
Dan Morenoff
Republican | Texas
Candidate Profile
Leans Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Dan Morenoff
Party
Republican
Election Year
2016
Election
Primary
Race
State Rep., Dist. 114
Incumbent
No
EDUCATION
University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, JD, 2001
Columbia College of Columbia University, New York, NY, BA, 1996
WORK & MILITARY
The Equal Voting Rights Institute, Founder and Executive Director, 4
The Morenoff Firm, PLLC, Lawyer, 4
Hughes & Luce, LLP (and Successor Firm), Lawyer, 10
Senator Phil Gramm, Legislative Staff, 2
AFFILIATIONS
Republican Jewish Coalition, Former President of North Texas Chapter, The Federalist Society
Former President of Dallas Lawyers' Chapter, Jewish Community Relations Council, Greater Dallas, Member of JCRC Advisory Council
Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, Co-Chairman of Cardozo Society, Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas
Member of Planning and Allocations Committee, Akiba Academy of Dallas, Former Trustee
Congregation Shearith Israel, Former Director, Austin Street Shelter
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
None
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
None
Race
SCORECARDS
CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS
ENDORSEMENTS
CONSERVATIVE (6)
Cathie Adams
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility
Texas Home School Coalition
Texas Right to Life
Texas Values Action
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (2)
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility
Texas Home School Coalition PAC
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (2)
Greg Abbott
Pete Olson
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (0)
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
Congress should repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Strongly Agree
Election of judges by the people for a definite term of office is the best way to select judges.
Agree
More restrictive gun control laws are needed to protect public safety.
Strongly Disagree
Government should enforce laws designed to protect the border and to prevent illegal entry into the country.
Agree
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
Religious liberty is at risk in the United States.
Agree
Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Agree
Free enterprise and the right to private property turn mankind's natural self-interest into the most productive economic system there is.
Strongly Agree
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.
Strongly Agree
Marijuana should be legalized and regulated like tobacco and alcohol.
No Answer
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality which permitted our system of limited government.
Agree
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
Free-market competition for education dollars, rather than a government monopoly, would create a better education for all students.
Agree
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
The Ten Commandments should not be displayed in public school buildings.
Disagree
Business owners should be required by law to bake cakes, provide flower arrangements, etc., for same-sex weddings, even when these activities would infringe on their sincerely-held religious beliefs.
Strongly Disagree
Our state should participate in the nationwide Common Core standards for high-school graduation.
Disagree
Physician-assisted suicide should be legal.
Disagree
The more people live by Judeo-Christian values, the less government is needed.
Neutral
Islamic law (Sharia) does not pose a threat to the United States and its Constitution.
No Answer
Governments should define marriage as between one man and one woman; no other definition of marriage should be legalized or supported with public funds.
Agree
It is the government’s responsibility to be sure everyone has health care and a livable income.
Strongly Disagree
Planned Parenthood should not receive funds from federal, state, or local governments.
Agree
What in the nature of mankind caused America’s Founders to carefully define, separate, and limit powers in the Constitution?
Men are fallen, self-serving creatures. As James Madison put it in Federalist Paper #51, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
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.
(1)God; (2) Voters; (3) Constitution; (4) Tie: Congress / Supreme Court
Under what circumstances should abortion be allowed?
Abortion should be allowed only when necessary to preserve the life of the mother.
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I'm an active, affiliated American Jew. I attend a Conservative synagogue and send my children to a Modern Orthodox Jewish Day School. My beliefs and values are those of a traditionalist adherent to the oldest Judeo-Christian religion.
Considering all issues (social, economic, national security, etc.), which of these best describes you?
Conservative
Please defend your answer to the previous question by referencing your publicly available track record.
I've emerged as or worked for the leading Conservative everywhere I've ever been. As a college student, I ran Columbia's Conservative newspaper, which I believe was the only one in Manhattan at the time, while working on entitlement reform with Third Millennium. I worked for Phil Gramm, trying to make Social Security and Medicare sustainable and to fix health care policy before the Democrats ruined the market. I ran the Conservative debating society at the University of Chicago. I led the Dallas Lawyers' Chapter of the Federalist Society, America's main Conservative legal organization.
E-mail address and phone number for voters to reach you.
VoteDanMorenoff@gmail.com; c: (214) 384-9708
Additional comment from candidate:
No Answer.
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