Joseph Redmon

Strongly Agree

I am pro-life.

Strongly Agree

Abortion on demand has been a moral holocaust for our country. All human life has value and we must transition America from a culture of death toward a culture of life. This will not be simple or easy. But, we must reestablish the notion that killing unborn babies is bad.

If the baby has died in utero.

Agree

I'm open minded to such a discussion. Such embryos don't inevitably become human life until planted in the mother's womb. But, the recklessness with which this "industry" has proceeded created all kinds of moral & logistical dilemmas which must be addressed in a thoughtful manner. Clearly, when a couple have dozens of fertilized eggs frozen with zero intent to nurture each of those embryos to term, we created a moral mess.

Agree

I don't support abortion-inducing drugs; however, I cannot support using a 150 year old law in such a manner. If Congress desires to regulate the interstate movement of such drugs it must legislate that outcome. America needs clear and concise laws - not laws which one administration rigorously enforces while the next administration ignores. It's important we pay more attention to medical safety, as well.

Strongly Agree

Not only that, but free enterprise and private property are essential elements of liberty, itself. Free enterprise must be removed from governmental oversight, regulation, and tyranny as much as possible.

Artificially imposing a "minimum wage" reflects a human conceit. The government cannot arbitrarily assign the value of one's labor and impose it upon the marketplace. That is wrong. The true minimum wage is always in motion.

Strongly Disagree

This is an obviously corrupting influence upon our political institution. While I oppose the very existence of public sector unions, it would seem we would create constitutional issues if we attempted to specifically prevent their lobbying of the state legislature. After all, a union is formed to "lobby" its employer and the legislature is the ultimate "employer" of public employees. It's a difficult issue with which to grapple.

1. Focus state government spending upon public health and safety, public infrastructure, and training/education. 2. Re-define the legislative majority's definition of "success" upon making the government actually smaller on a year-by-year basis. 3. Complete the elimination of our state income tax. 4. Take a longer view by reorienting our social safety net toward supporting families. 5. Address affordable housing shortages by incentivizing home ownership for those capable of working for it.

It means the state should be incapable of imposing its sponsorship upon one religion over another.

Strongly Disagree

That would effectively redefine personal liberty. I am against. I believe the SCOTUS has settled this question recently in Burwell v Hobby Lobby (2014), Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018), and 303 Creative v Elenis. In each ruling, the court has clearly established the Constitutional challenges created when the state requires citizens to violate their conscience. I'm against, too...

Option A would be tyranny. Option B would induce national bankruptcy and/or the inevitable degradation of healthcare. Option C is clearly the status quo which inevitably slides us toward bankruptcy. And Option D is politically impossible. I would propose Option E -- re-commidify basic healthcare costs so we can take advantage of the cost-savings afforded by a functioning marketplace while simultaneously socializing the costs associated with catastrophic care. It would require compromise.

Strongly Disagree

I would be concerned with how our government could be ordered to utilize such information in the future. How would the government control the use of this data? Conservatives are correct to have a natural mistrust of centralized power.

Strongly Agree

The Chinese are clearly opposed to America and we shouldn't be so intimidated as to admit this to ourselves.

It is. The reasons are varied and complicated. Israel is a democracy in a sea of tyranny and they are a reliable ally. I also oppose gifting military aid to Israel. Our best materiel and armaments should be purchased by Israel, not by our taxpayers and issued to Israel. Our state legislature doesn't control the foreign policy of our country and I'm unsure of the relevance of this question.

Strongly Disagree

Is a detailed response necessary? Article VI of the US Constitution describes the Supremacy Clause establishing the primacy of federal law over conflicting state laws. Sanctuary policies clearly conflict with federal immigration law. Sanctuary policies are not only partisan and divisive, they're immoral.

Strongly Agree

Again, this action isn't under the purview of our state's legislature. But, I would support this outcome.

Strongly Agree

I favor our academic institutions spending other people's money; however, such money will normally come with preconditions and our academy cannot be trusted to draw clear lines avoiding issues which may conflict with our nation's sovereignty.

I'm a born-again Christian. Marriage is the foundation of the family. The family is the basic building block of our society and culture. Most of our society's ills flow from the measurable disintegration of functioning families. All of our social safety net policies should reflect an understanding of this basic reality.

Strongly Agree

That is my belief. I also recognize the Constitutional primacy of Obergefell v Hodges...

Neutral

Gambling is clearly a societal vice. However, my own constituents are already negatively affected by having a casino less that 40 minutes away from us in another state. We already suffer from the negative aspects of casino gaming. We should also consider whether the positives accruing from casino gaming should not be made part of that equation. I could be open to a specific proposal.

Strongly Agree

In fact, I consider this to be a key component of educational reform for public education. It is the responsibility of parents to educate their children and we must reestablish the notion that schools support parents in operationalizing their responsibility to educate their children.

Strongly Agree

Clearly, the psychiatric profession has greatly harmed many lives with its simplistic views that by altering hormones and proteins and conducting surgery - we can "transition" people to the opposite sex. Children are incapable of making these decisions and the effort to empower it to happen - anyway - is a dangerous concept.

Strongly Disagree

The people's expectation of the state's conduct of free and fair elections should be sacrosanct. Equally important is the perception of free & fair elections. Requiring a photo identification to vote is already Kentucky's law. I pray the rest of the country takes our elections more seriously.

Strongly Disagree

It is difficult to conceive of something more divisive than this proposal. This has the potential to hasten the destruction of our country.

Strongly Agree

Obviously.

Nuclear energy.

Strongly Disagree

We should always retain a healthy respect for our environment and lessen our negative impacts whenever and wherever possible. However, we also should not bankrupt ourselves by eliminating cheap and plentiful energy to sustain human existence. Man has harmed the environment ever since we first left a cave and defecated upon the ground. The key truth is that only recently has man learned to actually clean up the messes of our own making.

Conservative

I am A conservative and the moniker - correctly understood - requires no amplification. I have a healthy mistrust of centralized authority. However, liberty requires order to thrive and will die in chaos. Increasing government authority requires decreasing personal liberty.

No.

No.

1. Separate the lawless from the lawful. 2. Seek social rehabilitation for unlawful citizens to rejoin our society, whenever possible. 3. Ensure we treat society's prisoners with a reciprocal respect while they are wards of the state.

Strongly Agree

Obviously.

Neutral

I concur with the use of cameras to enforce speed limits. And I concur with the concept behind using cameras as a law enforcement tool. However, we must be careful to avoid inadvertently granting our government too much authority to establish a surveillance state. These will not be easy lines to draw.

The 2d Amendment exists to protect the 1st Amendment. It is our final bulwark against tyranny. I don't support restrictions lightly. But, any restrictions should reflect negative social behavior. I support restricting the gun ownership rights of persons who have demonstrated they're not interested in following society's rules. Otherwise, no.