Nikki Snyder
Republican | Michigan
Candidate Profile*
Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Nikki Snyder
Party
Republican
Election Year
2024
Election
General
Race
Member, State Bd. of Education
Incumbent
Yes
Links
EDUCATION
AAS, BSN, IBCLE, 2004, 2009, 2017
WORK & MILITARY
Candidate did not provide
AFFILIATIONS
Oakpointe Church
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
State Board of Education, 8
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
Candidate did not provide
ENDORSEMENTS*
CONSERVATIVE (1)
*Citizens for Traditional Values-Michigan
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (9)
Rylee Linting (2024)
Local, County, and District Republican Organizations (2023)
Sons of Liberty PAC (2023)
Kristina Karamo (2022)
Michigan Health Choice Alliance (2022)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (5)
Rodney Frelinghuysen (2023)
Tom Price (2023)
WinRed (2021)
Campaign for Michigan Families (2017)
Terri Lynn Land (2016)
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death.
Agree
The value of life has been degraded so significantly that republicans must be the leaders that change this conversation. Democrats are taking laws state by state since Roe was overturned. So we must tell our pro life stories. Speak often and passionately of why we’ve chosen life. Over and over again. If you want to save lives and win, be the voice that shifts a major cultural narrative that we’ve lost too much ground on.
What role should the school serve in helping a student with an unwanted or crisis pregnancy?
None. This is a parental rights issue. As much as I don’t want schools referring young women to abortion clinics, I want them to stay out of the reproductive lives of our children. Teach them reproductive anatomy and basics but do not interfere with a parents right to guide and direct the upbringing of their children. If we cannot agree on this, then schools must provide information for pregnancy centers that support life if they are taking on the role of referring young women to abortion clinics and I will fight schools making these referrals. It should be illegal.
ECONOMY
It is the government’s responsibility to ensure everyone has a livable income.
Disagree
The government is not my source of income, or yours. The government exists only within the explicit duty of the constitution. Guaranteeing an economy is not in the constitution. Rather limiting government often encourages a healthier economy.
What is your position on government funding of public education from Pre-K through college?
Give the money back to the people and allow them to exercise educational freedom of choice. This topic is a much bigger conversation otherwise. Get dollars to kids in classrooms. Stop lining the pockets of educrats. Stop attaching strings to our dollars to implement things like DEI and to indoctrinate. Fund students who need it the most - special education is in dire straights. Understand money doesn’t produce proficiency. So much more!
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
The Ten Commandments should not be displayed in public school buildings or court houses.
Disagree
We expose children to values in schools through DEI but we don’t equally give them access to other sets of values. If you choose a select set of values but not all, that is discrimination. Either do away with it and stick to the basics or stop discriminating.
At school, students should be able to speak freely and civilly about matters of conscience and faith, including Christianity.
Strongly Agree
Teachers should be required to instruct students on mandated curriculum even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Strongly Disagree
NATIONAL SECURITY
Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?
We promised to defend a country that we helped to stand up after the kind of historical oppression that led to gas chamber deaths, concentration camps and systemic superiority like we hadn’t seen before and haven’t seen since. Israel represents a world stage commitment to never return to this kind of government system oppression ever again.
The best way to maintain peace is through a strong military.
Agree
People don’t often pick fights with a country they know can and will defend themselves. It’s pretty simply. You fund and maintain a strong military with the commitment to keep peace as much as possible.
EDUCATION
I support eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and giving control back to states and communities.
Strongly Agree
So long as special education federal mandates are fulfilled.
The state should fund education by allowing dollars to follow the child instead of the bureaucracy, through a program which allows parents the freedom to choose their child's school – public, private, or homeschool.
Strongly Agree
Yes! I’m done waiting on the educational bureaucracy to do the right thing. 50.1% of 11th graders are proficient in ELA. And less than 35% are proficient in math. Protect homeschool freedom from government overreach but give public schoolers back their money!
Which type of written parental consent should be obtained before students are taught courses such as Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE)? (A) Opt-In. (B) Opt-Out. (C) None.
Opt-In!
Abortion and gender-affirming providers, including Planned Parenthood, should be a resource for instruction or services in the school.
Strongly Disagree
Please list in order the following priorities in relation to the role of a K-12 public school (omitting any that do not apply): American History, Art & Music, Civics, Critical Race Theory, Foreign Language, Gender Identity, Information Technology, Language Arts, Mathematics, Personal Finances, Physical Fitness, Political Activism, Science, Sexuality, Social Emotional Learning, Vocational Learning
This is the kind of local control that should lead us all to let parents and communities make decisions through their local school boards. We have a MMC for basic requirements. Let locals decide how they will prioritize thereafter.
VALUES
Children have the right to be protected from sexual grooming including drag shows, explicit materials in schools and libraries, and other public venues.
Strongly Agree
Marriage between one man and one woman and the families they form are the foundation of civilization and are fundamental to the well-being and prosperity of society.
Agree
Without relationships between men and women, society would literally cease to exist. I have chosen traditional marriage to accomplish that. I also believe in the freedom to choose and know that when I example healthy marriage to the best of my ability, this presents the value of such a foundation. Our society is suffering from marital dysfunction that doesn’t encourage the value of this foundation. I’ll spend my life attempting to share the importance of healing and rebuilding this foundation.
No healthcare diagnosis or treatment, whether mental, reproductive, or otherwise, should be given to a child without first receiving written consent from the parent.
Strongly Agree
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I am a Christian. My scripture is 2 Timothy 1:7
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
EQUALITY
I support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
Strongly Disagree
While I believe in diversity, equal rights and inclusion, DEI programs are not these things. They teach that superiority is a racial quality. It is not. It is a human quality.
Biological males should not be allowed to participate in women's sports or occupy biological women's spaces whether it be bathrooms, locker rooms, sorority houses, women's shelters, or prison.
Strongly Agree
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ABOUT YOU
I voted in these primaries and general elections:
Did not answer
You can look up my voting record. I vote. And I am a Republican.
Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If so, please explain.
No
Have you ever been penalized for sexual misconduct in either civil or criminal court? If so, please explain.
No
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?
Conservative
2ND AMENDMENT
Faculty who are licensed to carry and have had ongoing training should be allowed to carry guns at school in order to respond to an active shooter situation.
Agree
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
Under what circumstances (if any) should schools be allowed to require vaccinations?
None.
