

David Simpson
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BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, BA, 1983
Highland Park High School, Highland Park, Texas, 1979
Trinity Ministerial Academy, Montville, New Jersey, 1988
WORK & MILITARY
Avinger Timber LLC, President & CEO, Since 2001
Republic Group Inc. (formerly NYSE: RGC), Executive Vice-President-Paperboard, 2000
Republic Group Inc. (formerly NYSE: RGC), Manager of Mill Operations, 1998-2000
Simpson Publishing Company, Founder & Proprietor, Since 1989
AFFILIATIONS
Grace Baptist Church, Mount Pleasant, TX, Member, Gregg County Republican Party
Member, contributor, volunteer, NRA & TSRA, Lifetime member
Gun Owners of America, Lifetime member
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Mayor, City of Avinger, Texas, 1993-98
Texas State Rep., HD 7, 2011-Present
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
(Candidate did not provide)
SCORECARDS
CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
2015
100%
2015
96%
2015
96%
2015
90%
2015
90%
2015
|100%
2015
|96%
2015
|90%
2015
|90%
LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS
ENDORSEMENTS
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (6)
Texas Right to Life
Texas State Rifle Association
Texans for Fiscal Responsibiity
Young Conservatives of Texas
Texas Home School Coalition
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (39)
Bryan Hughes
Charles Lee Perry
Chris Paddie
Cindy Burkett
Craig Goldman
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (20)
Bryan Hughes
Conservative Republicans of Texas
Dan Patrick
Eagle Forum
Empower Texans
LIBERAL
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (0)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (3)
American Association for Justice
Association of Texas Professional Educators
Rene Oliveira
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.
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.
Disagree
5. Government should enforce laws designed to protect the border and to prevent illegal entry of persons into the country.
Agree
6. People should be able to vote without photo identification.
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.
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.
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.
Strongly Agree
14. The Ten Commandments should not be displayed in public school buildings.
Disagree
15. Religious freedom is our most foundational freedom and deserves added protection in our state and federal constitutions.
Agree
16. 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.
Disagree
17. 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
18. Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I believe that God has revealed himself in nature, the Scriptures and in Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, whom I seek to follow as my Lord and whom I trust as my Savior, by the Spirit and grace of God. I believe that God created and rules over all things for his glory and that the life and liberty of each human being is sacred. Each are made in God’s image to know and enjoy God, and to be stewards of his creation. I believe humanity now is corrupted by sin. God’s image is still integral to humanity, but the likeness is distorted in varying degrees, and human dignity is mixed with depravity. Actions which harm others may be checked by force to preserve human life and liberty. That is the legitimate role of civil government — justice and the protection of God-given individual rights. Otherwise, it should leave us alone. Civil magistrates, if granted excessive authority and opportunity, may act merely in their own interests and harm the people whom they are to protect.
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