Issues that matters
Kristen has spent decades working within the legislative process as a citizen advocate. At the November 23rd, 2024 GOP LLC training session, Kristen shares her insights on the wins and the losses
Election Integrity.
There is nothing more critical to the preservation of our Republican form of government than the integrity of the vote. We must increase security and integrity by returning to same-day, in-person, auditable balloting, with absentee ballots mailed out by request to those who cannot vote in person.
Life.
Life of the vulnerable must be protected, whether the vulnerability is related to age or physical or mental disability. A fetus and a mother are two separate beings, each deserving of protection under law.
Data Privacy.
Our personal data should be kept personal, private, and secure. There should be no mechanism for governments or corporations to track movements or exclude individuals from society. I oppose the Mobile Driver License because it has a latent surveillance capability. It is critical that we pursue fully, privacy-respecting methods of sharing necessary information.
Private Property.
Life, liberty, and property are foundational elements of a free society.
Second Amendment.
Kristen will always defend the right of the people to defend themselves.
Business.
Small business and entrepreneurship are critical to our success as a state and nation and must be unburdened and encouraged to thrive.
Education.
Kristen supports local control of education; teaching the basics; making schools competitive; more money spent directly on educating children, paying teachers, and supporting parents in making the best choices for their children. Parents should be in charge of and responsible for their children’s education. Education is essential to the preservation of a Republic.
Taxation.
Public money comes from individual Utahns who work hard. Both their ability to spend their own paychecks and their contribution of tax dollars should be treated with the utmost care and respect. Kristen played a key role in the 2020 Utah Tax Referendum, supervising a large portion of the highly successful Utah County signature collection effort. The successful effort pushed the legislature to repeal the tax bill.
They said it couldn’t be done.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/12/16/bipartisan-utah-group/
We did it.
Immigration.
In 2011, there was an attempt to change the Party Platform’s Immigration plank to be more accommodating to illegal immigration via “The Utah Compact.” Kristen was instrumental in pushing back against and defeating that change and preserving our current plank. As a child of an immigrant, Kristen believes all immigration should be through legal means and that our system needs to be adjusted to be more accommodating to legal immigrants.
https://mannkindperspectives.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-utah-compact-one-manns-analysis.html#more
