Mo Kiah's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Mo Kiah refused to tell citizens where he stands on any of the issues addressed in the 2010 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.
Issue Positions
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- Mo Kiah. 2010. Focus on the Family Action: Focus Voter Questionnaire. Responded: "Opposed. Determining the outcome of a family is solely the responsibility of the family. Government or the taxpayers should not be burdened with making serious life or death decisions of people and their families. Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force," to the question: "Do you support or oppose providing legal protection for unborn children from the moment of conception, except to prevent the death of the mother?" (www.focusvoter.com)
- Mo Kiah. 2010. Focus on the Family Action: Focus Voter Questionnaire. Responded: "Opposed. I oppose all federal legislation that is not specifically authorized by the Constitution and its Bill of Rights," to the question: "Do you support or oppose a federal Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) that would have the effect of removing most or all current state and federal regulations on obtaining an abortion?" (www.focusvoter.com)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Mo Kiah. 2010. Focus on the Family Action: Focus Voter Questionnaire. Responded: "Opposed. I vehemently oppose government robbing the people at gunpoint to bailout incompetent entities. It is "Theft By Government". There is no such entity as one that's "To Big To Fail". In a "True Free Market System" businesses will prosper by their merits or collapse by their dis-functionality," to the question: "Do you support or oppose government stimulus spending, such as the Federal Recovery and Reinvestment Act, in times of economic crisis?" (www.focusvoter.com)
- Mo Kiah. 2010. Liberty Central: Questionnaire for 2010 Congressional Candidates. Responded: "No. As I've mentioned earlier, there are 'No entities that are too big to fail'. These entities will survive or collapse on their own merits, not at the taxpayers expense," to the question: "9. Are there any circumstances under which you would vote for a program similar to TARP or other federal bailouts?" (libertycentral.s3.amazonaws.com)
- Mo Kiah. Issue Position: Free Market System. "A True Free Market System is necessary for prosperity and a healthy economy. Competition makes for a strong economy. In a true free market system, businesses will fail if their products and services do not meet the consumer's demands and requirements. Bailouts don't exist in a true free market system." (votesmart.org)
- Mo Kiah. Issue Position: Governmental Regulations. "Governmental Regulations and control of businesses are costly and damaging to our economy and, to some extent, the global economy. Incompetent government spending, mentioned previously, helps illustrate why government needs to get out of the business of business. We all know that government has a problem operating within the limits of any budget. So why would we trust incompetence to regulate anything? Health care is the responsibility of the individual, not the omnipotent state." (votesmart.org)
- Mo Kiah. Issue Position: The Size of the Government. "Smaller Government is necessary to be accountable to the requirements of the Constitution and the electorate respectively. This will be accomplished by eliminating unconstitutional laws, unconstitutional government bureaucracies, unconstitutional spending, unconstitutional acts, and unconstitutional regulations perpetrated by our ever-expanding and intrusive federal government." (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Mo Kiah. Issue Position: Education. "Education can only work efficiently and effectively if controlled exclusively by the people and their local communities. No Child Left Behind is the epitome of the federal government's running amok by overstepping its Constitutional boundaries, and sticking its costly and intrusive nose where it has no authority to do so. The federal Department of Education is not mentioned in, or authorized by the Constitution. Thus, the federal Department of Education must be eliminated for the benefit of the republic." (votesmart.org)
- Mo Kiah. 2010. Liberty Central: Questionnaire for 2010 Congressional Candidates. Responded: "Yes," to the question: "Do you oppose government regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?" (libertycentral.s3.amazonaws.com)
- Mo Kiah. 2010. Focus on the Family Action: Focus Voter Questionnaire. Responded: "Opposed. The "Cap and Tax" legislation is unconstitutional and is the Kyoto Treaty with another title. Global elitists keep changing the names of their pet projects in order to continue with their Global Governance agendas. Taxing and controlling businesses on a global scale enables them to control people's lives without having to answer to the people," to the question: "Do you support or oppose setting a government-mandated cap on carbon emissions requiring companies to buy emission credits and allowing them to trade any leftover credits ("cap and trade" legislation)?" (www.focusvoter.com)
- Mo Kiah. 2010. Focus on the Family Action: Focus Voter Questionnaire. Responded: "Support. I fully support the original intent of the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Without it, all of the other amendments are moot," to the question: "Do you support or oppose an interpretation of the Second Amendment that recognizes the right of private citizens to possess firearms?" (www.focusvoter.com)
- Mo Kiah. 2010. Focus on the Family Action: Focus Voter Questionnaire. Responded: "Support. Health care is not a constitutional requirement of the federal government. Forcing the people to purchase anything is not permitted by the federal government. People are free to choose the type of health care they wish to use," to the question: "Do you support or oppose the repeal of the federal health care legislation that was passed by Congress and signed into law in March?" (www.focusvoter.com)
- Mo Kiah. 2010. Liberty Central: Questionnaire for 2010 Congressional Candidates. Responded: "Yes. There is no section in the U.S. Constitution that empowers the federal government to force people to purchase anything-including insurance of any sort," to the question: "2. Would you support repealing the Obama Health Care Bill, including the individual mandate?" (libertycentral.s3.amazonaws.com)
- Mo Kiah. Issue Position: Governmental Regulations. "Governmental Regulations and control of businesses are costly and damaging to our economy and, to some extent, the global economy. Incompetent government spending, mentioned previously, helps illustrate why government needs to get out of the business of business. We all know that government has a problem operating within the limits of any budget. So why would we trust incompetence to regulate anything? Health care is the responsibility of the individual, not the omnipotent state." (votesmart.org)
- Mo Kiah. 2010. Focus on the Family Action: Focus Voter Questionnaire. Responded: "The system that preceded the N.A.F.T.A., G.A.T.T. and W.T.O. era may have not been perfect, though it provided for assimilation of folks that desired to live in the U.S., and they did so without creating exorbitant tax burdens on the U.S. taxpayers. The "War on (some) Drugs plays right into the hands of the Globalist-Government-Agenda-Pushers. The U.S. Government has worked hand-in-hand with the Mexican Government to create a drug problem by making "Some Drugs" illegal. Before the drugs were illegal, people didn't get killed over them. (See: Prohibition, the Mob, the Mafia, and Saint Valentine's Day Massacre)," to the question: "Do you support or oppose amnesty for illegal aliens?" (www.focusvoter.com)
- Mo Kiah. 2010. Liberty Central: Questionnaire for 2010 Congressional Candidates. Responded: "No. The so-called 'War on Terror' is not a war. It is an act of aggression implemented by the executive branch of our government, and is unconstitutional. According to the U.S. Constitution, Congress must provide a Declaration of War before there can be one. There has not been a Congressional Declaration of War enacted after WWII, to the question: "6. Does the War on Terror demand more of a military response or a law enforcement response?" (libertycentral.s3.amazonaws.com)
- Mo Kiah. 2010. Focus on the Family Action: Focus Voter Questionnaire. Responded: "Opposed. In a free country, people are free to marry whomever they decide to live with. It's not my business or the government's business," to the question: "Do you support or oppose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would define marriage nationwide as the union of one man and one woman?" (www.focusvoter.com)
- Mo Kiah. 2010. Focus on the Family Action: Focus Voter Questionnaire. Responded: "Support. The DOMA act is unconstitutional, is intrusive, and is an unnecessary waste of the taxpayer's money," to the question: "Do you support or oppose repealing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)?" (www.focusvoter.com)
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