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Strongly Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+5 points on Social scale)	I am pro-choice: Strongly Favors topic 1 Fund Planned Parenthood; require insurers' contraception: Strongly Favors topic 1 Endorsed by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice stance: Strongly Favors topic 1 Rated 100% by Planned Parenthood, indicating a pro-choice stance: Strongly Favors topic 1 Ban anti-abortion limitations on abortion services: Strongly Favors topic 1 Access safe, legal abortion without restrictions: Strongly Favors topic 1 Funding abortion avoids discrimination against poor women: Strongly Favors topic 1 Constitutional right to terminate pregnancy for health: Strongly Favors topic 1
Strongly Favors topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale)	Signed equal pay law; supports minority/women owned business: Strongly Favors topic 2 Passed a law to ensure women are paid the same as men: Strongly Favors topic 2 Constitutional Amendment for women's equal rights: Strongly Favors topic 2 Endorsed as "preferred" by The Feminist Majority indicating pro-women's rights: Strongly Favors topic 2 More funding & services for victims of domestic violence: Strongly Favors topic 2 Enforce against wage discrimination based on gender: Strongly Favors topic 2 Ban discriminatory compensation; allow 2 years to sue: Favors topic 2 Stronger enforcement against gender-based pay discrimination: Favors topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 3: Support transgender and LGBTQ+ rights (+5 points on Social scale)	As a gay man, I support prohibiting discrimination: Strongly Favors topic 3 Would be Colorado's first openly gay Governor: Strongly Favors topic 3 Add gender identity for bias-motivated crimes: Strongly Favors topic 3 Supports same-sex marriage: Strongly Favors topic 3 Allow gay veterans to receive certain state benefits: Strongly Favors topic 3 ENDA: prohibit employment discrimination for gays: Favors topic 3 Repeal Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell, and reinstate discharged gays: Favors topic 3 Sponsored bill prohibiting sexual-identity discrimination: Strongly Favors topic 3 Sponsored enforcing against anti-gay discrimination in public schools: Strongly Favors topic 3 Sponsored supporting No Name-Calling Week in schools: Favors topic 3 Apply copyright inheritance to same-sex couples: Strongly Favors topic 3 Don't elevate gender identity as a protected class: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Let states recognize same sex marriage: Favors topic 3 Give domestic partnership benefits to Federal employees: Strongly Favors topic 3 Recognize the 40th anniversary of Stonewall: Strongly Favors topic 3
Favors topic 4: America was founded on Christian values (-3 points on Social scale)	Address obscene materials online and in our school libraries: Strongly Favors topic 4 Sex Ed including both abstinence and contraception: Opposes topic 4 Grants for faith-based groups to teach English: Strongly Favors topic 4
Strongly Favors topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-5 points on Economic scale)	Enact efficient & rational universal quality health care: Strongly Favors topic 5 AdWatch: Supports Medicare for All: Strongly Favors topic 5 Improve ObamaCare; work toward universal single-payer system: Strongly Favors topic 5 Proposes drug price transparency & public option: Strongly Favors topic 5 Telehealth is literally a lifesaver for many in rural areas: Strongly Favors topic 5 Offer more integrated physical and mental health services: Strongly Favors topic 5 Hope to add 1,300 healthcare practitioners in our state: Favors topic 5 Don't force people to choose between jobs or a COVID vaccine: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Time to hold healthcare industry accountable for high costs: Strongly Favors topic 5 FDA should approve our prescription drug importation plan: Strongly Favors topic 5 Focus on danger of processed foods, but support vaccinations: Strongly Favors topic 5 Religious exemption from ObamaCare individual mandate: Strongly Opposes topic 5 GOP can't beat ObamaCare, so they pretend it's a "disaster": Strongly Favors topic 5
Strongly Opposes topic 6: Privatize Social Security (-5 points on Economic scale)	Oppose efforts to privatize Social Security: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Rated 98% by ARA, indicating a pro-Trust Fund stance: Strongly Opposes topic 6
Strongly Opposes topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (-5 points on Economic scale)	Prime supporter of Amendment 23 for school funding in 2000: Opposes topic 7 Increased across-the-board funding and preschool for all: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Started two public charter schools for at-risk youth: Favors topic 7 Achieve universal pre-school for 4-year-olds by end of term: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Increased higher education funding, plus $100 for newborns: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Increase funding by roughly $12-13 thousand per classroom: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Completely restore all austerity cuts to education funding: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Ensure access to career-connected learning in high schools: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Will establish full-day Pre-K statewide: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Universal preschool drives economic mobility: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Sponsored extending subsidized federal student loan rates until 2015: Opposes topic 7 No-strings-attached block grant will kill transparency: Opposes topic 7 Oppose private and religious school voucher programs: Strongly Opposes topic 7
Opposes topic 8: Businesses have a right to pollute (+2 points on Social scale)	We are loving our public lands to death; needs upgrades: Opposes topic 8 Require real-time emissions monitoring of air toxics: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Most important thing is to protect our waterways and rights: Opposes topic 8 Continue work to reduce unnecessary laws and regulations : Favors topic 8 Make tax deduction permanent for conservation easements: Opposes topic 8 Regulate all dog breeders down to kennels of 50 dogs: Opposes topic 8 Prohibit invasive research on great apes: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Tighten restrictions on hydrogen sulfide emissions: Favors topic 8 Require labeling genetically engineered food: Opposes topic 8 Voted NO on requiring limited GMO labeling: Favors topic 8 Deregulating banks encourages discriminatory practices: Opposes topic 8 Keep restrictive rules for predator control in Alaska: Strongly Opposes topic 8
Favors topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (-3 points on Social scale)	No mandatory minimums; yes alternative sentencing: Opposes topic 9 Make Colorado one of the 10 safest states over next 5 years: Opposes topic 9 As long as I'm Governor, Georgia will always back the blue!: Strongly Favors topic 9 Restrict use of solitary confinement in local jails: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Crack down on auto theft, propose tougher sentencing: Strongly Favors topic 9 Acted to make criminal penalties for auto theft tougher: Strongly Favors topic 9 Need to improve preventing and reducing youth crime: Opposes topic 9 Strengthen penalties for drug dealers peddling fentanyl: Strongly Favors topic 9 Sponsored evidence-based & proven prevention for street gangs: Opposes topic 9 Rated 77% by the NAPO, indicating a tough-on-crime stance: Favors topic 9
Strongly Opposes topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (-5 points on Economic scale)	Supports gun-control legislation: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Banning weapons violates the Second Amendment: Strongly Favors topic 10 Ban military-style weapons; plus CDC studies gun violence: Opposes topic 10 Strengthen penalties for black-market gun sales: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Ban bump stocks; end black market gun sales: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Prevent convicted felons from illegally purchasing firearms: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Signed expansion of gun-free "sensitive spaces": Strongly Opposes topic 10
Favors topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (-3 points on Economic scale)	Remove deductions exploited by corporations at our expense: Strongly Favors topic 11 Repeal Trump's tax cuts: Strongly Favors topic 11 Reduces taxes for the hardworking, instead of special breaks: Strongly Favors topic 11 Eliminating special interest breaks lowers everyone's rates: Favors topic 11 Get rid of special interest tax breaks for the few: Favors topic 11 Implemented historic tax relief; funded Child Tax Credit: Opposes topic 11 Colorado first state allowing deferral of some property tax : Opposes topic 11 Tax relief is the best mechanism to relieve cost of living : Strongly Opposes topic 11 Raising estate tax to 1990s level means $448B in new revenue: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Reducing tax rates balloons federal deficit & cuts programs: Favors topic 11
Strongly Favors topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+5 points on Social scale)	Respect the dignity and dreams of immigrants: Strongly Favors topic 12 Restore DACA: Don't cast 1M aspiring Americans into shadows: Strongly Favors topic 12 Appointed first DREAMer to serve on state board: Strongly Favors topic 12 Hope for legal pathways to citizenship for Dreamers: Strongly Favors topic 12 Prohibit local government from detaining illegal immigrants: Strongly Favors topic 12 Allow more visas for STEM college graduates: Favors topic 12 Protect LGBT families from illegal immigrant deportation: Favors topic 12 Voted to legalize DREAMer immigrants via military service: Strongly Favors topic 12 Provide lawyers and evidence for children being deported: Favors topic 12 Let illegal alien children attend school: Strongly Favors topic 12
Strongly Favors topic 13: Support & expand free trade (+5 points on Economic scale)	Will strongly criticize misguided efforts to impose tariffs: Strongly Favors topic 13 Tariffs are a regressive tax that hurt our economy: Strongly Favors topic 13 Stop foreign internet piracy of copyrighted materials: Strongly Opposes topic 13 $25B more loans from Export-Import Bank: Strongly Favors topic 13 Rated 88% by the USAE, indicating support for trade engagement: Strongly Favors topic 13
No opinion on topic 14: Stay away from the UN & Globalism (0 points on Economic scale)	Colorado is unique; we always have been: Favors topic 14 Condemn China's organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners: Opposes topic 14 Cut World Bank funding to enforce against terrorism: Favors topic 14 Allow travel between the United States and Cuba: Opposes topic 14
Strongly Opposes topic 15: Peace through Strength (+5 points on Social scale)	Sponsored defunding nuclear-armed aircraft and nuclear R&D or testing: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Funding wars separately is gimmick against sequestration: Opposes topic 15 Let NSF decide research grants, not Congress: Opposes topic 15
Strongly Favors topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+5 points on Social scale)	Investigate voter suppression; prohibit gerrymandering: Strongly Favors topic 16 Require Internet disclosure of all earmarks: Favors topic 16 Ban stock trading based on Congressional insider knowledge: Strongly Favors topic 16 Require full disclosure of independent campaign expenditures: Strongly Favors topic 16 Establish 15 days of early voting in all states: Favors topic 16 Full disclosure of campaign spending: Strongly Favors topic 16 Matching fund for small donors, with debate requirements: Favors topic 16 No photo IDs to vote; they suppress the vote: Favors topic 16 Establish "My Voice Voucher" small campaign contributions: Strongly Favors topic 16 Public financing of federal campaigns by voter vouchers: Favors topic 16 No separate contribution limits for party activities: Favors topic 16 Statehood for the District of Columbia: Favors topic 16 Automatic voter registration for all citizens: Strongly Favors topic 16
Opposes topic 17: Stay out of foreign wars (-3 points on Social scale)	Invasion of Iraq was a colossal mistake; out in 16 months: Strongly Favors topic 17 Boycott & sanctions against Iran for terrorism & nukes: Opposes topic 17 Iranian nuclear weapons: prevention instead of containment: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Intervene in Iraq to protect persecuted Christians: Opposes topic 17 Work with Iraqi government to fight ISIL: Opposes topic 17 Voted NO on net neutrality: don't regulate the internet: Favors topic 17 Sanctions on Iran to end nuclear program: Opposes topic 17
Strongly Favors topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Now is the time for carbon emission-reduction: Strongly Favors topic 18 Big Oil fights overwhelming evidence of global warming: Strongly Favors topic 18 100% renewable energy by 2040: Strongly Favors topic 18 Increase regulatory incentives for renewables: Strongly Favors topic 18 Climate change threatens decreased snowpack for ski industry: Strongly Favors topic 18 We all need to lead on clean air and climate: Strongly Favors topic 18 Colorado is a national leader in green energy jobs: Strongly Favors topic 18 We simply must end our reliance on costly fossil fuels: Strongly Favors topic 18 Cut red tape holding back investment in renewable energy: Strongly Favors topic 18 Housing and transit goals go with our climate goals: Favors topic 18 All-of-government approach to climate change: Strongly Favors topic 18 Extend through 2016 the renewable energy tax credit: Strongly Favors topic 18 $5 billion in tax credits for alternative energy projects: Favors topic 18 Voted YES on banning offshore oil drilling in Gulf of Mexico: Strongly Favors topic 18 50% clean and carbon free electricity by 2030: Strongly Favors topic 18
Strongly Opposes topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (+5 points on Social scale)	Treat marijuana like alcohol; end Drug War on states: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Signed law allowing mass pardon for minor marijuana offenses: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Allow changing marijuana designation from retail to medical: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Expunge records for first drug offenders after probation: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Exclude industrial hemp from definition of marijuana: Opposes topic 19 Sponsored no federal enforcement against legal state marijuana: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Exempt industrial hemp from marijuana laws: Opposes topic 19 Rated A+ by NORML, indicating a pro-drug-reform stance: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Immunity for banks offering services to marijuana businesses: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Voted NO on additional Drug War funding for synthetic drugs: Strongly Opposes topic 19
Strongly Favors topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-5 points on Economic scale)	Invested billions in housing but can't just buy our way out : Favors topic 20 Strengthen our state's foster care and adoption systems: Strongly Favors topic 20 Increase the number of state government apprenticeships: Strongly Favors topic 20 Funded more than 14,000 units of affordable housing: Strongly Favors topic 20 Expand lending caps for credit unions to small business: Favors topic 20 Audit the Federal Reserve & its actions on mortgage loans: Opposes topic 20 Raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2016: Favors topic 20

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