Rebecca Petty
Republican | Arkansas
Candidate Profile
Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Rebecca Petty
Party
Republican
Election Year
2014
Election
Primary
Race
State Rep., Dist. 94
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, Bachelor's Criminal Justice, 2013
John Brown University, Rogers, Master's Leadership and Ethics, 2015
WORK & MILITARY
Fox Valley Technical College/ US DOJ, Consultant, 6 years
Andi Foundation for Children, Executive Director/Child and Crime Victim Advocate, 10 years
Mowery Funeral Service, Grief Specialist, 8 years
AFFILIATIONS
Surviving Parents Coalition, Founding Member, Team HOPE
Parent Volunteer, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society, Member
People Magazine, Heroes Among Us Award Recipient, Jefferson Award
Runner-Up Award Recipient, Red Cross Everyday Hero, Award Recipient
National Rifle Association, Member, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
(Candidate did not provide)
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
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Race
SCORECARDS
CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS
ENDORSEMENTS
CONSERVATIVE (2)
Conservative Arkansas PAC
National Rifle Association
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (5)
Conservative Arkansas
Arkansas State Senator Bart Hester
Kansas State Senator Greg Smith
Marc Klaas
President KlaasKids Foundation
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 The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) should be repealed by Congress.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.
Neutral
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?
Our Founding fathers understood that man had a sinful nature and also realized they needed to protect freedom. They also realized they needed to make sure that not one seat of power needed to be with one group, therefore they separated and balanced the powers of our government. Very clever.
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, Constitution, Voters, Congress, Supreme Court.
19. Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
My entire life I have been surrounded by very strong women who from an early age taught me that there was a God who was bigger than most anything that came my way. My grandmother was a very strong Baptist who, thankfully, prayed for me more than I probably deserved. And my mother, who was faced with a very hard upbringing and has triumphed over many obstacles in her own life. She is my hero. Likewise, she has prayed for me, and she and my step-father, being evangelists, instilled a solid background of seeing things through a strong foundation of faith. Additionally, on a personal level having been through some very hard trials in life of losing a young child to violent predatory crime I have been faced with a huge decision of either giving up or fighting for children, families, communities, and I chose to spend the past fifteen years of my life fighting for others in servitude.
