Ben Ruiz

Republican | Indiana

Candidate Profile

Leans Conservative

BIOGRAPHY

Name

Ben Ruiz


Party

Republican


Election Year

2022


Election

Primary


Race

U.S. Rep., Dist. 1


Incumbent

No


Links

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EDUCATION

MacMurray College/ISU, Jacksonville, AAS, 1998

WORK & MILITARY

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AFFILIATIONS

Save America, Contributor/Supporter, TRUMP Make America Great Again Campaign

Contributor/Supporter, Republican Party, Member

POLITICAL OFFICES HELD

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POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT

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Race

Previous Races

OTHER INFORMATION

QUESTIONNAIRE

RIGHT TO LIFE

Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).

Strongly Agree

We must defend and protect those innocent lives who cannot defend themselves

I support 'aid in dying' laws which legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Strongly Disagree

I do not support suicide of any kind even for illness, I will support alternative treatment options that would help any individual human being

Under what circumstances should abortion be allowed?

I believe that under no circumstances should abortion be allowed. The current advances in medicine even allow us in this age to avoid dangerous situations where the life of the mother can be at stake via c-section or alternate methods.


ECONOMY

Redistribution of income is needed to lessen the gap between the wealthy and working classes.

Strongly Disagree

There are currently many programs in today's communities that help lower income individuals and families become trained in vocational programs and/or schooling to help people in those areas suceed in today's Commercial, Medical and Industrial Areas

The government should cut spending in order to reduce the national debt.

Strongly Agree

Excessive national spending has contributed to over inflation to a point never seen before. Instead, we should be focused on revitalizing and reallocating funding from grant programs that have failed to produce or made little to no changes with current budgets that were previously set in place. Also, a reduction in foreign government funding and intervention would substantially aid us in reducing the national debt and lowering the inflation rate by reinvesting into US export growth

What changes, if any, should be made to the tax code?

Abolish the IRS and set a minimal tax and maximum tax rate cap for citizens and businesses alike and have the Treasury Department consoladated with previous IRS tax collections and disbursements.


RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

Religious liberty is at risk in the United States and deserves the highest level of protection in the law.

Strongly Agree

Our Nations principles are instilled by GOD and must already remain sacred to our national identity.

Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.

Strongly Disagree

No one should be judged or held to a less standard of protection for refusing to violate their own religious beliefs

What should be the relationship between the church and the state?

I believe that the Church and State should always be synonymous with what God wants as one, it is written in the Founding Father's letters of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution


HEALTHCARE

Under what circumstances (if any) should a government, school, or employer be allowed to require vaccinations?

The right to choose is that of every free citizen of this country, especially when vaccines that are in the experimental phase and scientifically have been proven not to work have endangered many lives and in many cases even taken the lives of those who would be alive today.

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.

I believe that the current expansion of coverage for private and public healthcare should be considered as in President Trump's proposal that had failed to pass congressional legislation.


NATIONAL SECURITY

With regard to America's foreign policy, which view most closely resembles yours: A) The United States should intervene whenever freedom is threatened. B) The United States should selectively help countries trying to grow democracy and fight tyranny. C) The United States has become too involved in others' policies and should remain focused on issues regarding our own sovereignty unless in imminent danger. D) The United States should stay out of foreign conflicts completely.

The United States should stay out of foreign conflicts which do not benefit the American people, and at which instead should be focused on issues back here at home thus eliminating the economic hardships that can come from war to everyday American's. Fact is only the wealthy corporations make money from wars not the citizens.

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.

Strongly Disagree

Strongly Disagree: Israel has a right to exist and co-exist alongside the Palestinians, however, when there have been multitude attempts by Israel to ease and create peace over the area and Hamas the unelected representatives have always rejected it. Palestine needs real leaders who are willing to sit at the table and co-exist with Israel.

The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.

Strongly Agree

When you have a nation who deliberately does not enforce intellectual property, it's called theft and deminshes a return on investment for American Corporations as well as Americans. Most of which is the biggest global trade in technology and leaving those devices open for private scrutiny without anyone knowing all the while monopolizing on global trade contract that all but more importantly hold the barrier of those contracts at stake for losing their property and land and more to the CCP

What should the United States do to help eradicate the threat of Islamic terrorism?

Remain vigilant, strong and steadfast by keeping focused on movements of various cells and eliminating them before they begin their terrorist activities


IMMIGRATION

The U.S. should do more to physically secure the southern border.

Strongly Agree

Our borders are sacred to every American and should remain protected from the influx of illegal immigration, while allowing those individuals who qualify and would provide a benefit to the United States enter and reside here to contribute and become an American citizen.


iVoterGuide Notes:

Staff Note: This response was submitted by the candidate after the questionnaire deadline was reached and was not considered during panel evaluations.  "Strongly Agree: Our borders are sacred to every American and should remain protected from the influx of illegal immigration and completing the building of the Border Wall to ensure National Security. Any illegals that entered after 2020 should be returned to their points of origin or national countries."

State and federal funds shall be denied to any public or private entity, such as a sanctuary city, that is not in compliance with immigration laws.

Strongly Agree

Any States, Cities or Private Entity who in violation of the laws of the land by advocating for circumventing federal policies and ACTs of Congress should face harsh penalties and have funding withheld until they are in compliance

Who should be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and under what circumstances?

I would refer to the Policy Set forth by President Trump, people who would contribute to our society and economy and bring tremendous talent while also extending DACA current recipient's the opportunity to get their documentation in order and filed for claiming residency and or applying for citizenship and alternative methods for becoming a resident here in the US. Any illegals that entered after 2020 should be returned to their points of origin


iVoterGuide Notes:

Staff Note: This response was submitted by the candidate after the questionnaire deadline was reached and was not considered during panel evaluations. " I would refer to the Policy Set forth by President Trump, people who would contribute to our society and economy and bring tremendous talent while also extending DACA current recipient's the opportunity to get their documentation in order and filed for claiming residency and or applying for citizenship and alternative methods for becoming a resident here in the US."


VALUES

Sexual orientation and gender identity should be protected classes in non-discrimination laws.

Strongly Disagree

I agree with Critical Race Theory (CRT) which asserts that the institutions in the United States are fundamentally racist.

Strongly Disagree

I, Myself being a Minority in the United States find the fraud of CRT to be politically incorrect in that it asserts that every Minority is a victim of White Supremacy, when in fact that is not truth. What would you call it in Latin American Nations and Other Non-White Nations in the World were Minorities are plagued with everyday violence and hatred & do not have the opportunities that we have here? We are intelligent and have the same opportunities when we work hard and strive for excellence


iVoterGuide Notes:

Staff Note: This response was submitted by the candidate after the questionnaire deadline was reached and was not considered during panel evaluations. " Myself being a Minority in the United States find that CRT is divisive and destructive to the wellbeing of children across America and is only encouraging and pushing racists ideals against White American children claiming they are responsible for all the hate in this world while also creating and fostering a sense of victimhood in the Minority communities and showing them that they can never amount to anything and that every Minority is a victim of White Supremacy, when in that is not fact nor truth."

Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.

I believe in God the Creator, I believe that we as human beings strive to do good and sometimes fail, but that we should continue to have faith in everything we do and have of course compasion for your fellow Americans, so that we may continue to florish as a great nation where everyone wants to come.


ELECTIONS AND VOTING

People should be able to vote without photo identification.

Strongly Disagree

Voter Integrity is a necessity to protect our elections and prohibit those who whose only intent is to fraudulently deceive the American People from honest and fair elections and to bar non-citizens from voting and safeguarding our bests interests as a nation. The consistent lies are that somehow minorities do not have access to obtain a valid form of ID, where in Indiana it's free of charges as well as in all or most states. If we can afford a birth record, then we can certainly afford an ID.

What laws would you propose to change present voting practices?

Present two forms of ID, One as proof of an Individual and the other for Residency, similar to what you would do when you open a bank account, go to a social security or apply for a birth certificate, Eliminate all ballot drop boxes, enforce supervision of voting precincts to ensure they properly follow both State and Federal Voting Poll laws and enforcing current laws preventing any party or individual from standing less than 100 feet from the polls and harassing voters with political propaganda or voter intimadation tactics


EQUALITY

Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.

Strongly Disagree

If we are to go down this road, we must then say to ourselves who in fact caused the exodus of a certain group, we must consider other nations and countries of origin that were also perpetrators of slavery trade which in fact unfortunately stem mostly from the host country of origin. We cannot and do not have the right to hold people accountable for things done in the past by other people, if that was the case many parents would be sitting in jail right now for current crimes.


iVoterGuide Notes:

Staff Note: This response was submitted by the candidate after the questionnaire deadline was reached and was not considered during panel evaluations.  " Strongly Disagree: Holding current generations responsible for something other individuals in the past committed such as the African Slave Trade where Spain, Portugal & the Dutch traded and purchased slaves from warring tribes in Africa, would not only be irresponsible and a cover up to the history and origin of slavery but also, never focus on the perpatraders of the actual slavery that emmitted from Africa. In today's generation if we held parents responsible for the act of violence on today's streets along with crimes it would be immoral and should be, it's called personally responsibility which no one in the current generation should be held accountable for."

Is racism a threat to domestic security in the United States? Why or why not?

Yes, because the ongoing violence against White People has been justified by Democrat's and their followers as a form of retribution for things that occurred in the past but is really a master mind strategy to win a political election under the guise of a false narrative. This game has grown ever more dangerous to where there is absolutely no accountability on behalf of perpetrators nor democratic prosecutors who are playing with the lives of innocent people who were hurt, murdered, robbed in the riots stemming from 2016-2020.


ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

I support the use of hydraulic fracking to extract oil and natural gas resources.

Strongly Agree

We can remain Environmentally Safe with today's technology then we could 50 years ago, but to maintain energy independence from other nations is a necessity as currently the state of affairs in Europe is having a sizable effect on American taxpayers who now are forced with higher prices

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.

Stricter environmental laws and regulations cost too many jobs and hurt not only the economy but every American familiy across this country


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?

Very Conservative

I am an America First Candidate, I believe that policies should continue to benefit the American People and not Politics nor Other Foreign Nations


iVoterGuide Notes:

Staff Note: This response was submitted by the candidate after the questionnaire deadline was reached and was not considered during panel evaluations. " I am Very Conservative in that I believe in God and that every follower has a duty to worship in peace and build strong American families that protect this nation with its solid JudeoChristian Values: I am a True America First Candidate who supported President Trump and i am also the only the only that represents the MAGA movement.  I believe that policies should continue to benefit the American People and only "We The People" and not be subjected to party politics nor other foreign national interests before our own."

Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).

Ballotpedia

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?

I support any legislative action to protect all minor children from sexual exploitation not only by human traffickers but also from Political Corrupt Establishments and Governments, Our children, Our Future should be cradled and cared for by everyone of us for not only the United States of America but the World!


CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY

Police officers should be personally immune from prosecution for conduct consistent with departmental policy (qualified immunity) while on duty.

Strongly Disagree

The only time Officers should face scrutiny and charges is for viscous acts of Police Brutality, in which example would be if a criminal was armed with a weapon and Police had to defend themselves would not fall into that category


iVoterGuide Notes:

Staff Note:  Candidate notified iVoterGuide that the intended answer to this question should have been "Strongly Agree".  This change was not considered during panel evaluations.  "Strongly Agree: The officers should all be protected by immunity when following proper implementation of departamental policy's while on Duty."

I support redirecting funds from police departments to mental health and community programs.

Strongly Disagree

Redirecting funding as previously attempted by many democratic cities has ruined them with overall historical increases in crimes. Redirecting funding from police only leads to one thing; the crimnals always winning!


2ND AMENDMENT

What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?

The Constitution is firm on the right to bear arms, I am a strong believer in the 2nd Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms for all Americans. What we are witnessing now in the Ukraine is proof that Armed Citizens are the beacon of freedom in the fight against tyranny.

Victims of gun violence should be able to sue firearms dealers and manufacturers.

Strongly Disagree

Gun Violence does not exist, People Violence exists and holding firearms dealers and manufacturers accountable for mental health or vilence in general is as silly as saying well I got into a car accident and we should sue the automaker because the person that hit me with their car was driving a Ford.

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