Katy L Miss Stamper

[{"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>Katy Stamper 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 Stamper's 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-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading-bio-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-bio-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-bio-224595-2024-10-07\" 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-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-bio-224595-2024-10-07\" 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 fed-up citizen, Army veteran and probate lawyer. I was born in Texas, and as a kid lived in Texas, Pennsylvania and Georgia. In the Army, I was stationed in Ft. Huachuca, Arizona and at a base in West Germany. I've lived in Georgia since 1971. I've represented taxpayer groups and run for office before as a Libertarian. \r\n<p>The country is degrading and the uni-party is totally fine with that. I'm not. I want to restore the American customs of easy openness, when you could speak your mind, tell a joke, or put a political sticker on your car, without people calling you names they think are nasty, threatening you, or deplatforming or cancelling you. \r\n</p><p>We also have government actively eroding the relationships between the sexes and I will work to stop and reverse that damage. \r\n</p><p>I want to restore our custom of appreciating our history rather than tearing it all down constantly. Some people who have had a burr under their saddles for their entire lives live in a constant blind rage against our country. Those who loved the beautiful prosperous and happy place it was before this rage began have been stultified into quiet, exhausted by the unrelenting barrage of attacks by the unhinged who for the most part are Marxists or some flavor thereof.\r\n</p>\nFinally, American jobs, homes, schools, roads and hospitals must be for Americans and not the random foreign nationals that a derelict executive branch unlawfully decides to admit.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading-key-message-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-key-message-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-224595-2024-10-07\" 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-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-key-message-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><ul><li>To reduce inflation of food, gas, and housing, government spending must return to 2019 levels. When government spends too much on goods and services, prices go up, up, up.\r\n<p>Spending bills must originate in the House. The power must be robustly and courageously used to bring to heel the geriatrics in the Senate who wouldn't know a financial, immigration, or business over-regulation problem if it bit them in the ass.\r\n</p>\n<pre>I will not vote for a Continuing Resolution that does not reduce spending.\r\n</pre>\nMedia coverage is irresponsible but is no excuse. But too often the cause is also that House members are not \"Americans-First.\" They rarely disclose their true priorities, which Americans have a right to know. I will be open and honest.</li><li>Our country is overburdened by too many immigrants, illegal and legal. In 2018, the conservative estimate of a Yale Management School study put the number of illegal aliens in the United States at 22 million which did not include Obama's DACA recipients or the 10-million-plus that have come in since 2021. \r\n\r\nWe must close the border with all legal loopholes eliminated so no discretion is left to the executive branch on enforcing our border laws and immigration laws; send home 25+ million illegal foreign nationals; reduce legal immigration; strengthen requirements for assimilation; and remove the Supreme Court's jurisdiction to hear challenges to state laws related to reducing or eliminating the presence of illegal aliens in their states.</li><li>Term limits would be a real help to restoring America, as would be limiting the length of time someone could be employed by the federal government to 10 or 20 years. \r\n\r\nAs it is, career bureaucrats outmaneuver our elected representatives and become a law unto themselves. This is really hurting us in industry, the environment, medicine and other areas. We cannot trust people who over more than two decades create their own fiefdoms and they have illustrated this over and over again.</li></ul></span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading1-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse1-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-224595-2024-10-07\" 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=\"heading1-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse1-224595-2024-10-07\" 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 passionate about making Americans First-Class Citizens again and removing the influence of foreign governments from our internal politics, such as when the President of Mexico asks Mexican citizens in America to vote to advance Mexican interests. Divided loyalty is not loyalty.<br/><br/>\n<p>I'm also distressed that our elected politicians have made a deal to import cheaper labor and give them bundles of benefits, which they then force American citizens to pay for by taxing them. Americans are not the pack mules of foreign nationals!<br/><br/>\n</p>\nI also watch our younger people, men in particular, floundering, and want to see us give them the support they deserve, instead of blaming them for every imaginary evil on the planet.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse2-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading2-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse2-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse2-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWho do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading2-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse2-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tEverywhere I look I see good people who make different kinds of mistakes; sometimes they learn and sometimes they don't. Learning from mistakes I find to be very worthwhile; regrettably, experience is the best but most unforgiving teacher.<br/><br/>\n<p>I have a few friends who are unusually honest, hardworking and charitable. I have other acquaintances who suffered devastating trauma as children and they impress me because they are determined to overcome the fallout which has so many lifelong facets. Their determination amazes me.<br/><br/>\r\nBut in politics, I admire the man who has the vision to recognize a problem and its solution and the courage to stand alone to address it, if need be. Such men are the rarest people on earth and quite possibly the most important. Andrew Jackson ridding us of the national bank is one example. Many members of our revolutionary generation also had such courage and determination.<br/><br/>\n</p>\nI want to be the person who sees the problem, has the courage to analyze it to its roots, say what I see, act upon it, and keep my eyes fixed upon it, even when the smears are thrown at me like it's people's favorite game- which it often is.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse3-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading3-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse3-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse3-224595-2024-10-07\" 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=\"heading3-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse3-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tEdmund Burke's 1775 speech to the British Parliament called, \"Conciliation with America.\"<br/><br/>\n<p>John Locke's Second Treatise on Government.<br/><br/>\r\nMurray Rothbard book on Money and Banking - can't recall exactly which one.<br/><br/>\r\nSome of Thomas Jefferson's private letters.<br/><br/>\r\nToo many others to list.<br/><br/>\n</p>\nOn folks suffering from trauma, a couple of primers: \"United We Stand: A Book for People With Multiple Personalities\" by Eliana Gil; and \"A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder\" by Robert Oxnam.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse4-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading4-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse4-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse4-224595-2024-10-07\" 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=\"heading4-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse4-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tDetermination, courage, good reasoning abilities, understanding of how law works, loyalty to Americans, and a belief that healthy and prosperous Americans are a good thing.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse5-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading5-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse5-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse5-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading5-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse5-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tWhen I think about a subject seriously, I almost never take it at face value. If it's important, I will chip away at the layers covering its core until I reach the core and fully understand it.<br/><br/>\r\nAnd then I'll learn I don't fully understand it, and I'll chip away some more, always trying to reach an accurate understanding of the fundamental qualities. Too many people take one barnacle off the boat and call it \"done.\" Then, when the boat still doesn't perform well, they wonder why but shrug it off. I don't shrug it off.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse6-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading6-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse6-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse6-224595-2024-10-07\" 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=\"heading6-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse6-224595-2024-10-07\" 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 show up for work, meet and listen to constituents, apply a lifetime's worth of knowledge to issues, work for the betterment of Americans and not foreign nationals, and to preserve American lives as well as enrich them by freeing them from burdensome government.<br/><br/>\r\nIt's important to challenge institutional practices which are not working and to find new ways to do things. It's also important to be very transparent about what is driving a particular policy or decision, because Americans DESERVE to know the whys and the wherefores.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse7-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading7-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse7-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse7-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat legacy would you like to leave?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading7-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse7-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\t\"Legacy\" is a cheap, self-centered word. Ronald Reagan said it's amazing how much you can get done if you don't mind who gets the credit, and those are words to live by.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse8-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading8-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse8-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse8-224595-2024-10-07\" 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=\"heading8-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse8-224595-2024-10-07\" 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 saw John F. Kennedy in San Antonio the day before he died. I was 5, I guess.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse9-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading9-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse9-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse9-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat was your very first job? How long did you have it?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading9-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse9-224595-2024-10-07\" 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 delivered the afternoon newspaper, the Atlanta Journal, in 1971, right when I turned 13. I had it about 5 months before we moved.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse10-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading10-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse10-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse10-224595-2024-10-07\" 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 your favorite book? Why?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading10-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse10-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tEdmund Burke's speech on \"Conciliation with America\" always fills me with growing pride for Americans. He elucidates how Americans took an almost empty land and made it a powerhouse in historically record time. He sets it out, almost brick by brick. We are an amazing people.<br/><br/>\r\nIt also warns me about the math of an expanding foreign population, as do the books by Mark Steyn.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse11-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading11-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse11-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse11-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tIf you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading11-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse11-224595-2024-10-07\" 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 want to be a bird, made for flying. That would be the best thing ever, except living outdoors 24/7.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse12-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading12-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse12-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse12-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat was the last song that got stuck in your head?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading12-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse12-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tU2, \"One.\"\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse13-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading13-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse13-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse13-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading13-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse13-224595-2024-10-07\" 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 Power of the Purse. This muscular power has atrophied in part because House representatives fear our media's irresponsible and superficial coverage of budget fights. As R.F.K., Jr. said, the media has become \"government mouthpieces and stenographers for the organs of power.\" <br/><br/>\n<pre>The imposition of term limits will help rejuvenate the use of the Power of the Purse because if you're not singularly focused on re-election, you're risking less when you won't sign off on an unlimited credit card for government. Right now, it's nothing but a rubber-stamp on the budget.<br/><br/>\r\n</pre>\nThe power of the Speaker of the House needs to be reduced and returned to the House as a whole. The idea that currently four or five people meet to decide the fate of this nation destroys actual representation by the 430 other people sent to represent their citizens.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse14-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading14-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse14-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse14-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tDo you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading14-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse14-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tIt's a double-edged sword. It is beneficial to understand how it works, but in my experience, once most people become a part of government, they take on the viewpoints and priorities of those whose interests are not the interests of the American people as a whole, but rather, discrete interests. <br/><br/>\n<p>Real-world experience in business or the professions is clearly exceptionally helpful. I remember Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern starting a small business called the Stratford Inn, lamenting after he left politics that<br/><br/>\r\n“I’m for protecting the health and well-being of both workers and consumers. I’m for a clean environment and economic justice. But I’m convinced we can pursue those worthy goals and still cut down vastly on the incredible paperwork, the complicated tax forms, the number of minute regulations, and the seemingly endless reporting requirements that afflict American business. Many businesses, especially small independents such as the Stratford Inn, simply can’t pass such costs on to their customers and remain competitive or profitable.” <br/><br/>\r\nWhat McGovern Learned » Richard Nixon Foundation <br/><br/>\n</p>\nA background in law is of assistance, because it gives some understanding how laws are applied in the real world and some exposure to the military is also helpful. In short, many life experiences are helpful.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse15-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading15-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse15-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse15-224595-2024-10-07\" 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=\"heading15-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse15-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tRepatriating 25+ million illegal foreign nationals and limiting legal immigration.<br/><br/>\n<p>Getting our federal budget cut down to size so inflation will be manageable.<br/><br/>\r\nRolling back multi-faceted anti-family and anti-male policies the Establishment has imposed, making the youngest members of our society unhappier than ever. <br/><br/>\r\nWe deserve Ma Bell, not Big Brother. Altering the legal status of big tech and its manipulations and strangulation of free speech and deplatforming, which may require a completely new legal approach to reduce, limit, or eliminate the disproportionate influence of tech companies and their owners on political and other expression. <br/><br/>\r\nArtificial Intelligence use and misuse. This technology is germinating under our watch, and whatever we do or fail to do, will reverberate possibly for hundreds of years or millennia. Commercial interests alone cannot be permitted to determine its course. If our current constitutional and regulatory paradigms do not adequately address the reality of AI, then we must alter them to adjust to reality.<br/><br/>\r\nDismantling or restructuring those parts of the executive branch, which, without Americans' approval or consent, are spying on and censoring American citizens contrary to our unalienable rights. Relatedly those parts of the executive branch which are destabilizing regions around the world must be reined in or eliminated. Americans do not want and cannot afford, to be both the destroyer and restorer of nations around the world.<br/><br/>\r\nReturning our manufacturing and industrial base from other countries in order to be self-sufficient even in emergencies or war, and to provide our working-age citizens with opportunities. <br/><br/>\n</p>\nRestoring integrity to our medical and pharmacological systems and re-examining our system of payments and/or insurance for medical care. Our current system inflates costs and burdens our people. We need less paper-pushing and more care, to get more bang for our bucks.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse16-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading16-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse16-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse16-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tDo you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading16-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse16-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tTwo-years is fine. The real problem I am discovering, is the fundraising. It takes huge amounts of money for things such as text messages to voters, web ads, signs, et cetera. I've been told by more than one person that I should spend 35 to 40 hours per week just on fundraising. This will definitely dampen your enthusiasm for running for office.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse17-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading17-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse17-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse17-224595-2024-10-07\" 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=\"heading17-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse17-224595-2024-10-07\" 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 support a constitutional amendment to limit U.S. House representatives to three two-year terms, and the U.S. Senate to two six-year terms as proposed by U.S. Term Limits. See more at www.TermLimits.org.<br/><br/>\n<p>I would personally prefer two four-year terms for senators, however, passing a constitutional amendment is difficult, and therefore I defer to those who are working hard to get the above limits passed.<br/><br/>\r\nThe anti-Federalists contended in the 1780s that a senate term of six years would create an aristocracy, which of course has turned out to be correct. Senators usually leave in a wheelchair or a coffin.<br/><br/>\n</p>\nRep. Massie of Kentucky believes they would not solve the problem, but I have little doubt they would be massively helpful.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse18-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading18-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse18-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse18-224595-2024-10-07\" 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 particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading18-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse18-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tRep. Jared Golden, Maine, Democrat, because among other reasons, he wrote an op-ed for the Bangor Daily News, stating, \"While I don't plan to vote for him, Donald Trump is going to win. And I'm OK with that. ... [t]he idea that a Trump victory is not just a political loss, but a unique threat to our democracy. I reject the premise. Unlike Biden and many others, I refuse to participate in a campaign to scare voters with the idea that Trump will end our democratic system.\"<br/><br/>\n<p>https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/02/opinion/opinion-contributor/jared-golden-donald-trump-going-to-win-election-democracy-be-just-fine/<br/><br/>\n</p>\nAlso, Rep. Thomas Massie, Kentucky, Republican, is a judicious independent thinker, and Rep. Matt Gaetz, Florida, Republican, has courage, brings the fire, and is willing to move doors and windows. The House definitely needs some remodeling; it's not working!\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse19-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading19-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse19-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse19-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tBoth sitting representatives and candidates for office hear many personal stories from the residents of their district. Is there a story that you’ve heard that you found particularly touching, memorable, or impactful?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading19-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse19-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tAn elderly couple told me they had emptied their retirement accounts to purchase a home for their adult child and his wife, because they simply could not afford a home in the current environment. <br/><br/>\n<p>Another young married couple told me that even with both of them working, they were struggling financially. Clearly our current economic policies don't support successful family formation, and it is so unnecessary.<br/><br/>\n</p>\nAnother person who works full-time pays $800 per month for medical insurance and she suffers migraines. She told me the medicine that worked was denied by her insurance company and what was substituted is making her migraines worse. Our medical system of payments is not working. We have to critically examine it and improve it.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse20-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading20-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse20-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse20-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tDo you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading20-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse20-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tIt is frequently inevitable, and occasionally desirable, but too often used as a cloak for cowardice or subterfuge.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse21-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading21-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse21-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse21-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tThe Constitution says that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House. What role would this power play in your priorities if elected?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading21-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse21-224595-2024-10-07\" 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 power must be robustly and courageously used to bring to heel the geriatrics in the Senate who wouldn't know a financial, immigration, or business over-regulation problem if it bit them in the ass. <br/><br/>\n<p>Right now, the House punts EVERY TIME on the budget. This makes them the worst, most predictable football team EVER. I will not be one of those pushovers.<br/><br/>\r\nThe Senate routinely lets House bills languish without votes, including the impeachment articles against the actual immigration czar Alexander Mayorkas.* Just deny the Senate spending bills for a while, and they'll come around.<br/><br/>\r\nI would do my best to support using an actual budget process instead of huge 2,000 page bills, and work to use the budget power to reduce inflation of food, gas, and housing.<br/><br/>\r\nFurther, I would relish using the power to force transparency from rogue agencies and to punish bureaucrats who don't recognize proper limits to their power.<br/><br/>\n</p>\n<pre>I will not vote for a Continuing Resolution that does not reduce spending.<br/><br/>\r\n</pre>\n<p>Fear of irresponsible media coverage is no excuse. But too often the cause is also that House members are not \"Americans-First.\" They rarely disclose their true priorities, which Americans have a right to know. I will be open and honest.<br/><br/>\n</p>\n<ul><li>He can Americanize his name just like immigrants before him.\t\t\t</li></ul></span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse22-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading22-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse22-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse22-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tHow should the U.S. House use its investigative powers?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading22-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse22-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tIn whatever ways will be most likely to crumble the edifice of overbearing government and help Americans prosper.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse23-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading23-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse23-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse23-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat committees interest you?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading23-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse23-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\tHomeland Security includes Border Security and Enforcement, which is of prime interest. Also the Judiciary committee because it includes a subcommittee on immigration and enforcement and has a subcommittee on federal government surveillance.<br/><br/>\nBut I'm not fooling myself; getting on some committees takes a miracle.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse24-224595-2024-10-07\" id=\"heading24-224595-2024-10-07\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse24-224595-2024-10-07\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse24-224595-2024-10-07\" 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 views on financial transparency and government accountability?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading24-224595-2024-10-07\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse24-224595-2024-10-07\" 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\t\"Financial transparency\" for whom? If for the government, then I agree with the idea someone suggested to put the entire federal government checking account registers online so you can see every item.<br/><br/>\r\nGovernment accountability is something else: all these agencies in these buildings where no one can check on them. \"Checks and balances\" sound good in theory and sometimes in practice, but a legislature is not match for the Bureaucratic State. We need to examine how federal bureaucracies can be made transparent, because they are not.\t\t\t</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\nKaty Stamper completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Stamper's responses.\nExpand all | Collapse all\nWho are you? Tell us about yourself. I'm a fed-up citizen, Army veteran and probate lawyer. I was born in Texas, and as a kid lived in Texas, Pennsylvania and Georgia. In the Army, I was stationed in Ft. Huachuca, Arizona and at a base in West Germany. I've lived in Georgia since 1971. I've represented taxpayer groups and run for office before as a Libertarian. The country is degrading and the uni-party is totally fine with that. I'm not. I want to restore the American customs of easy openness, when you could speak your mind, tell a joke, or put a political sticker on your car, without people calling you names they think are nasty, threatening you, or deplatforming or cancelling you. We also have government actively eroding the relationships between the sexes and I will work to stop and reverse that damage. I want to restore our custom of appreciating our history rather than tearing it all down constantly. Some people who have had a burr under their saddles for their entire lives live in a constant blind rage against our country. Those who loved the beautiful prosperous and happy place it was before this rage began have been stultified into quiet, exhausted by the unrelenting barrage of attacks by the unhinged who for the most part are Marxists or some flavor thereof. Finally, American jobs, homes, schools, roads and hospitals must be for Americans and not the random foreign nationals that a derelict executive branch unlawfully decides to admit. 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? To reduce inflation of food, gas, and housing, government spending must return to 2019 levels. When government spends too much on goods and services, prices go up, up, up. Spending bills must originate in the House. The power must be robustly and courageously used to bring to heel the geriatrics in the Senate who wouldn't know a financial, immigration, or business over-regulation problem if it bit them in the ass. I will not vote for a Continuing Resolution that does not reduce spending. Media coverage is irresponsible but is no excuse. But too often the cause is also that House members are not \"Americans-First.\" They rarely disclose their true priorities, which Americans have a right to know. I will be open and honest. Our country is overburdened by too many immigrants, illegal and legal. In 2018, the conservative estimate of a Yale Management School study put the number of illegal aliens in the United States at 22 million which did not include Obama's DACA recipients or the 10-million-plus that have come in since 2021. \r\n\r\nWe must close the border with all legal loopholes eliminated so no discretion is left to the executive branch on enforcing our border laws and immigration laws; send home 25+ million illegal foreign nationals; reduce legal immigration; strengthen requirements for assimilation; and remove the Supreme Court's jurisdiction to hear challenges to state laws related to reducing or eliminating the presence of illegal aliens in their states. Term limits would be a real help to restoring America, as would be limiting the length of time someone could be employed by the federal government to 10 or 20 years. \r\n\r\nAs it is, career bureaucrats outmaneuver our elected representatives and become a law unto themselves. This is really hurting us in industry, the environment, medicine and other areas. We cannot trust people who over more than two decades create their own fiefdoms and they have illustrated this over and over again. What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? I'm passionate about making Americans First-Class Citizens again and removing the influence of foreign governments from our internal politics, such as when the President of Mexico asks Mexican citizens in America to vote to advance Mexican interests. Divided loyalty is not loyalty. I'm also distressed that our elected politicians have made a deal to import cheaper labor and give them bundles of benefits, which they then force American citizens to pay for by taxing them. Americans are not the pack mules of foreign nationals! I also watch our younger people, men in particular, floundering, and want to see us give them the support they deserve, instead of blaming them for every imaginary evil on the planet. Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why? Everywhere I look I see good people who make different kinds of mistakes; sometimes they learn and sometimes they don't. Learning from mistakes I find to be very worthwhile; regrettably, experience is the best but most unforgiving teacher. I have a few friends who are unusually honest, hardworking and charitable. I have other acquaintances who suffered devastating trauma as children and they impress me because they are determined to overcome the fallout which has so many lifelong facets. Their determination amazes me. But in politics, I admire the man who has the vision to recognize a problem and its solution and the courage to stand alone to address it, if need be. Such men are the rarest people on earth and quite possibly the most important. Andrew Jackson ridding us of the national bank is one example. Many members of our revolutionary generation also had such courage and determination. I want to be the person who sees the problem, has the courage to analyze it to its roots, say what I see, act upon it, and keep my eyes fixed upon it, even when the smears are thrown at me like it's people's favorite game- which it often is. Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy? Edmund Burke's 1775 speech to the British Parliament called, \"Conciliation with America.\" John Locke's Second Treatise on Government. Murray Rothbard book on Money and Banking - can't recall exactly which one. Some of Thomas Jefferson's private letters. Too many others to list. On folks suffering from trauma, a couple of primers: \"United We Stand: A Book for People With Multiple Personalities\" by Eliana Gil; and \"A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder\" by Robert Oxnam. What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official? Determination, courage, good reasoning abilities, understanding of how law works, loyalty to Americans, and a belief that healthy and prosperous Americans are a good thing. What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder? When I think about a subject seriously, I almost never take it at face value. If it's important, I will chip away at the layers covering its core until I reach the core and fully understand it. And then I'll learn I don't fully understand it, and I'll chip away some more, always trying to reach an accurate understanding of the fundamental qualities. Too many people take one barnacle off the boat and call it \"done.\" Then, when the boat still doesn't perform well, they wonder why but shrug it off. I don't shrug it off. What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office? To show up for work, meet and listen to constituents, apply a lifetime's worth of knowledge to issues, work for the betterment of Americans and not foreign nationals, and to preserve American lives as well as enrich them by freeing them from burdensome government. It's important to challenge institutional practices which are not working and to find new ways to do things. It's also important to be very transparent about what is driving a particular policy or decision, because Americans DESERVE to know the whys and the wherefores. What legacy would you like to leave? \"Legacy\" is a cheap, self-centered word. Ronald Reagan said it's amazing how much you can get done if you don't mind who gets the credit, and those are words to live by. What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time? I saw John F. Kennedy in San Antonio the day before he died. I was 5, I guess. What was your very first job? How long did you have it? I delivered the afternoon newspaper, the Atlanta Journal, in 1971, right when I turned 13. I had it about 5 months before we moved. What is your favorite book? Why? Edmund Burke's speech on \"Conciliation with America\" always fills me with growing pride for Americans. He elucidates how Americans took an almost empty land and made it a powerhouse in historically record time. He sets it out, almost brick by brick. We are an amazing people. It also warns me about the math of an expanding foreign population, as do the books by Mark Steyn. If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be? I want to be a bird, made for flying. That would be the best thing ever, except living outdoors 24/7. What was the last song that got stuck in your head? U2, \"One.\" What qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution? The Power of the Purse. This muscular power has atrophied in part because House representatives fear our media's irresponsible and superficial coverage of budget fights. As R.F.K., Jr. said, the media has become \"government mouthpieces and stenographers for the organs of power.\" The imposition of term limits will help rejuvenate the use of the Power of the Purse because if you're not singularly focused on re-election, you're risking less when you won't sign off on an unlimited credit card for government. Right now, it's nothing but a rubber-stamp on the budget. The power of the Speaker of the House needs to be reduced and returned to the House as a whole. The idea that currently four or five people meet to decide the fate of this nation destroys actual representation by the 430 other people sent to represent their citizens. Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics? It's a double-edged sword. It is beneficial to understand how it works, but in my experience, once most people become a part of government, they take on the viewpoints and priorities of those whose interests are not the interests of the American people as a whole, but rather, discrete interests. Real-world experience in business or the professions is clearly exceptionally helpful. I remember Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern starting a small business called the Stratford Inn, lamenting after he left politics that “I’m for protecting the health and well-being of both workers and consumers. I’m for a clean environment and economic justice. But I’m convinced we can pursue those worthy goals and still cut down vastly on the incredible paperwork, the complicated tax forms, the number of minute regulations, and the seemingly endless reporting requirements that afflict American business. Many businesses, especially small independents such as the Stratford Inn, simply can’t pass such costs on to their customers and remain competitive or profitable.” What McGovern Learned » Richard Nixon Foundation A background in law is of assistance, because it gives some understanding how laws are applied in the real world and some exposure to the military is also helpful. In short, many life experiences are helpful. What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade? Repatriating 25+ million illegal foreign nationals and limiting legal immigration. Getting our federal budget cut down to size so inflation will be manageable. Rolling back multi-faceted anti-family and anti-male policies the Establishment has imposed, making the youngest members of our society unhappier than ever. We deserve Ma Bell, not Big Brother. Altering the legal status of big tech and its manipulations and strangulation of free speech and deplatforming, which may require a completely new legal approach to reduce, limit, or eliminate the disproportionate influence of tech companies and their owners on political and other expression. Artificial Intelligence use and misuse. This technology is germinating under our watch, and whatever we do or fail to do, will reverberate possibly for hundreds of years or millennia. Commercial interests alone cannot be permitted to determine its course. If our current constitutional and regulatory paradigms do not adequately address the reality of AI, then we must alter them to adjust to reality. Dismantling or restructuring those parts of the executive branch, which, without Americans' approval or consent, are spying on and censoring American citizens contrary to our unalienable rights. Relatedly those parts of the executive branch which are destabilizing regions around the world must be reined in or eliminated. Americans do not want and cannot afford, to be both the destroyer and restorer of nations around the world. Returning our manufacturing and industrial base from other countries in order to be self-sufficient even in emergencies or war, and to provide our working-age citizens with opportunities. Restoring integrity to our medical and pharmacological systems and re-examining our system of payments and/or insurance for medical care. Our current system inflates costs and burdens our people. We need less paper-pushing and more care, to get more bang for our bucks. Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives? Two-years is fine. The real problem I am discovering, is the fundraising. It takes huge amounts of money for things such as text messages to voters, web ads, signs, et cetera. I've been told by more than one person that I should spend 35 to 40 hours per week just on fundraising. This will definitely dampen your enthusiasm for running for office. What are your thoughts on term limits? I support a constitutional amendment to limit U.S. House representatives to three two-year terms, and the U.S. Senate to two six-year terms as proposed by U.S. Term Limits. See more at www.TermLimits.org. I would personally prefer two four-year terms for senators, however, passing a constitutional amendment is difficult, and therefore I defer to those who are working hard to get the above limits passed. The anti-Federalists contended in the 1780s that a senate term of six years would create an aristocracy, which of course has turned out to be correct. Senators usually leave in a wheelchair or a coffin. Rep. Massie of Kentucky believes they would not solve the problem, but I have little doubt they would be massively helpful. Is there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after? Rep. Jared Golden, Maine, Democrat, because among other reasons, he wrote an op-ed for the Bangor Daily News, stating, \"While I don't plan to vote for him, Donald Trump is going to win. And I'm OK with that. ... [t]he idea that a Trump victory is not just a political loss, but a unique threat to our democracy. I reject the premise. Unlike Biden and many others, I refuse to participate in a campaign to scare voters with the idea that Trump will end our democratic system.\" https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/02/opinion/opinion-contributor/jared-golden-donald-trump-going-to-win-election-democracy-be-just-fine/ Also, Rep. Thomas Massie, Kentucky, Republican, is a judicious independent thinker, and Rep. Matt Gaetz, Florida, Republican, has courage, brings the fire, and is willing to move doors and windows. The House definitely needs some remodeling; it's not working! Both sitting representatives and candidates for office hear many personal stories from the residents of their district. Is there a story that you’ve heard that you found particularly touching, memorable, or impactful? An elderly couple told me they had emptied their retirement accounts to purchase a home for their adult child and his wife, because they simply could not afford a home in the current environment. Another young married couple told me that even with both of them working, they were struggling financially. Clearly our current economic policies don't support successful family formation, and it is so unnecessary. Another person who works full-time pays $800 per month for medical insurance and she suffers migraines. She told me the medicine that worked was denied by her insurance company and what was substituted is making her migraines worse. Our medical system of payments is not working. We have to critically examine it and improve it. Do you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking? It is frequently inevitable, and occasionally desirable, but too often used as a cloak for cowardice or subterfuge. The Constitution says that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House. What role would this power play in your priorities if elected? The power must be robustly and courageously used to bring to heel the geriatrics in the Senate who wouldn't know a financial, immigration, or business over-regulation problem if it bit them in the ass. Right now, the House punts EVERY TIME on the budget. This makes them the worst, most predictable football team EVER. I will not be one of those pushovers. The Senate routinely lets House bills languish without votes, including the impeachment articles against the actual immigration czar Alexander Mayorkas.* Just deny the Senate spending bills for a while, and they'll come around. I would do my best to support using an actual budget process instead of huge 2,000 page bills, and work to use the budget power to reduce inflation of food, gas, and housing. Further, I would relish using the power to force transparency from rogue agencies and to punish bureaucrats who don't recognize proper limits to their power. I will not vote for a Continuing Resolution that does not reduce spending. Fear of irresponsible media coverage is no excuse. But too often the cause is also that House members are not \"Americans-First.\" They rarely disclose their true priorities, which Americans have a right to know. I will be open and honest. He can Americanize his name just like immigrants before him. How should the U.S. House use its investigative powers? In whatever ways will be most likely to crumble the edifice of overbearing government and help Americans prosper. What committees interest you? Homeland Security includes Border Security and Enforcement, which is of prime interest. Also the Judiciary committee because it includes a subcommittee on immigration and enforcement and has a subcommittee on federal government surveillance. But I'm not fooling myself; getting on some committees takes a miracle. What are your views on financial transparency and government accountability? \"Financial transparency\" for whom? If for the government, then I agree with the idea someone suggested to put the entire federal government checking account registers online so you can see every item. Government accountability is something else: all these agencies in these buildings where no one can check on them. \"Checks and balances\" sound good in theory and sometimes in practice, but a legislature is not match for the Bureaucratic State. We need to examine how federal bureaucracies can be made transparent, because they are not.\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>Stamper’s 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>Prices need to be reduced. Kate believes our economy exists to serve Americans; Americans do not exist to serve an economy or the 1%.\n</p><p>Protect Social Security. and Medicare. Americans have paid in to Social Security for all of their working years, and rely upon it. It must be our nation’s priority.\n</p><p>Women Deserve Respect and Dignity. Non-women should not displace us or intrude into women’s and children’s sports and bathrooms.<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-quotedisclaimer_3-0\"><a href=\"#cite_note-quotedisclaimer-3\">[3]</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;\">—Katy Stamper’s campaign website (2024)<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-4\"><a href=\"#cite_note-4\">[4]</a></sup></cite>\n</td></tr></tbody></table>\n</div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1548351761485-0\"><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(\"div-gpt-ad-1548351761485-0\"); });</script></div>", "answer_text": "Stamper’s campaign website stated the following:\n“ Prices need to be reduced. Kate believes our economy exists to serve Americans; Americans do not exist to serve an economy or the 1%. Protect Social Security. and Medicare. Americans have paid in to Social Security for all of their working years, and rely upon it. It must be our nation’s priority. Women Deserve Respect and Dignity. Non-women should not displace us or intrude into women’s and children’s sports and bathrooms. [3] ” —Katy Stamper’s campaign website (2024) [4]"}]