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Richard Kahle's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Richard Kahle has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2018 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.

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Issue Positions

For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2018.

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  • "I support background checks for every transfer of a firearm. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) must be improved. We must ban any device that turns a firearm into a machine gun, such as bump stocks." (www.richardkahleforcongress.com)
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  • "Congress and the President need to make a deal. A reasonable compromise would authorize lawful permanent residency (a green card) to the roughly 800,000 who qualify for Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) AND appropriate $5 billion ($1 billion per year for 5 years) for construction on the border. " (www.richardkahleforcongress.com)
  • "At the federal level, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should only focus operations on four categories of unauthorized immigrants—felons, gang members, national security threats, and those under a final order of removal from an immigration court. ICE should not spend a single dollar, or a single hour, apprehending anyone outside these four priority categories. " (www.richardkahleforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
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  • "As your representative and a combat veteran, I will exercise humility and restraint when voting to deploy our military force. We must remember the unfortunate lessons from Vietnam and Iraq—that our military’s purpose is not nation-building." (www.richardkahleforcongress.com)

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