Mark Crawford
Republican | North Carolina
Candidate Profile
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BIOGRAPHY
Name
Mark Crawford
Party
Republican
Election Year
2014
Election
Primary
Race
State Senate, Dist. 49
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
United States Military Academy, West Point, BS, 82
University of Florida, Gainesville, MA, 94
WORK & MILITARY
United States Army, Captain, 10+
United States Army Reserve/IRR, Major, 20
Coldwell Banker, Agent/Broker, 8
Western Carolina University, Instructor, 9
AFFILIATIONS
VFW, Life Member & former Post Commander, AMVETS
Life Member, Buncombe County Veterans Council, Past Member and Executive Committee
Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts, Past Chairman of Troop and Pact Executive Committe, CONG Taylor's Veterans Council
Past Member, GOP, Past County/District/State Executive Committee
Montreat College, Multi-term past Member Board of Visitors, Montreat Presbyterian Church
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
NC House of Representatives, 2001-02
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
(Candidate did not provide)
Race
Previous Races
ENDORSEMENTS
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (1)
Still before the Primary - none have been issued
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (7)
Committee to Elect Republican Women
Dan F. Soucek
Pat McCrory
R.L. Clark
Robert Pittenger
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (3)
George Cleveland
Harold Brubaker
Julia Howard
LIBERAL
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (0)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (1)
Service Employees International Union
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.
Strongly Disagree
5. Government should enforce laws designed to protect the border and to prevent illegal entry of persons into the country.
Strongly Agree
6. People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly 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.
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.
Agree
14. The Ten Commandments should not be displayed in public school buildings.
Strongly Disagree
15. Religious freedom is our most foundational freedom and deserves added protection in our state and federal constitutions.
Strongly Agree
16. What in the nature of mankind caused America’s Founders to carefully define, separate, and limit powers within the Constitution?
Our Founding Fathers drew heavily on the works of three political philosphers of that era or slightly before. These were Adams Smith, John Locke and the Baron de Montesquieu. The last of the three most closely developed the idea of separating the powers into three distinct arenas: legislative, executive and judicial.
17. 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
18. 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.
The Constitution is the sole authority - all others stem from this. God's authority has always superseded anything manmade. *PS-Question 17 (above)is patently false since no forms of "pure democracy" were ever created in the Constitution.
19. Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
Like any and all readers of this, I, like everyone one of you fall under the understanding that "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of GOD." Happily, through the blood of Jesus Christ, I have salvation.
