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Ken Dious' Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Ken Dious has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2014 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests.

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Issue Positions

For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2014.

  • "I will continue to advocate for women by supporting litigation and educating the public that government control over a women’s body violates her rights." (www.diousforcongress.com)
  • "We cannot borrow our way out of a deficit. Raising taxes is not the answer either." (www.diousforcongress.com)
  • "We want to take out the unfair exemptions and loopholes facing many Georgians, this will make the tax code simpler and increase revenue. Interest on home owned mortgages will remain the same." (votesmart.org)
  • "Georgia's economy is projected to grow slightly faster than that of the country as a whole in 2014. I plan to continue to target industries that want to continue to expand their economic base in rural Georgia and have good potential for long term growth. Georgia's attractive tax code and advantages to businesses needs to be promoted. We need to create jobs, it's as simple as that. I also want to encourage more Georgians to seek entrepreneurial and small business ownership. Small business ownership is what has driven the American economy since the founding of our country." (votesmart.org)
  • "I propose to work with other lawmakers to develop a ten to fifteen year plan to decrease the federal deficit. There should be a fixed budgetary plan set by lawmakers that each new administration should not be able to change. If done this way, this will allow the federal deficit to be decreased over a period of time and certain programs gradually phased out." (votesmart.org)
  • "We cannot borrow our way out of a deficit. Raising taxes is not the answer either. What we need is more jobs and job creation. The question is how do we grow the economy? That is the real conversation we need to be having and the conversation I intend to start with." (www.diousforcongress.com)
  • "Education should be more consistent between administrations, each year lawmakers make changes to the expectations of Georgia schools and students. Georgia is lagging behind nationally and continues to do so, in order to compete on a national and global level, we need to create specific math and science curriculum's in struggling schools." (votesmart.org)
  • "States with the input of local superintendents and school boards should be able to draft their own plans on how to achieve goals as long as they comply with common sense education standards" (www.diousforcongress.com)
  • "I support common sense regulations to control carbon emissions. Common sense requires a balancing test approach that takes into consideration the economy, our national security, as well as our responsibility as stewards of creation." (votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "You would think the GOP would at least admit from a moral standpoint that due to the expansion of access to health care, the Affordable Care Act is clearly better than what we had previously. The Medicaid expansion provision, which was made voluntary to the individual states, does a lot to help people who cannot afford insurance premiums." (votesmart.org)
  • "I support the current immigration bill. There is no way we can deport 10-12 million undocumented people living in this country when many of them are hard contributing workers. However, I do believe that undocumented citizens should be given the opportunity to pay taxes and become citizens to even the playing field with their fellow Georgians." (votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "He...believes the military and social services will have to be gradually cut over a 15-year period in order to balance the budget. "You can't all of a sudden cut everything," he said. "That will cause a recession." But Social Security and Medicare should not be touched. (flagpole.com)

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