ISSUES ’86 : 18th SENATORIAL DISTRICT

THE DISTRICT: Includes Woodland Hills, Canoga Park, Winnetka, Agoura, Topanga, Malibu, Santa Barbara, Goleta, Carpinteria, Summerland, Lompoc, Casmalia, Guadalupe, Vandenberg Air Force Base and Ventura, and parts of Fillmore, Montalvo, Moorpark, Oakview, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Santa Paula, Somis and Piru. Democratic registration is 47.4%. Republican registration is 40%, which the GOP, whose voters come out in greater numbers on Election Day, believes makes it competitive despite a strongly entrenched incumbent.

THE SURVEY: Questionnaires were mailed to legislative and congressional candidates in September. Answers will be published periodically until the Nov. 4 election.

Gary K. Hart

(Incumbent) Democrat, 43, four years in state Senate, eight years in Assembly DeWayne Holmdahl

Republican, 48, Santa Barbara County supervisor Jay C. Wood

Libertarian, 53, junior college instructor, Oxnard 1. THE SUPREME COURT: Do you support the retention of Rose Bird as chief justice of the state Supreme Court?

Hart: No Holmdahl: No Wood: No. 2. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: Do you support capital punishment?

Hart: No Holmdahl: Yes Wood: Yes 3. OFFICIALS’ SALARIES: Do you support Proposition 61, which would limit the salaries of state and local officials to 80% of what the governor is paid?

Hart: No Holmdahl: No Wood: Yes 4. ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Do you support Proposition 63, which would make English the state’s official language?

Hart: No Holmdahl: No Wood: No 5. MANDATORY PRODUCT LABELING: Do you support Proposition 65, which among other things would require labeling of products containing chemicals that cause cancer or birth defects?

Hart: Yes Holmdahl: Undec. Wood: No 6. RENT CONTROL: Do you support a statewide law, sought by landlords, which would limit how strictly local governments could regulate rents?

Hart: No, unless modified Holmdahl: Yes Wood: No 7. LOTTERY FUNDS: The Los Angeles Unified School District and others whose attendance is dramatically increasing would like to use their state lottery money to build schools. Would you support a bill allowing this?

Hart: Yes Holmdahl: Yes Wood: No 8. HIGH SCHOOL CLASS SIZE: Would you have voted for the bill to appropriate $60 million to decrease class size in English, math and science in high schools?

Hart: Yes Holmdahl: Yes Wood: No 9. SANTA MONICA CONSERVANCY: Do you believe the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy should receive state funds each year to purchase and preserve open space?

Hart: Yes Holmdahl: Yes Wood: No 10. INSURANCE: Would you support requiring insurance companies that do business in California to cover cities and high-risk businesses such as day-care centers?

Hart: Yes Holmdahl: Yes Wood: No 11. CREDIT CARD INTEREST: Would you support reducing the maximum legal credit-card interest rate by linking it to money-market rates?

Hart: Yes Holmdahl: Yes Wood: No 12. LOS ANGELES PRISON: Do you support the construction of a state prison near East Los Angeles?

Hart: Yes, pending full environmental study Hohldahl: Yes Wood: No Answer

13. DRUG TESTING: Should private employers have the right to require their workers to undergo unannounced drug tests?

Hart: No, except for public safety Holmdahl: Yes Wood: Yes, if work is affected Should public employers have that right?

Hart: No, except for public safety HolmdahlYes Wood: Yes, if work is affected 14. SOUTH AFRICA: This summer the Legislature approved a bill which will lead to the sale of up to $11.3 billion in state investments in firms operating in South Africa. How would you have voted?

Hart: Yes Holmdahl: Yes Wood: Yes