Montana House of Representatives
Name | Steve Gunderson | Bill Clark |
Party | Republican | Republican |
Office | HD 01 | HD 01 |
Public schools in Montana are | Under-funded | Over-funded |
Parental choice should be expanded through tax credits, education savings accounts, vouchers, and other means to allow children to attend any school of their or their parents’ choice. | Strongly Support | Strongly Support |
Montana should allow public charter schools. | Strongly Support | Strongly Support |
Parents should be allowed to home school their children without additional state regulation. | Support | Strongly Support |
Education — Comprehensive sex education, beginning as early as kindergarten, should be allowed in public elementary schools. | Strongly Oppose | Strongly Oppose |
Assisted suicide should be legal in Montana. | Undecided | Strongly Oppose |
“Domestic partners” (i.e., cohabiting homosexual and heterosexual couples) should receive the same health care and employment benefits as married couples. | Strongly Oppose | Strongly Oppose |
Companies and individuals should be allowed to opt-out of the abortion related mandates contained in Obamacare. | Strongly Support | Strongly Support |
Your view on the statement: The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows all citizens to own firearms for self-protection. | Strongly Support | Strongly Support |
Global warming is a problem requiring increased regulation. | Strongly Oppose | Strongly Oppose |
Abortion should be prohibited in all circumstances. | Strongly Oppose | Strongly Support |
Abortion should be prohibited, except in cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is in danger. | Undecided | Support |
In your opinion, are environmental regulations in Montana: | Too Stringent | Too Stringent |
Homosexuals/transgender people should be allowed to adopt children. | Strongly Oppose | Strongly Oppose |
Non-discrimination laws should be expanded to protect sexual orientation in the same way that race, creed, nationality, and religion are protected. | Strongly Oppose | Strongly Oppose |
Montana’s marriage laws should be changed to reflect the recent legalization of same-sex marriage by the U. S. Supreme Court. | Strongly Oppose | Strongly Oppose |
Montana’s Constitution should be amended to allow homosexual marriage. | Strongly Oppose | Strongly Oppose |
Income Taxes in Montana are: | Too High | Too High |
Property Taxes in Montana are: | Too High | Too High |
Corporate Taxes in Montana are: | Too High | Too High |
Candidate’s additional comments | I would prefer to have the opportunity to add a comment to answers. There are some issues that require more clarification. Nothing is cut and dried, black and white. | I am a retired Peace Officer of 28 years, retiring as a Chief of Police and have seen the misuses of power at every level of government and the degradation of society. I have found two documents that I base all of my decisions on; The Bible and the US Constitution as written. I will use those two documents to determine any vote I am asked to make to the best of my ability. |
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State Senate
There is no election for State Senate in this district this election cycle. Senators are elected to four year terms, so this district will likely see an election for Senator in 2018.
President of the United States
Sppt = Support | Opp = Oppose | DNR = Did Not Respond
Thanks to the Center for Arizona Policy for sharing their data on the Presidential race.
First Name | Jeb | Ted | Marco | Donald | John R. |
Last Name | Bush | Cruz | Rubio | Trump | Kasich |
Repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Sppt | Sppt | Sppt | DNR | DNR |
Prohibiting abortion except where it is necessary to prevent the death of the mother | Sppt | Sppt | Sppt | DNR | DNR |
Raising the federal minimum wage | Opp | Opp | Opp | DNR | DNR |
Protecting individuals and businesses from being required to provide services or use their artistic expression in a manner that violates their moral or religious beliefs | Sppt | Sppt | Sppt | DNR | DNR |
Interpreting the U.S. Constitution in light of current times, rather than adhering to the framers original intent or text. | Opp | Opp | Opp | DNR | DNR |
Expanding background checks to include guns bought from private individuals | Opp | Opp | Opp | DNR | DNR |
Providing federal fundting to planned parenthood and other organizations that provide abortions. | Opp | Opp | Opp | DNR | DNR |
Building the keystone pipeline | Sppt | Sppt | Sppt | DNR | DNR |
Adding “sexual orientation”, “gender identity” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law. | Opp | Opp | Opp | DNR | DNR |
The 2015 Iran Joint Compromise Plan of Action, commonly known as the Iran Nuclear Agreement | Opp | Opp | Opp | DNR | DNR |