Recall candidates reveal stance on issues

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Gov. Gray Davis

Abortion -- He is pro-choice and supports Medi-Cal funding for reproductive health-care.
Budget and economy -- He says the retail energy market was never deregulated and believes he inherited a flawed energy system.
Civil Rights -- He supports partner benefits and gay adoption. He supports expanding the definition of hate crimes to include gays, supports job and housing rights for disabled and minorities.
Crime -- He supports life imprisonment or death penalty for hate crimes, capital punishment and a zero tolerance program for violence against government employees.
Drugs -- He supports state funding for the war against methamphetamines.
Energy and oil -- He says he acted too slow in regards to the energy crisis, and states that rates should have been raised sooner. He wants to get back to work on the energy problem.
Government reform -- He supports campaign contributions because it enables regular people to run for office.
Gun control -- He opposes Saturday Night Specials and assault weapons. He supports one-gun-per-month limit and safety testing.
Healthcare -- He supports reforming HMO's, including rights to a second opinion contraceptive coverage, hospice care for the terminally ill and privacy of medical records. He also supports medical decisions to be the patients' and doctors' only.
Immigration -- He supports diversity -- welcomes all good citizens.
Principles and values -- He states that if allowed to remain in office he will do things differently.
Tax reform -- He supports no national sales tax and he enacted car registration tax- tripling fees.
To balance the budget -- He passed legislation to reinstate $4 billion annual car tax, previously cut in 1998. He proposes shifting social services costs to local governments.
 
 
 

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Peter Camejo

Civil rights -- He favors full and equal rights for gay partners.
Crime -- He opposes the death penalty and the three-strikes law for small crimes. He favors the three-strikes law when the third offense is a serious or violent felony.
Drugs -- He opposes all drugs, except for medicinal marijuana.
Education -- He favors paying teachers higher wages. He believes in a holistic approach to educational testing, due to language and cultural issues.
Government reform -- He favors encouragement of volunteers, and political activism. He favors state disclosure including spending limits, and state campaign finances.
Gun control -- He supports more restrictions.
Immigration -- He believes immigrants are necessary to the economy, and that we need more immigrants. He favors letting immigrants stay and giving them driver's licenses.
Tax reform -- He favors car tax, believes cutting the tax will spill over into educational cuts. Supports the richest 5 percent paying the same taxes as others.
Prop. 54 -- Opposed.
 
 

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Cruz Bustamante

Abortion -- He is pro-Choice
Crime -- He supports the death penalty, but with opportunity to prove innocence.
Drugs -- He opposes all uses, except medicinal marijuana.
Education -- To him, textbooks are more important than high school testing. He wants to stop tuition increases at community colleges. He states that the budget should not be balanced at the expense of college students.
Gun control -- Supports current laws and more research to improve laws.
Healthcare -- He states healthcare is important to Californians.
Immigration -- Supports giving driver's licenses to undocumented workers, giving undocumented workers basic government services, giving immigrant students rights to attend UC schools.
Jobs -- He states workers should be paid overtime, plus additional benefits.
Principles and values -- He states that the people elected him twice to take the governor's place.
Tax reform -- He supports revoking the recent car tax hike by increasing taxes on alcohol and tobacco.
Prop. 54 -- Opposed.
To balance the budget -- He wants to increase taxes by $8 billion a year. He would raise the top income tax rate from 9.3 percent to 11 percent. He would ask the public to change the state's property-tax limit and make other billion dollar spending cuts (USAToday).
 
 

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Abortion -- He is pro-choice and supports current family planning programs and parental notification.
Budget and economy -- He wants to reduce spending fraudulently and impose a state-spending limit.
Civil rights -- supports gay partnership -- not marriage, supports gay adoption. He wants to keep the gambling commission independent of Indian tribes. He also supports an anti-bilingual organization ? English as the official U.S.-language.
Crime -- He supports the death penalty and the three-strikes law.
Drugs -- Opposes legalization, except of medicinal marijuana.
Education -- He supports safe, clean public schools, textbooks for every student, tests that measure progress and success of the school and the student, supports schools' decision on prayer. He is a supporter of Prop.49, after school programs for all children, after school tutoring and giving more power and control to the communities.
Energy and oil -- He opposes off-shore drilling and supports renegotiating energy contracts.
Government reform -- He wants to stop frivolous lawsuits and believes that good ideas come from grassroots level.
Gun control -- He supports the Brady Bill; ban on assault weapons and gun control.
Immigration -- He supports Prop.187 which denies services to illegal immigrants. He also supports increasing funds for border enforcement.
Jobs -- He sees a need to restructure the workers' compensation system.
Principles and values -- He believes the government of California is not helping the people. He states that he needs no money; therefore he is doing this for the people. He says he represents the citizens.
Tax reform -- He says that Californian's are overtaxed. He supports not raising taxes and will negate the tripling car tax that was recently approved.
Prop. 54 -- Opposed.
To balance the budget -- He says he will void the new car tax, vows to not raise taxes, or trim education spending and will stop paying legislatures until there is a balanced budget (USAToday).
 
 

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Tom McClintock

Civil rights -- He opposes legal rights for gay couples and supports gay adoption.
Crime -- Supports the death penalty and the three-strikes law.
Drugs -- He opposes uses except for medicinal marijuana.
Education -- Supports giving more money to schools, states that the problem is with funding, not school management. He supports paying the top teachers a six-figure salary and opposes bilingual education.
Energy and oil -- Californian's are paying too much and Davis is responsible for the energy costs.
Environment -- He states that local communities should make more decisions, not Coastal Commission.
Immigration -- He opposes drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.
Tax Reform -- He opposes car tax and will repeal it by reducing government waste and duplication.
Prop. 54 -- Supports.
To balance the budget -- He says he will repeal the newly re-instated car tax, reduce fraud and inefficiencies, change and renegotiate electricity contracts and modify the state worker's compensation law.

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