Ross Klopf

Neutral

State and local grants are a local issue not involving Congress. Due to religious and spiritual considerations, federal grants to abortion providers should not be used for abortions unless specifically consented to by the individual taxpayers.

Neutral

This is a state and local issue and it should not be determined by congress.

US Congress does not have the authority to pass abortion controlling or restricting laws under the 10th amendment of the United States Constitution. Congress is also not involved in approving or selecting supreme court justices. Therefore congresses role in the abortion debate is very limited. Protection of abortion rights provided for by the 9th Amendment of the United States Constitution can be considered at the federal level. Federal abortion rights protection for some abortions will need to be structured in a non-partisan way to help avoid and defeat court challenges.

Disagree

The government needs to stop giving out cooperate handouts and bailouts instead.

Strongly Agree

Spending, Deficit Spending and Inflation are all out of control. This is leading to huge interest rate hikes and an out of control housing crisis. It will be a decision of the residents of CD-7 based on polling data which federal programs to cut and by how much.

Here are a few of the many issues with the existing tax code: Taxpayers should have control over what programs their tax-money goes to, "Capital gains" tax should not be collected on inflation. The inflation rate should be automatically dedicated from the capital gains tax. We should not be paying a 17.99% lumber tariff with Canada when we are in the middle of a housing crisis. There needs to be a federal law stating that if we are in a housing crisis the lumber tariff with Canada is automatically 0%. Other tax code improvements, modifications and changes will be brought up based on input from taxpayers in CD-7.

Agree

One example of this is draconian COVID restrictions in several states that closed places of worship, separated families, restricted travel and limited gatherings (even outside)! After that several governments and companies fired employees for not taking a vaccine even if they had religious reasons not to take it.

Disagree

This is a very general question, but typically it is not proper to force people to provide a service that violates a moral or religious belief. The most recent example I can think of is when a federal department spent taxpayers money on torturing puppies. Taxpayers should be able to keep money from going to that department until the practice is outlawed and certified to have been permanently stopped.

There should be no discrimination or preferences given based on anybody's or any organizations religious or lack of religious beliefs.

Only for extreme close quarters occupations like some military, or some health care occupations if n-95 masking is determined and proven not to be effective.

Generally having federal government monopoly health care is not effective, however this is a decision that the residents of CD-7 should make, The priority needs to be looking at ways to cut costs that have been skyrocketing for decades.

C The department of defense needs to be focused on defense of the USA, not offense. Getting involved in oversees conflicts usually will make the situation much worse than if we never got involved. Most of these middle east conflicts we have been involved in lately fall into that category.

Neutral

This should be a decision of the voters of CD-7

Neutral

I agree there is a significant cybersecurity threat from communist China, there is much less of a threat in the other areas.

The threat of this is minimal, but we do need to get out of all of these foolish middle east wars which are the root cause of a lot of the terrorism.

Neutral

This needs to be a decision of the residents in CD-7 if we need to be spending more for security on either the southern or northern borders.

Disagree

Generally disagree with doing this because right now we have completely outdated immigration laws developed in the 1920's. They are in desperate need of being updated.

Anybody who gets a work visa and has gotten a job in the US should be allowed to come here. There should also be basic background checks and health checks for all immigrants prior to entry.

Strongly Agree

It is covered under the existing civil rights act.

Neutral

It is true that there are and have been lots of racist institutions in the US and US history ranging from the FHA, Presidents, State Governments, Schools, Hollywood and much more, however the reasons for that are quite complex and asserting that all institutions in the US are racist is not accurate.

I believe strongly in treating everybody with respect and listening to all viewpoints on an issue, It is important that the divisiveness going on in this country be minimized and we need to be working together on common goals to help CD-7, and Colorado. There is a lot of spiritual inspiration we can all get to help us out on this important goal.

Neutral

This needs to be a voters decision on if it is preferred to do in person voting with IDs or mail in voting based on addresses and signatures. There are advantages and disadvantages of both methods.

No taxation without representation, we fought a revolution to make this happen, but there is no law and nothing in the constitution that requires doing this.

Agree

Agree on this for reparations based on a government caused gross constitutional violations such as the Japanese prison camps during WW2, or the army spreading radioactive waste over poor neighborhoods in St Louis in the 1950's and 1960s.

It can be. The US has been enforcing a racist war on drugs for decades. This war has prosecuting and jailing thousands people on minor drug offences that are targeting minorities while we have been letting out violent criminals at the same time. This war on drugs is a federal policy leading to both higher crime and higher amounts of racism. The latest round of this is the White House targeting the criminalization of menthol cigarettes that are the same as regular cigarettes but are heavily used by minorities. The racist war on drugs has got to stop!

Agree

As long as it is done safely and not negatively impacting existing residential homes and water sources.

It depends, environmental laws can help up to a point, eventually the cost becomes to excessive and it can negatively impact the economy if the laws are too stringent.

Moderate

My preference is to have a neutral position as much as possible and provide the residents of C-7 all sides of an issue including Democratic, Republican and Libertarian viewpoints. At that point the citizens will have the tools to make an informed decision on the issue. My job as a representative is to follow the will of the residents of the district on all issues.

My Facebook page as several videos where I discuss this

no

My priorities are the same as the residents in CD-7, some topics I have heard is the housing crisis, providing term limits, voting integrity and the economy.

Neutral

Officers and Firefighters should be immune from bogus frivolous law suits, but not clear situations of police brutality or blatant disregard for citizens rights.

Neutral

This should be a local decision based on local community needs.

Violent criminals should not have access to guns, the easiest way to do this is if they are in jail. I will listen to other ideas from residents in CD-7.

Agree

Yes, but only for either a direct violation to the law from either the dealer or manufacturer or a defect in the firearm, which made it more dangerous.