Tom Steyer on VoteMatch

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Strongly Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+5 points on Social scale)	Pro-choice is a litmus test for all support: Strongly Favors topic 1 Pro-choice, & only work for pro-choice candidates: Strongly Favors topic 1 Supports Roe v. Wade's right to privacy: Strongly Favors topic 1 Women need reproductive care; GOP wants to take it away: Favors topic 1
Strongly Favors topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale)	African-Americans waited for centuries for civil rights: Favors topic 2 Fight racial disparities in our criminal justice system: Strongly Favors topic 2 Increase disability funding; we all succeed together: Strongly Favors topic 2 Have a formal commission on race to review 400 years: Strongly Favors topic 2 Sustained $125B federal investment in HBCUs: Strongly Favors topic 2 Trump is only against immigration for non-white people: Strongly Favors topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 3: Support transgender and LGBTQ+ rights (+5 points on Social scale)	Mike Pence alienates LGBT Americans: Favors topic 3 Transgendered hate crimes: unequivocally prosecute severely: Strongly Favors topic 3 Represent LGBT rights in human rights action abroad: Strongly Favors topic 3 Directly fund academic research to find cure for AIDS: Strongly Favors topic 3 Collect census data on LGBTQ status: Strongly Favors topic 3
No opinion on topic 4: America was founded on Christian values (0 points on Social scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Strongly Favors topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-5 points on Economic scale)	We need transparency on all drug prices: Favors topic 5 Healthcare must be a RIGHT, not a privilege: Strongly Favors topic 5 Keep private health insurance; but add public option: Favors topic 5 Open Medicare to all who want it: Favors topic 5 Supports public option; allow private insurance: Favors topic 5 More funding is needed for mental health care: Strongly Favors topic 5
Opposes topic 6: Privatize Social Security (-3 points on Economic scale)	Great countries don't break their major promises: Opposes topic 6
Strongly Opposes topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (-5 points on Economic scale)	Opportunity Institute: cradle to career approach: Opposes topic 7 Keep schools open despite Republican demonization: Strongly Opposes topic 7 I will tackle the student debt crisis head on: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Hold charter schools to same standards as public schools: Opposes topic 7 Free public school from age 3 through community college: Strongly Opposes topic 7
Strongly Opposes topic 8: Businesses have a right to pollute (+5 points on Social scale)	Stand up to corporate polluters who poison our air & water: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Corporate profits matter more than keeping people alive: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Ban single-use plastic bags: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Regulate confinement of farm animals more humanely: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Nuclear energy is risky & not cost competitive: Favors topic 8 Environmental justice means clean air & water: Strongly Opposes topic 8
Opposes topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+2 points on Social scale)	Backs bill to release accused criminals who can't pay bail: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Regrets Farallon's $34M investment in corporate prisons: Favors topic 9 More parole opportunities for convicted non-violent felons: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Repeal the California death penalty: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Focus on white supremacist violence as domestic terrorism: Strongly Favors topic 9 We need to break the school-to-prison pipeline: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Mistake to invest in private prisons, fought for state ban: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Strongly Opposes topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (-5 points on Economic scale)	Targets youth voter registration for pro gun control votes: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Register young voters to push for gun reform now: Strongly Favors topic 10 Sympathy for gun control measures: Opposes topic 10 I will declare gun violence a public health epidemic: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Gun violence is a public health epidemic: Strongly Opposes topic 10 We license car-owners; we should license gun-owners: Strongly Opposes topic 10
Strongly Favors topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Big-money interests are committed to stopping progress: Strongly Favors topic 11 Supported 2012 income tax increase for multistate businesses: Strongly Favors topic 11 Calculate CA corporate income tax based on in-state sales: Strongly Favors topic 11 Proposed 10% on oil extraction to support university system: Favors topic 11 2016: Increase cigarette tax by $2 per pack: Favors topic 11 Tax reform bill keeps the rich happy but hurts middle class: Strongly Favors topic 11 Implement 1 percent annual wealth tax on America's richest: Strongly Favors topic 11 Oppose legislative supermajority for raising fees & levies: Strongly Favors topic 11 Tax surcharge on personal incomes over $250,000: Strongly Favors topic 11 Boost taxes 1% on wealthiest 0.1% of Americans: Strongly Favors topic 11 Upper income people have done disproportionally well: Strongly Favors topic 11 OpEd: Steyer's tax proposal would hit poor hardest: Opposes topic 11 Upper-income people have done "disproportionately well": Strongly Favors topic 11 Supports higher estate tax, annual wealth tax: Strongly Favors topic 11 Repeal Trump tax cuts; close corporate tax loopholes: Strongly Favors topic 11 Unbearable inequality in most unfair tax regime I've seen: Strongly Favors topic 11 Take on corporations that are not paying their fair share: Strongly Favors topic 11
Strongly Favors topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+5 points on Social scale)	$2.3M to recruit and train immigrant advocates: Favors topic 12 Failing to offer a path to citizenship is inherently unjust: Strongly Favors topic 12 Allow non-English languages in public schools: Strongly Favors topic 12 Fight deportation and expand services for immigrants: Strongly Favors topic 12 Decriminalize unauthorized border crossings: Favors topic 12
Favors topic 13: Support & expand free trade (+2 points on Economic scale)	Trump tax plan & trade war are failures; I can show how: Favors topic 13 No trade war, but stand up to China on intellectual property: Favors topic 13 Undo Trump tariffs; negotiate trade deals for U.S. workers: Favors topic 13
Opposes topic 14: Stay away from the UN & Globalism (-3 points on Economic scale)	Unilateral action, without allies, makes absolutely no sense: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Rebuild traditional multilateral alliances like NATO: Strongly Opposes topic 14 More foreign aid for Central America: Opposes topic 14 America's brand in the world our most important protection: Opposes topic 14 US is supposed to be value-driven leader of the world: Strongly Favors topic 14 Set a strategy: What are we trying to accomplish in Mideast?: Strongly Opposes topic 14
Opposes topic 15: Peace through Strength (+2 points on Social scale)	Refocus and reduce U.S. military spending: Strongly Opposes topic 15 National Service Plan: $50B for public service: Favors topic 15
Strongly Favors topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+5 points on Social scale)	Break the corporate stranglehold of our government: Strongly Favors topic 16 Take the corporate control out of politics: Strongly Favors topic 16 It's up to us to un-rig the voting system: Strongly Favors topic 16 Electoral College votes should reflect popular vote: Favors topic 16 Opposes Citizens United decision: Strongly Favors topic 16 Opposes Citizens United ruling on corporate donations: Strongly Favors topic 16 Government is broken; push power back to people: Strongly Favors topic 16 The right to vote is gateway to inclusive democracy: Strongly Favors topic 16
Favors topic 17: Stay out of foreign wars (+2 points on Social scale)	Trump foreign policy strategy is to react, not think: Opposes topic 17 Withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan: Strongly Favors topic 17 Keep US troops in northern Syria: Opposes topic 17 Diplomatic measures must always be the first choice: Favors topic 17
Strongly Favors topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Substantial racial subtext in virtually every policy area: Strongly Favors topic 18 NextGen Climate: $170 million to advance renewable energy: Strongly Favors topic 18 Fears current policies will subsidize fossil fuel extraction: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Supports Paris agreement to develop renewable technology: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Safe, secure, sustainable energy instead of oil subsidies: Strongly Favors topic 18 Departed from Farallon in part due to fossil fuel holdings: Favors topic 18 When I realized the threat of fossil fuels, I divested: Favors topic 18 Cut greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020: Strongly Favors topic 18 Ban fracking: Favors topic 18 Donated $41m for sustainable energy center: Strongly Favors topic 18 We need to lead the world on climate, with allies abroad: Strongly Favors topic 18 Gave $41 million for sustainable energy program at Stanford: Strongly Favors topic 18 Supports Green New Deal & carbon-neutrality by 2045: Strongly Favors topic 18 On Day 1: declare climate crisis a national emergency: Strongly Favors topic 18 End subsidies & tax breaks for fossil fuels: Strongly Favors topic 18 Fought gutting state greenhouse gas reduction law: Favors topic 18 2015: Next president must have plan for climate change: Strongly Favors topic 18 New technologies are disruptive, less expensive, and clean: Strongly Favors topic 18
Favors topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (-3 points on Social scale)	72,000 died from opioids last year; that's a health crisis: Favors topic 19
Strongly Favors topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-5 points on Economic scale)	Trump's $1T deficit is historic fiscal mismanagement: Opposes topic 20 Require Rainy Day budget stabilization in state constitution: Favors topic 20 Break up monopolies but we should focus on the positive: Favors topic 20 Supports right to a living wage: Strongly Favors topic 20 Our affordable housing situation is a crisis: Strongly Favors topic 20 Increase the earned income tax credit: Favors topic 20 Billions for affordable housing; market won't do it: Strongly Favors topic 20

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