Draic Coakley

[{"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>Draic Coakley completed <a href=\"/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection</a> survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Coakley'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-309437-2025-01-26\" id=\"heading-bio-309437-2025-01-26\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-bio-309437-2025-01-26\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-bio-309437-2025-01-26\" 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-309437-2025-01-26\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-bio-309437-2025-01-26\" 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 on a mission to restore the values that make Alabama’s 3rd District strong, faith, family, and freedom. Our community deserves a representative who listens, stands firm, and fights for the hard-working men and women who are the backbone of our great state. This campaign is about more than politics; it’s about protecting the principles we hold dear and building a brighter future for our families. Together, we can defend our constitutional rights, promote economic growth, and ensure that our community thrives for generations to come.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-309437-2025-01-26\" id=\"heading-key-message-309437-2025-01-26\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-key-message-309437-2025-01-26\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-309437-2025-01-26\" 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-309437-2025-01-26\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-key-message-309437-2025-01-26\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><ul><li>INFRASTRUCTURE\r\nBring federal dollars home to Alabama instead of sending billions over sea’s to fund proxy wars! Fix our state and county roads. Repair and replace our bridges. Expand internet access to rural Alabama.</li><li>JOB GROWTH\r\nBring back our manufacturing plants to create jobs. Bring back American steel and let Alabama shine the spotlight for the rest of the country on manufacturing steel.\r\nBring tire plants and car manufacturing plants into the state.</li><li>NO MONEY TO FOREIGN WARS\r\nEnding taxpayers burden to foreign wars.\r\nAt no point should American dollars go towards proxy wars. While Alabamians are suffering to pay insurance premiums and put food on the table our elected officials are swooping in big dollars from the war complex industries and then turning around and voting to send billions to the wars that makes their special interests and corporate donors money.</li></ul></span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-309437-2025-01-26\" id=\"heading1-309437-2025-01-26\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse1-309437-2025-01-26\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-309437-2025-01-26\" 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=\"heading1-309437-2025-01-26\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse1-309437-2025-01-26\" 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\tInvesting in our Veterans.<br/>\n<p>Protecting our Constitutional rights from being stripped away. <br/>\n</p>\nAffordability for everyday Alabamians and Americans across our great nation.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse2-309437-2025-01-26\" id=\"heading2-309437-2025-01-26\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse2-309437-2025-01-26\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse2-309437-2025-01-26\" 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=\"heading2-309437-2025-01-26\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse2-309437-2025-01-26\" 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\tCommon sense. Knowing what is right and wrong. Remembering everyday that you are elected by the voters and you are serving them and only them.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse3-309437-2025-01-26\" id=\"heading3-309437-2025-01-26\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse3-309437-2025-01-26\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse3-309437-2025-01-26\" 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=\"heading3-309437-2025-01-26\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse3-309437-2025-01-26\" 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\tMy strong qualities of understanding that an elected official is not a leader but is a representative. The voters are the true leaders. My unapologetically conservative America First values and beliefs.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse4-309437-2025-01-26\" id=\"heading4-309437-2025-01-26\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse4-309437-2025-01-26\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse4-309437-2025-01-26\" 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=\"heading4-309437-2025-01-26\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse4-309437-2025-01-26\" 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\tNo\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse5-309437-2025-01-26\" id=\"heading5-309437-2025-01-26\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse5-309437-2025-01-26\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse5-309437-2025-01-26\" 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=\"heading5-309437-2025-01-26\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse5-309437-2025-01-26\" 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 United States debt and wasteful spending. As well as our enemies abroad and the “cells” that are here domestically.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse6-309437-2025-01-26\" id=\"heading6-309437-2025-01-26\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse6-309437-2025-01-26\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse6-309437-2025-01-26\" 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=\"heading6-309437-2025-01-26\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse6-309437-2025-01-26\" 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\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse7-309437-2025-01-26\" id=\"heading7-309437-2025-01-26\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse7-309437-2025-01-26\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse7-309437-2025-01-26\" 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=\"heading7-309437-2025-01-26\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse7-309437-2025-01-26\" 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\tTerm limits should be decided by the voters.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse8-309437-2025-01-26\" id=\"heading8-309437-2025-01-26\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse8-309437-2025-01-26\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse8-309437-2025-01-26\" 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=\"heading8-309437-2025-01-26\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse8-309437-2025-01-26\" 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\tMarjorie Taylor Greene\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse9-309437-2025-01-26\" id=\"heading9-309437-2025-01-26\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse9-309437-2025-01-26\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse9-309437-2025-01-26\" 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=\"heading9-309437-2025-01-26\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse9-309437-2025-01-26\" 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\tDepartment of Government Efficiency. <br/>\r\nIt is crucial that we cut wasteful spending and ease the burden from taxpayers.\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\nDraic Coakley completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Coakley's responses.\nExpand all | Collapse all\nWho are you? Tell us about yourself. I’m on a mission to restore the values that make Alabama’s 3rd District strong, faith, family, and freedom. Our community deserves a representative who listens, stands firm, and fights for the hard-working men and women who are the backbone of our great state. This campaign is about more than politics; it’s about protecting the principles we hold dear and building a brighter future for our families. Together, we can defend our constitutional rights, promote economic growth, and ensure that our community thrives for generations to come. 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? INFRASTRUCTURE\r\nBring federal dollars home to Alabama instead of sending billions over sea’s to fund proxy wars! Fix our state and county roads. Repair and replace our bridges. Expand internet access to rural Alabama. JOB GROWTH\r\nBring back our manufacturing plants to create jobs. Bring back American steel and let Alabama shine the spotlight for the rest of the country on manufacturing steel.\r\nBring tire plants and car manufacturing plants into the state. NO MONEY TO FOREIGN WARS\r\nEnding taxpayers burden to foreign wars.\r\nAt no point should American dollars go towards proxy wars. While Alabamians are suffering to pay insurance premiums and put food on the table our elected officials are swooping in big dollars from the war complex industries and then turning around and voting to send billions to the wars that makes their special interests and corporate donors money. What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Investing in our Veterans. Protecting our Constitutional rights from being stripped away. Affordability for everyday Alabamians and Americans across our great nation. What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official? Common sense. Knowing what is right and wrong. Remembering everyday that you are elected by the voters and you are serving them and only them. What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder? My strong qualities of understanding that an elected official is not a leader but is a representative. The voters are the true leaders. My unapologetically conservative America First values and beliefs. Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics? No What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade? The United States debt and wasteful spending. As well as our enemies abroad and the “cells” that are here domestically. Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives? Yes What are your thoughts on term limits? Term limits should be decided by the voters. Is there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after? Marjorie Taylor Greene What committees interest you? Department of Government Efficiency. It is crucial that we cut wasteful spending and ease the burden from taxpayers.\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."}]