Karlen, Jonathan
Meet the Candidate
Running For:
State House of RepresentativesDistrict:
98Political Affiliation:
DemocratSurvey
Response Legend
- SSStrongly Supports
- SSupports
- OOpposes
- SOStrongly Opposes
- *Comment
- −Declined to respond
- †Declined to respond, Position based on citation
| Question | Response | Comments/Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Public Schools in Montana are overfunded: | − | |
| 2. Public Schools in Montana are underfunded: | − | |
| 3. Public Schools in Montana are adequately funded: | − | |
| 4. Parental choice in education should be expanded through tax credits, education savings accounts, vouchers, and other means to allow children to attend any school of their or their parents choice: | − | |
| 5. Parents should be allowed to home school their children without additional state regulation: | − | |
| 6. The teaching of "Critical Race Theory" (CRT) should be banned in Montana public schools: | − | |
| 7. Comprehensive sex education, beginning as early as kindergarten, should be allowed in public elementary schools: | − | |
| 8. Income taxes in Montana are too high: | − | |
| 9. Property taxes in Montana are too high: | − | |
| 10. Corporate taxes in Montana are too high: | − | |
| 11. The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows all citizens to own firearms for self-protection: | − | |
| 12. Climate Change is a problem requiring increased regulation: | − | |
| 13. Environmental regulations in Montana are too stringent: | − | |
| 14. Environmental regulations in Montana are NOT stringent enough: | − | |
| 15. Montanans should not be discriminated against or treated differently because of their vaccine status: | − | |
| 16. Doctor assisted suicide should be legal in Montana: | − | |
| 17. Abortion should be banned in ALL stages of pregnancy: | − | |
| 18. Abortion should be banned during all stages of pregnancy, with the exceptions for rape and incest: | − | |
| 19. Abortion should be banned only after a heartbeat is detected (around 6 weeks): | − | |
| 20. Abortion should be banned only after the first trimester (12 weeks): | − | |
| 21. Abortion should be banned only when a fetus becomes viable outside the womb (20 weeks): | − | |
| 22. Abortion should be banned only after the 2nd trimester (28 weeks): | − | |
| 23. Abortion should never be banned, not at any stage of pregnancy: | − | |
| 24. The Montana Constitution should be amended to allow abortion: | − | |
| 25. Infanticide (the killing of infants born alive with physical abnormalities, including infants born as a result of a botched abortion) should be banned in Montana. | − | |
| 26. Companies and individuals should be allowed to opt-out of the abortion related mandates contained in Obamacare: | − | |
| 27. Transgender athletes should be allowed to compete against athletes of the opposite sex: | − | |
| 28. Doctors should be banned from performing sex-change procedures on minors: | − | |
| 29. Homosexuals and transgender people should be allowed to adopt children: | − | |
| 30. Non-discrimination laws should be expanded to protect sexual orientation and gender identity in the same way that race, creed, nationality, and religion are protected: | − | |
| 31. Montana’s marriage laws should be changed to reflect the legalization of same-sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court: | − |