Cris Ericson

Independent | Vermont

Candidate Profile

Leans Liberal

BIOGRAPHY

Name

Cris Ericson


Party

Independent


Election Year

2022


Election

General


Race

U.S. Senator


Incumbent

No


Links

Cris Ericson websites
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EDUCATION

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Bachelor of Arts, 1976

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, One Law Course, 1991

Professional Career Development Insitute, Atlanta, Georgia, Paralegal, 1996

Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, 3 trimesters credits, 1970-1972

WORK & MILITARY

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AFFILIATIONS

United States Marijuana Party, Candidate

POLITICAL OFFICES HELD

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POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT

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Race

Previous Races

ENDORSEMENTS

REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (1)

United States Marijuana Party

OTHER INFORMATION

QUESTIONNAIRE

RIGHT TO LIFE

Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).

Neutral

The problem is lack of informed consent. Apparently around half of abortions now are "chemical abortions" which means the girl or woman is given a pill and a day or two later the embryo dies and expels from her body. If you give a rat some rat poison, how long does it take to die?

I support 'aid in dying' laws which legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Strongly Agree

Under what circumstances should abortion be allowed?

President Joe Biden might sign an Executive Order under the Color of Authority. Associated Press: “President Joe Biden will take executive action Friday to protect access to abortion, the White House said, as he faces mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful on the subject after the Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to the procedure two weeks ago.” The trendy term “abortion tourism” is very popular now and states which offer abortion services will be seeing a lot of new patients. The WHITE HOUSE website provides this link for information on your reproductive rights. https://reproductiverights.gov/ The reproductive rights website directs you to the ABORTION FINDER website https://www.abortionfinder.org/ The abortion finder website has various links, one of which directs you to information about the abortion procedures. “After your cervix is properly dilated, the abortion provider will use suction and some tools to gently empty your uterus.” THE ABOVE STATEMENT MAY BE MISLEADING AND/OR FRAUDULENT. TO SAY THAT THEY WILL “GENTLY EMPTY YOUR UTERUS” MAY BE MISLEADING OR FRAUD. ALL TOO OFTEN, THE SUCTION TUBE MIGHT RIP OFF ONE ARM AT A TIME OR ONE LEG AT A TIME FROM YOUR FETUS if it is over 8 weeks and no longer an embryo. WOMEN HAVE A RIGHT TO INFORMED CONSENT, AND IT MAY BE ABSOLUTE FRAUD TO SAY THAT YOUR BABY IS REMOVED FROM YOUR UTERUS “GENTLY”. VERMONT – 1st in ABORTION TOURISM – COME & GET IT! Yes, if you want it, come and get it, Vermont will do it for you! Abortion tourism is the newest jet-setting industry in Vermont. Can’t wait another day because it gets in your way? Hop a flight to Vermont! Take a bus or a train! Get your bestie & gal pals together and drive on up! Can’t afford the abortion, the transportation AND a motel? No problem! There are fantastic campgrounds along Lake Champlain near your favorite new abortion provider. Post-Roe, Facebook Group Went Viral https://www.nytimes.com › facebook-groups-abortion 8 days ago — (“Camping” is a code word used in some online conversations about abortion.) https://www.npr.org › Jun 29, 2022 — California volunteers are gearing up to host women from out of state in their homes or drive them to abortion appointments. Still angry at the self-centered creep who said to you “don’t worry, if you get pregnant you can have an abortion.” Darn these young men! They think abortion is a form of birth control! What the hell, it doesn’t hurt them! Send him a post card from Vermont. Have you ever had one of those high school science classes where you pin a live frog down on a board and remove its heart while it is still beating and alive? Fair warning, if you are having a late term abortion and the doctor puts you under anesthesia, you can’t see what the doctor is actually doing. How many unscrupulous abortion providers will set up shop in Vermont to deal with the huge influx of abortion tourism? Every organ that can quickly be removed could be put in a medical storage container and shipped to a laboratory for research, or stem cells, or to a hospital where an infant who is very much loved, but born premature, is waiting for an organ transplant. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1486733/ “While the federal government delays in lifting the ban, several states have written laws governing experimentation with fetuses. Ethical arguments against using fetal tissue for organ transplant include a concern that this would create a branch of biomedicine which depends on the continuation of induced abortions.” O.K., so you don’t want to know if your fetus is going in to the medical waste bin, or on some other adventure to be cloned somewhere in a country that allows attempted cloning of human beings. To be “woke” is to be happy. What I have found, as a political candidate, Cris Ericson http://crisericson.com is that too many young women do not know, or believe, what abortion really is. Young women believe that embryos, before 8 weeks of pregnancy, can fit throught a suction tube and be removed in a suction tube abortion. BUT, most young women and teenage girls do not know they are pregnant at 8 weeks, it takes a little longer to have the symptoms. After 8 weeks the noticeable symptoms start because the embryo has turned into a fetus and now all of the organs are developing in the fetus. At the point the embryo turns into a fetus your little pre-born baby is too big to go through the suction tube, so the doctor or abortion provider, sucks off one leg or arm at a time. Most young women simply do not believe this is true. Of course, its worse with a D&E abortion where an arm is scraped off and then a leg is scraped off and then the skull is crushed. Why don’t young women believe what really happens in abortion? Well, I am not against abortion if that’s your choice. But, if you have your fetus, your pre-born baby aborted WITHOUT INFORMED CONSENT, then I think the abortion provider or doctor is committing a federal crime in gi


ECONOMY

Redistribution of income is needed to lessen the gap between the wealthy and working classes.

Strongly Agree

2022 VOTE CRIS ERICSON, INDEPENDENT for UNITED STATES SENATOR for VERMONT http://crisericson.com crisericson @ yahoo.com CRIS ERICSON is the ONLY CANDIDATE with a PLAN to GET MONEY for PROGRAMS to HELP PEOPLE DURING this time of HIGH INFLATION without RAISING YOUR TAXES! (1) Taxes are taken out of our paychecks and (2) sent to the I.R.S. then (3) the U.S. Congress votes to give our tax dollars out to corporations as SUBSIDIES then (4) the President signs new huge spending Bills and

The government should cut spending in order to reduce the national debt.

Strongly Agree

Hello! I'm Cris Ericson and I'm on the Nov. 8, 2022 election ballot for U.S. Senator as an Independent candidate. I have the best plan to get more money for infrastructure, and for all the programs Vermonters need, without raising your federal taxes! Your federal tax dollars go to the I.R.S., and then the U.S. Congress votes to give millions and sometimes billions of dollars of the money taken out of your paychecks in subsidies and research grants for the benefit of wealthy corporations who

What changes, if any, should be made to the tax code?

Hello! I'm Cris Ericson and I'm on the Nov. 8, 2022 election ballot for U.S. Senator as an Independent candidate. I have the best plan to get more money for infrastructure, and for all the programs Vermonters need, without raising your federal taxes! Your federal tax dollars go to the I.R.S., and then the U.S. Congress votes to give millions and sometimes billions of dollars of the money taken out of your paychecks in subsidies and research grants for the benefit of wealthy corporations who use your money to make billions or trillions of dollars for themselves. The U.S. Congress thinks you aren't paying close attention to the money from your paychecks going to the N.I.H., National Institute of Health, and to the Pentagon, for research, design and development of new products. The Patents, the ownership rights to the new products, are turned over to the corporations who then sell the new products worldwide for billions and sometimes trillions of dollars in profits. Because taxpayers, paid millions and sometimes billions for research, we should receive a share of the billions or trillions of dollars in profits that each corporation which receives various subsidies makes! We must demand “R.O.I.” return on investment of taxpayer dollars. We need our rightful share of corporate profits made with our taxdollars for more winter fuel assistance, wider medicaid and medicare coverage, guarantees for the future of social security and SSI, more food stamps SNAP program benefits because food prices are so high, federally subsidized housing for senior citizens and persons living with disabilities, trailer parks for individuals and families who are currently homeless, daycare for babies and children, school programs for children and education for adults, tutors, higher teacher pay, and farm assistance, and programs to help people start new small farms. What has been going on is modern day slavery! It is the wrongful taking of the fruits of our labor. If you agree with me, please vote for me, Cris Ericson http://crisericson.com


RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

Religious liberty is at risk in the United States and deserves the highest level of protection in the law.

Strongly Agree

Genesis 1.29 Hebrew: God said, "See, I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food." All seed bearing plants should be legal. We need an Amendment to the United States Constitution to clarify that all seed bearing plants must be legal, including marijuana / cannabis.

Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.

Strongly Disagree

What should be the relationship between the church and the state?

None


HEALTHCARE

Under what circumstances (if any) should a government, school, or employer be allowed to require vaccinations?

None

What most closely matches your view on healthcare: A) Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government with no private healthcare option. (includes "universal healthcare," "medicare for all," etc.) B) Healthcare insurance funded by the government should be available for all who want it, along with private healthcare options. C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary. D)Tax-payer funded health care should be abolished in all forms, and Medicaid and Medicare should be de-funded.

Health care for everyone funded by the government for everyone who does not chose to have private doctors and private insurance.


NATIONAL SECURITY

With regard to America's foreign policy, which view most closely resembles yours: A) The United States should intervene whenever freedom is threatened. B) The United States should selectively help countries trying to grow democracy and fight tyranny. C) The United States has become too involved in others' policies and should remain focused on issues regarding our own sovereignty unless in imminent danger. D) The United States should stay out of foreign conflicts completely.

We must stay out of foreign conflicts because that makes wars last longer and results in the deaths of more people. We have too many problems here at home we are not taking care of. America first! If you are flying on a passenger jet, the stewardess tells you that if there is an emergency to put your air mask on first before your baby, otherwise, while you are putting the air mask on the baby, you could faint or die and there would be no one to take care of your baby.

I support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement to pressure Israel to withdraw from occupied territories, remove the separation barrier in the West Bank, allow full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees.

Strongly Agree

The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.

Strongly Agree

What should the United States do to help eradicate the threat of Islamic terrorism?

Stop calling it Islamic, stop calling it terrorism, and just focus on crime no matter how huge and enormous the crime is, call it a crime.


IMMIGRATION

The U.S. should do more to physically secure the southern border.

Strongly Agree

President Joe Biden has encouraged people from other countries to enter the United States without going to border offices. He encourages people to enter the United States illegally. People from foreign countries are making deals with criminals to help them get across the border here. Once they cross the border, they owe the criminals on the other side of the border money for helping them get across. We are funding criminals on the other side of the border because the illegal migrants pay.

State and federal funds shall be denied to any public or private entity, such as a sanctuary city, that is not in compliance with immigration laws.

Strongly Agree

President Joe Biden should be denied his paycheck as President of the United States of America for encouraging illegal migrants to cross our borders. President Joe Biden has made the whole Country a sanctuary city. We have no more borders, we are like a whore with wide open legs, and President Joe Biden has done that to us, instead of taking care of homeless U.S. Military Veterans and instead of taking care of homeless mothers living with their children in cars in Los Angeles, and Wash. DC

Who should be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and under what circumstances?

No one right now. We have hundreds of thousands of homeless U.S. Citizens. We need to stop all immigration right now.


VALUES

Sexual orientation and gender identity should be protected classes in non-discrimination laws.

Strongly Disagree

I don't want to share a public bathroom with people born with a Y chromosome. I am a 70 year old woman. Your gender identity should be what you were born with. We need separate bathrooms for LGBT people and we need separate sports teams for LGBT people.

I agree with Critical Race Theory (CRT) which asserts that the institutions in the United States are fundamentally racist.

Strongly Disagree

Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.

None of your business. I am a candidate for United States Senator and I believe in a separation of church and state.


ELECTIONS AND VOTING

People should be able to vote without photo identification.

Strongly Disagree

It is very wrong to allow non-citizen voting in local elections.

What laws would you propose to change present voting practices?

I will submit a Bill to clarify that non-citizen voting is illegal in State and Local elections.


EQUALITY

Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.

Strongly Disagree

Reparations should be given to all political candidates who are excluded from political candidate debates and forums because they aren't "red" or "blue". If all candidates had an equal voice this would be a better Country.

Is racism a threat to domestic security in the United States? Why or why not?

No. A criminal can be a person of any race.


ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

I support the use of hydraulic fracking to extract oil and natural gas resources.

Strongly Disagree

I support the idea of more people working from home so that we need less oil and gas for transportation.

Which comes closest to your view? A) Stricter environmental laws and regulations cost too many jobs and hurt the economy. B) Stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost.

Electric car batteries are harmful to the environment.


ABOUT YOU

When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?

Moderate

I'm running as an Independent because on some issues I am "conservative" and on some issues I am "liberal".

Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).

https://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/cris-ericson-alan-dershowitz-speaks-favor-allowing-donald-trump-facebook https://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/new-federal-regulations-bald-eagles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ2uaRsgC3g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on3dOSs22eE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv4eJre8a8k https://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/cris-ericson-song-about-burlington-tourism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqR4qfBGit0

Have you ever been convicted of a felony or been penalized in either civil or criminal court for sexual misconduct? If so, please explain.

no felony, no sexual misconduct and furthermore you shouldn't ask anyone but current and past elected officials about sexual misconduct, such as Bill Clinton

What else would you like voters to know about you, including your legislative priorities?

https://www.ibrattleboro.com/opinion/op-ed/2022/08/digging-deeper-into-the-endless-history-of-political-candidate-debate-exclusion-in-vermont/ IN THE PAST AND CURRENTLY, I HAVE BEEN EXCLUDED FROM DEBATES. There is something important voters need to focus on, I am an Independent candidate for U.S. Senator. After the Nov. 8, 2022 election, one major political party might be short one person to take the majority. I'll go to either side if they agree to vote to make me Senate Majority Leader.


CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY

Police officers should be personally immune from prosecution for conduct consistent with departmental policy (qualified immunity) while on duty.

Disagree

If an officer does something that is consistent with department policy that is extremely harmful to a U.S. Citizen then the officer should be charged in conspiracy with the department for enabling a bad policy. It is the best way to bring bad policies to light, to litigate them. After all, the police charge people remotely connected to criminal activity as co-conspirators, so treat them the same way and make the individual officers co-conspirators of any bad department policies.

I support redirecting funds from police departments to mental health and community programs.

Disagree

I will sponsor a Bill to fund a lot more community mental health programs.


2ND AMENDMENT

What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?

None. We need more public education, especially for kids. Criminals will always get guns.

Victims of gun violence should be able to sue firearms dealers and manufacturers.

Strongly Disagree

The manufacturer didn't pull the trigger.

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