Spencer Baldwin
Democrat | Washington
Candidate Profile
Liberal
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Spencer Baldwin
Party
Democrat
Election Year
2016
Election
Primary
Race
State Senator, Dist. 22
Incumbent
No
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EDUCATION
South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, AA, 2004
University of Washington, Seattle, BA, 2006
Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, JD, 2010
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Race
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
Congress should repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Strongly Disagree
Election of judges by the people for a definite term of office is the best way to select judges.
Strongly Disagree
More restrictive gun control laws are needed to protect public safety.
Strongly Agree
Government should enforce laws designed to protect the border and to prevent illegal entry into the country.
Disagree
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Agree
Religious liberty is at risk in the United States.
Strongly Disagree
Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Strongly Disagree
Free enterprise and the right to private property turn mankind's natural self-interest into the most productive economic system there is.
Strongly Disagree
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 Disagree
Marijuana should be legalized and regulated like tobacco and alcohol.
Agree
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality which permitted our system of limited government.
Disagree
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
Free-market competition for education dollars, rather than a government monopoly, would create a better education for all students.
Strongly Disagree
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 Disagree
The Ten Commandments should not be displayed in public school buildings.
Strongly Agree
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.
Agree
Our state should participate in the nationwide Common Core standards for high-school graduation.
Strongly Disagree
Physician-assisted suicide should be legal.
Agree
The more people live by Judeo-Christian values, the less government is needed.
Strongly Disagree
Islamic law (Sharia) does not pose a threat to the United States and its Constitution.
Strongly Agree
Governments should define marriage as between one man and one woman; no other definition of marriage should be legalized or supported with public funds.
Strongly Disagree
It is the government’s responsibility to be sure everyone has health care and a livable income.
Strongly Agree
Planned Parenthood should not receive funds from federal, state, or local governments.
Strongly Disagree
What in the nature of mankind caused America’s Founders to carefully define, separate, and limit powers in the Constitution?
A deep-felt need for progress.
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.
Constitution, Voters, Congress/Supreme Court (balance of powers), Media, Academia
Under what circumstances should abortion be allowed?
A woman is in control of her body, not the government. We should increase the support that we give to families and young women if we do not want abortions. We should increase access to contraception for men and women if we do not want abortions. We should teach about the importance of safe consensual sex if we do not want abortions. Using the government to control a woman's body is not small government.
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
No to spiritual beliefs. As for values, I believe that humanity has worked throughout our history to find an optimal way of distributing our resources. As we move to a future of automation, we need to rethink the values that we have been presented with over the last few hundred years. Requiring that one must work to survive is increasingly arbitrary, and we need to work to make surviving easier for every human in our state and society. We need to make it easier for people to move from one place to another (including the arbitrary borders that we drew up over the last few centuries). We need to start solving the real problems we face, rather than the problems that we keep on creating for ourselves.
Considering all issues (social, economic, national security, etc.), which of these best describes you?
Very Liberal
Please defend your answer to the previous question by referencing your publicly available track record.
I wouldn't say that I'm liberal, I would say that I believe in ethical obsolescence. And the mechanism for achieving our own obsolescence is by coalescing together and uniting against the problems that we as humans face. Our tools like government or corporations are just that, tools. We need to do more in less time. Acknowledge that the free market has provided a better distribution during certain time periods may seem like good politics, but it misses the point. We are moving toward a future that will look vastly different from any time in human history. We need to push ourselves to combat income inequality because it stagnates the progress of man. We need to combat climate change because it endangers us and our children.
E-mail address and phone number for voters to reach you.
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