Zebulon Harris
Non-Partisan | Georgia
Candidate Profile*
Moderate
*Additional information appears below for educational purposes; however, only data received prior to the candidate deadline was considered during Panel Evaluation.
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Zebulon Harris
Party
Non-Partisan
Election Year
2022
Election
Primary
Race
Muscogee County Board of Education, District 6
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
Columbus State University, Columbus, BA, 2006
WORK & MILITARY
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AFFILIATIONS
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POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
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POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
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Race
ENDORSEMENTS
OTHER (1)
Libertarian Party of Georgia
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (2)
Libertarian Party of Georgia
Libertarian Party of the Chattahoochee Valley
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
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not be a resource for instruction or services in the school.
Agree
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not be a resource for instruction or services in the school.
Agree
Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Disagree
Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Disagree
ECONOMY
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Strongly Agree
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Strongly Agree
School districts should be able to use taxpayer money for lobbying the state legislature.
Strongly Disagree
School districts should be able to use taxpayer money for lobbying the state legislature.
Strongly Disagree
What is your position on government funding of public education from Pre-K through college?
Education is not only an industry, but a luxury, and as such should not be tax-payer funded.
What is your position on government funding of public education from Pre-K through college?
Education is not only an industry, but a luxury, and as such should not be tax-payer funded.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
At school, students should be able to speak freely and civilly about matters of conscience and faith, including Christianity.
Strongly Agree
At school, students should be able to speak freely and civilly about matters of conscience and faith, including Christianity.
Strongly Agree
School districts 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.
Strongly Agree
School districts 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.
Strongly Agree
Students should not be allowed to pray in school.
Strongly Disagree
Students should be allowed to pray, meditate, etc insofar as it does not interfere with their own or their peers learning.
Students should not be allowed to pray in school.
Strongly Disagree
Students should be allowed to pray, meditate, etc insofar as it does not interfere with their own or their peers learning.
EDUCATION
What is the function of the local school board?
To ensure equal distribution of resources and opportunities to all public students, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, or wealth. To ensure students are provided not only equal resources and opportunities, but are provided those skills necessary to pursue Life, Liberty, and Happiness in their adult lives.
What is the function of the local school board?
To ensure equal distribution of resources and opportunities to all public students, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, or wealth. To ensure students are provided not only equal resources and opportunities, but are provided those skills necessary to pursue Life, Liberty, and Happiness in their adult lives.
Who should have the authority to set curriculum and determine resources used in those curricula?
Parents, teachers, school board, local community businesses.
Who should have the authority to set curriculum and determine resources used in those curricula?
Parents, teachers, school board, local community businesses.
When should parents be restricted from speaking in school board meetings?
Never
When should parents be restricted from speaking in school board meetings?
Never
Please list in order the following priorities in relation to the role of a K-12 public school (omitting any that do not apply): Mathematics, Information Technology, Science, Political Activism, Personal Finances, Gender Identity, Physical Fitness, American History, Critical Race Theory, Language Arts, Art & Music, Vocational Learning, Sexuality, Foreign Language, Social Emotional Learning
Mathematics, American History, Language Arts, Information Technology, Science, , Vocational Learning, Personal Finances, Physical Fitness, Art & Music, Foreign Language, Social Emotional Learning, Political Activism
Please list in order the following priorities in relation to the role of a K-12 public school (omitting any that do not apply): Mathematics, Information Technology, Science, Political Activism, Personal Finances, Gender Identity, Physical Fitness, American History, Critical Race Theory, Language Arts, Art & Music, Vocational Learning, Sexuality, Foreign Language, Social Emotional Learning
Mathematics, American History, Language Arts, Information Technology, Science, , Vocational Learning, Personal Finances, Physical Fitness, Art & Music, Foreign Language, Social Emotional Learning, Political Activism
American civics education should emphasize our nation's founding principles of liberty and equality.
Strongly Agree
With special mention to the founding principles of no over-taxation, and overthrowing governments that are detrimental to those ends.
American civics education should emphasize our nation's founding principles of liberty and equality.
Strongly Agree
With special mention to the founding principles of no over-taxation, and overthrowing governments that are detrimental to those ends.
Before students are taught courses such as Comprehensive Sex Ed (CSE) or Social Emotional Learning (SEL), they must opt-in with written parental permission.
Strongly Agree
Parents should have first say in their children's education
Before students are taught courses such as Comprehensive Sex Ed (CSE) or Social Emotional Learning (SEL), they must opt-in with written parental permission.
Strongly Agree
Parents should have first say in their children's education
The loss of local control in education is too high a price to pay in exchange for federal dollars.
Strongly Agree
Not only federal dollars, but state dollars as well. Education should be decided by the community, not the state.
The loss of local control in education is too high a price to pay in exchange for federal dollars.
Strongly Agree
Not only federal dollars, but state dollars as well. Education should be decided by the community, not the state.
I support the teaching of curricula (such as the 1619 Project, No Place for Hate, Second Step, etc.) that emphasizes slavery and racism as the foundation of American history.
Neutral
I support the teaching of curricula (such as the 1619 Project, No Place for Hate, Second Step, etc.) that emphasizes slavery and racism as the foundation of American history.
Neutral
Parents are the ultimate authority in their child’s education and should be able to freely pursue whatever educational options they deem best for their child.
Strongly Agree
Parents are the ultimate authority in their child’s education and should be able to freely pursue whatever educational options they deem best for their child.
Strongly Agree
VALUES
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I believe in Freedom, that one should be free to live however one chooses insofar as they do no harm to others.
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I believe in Freedom, that one should be free to live however one chooses insofar as they do no harm to others.
I support allowing public high school students to participate in athletic competition based on the gender with which they identify instead of biological sex.
Neutral
I think co-ed sports may be the most equal opportunity sporting events, and weight-class sporting, rather than gender-based.
I support allowing public high school students to participate in athletic competition based on the gender with which they identify instead of biological sex.
Neutral
I think co-ed sports may be the most equal opportunity sporting events, and weight-class sporting, rather than gender-based.
Who is responsible for teaching sexual education to children, and what is the appropriate age when it should be taught?
Parents should be initially responsible for sexual education. There is no appropriate age, since all children mature at different rates. What may be approprate for a child of 15, may not be appropriate for a different child at 17. It must be individually decided by student and parent based on their emotional and psychological advancement.
Who is responsible for teaching sexual education to children, and what is the appropriate age when it should be taught?
Parents should be initially responsible for sexual education. There is no appropriate age, since all children mature at different rates. What may be approprate for a child of 15, may not be appropriate for a different child at 17. It must be individually decided by student and parent based on their emotional and psychological advancement.
If you support the teaching of Sex Ed, please answer the following question: Sexual education should include these topics (list all that apply and add your own, if needed) -- Physical and emotional health outcomes; contraceptive methods; consent; abstinence; sexual orientation and gender identity; human anatomy/the reproductive system; abortion methods and side effects; stages of pregnancy and fetal development; sex acts and pleasures of sex
Physical and emotional health outcomes; contraceptive methods; consent; abstinence; human anatomy/the reproductive system; abortion methods and side effects; stages of pregnancy and fetal development; sexual orientation and gender identity
If you support the teaching of Sex Ed, please answer the following question: Sexual education should include these topics (list all that apply and add your own, if needed) -- Physical and emotional health outcomes; contraceptive methods; consent; abstinence; sexual orientation and gender identity; human anatomy/the reproductive system; abortion methods and side effects; stages of pregnancy and fetal development; sex acts and pleasures of sex
Physical and emotional health outcomes; contraceptive methods; consent; abstinence; human anatomy/the reproductive system; abortion methods and side effects; stages of pregnancy and fetal development; sexual orientation and gender identity
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality that is necessary for our system of limited government.
Disagree
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality that is necessary for our system of limited government.
Disagree
No healthcare diagnosis or treatment, whether mental, reproductive, or otherwise, should be given to a child without first receiving written consent from the parent.
Strongly Agree
Unless the parents' knowledge will place the child in harms way
No healthcare diagnosis or treatment, whether mental, reproductive, or otherwise, should be given to a child without first receiving written consent from the parent.
Strongly Agree
Unless the parents' knowledge will place the child in harms way
No school official should be involved in the sexual transitioning of a student, including the use of alternative names and pronouns.
Neutral
Teachers should respect all student's life choices without enforcing their own will upon them. No school official should push transitioning onto a student; however, should a student choose of their own volition the use of alternative names and pronouns, it is the teacher's obligation to try to accommodate.
No school official should be involved in the sexual transitioning of a student, including the use of alternative names and pronouns.
Neutral
Teachers should respect all student's life choices without enforcing their own will upon them. No school official should push transitioning onto a student; however, should a student choose of their own volition the use of alternative names and pronouns, it is the teacher's obligation to try to accommodate.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Agree
Photo ID's didn't exist the first 150 years of this nation and we voted just fine.
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Agree
Photo ID's didn't exist the first 150 years of this nation and we voted just fine.
ABOUT YOU
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
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
A candidate's personal moral values should not be relevant when considering a candidacy for elective office.
Strongly Disagree
personal morality and ethics is of utmost importance.
A candidate's personal moral values should not be relevant when considering a candidacy for elective office.
Strongly Disagree
personal morality and ethics is of utmost importance.
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?
Moderate
Neither Conservative nor Liberal, left nor right. The spectrum i follow is up or down, Libertarian vs Authoritarian. I am Down, Libertarian, meaning I love freedom. Up, Authoritarian, is what America is quickly becoming and I am vehemently opposed to it.
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?
Moderate
Neither Conservative nor Liberal, left nor right. The spectrum i follow is up or down, Libertarian vs Authoritarian. I am Down, Libertarian, meaning I love freedom. Up, Authoritarian, is what America is quickly becoming and I am vehemently opposed to it.
Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).
Did not answer
Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).
Did not answer
Is there anything else you would like voters to know about you?
I aim to tear down and burn out authoritarian, oppressive, mechanizations within our government.
Is there anything else you would like voters to know about you?
I aim to tear down and burn out authoritarian, oppressive, mechanizations within our government.
2ND AMENDMENT
Teachers who are licensed to carry should be allowed to carry guns at school.
Strongly Agree
Teachers who are licensed to carry should be allowed to carry guns at school.
Strongly Agree
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
Under what circumstances (if any) should schools be allowed to require vaccinations?
People are education enough to make their own decisions. If they're not, then that's the school system's failure so it should shut down anyway.
Under what circumstances (if any) should schools be allowed to require vaccinations?
People are education enough to make their own decisions. If they're not, then that's the school system's failure so it should shut down anyway.
I support mask mandates.
Strongly Disagree
People are education enough to make their own decisions.
I support mask mandates.
Strongly Disagree
People are education enough to make their own decisions.
