Judy Ward
State Senate, District 30 · Republican · Pennsylvania
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Where they stand
Affordability: Ward prioritizes affordability through fiscally conservative budgeting and targeted support aimed at reducing healthcare, tax, and energy costs for families, businesses, and seniors.
Energy: Ward opposes new energy taxes, seeks to reduce regulatory barriers, and supports expanding energy production to lower utility costs.
Energy: Ward supports repealing Pennsylvania’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to avoid additional consumer energy costs from carbon taxes.
Where Judy stands on the questions on which we score all candidates
Education and families · Likely supports: Pennsylvania should strengthen education equity statewide.
Education and families · Supports: Pennsylvania should expand publicly funded school choice options for K-12 students.
Public safety, justice and rights · Opposes: Pennsylvania should maintain or expand legal abortion access.
Public safety, justice and rights · Supports: Pennsylvania should provide greater state support for law enforcement and first responders.
Public safety, justice and rights · Likely supports: Pennsylvania should support constitutional rights such as free speech and religious liberty.
Public safety, justice and rights · Supports: Pennsylvania should not add new state restrictions on gun ownership.
Public safety, justice and rights · Likely opposes: Pennsylvania should add sexual orientation and gender identity to its state anti-discrimination law.
Economy and taxes · Supports: Pennsylvania should reduce state taxes on households.
Economy and taxes · Supports: Pennsylvania should make lowering everyday costs a top priority in state budgeting and policy.
Economy and taxes · Supports: Pennsylvania should streamline state regulations for businesses.
Economy and taxes · Supports: Pennsylvania should expand state support for small businesses.
Economy and taxes · Likely supports: Pennsylvania should expand state incentives for large economic-development projects.
Energy, environment and agriculture · Supports: Pennsylvania should increase state support for agriculture and local food systems.
Energy, environment and agriculture · Supports: Pennsylvania should make it easier to develop and connect energy projects in the state.
Energy, environment and agriculture · Opposes: Pennsylvania should accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.
Infrastructure, transportation and technology · Likely supports: Pennsylvania should increase state funding for public transit.
Infrastructure, transportation and technology · Supports: Pennsylvania should increase state investment in transportation, water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure.
Government, elections and ethics · Likely supports: Pennsylvania should require voters to present government-issued photo identification when voting.
Health and social supports · Supports: Pennsylvania should increase state investment in cancer prevention, awareness, and early detection.
Health and social supports · Supports: Pennsylvania should increase state support for services for seniors.
Health and social supports · Supports: Pennsylvania should strengthen state oversight and standards to preserve hospital and emergency-care access.
Health and social supports · Supports: Pennsylvania should strengthen state support for mental-health and crisis-response services.
Health and social supports · Likely supports: Pennsylvania should improve services, accessibility, and protections for people with disabilities.
Health and social supports · Supports: Pennsylvania should strengthen state action to keep utility bills affordable and protect utility customers.
Health and social supports · Supports: Pennsylvania should increase state efforts to reduce prescription drug costs.
Health and social supports · Supports: Pennsylvania should not cut state public assistance benefits.