Todd Hesemann

Definitely when the mother's life is endangered. I would allow for rape and incest as well.

Strongly Agree

We should require accurate records to contribute to the drug safety profile and an ongoing assessment of risks and side effects. In-person doctor consultation would not be required if the procedure was proven very reliable and safe for the woman.

Strongly Agree

There is a segment of the population which believes that abortion is murder, and we are violating their consciences by forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions.

Disagree

I sympathize with the desire to ease the passing of a loved one, but these laws inevitably lead to applying pressure on persons to kill themselves. I support living wills and DNR, for which people can provide parameters under which life-saving treatment may be withheld. But I believe our efforts for the terminally ill are better spent in improving palliative care.

Strongly Agree

The ability to accumulate wealth for one's self and one's family provides much of the incentive for productivity in our country.

Those most harmed by minimum wage laws are inexperienced, unskilled workers. They are unable to produce sufficient value to justify such a wage. For everyone else, a reasonable MW rate makes little difference except that employers try to automate.

No

Public money should only be invested to maximize the fiscal return for the taxpayer. ESG are largely used to divert away from sound fiscal policy toward more political goals. If the environmental, social, and governance goals are important, they should be addressed by legislation, not by corrupting state fiscal objectives.

Only if it is being used as a front for some illegal activity or promoting terrorism.

Strongly Disagree

I am against anyone being forced to violate their conscience. This has nothing to do with who is being served. In other words, you can't look at who walks through the door and refuse to serve them based on their appearance. But if the service that they request violates your conscience, then you should be allowed to decline.

My position is somewhere between (B) and (C). I want to keep Medicaid and Medicare and take some steps to keep them financially viable. I am not opposed to some kind of catastrophic health care program available to everyone below a set income level. This would simply prevent bankruptcy from a sudden massive pileup of medical bills. Those with employer plans should always be incentivized to get their health insurance from their employer.

When a disease causes severe side effects or death and a high transmission rate, then a vaccine should be required only after it has been proven effective. The smallpox and polio vaccines are two that I would have supported mandating.

Agree

I believe this to be true, but I but I do not have strong confidence in that belief. I don't think that US citizens are exposed to accurate information about Chinese strengths and weaknesses.

Yes, Israel is the only country in the Middle East that shares our values concerning human rights. In so far as we are engaged in a war on terror, Israel (as well as Saudi Arabia and Jordan) is a strategic ally in our struggle against Iran.

Strongly Agree

It is not possible for our country to absorb millions of new immigrants whose first action is to violate our immigration laws. It will take us many years to process those that we have let in.

Strongly Agree

I favor a voucher program.

Strongly Agree

One of the primary objectives of government is to protect those who are vulnerable. Adults can do whatever they want to themselves, but children should be allowed to mature physically, mentally, and emotionally before allowing them to foolishly ruin their lives.

Strongly Agree

Of course there are some very bad, possibly evil parents, and the government has a role to play in ensuring that children are not abused by their parents. Beyond these rare abuse cases, parents must be assumed to love their children and make the best decisions for their welfare. Government agents must not be allowed to override parents' decisions as if they care more about them.

Strongly Disagree

Gender transition services are an illusory solution to emotional and mental problems. People can subject themselves to these services of their own will, but government should have no part in it. There is a segment of our population that views gender transition as immoral, and they should not be forced to participate in this act by funding it with their taxes.

Agree

I agree with this definition of marriage. However, government can (and has) redefined marriage for its own purposes.

I am an evangelical Christian, with traditional family values. I am pro-life, pro-family, pro-traditional marriage, and I believe that God is the answer to most of the personal problems that people are facing. Trying to address spiritual problems with government intervention leads to worse problems.

Disagree

Photo ID is the best and easiest way to ensure that a voter is a valid voter. Unfortunately, that is no longer sufficient in Minnesota, since immigrants (who can't vote) can be erroneously registered to vote and granted driver's licenses with photos.

Strongly Disagree

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact effectively outsources our vote to the largest few states, against whom our state's vote results are inconsequential. Minnesota would never again see a presidential candidate visit us or care what we want.

Racism might be a security threat in some small pockets of our country. I tend to believe that we are more at risk from over-reaction to perceived racism than from racism itself. It wasn't racists who burned down Minneapolis and took over Seattle, but those who violently protested acts that they perceived as racist. The cure is worse than the disease.

Strongly Disagree

The institutions of the United States are not perfect, but they are not inherently racist.

Strongly Agree

Women should never be forced into a vulnerable position with a biological male.

C. Environmental laws were valuable at one time when there were noticeable pollution problems, and they should still be enforced. Current focus is to reduce carbon dioxide, which is a necessary gas for thriving plant life. Assertions that global climate change is caused by human activity are not persuasive, and we should not be disrupting our economy in a fruitless attempt to reduce carbon dioxide levels, which everyone admits will make little to no difference in our temperature.

Nuclear power is the cheapest, safest, and most reliable energy source. The U.S. also has sufficient quantities of oil and coal to last for hundreds of years.

No

No

Provide services for the general public that are impractical on an individual level, such as utilities, defense, and a court system.

Conservative

I am a true believer in conservative principles, but I am not combative. I believe in tactical compromise to achieve bipartisan legislation, because that is what best exemplifies the will of the people.

Disagree

I think that there is a place for community programs, and police departments should partner with organizations experienced with handling homelessness, drug addiction, and mental illness. The mistake in this statement is that we can reduce the police force because of these community organizations. They will still need the police backing them up when their clients get violent or threaten people.

I think that those restrictions are already in place. No fully automatic guns. Felons are banned from carrying guns.

Yes

This rule should be set at the school district level. There are many school districts where this would be a bad idea, but not all. It would be preferable not to allow open carry in a school except for police officers.