Joseph Woyte

Abortion should be allowed only when deemed medically necessary to save the life of the mother.

Strongly Agree

Public funding of abortion providers is morally reprehensible.

Disagree

The sanctity of life must be protected.

The Colorado tax code should be simplified. State tax filings should not require a Federal filing in order to be completed. We should end sales taxes on food, put a moratorium on the gasoline tax, and significantly reduce taxes on retirees.

In the State legislature, there are many so-called social programs that were never the proper role of Government to begin with. I'd start with the ones that are not expressly authorized by State Constitution.

Strongly Disagree

I strongly disagree, Government funding would be too easily mismanaged and exploited with a program such as that.

Strongly Disagree

That is a violation of the First Amendment.

That would be in conflict with the First Amendment, so government should never have the power to close churches.

C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary.

I am very much against government forcing or coercing civilians to accept any vaccination or other medical procedure. The Government can and does require certain vaccinations for its servicemembers (an all-volunteer force) to be able to deploy, and as a former military officer, I am okay with requiring vaccinations of servicemembers provided the vaccines are fully tested and FDA-approved, not just provisionally, and provided that religious exemptions are available. Experimenting on our service members is inappropriate and it can also pose a threat to our national security.

The Federal Government needs to take its role in immigration and customs enforcement more seriously, including vetting immigrants more thoroughly, deporting anyone who comes here illegally or overstays their visa, and not turning a blind eye to neighborhoods where radical Islamists attempt to replace U.S. law with Sharia Law. Perhaps more importantly, we need to understand that our interference (including covert CIA exploits) in the affairs of other countries has unintended consequences, or a blowback effect.

Strongly Disagree

I strongly disagree with the BDS movement.

Strongly Agree

Strongly Agree. Much of the illegal immigration today supports human trafficking and drug cartels and is a clear and present danger to our national security and a threat to the safety of law-abiding citizens and their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Colorado should join with the 28 Governors who are protecting our borders through the new Memorandum of Understanding that all states secure our southern border together.

As the child of a proud naturalized citizen who came to the U.S. 60 years ago and followed the process, I have always believed that English language proficiency and a demonstrated understanding of our history and civics should continue to be required. And as a former military officer who served with immigrants, I also think that those who serve honorably in our military for several years should be given priority consideration although not a guarantee.

Strongly Agree

Colorado has a strong school choice culture including public charter school options, but we can do even better in the area of tax credits and voucher programs, and I'll always fight for parents' rights to direct their own children's education.

Strongly Agree

Strongly Disagree

Agree

Strongly Disagree

CRT, marxist ideology, and other forms of indoctrination have no place in our schools. We must teach what matters most in order for our children to be able to compete in the global market: reading, writing, arithmetic and science are at the core of what our children need.

I am a Christian. My values derive from the Judeo-Christian heritage that I was blessed to grow up with, and the belief that there is only one God, the Creator.

Strongly Disagree

Proof of citizenship must be required to register to vote, and a government-issued photo ID should be required to cast a ballot. We require IDs in schools, to drive a car, get on a plane, or even enter a government building. Requiring an ID to vote is not discriminatory it prevents fraud.

Confidence in elections is the bedrock of democracy. In Colorado, that confidence has been shaken by a system that automatically registers every driver, sends out mail ballots to every voter without requesting one, fails to update voter rolls when voters die or move away, and automatically changes registrations to “unaffiliated” when a driver’s license is renewed unless the voter specifically reaffirms a party preference. These issues all need to be addressed, but most of all we need a return to 100% paper ballots as we cannot trust our elections to be in the hands of Dominion’s electronic voting machines.

To the extent that certain politicians seek to divide us by race or ethnicity rather than unite us as citizens of one country, yes, this is a threat to our security as a country. Institutionalized racism in the form of affirmative action, reverse discrimination, or “equity” as it’s now referred, does not get us closer to Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideal that we would judge a man by the content of his character and not by the color of his skin.

Strongly Disagree

A. In time, we WILL transition to green energy, including safer nuclear power such as thorium, but this should be driven by free markets, not government mandates.

Agree

The legitimate purpose of Government is to protect the lives and the rights of its citizens. Under our Federalist system, the Federal government has a duty to protect the borders and guard against invasion, while the States are free to focus on protecting their citizens, whether that be from each other, from corporations, or even from an overreaching Federal government.

Conservative

I consider myself a Constitutional Conservative. I am pro-life, pro-liberty, and pro-America.

I am a regular citizen and not a career politician so there is limited media. People can vet me through social media and see that I have historically been solid in my conservative views and have not veered from this based on swiftly changing public opinions. https://www.coloradopolitics.com/energy-and-environment/new-faces-emerge-in-state-races-following-assemblies/article_7252098f-bef0-5323-90a9-bfb19ac282b2.html Here are some examples of what was said about me in my 2015 run for City Council. https://gazette.com/government/insights-at-large-joe-woyte/article_38aca84c-a053-5d5c-9d5b-789c737a6c4a.html https://www.ppcitizensforlife.org/ppcfl-local-election-candidate-survey-results/

No!

Through hundreds of conversations, I've learned that our community’s top priorities currently are Education, Election Integrity, and Healthcare Freedom. • I’ll be a champion for parents’ rights to direct their children's education, and of local control of curriculum without federal or state interference. • Because confidence in our elections is critical, we need common sense election integrity reforms, like requiring photo IDs to vote, paper ballots, and an end to ballot harvesting. • Medical decisions should be made by patients consulting with their healthcare providers, not dictated by governments… So, I’ll fight for every Coloradans' right to make your own healthcare decisions, without government interference or mandates.

Agree

Yes, but there are limits to this doctrine. Just as it is not a defense for a member of the military to say he was “just following orders” in obeying an unlawful order (as with war crimes), "departmental policy" is not an excuse to violate the rights of our citizens.

Disagree

We have nonprofit agencies that can fill this role. Colorado has more nonprofit agencies than almost any other state in the nation, and a strong spirit of charity.

We already have plenty of restrictions on lawful gun owners. We need to enforce these laws with violent criminals, not take away the right of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves.

Strongly Disagree

Should you also be able to sue the manufacturer of a hammer, or of an automobile, if someone intentionally hits you with one? No, of course not.