Kelly Ancar
Republican | Kansas
Candidate Profile
Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Kelly Ancar
Party
Republican
Election Year
2026
Election
Primary, Special SD24 & SD25, and Ballot Measure
Race
State Board of Ed., Dist. 5
Incumbent
No
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EDUCATION
Fort Hays State University, Hays, BSN, 1992-1995
Ransom High School, Ransom, General Diploma, 1978-1982
WORK & MILITARY
Amazing Grace Homecare, Chief Operating Officer, RN Director, 2017-2026
Independent Consultant, RN Consultant/Legal Nurse Consultant, 2010-2017
AFFILIATIONS
Moms For Liberty, Ellis County Chair, 2026-2026
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Candidate did not provide
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
Kansas Board of Education, 2026-2026
USD 489 Board of Education, 2023-2023
Hays City Commission, 2022-2022
ENDORSEMENTS
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (1)
Moms For Liberty
OTHER INFORMATION
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
Under what circumstances should an elective abortion be allowed?
I don't believe that there is a circumstance that should allow elective abortions. I know opponents point to stories about 10 year old girls who are pregnant as justification for allowing abortions across the board, but I think we should address that by preventing children from ever being put in that horrible situation.
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
All living embryos should be implanted with the hope of gestation and life.
The Comstock Act, which bans interstate transportation of abortion-inducing drugs, should be enforced.
Strongly Agree
ECONOMY
What is your position on the minimum wage?
Efforts to raise minimum wage should be preceded by tripling the efforts to bring down the cost of living. It's pointless to raise the minimum wage if costs rise in the same ratio. Do incremental and moderate increases only, allowing adjustments.
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. Continue to find fraud and eliminate it, both blatant and subtle. 2. Reduce bureaucracy and streamline all process, like any business would have to do. 3. Enforce consequences for wasteful spending by government offices. 4. Term limits 5. Cross Department auditing
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
What does "separation of church and state" mean to you?
That means that people are free to practice any religion, or none at all, to any extent without the interference of the government. It also means that the government cannot make any laws or policies that infringe or redirect that freedom in any way.
Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Strongly Disagree
That should never be allowed.
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-I think that Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, for those who qualify either by having paid in for their entire working life (Medicare) or by qualifying need and poverty level (Medicaid accompanied by interventions to make the Medicaid eligibility a short term situation.
The government should keep a database of people with various ongoing medical illnesses to assess the economic burden of treatment.
Neutral
Statistics gathered should be without names or any personally identifying information, for research and assessment purposes only. If people choose to participate and be contacted for information over the lifespan, they must be guaranteed absolute anonymity with harsh penalties for any breach of confidentiality.
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's an important relationship with multiple layers involving foreign policy, security, and intelligence. Preservation of sacred religious sites, historical events, and current practices tie the Faith practices by millions of Americans and the country of Israel together.
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
The existence of the U.S. Department of Education has not helped our current status at all.
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
Parents are already recognized by law to have authority and responsibility over their children's upbringing, health, education, and moral development. No government should be able to interfere in the authority that parents are charged with regarding the health and well being of their children. Parents should be made aware of all curriculum and materials, and be given the opportunity to "opt-in" BEFORE their children are given any materials at all.
Attempts to physically or socially transition a child to the opposite sex constitute child abuse.
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.
Strongly Disagree
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I'm a Christian believer, flawed but always grateful for God's Grace. I know God puts us here to love and protect each other, and we are each charged with following His direction, even when it's sometimes hard to figure out what that is. I believe children are a gift. The family is a creation by God and valuing that prevents much of society's problems. The fight we are in now is not Red vs Blue, or Black vs White--it's truly Good vs Evil now, everything else is behind us. We have to put on the armor of God and be ready to take on the arrows while we follow through with His assignments.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
EQUALITY
Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.
Strongly Disagree
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.
Strongly Disagree
We can work together to protect and clean our Environment without allowing political ideology to overrun common sense.
What do you believe is the most reliable energy source that will supply the growing demand for electricity?
Coal and hydroelectric
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?
to protect citizens from criminal actions
Government has a responsibility to protect children from sexual exploitation during online activities.
Strongly Agree
Sharia law should not be accepted or incorporated in any form within the legal framework of the United States.
Strongly Agree
Sharia law is incompatible with our laws and is not protected as a freedom of religious practice.
2ND AMENDMENT
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
Convicted felons, illegal aliens, and those suffering from diagnosed specified mental illness (with guardrails based in law) should be restricted, and all categories could be registered to use non-lethal forms of protection to defend themselves. That's a compromise intended to protect the public but allows everyone to defend themselves.
