

Kenny Skaflestad
Republican | Alaska
Candidate Profile
Leans Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Kenny Skaflestad
Party
Republican
Election Year
2022
Election
Primary
Race
State Rep., Dist. 2
Incumbent
No
EDUCATION
Candidate did not provide
WORK & MILITARY
Candidate did not provide
AFFILIATIONS
Citizen's Community Support Team, President, Hoonah Chamber of Commerce
President, The Alaska Hubzone, Chief Executive
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Mayor of Hoonah, 2014-17
Hoonah City Council, 1991-96
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
Alaska House of Representatives, 2018, 2020
Race
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (1)
State Republican Party Organizations (2022)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (0)
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Under what circumstances should abortion be allowed?
Risk of life to bearer Rape or incest result before 20 wks.
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?
Legislative reduction to PFD is a "tax".
What government spending would you reduce in order to balance the budget?
Too many to list, however administrative redundancy, inconsistency and unjustified slush funds will be subject.
Taxpayer-funded public education should be guaranteed through college.
Strongly Disagree
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Strongly Disagree
Under what circumstances can government close churches?
Instances under martial law where protections of the church are harboring treasonous or security threats to national defense only.
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.
C) Medicaid and Medicare should continue under highly scrutinized system. Public funded abortion abolished.
Under what circumstances (if any) should a government, school, or employer be allowed to require vaccinations?
None, except through special permit where risk assessment has derived high exposure and imminent public hazard.
NATIONAL SECURITY
What should the United States do to help eradicate the threat of Islamic terrorism?
Assess, isolate and destroy. Develop alliances with neighboring entities, provide intelligence and counter-measure training and covert ops.
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.
Disagree
IMMIGRATION
The U.S. should do more to physically secure the southern border.
Strongly Agree
Who should be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and under what circumstances?
Fully applied and traditionally processed applicants only. Totals set by congressional quota.
EDUCATION
I support school choice, including voucher programs, tax credits, charter schools, private schools, and home schools.
Agree
VALUES
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality which is necessary for our system of limited government.
Strongly Agree
I support adding gender identity as a specially protected class in non-discrimination laws.
Strongly Disagree
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 agree with Critical Race Theory (CRT) which asserts that the institutions in the United States are fundamentally racist.
Strongly Disagree
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
Generally Protestant with interpretations of Earth and Space a frontier by which we enhance our species as His favorite so far.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Disagree
What laws would you propose to change present voting practices?
Full ballot accountability with chain of custody provisions and penalties for abuse. No ballot harvesting. Early voting enhanced as added measure of substantiation. Open and sustained statistical records. Repeal Ballot Measure 2. Voter rolls regularly and accurately substantiated.
EQUALITY
Is racism a threat to domestic security in the United States? Why or why not?
No! Racism, albeit the primary vehicle by which the Left entices and fuels threats, may be a motive for individuals but racism alone is not a threat any more than inanimate firearms are.
Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.
Strongly Disagree
Reparations on the basis of race is simply ignorant and blatant racism.
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) Many environmental laws and regulations are overzealous. The practice of pursuing evermore strict regulation is philosophically errant in the assumption that we are more powerful than God's mother earth; which we admittedly understand little of.
I support the use of hydraulic fracking to extract oil and natural gas resources.
Strongly Agree
ABOUT YOU
What do you think is the general purpose of government?
Maintain the Constitution, secure the Blessings of Liberty, promote (not provide) the general Welfare, provide for Common Defense, insure Domestic Tranquility, strengthen the most perfect Union ever conceived.
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
Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).
City of Hoonah minutes, records, ordinances and archives. City of Hoonah record of public testimony. Radio interviews Sitka, Petersburg.
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, neither.
What else would you like voters to know about you, including your legislative priorities?
The Alaska Bipartisan Coalition is an oxymoron. Alaska is in fact partisan and diverse. Yet we co-exist, thrive, suffer and vote alongside those with opposing views. We do so in confidence that what's best will be. For our elected officials to diminish the clear intent of "We" when we vote upon political philosophy, is to spit in the face of the public sentiment. Being elected is an assignment to service and not of elitism. I wil, seek to abolish what this so-called coalition has done. Instead, I will serve the public with an earnest ear to political adversaries and indeed make the best come of it, no matter the party affilliation.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY
Police officers should be personally immune from prosecution for conduct consistent with departmental policy (qualified immunity) while on duty.
Strongly Agree
Review bonding potentials. Enhance protective local policy. Clean up loopholes in qualified immunity and openly prosecute individuals whom abuse the sanctity of public service.
I support redirecting funds from police departments to mental health and community programs.
Strongly Disagree
2ND AMENDMENT
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
None further. Only less restricted gun ownership will ensure our state a proper militia. Only when the militia is officially activated shall temporary regulations be considered for those individuals officially adjoined.
Victims of gun violence should be able to sue firearms dealers and manufacturers.
Strongly Disagree
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