Kristopher Anderson's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Kristopher Anderson has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2022 Political Courage Test.
Ohio State Legislative Election 2022 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | a) Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| No | b) Do you support legalizing abortion when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support the prohibition of public funds for organizations that perform abortions? | ||
| Life of the Mother is the only exception I believe in. Black and other minorities are facing major population issues because organizations have been encouraging them to end the lives of their children in the womb for decades. | |||
| No | a) In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing state employee salaries AND/OR pensions? | ||
| No | b) Do you support raising taxes on any income or on any entity, to promote economic growth? | ||
| I signed the pledge to advocate against any and all new taxes in any form. We must reduce burdensome regulations and taxes to spur economic growth and population growth. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Yes | b) Should an individual under 18 accused of a violent crime be prosecuted as an adult? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support the use of private prisons? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support allowing courts to use factors such as public safety when setting the amount and conditions of bail in Ohio? | ||
| Capital Punishment for extreme crimes such as rape, molestation, and related crimes of a person, drug dealing that causes death of an unsuspecting person or person(s), and murder, mass murder, or other related crimes of that severity. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support state government spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector? | ||
| No | c) Do you support an increase of the minimum wage of Ohio? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| I would only support state government spending if it is an investment that results in the same value or more of the spending coming back to the people of Ohio in net growth (economic, health, population, etc) of the State. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support adopting federal education standards in Ohio? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support state funding for charter schools? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support increasing teacher salaries AND/OR benefits in Ohio? | ||
| No | d) Should immigrants unlawfully present in the United States who graduate from Ohio's high schools be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities? | ||
| e) Other or expanded principles: | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support state funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support government regulations of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support increasing state funding for clean drinking water initiatives? | ||
| I am an all of the above energy candidate and believe we should have much less regulation than we currently do. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support the regulation of campaign contributions from corporations, unions, and individuals? | ||
| No | b) Do you support the use of an independent AND/OR bipartisan commission for redistricting? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support requiring a government-issued photo identification in order to vote at the polls? | ||
| No | d) Do you support automatic voter registration? | ||
| e) Other or expanded principles: | |||
| No | a) Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| No | b) Should background checks be required on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows? | ||
| No | c) Should a license be required for gun ownership? | ||
| d) Other or expanded principles: | |||
| Yes | a) Should the state government increase funding for treatment facilities to combat opioid abuse? | ||
| No | b) Do you support a government-run (single-payer) healthcare program such as Medicare-for All? | ||
| No | c) Should an individual have the right to choose to die through euthanasia? | ||
| No | d) Do you support eliminating religious exemptions for vaccinations? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support expanding paid family AND/OR medical leave opportunities? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support lowering the cost of prescription drugs? | ||
| I support price transparency requirements to ensure medical systems can compete and lower prices for all. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support the inclusion of sexual orientation in Ohio's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| No | b) Do you support the inclusion of gender identity in Ohio's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support greater efforts by Ohio's state government in closing gender, racial and other wage gaps? | ||
| You can be both anti-discrimination and pro-protecting children from harmful ideologies and increased risks of crimes such as allowing a biological male into the restroom or locker-room of a biological female in our schools. | |||
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