Natalie M. Fleming
Independent | Idaho
Candidate Profile
Moderate
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Natalie M. Fleming
Party
Independent
Election Year
2020
Election
General
Race
U.S. Senator
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
Moscow High School, Moscow, ID, Diploma, 1989
Boise State University, Boise, ID, 2005
WORK & MILITARY
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AFFILIATIONS
LDS Church, Champion Nursery Song Leader
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
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POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
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OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Strongly Agree
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive taxpayer funds or grants from federal, state, or local governments.
Strongly Agree
I support the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which requires health care providers to provide life-saving treatment for infants who survive an attempted abortion.
Strongly Agree
Under what circumstances should abortion be allowed?
Rape, diminished mental capacity of the mother, and medically necessary to save the life of the mother.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Governments should not discriminate against individuals, organizations or small businesses because of their belief that marriage is only a union of one man and one woman.
Strongly Agree
Religious liberty is at risk in the United States and deserves the highest level of protection in the law.
Strongly Agree
I promise to protect the freedom of Christians to share the Gospel and to practice Biblical principles.
Yes
What does "separation of church and state" mean to you?
Keep government out of Church. The Government often uses grant money to bait churches into State Compliance. We must get government out of the way of service organizations such as the Cajun Navy, that comes into rescue those stranded by hurricanes. We must get out of the way of self-help and community help.
NATIONAL SECURITY
The best way to maintain peace is through a strong military.
No Answer
What should the United States do to help eradicate the threat of radical Islamic terrorism?
Violent Radicals provoke in all faiths. Teach peace. We've spent 18 years attempting to violently inflict democracy on those who are not prepared for freedom. Freedom is taught not inflicted. Teach them the great value of personal agency, personal accountability, and the protection of personal freedoms. Teach them by example that we can live together in diversity in peace as the Savior taught. The Founders of our great nation put their differences aside to find common ground and in time established freedom for all of us. We must return to those founding principles of working together despite differing perspectives. Only when all the voices are heard can we establish complete solutions. Our two-party system leaves us with bipolar solutions giving us election whiplash every 4 years. We must set the example.
HEALTHCARE
It is the government’s responsibility to ensure everyone has health insurance.
No Answer
I support the elimination of private healthcare insurance.
Strongly Disagree
How would you promote healthcare coverage that is adequate, affordable and accessible for all?
Federal mandates always limit options and raise the costs of any industry it touches. These mandates close the door on creative solutions that each generation creates. Open the doors of healthcare options instead of mandating limited options.
ECONOMY
It is the government’s responsibility to ensure everyone has a livable income.
No Answer
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Strongly Agree
How would you guarantee Social Security benefits for future generations?
Social Security Income, as all income, focuses on money flowing through the worldwide economic Ponzi scheme. We must guarantee Social Security Benefits. Yet how far with those benefits go if people can't pay off their homes or their cars? Everything in our economy is based on money continually flowing out through rent, taxes, and monthly payments for everything under the sun. Corporations are buying up all facets of our lives including single-family housing, our food supplies everything. Many have to just keep running until they die. During the 2008 economic crash, the Feds bailed out the banks and corporations, not the Taxpayers. Instead of selling the homes at auctions to individuals wanting to live, they were sold behind closed doors, in bulk to international equity firms creating massive housing fiefdoms. We need to end Crony Capitalism that preys on the free market and keeps living expenses high. Work the problem at the source instead of throwing at it.
What government spending would you reduce in order to balance the budget?
While we must maintain the strongest military in the world, if we redirected our International focus on Teaching we can save far more. Medicaid and Medicare focus on expensive crisis management instead of promoting healthy lifestyles that prevent illnesses and disease. Food Stamps and Medicaid pay for toxic food that provokes behavioral problems like Red 40, for the counseling, and the medication to remedy the behavioral problem, and subidizes the production of the toxic food. Work the problem.
Under what circumstances should taxpayers help pay off existing student loans?
Federal exclusion of Student Loans in Bankruptcy clearance opens the door for predatory lending. Banks predatory loans to naive 18-year-olds are enslaving our best and brightest into decades of overwhelming debt. Let's move all the classes to Youtube and local TV Broadcast channels and let people test out for a small fee. Once we do that, we can at least modify the current student loads to Zero interest.
IMMIGRATION
I am in favor of construction of a wall and other necessary infrastructure on our border that gives complete control over entering and exiting the United States.
No Answer
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should be abolished.
Did not answer
State and federal funds should be denied to any public or private entity, including but not limited to sanctuary cities, that are not in compliance with immigration laws.
Strongly Disagree
Employers should be required to use E-verify to confirm the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States.
Strongly Disagree
Who should be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and under what circumstances?
As long as the rest of the world is in turmoil, and America is wonderful, they will come. As long as misery prevails throughout the world, we cannot build walls tall enough or deep enough. If I was a single mom in a war-torn country, I would find my way through any border to come to America. Teach holistic land management for their lands to be fruitful. Teach the core principles of peace, and respectful negotiation so they can work out their problems. Teach industry so they can provide for themselves. I have no fear and no problems with immigrants coming to America for a better life. Every day I drive past hard-working laborers in the fields, doing the work I am too lazy to put food on my table. Jesus was a fierce defender of Immigrants, as the Bible promises absolute destruction of Isreal is they harm the immigrants. Jehovah declared himself as the defender of strangers, widows, and orphans. We must make our Immigration laws respectful and Navigable, and enforce them.
EDUCATION
Taxpayer-funded public education should be guaranteed through college.
Neutral
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY
Mandatory minimum sentencing should be required and enforced for violent crimes.
Disagree
2ND AMENDMENT
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
Restrictions on those convicted of violent felonies. No red flag laws. I don't care if you have a tank in your back yard, so long as you don't shoot my windows out.
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
I support BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanction) against Israel if they refuse to allow the creation of a Palestinian state.
No Answer
I support the legalization of recreational marijuana.
Did not answer
Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.
No Answer
The Electoral College should be abolished.
Strongly Disagree
In priority order, what three areas of legislation do you propose to author or sponsor if elected?
Education through modern tech and home-based education support, Financially Sustainable Affordable Housing, Protecting Data Privacy from Federal, Corporate, and International threats.
Is racism a threat to domestic security in the United States? Why or why not?
Hate rhetoric of all sorts is a direct threat to domestic security. We must respect all people as children of God.
ABOUT YOU
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and immigration, which of the following best describes you overall?
Did not answer
Please provide publicly available information validating your answer to the previous question.
My personal Facebook page rants about all these issues over the last decade.
Have you ever been convicted of a felony or been penalized for sexual misconduct? If so, please explain.
NO.
Is there anything else you would like voters to know about you?
I couldn't answer most of these questions because they give limited options. There are far more solutions available than just left and right. Most of my solutions are out of the box. Such as lets put all the college lectures on Youtube and broadcast on local TV channels, and let people test out for a small fee. Taxpayers are already paying for ALL college lectures anyway. We don't need 100,000 live lectures of Calculus every year.
VALUES
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality which is necessary for our system of limited government.
No Answer
I support adding sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression as protected classes in non-discrimination laws.
Strongly Agree
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
God formed the Heavens and the Earth in 7 creative periods. Genesis teaches us the importance of the balance of the several ecosystems and calls us to rise up as loving stewards of all God's creations. We can only save through teaching and examples of mercy. Our Great Nation is a gift from God and our forparents. We as every generation that came before must live worthy and take the next steps toward world Peace through teaching, example, organized hard work, and forgiveness. Often my fellow Christians dismiss broad steps to world peace saying that will not happen until Jesus returns. Jesus did not teach us how to live 2000 years ago for us to wait until he gets back. We must reflect the Light of Christ in all we do.
