Candidate Survey

Mon-03-Jun-2002

St. Louis MetroVoice
P.O. Box 220010
St. Louis, MO 63122
314-965-5757

Arnold J. Trembley
Libertarian for Missouri State Auditor 2002

Please CIRCLE ONLY ONE ANSWER under each topic which best describes your opinion or position.
(candidate's position is in Bold).

1. Education
(a) Missouri should protect public education from efforts to undermine its funding; become more involved in local control of schools and encourage more involvement in the School-to-Work approach to educating children which is designed to prepare and guide our children to join the workforce as productive citizens.
(b) Missouri should foster competition among schools by allowing privately operated schools to be publicly funded; reduce its involvement in local control and encourage a more classical liberal arts approach to education which provides the basic skills and knowledge to equip children to choose whatever career they so desire.

2. Concealed Carry and the Second Amendment
(a) The control of firearms to reduce or eliminate crime and protect our children is extremely important. The Second Amendment only applies to the National Guard, not to the general population. Missouri law should stay as is and not allow citizens to carry concealed weapons.
(b) The Second Amendment broadly protects the rights of citizens to keep and bear arms. Gun control laws infringe upon those rights and are a violation of the Constitution and the original intent of the Second Amendment. Missouri should allow law-abiding citizens the right to carry concealed weapons.

3. Capital Punishment
(a) Missouri should discontinue the use of capital punishment.
(b) Missouri should temporarily suspend its use of capital punishment until a study on its alleged misuses and effectiveness in deterring crime can be accomplished to provide recommendations for reform.
(c) Missouri should continue the use of capital punishment.

4. Sexual Orientation
(a) Missouri should repeal our state's sodomy law and institute new laws that protect citizens from all forms of discrimination based upon their sexual orientation or sexual preferences.
(b) Missouri should maintain our state's sodomy law. Someone's sexual orientation. or preference are not immutable characteristics but a lifestyle choice and do not qualify for special protections/rights under the law.

5. Business
(a) Missouri should regulate as much of the business community as possible to insure economic growth.
(b) Missouri should limit its regulation of business except in areas of environmental and safety concerns.
(c) Missouri should regulate business as little as possible and foster free enterprise.

6. Gambling
(a) Missouri should take full advantage of gaming as a revenue source since only those who choose to gamble will participate and added taxes can benefit education and other social programs.
(b) Missouri should not allow any further expansion of gaming until an in depth study of the social and economic impact that gambling has had on the state and its citizens has been accomplished.
(c) Crime, personal bankruptcies, political corruption and gambling addiction have all increased as a result of gambling over the past 15 years. Missouri should scale back on gaming because the costs outweigh the benefits.

7. Taxation
(a) We should support state services by finding new revenue sources to fully fund education, social services, and other vital programs, even if taxes must be raised for all citizens.
(b) We should slow the growth of state government and ease out of our current budgetary crises by allowing increasing general revenue to catch up with expenditures.
(c) We should stop the growth of government and reverse some of the expansions of state spending that have occurred over the last ten years.

8. Abortion
(a) The right to have an abortion is, and should remain, a woman's choice.
(b) Partial-brith abortions should not be allowed, but other forms of abortion should be allowed.
(c) Abortions should be done only to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape and incest.
(d) Abortions should be done only to save the life of the mother.
(e) Abortions of any type should not be allowed.

9. Property Rights
(a) In issues such as protection of the environment, the preservation of wildlife and its habitat, urban sprawl, sustainable development, economic growth, etc., the rights of private property owners and businesses must be considered secondary to government's mission to act for the benefit of all citizens.
(b) Individual property ownership is one of the foundational principles of freedom. Federal, state and local governments should not, except in rare cases, invoke their power of eminent domain as outlined in the Constitution. When they do, the concerns of the property owner must come first along with just compensation.

10. Homeland Security
(a) In the interest of protecting our citizens against terrorism, Missouri should set up a state identification card utilizing Social Security numbers, finger printing and other biometric information to positively identify all citizens. Such a system should also coordinate with federal efforts to prevent terrorism and protect our freedoms.
(b) A state or national identification card would do littel or nothing to protect our citizens from terrorism. Such a system would not only be an invasion of privacy but could easily be abused and serve as a powerful tool to destroy the very freedoms and liberties which it is intended to protect.

Arnold J. Trembley
Libertarian for Missouri State Auditor 2002
12066 Charter House Lane, Apt. E
St. Louis, MO 63146

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