Tab Uno

Where the moral value of a mother continuing to live outweighs the moral value of her unborn. When the moral value of the unborn's death outweighs the value of the unborn's living - the developing moral consensus regarding the specific circumstances appears to be that abortion may be morally acceptable when the unborn is the result of rape, or incest, or the unborn is expected to have serious mental or physical disabilities or deformities. I am committed to holding various town hall meetings using a bioethics mediator to narrow the differences between opposing viewpoints in order to come up with realistic, morally-based solutions to help both the mother AND the unborn.

Neutral

The moral basis of abortion has not been even minimally offered by pro-abortionists having focused almost exclusively on the mother. Without a stronger moral basis defining when a human entity comes to possess a right to life as a person or potential person, performing abortions appear to cross an ethical principle of what amounts to a fundamental disregard of personhood that all persons have a right to life. I would still need to revisit my past ethical studies and consult with residents.

Neutral

In studying the ethics of abortion and a right to life that also parallels the right to die, there appear to be moral justifications that offer support to assist in euthanasia, especially under conditions of brain death. Before I make any final decision however I would want to study this issue much more carefully to consider the moral ramifications of any decision I make as well as take into consideration the beliefs of residents in Utah House District 13.

Elimination of the state sales tax on food to give back more money to the vast majority of middle-class residents. All living humans require food to live, and the middle class especially has other essential needs on a small family budget to have a decent life, including paying for housing, utilities, property taxes, transportation and gas, many still have the cost of education to consider. These items are not luxury goods. We need to ensure that our tax code is fair so that each taxpayer pays an equitable amount of their income. Too many of the top one percent through their public accountants and lawyers as well as business lobbying connections to the state legislature are able to use our state tax code to avoid paying their fair share. Unfortunately, even a flat tax as proposed by most politicians hurts us, the low and middle-class residents, the most by allowing the tax loopholes for corporate executives and high-earning professionals to remain in place so that the majority of residents in Utah House District 13 end up having to pay a higher proportion of their taxes to the state. This is unfair to most voters.

With a two billion dollar state government surplus, it does not appears that cutting government spending is in order at this time. With Utah's strong economy, state coffers are increasingly disproportionate as inflation increases the amount sales and property taxes going to state and local governments. Instead, ways should be developed to lower taxes for the middle class. We can keep the same level of government spending while making most voters' taxes lower. I would be willing to listen to residents and government employees who have first-hand knowledge of local and state government or school waste and consider those areas to cut in order to balance the budget.

Agree

Higher education is a necessity in today's technologically advancing society. Access to better jobs allows our educated youth to stay off the welfare roles as adults, offers them hope instead of hopelessness and resorting to crime, and allows local businesses to hire from within the state instead of seeking qualified out-of-state workers that burden Utah with excessive growth. Utah needs to have a well-educated population to protect our democratic process with informed voters.

Neutral

If the services that individuals and businesses provide are essential businesses such as the provision of medical or law enforcement services that promote life or prevent crime against individuals, exceptions must be made. If individuals and businesses are asked for specific, not services and goods generally made available to the public, in instances like artistic design requests could be denied on the basis of moral or religious beliefs. There is no rigid black-and-white answer here.

If the public health is in danger or espousing and practicing violence against individuals and businesses based on due process and adequate evidentiary probable cause. One example would be devil worshippers who believe in human sacrifices.

B

If based on scientific evidence that an exorbitant number of employees or students are getting seriously sick, having to stay home, visiting a hospital or emergency room, or even dying due to the likely infection occurring at the government agency, school, or business, then vaccinations should be mandatory in order to avoid the rapid spread to the general public, innocent individuals, especially elderly grandparents or those with suppressed immune systems. Government has the absolute responsibility to protect the public welfare even at the sacrifice of individual rights under such extreme circumstances. Additionally, evidentiary fact-gathering would be needed to identify how such infections are being spread and if the predominant infections actually arise from exposure to unvaccinated individuals before a final decision is made. Such a determination may not necessarily require a prohibitively high legal standard as such "beyond the benefit of doubt" or even "preponderance of evidence."

I decline to answer because it is not the responsibility of the Utah Legislature to address Islamic terrorism as a body. This role is primarily reserved for the National government as stated in our U.S. Constitution. As a state legislator, I want to focus all my attention to local and state issues that the Utah State Government has the Constitutional responsibility to oversee. We cannot be all things to everybody. Nobody I talked to in four and a half years while going door-to-door at least five times to all 12,000+ homes has raised this issue in regards to a state legislative concern.

Agree

Fair treatment of all people is the basis of a morally decent society. Our local and state governments should behave in a manner that treats all people fairly and help to reduce racist or prejudicial behavior on the part of others. I would hope we expect our elected officials to act as role models of ethical behavior and expect the same when overseeing governmental actions.

Agree

Our immigration code needs to be overhauled. But as a candidate for public office in Utah, the actual visible impacts of immigrants to Utah appear to have been a positive experience overall. As a former clinical social worker, the immigrants I counseled were always on time for their appointments and always paid their bills, unlike a number of American citizens. There have been little in the way of studies that have revealed actual increases in crime or drug trafficking directly related to the immigration issue in Utah that I know of. Many immigrants now are the backbone labor of our exploding housing and development industry as well as our invaluable hospitality industry. As a third-generation Japanese American, I have learned of the value that diverse populations have contributed to America. What seems to have changed is that residents of foreign countries have seen their own corrupt governments fail in their moral obligations to provide for their own residents. I would refer to our State's predominant Church and its positions on immigrants as a good starting point to follow.

Strongly Disagree

I believe instead that we need to improve our public education system so that parents do not feel the need to run away from our public schools, not destroy them. I want to improve our public schools by increasing parental and educator choices at the local public school level by giving each local school the statutory authority through their own local school community councils the ability to oversee their own personnel hiring and adapting the state's curriculum to meet local educational needs.

Choose not to answer

I really do not have the specific education nor experience to respond to this question accurately or comprehensively. I do not know the answer. My primary higher education was in philosophy and political science, public administration, and social work not religion or history. I am not qualified to answer this question. Perhaps the problem of my ignorance here may have its roots in the liberal education I received from the University of Utah.

Disagree

At this time, I am not sufficiently educated to agree to this protected classification. I would want to undertake a lot of study in biology, bioethics, and consultation with residents before moving forward with this idea at this time.

Disagree

The legal existence of civil ceremonies and such marriages recognized under our current legal system offers an alternative union between one man and one woman. At the same time, the government has recognized the legality of religious ceremonies under the law. Currently, our conservative U.S. Supreme Court appears to be leaning towards upholding a different legal interpretation of marriage and a growing majority of the younger portions of our Country have adopted a different perspective.

Neutral

I support the Utah State Legislature's ban on and our Utah State School Board's restriction on CRT from our public schools. This academic theory developed in law schools offers an alternative explanation of how the sociological development of our Country came to be. The purported values of this theory are subject to various interpretations and are not yet accepted as established fact.

Formerly I was an atheist growing up but then began to wonder about God's existence and became an agnostic. Over the past several years, I have been witnessed a convergence of experiences that I cannot explain through science. Presently, I am what may be called a "warm deist" with a belief that something spiritual exists and interacts with us. I am also a Buddhist and have studied Zen Buddhism in depth over the past decade though I do not attend any formal school or church.

Neutral

I am not convinced that in Utah there has been a documented and demonstrated need for photo identification. I however would be open to considering the requirement. I would want to hear more about the basis for this proposal and even if that many residents in Utah House District 13 really feel that there is a need since only a scattering of residents has raised this as an important concern having spent countless hours directly talking with residents in the District.

None. As a Democrat who has lost during the past two election cycles, I am comfortable with the Davis County Clerk's transparent election process we have in place. I have had good discussions with Brian McKenzie who oversees the County's elections. He has been responsive and easy to work with. I trust how he has overseen the County's election system, especially now that he recently won his Republican primary in June to likely become the Davis County Clerk that will include the election office. He appears to have the confidence of Republican voters in our County.

Possibly. More and more private individuals, Americans, are taking up arms and committing violence against people of different races in our Country. Hatred seems to be increasing. Over the past four and a half years of knocking on doors in Utah House District 13, I have sensed an increasing uneasiness among a few residents who present hateful behavior toward me. It is impossible without more study to determine if such hatred is racist-based or not. My best belief is that this increase in emotional mistrust and anger has its basis in the media and how the facts about racism have been reported. At the same time, most of the rage I come across appears to be political, not racist in nature.

Agree

The American government apologized to my grandmother and my parents for their incarceration in detention camps during World War II and received $20,000 in monetary reparations. The repercussions of racism over the centuries in America still resonate in some form. The actual form of reparation proposals and to whom would be a complex one, likely not in the form that Japanese Americans received. There would necessarily need to be much study and a reasonable consensus as to what happened.

B. Without containing the devastating impacts that are already occurring throughout the world, the loss of jobs would probably be the least of our problems. If our ecosystems go, our future generations of young people may not have a livable world to live in much less fewer jobs. Nothing can be more important than that. The real problem is in the details and how we go about addressing them. One example is our greatest natural resource, The Great Salt Lake, turning into a toxic sea of sand blowing over the Northern Wasatch Front with a future potential of destroying all life along its path. I refer to Owens Lake in California that was starved to provide water to Los Angeles in the early part of the last Century. https://kesq.com/troubled-waters/2021/05/04/troubled-waters-the-salton-sea-project-toxic-exposure/

Neutral

Do not have sufficient knowledge about hydraulic fracking to offer an answer. No resident during my four and half years of talking to residents going to all 12,000+ homes several times brought up this an important issue to be addressed specifically.

To serve the public interest and be responsive to the public.

Moderate

One possible public source if one can find it is my University of Utah Masters' Thesis entitled "The Communication of Representation Between Legislators and Constituency" (1986). A good portion of my thesis is based on Hannah Pitkin's 330-page book entitled, "The Concept of Representation" published in 1967 available online. Other sources are not readily known. Sorry. My website has links to documents of accomplishments I have undertaken in various positions of past public service. To undertake the heavy lift of additional research at this late date while I am in the middle of personally delivering my general election brochure to individual households in Utah House District 13 makes it impossible to provide this information. Maybe when I self-publish my autobiography in 2032, you can read for yourself the publically available information then. Another suggestion is just Google my name or use another internet search engine and see what comes up. It is easier that way.

No.

My priorities are those that I identified through two House District-wide legislative surveys of the public that I undertook in 2019 and 2021 by going to all 12,000+ homes in the Utah House District 13. My legislative priorities are those of the residents of Utah House District 13. They consist of: Excessive growth, transportation, housing, environment, government reform, health care, education, tax reform, and senior citizen issues. Inflation and the economy is a new issue that arose after the completion of my surveys. Go to my campaign website, almost all about me is there - https://www.tablynunoforutahhouse.com/

Neutral

If an independent review board found gross negligence or racial prejudice resulting in severe injury or death, I feel that such actions on the part of any police officer should be forwarded to the District Attorney for review. I agree that our law enforcement officers should have some form of immunity, but there have been enough instances in Utah that the public questioning of our police officers warrants efforts to bring back the public's confidence in how our law enforcement agencies operate.

Disagree

I do not know if the actual transfer of funds out of police departments instead of augmenting their budgets to incorporate mental health and community programs into their departments would not be a better approach. Instead of separate agencies increasing communication and collaboration problems, having one agency enhance its own criminal/mental health response appears to be more cost-effective and organizationally effective.

Better background checks and carefully crafted red flag laws. I support the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Heller vs. District of Columbia that upheld an individual right under the Second Amendment. Justice Scalia's opinion made a convincing case. I am against banning assault weapons as there is insufficient scientific evidence to demonstrate that such bans would have a significant effect on reducing gun violence. I would support more state funding for research on ways to reduce gun violence.

Neutral

Maybe. It depends on how a lawsuit is fashioned and the legal basis upon which it is made. The tobacco companies made some very bad legal decisions in their attempt to market its product. Currently, I do not know enough about firearm dealers and manufacturers to really understand if victims of gun violence have a legal case. However, a blanket immunity without knowing more would be unwarranted and unwise and leave the victims without recourse to a possible violation of our laws.