Rick Tyler's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Rick Tyler 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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- Rick Tyler. 2010. Gainsville Tea Party: Gainsville Tea Party Federal Candidate Questionnaire. Selected NO for: "Do you support federal funding for abortion?" (gainesvilleteaparty.org)
- Rick Tyler. Issue Position: Abortion. "Life begins at conception and abortion constitutes the unjust taking of a human life. America is under divine judgment for having allowed this wholesale slaughter via the shedding of innocent blood." (votesmart.org)
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- Rick Tyler. Wanted. 13 July 2010. "HELP BRING CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT BEFORE THE BAR OF JUSTICE FOR THE FOLLOWING CRIMES AGAINST 'WE THE PEOPLE!' * Squandering and stealing the hard earned wealth of all current and future Americans through the crimi- nally irresponsible act of deficit spending and the subsequent amassing of trillions of dollars of national debt." (www.tylerforsenate.com)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
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- Rick Tyler. 2010. Gainsville Tea Party: Gainsville Tea Party Federal Candidate Questionnaire. Selected NO for: "Do you support No Child Left Behind legislation?" "Should the federal government be invovled in education decisions?" (gainesvilleteaparty.org)
- Rick Tyler. Blog: None Dare Call It Conspiracy. 13 July 2010."Couple all the aforementioned with a dumbing down process that has been brought forth through the inept and subversive mechanism of "public" education and you have the perfect witches' brew of ingredients necessary for the subjugation of an unsuspecting people." (www.tylerforsenate.com)
- Rick Tyler. Do Something Radical. 13 July 2010. "They want to dumb down, indoctrinate and subvert the moral standards of our youth in their corrupt government schools?so DO SOMETHING RADICAL and provide private Christian or homeschool education for your children!" (www.tylerforsenate.com)
- Rick Tyler. Issue Position: Government Schools. "The State has failed miserably in the education of our nation's children. Schools have devolved into statist indoctrination centers that have come to undermine the Christian morality upon which the republic was established. Home schooling and private Christian education need to supplant and challenge the hegemony of corrupt and subversive state education." (votesmart.org)
- Rick Tyler. 2010. Gainsville Tea Party: Gainsville Tea Party Federal Candidate Questionnaire. Selected NO for: "Do you support pending cap-and-trade legislation?" (gainesvilleteaparty.org)
- Rick Tyler. 2010. Gainsville Tea Party: Gainsville Tea Party Federal Candidate Questionnaire. Responded: "Free market development of energy sources and technologies." to the question "2. Energy and the Environment." (gainesvilleteaparty.org)
- Rick Tyler. 2010. Abigail Adams Project: US Senator Survey. Selected STRONGLY OPPOSE for: "Energy taxes should be imposed to reduce the effect of climate change." (docs.google.com)
- Rick Tyler. 2010. Gainsville Tea Party: Gainsville Tea Party Federal Candidate Questionnaire. Responded: "The right to keep and bear arms is inviolate and is the 'teeth' of all other rights." to the question "1. The Constitution." (gainesvilleteaparty.org)
- Rick Tyler. 2010. Abigail Adams Project: US Senator Survey. Selected STRONGLY OPPOSE for: "Imposing government restrictions on an individual's right to keep and bear arms." (docs.google.com)
- Rick Tyler. Issue Position: Gun Rights. "The 2nd Amendment is clear and unambiguous, the people have the God given right to keep and bear arms! Any attempt by government to infringe upon this right is in and of itself a criminal act." (votesmart.org)
- Rick Tyler. 2010. Gainsville Tea Party: Gainsville Tea Party Federal Candidate Questionnaire. Responded: "a. Get big government out of the health business. b. Free market solutions." to the question "7. Healthcare." (gainesvilleteaparty.org)
- Rick Tyler. 2010. Gainsville Tea Party: Gainsville Tea Party Federal Candidate Questionnaire. Selected NO for: "Do you support the recently enacted healthcare reform bill?" (gainesvilleteaparty.org)
- Rick Tyler. 2010. Abigail Adams Project: US Senator Survey. Selected STRONGLY OPPOSE for: "Federal Government is responsible to provide health insurance to all persons residing in the U.S." (docs.google.com)
- Rick Tyler. 2010. Gainsville Tea Party: Gainsville Tea Party Federal Candidate Questionnaire. Responded:"a. No. Rewarding those who have broken the law to enter our nation is foolish and suicidal. b. The national government should assume a leading role in the securing of our borders from the threat of illegal immigration. c. Round them up and deport them. d. Encourage border states to take a leading role in solving this problem." to the question "9. Immigration." (gainesvilleteaparty.org)
- Rick Tyler. Issue Position: Immigration. "A permanent European American majority must be galvanized to insure the nation's well-being and survival. In the interest of this objective we must return to pre- 1960's immigration laws and policies, deport the vast millions of illegal aliens currently residing within our nation, secure our Southern border, terminate policies that subsidize minority birth rates, and encourage the escalation of European and Caucasian immigration from such countries as Rhodesia and South Africa in the largest possible numbers." (votesmart.org)
- Rick Tyler. Positions. 27 October 2010. "The War on Terror - Our open southern border belies the fact that the supposed war on terror is a sham designed to preoccupy the public with make-believe enemies and bogeymen. This phony war has been utilized to gut the Constitution and prepare the United States for disastrous entry into the utopian new world order." (www.tylerforsenate.com)
- Rick Tyler. 2010. Gainsville Tea Party: Gainsville Tea Party Federal Candidate Questionnaire. Selected NO for: "Do you support the war in Afghanistan?" (gainesvilleteaparty.org)
- Rick Tyler. Blog: A Nation of Sheep. 13 July 2010. "The founding fathers (not mothers) of America were largely men of devout commitment to the laws of nature's God. Imperfect as these men were?the God of Scripture was central to their existence, their world view and the methods they brought forth to establish and govern a nation. These great European Christian men were not slaves to the preposterous ideologies of feminism, multiculturalism, socialism, or statism. As staunch proponents of undiluted Biblical principles, they were safeguarded from the many subversive and satanic forces that threaten our survival today....Same-sex marriage? Over their dead bodies!" (www.tylerforsenate.com)
- Rick Tyler. Issue Position: Homosexuality, Same-sex Marriage, & Don't Ask, Don't Tell. "Homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God and, when practiced as a lifestyle, facilitates crimes against nature. Homosexuals often are thoughtful, gifted, and exceedingly capable in their respective vocations. Nevertheless, they are guilty of a sin that is hastening judgment and destruction upon the land. The acceptance of same-sex marriage is prima facie evidence of a collective form of insanity gripping our nation." (votesmart.org)
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