Legislative District 6 Questionaire Response
1) Do you have a good relationship with the Lt. Governor's office? If so, why? If not, what will you do to ensure that you develop a good relationship?
Every time I have been in the Lt. Governor's office or called them on the telephone they have provided prompt, efficient and courteous service as they would provide for anyone. I am able to communicate well with just about everyone. I'm even able to get Democrats to vote for Republican candidates and put campaign signs in their yards and defend their position to their Democrat friends and neighbors by finding conservative common ground in my long history of campaigning door-to-door for for Utah Republican Party platform adherent Republicans. Most Republicans hearing that a person will not be voting for our candidate because they are a Democrat would promptly go on to the next door. I ask if the reason they are a Democrat is because their parents and grandparents were before them as this is often this is the case. Then I ask if they were conservative. This is often a sure thing as Utah is generally conservative and the older generations were generally much more conservative. Then I show them the radical ideas of their Democrat candidate and speak on their Democrat Party not being the same as it was and that it was once much more conservative than it is now and I ask if their conservative parents and grandparents would have voted for that. Most exclaim: Certainly Not! Then they are just often minutes away from asking to have me place the Republican candidate's sign in their yard! Yes, I do expect to communicate well with the Lieutenant Governor and my message will always be centered on Republican principles of our Utah Republican Party platform.
2) When was the last time you've read the following documents:
a. Declaration of Independence
Tuesday, June 29, 2007
b. US Constitution
Friends and I discussed it as recently as Friday evening at 7 P.M. from an historical perspective in the days of our Founding Fathers. I refer to it often. It concerns me greatly that we as a nation are not following our Constitution and even our sovereignty is threatened with open borders and a move to merge Canada, Mexico and our United States of America into the North American Union.
c. Utah State Constitution
Four years ago and seven years ago and I especially liked that we have very strong gun rights and I have held our legislators to this when they have considered gun control bills and I have worked effectively at getting ones who vote for gun control to be voted out of office by their own constituents.
d. Republican Party Constitution
late last night and the Party Bylaws, too.
e. Republican Party Platform
Late last night and it is referenced in just about every e-mail and post that I make that is of a political nature.
3) For any of the documents in question 2 that you have not read, will you commit to reading them before taking office?
I love this question. Our public servants take an oath to uphold our Constitution, yet our Utah legislature needs to read it carefully to not betray these principles with the bills they pass. In that spirit, my former State Representative, Morgan Philpot sponsored a bill that became Utah State Law. Aside from making Bill of Rights Day (December 15) and Constitution Day (September 17) official Utah State holidays, it also required that term of the legislature to read the Bill of Rights in it's entirety before they can start a legislative session. I do read these documents. I will continue to keep them handy and refer to them.
4) Do you believe in God? Should a belief in God have any impact on Governmental philosophy? (Note I am not asking if you belong to a specific church, or any church at all—that's not the point of this question.)
Yes. Our Constitutional republic form of representative self-government with all of it's checks and balances is Divinely inspired. It works. We should not stray from it. It is tested and proven. In thousands of years of history of hundreds of nations, none has become nearly as successful as our United States of America. With freedom, rugged individualists to made our nation prosperous and strong and able to defend itself. Yet, we hear the Democrats call themselves "progressive" and cry for "change" and even among Republicans, we hear we should "move forward." All of that means change. We are changing to less freedom and social architecture and socialism which is a proven failure in every nation that has attempted it. Losing our sovereignty at first to early stages of global governance would be a horrific loss for all of our future generations. I want to keep our Divinely inspired Constitutional republic form of representative self-government with all of it's checks and balances for our posterity.
5) If elected, what will be your first one or two priorities to address?
As official spokesperson for the Utah Republican Party, I would reach out to the people of Utah for them to learn what Republican really means from the perspective of our too often ignored Utah Republican Party platform as ratified by their precinct caucus elected delegates. I would prominently feature it on our website and speak on it and promote it as is the duty of the chairman. I will not set it aside and hide it to prevent embarrassment our elected Republican public servants who betray it as my duty is to promoting the Republican principles of the greater than a million Republicans throughout Utah. They have the voting power to elect platform adherent Republicans to be their public servants.
I will create a system that makes it easy for individuals of the general public to contribute specifically to the candidates of their choice to fundraise for our Republican candidates. Within that system on the internet and by telephone and in person and by mail, there will be an option for choosing 5% of that to be for general operating expenses of the Party. Knowing that their hard earned money goes where they want it to go to work for their causes and not against and not drained by mismanagement will do more to encourage contributions than anything else. People who contribute want to know that their contribution is used for their cause. They will! Raising a few million dollars for candidates will easily produce funds to cover operating expenses including the debt just from those who choose to check that optional 5% box when contributing to funds dedicated to the candidates of their individual choices. Party leaders do not need to control huge amounts of money and improperly influence our candidates. There won't be the Party influences on our candidates to betray our principles to receive funding as the power to decide where the funding goes will be with the voters as contributors who are voting with their dollars as they will similarly vote with their votes. It fits. They are the ones to decide. The candidates can be free to be as true to our platform as they choose as the people who want them will contribute and they are also the ones to campaign for them and vote for them. Betray the Republican voters by giving them candidates who betray our platform and we will see a continuation of major Republican losses in this next election. I am running for chairman to prevent that. The key is to treat the people like voters who are the ones to make their choices because they are. I won't say give us money and trust us to spend it properly. As with everything else, individuals want to make their choices of where their dollars go. When they can do that with their Republican Party, then they will contribute like never before. This, in sharp contrast from corporate interests contributing, the influence will be greater numbers of individual contributors voting with their dollars on funding their favorite candidates.
Ronald H Levine
RonaldHLevine@aideq.com
Midvale, Utah
801-566-2112 after 5 weekdays and sometimes late and I'm in and out of my office on weekends.
