Complete questionnaire for 21st Century Democrats's endorsement

21st Century Democrats ^ | 4/14/02

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What We Do For Our Candidates
21st Century Democrats reaches out to candidates at critical stages of their campaigns and gets involved to help Democrats win tough races.

21st Century Democrats offers a full range of support to candidates from candidate and campaign staff training to strategic planning and message development. Some of the campaigns that we endorse will receive paid field staff to work on the campaign.

21st Century Democrats will train the field staffers in all aspects of running a successful grassroots field program.

How to Get Support from 21st Century Democrats
Candidates interested in receiving support from 21st Century Democrats should fill out one of our candidate questionnaires. This questionnaire is the first step in our endorsement process. The second step is an in-person or phone interview.

In 2001 and 2002, 21st Century Democrats will be targeting local, state-wide and federal candidates nationwide. If you would like to find out whether you or a candidate you support would be considered for support before completing the questionnaire, please contact Jeff Pittman

To be considered for 21st Century Democrats's endorsement and/or a trained field staff person, please print and complete the enclosed questionnaires:

Candidate Questionnaire
FEDERAL OFFICE
Please submit a brief bio and a photo (optional).

You may answer these questions on this page or attach a separate sheet.

1) What is your platform? What are the top three issues that you are running on?

2) Do you have any issues and/or priorities that you won't necessarily run the campaign on, but are very important to you?

3) How do you propose to improve K - 12 education?

4) What plan(s) for increasing Social Security and Medicare's longevity would you support and which methods would you not support?

5) What legislation would you support and/or introduce to increase the standard of living for those working in minimum wage jobs?

6) In addition to the "the patients bill of rights", what other reforms are needed to improve health care? How do you propose dealing with the 44 million uninsured Americans?

7) What changes in campaign finance would you recommend to level the playing field?

8) What are your views on welfare reform?

9) Please list any relevant endorsements

Candidate Interview Form
STATE OFFICE
Please submit a brief bio and a photo (optional).

You may answer these questions on this page or attach a separate sheet.

1) What is your platform? What are the top three issues that you are running on?

2) Do you have any additional priorities that you won't necessarily run the campaign on, but are very important to you?

3) How do you propose to improve K - 12 education? Do you support school vouchers?

4) How do you intend to create jobs and improve job security for yur state residentsz?

5) Do you support increasing the state minimum wage?

6) In addition to the "the patients bill of rights", what other reforms are needed to improve access to and the quality of health care?

7) What changes in campaign finance would you recommend to level the playing field?

8) What are your views on welfare reform?

9) Please list any relevant endorsements

Mayoral, City Council, & Commission
Candidate Questionnaire

Name: _______________________________
State: __________________________
District: _______________________
Primary Date: ______________
Election Date: _______________________
Position Sought: _____________________

Please submit a brief bio. (photo optional).

You may answer these questions on this page or attach a separate sheet.

LOCAL ISSUES

1) Why are you running?

2) What are your top five things that you want to accomplish for the people of your city/county and what distinguishes these goals from those of other candidates that might seek this office?
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3) What is your vision of a land use development plan and how does it balance economic development and protection of natural resources?

4) What are your feelings regarding the use of sales taxes as compared to other sources of funding such as property taxes or gross receipts taxes?

5) What are your feelings regarding contracting city/county services out to the private sector and do you think that government entities that do so should only enter into contracts with companies that guarantee a living wage to their employees?

6) What do you feel is the responsibility of the city/county regarding affordable housing for lower income citizens?

7) Do you think that public tax dollars should be used for economic development? Under what circumstances and with what stipulations?

8) What is your vision of local law enforcement and does it include community policing, or early intervention programs for at risk youth? Why or why not?

9) Please list any relevant individual or organizational endorsements.

School Board
Candidate Questionnaire

Name:_________________________________
State: __________________________
District: _______________________
Primary Date: ______________
Election Date: _______________________
Position Sought: _____________________

Please submit a brief bio. (photo optional).

You may answer these questions on this page or attach a separate sheet.

EDUCATION ISSUES

1) Why are you running?

2) What are your top five priorities to improve schools and the quality of education and what distinguishes these priorities from those of other candidates seeking this office?
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B.
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3) What initiatives would you propose to better recruit, improve the quality of, and retain the most qualified educators?

4) What is your position regarding the use of public tax funds for private school vouchers?

5) What are your feelings about standardized testing of students and teachers? Do you support standardized testing? Why or why not?

6) What are your thoughts about Charter Schools?

7) Beyond the purview of the school board what initiatives would you adopt to improve the lives of children generally?

8) Please list any relevant individual or organizational

Send to Jeff Pittman at:
21st Century Democrats
1311 L Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20910
Fax: 202 347-0956
Email: jeff@21stdems.org

[Libloather]

This was copied straight from the website...

[nonliberal]

Let's Freep him.

[Gophack]

They don't even have an abortion question ... do they just assume that all Democrats are pro-abortion, or do they think that being pro-abort could be damaging to their campaigns and therefore are silent on the issue?

[Commander8]

Whatever their litmus test, I'd probably flunk it.

[Libloather]

Whatever their litmus test, I'd probably flunk it.

You're good to go if you can spell. State office applicants have to answer -

4) How do you intend to create jobs and improve job security for yur state residentsz?

I guess you could always say yur a teechur...