Untitled Document I’ve been known to call it like I see it. I talk way too much about my Maltese. I adore handwritten letters. I watch horror movies and listen to music that makes my grandmother proud. I fantasize about winter cottages. I hate that dream where I’m running from something and I’m in slow motion. I believe in God. I eat lots of kale. I run, spin, lift weights, and like to climb things. Oh, and I LOVE my country.

Issues

ABORTION

–Pro-contraception

–Pro-life except in cases where a mother’s life is in danger and when incest or rape is involved (In instances of incest or rape, I defer to the discretion of the mother.)

–Abortion is a states’ rights issue

–NO to public funding for abortions

–YES to banning partial-birth abortions unless a mother’s life is in jeopardy

ECONOMY

–Free-market capitalist

–NO to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

–NO to TARP

–YES to cutting capital gains and business taxes

–YES to exploring flat income tax or national sales tax alternatives to the progressive income tax

–YES to eliminating the death tax

EDUCATION

–YES to charter schools

–YES to Pledge of Allegiance in schools

–YES to vouchers

–YES to merit pay

ENERGY

–NO to cap-and-tax

–YES to alternative energy, including nuclear/wind/hydro

–YES to ANWR drilling

–YES to American energy independence

FOREIGN POLICY

–YES to a strong American defense

–NO to Obama defense budget cuts

–NO to closing Guantanamo Bay

–YES to the 2007 surge in Iraq

–NO to civilian terrorist trials (YES to military tribunals)

GOVERNMENT

–small government, BIG DREAMS

–YES to reducing wasteful spending

–YES to “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”—Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

GUN RIGHTS

–Pro-Second Amendment

–Pro-NRA

HEALTH CARE

–YES to health care reform

–NO to the Obama plan

–YES to more affordable health care via competition across state lines

–YES to tort reform

IMMIGRATION

–YES to legal immigration

–YES to a path to citizenship, with conditions (requirements to pay back taxes/fines, learn English)

–NO to amnesty for illegals

–YES to visas for skilled workers

–NO to allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security

–YES to a fence along the Mexican-American border

–YES to declaring English the official language of the United States

WOMEN’S ISSUES

–YES to authentic feminism—personal responsibility, equal opportunity, equal work for equal pay, zero tolerance for sexism

–NO to public funding for Planned Parenthood

–NO to the National Organization for Women’s partisan politics

–Pro-woman is not synonymous with pro-abortion

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