Melissa Dicranian
Republican | Pennsylvania
Candidate Profile
Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Melissa Dicranian
Party
Republican
Election Year
2024
Election
General
Race
State Rep., Dist. 167
Incumbent
No
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EDUCATION
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, Bachelor
WORK & MILITARY
Candidate did not provide
AFFILIATIONS
Historic Architectural Review Board, Charlestown Township, Chair
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Candidate did not provide
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
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ENDORSEMENTS
CONSERVATIVE (1)
Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry PAC
OTHER (1)
Republican Committee of Chester County (PA)
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (1)
I am endorsed by ChamberPAC, which represents the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (0)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (1)
Regina M Mauro (2024)
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Under what circumstances should an elective abortion be allowed?
None
Chemical abortion drugs should meet essential safety standards (such as in-person consultation with a medical doctor) and require reporting to gather evidence on reactions and outcomes.
Strongly Agree
Birth control pills are facilitated through a medical doctor consult; what would make chemical abortion pills differ? In light of child trafficking, I do have deep concerns for girls and women that have no access to medical care, and no control over becoming pregnant.
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive taxpayer funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).
Agree
The provider's role in healthcare (NOT including abortion), could facilitate for people that have no other healthcare provider options. There are Hateful ads, being released regarding crisis pregnancy centers. The question perhaps is, are crisis pregnancy centers funded equally for staffing and equipment in dollar amounts that match funds from federal, state or local governments funding Planned Parenthood? Pregnancy care is reproductive healthcare.
I support 'aid in dying' laws which legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Strongly Disagree
The propensity for misuse with legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia is immense.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Under what circumstances can government close churches?
Under no circumstances. Religion is always essential.
Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Strongly Disagree
No, an individual's moral and/or religious beliefs are their freedoms. The government is to be protector, not interpreter nor denier of an individual's moral and/or religious beliefs.
NATIONAL SECURITY
The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.
Strongly Agree
Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?
Israel is a non-Nato ally to the United States. Israel's geographical location is militarily beneficial to our country; working together we improve one another's defenses.
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) Taxpayer funded health care should be abolished in all forms, and Medicaid and Medicare should be defunded.
C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary. These programs must be administered in a productive responsible way with guidance that in no way receives benefits in or from the process of administration of these plans. There is a role that Medicaid and Medicare were created to serve, people have been paying into this system. What ratings does Medicare, Medicaid yield as far as success of function, rated by a third party?
Under what circumstances (if any) should a government, school, or employer be allowed to require vaccinations?
This question is very difficult to answer, over the past several years we, the people, have been asking for information regarding vaccinations have only been ignore. Finding difficulty in where to base the informed foundation to answer this question.
ECONOMY
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Strongly Agree
What is your position on the minimum wage?
Increasing minimum wage in this ongoing economic crisis will cause businesses to close; including EMS providers and allow for fewer employment positions. Voting for a minimum wage increase given the current inflation, is reckless.
Should environmental and social issues, like ESG (environmental, social, and governance) ratings, be used as criteria in deciding where to invest public monies?
No
Ratings-based information and studies, connected in any way to groups or entities that will benefit by public monies is in and of itself a problematic cycle. When the government is guide and the sole decision maker sans the voice of the people the true role of the government is usurped.
IMMIGRATION
The U.S. should do more to physically secure the southern border.
Strongly Agree
The effects of our open borders are visible depravations of the very reason citizens have a right to protection.
EDUCATION
The state should fund education by allowing dollars to follow the child through programs which protect parents' freedom to choose their child's school – public, private, or homeschool.
Strongly Agree
We must carry out the responsibility of well educating all children, with lessons and skill sets to carry them through their lifetime. We must remain diligent that the spaces we provide our children to learn, and teachers to teach, are peaceful. We must provide the opportunities for each child to learn to their full ability. Educational choice.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY
I support redirecting funds from police departments to community programs.
Strongly Disagree
2ND AMENDMENT
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
None. We need to address the societal breakdown happening in America.
Should teachers be allowed to carry guns at school?
Choose not to answer
ABOUT YOU
Have you ever been penalized for sexual misconduct in either civil or criminal court? If so, please explain.
No
Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If so, please explain.
No
What do you think is the general purpose of government?
To provide protection to our citizens from foreign and domestic threats. To uphold the rights, liberties and freedoms of our citizens. To facilitate the needs of our citizens in their pursuits of life, liberty and happiness. To assist in facilitating commerce across our United States. To support that each citizen learns the rights that they possess, and that the government derives its powers from the people. The government, first and foremost functions to serve US citizens.
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
VALUES
Children are the most vulnerable members of society and must be protected from abuse, including gender ideology, grooming, and bodily mutilation.
Strongly Agree
Children are immeasurable, a blessing. Who are the people declaring how a child is defined? Who are the people responsible for classifying the children into predetermined groups? Who are the adults bringing sexualization to children? The deliberate abuse of the children is abhorrent.
Parents should have the right to make decisions for their minor children.
Strongly Agree
Taxpayer funds should be used to provide gender transition services.
Strongly Disagree
Completely 100% disagree with medically and surgically altering a child.
Marriage is a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.
Neutral
Government does not belong in the role of defining one's religious beliefs.
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
Christian.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
States should join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact which makes the Electoral College irrelevant.
Strongly Disagree
The Electoral College is the means by which all voices are equally represented. By providing for the smaller group to have equal representation, and not be cancelled due to a majority vote.
EQUALITY
Is racism a threat to domestic security in the United States? Why or why not?
How can we resolve a situation when people claim harm as they are themselves harming others, what does projected hatred look like? An intentional threat to society.
I agree with Critical Race Theory (CRT) which asserts that the institutions in the United States are fundamentally racist.
Strongly Disagree
Biological males should not be allowed to participate in women's sports or occupy biological women's spaces whether it be bathrooms, locker rooms, sorority houses, women's shelters, or prison.
Strongly Agree
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Which comes closest to your view? (Select all that apply) A) Stricter environmental laws and regulations cost too many jobs and hurt the economy. B) Stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost. C) Stricter environmental laws undermine U.S. energy independence and deter development of reliable electricity sources. D) Climate change is real and requires urgent policy action.
C) Stricter environmental laws undermine U.S. energy independence and deter development of reliable electricity sources. We are in a financial and social crisis and the government believes they have a right to remove an individual's choice of fuel resources.
What do you believe is the most reliable energy source that will supply the growing demand for electricity?
Liquid natural gas, based on our local regions.
