Clinton Porter

Republican | Colorado

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Clinton Porter — State Rep., Dist. 40 (Colorado Republican Primary | June 30, 2026)
State Rep., Dist. 40 Colorado General | November 3, 2026
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Conservative

BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION

University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, Bachelors in Business Management, 2004-2007

WORK & MILITARY

Candidate did not provide

AFFILIATIONS

Encounter Church, Volunteer, 2021-2025

Keller Williams Realty, Educator / Mentor, 2012-2021

Colorado State Shooting Association, Member

POLITICAL OFFICES HELD

Candidate did not provide

POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT

Colorado House of Representatives District 40, 2026-2026

ENDORSEMENTS

CONSERVATIVE (1)

Colorado State Shooting Association CSSA

OTHER INFORMATION

Candidate completed Alliance Defending Freedom's 2026 Candidate Survey.

QUESTIONNAIRE

RIGHT TO LIFE

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

Strongly Agree

I don't believe in government sponsored sexuality or the consequences thereof.

Under what circumstances should an elective abortion be allowed?

I do not believe infanticide should be allowed by the State of Colorado.

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.

Strongly Agree

The Comstock Act, which bans interstate transportation of abortion-inducing drugs, should be enforced.

Agree


ECONOMY

What is your position on the minimum wage?

Minimum Wage as a "living wage" is deceptive and inaccurate. While I do not want employers to disadvantage their staff with subpar income, unfortunately the market inflates comparatively to minimum wage increases making the wage hike irrelevant.

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

Strongly Agree

Socialism is the ending of Private Property Rights from Americans. People are motivated by a sense of ownership of what they work hard for. This incentive is what makes our free-market society so successful! You must give people purpose and Socialism/Collectivism that leads to Communism destroys the working ambitions of a society. People work willingly and with exceptionalism for the incentive it provides them personally.

List your top 3-5 priorities to eliminate government waste.

A new and temporary Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Counsel to survey all state expenditures with goals of a 50% budget reduction Elimination of departments that study irrelevant issues that do not directly impact Colorado or Coloradans Elimination of regulations that obstacles for business production, state GDP, and new employment opportunities New negotiation with the Federal Government for Employment/Military expansion and new grants and loans for our state!


RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

What does "separation of church and state" mean to you?

In application a religious dogma and doxology may act as guiding principals in a government should not supersede the Constitution of the United States or the laws or Constitution of the State. A person of religious conviction and principal be an asset of strong conviction and good decision making for the greater good of a society, but a person who uses their political leadership position to convert a society to their religion and god violates that separation of church and state, entirely.

Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.

Strongly Disagree

We live in a free-market society. If you desire an outcome, find a person or business that provides that outcome. People are not entitled to satisfy your demands because you demand them. Businesses should have the freedom to deny services that violate their morals and/or religious beliefs without judgement, cancellation, or retribution. We do not live in a totalitarian or socialist society with supreme control over production.


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) Medicare and Medicaid but with a complete revision of each program with new health care provider contracts, streamline efficiencies and staffing, and covered procedures. The main goal of each program should be wellness and elimination of office visits through healthy populations of both Medicare and Medicaid patients. Some program cost reductions could come from incentifying healthy diets, psychological nutritional counseling and coaching, and exercise programs.

The government should keep a database of people with various ongoing medical illnesses to assess the economic burden of treatment.

Disagree

Personal information is private and should not be kept on individuals. The Government may monitor diagnosis codes to determine the economic burden of treatment but not the individuals receiving said treatment.


NATIONAL SECURITY

The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.

Strongly Agree

Unfortunately, I do believe this is true. Technology that enters the United State should be checked and validated to ensure personal information is not used against the United States or it's citizens. Regardless, their instigation of undermining American interests does not provide legitimacy or authorization for any military operation against China. We need to work as partners to an extent since we are one of their most major importers of goods.

Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?

Yes as it provides a strong strategic and technological partner in the Middle East.


IMMIGRATION

I support the existence of sanctuary cities to protect undocumented persons.

Strongly Disagree

No, I do not support the abuse of citizens in a municipality and outlying cities/suburbs due to a leader's need to burden a humanitarian crisis at home. Denver and Colorado already have large rising homeless, mental health, and drug related issue populations to contend with. Let's resolve those issues and the issues of in-affordability for our residents to remain in our state before becoming a dive-city for someone else's crisis. We cannot afford the luxury of a sanctuary city, county, or state.


EDUCATION

I support eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and giving control back to states and communities.

Strongly Agree

Unfortunately the US Dept of Education became something entirely different than it's original purpose and needed elimination. The product of the department was not producing the necessary effects that justified it's existence any longer.

Foreign governments should be prohibited from funding American education.

Neutral

It depends on if Foreign governments could prove to be assets to American Education with classes that teach, from their perspective the diversity of global partnerships, negotiation, their languages, culture, art, science, and humanities. Foreign Government funding for political influence or to influence American Children for nefarious purposes that violate our laws or Constitution or Republic should never be allowed.


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

Government should support the Sanctuary of the Family and regard it as sacred.

Attempts to physically or socially transition a child to the opposite sex constitute child abuse.

Strongly Agree

Absolutely.

Marriage is a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.

Agree

Traditional Christian Marriage is a God-ordained institution within the Christian Religion. Civil Unions of those of the same-sex or otherwise and classified as a "Marriage" with their personal religion and religious authority and should be outside of Governmental restriction as it violates their protected statuses. Personally I believe "Marriage" as a word, transcends a specific religion. Marriage, rather, should describe fidelity between and monogamy between two committed individuals only.

I support the expansion of gambling in my state.

Strongly Agree

Agreed in relation to indigenous tribal gambling as tribal counsels wish to have. Additional gambling expansion, however, if considered, should have extreme oversite as promises made about lottery proceeds have become non-existent with their initial commitments to state improvement programs. Additionally gambling expansion should be limited to resort areas of cities or towns, rather than on every corner of every town.

Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.

I am a passionate Christian/Messianic believer in the Bible with a pursuit of lifestyle and actions as defined by Jesus. I believe in loving God and in fulfilling His purposes by loving my Country, my Family, and my Neighbor. My neighbor is the rich woman and the poor homeless man, the Socialist Democrat and Conservative Republican, the Black/Brown/Yellow/White, the intelligent and otherwise, old and the just conceived, the resident and the alien. I believe in upholding the laws of our land and providing for the common good to people to an extent as a hand up not only a hand out. I believe we never reach the age of maturity since Methuselah lived to be 969 years old and we only live to a young 85 if we're fortunate. Love God - Love People!


ELECTIONS AND VOTING

People should be able to vote without photo identification.

Strongly Disagree

Californians don't get to vote in Colorado Elections, Visitors from other countries don't get to vote in Colorado Elections, Dead folks don't get to vote in Colorado Elections. This has become such a volatile issue that we must enforce in-person voting with actual government issued ID with proof of residence. It's unfortunate but necessary for Election Integrity.


EQUALITY

Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.

Strongly Disagree

No one can be responsible for the wrongs committed by people who may have lived here centuries ago. There is no mathematical equation for calculating reparations and there are no actual people or persons who can mathematically be recipients of such with verifiable proof of which. This argument is filled with difficulty and distraction to the priorities of helping Americans regardless of race. It's demonstrative of division and undermining the unity of our nation and it's people.

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

Trust the Science where Biology is concerned in sex specific sports and in women's sacred spaces. Bathrooms, Locker Rooms, and Sports should be considered restrictive under a new Sanctuary Policy State Statute. We must provide protection for Biologicals in those spaces and make some quantitative space for other individuals where possible and necessary.


ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

Man-made climate change is a global threat and requires urgent political action.

Disagree

"Man-Made Climate Change" is debatable and is sold as a "Green Policy" and guilt-tax increasing the wealth of politicians and their Corporate Sponsors. Climate changes occur and have occurred throughout centuries and millennia. The ability to affect the climate by reduction of carbon emissions, coal discharge, and other atmospheric measures could help by only fractions of tiny percentages while the rest of China/Russia/Africa pollutes in mass quantities and undermines the efforts.

What do you believe is the most reliable energy source that will supply the growing demand for electricity?

Magnetic Repulsion and/or Atmospheric Static Energy that goes completely unexplored and will get a person eradicated if explored. Nuclear is the next best viable option that won't hurt profitability.


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.

No.

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

No.


CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY

What should be the goal of the criminal justice system?

Reform of a person if possible, educational to a society as a future criminal action deterrent sometimes involving extreme punitive judgement for directing a society away from harmful choices.

Government has a responsibility to protect children from sexual exploitation during online activities.

Agree

Parents and/or caregivers also share in this responsibility of such and should be punished if personal accountability is ignored.

Sharia law should not be accepted or incorporated in any form within the legal framework of the United States.

Strongly Agree

Separation of Church and State applies here but more than that, Sharia Law becomes the higher law of the Islamic Religion over the Constitution or local or state laws making it entirely incompatible with American Society and practice. This is a threat to American and Coloradan governance and existence.


2ND AMENDMENT

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

The Second Amendment enshrines self protection and the protection of our country via gun ownership without infringement. Criminal activity, terrorist activity, and certain secure spaces may limit the ability to use that protection device where and when a person wants and with what ammunition is necessary for it to operate. There may be private property limitations to usage within its boundaries but do not restrict personal ownership.

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