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Gavin Newsom on VoteMatch |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Favors
topic 6:Privatize Social Security
(+2 points on Economic scale) | Create Retirement Savings Accounts: Favors topic 6 |
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Opposes
topic 7:Vouchers for school choice
(-3 points on Economic scale) | Offer every parent Charter Schools and public school choice: Opposes topic 7 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Strongly Favors
topic 11:Higher taxes on the wealthy
(-5 points on Economic scale) | Supports tax hikes for public good: Strongly Favors topic 11 |
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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 |
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topic 13:Support & expand free trade
(+2 points on Economic scale) | Build a rule-based global trading system: Favors topic 13 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Favors
topic 17:Avoid foreign entanglements
(+2 points on Social scale) | Progressive Internationalism: globalize with US pre-eminence: Favors topic 17 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Gavin Newsom is a Libertarian-Leaning Progressive
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