Rick Day
Democrat | Georgia
Candidate Profile
Liberal
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Rick Day
Party
Democrat
Election Year
2020
Election
General
Race
State Rep., Dist. 7
Incumbent
No
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EDUCATION
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WORK & MILITARY
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AFFILIATIONS
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POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
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Race
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
LIBERAL
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (2)
Bernie Sanders (2020)
State Democratic Party Organizations (2018)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (1)
Local, County, and District Democratic Organizations (2018)
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Strongly Disagree
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive taxpayer funds or grants from federal, state, or local governments.
Strongly Disagree
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 Disagree
Under what circumstances should abortion be allowed?
As a man I do not have an answer to this, other than I will defend the rights of those who face health care issues. Decisions, especially between a patient and their physician, should be as private sacred as those between priest and confessor. No exceptions. It's up to the patient to make the decision. It is up to health care to provide procedure safely and humanely.
ECONOMY
It is the government’s responsibility to ensure everyone has a livable income.
Agree
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Disagree
What government spending would you reduce in order to balance the budget?
I'd raise taxes on the rich to start. I'd move spending more into getting small business up and running, which also increase revenue source. It is not about cutting it is about re prioritizing to what areas do people need in order for the economy to grow, which is the main way to balance the budget. Elderly need a raise so they can spend more money and help generate sales tax and revenues locally. The disabled as well. Government is not a business and should not be approached as such.
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.
Disagree
Governments should define marriage as between one man and one woman; no other definition of marriage should be legalized or supported with taxpayer or public funds.
Strongly Disagree
Religious liberty is at risk in the United States and deserves the highest level of protection in the law.
Strongly Disagree
I promise to protect the freedom of Christians to share the Gospel and to practice Biblical principles.
No
What does "separation of church and state" mean to you?
It means I wants those Christian meddling asses out of my secular government. The concept of rendering unto Caesar has been breached and distorted by the political right wing evangelical power movement. Instead of doing God's work, the wheat preachers use The Word in a twisted interpretation to gather like minded voters into thinking they are some god blessed army of do gooders. So beating their kids n wife don't matter if they are against any abortion - unless the wife needs it, of course. I've watched it happen since the Rise of Corporate Reagan. The corporates used you. Now the church has got you supporting a thug like Donald Trump. Fundies are simply too foolish and uneducated in secular life to run a government. When elected, I'll do everything I can to challenge old thinking, and to represent all voters in my community.
HEALTHCARE
It is the government’s responsibility to ensure everyone has health insurance.
Strongly Agree
How would you promote healthcare coverage that is adequate, affordable and accessible for all?
Please google Bernie Sanders and Universal Healthcare. I would start there.
NATIONAL SECURITY
The best way to maintain peace is through a strong military.
Neutral
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.
Strongly Disagree
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
Who should be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and under what circumstances?
The question should be "Who should be allowed to immigrate FROM the U.S. and under what circumstances?" We should not have immigration, its expensive, full of corporate cronyism and racist enabled in nature. Just like the EU, we should be able to travel state to state, nation to nation, and stay as long as we wish. Immigration restricts Americans from freely traveling without 'government documents'. Travel is a fundamental right and right now, no one can travel outside the national borders. America needs immigrant workers. Wheat people won't work the jobs immigrants will, why make it so hard other than BROWN PEOPLE BAD!?
EDUCATION
Taxpayer-funded public education should be guaranteed through college.
Strongly Agree
VALUES
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality which is necessary for our system of limited government.
Strongly Disagree
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.
Well I probably would not sit next to you in church. I can't think of any right wing voter I'd sit next to in church. My father was a famous Pentecost evangelical minister. He raped my BARELY 15 year old mom and skipped town and was never part of my life. I was raised in the JC Bishop Evangelical Circus and Money Machine Show. I have been baptised. Twice. I've been circumcised. Twice. I know the Word. I follow the Teaching of the Master, not his posse. Only the Red Letters in that book matter. The rest is King James spun gibberish and myth. My favorite bible Chapter is Matthew 6. Favorite verse is verse 6:5. Then come the Beatitudes - the Besties. You know, the part most of your ignore or twist to fit your warped world views. My spiritual side? This is a situational hologram, we are one consciousness experiencing itself in infinite ways, and God is a lab tech named Kevin.
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?
Very Liberal
Please provide publicly available information validating your answer to the previous question.
The right has become so full of hate and fear, and have strayed from the "Gospel of Love" that I have no place else to go but to the social ones. I have to go to the light, for you are still all full of darkness if you vote for the Demon controlled GOP. I am social by nature. Don't be a part of the darkness. Get off your skin color. Your whiteness never bought you anything more than the politeness of law enforcement. Your collective fearhate of 'the others' has driven me from the Church. I can't stand to be around fake Christians, since I grew up with so many in my dominated youth. I'm progressive because I want us all to move on. The ones who refuse - probably you- just stay behind and stop dragging us back to a place where we were not great, just progressing despite the racism and white male domination of politics and capital. Stop voting, fellow boomer. You don't know what the hell you are doing and it is hurting your grandkids
What education or experience qualifies you to hold the office for which you seek election?
None. I'm not a self centered a-hole. I'm not greedy. I'm not on some agenda other than serve. I am just trying to knock a-hole David Ralston off his leadership perch. You all don't like David. You can make excuses for Heathen Trump, make some for me and I'll take out that corporate fat cat and represent all classes of the District. Remember, God works in strange ways, etc... I've got enough formal and hard school education, I've got business experience. I've got 50 years of dealing with American Life by observing, reading, listening and learning. And I want to serve. I can do this job, when it comes to experience I have the right stuff and don't have any of the wrong stuff. Even in these tough times.
Have you ever been convicted of a felony or been penalized for sexual misconduct? If so, please explain.
No, I'm a good boy and a boring hetro happily married for over 25 years. I had one bad check in the 1970's though!
Is there anything else you would like voters to know about you?
I love you all in ways you will never understand. You are lost in the darkness. Follow the light that dwells within your heart. The Master is waiting. So Mote it Be. Amen.
JUDICIAL PHILOSOPHY
I support the use of Sharia law as a basis for legislation and judicial decisions in the United States.
Strongly Disagree
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY
Mandatory minimum sentencing should be required and enforced for violent crimes.
Agree
2ND AMENDMENT
Should teachers be allowed to carry guns at school?
No
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
Liability insurance for gun owners. You have it for your car, and business. The biggest liability a gun owner faces is being sued for an accident especially if it results in death of a non family member. Liability protects the gun owner form financial ruin. Pretty much it. I own guns. I have a conceal carry. Is this another one of those single issue pandering opportunities?
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Agree
I support the legalization of recreational marijuana.
Strongly Agree
The Electoral College should be abolished.
Agree
In priority order, what three areas of legislation do you propose to author or sponsor if elected?
1. Generating new forms of tax revenue, rather than raising existing structures. 2. Criminal Justice Reform, rewriting O.C.G.A. and modernizing the old racist and Jim Crow laws that leech fines and other costs from common folk. 3. Shoring up the ability for you to vote. There is now only one reason that voting is so onerous in this state - to make it harder for blacks and dems to vote in important elections. This was not on my list until just a few weeks ago. Georgia is a laughing stock due to poor leadership. No more right wing bible wheat boys with no experience in running government.
Is racism a threat to domestic security in the United States? Why or why not?
Yes it is. It is a threat to Domestic Tranquility and the American Way of Life. I grew up in the racist South. I went to a high school that had just been desegregated and blended. As a white man, I have been exposed to the words the rhetoric the hate of the 'others'. And coincidently, the 'others' were not white or male. I am part of the white male boomer gen tribe that dominates politics. Confederacy talk is old thinking. There is no progress in it. There is only a shrinking and loud and well entrenched cabal of fascists. You men who are racists in the churches: you can't win. You can't even burn down enough of the earth to keep everyone else from moving on. You wave your flag, you vote for the man who enables your hatred, you salute the flag that is used to sell you everything from cars to political ideology. You can't win, you can only delay. You can only dominate your own congregation until they slip away. The young can't be sheltered from the real world any more. Time's up
