Latisha Grady
Republican | North Carolina
Candidate Profile
Leans Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
East Carolina University, Greenville, Bachelor, 2020-2022
WORK & MILITARY
Candidate did not provide
AFFILIATIONS
Candidate did not provide
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Secretary of Jones County Republican Party, 2021-2023
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
Candidate did not provide
ENDORSEMENTS
OTHER (1)
New Hanover Republican Liberty Caucus
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive taxpayer funds from federal, state, or local governments (including funds for “family planning,” contraception, or abortion counseling).
Strongly Agree
I believe it is either the individual or their family, friends, community or faith-based nonprofit(s) responsibility to help them choose and fund their family planning decisions. It is NOT the taxpayer's place or responsibility to subsidize people's contraception or family planning decisions. The government is the taxpayer and family planning is a personal choice and lifetime responsibility.
Under what circumstances should an elective abortion be allowed?
If there is a documented medical danger to the mother.
Human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death.
Strongly Agree
The lives of human embryos created through artificial methods ought to be protected from purposeful destruction.
Choose not to answer
I do not understand this question. I understand medical research is often given as justification for most controversial things around this kind of a topic. I support innovative and even controversial research-- done to improve life by good-faith actors. Not covert radicalized activists in the science/medical community. I have to do more research to learn why this would be necessary. But given the recent COVID-Fauci revelations, I no longer blindly trust the science or medical community.
Existing Federal laws that prohibit the interstate transportation of abortion-inducing drugs should be enforced.
Strongly Agree
ECONOMY
What is your position on the minimum wage?
My position on minimum wage is --it depends. The problem to solve is what wage floor can we establish without creating larger distortions in employment, prices, business formation, and regional labor markets? Any other reasoning is suspicious.
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Strongly Agree
List your top 3-5 priorities to eliminate government waste.
1) Regular audits to identify waste, duplication, and ineffective spending in agencies/programs, early. 2) Eliminate wasteful or duplicate programs, agencies, and bureaucracy that no longer serve taxpayers. 3) Cut administrative overhead, e.g., excessive management, contracts, and non-essential admin costs. 4) Require measurable results — Tie funding to clear performance goals
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
What does "separation of church and state" mean to you?
It means what the 1st amendment says. Government should not establish an official religion or force people to practice a particular religion, and people should be free to practice—or not practice—their faith without government interference. However, it does NOT mean the best of any religious moral code can't influence public policy or be kept out of government. That isn't what the 1st Amendment says; it prevents a state mandated religion, like Iran. Or total religious prohibition, like China.
Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Strongly Disagree
No American should be forced to do anything that violates their conscience, i,e., their moral convictions developed through religious study and practice. They should be prepared to lose income and whatever social/brand/market consequences they suffer as a result of their decision. And that loss should be the only consequence--not government interfering and forcing them to act. The offended party, should exercise their liberty to choose another business, NOT retaliate to punish.
HEALTHCARE
What most closely matches your view on healthcare: A) Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government with no private healthcare option. (includes "universal healthcare," "medicare for all," etc.) B) Healthcare insurance funded by the government should be available for all who want it, along with private healthcare options. C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary. D) Taxpayer funded health care should be abolished in all forms, and Medicaid and Medicare should be defunded.
C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, permanently, to vulnerable Americans only: children elderly, and disabled. And temporarily, renewable as needed, for American individuals (male or female) or American families (married or single family homes), who are provide documentation of financial hardship. But no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary. One of a few solutions I propose: Decouple health insurance from employers and allow health insurance plans to become portable.
The government should keep a database of people with various ongoing medical illnesses to assess the economic burden of treatment.
Strongly Disagree
I don't believe government should be involved healthcare other than funding research and providing the safety net healthcare programs (Medicaid and Medicare) that they've conditioned generations to expect.
NATIONAL SECURITY
The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.
Strongly Agree
Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?
Yes, it is important because we share the same core values and the same enemies which are, constantly, threatening our existence because they despise our core values.
IMMIGRATION
I support the existence of sanctuary cities to protect undocumented persons.
Strongly Disagree
EDUCATION
I support eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and giving control back to states and communities.
Strongly Agree
Foreign governments should be prohibited from funding American education.
Strongly Agree
VALUES
Government should recognize and support the fundamental right and essential duty of parents to direct their child's health and educational well-being.
Strongly Agree
Attempts to transition a child to the opposite sex are harmful to that child and should be prohibited.
Strongly Agree
Marriage is a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.
Strongly Agree
I support the expansion of gambling in my state.
Disagree
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I am a Christian and my core values are Biblical.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
I believe proof of citizenship and photo Id MUST be required to vote in all 50 states for all local, state, and federal elections.
EQUALITY
Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.
Neutral
I support targeted, documented restitution for descendants of specific victims of the 1898 Wilmington Coup (and specific victims in other areas of the country where crimes targeted Black Americans), with defined funding source, eligibility, cap, and end date. To that end, my 1898 Fusion Healing & Opportunity Act would provide a defined, accountable path to a restitution for descendants of Wilmington’s 1898 victims. If elected as NC House Rep District 18, I will propose it.
Biological males should not be allowed to participate in women's sports or occupy biological women's spaces whether it be bathrooms, locker rooms, sorority houses, women's shelters, or prison.
Strongly Agree
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Man-made climate change is a global threat and requires urgent political action.
Neutral
Need to research the claims on both sides more; I don't know enough to give an informed position.
What do you believe is the most reliable energy source that will supply the growing demand for electricity?
natural gas and nuclear energy.
ABOUT YOU
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?
Conservative
Have you ever been penalized for sexual misconduct in either civil or criminal court? If so, please explain.
Never!
Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If so, please explain.
Never!
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY
What should be the goal of the criminal justice system?
Punish and rehabilitate.
Government has a responsibility to protect children from sexual exploitation during online activities.
Agree
It is the parent's primary responsibility to protect their children but I believe government plays a role by creating laws that protect minors from predators and deter predators from online predatory behavior. I think the government should surveille online activities that have history of online predators.
Sharia law should not be accepted or incorporated in any form within the legal framework of the United States.
Strongly Agree
2ND AMENDMENT
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
The restrictions that already exist in our law should be enforced. There is nothing further needed, based on the information I have at this time. Enforce the restrictions we have.
