David W. Martin
Republican | Michigan
Candidate Profile
Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
Keiser University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Homeland Secutity, AA, 2012
WORK & MILITARY
U.S. Air Force, Master Sergeant, 20
Michigan Volunteer Defense Force, Command Sergeant Major, 7
Mott Community College, Veteran Services Coordinator, 3
Pontiac Silverdome, Director, Contract Security Services, 6
AFFILIATIONS
First Baptist Church, Davison, Leadership Core
Davison American Legion, Past Commander
Davison Masonic Lodge, Past Master
King Solomon Club, Past President
Blue Badge, Flint Police, Volunteer
National Rifle Association, Life Member
Economic Development Corporation of Genesee County, President
Grand Lodge of Michigan Masons, Regional Child Identification Coordinator
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Genesee County Board of Commissioners, 2017-2020
State Representative, 2021-2026
Davison City Council, 2009-2012
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
Candidate did not provide
SCORECARDS
CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
2022
100%
2023-2024
100%
2025
94%, 81%†
2022
|100%
2023-2024
|100%
2025
|94%, 81%†
LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS
2023-2024
24%
2025-2026
0%, 22% (cum.)†
2025
0%
2021-2022
0%
2023-2024
|24%
2025-2026
|0%, 22% (cum.)†
2025
|0%
2021-2022
|0%
ENDORSEMENTS
CONSERVATIVE (7)
National Rifle Association NRA-PVF
Citizens for Traditional Values
Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners
National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Michigan
Right to Life of Michigan PLM-PAC
OTHER (9)
Michigan Freedom Fund
Michigan Corn Growers Association Friends of Corn PAC
Michigan Farm Bureau AgriPAC
Small Business Association of Michigan Small Biz PAC
Michigan Manufacturers Association
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (10)
Citizens for Traditional Values
Michigan Chamber of Commerce
Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners
Michigan Corn Growers
Michigan Farm Bureau AgriPAC
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (13)
Gregory Alexander (2025)
State Republican Party Organizations (2025)
Timothy Beson (2024)
Jaime Greene (2023)
Aaron Gardner (2022)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (49)
Advancing Michigan (2026)
Kunse Majority Fund (2026)
Michigan Chamber of Commerce (2026)
Bierlein Majority Fund (2025)
Christian Velasquez (2024)
LIBERAL
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (1)
Manley Justice Fund (2022)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (5)
Business Leaders for Michigan (2024)
International Union of Operating Engineers (2022)
Laborers International Union of N. America (national, state & local) (2022)
Manley Justice Fund (2021)
Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association (2021)
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive taxpayer funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).
Strongly Agree
Under what circumstances should an elective abortion be allowed?
Rare case of life of the mother
Human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death.
Strongly Agree
The lives of human embryos created through artificial methods ought to be protected from purposeful destruction.
Agree
The Comstock Act, which bans interstate transportation of abortion-inducing drugs, should be enforced.
Strongly Agree
ECONOMY
What is your position on the minimum wage?
Wages must be market based, government mandated wages harm initial job searchers and older workers when priced out of the market.
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Strongly Agree
List your top 3-5 priorities to eliminate government waste.
Transparency, use of federal, state and local taxes without carry over to additional years Auditor General Audits Oversight Committee Subpoenas
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
What does "separation of church and state" mean to you?
Membership in any established religion cannot be the basis for employment, government position or elected office.
Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Strongly Disagree
HEALTHCARE
What most closely matches your view on healthcare: A) Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government with no private healthcare option. (includes "universal healthcare," "medicare for all," etc.) B) Healthcare insurance funded by the government should be available for all who want it, along with private healthcare options. C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary. D) Taxpayer funded health care should be abolished in all forms, and Medicaid and Medicare should be defunded.
C) Healthcare insurance should move toward a patient centered approach that gives options for healthcare accounts that compensate for optional choices.
The government should keep a database of people with various ongoing medical illnesses to assess the economic burden of treatment.
Strongly Disagree
We are not a society of the survival of the fittest but of compassionate caring people that protect the weakest.
NATIONAL SECURITY
The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.
Strongly Agree
So many topics in society and politics have been gaslighted by CCP agents that guiding people to truth through reasonable debate is difficult and hostile.
Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?
Israel is an important intelligence asset in the middle east. As the only "democracy" in the region, the impact of citizen directed government is a beacon of hope.
IMMIGRATION
I support the existence of sanctuary cities to protect undocumented persons.
Strongly Disagree
EDUCATION
I support eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and giving control back to states and communities.
Strongly Agree
In Michigan we have fallen to 45th in 4th grade reading and math skills, dropping precipitously in the 2000's from around 28th at the end of the last century. Department of Education does not apply money where it is needed, becoming a waste. Higher state funding has not stopped the slide... policy is needed for the science of reading and traditional math instruction.
Foreign governments should be prohibited from funding American education.
Agree
Any strings attached to philosophies anecdotal to the American founding should not be allowed.
VALUES
Government should recognize and support the fundamental right and essential duty of parents to direct their child's health and educational well-being.
Strongly Agree
Attempts to physically or socially transition a child to the opposite sex constitute child abuse.
Strongly Agree
Marriage is a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.
Strongly Agree
I support the expansion of gambling in my state.
Disagree
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I believe in the God of creation and being created in his image with an inane sense of right and wrong and truth. I believe he fulfilled his Word by sending Christ to die for our sins, depositing them in Hell completely separating our sins from God making eternal life in Heaven possible through his Grace. I believe there is Truth, 2+2=4 and other realities, whether we emotionally like them or not.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
Your vote is your unique voice in government and you should be assured it is your voice being heard.
EQUALITY
Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.
Strongly Disagree
600,000 American deaths in the 1860's paid for the sin of not including the 28th grievance against the King of England when we declared Independence.
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
Women won Title IX equality for sports programs in schools and any athletic scholarships should be reserved for females only. Biological men will always have a strength, height, bone density advantage over women born female regardless of treatments, we should not subject our girls to harm from men in sports.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Man-made climate change is a global threat and requires urgent political action.
Disagree
Although the Earth has gone through numerous climate changes in history, the exact amount that may be contributed to manmade causes can be debated. Of course we must be good stewards of our environment but, we cannot cutoff our noses to spite our faces on unproven theoretical climate causes.
What do you believe is the most reliable energy source that will supply the growing demand for electricity?
Nuclear. Of course once the systems are in place our energy companies will have fewer fluctuating costs and the steady supply of energy would not prove as profitable from increasing rates.
ABOUT YOU
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
When looking at the demographics of my home district I must consider single-parent families, impacts of polices for local employment, and personal income. We must care for those in need WHILE preparing them to be independent and fully participating in the free market.
Have you ever been penalized for sexual misconduct in either civil or criminal court? If so, please explain.
N/A
Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If so, please explain.
N/A
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY
What should be the goal of the criminal justice system?
There must be punishment for violating societies norms. While incarcerated training and education to reassimilate into society must be attempted to reduce recidivism.
Government has a responsibility to protect children from sexual exploitation during online activities.
Strongly Agree
Freedom of expression has been ruled to have acceptable limits which is strongly bent toward protecting the innocence of childhood.
Sharia law should not be accepted or incorporated in any form within the legal framework of the United States.
Strongly Agree
There is a clear difference between cultural and religious practice outside the Constitution Rule of Law.
2ND AMENDMENT
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
Under Michigan's Constitution there are no restrictions, Article I, Section 6, "Every person has a right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state."
