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Strongly Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+5 points on Social scale)	Opposes defunding Planned Parenthood: Strongly Favors topic 1 Welcome women to CA from states without abortion: Strongly Favors topic 1 Provide full reproductive services in jails and prisons: Strongly Favors topic 1 Repeal law requiring coroners to investigate stillbirths: Strongly Favors topic 1
Favors topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-3 points on Economic scale)	Supports affirmative action: Strongly Favors topic 2 Shift from group preferences to economic empowerment of all: Neutral on topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (+5 points on Social scale)	Early supporter for gay marriage: Strongly Favors topic 3 Took initiative in issuing of same sex marriage licenses: Strongly Favors topic 3 2004: Performed same-sex marriage despite state ban: Strongly Favors topic 3
Strongly Opposes topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (+5 points on Social scale)	Strict separation of church and state: Strongly Opposes topic 4
Strongly Favors topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-5 points on Economic scale)	Supports HealthySF: available to all uninsured residents: Strongly Favors topic 5 We will lead a massive expansion of health care: Strongly Favors topic 5 CalAIM: physical health & mental health inextricably linked: Favors topic 5 COVID: Science--not politics--drove our decisions: Favors topic 5 State employees to get vaccinated or regular testing: Strongly Favors topic 5 First state to offer universal access to healthcare: Strongly Favors topic 5 Proposed Health For All, regardless of immigration status: Strongly Favors topic 5 Expanded health care to millions of uninsured Californians: Strongly Favors topic 5 Establish "report cards" on HMO quality of care: Favors topic 5
Favors topic 6: Privatize Social Security (+2 points on Economic scale)	Create Retirement Savings Accounts: Favors topic 6
Opposes topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (-3 points on Economic scale)	Offer every parent Charter Schools and public school choice: Opposes topic 7
Strongly Opposes topic 8: Fight EPA regulatory over-reach (+5 points on Social scale)	Pro-active on energy and resource management: Strongly Opposes topic 8 The water we drink & the air we breathe hang in the balance: Opposes topic 8 Radically ramp up forest management efforts: Strongly Opposes topic 8
Strongly Opposes topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+5 points on Social scale)	Criminal justice reform is crucial; repeal death penalty: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Death penalty is ineffective, irreversible and immoral: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Moratorium on the California death penalty: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Spared 737 people on California's death row: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Moratorium on death penalty; disassembled death chamber: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Bolster police, more prosecutors, get guns off the street: Favors topic 9 Cut administrative fees on people in criminal justice system: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Strongly Opposes topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (-5 points on Economic scale)	Supports background checks: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Allow suits against gun makers for negligence: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Lift statutory cap on concealed carry license fee: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Prevent unauthorized firearm use with "smart gun" technology: Opposes topic 10
Strongly Favors topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Supports tax hikes for public good: Strongly Favors topic 11
Favors topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+2 points on Social scale)	Sanctuary cities build trust: Strongly Favors topic 12 Border wall is just rhetoric; celebrate diversity: Strongly Opposes topic 12 There is no border crisis; the wall is just xenophobia: Favors topic 12 National Guard for crime on border, not immigration: Favors topic 12
Favors topic 13: Support & expand free trade (+2 points on Economic scale)	Build a rule-based global trading system: Favors topic 13
Favors topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (+2 points on Economic scale)	Californians are VIPs of GDP: 1 in 7 new jobs since 2010: Favors topic 14
Strongly Opposes topic 15: Expand the military (+5 points on Social scale)	Don't gut programs to pay for military buildup: Strongly Opposes topic 15
Strongly Favors topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+5 points on Social scale)	Campaigned to boost student registration: Strongly Favors topic 16 COVID: all registered voters receive mail-in ballots: Strongly Favors topic 16
Favors topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (+2 points on Social scale)	Progressive Internationalism: globalize with US pre-eminence: Favors topic 17
Strongly Favors topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale)	California leads the way on green energy: Strongly Favors topic 18 New cars & trucks in California to be zero-emission by 2035: Strongly Favors topic 18 We will write the playbook on confronting climate change: Strongly Favors topic 18 We need to be fighting polluters, not bolstering them: Strongly Favors topic 18 Supports tradable emissions permits for greenhouse gases: Favors topic 18
Strongly Opposes topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (+5 points on Social scale)	Pushed Proposition 64, legalizing adult use of marijuana: Strongly Opposes topic 19 I'm not pro-pot, but anti-prohibition; opposed 2010 Prop 19: Opposes topic 19 Let California legalization continue: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Supports recreational marijuana but no black market: Opposes topic 19
Strongly Favors topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-5 points on Economic scale)	Government has role in economic growth: Strongly Favors topic 20 Opportunity zones worthy of bipartisan support: Favors topic 20 $2.6 billion in grants to small businesses & nonprofits: Strongly Favors topic 20 Invest more in fighting wildfires, tackling historic drought: Strongly Favors topic 20 Homelessness must be at the top of our agenda: Strongly Favors topic 20 Nearly $2 billion to create more homeless housing: Strongly Favors topic 20 Address homelessness with 55,000 new housing units: Strongly Favors topic 20

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