The document is an open letter from a 35-year-old working mother of five in Southern California to Sarah Palin. After watching Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention, the author was disappointed that Palin spent more time attacking Obama than talking about herself and her policies. The author felt Palin's speech was inauthentic and full of lies about Obama. She had hoped Palin would be someone she could support as a working mother, but was troubled by Palin's stance on issues compared to Obama based on the positions outlined in the document.

1. Mother of five fights back: Wake Up Sarah Palin
By Bobbi Miller-Moro
Not only is this a strait forward open letter to Sarah Palin, but included at the end
is the facts on WHERE THE CANDIDATES STAND ON THE ISSUES. No one
can claim ignorance. This is about facts, truth and lies.
I am a 35 year old working, middle class mother of five living in So. California. I
have been a Republican since my great ancestor Richard Stockton, signed the
Declaration of Independence. I am an ex-police officer, and now I own my own
business. This is the first time I changed my party. I am voting for Obama and
Biden. I saw Sarah Palin’s speech last night. I have watched both conventions
closely. I have studied on the issues. I have read articles on major news
networks, and blogs. I have listened to NPR, radio talk shows, and television
shows. This election, I am making the right choice.
My family got hit with the economy’s upward spiral of surging gas prices, and we
have no health care. We have felt it at the grocery store. We now shop at the 99
cents store. We have lost one of our vehicles, on the verge of losing our home
and are three months behind an astonishing amount of debt that we once was
able to afford.

2. This election, I am taking my life back, I am taking my country back. I have heard
the arguments on both sides. I know Obama’s back story, I know McCain’s back
story, and I got to know Biden’s. Now it was Sarah Palin’s turn. As I watched last
night, I was waiting just like the rest of us to see what she was going to say. Now
I was going to get to know her. The fact that she has five children (weather or not
the fifth baby is hers or not), and she has this unbelievably fortunate position of
running for Vice President, I cannot help but to root for her.
I know how hard it is to raise five children. I have a 16 year old, 15 year old, 12
year old, 4 year old, and 2 year old. I know how hard it is to juggle between
working and raising my children. I have tried the stay at home route, especially
when the children were months old-but always had to go back to work to have
the extra income. I chose to own my own business, because that was the only
way I can make enough to meet the high cost of a family of seven.
I want to see a woman in office. I want to see a mother of five showing America,
“it can be done”. Of course I have concerns about how the children will manage
without their mother. I know that a baby with Down Syndrome will take a lot of
time, love and patience that as Vice President there will be no way it will be
physically possible for her to be there the amount of time needed. So essentially,
her husband will take on that role, or her family. As any mother, you cannot help
to have your attention focused on your kids, your family-even while you work.
It doesn’t mean you cannot perform excellently. It does not mean that a mother
cannot make powerful decisions, and be completely reliable and competent. I
was a single mother with three children and a police officer. It can be done.
I created a blog, Thank God For Mommy (http://www.ThankGodForMommy.com)
where I dispel the notion that just because you are a mom you can’t reach for
your dreams. That you can’t have it all. I talk about everything from paintings to
filming two movies pregnant as a co producer one here in the states and another
in Cuba. I talk about how I continue to make films, and I continue to pursue my

3. physical fitness, continue to educate myself and live a life for myself and my
children. My four daughters and one son see that I make it happen.
So, when I saw Sarah Palin on the ticket, I thought ‘wow, this is validating’. I
loved the fact she was a mother of five, and worried at the same time. This is a
huge country. This is not Alaska, population 9,000. I cannot, we cannot, afford
another four years and I am scared to death to let a Republican in the White
House, but Sarah-she might be the one to make a difference.
So she gets on stage, and she looks great. Then she starts to talk. I waited for
her to talk about her family. But, all she did was talk about how many kids she
has, and the fact she has a special needs baby. She talked about her husband,
and what a normal guy he was. She talked about being a pit bull hockey mom.
But, I was still waiting. I remember listening Michelle Obama’s speech. Talk about
her family, her roots, her beliefs, her parents, and grandparents. I got to know
Michelle Obama that night.
Half way thru Sarah’s speech, she starts to lie, blatantly. Like really aggressive
lying about Obama. The way she spoke about him, making fun of community
service (wow), and that he has ‘devoted followers’, the stage he stood on, him
trying to save the planet (like a world leader), how she twisted the words of things
he said about running his campaign, etc and on and on. She said we have no
idea where Obama stands on anything, um…anyone who has a computer can
just Google it for Godssakes. My jaw dropped. I thought she would take the
higher road. I thought I was going to hear about who she is, but she talked about
Obama, Obama, Obama. On and on she went, it got uglier and uglier and she
got uglier and uglier.
Oh, no. I thought. This is more of the same. She fed the hate mongers in the
crowd raw hate. They gobbled it up. Where was the speech about what type of
person she was, her belief system, her values her promises to our country? She
seemed completely inauthentic, and smug. ‘Shrill’ is how one person put it.
I want to rally on the side of a working mother of five. I want to have compassion
for her teen daughter’s pregnancy. I do. But, the Right wing conservatives have
been such a proponent against that. Wasn’t also Sarah’s stance also against it?
Now, what? They are covering for one of their own?
Due to the fact that there is rarely any specific information on
where the candidates stand, I put this together referencing from
a non biased site. I did not put all of it here, due to reading time
and space. But, the major topics I did put. I was surprised to find
how little information on where Sarah Palin stands on issues,
and on some (like immigration) there was just nothing. Obama’s
in comparison was very lengthy. There is no excuses as to

4. where the candidates stand on the issues. Here it is in black and
white.
The Issues.
A List of all four tickets stance on the issues.
Barack Obama
Expand access to contraception;
reduce unintended pregnancy: Ensure access to and funding for
Favors topic 1 contraception: Favors topic 1
Rated 100% by NARAL on pro- NO on prohibiting minors crossing
choice votes in 2005, 2006 & 2007: state lines for abortion: Strongly Favors
Strongly Favors topic 1 topic 1
Voted against banning partial birth NO on defining unborn child as
abortion: Favors topic 1 eligible for SCHIP: Favors topic 1
Stem cells hold promise to cure 70 YES on $100M to reduce teen
major diseases: Favors topic 1 pregnancy by education &
contraceptives: Favors topic 1
Trust women to make own decisions
on partial-birth abortion: Strongly NO on notifying parents of minors
Favors topic 1 who get out-of-state abortions: Favors
topic 1
Extend presumption of good faith to
abortion protesters: Favors topic 1 YES on expanding research to more
embryonic stem cell lines: Favors topic
Pass the Stem Cell Research Bill: 1
Favors topic 1
Racial equality good for America as
Protect a woman's right to choose: a whole: Favors topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 1
Fight job discrimination to give
Supports Roe v. Wade: Strongly Favors women equal footing at jobs: Strongly
topic 1 Favors topic 2
Sponsored bill providing Include class-based affirmative
contraceptives for low-income action with race-based: Favors topic 2
women: Favors topic 1
Better enforce women's pay equity
Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a via Equal Pay Act: Strongly Favors topic
pro-choice stance: Strongly Favors topic 2
1

5. Marriage not a human right; non-
Supports affirmative action in discrimination is: Favors topic 3
colleges and government: Strongly
Favors topic 2 Include sexual orientation in anti-
discrimination laws: Favors topic 3
Opposes CA Prop. 8, one-man-one-
woman marriage: Strongly Favors topic Increase funding for AIDS treatment
2 & prevention: Favors topic 3
America's race and class problems
are intertwined: Favors topic 2 Rated 89% by the HRC, indicating a
pro-gay-rights stance: Strongly Favors
Get minorities into home ownership topic 3
& global marketplace: Favors topic 2
Provide benefits to domestic
Ending racial profiling is part of fight partners of Federal employees:
for justice: Favors topic 2 Strongly Favors topic 3
Sponsored bill for a Rosa Parks NO on constitutional ban of same-
commemorative postage stamp: sex marriage: Strongly Favors topic 3
Favors topic 2
Reduce recidivism by providing ex-
Rated 100% by the NAACP, offender supports: Opposes topic 9
indicating a pro-affirmative-action
stance: Strongly Favors topic 2 No extra penalty for gang
association: Opposes topic 9
Re-introduce the Equal Rights
Amendment: Strongly Favors topic 2 Passed 150 laws to toughen
penalties for violent crime: Favors topic
Reinforce anti-discrimination and 9
equal-pay requirements: Favors topic 2
Supports alternative sentencing and
Gays should not face discrimination rehabilitation: Strongly Opposes topic 9
but should not marry: Opposes topic 3
Rated 75% by the NCJA, indicating a
Decisions about marriage should be mixed record on criminal justice:
left to the states: Opposes topic 3 Neutral on topic 9
Homosexuality no more immoral YES on reinstating $1.15 billion
than heterosexuality: Favors topic 3 funding for the COPS Program:
Opposes topic 9
We need strong civil unions, not just
Respect 2nd Amendment, but local
weak civil unions: Favors topic 3
gun bans ok: Opposes topic 10
Opposes gay marriage; supports civil
Provide some common-sense
union & gay equality: Favors topic 3
enforcement on gun licensing:
Opposes topic 10

6. allow meds to be re-imported:
Favors topic 5
2000: cosponsored bill to limit
purchases to 1 gun per month:
Ensure access to basic care: Favors
Strongly Opposes topic 10
topic 5
Concealed carry OK for retired
More funding for Rx benefits,
police officers: Favors topic 10
community health, CHIPs: Favors topic
5
Keep guns out of inner cities--but
also problem of morality: Strongly
Preserve access to Medicaid &
Opposes topic 10
SCHIP during economic downturn:
Strongly Favors topic 5
Bush erred in failing to renew assault
weapons ban: Strongly Favors topic 10
NO on means-testing to determine
Medicare Part D premium: Favors topic
Ban semi-automatics, and more
5
possession restrictions: Strongly
YES on increasing Medicaid rebate
Opposes topic 10
for producing generics: Favors topic 5
NO on prohibiting lawsuits against
YES on negotiating bulk purchases
gun manufacturers: Strongly Opposes
for Medicare prescription drug:
topic 10
Strongly Favors topic 5
Added 20,000 children to Illinois
YES on expanding enrollment period
healthcare: Strongly Favors topic 5
for Medicare Part D: Favors topic 5
Increase competition in the
YES on requiring negotiated Rx
insurance and drug markets: Opposes
prices for Medicare part D: Favors
topic 5
topic 5
National Health Insurance Exchange
Stop any efforts to privatize Social
for private coverage: Opposes topic 5
Security: Strongly Opposes topic 6
National insurance pool &
Privatization puts retirement at whim
catastrophic insurance: Strongly Favors
of stock market: Strongly Opposes topic
topic 5
6
The market alone can't solve our
Stop any efforts to privatize Social
health-care woes: Favors topic 5
Security: Strongly Opposes topic 6
Crises happen in our lives and
No privatization; but consider
healthcare is necessary: Strongly
earning cap over $97,500: Strongly
Favors topic 5
Opposes topic 6
Believes health care is a right, not a
Stock market risk is ok, but not for
privilege for the few: Favors topic 5
Social Security: Strongly Opposes topic 6
Will expand health coverage &

7. $2000 tax credit for Working Families Sponsored bill raising CAFE by a 4%
Savings Accounts: Opposes topic 6 per year until 2018: Strongly Favors
topic 18
NO on establishing reserve funds &
Rated 100% by the CAF, indicating
pre-funding for Social Security:
support for energy independence:
Opposes topic 6
Favors topic 18
GovWatch: $150B for electric car
Designate sensitive ANWR area as
batteries & new technology: Strongly
protected wilderness: Favors topic 18
Favors topic 18
GovWatch: Supports nuclear power Set goal of 25% renewable energy
if it's clean & safe: Opposes topic 18 by 2025: Strongly Favors topic 18
Reduce carbon emissions by 80% by Let states define stricter-than-federal
2050: Strongly Favors topic 18 emission standards: Strongly Favors
topic 18
Aggressively address accelerating
YES on reducing oil usage by 40%
climate change: Strongly Favors topic 18
by 2025 (instead of 5%): Strongly
Favors topic 18
3-way win: economy, environment, &
stop funding terror: Strongly Favors topic
YES on disallowing an oil leasing
18
program in Alaska's ANWR: Strongly
Favors topic 18
Cap-and-trade is more specific on
reducing greenhouse gases: Strongly
YES on banning drilling in the Arctic
Favors topic 18
National Wildlife Refuge: Favors topic
18
20% renewable energy by 2020:
Strongly Favors topic 18
YES on factoring global warming into
federal project planning: Favors topic
Invest in alternative energy sources:
18
Favors topic 18
YES on removing oil & gas
Increase CAFE to 40 mpg: Strongly
exploration subsidies: Strongly Favors
Favors topic 18
topic 18
Renewable Fuels Standard: require
I will raise CEO taxes, no doubt
ethanol in fuel supply: Strongly Favors
about it: Strongly Favors topic 11
topic 18
Sponsored legislations that improve Trillion dollar giveaway: the Paris
energy efficiency: Favors topic 18 Hilton Tax Break: Strongly Favors topic
11
Sponsored bill for tax credit for
Bush tax cuts help corporations but
providing 85% ethanol gas: Favors
topic 18

8. not middle class: Strongly Favors topic
11 Support granting driver's licenses to
illegal immigrants: Favors topic 12
Tax cuts for the rich do not create
jobs: Favors topic 11 Reform must include more border
security, and border wall: Opposes
Rated 100% by the CTJ, indicating topic 12
support of progressive taxation:
Strongly Favors topic 11 Pathway to citizenship, but people
have to earn it: Favors topic 12
NO on raising the Death Tax
exemption to $5M from $1M: Strongly Give immigrants who are here a
Favors topic 11 rigorous path to citizenship: Favors
topic 12
YES on increasing tax rate for
people earning over $1 million: Extend welfare and Medicaid to
Strongly Favors topic 11 immigrants: Favors topic 12
NO on allowing AMT reduction Comprehensive immigration reform
without budget offset: Favors topic 11 without amnesty: Strongly Favors topic
12
NO on extending the tax cuts on Provide funding for social services
capital gains and dividends: Strongly for noncitizens: Favors topic 12
Favors topic 11
Rated 8% by USBC, indicating an
YES on $47B for military by open-border stance: Strongly Favors
repealing capital gains tax cut: Favors topic 12
topic 11
YES on continuing federal funds for
NO on retaining reduced taxes on declared quot;sanctuary citiesquot;: Strongly
capital gains & dividends: Strongly Favors topic 12
Favors topic 11
YES on allowing illegal aliens to
NO on permanently repealing the participate in Social Security: Strongly
`death tax`: Strongly Favors topic 11 Favors topic 12
NO on supporting permanence of YES on giving Guest Workers a path
estate tax cuts: Strongly Favors topic 11 to citizenship: Strongly Favors topic 12
NO on raising estate tax exemption YES on establishing a Guest Worker
to $5 million: Strongly Favors topic 11 program: Favors topic 12
NO on repealing the Alternative YES on building a fence along the
Minimum Tax: Strongly Favors topic 11 Mexican border: Strongly Opposes topic
12
Immigrants are scapegoats for high
unemployment rates: Strongly Favors NO on declaring English as the
topic 12

9. official language of the US democracy and human rights: Favors
topic 17
government: Strongly Favors topic 12
$2.7 billion each week of Iraq
YES on comprehensive immigration
spending is unsustainable: Favors
reform: Strongly Favors topic 12
topic 17
Grow size of military to maintain
War in Iraq is quot;dumbquot; but troops still
rotation schedules: Favors topic 15
need equipment: Strongly Favors topic
17
Give our soldiers the best
equipment and training available:
We are playing to Osama's plan for
Favors topic 15
winning a war from a cave: Strongly
Favors topic 17
Sponsored bill for Iraq budget to be
part of defense budget: Opposes topic
NO on redeploying troops out of Iraq
15
by July 2007: Strongly Opposes topic 17
YES on limiting soldiers'
YES on redeploying US troops out of
deployment to 12 months: Opposes
Iraq by March 2008: Strongly Favors
topic 15
topic 17
Can't do anything at home with
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$12 billion a month on Iraq: Favors
topic 17
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conserve energy: Strongly Favors topic
18
Make every automobile sold be a
flex-fuel automobile: Strongly Favors
Establish greenhouse gas tradeable
topic 18
allowances: Strongly Favors topic 18
Rated 95% by the LCV, indicating
pro-environment votes: Strongly Favors Sponsored bill raising CAFE by a 4%
topic 18 per year until 2018: Strongly Favors
topic 18
Keep efficient air conditioner rule to
Rated 83% by the CAF, indicating

10. support for energy independence: federal project planning: Favors topic
Favors topic 18 18
Designate sensitive ANWR area as YES on removing oil & gas
protected wilderness: Favors topic 18 exploration subsidies: Strongly Favors
topic 18
NO on do not require ethanol in
YES on addressing CO2 emissions
gasoline: Favors topic 18
without considering India & China:
Favors topic 18
YES on reducing funds for road-
building in National Forests: Favors
YES on tax incentives for energy
topic 18
production and conservation:
Strongly Favors topic 18
NO on defunding renewable and
solar energy: Strongly Favors topic 18
Take away $85B in annual tax cuts
for 1% of top earners: Strongly Favors
NO on ending discussion of CAFE
topic 11
fuel efficiency standards: Favors topic
18
Rated 15% by NTU, indicating a quot;Big
Spenderquot; on tax votes: Strongly Favors
NO on preserving budget for ANWR
topic 11
oil drilling: Favors topic 18
Rated 100% by the CTJ, indicating
NO on terminating CAFE standards
support of progressive taxation:
within 15 months: Strongly Favors topic Strongly Favors topic 11
18
NO on raising the Death Tax
YES on targeting 100,000 hydrogen-
exemption to $5M from $1M: Strongly
powered vehicles by 2010: Strongly Favors topic 11
Favors topic 18
YES on increasing tax rate for
YES on removing consideration of
people earning over $1 million:
drilling ANWR from budget bill: Favors Strongly Favors topic 11
topic 18
NO on allowing AMT reduction
YES on reducing oil usage by 40%
without budget offset: Favors topic 11
by 2025 (instead of 5%): Strongly
Favors topic 18
YES on Internet sales tax
moratorium: Opposes topic 11
YES on disallowing an oil leasing
program in Alaska's ANWR: Strongly
NO on requiring super-majority for
Favors topic 18
raising taxes: Favors topic 11
YES on banning drilling in the Arctic
YES on eliminating the 'marriage
National Wildlife Refuge: Favors topic
penalty': Opposes topic 11
18
YES on factoring global warming into NO on prioritizing national debt

11. reduction below tax cuts: Favors topic
11 YES on continuing federal funds for
declared quot;sanctuary citiesquot;: Strongly
YES on reducing marriage penalty Favors topic 12
instead of cutting top tax rates: Favors
topic 11 NO on limit welfare for immigrants:
Strongly Favors topic 12
YES on spending $448B of tax cut
on education & debt reduction: Favors NO on visas for skilled workers:
topic 11 Opposes topic 12
NO on $350 billion in tax breaks over YES on allowing more foreign
11 years: Strongly Favors topic 11 workers into the US for farm work:
Favors topic 12
NO on extending the tax cuts on
YES on allowing illegal aliens to
capital gains and dividends: Strongly
participate in Social Security: Strongly
Favors topic 11
Favors topic 12
YES on $47B for military by
YES on giving Guest Workers a path
repealing capital gains tax cut: Favors
to citizenship: Strongly Favors topic 12
topic 11
NO on retaining reduced taxes on YES on establishing a Guest Worker
capital gains & dividends: Strongly program: Favors topic 12
Favors topic 11
YES on building a fence along the
NO on permanently repealing the Mexican border: Strongly Opposes topic
`death tax`: Strongly Favors topic 11 12
NO on supporting permanence of YES on eliminating the quot;Yquot;
estate tax cuts: Strongly Favors topic 11 nonimmigrant guestworker program:
Neutral topic 12
NO on raising estate tax exemption
NO on declaring English as the
to $5 million: Strongly Favors topic 11
official language of the US
government: Strongly Favors topic 12
NO on repealing the Alternative
Minimum Tax: Strongly Favors topic 11
YES on comprehensive immigration
reform: Strongly Favors topic 12
Oppose granting driver's licenses to
illegal immigrants: Opposes topic 12
Rated 80% by SANE, indicating a
pro-peace voting record: Strongly
It's impractical to deport 14 million
Opposes topic 15
illegal immigrants: Favors topic 12
NO on 1996 Defense Appropriations:
Rated 8% by USBC, indicating an
Opposes topic 15
open-border stance: Strongly Favors
topic 12
NO on considering deploying NMD,

12. and amending ABM Treaty: Opposes
topic 15 NO on allowing some lobbyist
gifts to Congress: Strongly Favors
YES on favoring 36 vetoed military topic 16
projects: Strongly Favors topic 15
Worth losing election to protect our
YES on allowing another round of troops: Strongly Opposes topic 17
military base closures: Opposes topic Never de-fund a single soldier in
15 Iraq: Strongly Opposes topic 17
YES on military pay raise of 4.8%: Fund the safety of the troops till 67
Strongly Favors topic 15 anti-war votes reached: Opposes topic
17
YES on deploying National Missile
Defense ASAP: Strongly Favors topic 15 Change the fundamental premise of
Iraq engagement: Strongly Favors topic
YES on limiting soldiers' 17
deployment to 12 months: Opposes
topic 15 Voted for Iraq war in 2002, but now a
war critic: Strongly Favors topic 17
YES on favoring 1997 McCain-
Feingold overhaul of campaign Multi-year commitment to Africa for
finance: Favors topic 16 food & medicine: Strongly Favors topic
17
YES on banning campaign
donations from unions & NO on redeploying troops out of Iraq
corporations: Favors topic 16 by July 2007: Strongly Opposes topic 17
YES on banning quot;soft moneyquot; YES on redeploying US troops out of
contributions and restricting issue Iraq by March 2008: Strongly Favors
topic 17
ads: Favors topic 16
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YES on establishing the Senate
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Don't hold gun manufacturers liable
for crimes: Favors topic 10
Voted NO on $100M to reduce
Opposes restrictions on assault
teen pregnancy by education &
weapons and ammunition types:
contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
Strongly Favors topic 10

13. Ban cheap guns; require safety Include a health savings account in
locks; for gun show checks: Opposes healthcare reform: Opposes topic 5
topic 10
1989: No mandatory catastrophic
Voted against Brady Bill & assault Medicare coverage: Opposes topic 5
weapon ban: Strongly Favors topic 10
1993: To socialize healthcare would
Punish criminals who abuse 2nd be to ruin it: Strongly Opposes topic 5
Amendment rights: Favors topic 10
Matching funds for seniors citizens’
Repeal existing gun restrictions; prescription drugs: Favors topic 5
penalize criminal use: Strongly Favors
topic 10 Expand health insurance to 11
million uninsured children: Strongly
Ban gun registration & trigger Favors topic 5
lock law in Washington DC:
Strongly Favors topic 10 Allow paying extra for choice of
doctors & care: Favors topic 5
Allow firearms in National Parks:
Strongly Favors topic 10
More tax-deductible health costs;
limits on malpractice: Favors topic 5
YES on maintaining current law:
guns sold without trigger locks:
Tax credits for those without
Strongly Favors topic 10 McCain co-
employee health insurance: Strongly
sponsored banning gun Favors topic 5
registration & trigger lock law in
Washington DC $350 billion for prescriptions for poor
seniors: Favors topic 5
YES on loosening license & Rated 25% by APHA, indicating a
background checks at gun shows: anti-public health voting record:
Favors topic 10 Strongly Opposes topic 5
NO on background checks at gun NO on blocking medical savings
shows: Strongly Favors topic 10 acounts: Opposes topic 5
YES on banning lawsuits against NO on Medicare means-testing:
gun manufacturers for gun violence: Favors topic 5
Strongly Favors topic 10 YES on limiting self-employment
health deduction: Opposes topic 5
YES on prohibiting lawsuits against
gun manufacturers: Strongly Favors NO on including prescription drugs
topic 10
under Medicare: Opposes topic 5
Harness market competition for
YES on funding GOP version of
comprehensive reform: Strongly
Opposes topic 5

14. Medicare prescription drug benefit:
Opposes topic 5 Rated 17% by the CAF, indicating
opposition to energy independence:
NO on $40 billion per year for limited Opposes topic 18
Medicare prescription drug benefit:
Opposes topic 5 Gas tax holiday for the summer:
Opposes topic 18
YES on increasing Medicaid rebate
for producing generics: Favors topic 5 Supports immediate reductions in
greenhouse gases: Strongly Favors
topic 18
YES on negotiating bulk purchases
for Medicare prescription drug:
NO on do not require ethanol in
Strongly Favors topic 5
gasoline: Favors topic 18
NO on expanding enrollment period
for Medicare Part D: Opposes topic 5 NO on reducing funds for road-
building in National Forests: Opposes
topic 18
GovWatch: Build 45 new nuclear
power plants by 2030: Strongly
YES on defunding renewable and
Opposes topic 18
solar energy: Strongly Opposes topic 18
Climate change is real and must be
addressed: Favors topic 18 YES on preserving budget for ANWR
oil drilling: Opposes topic 18
2000: Criticized Bush's withdrawal
from the Kyoto Treaty: Strongly Favors NO on terminating CAFE standards
topic 18 within 15 months: Strongly Favors topic
18
Strength Clean Air & Water Acts; but
not Kyoto: Strongly Opposes topic 18 YES on targeting 100,000 hydrogen-
powered vehicles by 2010: Strongly
Favors topic 18
Ethanol bad for environment & bad
for consumers: Opposes topic 18
YES on removing consideration of
drilling ANWR from budget bill:
Supports alternative fuels, emission
Favors topic 18
controls, & CWA: Favors topic 18
NO on reducing oil usage by 40% by
Make EPA into a Cabinet
2025 (instead of 5%): Strongly Opposes
department: Strongly Favors topic 18
topic 18
Rated 53% by the LCV, indicating a
YES on disallowing an oil leasing
mixed record on environment: Neutral
program in Alaska's ANWR:
on topic 18
Strongly Favors topic 18
Sponsored bill for greenhouse gas
YES on banning drilling in the Arctic
tradeable allowances: Strongly Favors
National Wildlife Refuge: Favors topic
topic 18
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15. Require a 3/5 majority vote in YES on Internet sales tax
Congress to raise taxes: Strongly moratorium: Opposes topic 11
Opposes topic 11
YES on requiring super-majority for
Tax system is fair; wealthy pay bulk raising taxes: Opposes topic 11
of taxes: Strongly Opposes topic 11
YES on phasing out the estate tax
Remove charitable deduction; it only (quot;death taxquot;): Opposes topic 11
benefits rich: Favors topic 11
Middle-class tax cut: expand 15% YES on eliminating the 'marriage
tax bracket: Favors topic 11 penalty': Opposes topic 11
Tax cuts should go to middle- & NO on prioritizing national debt
lower-income people: Favors topic 11 reduction below tax cuts: Favors topic
11
Cut marriage tax, inheritance tax, &
earnings test: Strongly Opposes topic 11 YES on reducing marriage penalty
instead of cutting top tax rates: Favors
topic 11
Taxes should be flatter, lower, and
simpler: Strongly Opposes topic 11
NO on spending $448B of tax cut on
education & debt reduction: Opposes
GovWatch: 2001: against tax cut that
topic 11
went to rich: Strongly Favors topic 11
NO on $350 billion in tax breaks over
Voted against Bush tax cuts for not
11 years: Strongly Favors topic 11
reining in spending: Opposes topic 11
YES on extending the tax cuts on
Rated 72% by NTU, indicating
capital gains and dividends: Strongly
quot;Satisfactoryquot; on tax votes: Neutral on
Opposes topic 11
topic 11
NO on $47B for military by repealing
Rated 50% by CTJ, indicating a
capital gains tax cut: Opposes topic 11
mixed record on progressive
taxation: Neutral on topic 11
YES on retaining reduced taxes on
capital gains & dividends: Strongly
Implement socially fair, broad-based
Opposes topic 11
tax cuts: Favors topic 11
YES on permanently repealing the
YES on raising the Death Tax
`death tax`: Strongly Opposes topic 11
exemption to $5M from $1M: Strongly
Opposes topic 11
YES on supporting permanence of
estate tax cuts: Strongly Opposes topic
YES on allowing AMT reduction
11
without budget offset: Opposes topic 11

16. YES on raising estate tax exemption YES on allowing illegal aliens to
to $5 million: Strongly Opposes topic 11 participate in Social Security: Strongly
Favors topic 12
YES on giving Guest Workers a path
YES on repealing the Alternative
to citizenship: Strongly Favors topic 12
Minimum Tax: Strongly Opposes topic 11
YES on establishing a Guest Worker
program: Favors topic 12
Certify border is secure; only then
allow guest workers: Opposes topic 12
YES on building a fence along the
Mexican border: Strongly Opposes topic
12 million illegals in country now is
12
de facto amnesty: Favors topic 12
YES on declaring English as the
Immigration reform needed for
official language of the US
national security: Strongly Favors topic
government: Strongly Opposes topic 12
12
Give everyone in the world an
YES on comprehensive immigration
opportunity to come to America:
reform: Strongly Favors topic 12
Favors topic 12
1988: Honored by La Raza for
opposing official English: Favors topic Clean up waste in defense
12 acquisition: Opposes topic 15
More help for legal immigrants when Eliminate defense pork, but increase
immigrating & once here: Strongly most other defense: Strongly Favors
Favors topic 12 topic 15
No more ballot initiatives against
immigration: Strongly Favors topic 12 Terminate C-130, B-2, and Seawolf;
use funds to modernize: Opposes topic
English immersion over bilingual 15
education: Opposes topic 12
Sponsored comprehensive Politicians keep unneeded bases
immigration reform, without amnesty: open for political purposes: Opposes
Strongly Favors topic 12 topic 15
Rated 18% by USBC, indicating an Raise military pay to avoid military
open-border stance: Strongly Favors draft: Favors topic 15
topic 12
YES on limit welfare for immigrants: Supports $48 billion in new spending
Strongly Opposes topic 12 for anti-terrorism: Favors topic 15
YES on visas for skilled workers: Rated 0% by SANE, indicating a pro-
Favors topic 12
military voting record: Strongly Favors
topic 15
YES on allowing more foreign
workers into the US for farm work: Sponsored bill for Iraq budget to be
Favors topic 12
part of defense budget: Opposes topic
15

17. Timetable for withdrawal is a white
Reduce federal government size & flag of surrender: Strongly Opposes topic
17
scope, including military: Opposes topic
15
Staying for 100 years OK, if US
NO on 1996 Defense Appropriations: casualties are low: Strongly Opposes
Opposes topic 15 topic 17
YES on considering deploying NMD, The Iraq war was worth the price in
and amending ABM Treaty: Favors blood and treasure: Strongly Opposes
topic 15 topic 17
NO on favoring 36 vetoed military Support the surge even if
projects: Strongly Opposes topic 15 benchmarks are not met: Strongly
Opposes topic 17
YES on allowing another round of
Willing to be last man standing for
military base closures: Opposes topic
US involvement in Iraq: Strongly
15
Opposes topic 17
YES on military pay raise of 4.8%:
Send in a heavy wave of troops to
Strongly Favors topic 15
Iraq to establish order: Strongly
Opposes topic 17
YES on deploying National Missile
Defense ASAP: Strongly Favors topic 15
Support the completion of the US
mission in Iraq: Strongly Opposes topic
YES on requiring on-budget funding
17
for Iraq, not emergency funding:
Opposes topic 15
NO on redeploying troops out of Iraq
by July 2007: Strongly Opposes topic 17
NO on limiting soldiers' deployment
to 12 months: Favors topic 15
NO on redeploying non-essential US
troops out of Iraq in 9 months:
I support the Bush doctrine of pre-
Opposes topic 17
emptive war: Strongly Opposes topic 17
Russia: Sanctions until Putin exits
Chechnya: Opposes topic 17
IMF’s Russia policies bad, but
Excerpt.
agency is OK: Favors topic 17
Reference:
http://www.ontheissues.org/John_Mc
Costs will be far greater should we
Cain.htm
fail in Iraq: Opposes topic 17
Sarah Palin:
Hunts as much as she can; freezer-
full of wild game: Strongly Favors topic Supports ending D.C.'s 32-year-
10

18. old ban on handguns: Strongly Elected mayor based on tax cut
Favors topic 10 promise: Strongly Opposes topic 11
Lifelong NRA member & champion As mayor, cut property taxes &
of right to bear arms: Strongly Favors increased sales tax: Favors topic 11
topic 10
Windfall oil profits tax prevents
investment: Opposes topic 11
Supports Constitutional right to bear $60M annually for municipal revenue
arms: Strongly Favors topic 10 sharing: Opposes topic 11
Global warming affects Alaska, but is Eliminate taxes that inhibit business:
not man-made: Strongly Opposes topic Strongly Opposes topic 11
18
Repeal quot;nuisance taxesquot; including
Resource rebate: suspend AK 8-cent the tire tax: Favors topic 11
fuel tax for one year: Opposes topic 18
Encourage small business growth by
Commercialize Alaska's North Slope reducing business taxes: Strongly
natural gas: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Opposes topic 11
Agrees with Obama on more We don't know what the plan is to
Alaska oil & gas production: ever end the war: Favors topic 17
Strongly Opposes topic 18
Armed forces, including my son,
Lift moratorium on offshore drilling: give us security and freedom:
Strongly Opposes topic 18 Opposes topic 17
Unlock ANWR; we're ready, willing Wants exit plan; also assurances
and able to contribute: Strongly to keep our troops safe: Favors topic
Opposes topic 18 17
$250M for proven alternative energy, Rejected sympathy for Down's
including wind & hydro: Strongly Favors Syndrome son, as gift from God:
topic 18 Opposes topic 1
Fund cellulosic biofuel research in Opposes stem cell research: Opposes
Farm Bill: Strongly Favors topic 18 topic 1
Convince the rest of the nation to Every baby is created with a future
open ANWR: Strongly Opposes topic 18 and potential: Strongly Opposes topic 1
Stranded Gas Development Act no Praised by pro-life groups for
longer applies: Opposes topic 18 keeping Down syndrome baby:
Opposes topic 1
Get ANWR open: Strongly Opposes
topic 18 Pro-life: Strongly Opposes topic 1

19. Pro-contraception, pro-woman, pro- Excerpt.
life: Opposes topic 1 Reference:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Sarah_P
Only exception for abortion is if alin.htm
mother's life would end: Opposes topic
1
Obama says: “PALIN FAMILY OFF-LIMITS”
Sarah Palin says: ‘Attack Obama!!!”
Sept 04, 2008