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Meet the Candidate

COPLEN, RICK

Running For:
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS
District:
10

Political Affiliation:
DEM
Age:
64
Occupation:
Teacher
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Response Legend

  • YYes
  • NNo
  • UUndecided
  • −Declined to Respond / Position Unknown / Unclear
  • *Comment
  • †Declined to respond, Position based on citation

Question Response Comments/Notes
1. Should government-run healthcare be provided to every American? N* Every American should have a public option funded by the government and run by the private sector.
2. Should experiments using tissue obtained from aborted babies be prohibited? N* When God gives us the ability to create good out of bad, we should use it.
3. Should the U.S. Supreme Court be expanded from the current nine justices to thirteen? N* If we simply impeach the most corrupt justice in history and the justices who obtained their position by lying about their intentions, we won’t need to expand the court.
4. Should education funding be directed to families through a grant, scholarship, or education savings account so that parents can send their children to the school of their choice, including religious schools? N* No US citizen should be required to pay taxes for religious instruction that violates their own beliefs.
5. Should Congress pass the Equality Act - which would require individuals and businesses to provide services or use their artistic expression in ways that violate their moral or religious beliefs? Y* A business that receives a license to offer goods and services to the public must be open to the entire public. Once discrimination begins, it never ends.
6. Should Planned Parenthood and other organizations that perform or refer for abortions receive federal funds? Y* As long as they provide a legal healthcare service, they should qualify for government funding.
7. Should Congress enact additional limits on elective abortions? N* When you can’t control your own body, you are a slave. Politicians have no business turning my wife, daughters and any other women into slaves.
8. Should the federal government take further steps to block border crossings from undocumented migrants? Y* Republicans must stop playing political power games and begin the process of overhauling our immigration systems for both documented and undocumented migrants.
9. Should the federal government pursue energy independence through projects like the Keystone Pipeline? N* The United States has achieved energy independence. It should strengthen its energy independence with investments in clean energy, not further pursue energy sources that kill the planet.
10. Should federal law require public schools to prohibit males who identify as females to compete in girls’ sports? N* As a serving school board member, I accept the responsibility for making policies such as this on an individual basis.
11. Should Congress pass the Freedom to Vote Act, which would nationalize election law? Y* Voting is a right of national citizenship. Our laws should reflect that fact and create the same rights for all Americans everywhere without bad actors in individual states creating roadblocks to legal voting.