Bruce Bennington

Republican | Georgia

Candidate Profile*

Conservative (Conditional)

*Additional information appears below for educational purposes; however, only data received prior to the candidate deadline was considered during Panel Evaluation.

BIOGRAPHY

Name

Bruce Bennington


Party

Republican


Election Year

2022


Election

General


Race

State Rep., Dist. 116


Incumbent

No


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EDUCATION

Indiana State University, Terre Haute, BS, 1983

WORK & MILITARY

Georgia State Defense Force

AFFILIATIONS

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POLITICAL OFFICES HELD

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POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT

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Race

OTHER INFORMATION

QUESTIONNAIRE*

*Additional information was received after the evaluation was assigned and was not considered in the Panel Evaluations, therefore it is for additional educational purposes only.
RIGHT TO LIFE

Under what circumstances should abortion be allowed?

If people get themselves in a situation, it is up to them to handle it. Government is not needed here.

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.

Disagree


ECONOMY

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

It should be abolished. The states should create a Trust Fund that allows business to defend themselves against IRS targeting based on political ideology. Require IRS agents to be licensed in Georgia in order to perform an audit. Georgia should create criminal penalties for IRS targenting of people based on their political beliefs. Random audits are unconstitutional. The states are sovereign and need to show the feds who is in charge.

What government spending would you reduce in order to balance the budget?

I would propose to eliminate entire departments of government. Abolishing the Georgia DOL alone would save over $144,000,000 per year.in salary. This would also reduce pensions, the second biggest piece of the spending pie. Jesus said, "take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink..." The state could be less involved in health care, the biggest piece of the spending pie.

Taxpayer-funded public education should be guaranteed through college.

Strongly Disagree

Georgia should reclaim its sovereignty and separate itself from federal education programs.


RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

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

Disagree

Businesses are considered a public accommodation as far as having people on the property in the attire of choice. However, people/businesses should remain free to live and serve according to their highest sense of right.

Under what circumstances can government close churches?

Under Marxism, that's how. This is one of the dangers of Marxism. Marx wrote that under his brand of Socialism, we won't need God, church or religion because we will all have each other to turn to. Communism is equally Godless. Mosques can be a different deal when they are associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organisation.


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. Health care is every states' biggest spending area. The best thing the government can do in every case is to get out of the way of the people and let us handle it. Government does not produce anything. The only way government can give you something is if they take it from someone else. This is Socialism, theft for you and me. Society will be more stable and ballanced and probably more healthy if the government gets less involved. People are caring and charitable and don't need government doing things that a private businesses can handle.

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

Never.


NATIONAL SECURITY

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

Control immigration. Those who would destroy this country know to do it from within. We could investigate the mosques under cover and see what is going on in those basements. We could check in to how they are funded, if they are receiving funds from the Muslim Brotherhood, a terriost organisation. We could stop covert flights that are bringing them here under cover of darkness and deport them.

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.

Did not answer


IMMIGRATION

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

Strongly Agree

As long as the pirates are steering the ship, a physical wall will not work. They will find a way around or through it. They will put a door in it. The people in charge need to be replaced with those interested in securing this nation. Then we would hardly need a wall.

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

There should be a virtual moratorium on immigration for about 10 years to allow those here to assimilate.


EDUCATION

I support school choice, including voucher programs, tax credits, charter schools, private schools, and home schools.

Strongly Agree

States need to reclaim their sovereignty and get out of federal education directives. Parents need to get their kids out of public schools, which have failed us. The entire US DOE is unconstitutional.


VALUES

Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality which is necessary for our system of limited government.

Strongly Agree

John Adams, a Founding Father stated, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

I support adding gender identity as a specially protected class in non-discrimination laws.

Disagree

The SCOTUS did not create a protected class in their divided descion in June of 2020. The protection has always been there in Title VII. It is a communist tactic to divide and conquer and to attack the values of a nation. This whole movement is an attack on our values and idenity, designed to confuse and separate.

Marriage is a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition

Agree

I do not support making laws for different people. The law should be the same for everyone.

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

Strongly Disagree

Race is NOT a big problem in this country. It is another Communist tactic of subversion to take a small problem, race, and exacerbate it - make it look like a big problem. Give me a camera and I can make any city anywhere look like the place to live or the place to stay away from. This is another ideological attack on our country.

Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.

The Bible refers in several places, to the spirit in man. If man is made in the image and likeness of God, as the Bible says, then he must be Godlike, spiritual. Spirit and matter being very unalike, man must be at least more spiritual than material. Man is the idea of God. A spiritual idea of God. Having one God will unite us. Having different Gods divides us.


ELECTIONS AND VOTING

People should be able to vote without photo identification.

Disagree

There are hours and hours of eye-witness testimony to voter fraud in this last election. Both high-ranking and average people have signed affidavits witnessing voter fraud. The documentary 2000 Mules explaines what happened and that servers are in other countries. Stalin said, it's not who votes, it's who counts the votes.

What laws would you propose to change present voting practices?

One way is to get off the internet and go back to counting paper ballots.


EQUALITY

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

No it is not. It is the job of Communist factions in society to exacerbate a small problem and create a crisis through the media, which is controlled and reads from the script. The threat is from those collectivists in power that are using this to justify more power through legislation. Collectivists love a crisis so they can justify more power, authority, control and funding in order to save us from the crisis. Our rights and freedoms are proportionally reduced, all in the name of saving us. Even if the crisis ends, their power remains. This is one element in how government ends up with more power and the people lose their freedoms.

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

Strongly Disagree

No one alive today was a slave or a slave owner. If black people want reparations for slavery of which they were no part, they better hang on to that money and be ready to pass it on to the indians, who have a better argument. As wrong and bad as slavery was, black people are better off here today and could even be grageful for the blessings which that struggle has brought. Reparations would invite reprisals and may never end.


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. We all want clean air and water. I will propose that we eliminate the federal EPA mandates and their Clean Air Force which requires us to pollution test our cars. The EPA has such a grip on Georgia that you cannot even price your renewal cost inless you first get pollution tested where required. As far as global warming, this is a UN initiated agenda. The UN was founded by a Communist and a Socialist. Every UN president since has been one or the other. These ideologies are basically government control of everything. What is the UN's answer to global warming? Government control of everything! This is just another fake crisis to justify increasing government power in the name of saving us. The answer to GW will always of course be, you guessed it, more government power and control.

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

Agree


ABOUT YOU

What do you think is the general purpose of government?

To protect, not provide. Government's approach should be negative, not positive. The government should not try to make justice everywhere, but should try to see that there is no injustice, then justive will prevail. Not try to guarantee jobs, wages, profits, but to enforce the Constitution and get out of our way.

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 would say Constitutionalist or Americanist. The powers of the federal government are outlined in the Constitution. Any powers they have are to be applied only to the furtherance of these measures. The states created the federal government and are sovereign and above the federal level.

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

You may google my name.

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 will propose to end the Georgia Department of Labor. As a small business owner I have delt with them, and we don't need them. What does the DOL do? They issue unemployment benefits. What is an unemployment benefit? That is where the government steps in and forces a business to pay someone that doesn't work there anymore. If you or I made this demand it would be theft or extortion. When Peter robs Paul that is theft. When the government steps in and takes from Paul and gives to Peter, that's ok right? No, that is government theft, legalized plunder. That is how you identify Socialism. You look for plunder. This is a violation of property because it takes property from the owner and gives it to someone to whom it does not belong. It is a perversion of law because law is justice and this taking is legalized plunder. It is a violation of the 4th and14th amendments because state government should protect life, liberty and property of the people not seize and redistribute it. Federally it cannot seize property without just compensation. This is anti-business. It is Socialism. And that is a threat to your freedom because if government has the power to give you everything you want, then it has the power to take everything you have because they produce nothing.


CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY

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

Agree

Legally officers (including TSA) have what is called administrative exemption if they are performing their duties while violating your rights. Yes, an officer's policy or job description may require that they violate their oath to the supreme law of the land, which should take precedence. The officer is in the middle, the problem is at the very top. The officer should tell his boss, "I cannot comply as it would violate my oath." The TSA takes our things all the time without just compensation

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

Strongly Disagree

The federal government should not even be involved in health care. Even states should cut way back on healthcare spending. I also want to warn about the movement to centralize control of police, which is a movement to nationalize the police. We need to keep police local, and funding for them local. If the local police start getting federal money, soon they are loyal to the hand that feeds them and the community is without representation. What the federal government funds, it controls.


2ND AMENDMENT

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

None. Public safety is achieved with gun ownership. Guns are dangerous but not having them is more dangerous. Gun free zones are where the crimes are.

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

Neutral

You can sue anyone for anything, but it's crazy to sue the auto-maker because someone hit you. A judge should throw this out.

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