Warren V Norred
Republican | Texas
Candidate Profile
Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Warren V Norred
Party
Republican
Election Year
2022
Election
Primary
Race
State Senator, Dist. 10
Incumbent
No
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EDUCATION
University of Dallas, Irving, 1981-1983
University of Oklahoma, Norman, 1983-1984
UT-Arlington, Arlington, BSEE, 1990
UT-Arlington, Arlington, MSEE, 1993
Texas A&M University School of Law, f.k.a. TWU School of Law, Fort Worth, JD, 2007
WORK & MILITARY
United States Army (ROTC, OBC, IRR), 1st Lieutenant, 1988-1999
AFFILIATIONS
Arlington Classics Academy, Founding President, Tarrant County Hospital District
Manager, Board of Managers, Fort Worth Diocese, Episcopal Church, Chancellor
Republican Party of Tarrant County, General Counsel, St. Peter's Classical School
Director, Board of Directors, State Republican Executive Committee, Committeeman, Senate District 10
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
State Republican Executive Committee, 3
Precinct Chair, 20+
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
Texas State Board of Education, 2002
Race
ENDORSEMENTS
CONSERVATIVE (3)
Cathie Adams
Julie McCarty
Texas Conservative Party
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (10)
Robin Armstrong (National Committeeman)
Cathy Adams, former Texas Republican Party Chair
Julie McCarty, Conservative Activist
Rich Diotte, DFW GOP Activist
Anne Coker, Arlington Activist
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (15)
Debra Lehrmann (2015)
Empower Texans (2010)
Giovanni Capriglione (2013)
Jonathan Stickland (2016)
Kelly Hancock (2013)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (0)
OTHER INFORMATION
Candidate completed the Abolish Abortion Texas Candidate Survey source
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Under what circumstances should abortion be allowed?
First, abortion is a state issue, and there should be no federal involvement in abortion regulation, either to pay for abortions, or to encourage or discourage abortion by the feds. Second, abortion is always the taking of a human life. Third, the exception of "life of the mother" was an exception prior to Roe. As a political compromise, I would add the exception of rape.
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).
Strongly Agree
I support 'aid in dying' laws which legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Neutral
I do not favor euthanasia, but that does not answer the question. I believe in the Doctrine of Therapeutic Proportionality, which says that individuals have consider for themselves the value of medical intervention, and it is perfectly reasonable to remember that there is a time for every season, including death, and we ought not run towards it, but we should not take unreasonable drastic actions to extend life just because we can.
ECONOMY
What changes, if any, should be made to the tax code?
Assuming that the question is in reference to the federal income tax, it should slowly be reduced in complexity to tax everyone flatly, with no exemptions, and tax all income at the same rate.
What government spending would you reduce in order to balance the budget?
I would eliminate all programs which redistribute funds from one person who worked for money to another person who did not work for the money. I would eliminate all Ethanol and other cronyist practices whereby special interests make the country weaker by excusing some ridiculous subsidy paid for by the middle class to wealthy and well-connected businesses.
Taxpayer-funded public education should be guaranteed through college.
Strongly Disagree
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Disagree
We pass laws to create a more civil society. The Civil Rights Act was created because a group of people were unable to obtain accommodations in hotels, restaurants, and other similar situations. We are far beyond those days. Those who think of themselves as offended every time they can't get a cake baked when there are a million cake bakers who will bake the cake are trying to jettison the market for their own benefits in order to stamp out political opponents.
Under what circumstances can government close churches?
None.
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)Tax-payer funded health care should be abolished in all forms, and Medicaid and Medicare should be de-funded.
D) We should first ensure that states can opt out of every federal program, and return the funds to the state that its taxpayers are providing. We should then give all the programs to the state, along with the funding. Then we reduce taxes at the federal level, and tell the states that they can opt to continue, or create their own funding. We change liability for assistance to the poor as required to ensure that no person providing honest help to an indigent can be sued for such assistance, which was one of the problems that got us here.
Under what circumstances (if any) should a government, school, or employer be allowed to require vaccinations?
At a federal level, never. I believe in a living Ninth Amendment, and that the right not to be medicated with an experimental drug is among the unenumerated rights that all citizens have. At a state level, such a requirement would have to be an actual law. I would not support such a law when there exists no long-term studies to support the drug and the virus is fatal very rarely. One can envision a more substantive virus that has much more lethal results that might be different, but then the analysis changes and very few people would be resistant. To take an example from fiction, the movie World War Z had a zombie virus transmitted by bite - in such a situation, no law would be needed to encourage the vaccination.
NATIONAL SECURITY
What should the United States do to help eradicate the threat of Islamic terrorism?
React strongly to acts of war with reasonable response and simply act firm. President Trump has handling it very well.
I support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement to pressure Israel to withdraw from occupied territories, remove the separation barrier in the West Bank, allow full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees.
Disagree
We can support the rights of all residents of Israel without getting involved in the real estate part of the dispute.
IMMIGRATION
The U.S. should do more to physically secure the southern border.
Strongly Agree
The failure of the current administration to handle this is a disaster.
Who should be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and under what circumstances?
Those who wish to assimilate into the country openly and are not intent on "taking it back". We should change the national immigration law to only allow citizenship to those who come legally and end birthright citizenship, as every other first-world country as done. When a country establishes a welfare state which allows people to live at the expense of others, the borders must be closed to those who would take advantage of such benefits. Ireland was the last modern country to allow that practice, and ended it in 2005. We are the last country to allow citizenship to people who are merely born here.
VALUES
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality which is necessary for our system of limited government.
Strongly Agree
This seems obvious.
I support adding gender identity as a specially protected class in non-discrimination laws.
Strongly Disagree
There is a rational basis to elevate bigender complementary relationships over all other relationships. That does not mean we should support deliberate harm or discrimination, but every person reaches adulthood with one disadvantage or another. No person is equal to another. To single out gender identity as one that warrants special protection is to pretend that gender identity is a burden worse than many others, and also assists an ideology that is not helpful to confused people.
I agree with Critical Race Theory (CRT) which asserts that the institutions in the United States are fundamentally racist.
Strongly Disagree
It is CRT that is fundamentally racist.
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I am a Christian. I hold to the Nicene Creed and all the traditional beliefs of Christianity. Specifically, my spiritual walk began when I was young and a member of the Pentecostal faith, but then I attended the University of Dallas, a Catholic university, and became more aware of what others thought. I was a member of Fielder Road Baptist for a decade or so, during which time I became more more reformed, at which time my family became Presbyterian and went to a PCA church for another decade. From there, we have found fellowship in the Anglican faith at St. Andrews in Fort Worth. My family is also very involved in an Orthodox school where we have close ties. My faith is what might be considered fairly reformed and ecumenical, maintaining a Christian liberty to those who differ from me, recognizing that we are all all "see through the glass darkly" and are heretics in our own way.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
What laws would you propose to change present voting practices?
I'd prefer that we end mail-in ballots except for those who actually need it. We should be able to perform a real audit, meaning that everyone has a paper ballot that can be traced to an individual. Voters should be able to demand audits that are real when shenanigans are arise. Courts should do their job and oversee the process, and enforce the laws when requested. None of that is being done now.
EQUALITY
Is racism a threat to domestic security in the United States? Why or why not?
No. Young men with no job and too much time on their hands is the main threat to domestic security, and only then in the face of cities who won't protect their residents. The riots of the last couple of years have included all skin colors.
Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.
Strongly Disagree
Every individual can trace their lineage through many people groups, and everyone could claim to be a victim of some group somewhere. The idea of reparations must include a fixed point in time where victimhood before that point is forgotten. These ideas are created by people who have no useful skills and are looking for free stuff to avoid obtaining skills and making their own way.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Which comes closest to your view? A) Stricter environmental laws and regulations cost too many jobs and hurt the economy. B) Stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost.
A) Generally, we have laws which go overboard. The way to a clean society is to make the average person get to the point where he is not worried about feeding his family. Clean environmental laws are generally a concern of people who have the smaller matters handled. Also, many of these laws actually protect polluters who are able to get limits of pollution inserted into the laws, and *damages* the ability of individuals to sue them.
I support the use of hydraulic fracking to extract oil and natural gas resources.
Agree
This is one of those areas where reasonable regulation should be sufficient to handle the matter. There should be no federal law on this.
ABOUT YOU
What do you think is the general purpose of government?
Government is instituted to protect the rights of its citizens and generally resolve disputes between them fairly. Thus, governments should maintain a criminal code to restrain those who require it, enforce contracts between parties when difficulties arise, and otherwise protect the rights of adults to work with each other, and refrain from taking the fruit of one person who earned it and giving it to another. There are an uncountable number of charities in this world, and governments are notoriously horrible at picking between them, and should therefore leave it to individuals to handle such matters.
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
I decry the use of the one-dimensional line of conservative to liberal. I tend to be a federalist, in that I believe that the federal government should be restrained only to the federal issues outlined in the Constitution. Everything else to the states, where I would still be very lean on spending.
Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).
I have written an uncountable number of editorials and statements over the last 30 years. I wrote this one in 1994 after the GOP takeover of the House: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150659834098271&set=a.86298063270 Here's a smattering of other writings over the last couple of years. https://texasscorecard.com/commentary/norred-the-end-of-normal/ https://texasscorecard.com/local/republican-warren-norred-launches-texas-senate-campaign-aims-to-unseat-democrat/?highlight=norred https://texasscorecard.com/commentary/norred-the-importance-of-choosing-to-be-a-mom/?highlight=norred
Have you ever been convicted of a felony or been penalized in either civil or criminal court for sexual misconduct? If so, please explain.
No.
What else would you like voters to know about you, including your legislative priorities?
As a member of the Texas Senate, I'd: 1) Support laws protecting employees who do not wish to face a decision between starvation and experimental drugs; 2) Act to reduce gov't spending; 3) Support enforcement of the southern border; 4) Recalibrate public education to ensure transparency and lose the racist CRT policies; 5) Support the end of voter fraud with auditable elections and paper ballots; and 6) Drive to restore normalcy and eliminate the never-ending COVID pandemic executive orders. I am the only person running in this race who has ever actually done anything to increase liberty without being driven by thousands of phone calls. I have supported the First and Second Amendments in very real ways that no one else running has done.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY
Police officers should be personally immune from prosecution for conduct consistent with departmental policy (qualified immunity) while on duty.
Neutral
I believe in Qualified Immunity, but the current standard that requires a plaintiff to prove that the police officer had not been trained to know better should be replaced by a reasonableness standard.
I support redirecting funds from police departments to mental health and community programs.
Strongly Disagree
2ND AMENDMENT
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
None.
Victims of gun violence should be able to sue firearms dealers and manufacturers.
Strongly Disagree
This logic would allow all sorts of ridiculous suits.
