Michael Louis Pons

[{"question": "Ballotpedia survey responses", "answer_html": "<p>See also: <a href=\"/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection</a></p>\n<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-10 col-md-6 col-xs-offset-1 col-md-offset-3\"><p><a href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\"><img align=\"middle\" alt=\"Candidate Connection\" src=\"https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/8/88/Candidate_Connection_Logo.png\" width=\"90%\"/></a></p></div></div>\n<p>Michael Pons completed <a href=\"/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection</a> survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Pons' responses.</p>\n<p><span class=\"expand-all\">Expand all</span> | <span class=\"collapse-all\">Collapse all</span></p>\n<div aria-multiselectable=\"true\" class=\"panel-group\" id=\"accordion\" role=\"tablist\"><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-bio-222108-2024-02-20\" id=\"heading-bio-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-bio-222108-2024-02-20\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-bio-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWho are you? Tell us about yourself.\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading-bio-222108-2024-02-20\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-bio-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tI’m a 68-year-old America First candidate in the Republican Party. I am a retired airline pilot who is upset at the direction our leadership has taken our country. Running for political office was never in my plans. But witnessing the managed decline of the United States is unacceptable.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-222108-2024-02-20\" id=\"heading-key-message-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-key-message-222108-2024-02-20\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tPlease list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading-key-message-222108-2024-02-20\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-key-message-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><ul><li>It appears that our current Congressman, Barry Loudermilk is engaged in supporting the Biden Administration. He regularly supports democrat bills. \r\nLoudermilk voted for $40 billion dollars for the never ending war in Ukraine and the inflationary Fiscal Responsibility Act which provides unlimited debt and spending until Jan. 2025 bypassing the 2024 election year. This was a surrender bill that essentially handed the purse strings of power to the Democratic Party and the Administrative State.</li><li>The #1 priority of government is to protect it’s citizens. This is warfare through invasion. Today drug and human trafficking cartels are controlling our southern border. Over 10 million people, from over 100 countries have crossed the southern border since 2021, nearly doubling the amount of illegals in this country. CBP are now the processing agents for anyone crossing the border who claims asylum. The migrants get a court date to appear seven years later. Migrant families get $4,000/month, free medical care and their kids get a free education. At the same time Americans on Social Security get less than $3,000/month and our veterans are sleeping in the streets. \r\nWhy fund the Biden Administration that puts you in the back of the line?</li><li>We must return to the rule of law and rid ourselves of the two tier system of justice. The FBI conducted the largest manhunt in American history with the round up of J6 protesters denying them their First amendment rights.\r\nRight here in Georgia, Fulton County DA Fani Willis has falsely accused 19 defendants including Donald Trump with a creative interpretation of the RICO statutes. \r\nThe Justice Department labeled parents domestic terrorists because they are concerned with the unhealthy communist brain washing techniques of SEL, CRT that teach gender confusion, racism and drag queen story hour.\r\nI will fight to deconstruct the unelected 4th branch of government, the bureaucratic Administrative State. \r\n</li></ul></span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-222108-2024-02-20\" id=\"heading1-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse1-222108-2024-02-20\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading1-222108-2024-02-20\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse1-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tFiscal Responsibility: I am committed to ending debt spending and balancing the budget.<br/>\n<p>Keep America safe and secure the border. Maintain a strong National defense and end wokism in the military.<br/>\r\nReduce the size and power of the 4th branch of government that dominates every aspect of our lives. <br/>\r\nRestore the American Dream by restoring Constitutional Republican principals that gave us Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness, religious, economic and political freedoms.<br/>\n</p>\nTerm limits: This is your chance to vote for term limits on a five term establishment career politician. \t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse2-222108-2024-02-20\" id=\"heading2-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse2-222108-2024-02-20\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse2-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tIs there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading2-222108-2024-02-20\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse2-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tThe Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers, The Conscience of a Conservative, by Barry Goldwater, A Time for Choosing essay and speech by Ronald Reagan\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse3-222108-2024-02-20\" id=\"heading3-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse3-222108-2024-02-20\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse3-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading3-222108-2024-02-20\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse3-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tThe principals of the Republican Party are sound principals.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse4-222108-2024-02-20\" id=\"heading4-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse4-222108-2024-02-20\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse4-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading4-222108-2024-02-20\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse4-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tTo keep the government of the backs of it's citizens and to protect its people sovereignty .\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse5-222108-2024-02-20\" id=\"heading5-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse5-222108-2024-02-20\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse5-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading5-222108-2024-02-20\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse5-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tThe assassination of JFK\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse6-222108-2024-02-20\" id=\"heading6-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse6-222108-2024-02-20\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse6-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading6-222108-2024-02-20\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse6-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tThe Administrative State\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse7-222108-2024-02-20\" id=\"heading7-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse7-222108-2024-02-20\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse7-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat are your thoughts on term limits?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading7-222108-2024-02-20\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse7-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tYes on term limits\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse8-222108-2024-02-20\" id=\"heading8-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse8-222108-2024-02-20\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse8-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading8-222108-2024-02-20\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse8-222108-2024-02-20\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"></span></div></div></div></div></div>\n<div class=\"small\" data-nosnippet=\"\"><p><i><b>Note:</b> Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.</i></p></div>", "answer_text": "See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection\n\nMichael Pons completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Pons' responses.\nExpand all | Collapse all\nWho are you? Tell us about yourself. I’m a 68-year-old America First candidate in the Republican Party. I am a retired airline pilot who is upset at the direction our leadership has taken our country. Running for political office was never in my plans. But witnessing the managed decline of the United States is unacceptable. Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office? It appears that our current Congressman, Barry Loudermilk is engaged in supporting the Biden Administration. He regularly supports democrat bills. \r\nLoudermilk voted for $40 billion dollars for the never ending war in Ukraine and the inflationary Fiscal Responsibility Act which provides unlimited debt and spending until Jan. 2025 bypassing the 2024 election year. This was a surrender bill that essentially handed the purse strings of power to the Democratic Party and the Administrative State. The #1 priority of government is to protect it’s citizens. This is warfare through invasion. Today drug and human trafficking cartels are controlling our southern border. Over 10 million people, from over 100 countries have crossed the southern border since 2021, nearly doubling the amount of illegals in this country. CBP are now the processing agents for anyone crossing the border who claims asylum. The migrants get a court date to appear seven years later. Migrant families get $4,000/month, free medical care and their kids get a free education. At the same time Americans on Social Security get less than $3,000/month and our veterans are sleeping in the streets. \r\nWhy fund the Biden Administration that puts you in the back of the line? We must return to the rule of law and rid ourselves of the two tier system of justice. The FBI conducted the largest manhunt in American history with the round up of J6 protesters denying them their First amendment rights.\r\nRight here in Georgia, Fulton County DA Fani Willis has falsely accused 19 defendants including Donald Trump with a creative interpretation of the RICO statutes. \r\nThe Justice Department labeled parents domestic terrorists because they are concerned with the unhealthy communist brain washing techniques of SEL, CRT that teach gender confusion, racism and drag queen story hour.\r\nI will fight to deconstruct the unelected 4th branch of government, the bureaucratic Administrative State. What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Fiscal Responsibility: I am committed to ending debt spending and balancing the budget. Keep America safe and secure the border. Maintain a strong National defense and end wokism in the military. Reduce the size and power of the 4th branch of government that dominates every aspect of our lives. Restore the American Dream by restoring Constitutional Republican principals that gave us Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness, religious, economic and political freedoms. Term limits: This is your chance to vote for term limits on a five term establishment career politician. Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy? The Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers, The Conscience of a Conservative, by Barry Goldwater, A Time for Choosing essay and speech by Ronald Reagan What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official? The principals of the Republican Party are sound principals. What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office? To keep the government of the backs of it's citizens and to protect its people sovereignty . What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time? The assassination of JFK What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade? The Administrative State What are your thoughts on term limits? Yes on term limits What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?\nNote: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it."}, {"question": "Campaign website", "answer_html": "<p>Pons' campaign website stated the following:\n</p>\n<div style=\"height:400px;overflow:scroll;border:1px solid gray;margin:20px;padding:10px;\">\n<table data-nosnippet=\"\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; border: none;background-color: transparent; auto; ;\">\n<tbody><tr>\n<td style=\"border:none; color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px 3px;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20\">“\n</td>\n<td style=\"border: none; padding: 4px 10px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<p>Top Priorities\n</p><p>1. Fiscal Responsibility: I am committed to ending debt spending and balancing the budget.\n</p><p>2. Keep America safe and secure the border. Maintain a strong National defense and end wokism in the military.\n</p><p>3. Reduce the size and power of the 4th branch of government that dominates every aspect of our lives. \n</p><p>4. Restore the American Dream by restoring Constitutional Republican principals that gave us Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness, religious, economic and political freedoms.\n</p><p>5. Term limits: This is your chance to vote for term limits on a five term establishment career politician. \n</p><p>6. I promise I will listen to, and put you at the head of the table. If you’re not at the table, then you’re on the menu<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-quotedisclaimer_2-0\"><a href=\"#cite_note-quotedisclaimer-2\">[2]</a></sup>\n</p>\n</td>\n<td style=\"border: none; color: #B2B7F2; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px 1px;\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"20\">”\n</td></tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"cquotecite\" colspan=\"3\" style=\"border: none; padding-right: 4%\"><cite style=\"font-style: normal;font-size: smaller; float: right;\">—Michael Pons' campaign website (2024)<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-3\"><a href=\"#cite_note-3\">[3]</a></sup></cite>\n</td></tr></tbody></table>\n</div>", "answer_text": "Pons' campaign website stated the following:\n“ Top Priorities 1. Fiscal Responsibility: I am committed to ending debt spending and balancing the budget. 2. Keep America safe and secure the border. Maintain a strong National defense and end wokism in the military. 3. Reduce the size and power of the 4th branch of government that dominates every aspect of our lives. 4. Restore the American Dream by restoring Constitutional Republican principals that gave us Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness, religious, economic and political freedoms. 5. Term limits: This is your chance to vote for term limits on a five term establishment career politician. 6. I promise I will listen to, and put you at the head of the table. If you’re not at the table, then you’re on the menu [2] ” —Michael Pons' campaign website (2024) [3]"}]