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from 2020 IL Senate race (number of quotes indicated): |
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Abortion Mark Curran: IL Right to Life Action: rated most prolife in Senate race. Mark Curran: Pro-life, only allow abortion to save life of mother. Mark Curran: Opposed partial-birth abortion. Anne Stava-Murray: Progressive and pregnant prochoice champion. Anne Stava-Murray: OpEd: Supports expanded abortion rights. |
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Budget & Economy Mark Curran: Balanced budget via combo of increased revenue & budget cuts. Mark Curran: Would support and lead on Balanced Budget Amendment. |
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Civil Rights Mark Curran: The wrong people moved in, and changed Lake County. |
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Corporations Mark Curran: Cut red tape and regulations for private business. Mark Curran: Oversight of government agencies hostile to business. Mark Curran: Cut red tape and regulations for private business. Richard Durbin: Patriot employers: reward companies that supply U.S. jobs. |
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Crime Mark Curran: Black Lives Matter addresses police racist conduct. |
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Drugs Mark Curran: Training and Narcan will help responders deal with overdoses. Mark Curran: Training and Narcan will help responders deal with overdoses. Mark Curran: Key to solving opioid epidemic is border security. Anne Stava-Murray: End marijuana probation; allow regulation and taxation. Anne Stava-Murray: Legalize recreational marijuana & include safety provisions. Richard Durbin: The plague of methamphetamine abuse is growing. |
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Education Mark Curran: Need localized approach to education and parental choice. Mark Curran: Need localized approach to education and parental choice. Richard Durbin: Create refundable tax credit for teachers in Title I schools. Mark Curran: There is no student loan crisis: against "free college". Anne Stava-Murray: Shift cost of education away from property tax. Anne Stava-Murray: Decades of disinvestment have hurt Illinois state schools. |
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Energy & Oil Mark Curran: Yes to cleaner fuel but some climate ideas are alarmist. Mark Curran: Yes to cleaner fuel but some climate ideas are alarmist. Richard Durbin: Empower the EPA to regulate greenhouse emissions. Mark Curran: Not convinced climate change is current threat to humankind. Mark Curran: Opposes "far-left radical environmental agenda". Anne Stava-Murray: Reduce coal-protectionist provisions, increase regulations. |
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Environment Mark Curran: Use EPA to prosecute corporate polluters. Mark Curran: Use EPA to prosecute corporate polluters. Richard Durbin: Renovate our entire drinking water infrastructure. Mark Curran: Corporate polluters should be prosecuted and sent to prison. |
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Families & Children Anne Stava-Murray: After #MeToo moment, withdrew support for Speaker Madigan. Richard Durbin: Safe, affordable child care available to more families. |
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Foreign Policy Mark Curran: Some Islamic nations not ripe for democracy. |
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Free Trade Mark Curran: Tariffs may be necessary; subsidize farmers if required. |
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Government Reform Mark Curran: Supports term limits for Congress. Anne Stava-Murray: Favor legislative term limits. Anne Stava-Murray: End gerrymandering and voter suppression. |
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Gun Control Mark Curran: Absent amendment, many proposed laws unconstitutional. Mark Curran: Focus on mental health & video games, not guns. Anne Stava-Murray: We can reduce number of gun-related suicides. Anne Stava-Murray: Proactive legislation to crack down on reckless gun owners. |
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Health Care Mark Curran: Preventative medicine approach, with free market principles. Richard Durbin: Defend & expand ObamaCare and Medicaid. Mark Curran: Study ACA to see what's working before deciding to repeal. Anne Stava-Murray: Supports Medicare-for-All, with immediate transition. |
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Homeland Security Mark Curran: Proper funding & resources to fight terror. |
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Immigration Mark Curran: For border wall; but path to citizenship for DREAMers. Mark Curran: Supports Trump on funding for border/ICE agents, border wall. Mark Curran: Backed bipartisan legislation with path for citizenship. Mark Curran: Deporting working people with families is absolutely wrong. Mark Curran: When rights of one are in jeopardy, rights of all are. |
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Jobs Anne Stava-Murray: Pass fair scheduling laws to combat on-demand scheduling. |
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Principles & Values Mark Curran: Curtailing individual religious freedoms, I find abhorrent. Mark Curran: Bless us with four more years of Donald Trump. |
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Social Security Mark Curran: Face hard truth to properly fund benefit programs. Mark Curran: Local pensions invest the majority of money in the market. Anne Stava-Murray: Our state pension debt is underfunded. |
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Tax Reform Mark Curran: Simplify tax code; against tax breaks for large corporations. |
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Technology Richard Durbin: Fund science to protect food supply, cure disease, and more. |
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War & Peace Mark Curran: Sanctions & possible bombing, to stop spread of nuclear arms. |
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Welfare & Poverty Mark Curran: Access to food is a right and Congress must safeguard it. Mark Curran: Access to food is a right and Congress must safeguard it. Richard Durbin: Educate farmers about federal programs that can help them. |
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