Dave Mundy
Republican | Texas
Candidate Profile
Leans Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Dave Mundy
Party
Republican
Election Year
2014
Election
General
Race
State Bd. of Educ., Dist. 3
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
University of Houston, Houston, --, 1978
WORK & MILITARY
U.S. Marine Corps, Sergeant, 1985-1991
AFFILIATIONS
Society of Professional Journalists, No longer active, Texas Nationalist Movement
Media Coordinator, County Coordinator
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
(Candidate did not provide)
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
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Race
ENDORSEMENTS
CONSERVATIVE (1)
Texas Leadership Institute for Public Advocacy
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (1)
(None listed.)
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
1. It is the government’s responsibility to be sure children are properly educated.
Strongly Disagree
2. Any teaching to children on sex education in public schools must include all contraceptive methods, and should not show preference to abstinence.
Strongly Disagree
3. Marriage is a union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.
Strongly Agree
4. Biology textbooks which do not teach both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of the theory of evolution should be rejected.
Strongly Agree
5. It is the government’s responsibility to properly distribute income and wealth.
Strongly Disagree
6. The more people live by Judeo-Christian values, the less government is needed.
Agree
7. Efforts to bring Islamic law (shariah) to America do not pose a threat to our country and its Constitution.
Strongly Disagree
8. Free enterprise and the right to private property turn mankind's natural self interest into the fairest and most productive economic system there is, and are the key to national prosperity.
Strongly Agree
9. The Ten Commandments should not be displayed in public school buildings.
Disagree
10. More restrictive gun control laws are needed now to protect public safety.
Strongly Disagree
11. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) should be repealed by Congress.
Strongly Agree
12. Students should not be taught about intelligent design.
Strongly Disagree
13. Religious freedom is our most foundational freedom and deserves added protection in our state and federal constitutions.
Strongly Agree
14. Free market competition for education dollars, rather than a government monopoly, would create a better education for all students.
Agree
15. Should abortion be allowed under extenuating circumstances? If so, what circumstances?
I oppose the use of abortion for birth control, and would oppose allowing any "social program" in public schools promoting or providing abortion services to minors. The only extenuating circumstance I could see making an abortion justified would be if in the opinion of a qualified doctor, a pregnancy is unsustainable.
16. Based on the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, please arrange the following entities, starting with the highest source of authority, and continue the list in descending order of authority, skipping any that do not apply: Academia, Congress, Constitution, God, Industry, Media, Professional Sports, Supreme Court, Voters.
God, Constitution, Supreme Court, Congress. None of the others have any authority whatsoever.
17. Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I was raised a Baptist but as an adult have fallen away from a close relationship with any church because I have questions no church can answer; I hope some day soon to have those questions answered in Heaven, however. The rise of televangelists and mega-churches further alienated me because of their greed for money and power. God does not need great edifices; as His son said, whenever two or more are gathered in His name, there He is. I nonetheless consider myself to have a close relationship with my Creator; I speak to Him through silent prayer often -- as Jesus said, "in my closet." I have tried to live my life as a good and honest man, although there have certainly been times I've fallen short of that ideal. I have sided often with religious conservatives on key political issues from my perspective as a editorialist, but I have also been extremely critical of them as well, when I have felt it was justified.
