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Andy Caldwell's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Andy Caldwell has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2020 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 2020.

  • "Abortion fanatics consider the will of the woman everything, and the life of the child as nothing, as the revolution devours its children. Shedding the blood of innocents, at the further expense of both conscience and instinct, may now be legal under any circumstances in New York, but it will never be the right thing to do. These human beings are being treated as if they are absolutely worthless, except for the value of their body parts sold on the black market by the likes of Planned Parenthood, an organization founded on the same principles and by the very same people who gave Hitler his best ideas on eugenics and genocide." (www.facebook.com)
  • "His party is now fully embracing socialism, exorbitant tax rates, open borders, energy suicide, and abortion without limits, up to and including infanticide." (www.facebook.com)
  • "In conclusion, the right to an abortion has evolved into the right to kill a child that is born alive." (www.facebook.com)
  • "My agenda is simple – make government work or get it out of the way so people can innovate, create solutions, build for the next generation, and enjoy the legacy of American freedom and opportunity." (andycaldwell2020.com)
  • "Some of their ideas are virtuous, but the ideas just don't work. There are some who are advocating abolishing private property or taxing investments at 70-90%." (www.facebook.com)
  • "US debt is growing so fast that many of our children will face a country with less prosperity and fewer services as debt payments consume the Federal budget. I will make eliminating the deficit and reducing the National Debt a priority in Congress." (votesmart.org)
  • "What we earn we have the right to keep, and that applies to all of us. Nevertheless, the punitive tax rates here in America compelled investors to move their money overseas, shelter it or lose it in the black hole of the redistributive construct of the American tax system, courtesy of the Democratic Party." (www.facebook.com)
  • "I oppose the Medicare-for-All plan that would ban private insurance and give the government control over all medical decisions." (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "We may need more training or oversight, but if we "defund police," who is going to protect our community? The protesters? The politicians? Social Media & Bloggers?" (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "My agenda is simple – make government work or get it out of the way so people can innovate, create solutions, build for the next generation, and enjoy the legacy of American freedom and opportunity." (andycaldwell2020.com)
  • "Our roads and bridges are failing, while Congress spends it's time on political fights. I'll work to build new capacity in addition to maintaining and repairing our infrastructure in order to reduce gridlock and increase safety." (votesmart.org)
  • "Socialism is rooted in government control of the economy and people's lives. It is antithetical to freedom and liberty. Socialism has not simply resulted in economic misery due to the fact that it takes away people's incentive to create and risk in return for personal rewards; no, it is much worse than that. Socialism either collapses under its own weight because it is nothing less than a giant Ponzi scheme that runs out of producers to fleece and other people's money to spend." (www.facebook.com)
  • "Corporations and people who have money are smart with their money, which is why they have money in the first place. They don't hide it under mattresses, nor do they park it where the government will quickly and efficiently abscond with it. They shield it from usurpation while they make it work for them and us by investing it, unless they are forced to shelter it. Investing money creates opportunities for others." (www.facebook.com)
  • "Some of their ideas are virtuous, but the ideas just don't work. There are some who are advocating abolishing private property or taxing investments at 70-90%." (www.facebook.com)
  • "Tax reform has to be undertaken. The current system is stifling growth (as the last GDP growth numbers made clear). This does not have to be difficult." (www.facebook.com)
  • "What we earn we have the right to keep, and that applies to all of us. Nevertheless, the punitive tax rates here in America compelled investors to move their money overseas, shelter it or lose it in the black hole of the redistributive construct of the American tax system, courtesy of the Democratic Party." (www.facebook.com)
  • "There are plenty of flaws (and pork) in the CARES Act (coronavirus relief bill), especially the failure to identify how we are going to pay for it. But it is critical that we help American families and businesses and keep America from slipping into a worse economic crisis that could last for years." (www.facebook.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "It is time for a reality check to the faux enviros who are members of the "keep oil in the ground" disinformation bureau. There is absolutely no scenario or demonstration project out there that can lead a reasonable person to predict that we will not need to rely on oil for the next couple of decades. That is, until energy storage battery systems become affordable and ubiquitous, enabling all of us to store power from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. That leaves us with one of two options: produce what we need here, or import it from areas with no discernable commitment to environmental stewardship." (www.facebook.com)
  • "Moreover, despite not signing the Paris Climate Accord, the United States has been the world's leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. By virtue of renewable energy? No. We reduced our annual greenhouse gas emissions by 42 million tons by switching from coal to natural gas, made possible by the fracking technology revolution. In the meantime, China and India have been increasing their carbon emissions by 100 million tons per year. In conclusion, it is the oil and gas industry that is actually leading the way toward lower carbon emissions." (www.facebook.com)
  • "So, what's the deal with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) and her Green New Deal? AOC is asking for nothing less than a makeover of our government and a takeover of our economy, based on a green socialist fantasy that is entirely infeasible. The plan represents nothing less than a second American revolution in the form of a raw deal for taxpayers and consumers." (www.facebook.com)
  • "The goal of reducing our carbon footprint has been achieved not by solar and wind, but by the shale revolution. Natural gas, which burns cleaner than coal, has become so abundant and cheap that America, due to market conditions alone, has abandoned coal and as a result, we have met the greenhouse gas reduction goals of the Paris Climate Accord!" (www.facebook.com)
  • "AOC recognizes America cannot afford to underwrite this plan, so in a moment of sheer brilliance, she proposes to print or borrow all the money. Specifically, we must take on trillions in debt, in addition to ‘a combination of various taxation tools, including taxes on carbon and other emissions and progressive wealth taxes (up to 70 percent of income).’" (www.facebook.com)
  • "Moreover, despite not signing the Paris Climate Accord, the United States has been the world's leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. By virtue of renewable energy? No. We reduced our annual greenhouse gas emissions by 42 million tons by switching from coal to natural gas, made possible by the fracking technology revolution. In the meantime, China and India have been increasing their carbon emissions by 100 million tons per year. In conclusion, it is the oil and gas industry that is actually leading the way toward lower carbon emissions." (www.facebook.com)
  • "So, what's the deal with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) and her Green New Deal? AOC is asking for nothing less than a makeover of our government and a takeover of our economy, based on a green socialist fantasy that is entirely infeasible. The plan represents nothing less than a second American revolution in the form of a raw deal for taxpayers and consumers." (www.facebook.com)
  • "With respect to the Trojan horse of climate change, consider the words of Ottmar Edenhofer, a recognized leader in the efforts to reach a global climate accord. In 2010, he stated, ‘One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world's wealth.’ Or, as UN climate chief Christina Figueres said it, the true aim of the UN's 2014 Paris climate conference was ‘to change the [capitalist] economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.’" (www.facebook.com)
  • "Guns are not the problem. EVIL is the problem." (www.facebook.com)
  • "No, we can't blame this evil on the guns in the hands of psychopaths; instead we need to focus on what counts, and that has to do with the heart, mind and soul of America." (www.facebook.com)
  • "The most shallow answer? Our lack of gun control, which I reject completely. We've never had as much gun control as we have now in this country, yet these mass shootings are nevertheless a fairly recent phenomenon." (www.facebook.com)
  • "I oppose the Medicare-for-All plan that would ban private insurance and give the government control over all medical decisions. We can reduce Rx and healthcare costs without such draconian socialist mandates." (www.facebook.com)
  • "I will oppose efforts to ban private insurance, and will fight to drive down prescription and healthcare costs using proven market principles. I don't want healthcare decisions taken away from families and doctors and put in the hands of government and insurance industry bureaucrats! Instead, I will fight to drive down costs, create an affordable safety-net, ensure you can keep your insurance -- including MediCare supplemental insurance -- while focusing on real solutions that make healthcare more accessible and affordable." (votesmart.org)
  • "This is a good primer on why socialism won’t help make healthcare cheaper - and certainly won’t make it better!" (www.facebook.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Some people in America, mostly Democrats, progressives and socialists (sorry for repeating myself), don't want a wall at our border because they no longer want a border. In fact, their chant goes, "No border, no wall, no USA at all! The left would like us to believe our current crisis is about an incalcitrant president, a wall and a government shutdown. The reality is, no borders means no sovereignty." (www.facebook.com)
  • "The left would like us to believe our current crisis is about an incalcitrant president, a wall and a government shutdown. The reality is, no borders means no sovereignty." (www.facebook.com)
  • "Then we have Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. She is leading her fellow democrats in Congress to eliminate prisons, ostensibly because prisons are a function of institutionalized racism. She also advocates for open borders and eliminating the border patrol, which would be a delight to the members of MS13, not to mention, Mexico’s drug cartels and Islamic terrorists." (www.facebook.com)
  • "As the son of an immigrant, I know that legal immigration is our heritage and it is good for our country, but we need to fix our broken system. I'll fight for real reforms that speed up legal immigration, enforce our laws, and secure our borders." (votesmart.org)
  • "Thus far, all of the democrats, including our Congressman Salud Carbajal, are content with our current border status, which for all intents and purposes, might as well be an open border. Moreover, it is the democratic party that has been running interference against our Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) bureau, preventing them from enforcing our laws, going so far as to call for the abolishment of the agency." (www.facebook.com)
  • "Turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the defacto sanctuary status granted all the illegal alien gang members in our state and country is itself criminal. Illegal aliens who commit crimes in our society should be deported immediately upon completion of their sentence." (www.facebook.com)
  • "Foreign Policy. A. Trump turned around the feckless foreign policy of the last 8 years. The World now knows America will act." (www.facebook.com)
  • "More to the point of 9/11, even if we decided to leave the Middle East to its own devices, it doesn’t mean they are going to leave us alone!" (www.facebook.com)
  • "For instance, the key relationships of major American companies with China has been driven by insider deals and a vast maze of "legalized corruption". That is, China has been manipulating its currency and robbing us blind of our intellectual property, but this has been considered the price of doing business in the world today!" (www.facebook.com)
  • "What Doug Wead describes, in no uncertain terms, is Trump’s life-long burning frustration having to do with our nation’s trade deficits and defense arrangements with foreign countries. Trump recognized this situation was bleeding dry the American middle class." (www.facebook.com)

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