Jim Newberger
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Member, Becker City Planning Commission
Former Member, Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Finance Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives
Former Vice Chair, Job Growth and Energy Affordability Policy and Finance Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives
Former Member, Public Safety and Security Policy and Finance Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives
Member, Becker City Planning Commission
Former Member, Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Finance Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives
Former Vice Chair, Job Growth and Energy Affordability Policy and Finance Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives
Former Member, Public Safety and Security Policy and Finance Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives
Personal Hero and Why:
Jim's hero, Winston Churchill.
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life
2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No
2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- No
3. Other or expanded principles
- I support cutting areas of redundant, wasteful spending. I do not support cutting spending to personnel or to other areas of need.
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- No
2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
3. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No
2. Other or expanded principles
- Parents, teachers and local school boards should make these decisions.
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- No
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No
3. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No
2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes
2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Yes
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Yes
3. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- No
2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- Yes
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Unknown Position
3. Other or expanded principles
- This question is too general in nature. It needs to be more specific. Each situation is different.
Please explain in a total of 100 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- 1. Stop the Refugee Resettlement Program and fix our immigration problems.2. Reduce the size and scope of government, work with our President, not against him.3. Reduce taxes and our national debt.
Type: bill Chamber: lower
Type: bill Chamber: lower
Type: bill Chamber: lower