2010 Oregon Governor Selector
Answer the following questions to see which candidate for Oregon's next governor best shares your views. You may select a position for every issue or just select issues important to you. The candidates' positions, shown on your results page, are their statements in the public record or their direct responses to our inquiries. In cases where there is no known position, no points are given to the candidate on that particular issue.

1. What would be your ideal candidate's position on the BUDGET & TAXES? (Unlike the federal budget, the state must balance its budget, of which some 90% is spent on education, human resources and public safety).
Would tend to support reductions in state government's spending.
Would tend to support increases in taxes on businesses and/or upper income people.
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2. What would be your ideal candidate's position on the EDUCATION FUNDING?
Would oppose more money for schools as it would require raising taxes.
Would favor increased school funding and consider a variety of revenue sources including tax increases.
Would advocate for increased school funding by allowing more logging and using forest receipts.
Would advocate for increased school funding by reforming PERS (Public Employee Retirement System).
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3. How would your ideal candidate PASS LEGISLATION?
With a collaborative approach.
With a no-nonsense, issue executive orders approach.
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4. What would be your ideal candidate's position on HEALTH CARE?
Would oppose a government-run health care program for Oregonians.
Would favor a government-run health care program for Oregonians.
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5. What would be your ideal candidate's position on GAY & LESBIAN ISSUES?
Would oppose both marriage and civil unions for same sex couples.
Would support both marriage and civil unions for same sex couples.
Would support civil unions (but not marriages) for same sex couples.
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6. What would be your ideal candidate's position on the MARIJUANA?
Would advocate general decriminalization
Would advocate legalization of medical marijuana.
Would advocate increasing penalties for possession of marijuana.
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7. What would be your ideal candidate's position on GUN CONTROL?
Would support gun control legislation recommended by groups such as the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Would oppose gun control legislation, agreeing with groups such as the NRA and the Gun Owners of America.
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8. What would be your ideal candidate's position on ABORTION?
Would support the pro-choice positions of organizations like NARAL.
Would support the pro-life positions of organizations like National Right to Life Committee.
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9. What would be your ideal candidate's position on CAPITAL PUNISHMENT?
Would support the death penalty.
Would oppose the death penalty.
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10. Which special issue would your ideal candidate CHAMPION?
Create a single-payer legal system for resolving disputes without cost to litigants
Create a state-owned bank to invest in infrastructure projects
Empower juries to judge the law.
Improve, transform Oregon's economy
Jobs, decreasing Oregon's unemployment rate.
Legalization of hemp
Make bio-fuels an option, not a requirement.
Pardons for victimless crime convictions
Publicly financed elections
Push back on some environmental issues or concerns.
Reduce taxes, reduce state spending
Reform education
Reform health care
Salmon recovery in the Columbia River and its tributaries

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