David Doman
Non-Partisan | Texas
Candidate Profile
Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
David Doman
Party
Non-Partisan
Election Year
2022
Election
General
Race
Leander ISD Board of Trustees, Place 1
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, BES, 1981
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MSE, 1982
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, MBA, 1985
WORK & MILITARY
(Candidate did not provide)
AFFILIATIONS
Boy Scouts of America, Cub Master, Scout Master, District Committee, Knights of Columbus
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Precinct Chair, 20
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
State Board of Education, place 5, 2022
Race
ENDORSEMENTS
CONSERVATIVE (1)
Travis County Republican Party
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (2)
Local, County, and District Republican Organizations (2016)
State Republican Party Organizations (2018)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (0)
SELECTED FINANCIAL SOURCE DOCUMENTS
OTHER INFORMATION
Election Voting History for David Doman from the Travis County Clerk during time of residence in district and/or at current address:
- 2022 Primary Election: Republican
- 2020 Primary Election: Republican
- Voted in eight Republican Primary elections 2000 - 2018
- Voted in 16 General elections 1998 - 2021
**Voter history is not considered during panel evaluations.**
Represented Senatorial District 25 on the Rules Committee at the 2022 Republican Party of Texas State Convention
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not be a resource for instruction or services in the school.
Strongly Agree
Current state of Texas legislation, which is in alignment with SCOTUS's legal reviews, are removing access to abortions within the state. Hence, any activity of Planned Parenthood would be going against state law. Our schools and scholl districts should refrain from support activity that is against such legislation.
Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Strongly Agree
All innocent life should be protected.
ECONOMY
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Strongly Agree
Capitalism has raised more people, over more lifetimes, and in more circumstances, than any other economic system. Are there restirctions? If there are, those limits need to be debated and address by state and national egislation.
School districts should be able to use taxpayer money for lobbying the state legislature.
Strongly Disagree
Taxpayer money for school districts is for the education of our next generation of citizens. Lobbying of legislatures does not fall within that definition.
What is your position on government funding of public education from Pre-K through college?
While funding of schools by means of government collection of taxes is extremely effective, those governments must realize that they are just a conduit for those funds, and they should NOT place restrictions, in terms of topics for education, for schools and school districts receiving those funds. Citizens should be the final arbiter of any restrictions, and said decisions should be as close to the local level as possible.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
At school, students should be able to speak freely and civilly about matters of conscience and faith, including Christianity.
Strongly Agree
Free speech does not prohibit religious expression, it excourages it.
School districts should not discriminate against individuals, organizations or small businesses because of their belief that marriage is only a union of one man and one woman.
Strongly Agree
I don't care what individuals care to do in private, but their privacy should NOT inhibit the thoughts of others, be they individuals, businesses, or organizations.
Students should not be allowed to pray in school.
Strongly Agree
One individual's prayers are not an inhibition to another's desire not to partake.
EDUCATION
What is the function of the local school board?
Three purposes: 1) to protect our children from non-educational political programs, such as CRT; 2) to provide for incentives for good/excellent teachers to stay and teach our children; and 3) recenter the educational standards and curriculum for the schools.
Who should have the authority to set curriculum and determine resources used in those curricula?
It is not a "one size fits all" question. Rhe teachers, in alignment with the Adminstrators, in further alignment with the Board ALL have valid inputs into these decisions.
When should parents be restricted from speaking in school board meetings?
NEVER! We all work for them!
Please list in order the following priorities in relation to the role of a K-12 public school (omitting any that do not apply): Mathematics, Information Technology, Science, Political Activism, Personal Finances, Gender Identity, Physical Fitness, American History, Critical Race Theory, Language Arts, Art & Music, Vocational Learning, Sexuality, Foreign Language, Social Emotional Learning
1) Mathematics & Science; 2) American History & Social Sciences; 3) Physical Fitness; distant 4) Information Technology & Foreign Languages, and possibly Personal Finance. The remainder do not even rate.
American civics education should emphasize our nation's founding principles of liberty and equality.
Strongly Agree
We need to raise a next generation of active and well educated American citizens. Further, Civics should be mastered before the student reaches voting age.
Before students are taught courses such as Comprehensive Sex Ed (CSE) or Social Emotional Learning (SEL), they must opt-in with written parental permission.
Strongly Agree
,,,and the permission form must explicitly enumerate the topics and curriculum of such courses.
The loss of local control in education is too high a price to pay in exchange for federal dollars.
Strongly Agree
Government funding is a necessary evil. We need it in our schools. HOWEVER, it must come to the district without restrictive strings attached.
I support the teaching of curricula (such as the 1619 Project, No Place for Hate, Second Step, etc.) that emphasizes slavery and racism as the foundation of American history.
Strongly Disagree
While slavery & racism is an horrific stain on the first centuries of this country, it does NOT define what this country is about nor what principles it was founded upon.
Parents are the ultimate authority in their child’s education and should be able to freely pursue whatever educational options they deem best for their child.
Strongly Agree
They are our children first, the school's students second. We all effectively work for the parents. They should have the authority.
VALUES
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I am a practicing Catholic, born and raised as such, and see no reason to change.
I support allowing public high school students to participate in athletic competition based on the gender with which they identify instead of biological sex.
Strongly Disagree
...and if for no other reason, believing otherwise destroys women's sports. A male is a male, a female is a female.
Who is responsible for teaching sexual education to children, and what is the appropriate age when it should be taught?
Parents and Religious leaders. Schools teaching Sex Ed (probably 9th grade) is okay, but such teaching should be limited to teaching the physical issues/aspects of such. Too much, lately, such school based Sec Ed is treading toward advocacy of inappropriate topics.
If you support the teaching of Sex Ed, please answer the following question: Sexual education should include these topics (list all that apply and add your own, if needed) -- Physical and emotional health outcomes; contraceptive methods; consent; abstinence; sexual orientation and gender identity; human anatomy/the reproductive system; abortion methods and side effects; stages of pregnancy and fetal development; sex acts and pleasures of sex
Physical and emotional health outcomes; contraceptive methods; consent; abstinence; human anatomy/the reproductive system; stages of pregnancy and fetal development;
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality that is necessary for our system of limited government.
Strongly Agree
This country, and much of the world, follows such a framework and succeeds very well by doing so...
No healthcare diagnosis or treatment, whether mental, reproductive, or otherwise, should be given to a child without first receiving written consent from the parent.
Strongly Agree
Doing otherwise raises the parents' 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause rights and risk the district into potential federally back litigation.
No school official should be involved in the sexual transitioning of a student, including the use of alternative names and pronouns.
Strongly Agree
Schools should SUPPORT the parents' views on treatment methods, NOT SUPPRESS them.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
You need a photo ID to cash a check or get a driver's license. Hence, you should need a photo ID for voting as well.
ABOUT YOU
Which of the 11 objectives specified in the Texas Education Code is your highest priority?
1) parents are partners in their childrens eduaion; 2) Children are challenged to meet their full potential; 4) Curriculum should be well balanced and Common Sense; 5) We must raise the next generation of American Citizens.
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
A candidate's personal moral values should not be relevant when considering a candidacy for elective office.
Strongly Disagree
Stand up, stand out, stand firm.
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and immigration, which of the following best describes you overall?
Very Conservative
Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).
I was the Texas SD25 2022 Republican Party I crafted that platform, which aligns with the Texas state GOP and the National GOP platform.
Is there anything else you would like voters to know about you?
Did not answer
2ND AMENDMENT
Teachers who are licensed to carry should be allowed to carry guns at school.
Agree
Only with the stipulation that the other teachers, the administrators and the board knows and concurs.
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
Under what circumstances (if any) should schools be allowed to require vaccinations?
The normal childhood vacinations, perhaps flu.
I support mask mandates.
Strongly Disagree
The nationwide COVID response has set our children back years (read that more than the 2 that said mandates lasted). If you feal your child needs to wear a mask, I have no issue, but you do not get to require other children to wear mask around them.
