Dave Domina in Survey of 2014 Senate campaign websites
On Civil Rights:
End gender paycheck inequity & all gender favoritism
Statistically, current evidence suggests that women's compensation lags behind men for similar positions. In 2010, women working full-time earned 77 cents for every dollar earned by men working full time. There is no logic and no sound basis whatsoever
for any argument that women should be paid less than men for the same work. I have heard no one argue that compensation for similar work should vary with gender. These rules should be a basic part of the law:- Gender favoritism or preference is
impermissible and forbidden for all positions except those few, in rare settings, where gender is a criterion for employment.
- Neither gender should be paid more or less than the other for the same work in the same or parallel positions.
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Performance is gender neutral. Compensation must be too.
- The Equal Paycheck Act passed by the United States Senate makes genuine efforts to remedy historical disparities.
Source: 2014 Nebraska Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
Sep 1, 2014
On Education:
Treat public education as a basic right of citizenship
It is time for Americans to recognize the right to an education as a basic, civil right of citizenship. Without education for all Americans, stability, upward mobility, and progress are not attainable. Education must be measured by, and rooted in, strong
public schools. Care must be taken to permit alternatives to public education, but the public schools mandatory curriculum must be met or satisfied through proficiency testing.The US needs a comprehensive educational policy for the 21st Century-
Education as a basic civil right for all Americans.
- More and better resources for classroom teachers
- Rigorous evaluation of schools of education and alternative pathways to the teaching profession.
- Improved and invigorated teacher education in
enhanced schools of education.
- Strengthened professional standards for teaching
- Pre-K educational investment through federal formula based funding
- Vocational education at high school and post-high school levels.
Source: 2014 Nebraska Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
Sep 1, 2014
On Budget & Economy:
Government must live within the budget
I believe a timely budget must be passed, and the government must live within the budget. I believe debt held by foreign nations must be refinanced or repaid as quickly as possible so any Federal debt is held by the American people, and not foreign
interests. I believe the budget must be used to reduce the deficit as quickly as possible. This must be done by achieving tax fairness, which requires closing gaping tax loopholes. Billionaires and huge corporations must pay their fair share.
Source: 2014 Neb. Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
May 15, 2014
On Corporations:
Huge corporations are not citizens
We cannot treat huge corporations as our legal equals . You and I are human beings. This is the first condition of citizenship. We have the right to vote. We have the right to due process. And we create corporations. They are not citizens.
Taking back our right to govern ourselves requires compromise, common ground, workable but less than perfect solutions, fixing and improving as we go onward. In a democracy we get some, not all, of what we each want.
Source: 2014 Neb. Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
May 15, 2014
On Energy & Oil:
Don't let Big Oil run pipelines through Nebraska
Dave Domina stepped up to protect Nebraska landowners threatened to be overrun by a foreign oil company that wants to run a pipeline through the State. His work helped with a Special Session of the Legislature and led to
highly visible litigation over the validity of a newly enacted state law strongly supported by "big oil". On February 19, 2014, Domina won this lawsuit and got yet another state law declared unconstitutional.
Source: 2014 Neb. Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
May 15, 2014
On Free Trade:
Our jobs are outsourced; & debt owed to foreign competitors
Our markets are dominated by too few -- as Wall Street deal after deal goes down. No one is prosecuted. Our small businesses get backbreaking regulations because lobbyists use them as human shields to get what they want.
Our jobs are outsourced. Our assets are bought up. Our debt is owed to our biggest foreign competitor, and we do nothing about it.
Source: 2014 Neb. Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
May 15, 2014
On Government Reform:
United, we can get rid of bad laws & corporations
My life is an open book of service publicly performed, though I have never held elective office. Over 250 appearances in appellate courts--May I share something we have learned: With a united approach and a fearless, strong voice to make our case, we
can get things done. We can take down the biggest corporation. We know. With help from many of you, I got it done.We can get rid of bad laws. Remember our old property tax? The one the Supreme Court threw out. With help from some of you,
I got it done. It's time for that again.
We can take out dirty politicians. We know. With help from you and the confidence of the Nebraska Legislature, we got it done.
We need our State's strongest, clearest, and most tested voice.
And we need it now. The United States cannot be the most prestigious country in the world if we cannot keep our government open for business , adopt and live within a budget, pay our bills, and take care of our people.
Source: 2014 Neb. Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
May 15, 2014
On Health Care:
Nebraska Wellness Act covers uninsured and saves lives
Dave Domina announced that he will urge Senators in the Nebraska Legislature to pass LB 887, the Nebraska Wellness Act. The proposed law will extend medicaid benefits to approximately 3% of Nebraska's population and reach a group greatly in need of
healthcare coverage. Domina note, "I think the evidence establishes that the proposed new law will provide major benefits with nearly no detriments for the State", Domina said. He cited these advantages of the law:- 54,000 uninsured Nebraskans will
get health care coverage
- Most new covered persons work in low paying jobs that do not offer health coverage
- Medicaid will expand to cover some persons; others will get help to buy private plans
- The law promotes personal health responsibility,
and wellness programs
- Estimates are 500 Nebraska lives will be saved annually
- Much needed mental and behavioral health services will become available
- $2 billion will return to Nebraska from federal program funds otherwise lost to Nebraska.
Source: 2014 Neb. Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
May 15, 2014
On Health Care:
No Medicare vouchers; keep government's promises
I will resist making Medicare a voucher system and insist that Medicare benefits are a promise we must keep. These benefits represent a successful and efficient government program, and I oppose giving this massive block of
government services to private companies to operate at retail costs instead of continuing to administer them successfully as they are. My opponent takes the opposite view. Only my position will protect those on Medicare.
Source: 2014 Neb. Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
May 15, 2014
On Homeland Security:
No cuts to veterans' pensions or benefits
Veterans' Benefits. I refuse to cut the budget by cutting Veterans' pensions or benefits, or the promised pensions or Veterans benefits for those serving and firmly oppose the Ryan budget scheme which would do exactly this. My opponent takes the opposite
view, at least as to those now serving; he has modified his view as to those who are already Veterans with completed service since his political campaign began. Only my position will protect Veterans, and those now serving.
Source: 2014 Neb. Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
May 15, 2014
On Immigration:
Rounding up 11M people has financial and human cost
I oppose talk about rounding up 11 million persons now in the United States and deporting them. I encourage people who engage in such talk to consider the cost of such an effort--in financial, and in human terms--we must conserve these resources and not
be wasteful. I believe that a person lawfully in the United States, except without documents, who has contributed and been lawful here for a reasonable period of time, and who did not flee criminal prosecution in their country of origin, should be given
a prompt, reasonable opportunity to achieve citizenship. My opponent takes the opposite view. I also believe a serious crackdown on U.S. employers who use contracts, or other arrangements to try to avoid responsibility and taxes while
taking advantage of undocumented persons as their personnel in their businesses, is essential to police, and disincentivize illegal immigration these businesses engage in.
Source: 2014 Neb. Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
May 15, 2014
On Social Security:
Defend current retirement age, COLAs, and benefits
A Nation gives its word by passing a law, and allows its people to make choices [based on that law]. This is the essence of democracy. Social Security taxes collected to finance retirement, Medicare taxes financed to pay for health care during
retirement, Veterans benefits earned by time served, are all examples. These are essential government services exchanged for payments to the Government's program. Once the Nation's word is given and people act on that word, the Government cannot pull the
rug out from under its own People.I support, and defend the Social Security System, current COLAs, delivery of promised benefits, and oppose raising the qualification age on terms that would be harmful to innocent victims who are members of
demographic groups for whom there is no expectation of increased longevity like that enjoyed by persons of substantial means, and primarily Caucasians. My opponent takes the opposite view.
Source: 2014 Neb. Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
May 15, 2014
On Tax Reform:
A billionaire means $10K from pocket of 100,000 families
Our billionaire class grows and our middle class shrinks. To gather up $1 billion in the pocket of 1 person takes $10,000 out of the pockets of 100,000 families. That's the math. Our attention is distracted to other things.
And it goes on-- from Administration to Administration.
Together, as a common force with a strong voice, we can make a difference! Let's get it done. A strong voice must be heard for some basic things about which there can be no intelligent dispute.
Source: 2014 Neb. Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
May 15, 2014
On War & Peace:
No deployments to protect corporate investments abroad
Military Deployment. I am a Veteran. In the first debate between my opponent and I, it was clear I understand what is required to make a decision to deploy American military troops abroad. I said any consideration of such a deployment must have defined,
achievable political objective, and must be supported by effective, thoughtful, tactical and scientific application of the principles of war, which are the responsibility of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff and the Commander In Chief.
I oppose using American military power to protect the investments of private U.S. corporations abroad when those investments are made, knowingly, in an unstable region where the investor should know that the risk of physical insecurity and political
instability is a cost of doing business to be borne by the investor, not by the American people. Corporate profits don't justify sacrificing American lives.
Source: 2014 Neb. Senate campaign website, DaveDomina.com
May 15, 2014
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