Question 1. The 25th District embraces a diversity of communties and, as such, could represent the entire state. What problems do you see shared by the most rural and the urban areas?

Question 2. If you will not advocate that we need to raise taxes to accomplish what you seek to do, what programs will you cut?

Question 3. Thomas Friedman of the NY Times, has said that the war against Terrorism" is really a war against religious fundamentalism, and that a strength of Western society is our ability to accept that there might be multiple paths towards God. Given the strong streak of fundamentalist homophobia institutionalised in the Virginia Code how will you deal with the needs of our gay minority for legal status?

Question 4. Can you see that the issue of "guns" differs from "gun rights" in rural areas to "gun violence" in urban settings? If you can recognize this difference how will you deal with the issue?

Question 5. No thinking person would argue that our drug laws have worked. What would you do to change them?

Question 6. What are your views on capital punishment?

Question 7. How hard will you work to ensure that local governments are given the freedom to deal with local problems? Without equivocating, what is your position on the Dillon rule?

Al Weed (electronic mail, November 27, 2001)