2008 REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE SURVEY

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1. Please indicate which planks of the Clark County Republican Party Platform you support, and which plank(s) you do not by answering “yes” or “no” for each numbered plank (note, the CCRP Platform can be found at http://www.clarkgop.org/2008platform.pdf ):

(Please number your answers 1 – 12 corresponding with each plank)

2. Please indicate which planks of the Nevada Republican Party Platform you support (note, some planks may be duplicative of the County Platform; the NRP Platform can be found at http://www.nevadagop.org/About/Default.aspx?SectionId=776 ):

(Please number your answers 1 – 18 corresponding with each plank)

3. Will you:
a. Sign the “Tax Payer Protection Pledge?”
b. If you are elected, will you introduce, sponsor, or vote for ANY bill that will raise taxes, even if that bill allows for Nevadan’s to decide on the tax via a “ballot initiative?”

4. Will you fully support the Republican Presidential Candidate, whoever that may be?

5. Will you fully support the Republican candidate in your race, should you not win your primary election?

6. Would you support legislation barring the general fund budget from growing in excess of the combined rate of population growth plus inflation unless approved by a 2/3-super majority vote of the Legislature?

7. Do you support a “cap” on property taxes?

8. Would you support legislation withdrawing Nevada from the federal "No Child Left Behind" requirements even if it meant giving up federal funds by doing so?

9. Would you support legislation ending automatic payroll deductions of union dues for government employees?

10. Do you support the concept that government agencies must perform departmental performance review audits to be conducted by non-government auditors, and requiring those audits to be reviewed by the legislature before a budget is passed?

11. Do you support “civil unions” or “domestic partnerships” for gay and straight couples as instituted in other states that offer all of the same rights as marriage between a man and a woman?

12. Do you support choice in public school education, such as:
a. Vouchers? Yes/no
b. Charter schools? Yes/no

13. Do you support:
a. Stricter border controls and stronger enforcement to stop illegal immigration?
b. The concept of illegal immigrants gaining status of “guest worker” as a “path to citizenship?”
c. The work of local and state law enforcement agencies, including police and prosecutors, in their efforts to enforce immigration laws, in light of the fact that the federal government has failed to live up to their responsibility in doing so?
d. Drivers Licenses for Illegal Aliens?
e. Sanctioning employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens?
i. Civil sanctions?
ii. Criminal sanctions?
f. Millennium Scholarships for illegal aliens?

14. Do you support:
a. The concept of “Truth in Sentencing” wherein a person sentenced to a term of imprisonment should be required to serve every bit of the term they have been sentenced to?
b. The deduction of sentences for “good behavior” by an inmate, such as the system currently exists in Nevada, where an inmate can receive 20 days of good behavior credits for every 30 days he/she was sentenced to(i.e., an inmate would serve only 4 months in prison if he were sentenced to 1 year in prison)?
c. A mandatory “3 strikes” law, otherwise known as “habitual offender” law, where the district court is required to hand down mandatory and extended periods of incarceration for person convicted of a multiple felonies?
i. Should such a sentencing law be discretionary with the court?
ii. How many felony convictions must be had before the law should be applied?
1. 3?
2. 4?
3. More?
d. Building more jails/prisons and paying for it by cutting social programs or releasing non-violent inmates early from their sentences to save money?

15. Do you:
a. In general , support capital punishment?
b. Would you support a bill that would allow for capital punishment of a person convicted of rape of a child under the age of 12, as has been passed in Louisiana, Georgia, Texas, Montana, Oklahoma, and South Carolina?

16. Do you:
a. Consider yourself “Pro-Life,” or do you believe that a woman has the “right to choose” an abortion?
b. Do you believe that an individual has the right to make that decision for herself?

17. Is there anything else you would like to state regarding your candidacy that you believe is important for Republican voters to know?