2002 Endorsement Questionnaire Questions? Call 916-442-3414
	We have recently created a PDF file for those of you who would like to print out a more user-friendly hard copy of our questionnaire.To download and print the PDF file simply click here and hold to scroll down to "save this link as" and make sure format is set to "source". Simply clicking once may work as well. We encourage you to submit the questionnaire online because it allows us to be more efficient in responding to your request. Please submit online or print the pdf and return to: Rosemary DaSilva Political Affairs Director 926 J Street, Suite 424 Sacramento CA 95814 or FAX: (916) 442-4765 Please return by December 3, 2001 Thank you for your interest in being considered for endorsement by the California NOW PAC. Please complete this questionnaire and return it by the date indicated above. We realize that our questionnaire is more extensive than those used by most endorsing organizations. California NOW is a multi-issue organization. We ask these questions of all candidates because it is our assumption that a candidate we endorse may someday run for higher office, and therefore, your positions are very important to us. If you are running for federal office, your responses to this questionnaire will be used by CA NOW PAC to make a recommendation on your endorsement to the National NOW PAC. All questionnaires are for internal decision making. Be honest and direct when you state your positions. Brief answers are satisfactory. If you would like to elaborate your position in any area, feel free to attach additional pages. Please feel free to inquire to the California NOW office, (916) 442-3414, if you need further information to answer a questions.
	CANDIDATE AND CAMPAIGN INFORMATION Candidate Name   Rosemary Stasek Permanent Address   273-B Jessie Lane City, State, Zip   Mountain View, CA 94041 Office Being Sought   State Assembly District 22 Are you the incumbent? X Yes  If yes, for how long? 5 years Endorsement Request For: Special Election Date of Election Primary Election Date of Election March 5, 2002 General ElectionDate of Election Your Political Party Democrat Green Party Republican Independent Libertarian Natural Law Other If other, please specify: Your District's Registration:45% Democrat 30% Republican  25% Other Campaign ID # 1233790 Committee Name  The Committee to Elect Rosemary Stasek Campaign Address:  273-B Jessie Lane City, State, Zip  Mountain View, CA 94041 Phone: ( 650 ) 988-1053 Fax: ( 650 ) 988-1053 Campaign Manager: Phone: ( ) Campaign Consultant: Phone: ( 408 ) 778-4567 Please list all opponents in this race: 1. Sally Lieber 2. Rod Diridon, Jr. 3. 4. 5. 6. Estimate Campaign Costs: Primary: $200,000 General: $500,000 Amount Raised to Date: $ Are you adhering to voluntary campaign spending limits? yes no Are you aware of any independent expenditure campaigns that will impact your race? yes no If yes, please list: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Please list the "top" three women and "top" three men on your staff and their positions. This can include paid and unpaid staff (Please include compensation, if any, as this is public information): Women: 1. Name Maria Matheny  Position Treasurer  Compensation $/year 2. Name Lauri Lerner   Position Assistant Treasurer  Compensation $/year 3. Name Betsy Mooney   Position Education Liaison  Compensation $/year Men: 1. Name Greg Sellers   Position Consultant  Compensation $/year 2. Name Greg Evans   Position Fund Raiser  Compensation $/year 3. Name Clarence Madrijos  Position Staff  Compensation $/year Endorsements Received: 1.  Hon. Pete McHugh 2 Hon. Dena Mossar 3 Hon. Steve Glickman 4 Hon. Nicholas Jellins 5 Steve Chessin  Endorsements Requested: 1. NOW 2. CARAL 3. Sierra Club 4. CA Nurses Assoc 5. Conservation Voters 6. Hon. Anna Eshoo Why are you running? I am anxious to bring my women's issues activism to the State level to work beyond what I have accomplished as a local elected official and activist. I have been the State Director of California Catholics for Free Choice for 12 years, an elected city councilmember for 5 years, have worked in the high tech industry for 12 years and taught at a community college for 6 years. I have the breadth of experience to understand the unique challenges that face our community, I have a broader understanding of the issues, and I have focused on solutions to the most significant problems we face.   What are the five priority issues of your campaign? 1.Affordable Housing > Issue2 Transportation > Issue3 Reproductive Rights > Issue4 Education > Issue5 Environment/Energy Have you run for office before? yes no If yes, describe result(s): Won election to 2 terms on Mountain View City Council Are you a NOW member? yes no If yes, in what ways have you been active? Active with MidPenninsula chapter when that chapter was meeting. To what other organizations do you belong? 1. ACLU 2. Human Rights Campaign 3. Catholics for Free Choice 4. Habitat for Humanity 5. 6. Essay Questions How would you propose moving women and children out of poverty in the post-welfare reform environment? Job training for jobs that pay a living wage. Training women to be fast-food cashiers is not the answer. Training in computer skills, building trades and other well-paying jobs is what is needed. Healthcare benefits are vital. Women need to know they do not have to choose between job training and insurance for their children. And finally childcare. Women cannot successfully sustain and complete the extended training programs necessary for these high-paying jobs if they do not have access to affordable, accessible childcare.   How would you attempt to secure women's reproductive choices when religious hospitals merge with non-religious hospitals? As State Director for California Catholics for Free Choice, I have been a leader on this issue. I have been involved with numerous hospital mergers testifying against the elimination of services and against tax-exempt bond funding to finance the mergers. Catholics for Free Choice at the national level was the first organization to begin documenting the impact of these hospital mergers and I have served as a resource to the broader pro-choice community as the issue has become more widely recognized. I am running for the State Assembly to be able to carry legislation that makes public funding contingent on providing full women's health services and denies tax-exempt bond financing for mergers that reduce access to reproductive services.   What is feminism? Are you a feminist? I consider feminism the mission to improve the lives of women and girls. I have dedicated my activist and political careers to ensuring that women and girls have the opportunity and resources to reach their full potential. I consider myself a radical feminist because I see political and social issues through the lens of their impact on women's lives and work from that perspective.   The following questions are grouped in several different issue categories, each representing priorities of the CA NOW agenda. Please note that many questions may appropriately fit into more than one category, but are listed only once for simplification. Answer Key 1 Strongly Oppose will take leadership role against this issue 2 Oppose will vote against 3 Don't Know/Undecided need more information before taking a position 4 Support will vote in favor 5 Strongly Support will take leadership role on this issue EQUALITY Passing a Constitutional Equality Amendment (formally know at the Equal Rights Amendment)   Federally  Support will vote in favor   in California Support will vote in favor Ensuring that "gender" is included in the definition of all hate crime legislation: Strongly Support will take leadership role on this issue Advocating support for CEDAW (the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women)?Strongly Support will take leadership role on this issue Allowing public funding to non-profit groups that discriminate against people based on their race, gender, sexuality, and religion? Strongly Oppose will take leadership role against this issue Supporting legislation to put an end to the practice of racial profiling? Support will vote in favor ENDING RACISM Addressing immigration by: Support will vote in favor - eliminating social services for undocumented immigrants Strongly Support will take leadership role on this issue - denying citizenship to native-born children of undocumented immigrant Strongly Support will take leadership role on this issue - denying education to children of undocumented immigrants Strongly Support will take leadership role on this issue- assuring legal immigration for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals Strongly Support will take leadership role on this issue - assuring legal immigration for individuals who are HIV positive ECONOMIC JUSTICE Strengthening current family leave policies to include: 1 2 3 X 4 5 all workers regardless of company size 1 2 3 X 4 5 paid leave benefits Enacting measures to provide a reasonable standard of living by: 1 2 X 3 4 5 adopting a living wage standard 1 2 X 3 4 5 automatic annual cost of living increases for public aid recipients 1 2 3 X 4 5 adequate child care subsidies 1 2 3 X 4 5 adopting comparable worth compensation policies 1 2 3 X 4 5 ensuring affordable housing to all Do you think children should be quaranteed a financial safety net under the 2002 TANF legislation? 1 2 3 X 4 5 FAMILY LAW Amending existing family law by: 1 2 X 3 4 5 creating a presumption of joint custody in all marital dissolution cases 1 2 X 3 4 5 requiring custodial parents to relinquish custody when moving out of the county 1 2 X 3 4 5 eliminating visitation as a factor in calculating the amount of child support 1 2 X 3 4 5 in custody decisions, include consideration of which parent had been the primary caretaker WOMEN'S HEALTH & REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS Limiting abortion rights by imposing: X 1 2 3 4 5 waiting periods X 1 2 3 4 5 spousal notification X 1 2 3 4 5 parental notification X 1 2 3 4 5 second trimester bans X 1 2 3 4 5 bans on termination of catastrophic pregnancies X 1 2 3 4 5 state mandated lectures X 1 2 3 4 5 restrictions on services based on legal residency status X 1 2 3 4 5 prohibitions on state and federal funding Guaranteeing access to full reproductive health services, including abortion, birth control, emergency contraception, and preventative health care: 1 2 3 4 X 5 in any federal or state-administered health care plan 1 2 3 4 X 5 in private health care plans 1 2 3 4 X 5 for undocumented residents 1 2 3 4 X 5 for legal, non-citizen residents 1 2 3 4 X 5 in religious health care facilities 1 2 3 4 X 5 by requiring health care plans to cover infertility treatments Responding to the rising incidence of breast cancer among women of all ages by: 1 2 3 X 4 5 supporting increased funding for research 1 2 3 X 4 5 providing free/affordable mammograms to all women, regardless of age Responding to the rising incidence of HIV infection among women and people of color by: 1 2 3 4 X 5 providing minors' access to medically accurate information about HIV prevention and treatment in school-based clinics 1 2 3 4 X 5 making condoms available through schools 1 2 3 4 X 5 increasing accessibility of public health HIV information and safer sex practices 1 2 3 4 X 5 providing access to current treatment options regardless of ability to pay 1 2 3 4 X 5 mandating gender equity in medical research ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 1 2 3 X 4 5 supporting increased state funding for rape crisis hotlines and domestic violence shelters 1 2 3 4 X 5 Supporting age appropriate programs to educate students about domestic abuse, date violence, and rape 1 2 3 X 4 5 increasing funding to train judges, law enforcement and medical personnel to effectively address domestic violence (including spousal rape, battery, incest and child abuse). LESBIAN RIGHTS Validating domestic partnership rights, including: 1 2 3 4 X 5 health and dental insurance benefits 1 2 3 4 X 5 bereavement leave 1 2 3 4 X 5 right to survivorship 1 2 3 4 X 5 family sick leave 1 2 3 4 X 5 child custody 1 2 3 4 X 5 adoption EDUCATION Supporting school vouchers X 1 2 3 4 5 Strengthening enforcement of Title IX and California's gender equity laws by: 1 2 3 4 5 requiring gender equity training for all teachers and school personnel 1 2 3 4 5 increasing athletic opportunities for female students to achieve parity Supporting minors' access through the school systems to: 1 2 3 4 X 5 comprehensive sex and health education programs, K-12 1 2 3 4 X 5 dating violence and rape education programs for high school and college students 1 2 3 4 X 5 school-based health clinics 1 2 3 4 X 5 non-judgmental information on sexuality, including homosexuality 1 2 3 4 X 5 birth control referral/service and counseling 1 2 3 4 X 5 continuing education for teen parents 1 2 3 4 X 5 on-site childcare for teen parents Thank you for requesting an endorsement from California NOW. 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