Bennett Rutledge

Abortion should be handled as a Ninth Amendment Matter.

Strongly Agree

This is a wonderful thing for people to do for others. If Planned Parenthood had not been available after my mother suffered two spontaneous abortions, I would have probably not carried to term myself. When government is involved, however, we must ask if a thing is wonderful enough to justify sending people with guns around to ensure that thing is fully funded. That would interfere with the individual's right to free exercise of religion.

Strongly Agree

Again as a Ninth Amendment matter.

The tax code is the purview of the Legislature, or the Colorado Department of Revenue, not the Secretary of State.

Anything not explicitly required by the Constitution. Again, when government is involved, we must ask if a thing is wonderful enough to justify sending people with guns around to ensure that thing is fully funded.

Strongly Disagree

I do not consider Education to be an appropriate activity for governments. I will only support government-sponsored schooling to the extent required by the Colorado Constitution, and give all private schools, and home schoolers (see 2 above) as much freedom to operate as possible.

Strongly Disagree

That would interfere with the individual's right to free exercise of religion.

For initiating force against people or defrauding people.

Government involvement in healthcare has been nothing but disastrous. In particular the Covid response has done far more harm than good. Government officials should stop practicing medicine without a clue. And, one more time with feeling, when government is involved, we must ask if a thing is wonderful enough to justify sending people with guns around to ensure that thing is fully funded.

Government: NONE, Private schools and private employers: on a Ninth Amendment basis.

Quit being the biggest bully on the planet. Quit terrorizing people in the Islamic world. End all undeclared (per Article1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution) wars.

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I have no Theeee Riiiight Answerrrrr on this one. BDS stratagems on each of these and all other subjects should, separately, be up to the individual.

Disagree

As the Declaration of Independence put it so well: "He has endeavored to prevent the Population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands." Back then they were talking about King whatzisname the Third. These days, the current King whatzisname the Third has no say in it, so you'll have to identify which "He" or she yourself.

As Emma Lazarus put it in "The New Colossus": "... your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, ..." ... and not to forget those who suffer religious, political, or economic threats to the point where they fear for their lives and the lives of their families.

Agree

Especially the last three, and ultimately get government out of education, relying on charitable People to set the standards, in each school individually, for accepting charity pupils. When government is no longer involved, sending people with guns around to ensure that thing is fully funded, such people at the local level will have much more flexibility about all that.

Agree

And part of that framework is, as Sec. 4 of the Bill of Rights in the Colorado Constitution puts it: "The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination, shall forever hereafter be guaranteed; and no person shall be denied any civil or political right, privilege or capacity, on account of his opinions concerning religion; ... Nor shall any preference be given by law to any religious denomination or mode of worship." as one of the limits on our government

Neutral

Gender Identity is nothing but a bunch of labels which people freely choose to hang on themselves. The laws should treat this as a Freedom of Expression matter and otherwise butt out.

Strongly Disagree

Other religions define it differently. No government has the right to enforce this definition at the point of a gun, as General Johnson did in Utah. See #1 above.

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You Voter Guide people are slanting your questions like a New England roof. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, no matter how CRT eventually shakes out.

The universe I see around me seems deliberate. All else is open for discussion. As for using government sponsored, or tax funded, force in this area, I have pledged myself "so help me God" to the Colorado Constitution, against all enemies, foreign and domestic. See #1 above.

Agree

There are plenty of other biometric ways of identifying a person. All of these have their own drawbacks, too.

1-4-1101. Write-in candidate affidavit of intent. and 1-4-1102. Time of filing affidavit. must be modified so as not to conflict with Sec. 5 of the Bill of Rights of the Colorado Constitution, which says: "All elections shall be free and open; and no power, civil ofr military, shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage." "Right of suffrage" is defined in Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Ed. as "... right of a man to vote for whom he pleases." (when this was first laid down, women would not be included for several decades, yet.)

Of course. The provision that no person be deprived "of life, liberty or property, without due process of law." appears in two different places in the U.S. Constitution. If that can be set aside for racism, or any other lame excuse, there's no domestic security for anyone.

Agree

If discrimination on the basis of race can be proven to have been forced on that person, then that person should be restored and the injury remedied.

See what I said on the previous subject about reparations and restoration. This is not a simple A or B issue, and the longer we put off dealing with it, the worse the mess will be. Laws and Regulations imposed cluelessly and hurriedly by government will do more harm than good.

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You are slanting your questions like a New England roof. There are fracking methods that do not contaminate the underground water supply. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.

As the Declaration of Independence said: "... that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, ... That to secure these rights Governments are instituted among Men." Most emphatically governments are NOT for solving every little inconvenience or capricious desire someone can dream up. Again, one more time with feeling, when government is involved, we must ask if a thing is wonderful enough to justify sending people with guns around to ensure that thing is fully funded.

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Pretending that there is a simple conservative-liberal spectrum is another example of slanting your questions like a New England roof. We'll just have to agree to disagree on all these. For readers interested in how multidimensional this question actually is, visit https://www.theadvocates.org/

Sorry, I am just not that kind of glamor-seeking personage.

No.

I am running for Secretary of State for Colorado. I can support the Legislature with analyses of interactions among laws, I've noticed no one has even counted the number of laws in the Colorado Revised Statutes lately, so I can only give a crude estimate of "the better part of 100 thousand" for now. The best I can do as Secretary of State for Colorado is RECOMMEND the legislature make a priority of repealing the most complex, confusing, contradictory, and just plain multitudinous laws until we are back at a point where individuals have some hope of being law-abiding citizens again.

Strongly Disagree

These people are paid with OUR tax dollars to have the law be obeyed. The best way to do that is by the example they set. Corruption and Cronyism are simply situations where special people are allowed to wink at the law.

Strongly Agree

Let's begin defunding the police at a revenue stream called "Civil Asset Forfeiture." THAT money needs to go back to members of the community it originally belonged to before the court made the cute move of depriving them of due process by putting, not the person, but the street address, or VIN, or pile of money on trial so that due process is bypassed. Just ending that racket will improve the mental health of the community, not to mention the integrity of law enforcement.

If "we do not need assault weapons" and "we do not need high-capacity magazines" really make a difference, how about keeping them out of the hands of EVERYONE, rather than allowing certain "special" people to have them while us peasants do not?!? On August 24, U.S. Marshals crashed a funeral in West Virginia to gun down Jason Arnie Owens, an unarmed man, without giving him any opportunity to surrender. Let us have equal protection of the laws!

Strongly Disagree

It is the person who pulled the trigger, not the person who made the trigger assembly, who is responsible for where the bullet goes. Does anyone seriously believe it is the company who got the guns for the Feds who's responsible for putting the people at that funeral in deadly danger?!?