While I am not a fan of abortion as an institution, I do not believe that the government has the right to get involved in the conversation between a patient and their doctor.

Agree

Disagree

These organizations do so much more than just provide abortions, and for most of them, abortions are a very, very small portion of the care they provide on a regular bases.

Strongly Agree

When the safety or security of people are put at risk. A modern church should be treated no differently than a business when unsafe or unfair practices are being used. Religion should not be used as a loop-hole to ignore regulations or to allow organizations to directly harm vulnerable citizens.

Neutral

Agree

The United State's relationship with the whole middle-east is problematic, and caused by our inability to discuss issues around Israel without the term "anti-semite" being thrown around. Israel is not the Jewish people and criticism of the global and domestic choices of that country is not criticism or an attack on ethnic or religious Jewish people.

I believe that while A is the best option, B is also a great start, as the major problem with our insurance industry's costs come from greed and collusion. A strong public option will force for-profit companies to become competitive instead of price fixing.

When a person is interacting in a public space. If you want to be a member of a safe and productive society, you need to follow the rules that protects not just the most vulnerable of us, but all of us from the horrors of communicable diseases.

Agree

A minimum wage should be set so a person working 40 hours a week can afford the basics necessities they need to live and have some left over for personal endeavors. Any company that cannot operate paying a fair wage is not a viable business.

Choose not to answer

Neutral

I am running for State House in Minnesota, unless there is a surge of Canadians coming south that we are un-aware of, this is not an issue for my voters or my district.

Strongly Disagree

Privatization and voucher programs have shown to increase profits for share holders while decreasing average test scores, reading levels and child endangerment reporting. The de-valuing of our public intuitions is nothing more than a grift sold to people who unfortunately went to underfunded schools when they were children.

Disagree

We need to fund non-policing safety programs to help our communities deal with things that our police are not trained for (medical emergencies, mental health crisis's) but those funds should not come at the behest of our law enforcement. Not only do we need these programs, but we also need to fund more training for our police who we have historically sent out under-trained for any task besides those around property crime and revenue generation.

I believe we should treat guns the same way we treat cars, the Government won't stop you from owning one, but to carry it in public you have to demonstrate proficiency and have it insured in case it is used unlawfully to cause harm or damage. I am a proud, responsible gun owner, I make sure my firearms are properly maintained, stored and secured and I regularly practice in case I am ever forced to use them.

No

A home owner with a gun is more likely to be shot by it than to use it for defense, arming teachers would have even worse statistical results.

No

No

To help the citizens live happy, healthy, safe and productive lives.

Moderate

I am fiscally conservative, I believe our programs should show net positive growth and we should root out corruption and misappropriation whenever possible. I am socially liberal with a strong Libertarian lean, the Government should not care what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home as long as it does not affect others.

Neutral

We should protect children from all abuse, not just fake types of abuse we make up for political points. No state allows children to have gender re-assignment surgery. It is also very disingenuous to associate "Gender Ideology" as abuse, as that is just teaching children that they have the control of their own body and the right to ask people to address them how they would like. I am against grooming, it is why I support outlawing all child marriages.

Neutral

Only when the choice is not harming the child. Just because you are a parent does not mean you automatically make the best or right choices for a child.

Strongly Disagree

Strongly Disagree

Words can mean different things in different places. No one including the Government can force your church to marry someone. Create whatever rules you want in your organization for marriage and hold your members accountable. Marriage is also a state institution that conveys certain protections and benefits to a pair of people through our Government. The beliefs of your church do not have a say in the State's definition in the same way the State has no say in your organization's definition.

Like many of our founding fathers I am a Deist. I believe strongly in a higher power, but I believe we cannot fathom its goals and that it is a waste of time for us to try.

Neutral

I believe we should use a photo id for voting, but this cannot be done until we provide free photo ids to all citizens.

Agree

Yes, because it is being used by foreign and domestic agitators to drive us apart. We are all Americans, most of us want what is best for our country and our neighbors, we just dis-agree on the best path and policies to get us there. Racism is a problem we as a country have had since our inception and we won't be able to be as great a country as we could be until we fix our divides.

Neutral

CRT is a boogieman at this point, so far removed from the collegiate philosophy that it started as. We have a problem with systematic repression in out country, around race, religion, sex but mostly class, anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant of history or lying to you. Once we acknowledge that some past policies were not created with everyone's best interest at heart, we can start changing them to be more equitable for everyone. Why is this a bad thing?

Neutral

These are separate issues. When it comes to sports and in competitions where transition from a person's birth sex gives them an unfair competitive advantage, then they should not be allowed to participate. As for women's spaces, once a person transitions they are a women, so I see no issues allowing women to use the women's rest room. Aggregated yearly crime data has shown that people who transitioned are far less likely to commit a violent or sexual crime compared to a person who has not.

Stricter environmental laws and regulations require more investment and create more jobs, the only thing they hurt are shareholder or owner profits. This is not a zero sum game, but if it was their is a lot of room at the top to reduce profits without hurting anyone. Climate Change is real and we must address it if we want to give future generations a world they can thrive in.

This is not a one size fits all answer, different regions will have different solutions. I will say, the answer is NOT oil or coal based and will come from wind, water, solar, nuclear and other sustainable ideas.