None.

Strongly Agree

Thomas Jefferson said, "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical.”

Neutral

Strongly Disagree

None. I worked for legislation in the last legislative session that would protect the natural rights to assemble and worship during pandemics and emergencies.

State legislators in Texas need to understand that Sharia law is a competitor to our Constitutions. One cannot adhere to both. When people say they want to see you and your way of life eliminated, we need to pay attention to that. Since I am seeking the office of a state legislator, this issue is a bit out of my wheelhouse.

Strongly Disagree

D - I believe that government intervention in health care makes it more expensive, inefficient, and even more deadly. Command and control harms people. Free people have the flexibility to meet their own needs and those of others. I do not believe that government should take from the productive to provide charity. Charity is the responsibility of churches and a free people, and private charity meets the needs of the needy better than government does.

None. I introduced a plank adopted in 2020 Republican State Convention which was added to the RPT Platform calling for a recognition of the natural, unalienable right to decline vaccination in the Texas Bill of Rights. The word unalienable - used in the Declaration - is usually associated with rights of bodily autonomy and means that the right cannot be bargained away for employment, education, governmental service, governmental services, or services in the marketplace.

Would like ultimately to see property tax eliminated. In the meantime, I support eliminating the maddening, wasteful, arbitrary appraisal process, freezing values where they are, and only changing to the purchase price when property is bought again. Also favor using a large portion of surplus growth in state revenue to buy down the maintenance & operation portion of school taxes until all funding funding comes in an equal amount per student from the state with no local property school M&O property taxes. (Note that both of these proposals were part of the legislative priorities of the RPT in 2018 and that I testified for bills to that effect in 2019.) I also have pushed the idea that has been introduced during the last two legislative sessions to amend the Texas Constitution to create a real homestead exemption for property tax by insuring that Texans do not lose their homesteads for non-payment of property taxes while owning their homestead it and living in it. The unpaid taxes would be collected either via other enforcement mechanisms or when the home is sold or when the owners pass away.

1) Taxpayer services to non-citizens. 2) Money for Planned Parenthood. 3) School taxes for extracurricular activities including sports.

Neutral

Art 7 of Texas Const. says, "A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people . . . support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools." I will be swearing an oath to that if I take office. The purpose is the preservation of our liberties and rights. A system that indoctrinates students to hate Texas and liberty is not constitutional. Competition in education insures meeting the requirement of efficient schools.

Strongly Agree

The current situation is that the man installed in the presidency and his handlers have ordered that not only our federal laws on immigration be not enforced, but federal dollars be used to subsidize the cartels in their lucrative human trafficking. Texas must do everything in its power to stop the invasion. As a legislator, I will support Texas funds to build barriers, secure the border, and support funding for sheriffs and DAs to prosecute Texas law to the fullest to stop the invasion.

As a state legislator, I am unlikely to have much input on this issue, but I support legal immigration (but not naturalization) to those who have offers of work in the U.S. The issue of enforcing existing Texas law and federal laws in place is a much bigger priority.

Neutral

Collective justice is injustice. Each individual should be judged on the actions they take, not on any collective assumptions whether based on race or occupation. I never understood qualified immunity to be immunity from criminal prosecution but from civil liability. While I think each individual should be responsible for his own actions, in light of the current Marxist assault on law enforcement, I am hesitant to put more pressure on law enforcement at this time.

Strongly Disagree

I agree that more mental health resources are needed in Texas. Law enforcement deals with the mentally ill every day, and because we don't have enough resources to care for them, many end up filling our county jails and straining the resources of law enforcement. But the criminals who want to get away with crime and the Marxists trying to bring down our republic are VERY wrong in trying to defund the police.

None. What part of "shall not be infringed" do people not understand?

Strongly Disagree

People should be held responsible for their own actions. The people who commit gun violence are responsible for the misuse of the tools. Not the toolmakers. To think or act otherwise, is to improperly assign blame, and to infringe on the natural right to self defense.

The U.S. Declaration of Independence tells us that governments exist among men to secure the natural, individual, unalienable rights of the people You can search the Texas Constitution and not find any references to the common good, public safety, etc. Former Texas Supreme Court Justice said it well: "The Texas Constitution - then and today - exists to secure liberty." We are a constitutional republic whose purpose it is to secure the rights of each individual in our society. Benjamin Franklin famously said that "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." The purpose of a republic is to protect the ultimate minority - the individual - from the tyranny of the majority. If you take care of the rights of each individual, you maximize the happiness and well being of the society. Any discussion of public safety in our legal system should be viewed through the lens of protecting individuals from violations of their rights by others in our society. To do otherwise is to accept the progressive view that the collective trumps individual rights.

Very Conservative

I was honored to receive one of the Texas Conservative Leader Awards for 2021 from Texas Scorecard. First and foremost, I am committed to securing the individual, natural, and sometimes unalienable rights of Texans. I consider myself to be constitutionalist, and am comfortable either being called a conservative or a libertarian when those terms are properly understood.

https://texasscorecard.com/state/2021-texas-conservative-leader-awards-honor-real-fighters www.txce.org www.bootbonnen.com www.texasfreepress.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/texaslegislativepriorities

No.

In these unusual times, we don't need politics as usual. In my race with five candidates, I am the best qualified to champion the voters of HD 17 to Austin. I am on the grassroots side of the grassroots- special interest battle for control of the Texas Legislature. My proven grassroots activist track record combined with my life experience, career in business, education, legal experience, and work on my own dime for conservative causes during the last four legislative sessions make me the clear choice for the important, difficult job of representing Texans in Caldwell, Bastrop, Lee, Milam, and Burleson Counties. I hope to work with the large freshman class of 2022 in the Texas House to change the culture there to be less beholden to the Democrats and special interests and more beholden to the conservative values of the grassroots and the priorities, principles, and platform of the Republican Party of Texas. The globalists and Marxist who have seized power in DC are out to take or destroy everything Texans hold dear - from our ag and energy industries, our medical freedom, our financial freedom, our election integrity, our religious liberty, to our guns. Texas elected officials need to unite to honor their oaths and stop the violations the U.S. Constitution and the rights of Texans by the feds. As a representative of a rural/small town district, I am keenly aware that such representatives are fewer every redistricting cycle and that protecting properly developed understandings of property rights for rural Texans is a great responsibility, requiring able, articulate representation. For more on my priority issues, see: www.tomglass.org/issues

Strongly Agree

Patrick Henry, a champion of religious liberty said, “Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people but by . . . adherence to . . . virtue and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principle.

Strongly Disagree

If there is an issue that has caused the blood to boil of in-the-know Texans over the last several years, it is the refusal of our governor and the legislature to protect our children from the evil, destructive, reality-rejecting lie that a human being can choose his or her gender. Enabling that delusion and mental illness can only lead to more destroyed, unhappy people -- and bigger profits for big pharma and the misnamed "gender transition" industry.

Strongly Disagree

See my response on public education. I reject the destructive, Marxist-based lie that white kids are inherently evil and guilty and that kids of color are inherent victims, incapable of ever achieving success in life. This initiative is designed to create strife and division in order to destroy the happiness, natural rights, Constitutions, and liberty of Texans and Americans.

I am a Baptist who has made a profession of faith. My parents raised me to know what you believe, know why you believe it, and live up to what you believe.

Strongly Disagree

I started a group called Texas Election Integrity on Facebook. I have been a poll watcher and a central count poll watcher. The latter part of my career at ExxonMobil was in cyber-security and application security. I take a keen interest in election integrity. Photo ID is just one of many layers of defense against those who would steal of elections.

I want: 1) More rapid adjudication of disputes while elections are in progress to stop violations of election law from stopping an accurate count of the vote. 2) Easier processes to request complete forensic audits of the vote. 3) I am not convinced that our electronic voting systems are secure. I take some comfort in the fact that we now have paper backup, but want either a complete paper system or more steps to insure that our voting equipment is complying with current law prohibiting our election machines and central count machines are not wirelessly connected to the Internet. 4) Better systems to insure that non-citizens are not voting while insuring that naturalized citizens are allowed to vote. 5) Given the recent Court of Criminal Appeals opinion that the Texas Constitution currently does not allow legislators to delegate independent prosecutorial power to the Attorney General on election integrity (or other) matters, thereby stopping prosecutions when Soros-backed big county DA's refuse to prosecute, I favor a constitutional amendment to give independent prosecutorial power to either the AG or a newly created statewide officer to prosecute election integrity laws (and others vital to the interests of Texas as a whole).

Not in the way the Marxists/woke crowd says it is. The racism inherent in Critical Race Theory IS a threat to domestic security because it is part of a seditious undermining of our republican Constitutions and their protection of individual, natural rights. Note that the current woke crowd directly rejects the Martin Luther King call on Americans to respect the natural, individual rights of all citizens. The modern "woke" reject MLK because they judge everyone on the content of their skin, not their character or actions. Collective justice is injustice. You cannot justly convict someone because of the color of their skin or their chosen occupation. There is only justice when each individual is judged on their own actions in a system that provides all the constitutional protections to due process.

Strongly Disagree

There are few ideas more likely to create dissension and strife and to destroy America than this one. Everyone knows that there are almost as many variables that would create injustice in reparations as there are individuals. Does a white person whose ancestors who fought and died on the side of the Union get any credit? What about white people whose ancestors came to America after slavery? What about black people who moved here after slavery? What about multiracial individuals?

I think the laws we have now are pretty good. The environment is much cleaner now than when I was a young man. I am strongly opposed to viewing greenhouse gases as pollutants and the Green New Deal, which threatens the way of life of Texans in the oil & gas and coal industries and which threatens our agricultural industry in Texas as well as the prosperity of all Texans due to the destruction that such regulations would produce. I think Texas should reject federal regulations in this area on the grounds that they are unconstitutional and destructive of much of what Texans hold dear.

Strongly Agree