Jonathan Emord

Criminal Justice / Public Safety

We must increase funding and support for law enforcement across the United States to ensure prompt interdiction of crime and defense of the law-abiding; there must never again be a Summer like 2020 in which criminals are allowed to destroy lives, take liberty, and destroy property without arrest, prosecution, and incarceration. Learn more

In all instances except those in which there is direct and irrefutable evidence of the commission of an assault and battery of police or national guard or of destruction of government property, those incarcerated in association with the January 6 protests at the Capitol should be granted amnesty and immediately released from prison. Learn more

Economy

We must eliminate regulatory barriers to free markets and free enterprise, encourage growth of domestic manufacturing and a return of corporations from China and other nations, and establish enterprise zones across the United States that cut federal, state, and local taxes and regulations to inspire economic development of depressed areas. Learn more

We must cut government regulation and restore congressional responsibility and accountability to the people by prohibiting any proposed federal regulation from taking effect unless first adopted by Congress and signed into law and terminating all existing federal regulation within 3 years unless adopted by Congress and signed into law. Learn more

Education

We must cut off all federal funding for states, school boards, and schools that adopt a curriculum that violates the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause by teaching CRT. Learn more

We must remove Department of Justice jurisdiction over schools, school boards, and parents in all instances of protest by parents against those institutions; never again allowing an Attorney General of the United States to target parents for exercising their First Amendment rights. Learn more

We must cut off all federal funding for states, school boards, and schools that authorize school employees or contractors to recommend that students under the age of 18 alter their genders or that propound the lie that it is possible through surgery or hormone therapy to render a biological male a female or a biological female a male. We must make it a federal felony for anyone to aid or cause the transitioning of a person who is under the age of 18. Learn more

Environment / Energy

We must eliminate all federal, state, and local regulatory impediments to fossil fuel production in the United States to make gas affordable and bring down inflation. Learn more

Guns

Every American has an unalienable right to self-defense. Learn more

Immigration

We must restore the remain in Mexico policy. We must complete construction of the border wall. We must invoke the State Self-Defense Clause of the Constitution and give block grants to border states willing to defend the border from illegal entry for the precise purpose of recruiting more state police and national guard troops to police the border and arrest, detain and evict illegal entrants. Learn more

Taxes / Budget

We must cut individual and corporate taxes and eliminate inheritance and capital gains taxes to return earnings to private hands and trigger a free market boom. Learn more

Wages / Job Benefits

I favor right to work laws that give private sector employees the freedom to choose whether or not to join a union and that make it optional for employees to pay union dues or membership fees, whether members of a union or not. That freedom is guaranteed by the First Amendment freedom of association and freedom of speech. I oppose laws that grant public employees collective bargaining rights. Public employees are servants of taxpayers and carry a special trust to fulfill essential legally mandated duties on behalf of the public. Enabling public employees to bargain collectively for higher wages and benefits against the agencies and departments that employ them and the laws that define their service harms the taxpayer by enabling commitments that carry tax consequences to be made without prior public authorization. It also enables public employees to alter the application and interpretation of law and to hold citizens in need of services hostage to public employee demands, creating a conflict between public employees’ duties to serve the public and their own personal and political ambitions. In this way, the grant to public employees of collective bargaining rights inevitably increases public debt and disables public service. Learn more