Kevin Solveson

Republican | Ohio

Candidate Profile

Leans Conservative

BIOGRAPHY

Name

Kevin Solveson


Party

Republican


Election Year

2014


Election

Primary


Race

State Senator, Dist. 3


Incumbent

No


Links

Kevin Solveson websites

EDUCATION

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, M.S., 1984

Ohio Dominican College, Columbus, OH, B.S., 1975

WORK & MILITARY

AT&T, Senior Applications Programmer, .5

Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, Member Technical Staff, 15

Symix Corporation, Applications Programmer, 2

U.S. Navy, Petty Officer 3rd Class, 4

AFFILIATIONS

Chapel on the Vine, Elder, Vineyard Church of Columbus

Urban Ministry, Ohio Personhood Amendment, Volunteer

POLITICAL OFFICES HELD

None

POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT

None

Race

ENDORSEMENTS

REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (2)

Ohio Citizens PAC

Ohioans for Educational Freedom

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.

Agree

2. Election of judges by the people for a definite term of office is the best way to select judges.

Disagree

3. More restrictive gun control laws are needed now to protect public safety.

Agree

4. Efforts to bring Islamic law (shariah) to America do not pose a threat to our country and its Constitution.

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 The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) should be repealed by Congress.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.

Strongly Agree

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.

Disagree

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?

As Lord Acton put it, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Hitler, Stalin, and Mao Zedong alone should be ample evidence of this truth, and we haven't even gone back more than a century or so. Even King David, a model of godliness and humility, was not above the corruption of power. The genius of the Constitution lies in its recognition of corrupting influence of power and its framing of a system that mitigates this influence.

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.

Strongly 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.

God, Constitution, Voters. All authority descends from God. The Constitution has authority only insofar as it is in accord with God's authority. And a vote has authority only insofar as it is Constitutional.

19. Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.

I am, simply put, a Christian. That is, I believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, took all my sins on himself on the cross. I owe him all I am that is of any good and all I ever hope to be. He is the joy and the strength of my heart. He is the one for whom I am running this race. As Jesus himself put it, "..whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." It is to speak up on behalf of the unborn, who have no voice, that I am in this race. More specifically, I'm running to bring the Heartbeat Bill to the Ohio Senate floor and to advocate for its passage.

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