care premiums for low and middle income persons, bans denial of pre-existing conditions, subsidizes abortion coverage, increases income taxes, and cuts Medicare funding? (2009, Roll Call No. 396) Prohibit Transport of Minors Across State Lines for Abortion. Would you have voted to — No 4 make it a federal crime to transport minors across state lines to receive an abortion? (2013, Roll Call No. 64) Support Sotomayor Appointment to U.S. Supreme Court. Would you have voted to confirm — Yes 5 President Obama’s appointment of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court? (2009, Roll Call No. 262) Individual Conscience Protections Under Federal Health Care Law. Would you have — No 6 voted to protect health care professionals and insurance purchasers and providers from being required to dispense abortifacients, contraceptives, and sterilization services that violate their consciences? (2012, Roll Call No. 24) “Fair Share” Tax Increase. Would you have voted for the “Paying a Fair Share Act” which would No Yes 7 have assessed a minimum 30% tax rate on “excess” income of high-income tax payers? (2012, Roll Call No. 65) Increase Federal Minimum Wage Requirement. Would you have voted for cloture on efforts No Yes 8 to increase the federally mandated minimum wage for employers from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour, indexed to inflation? (2014, Roll Call No. 117) Prevent EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations. Would you have voted to prevent further — No 9 Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas regulations on businesses and industries? (2014, Roll Call No. 76) Constitutional Amendment Requiring a Balanced Budget. Would you have voted to sup- Yes No 10 port consideration of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to require a balanced budget? (2011, Roll Call No.30 ) 1 Visit the Minnesota Secretary of State’s website at Minnesota Family Institute 2014 mnvotesinfo.sos.state.mn.us to find out • how to register to vote Voter’s Guide • where to vote • absentee ballots • military and overseas voting Major candidates for Minnesota Governor Positions for all candidates are based on responses to a Minnesota Family Institute questionnaire, record- ed votes, media reports and/or public statements. Candidates who were sent a questionnaire but did not respond received follow-up phone calls and e-mails. Jeff Johnson Mark Dayton* * = Incumbent — = No response Q = Qualified answer Republican Democrat Prohibit Abortions After 20 Weeks. Do you support a prohibition on abortions after 20 weeks Yes No 1 from conception? Statewide Anti-Bullying Law. Do you support the new statewide anti-bullying law that replaced the No Yes previous law requiring local, district-based anti-bullying policies with a state-level definition of bullying 2 highlighting bullying against certain types of students, and a School Safety Technical Assistance Center and Council at the Minnesota Department of Education? Legalize Same-Sex Marriage. Do you support the legalization of same-sex marriage in No Yes 3 Minnesota? Oppose the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Purposes. Do you oppose the legaliza- No No 4 tion of marijuana in some forms for medical purposes? Tax Increase. Do you support the 2013 $2 Billion tax increase on income, businesses, and sales in No Yes 5 Minnesota? Establish State Health Care Exchange. Do you support implementing the federal Affordable No Yes 6 Care Act in Minnesota through establishing an exchange for insurance companies providing health care to individuals and companies? End Taxpayer Funding of Abortion. Do you support ending taxpayer funding of Yes No 7 abortion? Unionize Private and Religious-Based Child Care Providers. Do you support unionizing No Yes 8 private and religious-based child care providers? Increase Minimum Wage. Do you support raising the minimum wage in Minnesota to $9.50 per No Yes 9 hour by the year 2016? Establish Statewide Contraceptive-Based Sexual Education. Do you support establishing No Yes 10 contraceptive-based sexual education in Minnesota public schools? 2 Major candidates for Minnesota Family Institute 2014 Attorney State Secretary Voter’s Guide General Auditor of State Positions for all candidates are based on responses to a Minnesota Family Institute questionnaire, recorded votes, media reports and/or public statements. Candidates who were sent a questionnaire but did not respond received fol- low-up phone calls and e-mails. * = Incumbent — = No response Scott Lori Randy Rebecca Dan Steve Q = qualified answer Newman Swanson* Gilbert Otto* Severson Simon Republican Democrat Republican Democrat Republican Democrat Prohibit Abortions After 20 Weeks. Do you support a pro- 1 Yes — — — Yes No hibition on abortions after 20 weeks from conception? No — — — No Yes Statewide Anti-Bullying Law. Do you support the new 2 statewide anti-bullying law that replaced the previous law requiring local, district-based anti-bullying policies with a state-level defini- tion of bullying highlighting bullying against certain types of stu- dents, and a School Safety Technical Assistance Center and Council at the Minnesota Department of Education? No — — — No Yes Legalize Same-Sex Marriage. Do you support the legaliza- 3 tion of same-sex marriage in Minnesota? Oppose the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical No — — — Yes No 4 Purposes. Do you oppose the legalization of marijuana in some forms for medical purposes? No — — — No Yes Tax Increase. Do you support the 2013 $2 Billion tax increase on 5 income, businesses, and sales in Minnesota? No — — — No Yes Establish State Health Care Exchange. Do you support 6 implementing the federal Affordable Care Act in Minnesota through establishing an exchange for insurance companies providing health care to individuals and companies? Yes — — — Yes No End Taxpayer Funding of Abortion. Do you support ending 7 taxpayer funding of abortion? Unionize Private and Religious-Based Child Care No — — — No Yes 8 Providers. Do you support unionizing private and religious-based child care providers? — — — — No Yes Increase Minimum Wage. Do you support raising the mini- 9 mum wage in Minnesota to $9.50 per hour by the year 2016? Establish Statewide Contraceptive-Based Sexual — — — — No — 10 Education. Do you support establishing contraceptive-based sexual education in Minnesota public schools? 3 Major candidates for U.S. House of Representatives Positions for all candidates are based on responses to a Minnesota Family Institute DISTRICT DISTRICT DISTRICT DISTRICT DISTRICT DISTRICT DISTRICT DISTRICT questionnaire, recorded votes, media reports and/or public statements. Candidates 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 who were sent a questionnaire but did not respond received follow-up phone calls D R D R D R D R D R D R D R D R and e-mails. Y = Yes N = No * = Incumbent — Y* or N* = incumbent with a qualified vote = No response or did not vote Q = qualified answer D = Democrat R = Republican Tim Walz* Jim Hagedorn Mike Obermueller John Kline* Sharon Sund Erik Paulsen* Betty McCollum* Sharna Wahlgren Keith Ellison* Doug Daggett Joe Perske Tom Emmer Collin C. Peterson* Torrey Westrom Richard Nolan* Stewart Mills Prohibit Abortions After 20 Weeks. Would you have voted to pro- N Y — Y — Y N — N Y Y Y Y Y N — 1 hibit abortions after 20 weeks from conception? (2013, Roll Call No. 251) Discretion on Immigration Law for Certain Illegal Y N — N — N Y — Y N Y N Y N Y — 2 Immigrants. Would you have voted to fund presidential policies that would permit the administration to determine whether or not to enforce immigration laws for certain illegal immigrants? (2013, Roll Call No. 208) Delay Implementation of Federal Health Care Law. N Y — Y — Y N — N Y Y Y N Y N — 3 Would you have voted for a bill that would delay a major portion of the Affordable Care Act for one year? (2013, Roll Call No. 498) Approve the Keystone Pipeline. Would you have voted to N Y — Y — Y N — N Y N Y Y Y N Y 4 approve the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Keystone XL Pipeline bringing Canadian oil to the United States? (2013, Roll Call No. 179) Eliminate U.S. Ability to Indefinitely Detain Members of Y N — N — N Y — Y N Y N Y N Y — 5 Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Would you have voted to eliminate indefinite military detention of any person belonging to al Qaeda or the Taliban? (2013, Roll Call No. 228) Prohibit Taxpayer Funding of Abortion. Would you have N Y — Y — Y N — N Y Y Y Y Y N — 6 voted for a government-wide prohibition of taxpayer-funded abortions, including abortions through health benefit plans and the federal health care law (except in the cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is in danger)? (2014, Roll Call No.