David W. Floyd
Republican | Kentucky
Candidate Profile
Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
David W. Floyd
Party
Republican
Election Year
2014
Election
General
Race
State Rep., Dist. 50
Incumbent
Yes
Links
EDUCATION
Embry-Riddle, Daytona Beach, MAS, 1986
USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, BS, 1973
WORK & MILITARY
USAF, Lieutenant Colonel, 20
AFFILIATIONS
Bardstown Baptist Church, Deacon Chairman, Parkway Baptist Church
Deacon, Rotary Club, Member
VFW, Life Member, American Legion
Member, Optimist Club, President
Air Board, Bardstown-Nelson Co., Board Member, Nelson Co. Economic Development
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
State Rep (KY-50), 10
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
(Candidate did not provide)
Race
SCORECARDS
CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
2013-14
100%
2015
71%, 69%†
2016
69%†
2011-12
64%
2013-14
|100%
2015
|71%, 69%†
2016
|69%†
2011-12
|64%
LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS
ENDORSEMENTS
CONSERVATIVE (1)
Freedoms Heritage Forum
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (3)
None yet - no primary
but always...
Kentucky Right to Life
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (20)
Adam Koenig
Addia Wuchner
Alecia Webb Edgington
Brett Guthrie
Donna Mayfield
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (11)
Associated Builders and Contractors
Bluegrass Committee
Brian Linder
David W. Osborne
GOPAC
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
1. 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
2. Election of judges by the people for a definite term of office is the best way to select judges.
Agree
3. More restrictive gun control laws are needed now to protect public safety.
Strongly Disagree
4. Efforts to bring Islamic law (shariah) to America do not pose a threat to our country and its Constitution.
Strongly Disagree
5. Government should enforce laws designed to protect the border and to prevent illegal entry of persons into the country.
Strongly Agree
6. People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
7. Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Strongly Agree
8. Marriage is a union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.
Strongly Agree
9. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) should be repealed by Congress.
Strongly Agree
10. There should be a strict constitutional spending limit for state and local governments that would tie the rate of spending to the rate of population growth plus the rate of inflation.
Neutral
11. Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality which permitted our system of limited government.
Strongly Agree
12. Free market competition for education dollars, rather than a government monopoly, would create a better education for all students.
Strongly Agree
13. Where minor children are involved, divorce laws should be reformed to include mutual consent of both parents and an increased waiting period, unless there is fault or abuse.
Strongly Agree
14. The Ten Commandments should not be displayed in public school buildings.
Strongly Disagree
15. Religious freedom is our most foundational freedom and deserves added protection in our state and federal constitutions.
Strongly Agree
16. What in the nature of mankind caused America’s Founders to carefully define, separate, and limit powers within the Constitution?
Man's fallen nature inevitably leads to the abuse of power by the popular majority or the powerful minority. In order to guard the unalienable rights of the individual, a careful separation of powers (with checks and balances) was devised at the federal level, while specifically limiting the scope of that federal power. Any power not specifically mentioned for the federal government would be left to "the people," or to the "several states."
17. The founders established pure democracy in the Constitution because they believed that it is the best form of government to ensure the safety and equitable treatment of all citizens.
Agree
18. 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.
Re #17: Founders established a "representative democracy" not a "pure democracy." God - endowed by our Creator Voters - to assume the equal powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which... God entitle[s] them. Congress Supreme Court
19. Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
We have a Creator, Whose existence is made plain to all by observation of the things of this temporary home. Man is fallen, in need of a Savior. God provided this savior in the Person of His own son Jesus, the Christ (who lives and reigns.) It is only through His death, once for all, that we have atonement, reconciliation with God. And it is through His resurrection that each of us has hope for the same - His power over sin and death, and eternal life with God in His heaven. His Word informs our deliberations; and He desires that it does the same in the way we conduct our lives.
