David Simpson

Republican | Texas

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Candidate Profile

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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


LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS

2015

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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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