Mike Chitwood

Human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death.

Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive taxpayer funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).

Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.

What is your experience in managing budgets?

Religious liberty is at risk in the United States and deserves the highest level of protection in the law.

Under what circumstances should government close churches?  

Individuals, organizations and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their civil rights and/or religious freedom.

The best way to maintain peace is through a strong military.

What is a sheriff’s authority and responsibility regarding illegal aliens?

Employers should be required to use E-verify to confirm the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States.

When should parents be restricted from speaking in school board meetings?

A county jail inmate should be housed based on the inmate's preferred gender identity and not on the inmate's biological sex.

Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.

Marriage between one man and one woman and the families they form are the foundation of civilization and are fundamental to the well-being and prosperity of society.

What role do you believe the sheriff’s department should have in ensuring the integrity of elections?

What steps and actions are needed to ease racial tensions?

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) instruction should be required for all county employees.

Have you ever been penalized for sexual misconduct in either civil or criminal court? If so, please explain.

Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If so, please explain.

What do you believe to be the primary role of sheriff?

What new training programs/policies would you implement in the sheriff's department?

When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to immigration and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?

I voted in these primaries and general elections:

I support the death penalty.

How would you address the overcrowding of jails?

What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?

I support the legalization of recreational marijuana.

Union membership should be a requirement for employment in the sheriff's department.

What role do you believe the sheriff’s department should have in ensuring public school safety?