State Candidate Survey

In anticipation of the 2014Elections, Oklahomans For Life asked the twelve questions below of candidates for statewide officeand for the Oklahoma state Senate and the Oklahoma state House of Representatives. The most important question is No. 1, and the candidates’ answers to that question are written in capital letters. (We asked statewide candidates, who cannot literally “vote for” these measures, to indicate whether they “support” them.) For state House and Senate races, the counties or partial counties (marked by an asterisk) in the district are indicated after the district number. The initial after a candidate’s name represents party affiliation (Republican, Democrat, or Independent). On each question, a “yes” answer indicates agreement with the position of Oklahomans For Life. If no answers are shown following a candidate’s name, the candidate did not return his or her survey to us.

Our candidate survey of congressional candidates, sent in cooperation with National Right to Life, follows the listing of statewide and state-legislative candidates.

1)Upon reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, will you vote for a law that would protect the lives of unborn children and prohibit abortion except to prevent the death of the mother?

Yes____No____

2)If efforts to enact such a law failed, will you vote for a law that would prohibit abortion except when necessary to prevent the death of the mother, or when the pregnancy is the result of forcible rape (reported to law enforcement authorities within seven days), or when the pregnancy resulted from an act of incest committed against a minor (with the perpetrator reported to law enforcement authorities)?

Yes____No____

3)Recently, there have been attempts in several states to pass a state Equal Rights Amendment which would amend the state Constitution to invalidate any law or government policy that discriminates “on account of sex.” In some of the states that have already added this or similar provisions to their state constitutions, courts have used them to invalidate limits on abortion. The New Mexico Supreme Court, e.g., in 1998 unanimously ruled that the New Mexico ERA required state funding of abortion. We oppose the ERA unless an “abortion neutralization” amendment is added to ensure that the ERA will not change abortion policy in any way. The amendment would read: “Nothing in this article [the ERA] shall be construed to grant, secure, or deny any right relating to abortion or the funding thereof.” Would you vote against any proposed ERA if it does not contain this “abortion neutralization” amendment?

Yes____No____

4)Will you oppose the establishing or funding of school-based “health” clinics, unless they are explicitly prohibited from doing abortion counseling or making abortion referrals or referring students to any other entity which counsels for, refers for, or performs abortions?

Yes____No____

5)There is currently an aggressive drive underway to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide across the United States. Causing the starvation or dehydration deaths of persons with disabilities and of incompetent patients who are deemed to be a burden on others or to have a diminished “quality of life” is the euthanasia movement’s interim goal while they seek eventual public acceptance of killing by lethal injection or by lethal overdose of controlled substances/dangerous drugs. Oklahoma’s Hydration and Nutrition for Incompetent Patients Act protects incompetent persons who have not directed that they be deprived of food and water so they will not be victims of death by starvation or dehydration. Will you oppose any attempt to repeal or weaken this protective law?

Yes____No____

6)Oklahoma’s Nondiscrimination in Treatment Act requires that a health care provider shall not deny to a patient a life-preserving health care service the provider provides to other patients, and the provision of which is directed by the patient or a person authorized to make health care decisions for the patient: 1)On the basis of a view that treats extending the life of an elderly, disabled, or terminally ill individual as of lower value than extending the life of an individual who is younger, nondisabled, or not terminally ill; or 2)On the basis of disagreement with how the patient or person authorized to make health care decisions for the patient values the tradeoff between extending the length of the patient’s life and the risk of disability. Will you oppose any attempt to repeal or weaken this protective law?

Yes____No____

7)Oklahoma law protects against the involuntary denial of life-saving medical treatment by requiring that if a health-care provider’s refusal to comply with a decision made by or on behalf of a patient to receive life-saving medical treatment would, in reasonable medical judgment, be likely to result in the patient’s death, then the health-care provider must provide the life-saving treatment pending transfer of the patient to a willing provider. Will you oppose any attempt to repeal or weaken this protective law?

Yes____No____

8)Oklahoma’s advance directive (living will) law recognizes the particular importance of food and water. In order to ensure truly informed consent, our law requires a separately-initialed paragraph in an advance directive in order for artificial administration of food and water to be rejected. Some proposals have been made that would, instead, combine food and water with “medical treatment” such as respirators or surgery, so that choosing to forego life-sustaining medical treatment would be assumed to mean the individual wanted to die by starvation and dehydration. In order to avoid confusion and protect individuals who expect to die from their underlying illness or injury, not from starvation or dehydration, will you vote against any bill that would repeal or weaken the existing requirement for a separately-initialed provision in an advance directive to indicate the rejection of food and water?

Yes____No____

9)Will you oppose the legalization of lethal prescriptions or lethal injections to intentionally kill an innocent person or to “assist” someone in committing suicide (“active euthanasia”)?

Yes____No____

10) Oklahoma’s Supreme Court has arbitrarily struck down as “unconstitutional” several pro-life laws, including laws which in other states have survived federal court challenges. The Oklahoma Supreme Court has become so hostile to the right to life that, when the abortion industry challenges Oklahoma’s pro-life laws, they no longer file suit in federal court, where they would most likely lose, but rather in state court, to give the Oklahoma Supreme Court the opportunity to strike down the laws. A primary reason that the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s rulings are so pro-abortion is that the Judicial Nominating Commission, which is responsible for nominating Supreme Court justices, is dominated by the Oklahoma Bar Association, the lawyers’ special interest group, which is a member of thepro-abortion American Bar Association. Oklahoma’s State Constitution permits the Legislature, by statute, to remove the authority of the Oklahoma Bar Association to choose members of the Judicial Nominating Commission. Will you support a law which would remove the authority of the Oklahoma Bar Association to choose members of the Judicial Nominating Commission, and give that authority, instead, to the Governor, the Speaker of the State House of Representatives, and/or the President Pro Tempore of the State Senate?

Yes____No____

11) Given the background on the courts described in the previous question, and given the fact that the state Constitution authorizes the Legislatureto limit, by statute, the tenure of currentstate Supreme Court justices by enacting a mandatory retirement age, and given the fact that 32 other states impose a mandatory retirement age on their states’ Supreme Court justices, will you support a law to establish a mandatory retirement age for Oklahoma Supreme Court justices?

Yes____No____

12) Given the background on the courts described in the previous two questions, would you support sending to a vote of the people a state Constitutional referendum to change the procedure by which state Supreme Court justices are chosen, by making that procedure similar to the way U. S. Supreme Court justices are chosen? (This would mean having the Governor nominate a state Supreme Court justice, and having the state Senate and/or state House of Representatives vote on whether to confirm the Governor’s nominee.)

Yes____No____

Oklahoma Statewide Candidates

Question numbers / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12

GOVERNOR

Mary Fallin / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Joe Dorman / D / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / no / no / no
Richard Prawdzienski / I
Kimberly Willis / I

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

Todd G. Lamb / R
Cathy Cummings / D

STATE AUDITOR AND INSPECTOR

Gary A. Jones / R

ATTORNEY GENERAL

Scott Pruitt / R /

STATE TREASURER

Ken Miller / R /

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

Joy Hofmeister / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
John Cox / D

COMMISSIONER OF LABOR

Mark Costello / R
Mike Workman / D

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER

John Doak / R

CORPORATION COMMISSIONER

Todd Hiett / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

If no answers are shown following a candidate’s name, the candidate did not return his or her survey to us.

Oklahoma State Senate Candidates

(To learn your Senate District number, go to our website and click on “Find Your Legislators,” then enter your address and scroll down to State Senator. The district number appears just below “District Info.” Or you could phone your County Election Board and tell them your address.)

Question numbers / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12

DISTRICT 2–*Mayes, *Rogers

Marty L. Quinn / R

DISTRICT 4–*Leflore, Sequoyah

Mark Allen / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Ann Weaver / D

DISTRICT 5 - *Atoka, Choctaw, *LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha

Joseph W. Silk / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Curtis McDaniel / D

DISTRICT 6 – *Atoka, Bryan, Coal, *Johnston, Marshall

Josh Brecheen / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Joe B. Hill / D
Vicki J. Gaylor / I

DISTRICT 8 – McIntosh, *Muskogee, *Okfuskee, Okmulgee

Roger Thompson / R
Selina Jayne-Dornan / D / - / - / - / no / yes / yes / yes / yes / - / - / yes / yes

DISTRICT 10 – *Kay, *Osage

Eddie Fields / R

DISTRICT 12 – Creek, *Tulsa

Brian Bingman / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 14 – Carter, *Johnston, Love, Murray

Frank Simpson / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Chequita Williams / D

DISTRICT 16 – *Cleveland

John Sparks / D

DISTRICT 18 – *Cherokee, *Mayes, *Muskogee, *Tulsa, *Wagoner

Kim David / R
Charles R. Arnall / D

DISTRICT 20 –*Kingfisher, Logan, Noble, Pawnee

AJ Griffin / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 22 –*Canadian, *Oklahoma

Stephanie Bice / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 24 –*Cleveland

Anthony Sykes / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 26 -- Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, *Custer, *Kingfisher, Roger Mills

Darcy A. Jech / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Kevin Black / D

DISTRICT 28 – Lincoln, *Pottawatomie, *Seminole

Jason Smalley / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Marilyn Rainwater / D

DISTRICT 30 – *Oklahoma

David Holt / R

DISTRICT 32 – *Comanche

Randy Bass / D

DISTRICT 34 –*Tulsa

Rick Brinkley / R

DISTRICT 36 – *Tulsa, *Wagoner

Bill Brown / R

DISTRICT 38 – *Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Washita

Mike Schulz / R

DISTRICT 40 – *Oklahoma

Ervin Yen / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
John Handy Edwards / D

DISTRICT 42 –*Oklahoma

Jack Fry / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Hiawatha N. Bouldin, Jr / D / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Charles Thompson / I

DISTRICT 44 – *Canadian, *Oklahoma

Ralph Shortey / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Michael Brooks-Jimenez / D
Constance Fawcett / I

DISTRICT 46 – *Oklahoma

Kay Floyd / D

DISTRICT 48 – *Oklahoma

Duane Crumbacher / R
Anastasia A. Pittman / D

If no answers are shown following a candidate’s name, the candidate did not return his or her survey to us.

Oklahoma State House of

Representatives Candidates

(To learn your House District number, go to our website and click on “Find Your Legislators,” then enter your address and scroll down to State Representative. The district number appears just below “District Info.” Or you could phone your County Election Board and tell them your address.)

Question numbers / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12

DISTRICT 1 – *LeFlore, McCurtain

J.P. Longacre / R
JohnnyTadlock / D

DISTRICT 2 - *Sequoyah

John R. Bennett / R / YES / no / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 3 - *LeFlore

Traci Barnes / R
James H. Lockhart / D / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 4 - *Cherokee

Mike Brown / D

DISTRICT 5 - *Delaware, *Mayes

Doug Cox / R

DISTRICT 6 – Craig, *Mayes, *Rogers

Marshall Scott McGuire
Chuck Hoskin / R
D / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 7 - *Delaware, Ottawa

Ben Loring / D /

DISTRICT 8 - *Mayes, *Rogers, *Wagoner

Ben Sherrer / D

DISTRICT 9 - *Rogers

Mark Paul Lepak / R

DISTRICT 10 – Nowata, *Osage, *Washington

Travis Dunlap / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Anthony Tucker / D / NO / no / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 11 - *Rogers, *Tulsa, *Washington

Earl Sears / R

DISTRICT 12 - *Wagoner

David Tackett / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / no / no / no
Wade Rousselot / D / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 13 - *McIntosh, *Muskogee

Jerry McPeak / D

DISTRICT 14 - *Cherokee, *Muskogee

George Faught
Jack A. Reavis / R
D / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 15 - *Haskell, *LeFlore, *McIntosh, *Muskogee, *Pittsburg,

*Sequoyah

Ed Cannaday / D

DISTRICT 16 - *Muskogee, *Okmulgee, *Tulsa, *Wagoner

James BoDelso / R
Jerry Shoemake / D / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / - / no / no / no

DISTRICT 17 - Latimer, *LeFlore, *Pittsburg

Micah Thompson
Brian Renegar / R
D /

DISTRICT 18 - Coal, *Hughes, *McIntosh, *Pittsburg

Donnie Condit / D

DISTRICT 19 – *Atoka, *Bryan, Choctaw, Pushmataha

R.C. Pruett / D

DISTRICT 20 – *Cleveland, *Garvin, *McClain, *Pottawatomie

Bobby Cleveland / R
Joni Johnson / D

DISTRICT 21 - *Bryan

Dustin Roberts / R

DISTRICT 22 - *Atoka, *Garvin, Johnston, *Murray

Charles A. McCall / R

DISTRICT 23 - *Rogers, *Tulsa, *Wagoner

Terry O'Donnell / R

DISTRICT 24 - *Hughes, Okfuskee, *Okmulgee

Steve Kouplen / D

DISTRICT 25 - Pontotoc

Todd Thomsen / R

DISTRICT 26 - *Pottawatomie

Justin Freeland Wood / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Pamela Snider Stephens / D

DISTRICT 27 - *Cleveland, *Pottawatomie

Josh Cockroft / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 28 - *Pottawatomie, Seminole

Tom Newell / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Jason Leonard / D

DISTRICT 29 - *Creek, *Tulsa

James Leewright / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Robert Bobby Talley / D / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 30 - *Creek, *Tulsa

Mark E. McCullough / R

DISTRICT 31 - *Logan, *Oklahoma

Jason W. Murphey / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 32 – Lincoln, *Logan

Kevin Wallace / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Michial Poteet / D

DISTRICT 33 - *Logan, *Payne

Lee R. Denney / R /

DISTRICT 34 - *Payne

Cory T. Williams / D /

DISTRICT 35 - *Creek, *Noble, *Osage, Pawnee, *Payne

Dennis Casey
Wannetta A. Cloyd / R
D /
NO / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 36 - *Osage, *Tulsa

Sean Roberts / R
Jim Massey / D

DISTRICT 37 - *Kay, *Osage

Steven E. Vaughan / R

DISTRICT 38 - *Garfield, Grant, *Kay, *Logan, *Noble

John Pfeiffer / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 39 - *Oklahoma

Marian Cooksey / R

DISTRICT 40 - *Garfield

Chad Caldwell / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / - / yes / yes
Pierce Jones / D /

DISTRICT 41 - *Canadian, *Garfield, *Kingfisher, *Oklahoma

John T. Enns / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / - / - / yes

DISTRICT 42 - *Garvin, *McClain

Lisa J. Billy / R /

DISTRICT 43 - *Canadian

John Paul Jordan / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Sarah Baker / D

DISTRICT 44 - *Cleveland

Emily Virgin / D /

DISTRICT 45 - *Cleveland

Aaron Stiles / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes
Claudia Griffith / D /

DISTRICT 46 - *Cleveland

Scott Martin
Scott Brockman / R
I / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / no / no / no

DISTRICT 47 - *Canadian, *Grady

Leslie Osborn / R

DISTRICT 48 - *Carter, *Garvin, *Murray

Patrick Ownbey / R

DISTRICT 49 - *Carter, Love, Marshall

Tommy C. Hardin / R
Jessica Pfau / D

DISTRICT 50 - Jefferson, *Stephens

Dennis Johnson / R

DISTRICT 51 - *Grady, *McClain, *Stephens

Scott R. Biggs / R

DISTRICT 52 - *Greer, Harmon, Jackson, *Kiowa

Charles Ortega / R

DISTRICT 53 - *Cleveland

Mark McBride / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / no / yes / no

DISTRICT 54 - *Cleveland, *Oklahoma

Paul Wesselhoft / R / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes

DISTRICT 55 - *Beckham, *Greer, *Kiowa, Roger Mills, Washita

Todd Russ / R /

DISTRICT 56 - *Caddo, *Grady, *Kiowa

Chuck Utsler / R
David Perryman / D / YES / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / yes / no / no / no

DISTRICT 57 - *Beckham, *Blaine, *Caddo, *Canadian, Custer