2014 Senate Voter Guide
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Cornerstone 2014 FAMILIES FIRST VOTER GUIDE – GENERAL ELECTION About This Voter Guide Contents Cornerstone’s 2014 Families First Voter Guide is designed to let you know which candidates are Congressional District 1 Voter Guide ............ 2 most likely to support pro-family policies. You’ll Congressional District 2 Voter Guide ............ 3 find out here who has signed Cornerstone’s Gubernatorial Voter Guide ............................. 4 Families First Pledge for 2014. Where a candidate Executive Council Voter Guide ...................... 5 is an incumbent with a voting record for 2013-14, Senate Voter Guide ........................................... 5 we have provided a score based on those votes. House Voter Guide ........................................... 6 For state-level candidates, four Senate votes and ten House votes were factored into the scores. (The Find Your House District .............................. 17 Senate considers fewer bills than the House.) Some Find Your Senate District .............................. 19 issues considered include respect for life (including Sample Family First Pledge ........................... 21 assisted suicide and informed consent requirements Sample Ballot .................................................. 22 for abortion), respect for First Amendment rights (the “buffer zone” bill), education (Common Core and the education tax credit law), and keeping you with a sample ballot for your own district, or New Hampshire casino-free. you may download one from sos.nh.gov. The sample ballot in this voter guide points out How to Use This Voter Guide for State Offices where you can determine how many state House 1. Use the “Find Your House District” and “Find seats are to be filled in your area. You’ll see that Your Senate District” pages to look up your each office specifies how many candidates you may state House and Senate districts. (Note: Some select. communities will have more than one House Note About New Hampshire district, as noted in the next paragraph.) State House Districts 2. Once you have found your districts, turn to the Some communities or city wards have multiple House Voter Guide and the Senate Voter Guide House districts associated with them. This and look up the candidates running in your is not a mistake. Because of the Legislature’s districts. The House Voter Guide makes note effort to balance the requirements of the state of the number of seats in each district. You and federal constitutions, some districts will will have the opportunity to vote for as many have representatives devoted completely to candidates as there are seats available. one community. Other districts are at-large Sample Ballot Guide (“floterial”), overlapping with some of the single- community districts. Communities too small to This voter guide includes a generic sample ballot, constitute a district will share a representative so you know what to expect when you enter the with neighboring communities. polling booth. Your town or city clerk can provide 1 2014House 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 OPPOSE 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/election2014/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. 2 2014House Congressional Voter Guide District 2 Voter Guide By District Cornerstone Ann McLane Kuster Marilinda Garcia HAS SIGNED THE CORNERSTONE FAMILIES FIRST PLEDGE NO GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF HEALTHCARE SUPPORT1 OPPOSE Do you support or oppose the healthcare law known as “Obamacare”? BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT OPPOSE SUPPORT Do you support or oppose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution requiring a balanced budget? TAXING CARBON EMISSIONS – CAP AND TRADE SUPPORT OPPOSE Do you support or oppose federal cap and trade that taxes carbon emissions (Waxman-Markey)? FULL REPEAL OF THE ESTATE TAX OPPOSE SUPPORT Do you support or oppose the repeal of the federal estate tax? PARENTAL CHOICE IN EDUCATION UNKNOWN SUPPORT Do you support or oppose parental rights in education (educational choice)? GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD SUPPORT8 OPPOSE Do you support or oppose giving tax dollars to Planned Parenthood? FEDERAL DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT OPPOSE10 UN- Do you support or oppose enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)? KNOWN Visit www.nhcornerstone.org/election2014/sources for position sources. 3 2014House Senate Voter Guide Voter Guide By District Cornerstone Jeanne Shaheen Scott Brown HAS SIGNED THE CORNERSTONE FAMILIES FIRST PLEDGE TAXPAYER FUNDING OF ABORTION SUPPORT OPPOSE Do you support taxpayer funding of abortion? PRO-CHOICE SUPPORT UN- Do you consider yourself “pro-choice”? KNOWN REDEFINING MARRIAGE SUPPORT UN- Do you support or oppose re-defining “marriage”? KNOWN FULL REPEAL OF THE ESTATE TAX OPPOSE SUPPORT Do you support or oppose the repeal of the federal estate tax? Visit www.nhcornerstone.org/election2014/sources for position sources. 4 2014House Gubernatorial Voter Guide Voter Guide By District Cornerstone Maggie Hassan Walt Havenstein HAS SIGNED THE CORNERSTONE FAMILIES FIRST PLEDGE NO BROAD BASED TAXES OPPOSE0 OPPOSE0 Do you support or oppose enacting a state income or sales tax? CASINOS SUPPORT0 OPPOSE0 Do you support or oppose the establishment of one or more casinos in NH? FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS SUPPORT0 OPPOSE0 Do you support restricting the First Amendment rights of peaceful demonstrators (“buffer zone” law)? DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE OPPOSE0 UN- Do you support or oppose restoring under law a definition of marriage as the union of one man and KNOWN0 one woman? PARENTAL NOTIFICATION OPPOSE0 SUPPORT0 Do you support or oppose parental notification laws in the case of minors seeking abortion? COMMON CORE SUPPORT0 OPPOSSE0 Do you support or oppose the imposition of Common Core educational standards and practices on New Hampshire students? EDUCATION TAX CREDIT OPPOSE0 SUPPORT0 Do you support or oppose New Hampshire’s education tax credit law, which provides scholarships for K-12 students attending the school of the family’s choice? VOTER ID OPPOSE0 SUPPORT0 Do you support or oppose requiring voters to provide photo identification to vote? Visit www.nhcornerstone.org/election2014/sources for position sources. 5 Executive Council Voter Guide By District District Candidate Pledge District Candidate Pledge District 1 Michael Cryans (D) N District 5 Diane Sheehan Y Joe Kenney (R) N David K. Wheeler (R) N District 2 Colin Van Ostern (D) N Timothy Dillon (R) Y District 3 Robin McLane (D) N Christopher Sununu (R) N District 4 Christopher Pappas (D) N Robert Burns (R) Y Senate Voter Guide By District District Candidate Score Pledge District Candidate Score Pledge District 1 Mark Evans (R) N District 14 Sharon M. Carson (R) 75 N Jeff Woodburn (D) 0 N Katherine Messner (D) N District 2 Jeanie Forrester (R) 75 N District 15 Lydia Dube Harman (R) N Carolyn Mello (D) N Dan Feltes (D) N District 3 Jeb Bradley (R) 50 N District 16 David Boutin (R) 50 Y John White (D) N Maureen Raiche Manning N District 4 David H. Watters (D) 0 N (D) Eddie Edwards (R) N District 17 Nancy R.B. Fraher (D) N John Reagan (R) 75 Y* District 5 None (R) N David Pierce (D) 25 N District 18 George Lambert (R) 70 N Donna M. Soucy (D) 0 N District 6 Sam Cataldo (R) 75 Y Richard Leonard (D) N District 19 Regina Birdsell (R) 80 N Kristi St. Laurent (D) N District 7 Andrew J. Hosmer (D) 0 N Kathy Lauer-Rago (R) Y District 20 Lou D’Allesandro (D) 0 N Eileen Landies (R) N District 8 Linda Tanner (D) 55 N Ckristopher Wallenstein (D) N District 21 Martha Fuller Clark (D) 25 N Phil Nazzaro (R) N District 9 Lee C. Nyquist (D) N Andy Sanborn (R) 100 N District 22 Richard J. N O’Shaughnessy(D) District 10 Molly Kelly (D) 25 N Chuck Morse (R) 50 N None (R) N District 23 Donna Schlachman (D) 20 N District 11 Gary Daniels (R) 100 Y Russell Prescott (R) 100 N Roger Tilton (D) District 24 Chris Muns (D) 10 N District 12 Peggy Gilmour (D) 0 N Nancy F. Stiles (R) N Kevin Avard (R) Y District 13 Doris Hohensee (R) N Bette R. Lasky (D) 0 N *John Reagan signed THE Pledge, but struck out the marriage portion of it. 6 House Voter Guide By District District Candidate Score Pledge District Candidate Score Pledge Belknap 1 Ruth Gulick (D) N Carroll 2 Tom Buco (D) 10 N (1 seat) Valerie Fraser (R) N (3 seats) Syndi White (D) 20 N James R.