Missing Guide Information: Candidate Postition Summary Tables
The original version of the
League of Women Voters General Election '94 Voter Guide contains
several tables which are not
present in this electronic version. The tables summarize each candidate's
position on the following issues:
- Governor
- Health Care
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- Universal coverage
- Pre-existing condition coverage
- Portable insurance coverage
- Malpractice reform
- $ for rural hospitals
- Single payer plan
- Reproductive Choice
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- Programs to prevent teen pregnancy
- Requiring parental consent for teen abortions
- Constitutional rights for fetus
- Freedom of choice act
- Taxes
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- Current local government aid
- Sales tax on clothing
- More reliance on user fees
- State set local government levy limits
- Eduation
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- School vouchers
- Most funding by state taxes
- Most funding by district levy
- Longer school year
- Government
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- Term limits for legislators and constitutional officers
- Nonpartisan legislative redistricting commission
- Business Climate
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- Further reform of workers comp
- Tax incentives to attract business
- Economic development incentives to greater MN
- Increasing minimum wage
- Agriculture
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- $ to help farmers meet feed lot environmental standards
- More easing of MN corporate farm law restrictions
- Expansion in loan program for beginning farmers
- Continuation of lawsuit to overturn fed. milk pricing
- Expansion of ethanol incentive program
- Increased funding for state extension program
- Social Policy
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- Work requirement for welfare recipients
- More $ for domestic violence shelters
- Tougher child support enforcement
- Housing
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- Incentives to communities to promote a housing mix
- Lowering tax rates on low income rental property
- Regional housing policies
- Criminal Justice
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- More $ to build prisions
- $ for violence prevention
- More use of electronic monitoring
- "3 strikes you're out" legislation
- U.S. Senate and House of Representatives
- Reproductive Choice
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- Constitutional rights for fetus
- Freedom of choice act
- Federally supported family planning clinics
- Deficit
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- Reduce defense spending
- Means testing for entitlements
- Balanced budget amendment
- Line item veto
- Environment
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- Stronger measures to protect wetlands
- Stronger water quality standards
- Promoting non-nuclear energy standards
- Criminal Justice
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- "3 strikes you're out" legislation
- More $ for drug treatment, education
- Increased $ to build prisons
- More use of electronic monitoring
- Ban on assault weapons
- Social Policy
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- Work requirement for welfare recipients
- Interstate collection of child support
- Funding for early childhood education
- More $ for low income housing
- $ for domestic violence shelters
- Foreign Policy
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- GATT treaty
- Tightened immigration policy
- Trade/aid restrictions for human rights violations
- Health Care
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- Universal coverage
- Pre-existing condition coverage
- Portable insurance coverage
- Funding with income taxes
- Employer mandated funding
- Single payer plan
- Malpractice reform
- Government
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- Publicly financed campaigns
- Congressional term limits
Please contact the League for a paper copy of the General Election Voter
Guide '94 for complete position summaries.
This document is provided electronically by the non-partisan
MINNESOTA E-DEMOCRACY 1994 project. The text of this document was
provided by the League of Women Voters. The other parts of this and
other election documents may be obtained from the
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