Georgia Statewide Office Candidates

Yes

Not only will I support it, I will fight to make sure it is passed. Ethics reform is always a hot topic at the beginning of every session, but if you will notice, by the end of the session, true ethics reform never sees the light of day. New leadership is clearly needed.

Yes

Real ethics reform is long overdue in Georgia. The bill that did pass in 2010 did not address many of the ethics problems facing Georgia's legislature. Also, Georgia must stop the abuse of power by a few politicians in leadership, who are manipulating the legislative voting process to meet their will and not that of the citizens. We must return true representative government to the legislators and their constituents.

Yes

Cobb County has a $100 gift limit and it has worked well.

Attorney

General

Secretary of State

Sinkfield, Georganna

D

Yes

I would support legislation that limits contributions or use of contributions on a fair and equal basis across the affected parties and groups.

Yes

I would support legislation that limits contributions or use of contributions on a fair and equal basis across the affected parties and groups.

No

I'm a Libertarian. Politicians should have a sufficiently developed ethics base to see that accepting gifts from lobbyists is patently wrong.  Republicans and Democrats have a great deal of trouble with this, Libertarians do not. If some fool wants to give $100 dollar gifts to a politician to buy a vote on a particular piece of legislation, the fool should be allowed to do so. Having said that, I would like to see legislation introduced that requires such donations be documented in painstaking detail and published for all the world to see with draconian penalties for not doing so. More transparency in the murky world of politics and influence peddling should gain the result that HB 920 sought to achieve by limiting gifts to $100. A better solution would be to vote for Libertarian candidates since they wouldn't take the money to start with.

No

I'm a Libertarian. If one of our multi term elected officials with huge wads of cash stashed away in the campaign kitty wants to help out a fellow politician, PAC, or single issue group with a cash infusion to maintain the status quo, he should be allowed to waste his resources any way he sees fit. If we mandate that they keep their warchests full for their own use we'll never be able to bleed the entire system of it's financial resources and bring about fundamental change. Why would we seek to give our elected officials an official reason to deny their supporters and affiliates huge wads of cash? We should be encouraging them to spread their money around as fast and furiously as they spend the publics purse.

Yes

As Insurance Commissioner, I will not be eligible to vote on proposed legislation, however, I do support the limit on lobbyist gifts to elected officials stated in House Bill 920. Regardless of the passage of future ethics legislation like HB 920, as Insurance Commissioner I will refuse all lobbyist gifts to myself and my staff.

Yes

As Insurance Commissioner, I will not be eligible to vote on proposed legislation, however, I do support limiting the movement of campaign funds for other than valid expenses. In addition, I do not support the transfer of campaign funds from a candidate's previous or concurrent campaign accounts to another of the same candidate's campaign account for a newer office. This action violates the spirit of democratic elections.

Yes

Would like to limit what a candidate can spend on elections too!

Yes

yes, but once an official leaves public office they should be allowed to give the balance of the funds to an approved Georgia non-profit if they wish.

Yes

Lobbyist gifts to elected officials are, in my opinion, bribes to our elected officials. It’s unfortunate that our representatives even consider accepting these gifts at all.

Yes

Campaign funds are to pay for candidate expenses, not for frivolous activities outside of campaigning.