Texas Congressional Election 2018 Political Courage Test

Abortion

1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life

2. Other or expanded principles
- My life is proof of my pro-life principles. My oldest was born when I was 17. Oddly I was asked repeatedly why I did not have an abortion with my youngest. I was completing my engineering degree, labor induced over spring break, and some how people viewed my life plans as a reason to kill a child. I have mentored teenage mothers for decades. All four of my daughters are blessing, and I have worked hard to show the opportunities to other women.

Budget

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 eliminating fraud and waste by completing a full audit of the national budget. Programs that don't work need to be eliminated and replaced with programs that do. Government agencies that are found to operate fraudulently or ineffectively will need to be reformed.

Campaign Finance

1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes

2. Other or expanded principles
- I believe campaign finance regulations needs to be focused on preventing elected officials from passing on power to their friends or promising political favors in exchange for donations. Elected officials are meant to represent people, not unions or corporations. When people come together to form a grassroots movement around a campaign, they can make a real difference. I am proud to say my campaign is funded by donations from citizens who support my message and my own hard-earned money.

Economy

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
- By keeping corporate taxes low and limiting regulations, we can create an economy where business are allowed to thrive, innovate, and create jobs. I believe businesses have proven to be better at creating jobs and spurring economic growth than the federal government.

Education

1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No

2. Other or expanded principles
- To truly increase the quality of our schools, we need to give power back to the educators and take it out of the hands of the bureaucrats. We need to let teachers do their jobs without the federal government interfering and imposing pointless bureaucratic exercises on them and our children.

Energy & Environment

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

Guns

1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No

2. Other or expanded principles
- I have had cause to use a shotgun to protect my child during a home invasion. I am an active member of the Texas State Militia. The ability to defend oneself from threat both foreign and domestic is essential to freedom.

Health Care

1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes

2. Other or expanded principles
- It is a cluster

Immigration

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
- We need to enforce the immigration laws currently in place. If elected, I would stop all funding of citizenship programs and focus on people who want to lawfully immigrate and become American citizens. I believe we need to adopt the policies of other nations: if you are not a legal citizen, you cannot work, obtain benefits, or purchase property.

Marijuana

1. Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- No

2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

National Security

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?
- No

3. Other or expanded principles
- As required

Administrative Priorities

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.
- I am the most qualified to provide professional coordination experience with full transparency for the oversight of infrastructure projects. Full audit of programs, and programs that create more problems and failed to solve or reduce the original objective. End pay to play, end slush funds, return power to the people. For far too long Washington has viewed hardworking Americans as an endless source of funding, offering us pennies on the dollar in return. I will stand up to the lies of Pelosi and minions.