W.P. "Bill" Burckart
Republican | Arkansas
Candidate Profile
Moderate
BIOGRAPHY
Name
W.P. "Bill" Burckart
Party
Republican
Election Year
2014
Election
Primary
Race
State Rep., Dist. 93
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1986
NWACC, Rogers, 1984
BHS, Bentonville, 1983
WORK & MILITARY
Bella Vista/Bentonville Builders Council, All Board Positions & President, 1994-1997
NW Arkansas Home Builders Association, All Board Positions & President, 1998-2001
Arkansas Home Builders Association, All Board Positions & President, 2001-2005
National Association of Home Builders, Director, 2003-2006
AFFILIATIONS
Rebuilding Together of NWA, House Captain multiple years and Volunteer, Habitat for Humanity
Past member and Volunteer, Havenwood Women’s Shelter, Supportor and advocate
NWA Children’s Shelter, Past advertising sponsor for a year, Home Aid
Building contributor for Children Advocacy Center, Benton County Republican Committee, Chairman Lincoln day dinner 2013
Methodist Church, Member
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Alderman City of Bentonville, 2008-2014
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
N/A
Race
SCORECARDS
CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS
ENDORSEMENTS
CONSERVATIVE (1)
Conservative Arkansas PAC
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (1)
Conservative Arkansas 04/04/14
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.
Strongly 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 The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) should be repealed by Congress.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.
No Answer
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.
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?
Madison in Federalist paper NO. 51 reasons that it is the very nature of man and their ambitions that must be checked" Ambition must be made to counteract Ambition". The very separation of powers was to assure the inability to accumulate powers by one or few which leads to tyranny. The separation of powers was intended to control abuses of government and to protect liberty from our own weaknesses and desires. "The interest of man must be connected with the constitutional rights of place"
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 Disagree
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,Voters,Constitution
19. Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I believe In God and Christ our Lord. I strive daily to follow the simple rule: just be good to each other.I was very young when I learned the “I am Third” way of life and strive each day to live it. God First, Others Second and you Third. I cherish family and friends and hold them most dear.
