Bill Cassidy
Republican | Louisiana
Candidate Profile
Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Bill Cassidy
Party
Republican
Election Year
2014
Election
Primary
Race
U.S. Senator
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, BS
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, MD
WORK & MILITARY
(Candidate did not provide)
AFFILIATIONS
(Candidate did not provide)
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Louisiana State Senate, 3
U.S. Representative, 5
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
(Candidate did not provide)
Race
Previous Races
SCORECARDS
CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
2013
100%
2015
100%
2013
100%
2013-14
89%
2014
75%, 84%†
2015-16
83%
2015-16
100%, 80%†
2015
79%, 74%†
2016
25%, 71%†
2015
58%
2015-16
52%, 57%†
2013
|100%
2015
|100%
2013
|100%
2013-14
|89%
2014
|75%, 84%†
2015-16
|83%
2015-16
|100%, 80%†
2015
|79%, 74%†
2016
|25%, 71%†
2015
|58%
2015-16
|52%, 57%†
LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS
2015-16
15%
2015
14%, 14%†
2015
0%, 7%†
2013
0%, 5%†
2014
5%
2015-16
0%
2015
0%
2015-16
|15%
2015
|0%, 7%†
2014
|5%
2015-16
|0%
2015
|0%
ENDORSEMENTS
CONSERVATIVE (8)
Ambassador John Bolton
American Legacy PAC
Conservative Strike Force
Game Changer PAC
Huck PAC
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (5)
Gov. Mike Huckabee
Dr. Ben Carson
Gov. Rick Perry
Speaker Newt Gingrich
Amb. John Bolton
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (19)
ActRight
Allen West
Andrew Harris
Charles Boustany Jr. M.D.
Club for Growth
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (149)
21st Century Majority Fund
ActRight
Adam Kinzinger
Alamo PAC
Allen West Guardian Fund
LIBERAL
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (1)
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (4)
Badlands PAC
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
Seafarers International Union
United Transportation Union
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. It is the government’s responsibility to be sure everyone has health care and a livable income.
Strongly Disagree
3. The United States must maintain a nuclear arsenal that is safe, reliable, modern and numerically superior to those of potential adversaries.
Strongly Agree
4. Government should enforce laws designed to protect the border and to prevent illegal entry of persons into the country.
Strongly Agree
5. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) should be repealed by Congress.
Strongly Agree
6. Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Agree
7. Marriage is a union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.
Strongly Agree
8. Efforts to bring Islamic law (shariah) to America do not pose a threat to our country and its Constitution.
Strongly Disagree
9. Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality which permitted our system of limited government.
Strongly Agree
10. Governments should pay to develop wind and solar energy solutions when these are not economically feasible.
Strongly Disagree
11. More restrictive gun control laws are needed now to protect public safety.
Strongly Disagree
12. 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
13. People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
14. The federal government should establish nationwide standards (such as Common Core) for high-school graduation.
Strongly Disagree
15. What in the nature of mankind caused America’s Founders to carefully define, separate, and limit powers within the Constitution?
Abuse of power due to Man's sinful nature. "For what I am doing, I do not understand;for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate." (Romans7:15)
16. Briefly list three (3) political or legislative issues of most concern to you, and explain why each is important to you.
1. ObamaCare-as a practicing physician I know the patient doctor relationship is most important to preserve. This law destroys that relationship and puts the bureaucrat between the patient and her doctor. 2/3.2nd Amendment rights-...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms must not be infringed. Law abiding citizens should not be threatened with loss of their rights because of tragedies involving a broken mental health system. Again, as a physician, I am interested in fixing our broken "mental health" system and will fight to protect our 2nd amendment rights.
17. Should abortion be allowed under extenuating circumstances? If so, what circumstances?
Only life of the mother.
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 (coequal in the Constitution).
19. Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit, in order for us to understand who God is and His covenant with His chosen people, the Jews. He sent His Son, Jesus as outlined by the prophets who died as propitiation for our sins and to reconcile a Holy God with sinful man. The covenant was then extended to the Gentiles as God "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." (1Timothy 2:4) "...but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;....Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God, a thing to be grasped." (Philippians 2:3-6)
