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May 17, 2008

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  • WEST VIRGINIA FAMILY FOUNDATION
    2000 PRO-FAMILY VOTING RECORDS

    P.O. Box 11752, Charleston, WV 25239

    Explanation of Votes & Sponsorship

    2000 WV Senate Ratings | 2000 WV House of Delegates Ratings



    1. VOTER’S RIGHTS INITIATIVE & REFERENDUM
      - Do you support INITIATIVE (giving the people the right to place an issue on the ballot to vote directly)? Do you support REFERENDUM (giving the people the right to reject newly passed legislation by having it placed on the ballot)?

      Based on questionnaire results from Concerned Citizens of WV and the WV Family Foundation. The legislators or candidates listed have publicly supported the passage of Voters' Rights, including Initiative and Referendum.



    2. SUPPORT PRO-LIFE ISSUES
      - Since abortions are presently legal, do you support requiring both parents and/or guardians giving consent for minors to have abortions, except in special cases as established by a court of law? Do you oppose partial birth abortion? Do you support the requirement of informed consent (with the details of the abortion procedure and the stage of fetal development) and a 24 hour waiting period be given prior to an abortion.?

      Records of incumbents are based on historic abortion votes, dated from 1991 to 1997, from West Virginians for Life and Questionnaires from the WV Family Foundation. "Yes" indicates that two thirds or more of the votes or questionnaire responses are Pro-life.



    3. OPPOSE GOVERNMENTT FUNDING OF ABORTION
      - Do you oppose governmental funding of abortion?

      Incumbent Legislators have been rated based on a historic pro-life petition. This letter was signed by 60 Delegates and Senators, and sent to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate Majority Leader, telling them to stop federal funding to West Virginia that could be used to promote abortion clinics or to counsel for abortions. Legislators who were not in office were given the opportunity to respond to their willingness to sign such a letter, via questionnaire.



    4. RECORD HOUSE VOTES
      - Do you support passage of a House of Delegates rule requiring automatic recording of votes of bills on passage, as is done in the West Virginia Senate (currently many bills pass on unrecorded voice votes)?

      Incumbent Legislators have been rated based on a historic vote on HR-14. Amending Rule No. 42 of the House requiring recorded votes on passage of all House bills. Roll call votes are seldom requested on all but the most controversial of votes. No roll call votes were requested during the first half of the 60-day legislative session.

    5. REGULATE SEX ORIENTED BUSINESSES
      - Do you support legislation to restrict and regulate Sexually Oriented Businesses, such as prohibiting totally nude performances?

      West Va. has experienced an ongoing increase in the number of S.O.B.’s across the state. Other states manage to constitutionally regulate these businesses, however, in West Va. each attempt at legislation has been overturned by liberal judges.



    6. BLOCK PORN ON SCHOOL COMPUTERS
      -Do you support the requirement for filtering software to block pornography from computers in public schools and libraries?

      This sensible approach to protecting our children has been endorsed by Governor Underwood.



    7. HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT
      - Do you support adding "sexual orientation" to the existing section of the West Virginia Code dealing with hate crimes thereby giving preferential treatment to crimes involving homosexuals?

      All laws should be equally enforced, however, the Gov’t. should not endorse immoral behavior by granting special rights, privileges or protections for homosexuals, lesbians, transsexuals, etc.



    8. RACTRACK SLOT MACHINE EXPANSION
      - Do you support the expansion of video lottery/slot machines at the four dog and horse race tracks?

      Year after year there has been a step by step expansion of casino gambling style slot machines at the four tracks, first to bail out the dog and horse racing operations, now just as an expansion of gambling to enrich public and private coffers.



    9. BAN "GRAY" POKER GAMBLING MACHINES
      - Do you support a bill to require the banning and removing of video poker "gray machines"?

      This form of gambling, described as the "crack cocaine of gambling" is spreading across the state. South Carolina has seen their human cost and banned them. It is hard to enforce the law when they are allowed for "entertainment purposes", so they must be eliminated.



    10. PRIVATE & HOME SCHOOL TAX CREDITS
      - Do you support a tax credit of $1,000 per year per student to parents who send their children to a private school and $500 for home schooling?

      Not all students relate to the public school system. Parents who choose an education method with a different value or discipline system should not be penalized by double taxation. The saving to the state is significant since the average West Virginia public school cost per student per year is over $6000.



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