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Opposes topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (-3 points on Social scale)	Pro-life; the life of every human being is precious: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Life is precious and should be protected: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Default pro-choice until hearing 13-week fetal heartbeat: Opposes topic 1 I'm pro-life with exceptions; take it or leave it: Opposes topic 1 1996: partial birth procedure is reprehensible: Opposes topic 1 1994: Donated to Planned Parenthood; opposed public donation: Favors topic 1 Ban abortions after 20 weeks, with exceptions: Opposes topic 1 Put defunding of Planned Parenthood on the president's desk: Strongly Favors topic 1 Successfully defunded Planned Parenthood in New Jersey: Strongly Opposes topic 1 If you're pro-life it's got to be for the whole life: Strongly Opposes topic 1 No federal ban on abortion without national consensus: Strongly Opposes topic 1
Opposes topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (+2 points on Economic scale)	Vetoed closure of Developmental Disabilities Centers: Favors topic 2 Black Lives Matter encourages cop killing: Strongly Opposes topic 2
Favors topic 3: Support transgender and LGBTQ+ rights (+2 points on Social scale)	Marriage exclusively between one man and one woman: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Homosexuals are born that way; they're not sinners: Strongly Favors topic 3 Pursue civil unions in NJ, but not same-sex marriage: Favors topic 3 Homosexuality is not a sin; people are born that way: Favors topic 3 Marriage is an institution between one man & one woman: Strongly Opposes topic 3 If my kids were gay, I'd give them a hug; but no marriage: Neutral on topic 3 No legislating gay marriage; but referendum ok: Favors topic 3 Gay marriage is settled in NJ, but keep debating nationally: Opposes topic 3 Disagree with Supreme Court, but gay marriage is law of land: Favors topic 3 Churches can use sexual orientation; businesses can't: Favors topic 3 No same-sex marriage; civil unions are adequate: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Government shouldn't interfere with parents on gender care: Favors topic 3
Opposes topic 4: America was founded on Christian values (+2 points on Social scale)	Catholicism informs who I am; but not my political decisions: Opposes topic 4 No federal department to promote Judeo-Christian values: Opposes topic 4 1996: Working poor hurt by limits on childcare subsidies: Opposes topic 4
Favors topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-3 points on Economic scale)	$159M for community health centers for the most vulnerable: Favors topic 5 Allow insurers to sell "mandate-free" policies: Opposes topic 5 Expand Medicare, but no N.J. ObamaCare exchange: Favors topic 5 Hold down Medicaid costs while providing focused choice: Favors topic 5 No single-payer system; no healthcare nationalization: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Expanded Medicaid in NJ, but repeal-and-replace ObamaCare: Opposes topic 5 Ensure coverage for people even if ObamaCare is repealed: Favors topic 5 3.2% funding increase for National Institutes of Health: Strongly Favors topic 5 Loosen "one-size-fits-all" approach to Medicaid: Opposes topic 5
Favors topic 6: Privatize Social Security (+2 points on Economic scale)	Raise the retirement age, and limit COLA, for state workers: Favors topic 6 State pensions cut by $120B; but $90B still to go: Favors topic 6 Save Social Security for those who need it: Opposes topic 6 Cut benefits for people earning over $80,000: Favors topic 6 Cut Social Security for wealthy, but don't increase taxes: Opposes topic 6 Close deficit in state retirement fund over next 7 years: Strongly Favors topic 6 We do need to look at means-testing of Social Security: Favors topic 6 Rich people should not be collecting Social Security: Opposes topic 6
Strongly Favors topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (+5 points on Economic scale)	Public education system is failing; increase accountability: Favors topic 7 Expand 73 charter schools to replace 200 failing schools: Favors topic 7 Replace Abbott District funds with tenure reform & charters: Strongly Favors topic 7 Dems believe in teacher's unions; we believe in teachers: Favors topic 7 Allow students in failing schools to attend better schools: Strongly Favors topic 7 1999: Lobbied for Edison Schools, for-profit school operator: Favors topic 7 Tenure reform for failing teachers; merit pay for good ones: Favors topic 7 Choice of schools to meet child's needs: Strongly Favors topic 7 Signed NJ onto Common Core but now regrets it: Favors topic 7 Supports both charter schools and vouchers: Strongly Favors topic 7 Teachers unions are not for education of our children: Favors topic 7 Further de-regulate charter schools: Favors topic 7 2010: Make Newark the nation's charter school capital: Favors topic 7 We're paying caviar prices for failure: Favors topic 7 Teachers' union sells out the children of New Jersey: Strongly Favors topic 7 What we need is to have competition with the public schools: Strongly Favors topic 7 Children attend parochial school: Favors topic 7
Favors topic 8: Businesses have a right to pollute (-3 points on Social scale)	Keystone pipeline would have minimal environmental impact: Favors topic 8 $157 million for Green Acres open-space acquisition: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Rejected $9B transit project as "tunnel to Macy's basement": Favors topic 8 Vetoes regulation of animal confinement for gestating sows: Favors topic 8
Favors topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (-3 points on Social scale)	Stand against child pornography and human trafficking: Favors topic 9 Disallow charging sexual assault victims for forensic exams: Favors topic 9 Bail reform package: jail violent offenders before trial: Strongly Favors topic 9 1994: Pushed for faster construction of county jail: Favors topic 9 1995 juvenile justice plan: individualized to child's needs: Opposes topic 9 As US Attorney, won 130 corruption cases and lost none: Favors topic 9 Bail reform: Keep dangerous criminals in jail until trial: Strongly Favors topic 9 Police officers are afraid to enforce the law: Strongly Favors topic 9 Community policing will avoid African-American police deaths: Neutral on topic 9 De-criminalizing drug use has reduced prisoner population: Opposes topic 9 Ban the box: don't ask job applicants about criminal record: Opposes topic 9 Bail reform based on crime, not wealth: Favors topic 9 Expunge records for less serious crimes: Opposes topic 9 If Trump is convicted, I can't imagine pardoning him: Strongly Favors topic 9 We need change at DOJ: remove anyone who shows partisanship: Neutral on topic 9
Favors topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (+2 points on Economic scale)	We already have too many firearms in our community: Strongly Opposes topic 10 2009: No right-to-carry cross-state reciprocity: Opposes topic 10 Favors gun control measures from law-enforcement perspective: Opposes topic 10 Vetoed outright ban on Barrett .50 caliber rifle: Favors topic 10 Gun laws ineffective; focus on mental health: Favors topic 10 Gun restrictions based on terror watchlists is a state issue: Favors topic 10 Vetoed a statewide I.D. system for gun owners: Strongly Favors topic 10 Executive Orders on guns isn't democracy; it's dictatorship: Strongly Favors topic 10 No criminalization of new classes of firearms: Strongly Favors topic 10 Criminals don't follow the law; that's why they're criminals: Favors topic 10
Strongly Opposes topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (+5 points on Economic scale)	$2.3 billion small business tax relief package: Strongly Opposes topic 11 We can and we must lower taxes: Strongly Opposes topic 11 2009: Single tax rate would raise taxes for low earners: Strongly Favors topic 11 2012: Across-the-board tax cut; 2013: exclude over $400K: Opposes topic 11 OpEd: Vetoed "Millionaire's Tax" on wealthiest New Jerseyans: Strongly Opposes topic 11 I will veto any income tax increases that come before me: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Simplify tax code to three brackets, with highest at 28%: Opposes topic 11 I vetoed more tax increases than any governor in history: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Get rid of deductions except charitable & mortgage deduction: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Get rid of all deductions; get government off our backs: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Abolish the estate tax to incentivize people to stay in NJ: Strongly Opposes topic 11 No relief to subset of taxpayers; all need relief: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Put the death tax on life support: Strongly Opposes topic 11
Opposes topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (-3 points on Social scale)	I've never been opposed to tuition equality for illegals: Favors topic 12 Path to citizenship in context of fixing broken system: Favors topic 12 Secure border with wall & electronics; but no mass deporting: Opposes topic 12 E-verify instead of building a physical wall: Favors topic 12 Use modern technology to track illegal immigrants: Opposes topic 12 No Muslim ban, but ok to ban 7 Muslim countries: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Focus on deporting dangerous criminals with laws we've got: Opposes topic 12 Send the National Guard to secure the southern border: Strongly Opposes topic 12
Favors topic 13: Support & expand free trade (+2 points on Economic scale)	Trade mission to Mexico doubles as foreign policy tour: Favors topic 13 Supports free trade, but distrusts Obama's TPP agreement: Opposes topic 13 Tariffs on China raise process for every American: Strongly Favors topic 13
Strongly Favors topic 14: Stay away from the UN & Globalism (+5 points on Economic scale)	Remain vigilant but stay connected to rest of the world: Strongly Opposes topic 14 America should be clear to world about what we stand for: Favors topic 14 Stop worrying about being loved; instead be respected: Favors topic 14 Push Russia out of Middle East; establish US dominance: Strongly Favors topic 14 America is strongest moral power for what is good and right: Strongly Favors topic 14 No Syrian refugees in US, not even infant orphans: Strongly Favors topic 14 America is a leader; the world is great when America leads: Strongly Favors topic 14 America didn't become great by pulling up the drawbridge: Strongly Favors topic 14 I'll fly Air Force One over China's artificial islands: Strongly Favors topic 14
Strongly Favors topic 15: Peace through Strength (-5 points on Social scale)	New isolationism, & reducing anti-terrorism, is dangerous: Favors topic 15 We ARE the leader in Libya; we MUST be the world's police: Favors topic 15 Strengthen support network for military families: Favors topic 15 Fund Veteran to Veteran Peer Support Program: Strongly Favors topic 15 Second American Century: strong military & sure values: Strongly Favors topic 15 Modernize to have 350 ships and 2,600 aircraft: Strongly Favors topic 15 Rebuild our military so tinpot dictators can't dictate to us: Strongly Favors topic 15
No opinion on topic 16: Make voter registration easier (0 points on Social scale)	Allow just one public salary for state legislators: Favors topic 16 More control over state commissions: Favors topic 16 Stricter limits on PAC campaign donations: Strongly Favors topic 16 Vetoes expanded early-voting system; no side-by-side systems: Opposes topic 16 Automatic voter registration is government-knows-best: Strongly Opposes topic 16 Early voting risks the integrity of our elections: Strongly Opposes topic 16 There's no solid evidence that 2020 election was stolen: Neutral on topic 16 Prosecuted politicians & their cronies, including jail time: Favors topic 16
Strongly Opposes topic 17: Stay out of foreign wars (-5 points on Social scale)	No relations with Cuba until they stop harboring fugitives: Opposes topic 17 Against nuclear deal with Iran; keep state sanctions: Strongly Favors topic 17 It's the price we pay for being leaders of the free world: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Don't pull troops out of Afghanistan until military says so: Strongly Opposes topic 17 I'm not a nation-building guy; we've achieved Afghan goals: Favors topic 17 Iranian nukes are profoundly against our national security: Opposes topic 17 Syria: If we draw a red line, we must finish the job: Strongly Opposes topic 17 We need anytime/anywhere inspections for Iran nukes: Opposes topic 17 Trump not backing Ukraine makes him Putin's puppet: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Support for Ukraine is really a proxy war with China: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Damn right I'd send US troops to Gaza: Strongly Opposes topic 17
Favors topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-3 points on Economic scale)	Make NJ a magnet for renewable energy manufacturer: Strongly Favors topic 18 Incentivize energy manufacturing & wind turbines: Strongly Favors topic 18 The future for New Jersey is in green energy: Strongly Favors topic 18 Consider windmills off NJ coast: Strongly Favors topic 18 Pulled out of ten-state Regional Greenhouse Gas program: Opposes topic 18 Get nuclear power plants back on the table: Opposes topic 18 New Jersey used private market to create solar industry: Favors topic 18 Jersey shore for tourism instead of offshore drilling: Favors topic 18 Ethanol in gasoline is the law; and that's just the minimum: Favors topic 18 $100 supplement for seniors' home cooling assistance: Favors topic 18
Opposes topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (+2 points on Social scale)	Outlaw designer drugs labeled as "bath salts": Strongly Favors topic 19 Drug treatment rather than non-violent offenders in prison: Opposes topic 19 1995: Applied 25% of county salary to drug addict residence: Opposes topic 19 Drug courts: mandate treatment, not imprisonment: Opposes topic 19 Drug addiction is a disease & it can be treated: Opposes topic 19 I support medical not recreational marijuana: Opposes topic 19 Mandatory drug treatment, not jail, for first time dealers: Opposes topic 19 Allow private sector to offer drug treatment programs: Opposes topic 19 Treatment, not jail, for drug addicts; it's a disease: Opposes topic 19 Addiction is an illness and should be treated as such: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Search for innovative ways to address drug epidemic: Opposes topic 19 Jailing & stigmatizing addiction victims won't help: Opposes topic 19 End the war on drugs, it's a disease; focus on treatment: Strongly Opposes topic 19 End war on drugs: treat addicts; penalize dealers: Opposes topic 19 Rated D+ by NORML, indicating a "hard-on-drugs" stance: Strongly Favors topic 19
Strongly Opposes topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (+5 points on Economic scale)	Erased $11B in budget deficit via spending cuts: Opposes topic 20 2011: 2% cap on most cities' municipal spending: Opposes topic 20 Cut taxes and reduce spending, while creating new jobs: Opposes topic 20 We must imposing fiscal discipline again in this country: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Cut business taxes by $600 million annually: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Don't raise minimum wage; create better-paying jobs instead: Strongly Opposes topic 20 NJ has highest state tax burden & it's getting worse: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Reduce all income tax brackets by 10% and restore EITC: Strongly Opposes topic 20

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