SHARP, TRACY A

Meet the Candidate

Running For:
State House of Representatives
District:
12
Political Affiliation:
Republican
Montana Family Foundation Comments:

2025 Legislative Scorecard Score -100%

Survey

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 School Funding in Montana is at an inadequate level. SO
2. Parents should have greater freedom to choose how and where their children are educated, including options such as education savings accounts, tax credits, vouchers, or other school-choice mechanisms. SS* We have to understand that education as an institution has been failing us for years, and I do not believe throwing more tax dollars at a failed system will encourage that system to examine itself and make the changes needed to improve. I do believe competition from homeschooling and charter schools will force the public education apparatus to do some self-inspection and self-evaluation and begin considering what it needs to do to achieve a greater student success rate.
3. Parents should be allowed to homeschool their children without additional state regulation SS
4. Curricula based on Critical Race Theory (CRT) should be prohibited in Montana public schools SS
5. Comprehensive sex education should be taught in public elementary schools, beginning as early as kindergarten. SO
6. Montana’s income taxes are too high. S
7. Montana’s property taxes are too high SS* Property tax is immoral. It preys upon the elderly and those beyond their best earnings years and threatens them with confiscation of something they thought they owned. No taxation system should ever be ruinous to any segment of our population.
8. Montana’s corporate taxes are too high S
9. The Second Amendment protects the right of law-abiding citizens to own firearms for self-defense. SS* Guns are owned not only for self-defense, but to ward off totalitarian impulses of an overcentralized and powerful federal government. The Federalist Papers made it clear that our forefathers believed Europe would have not been dominated by a royalty with rights far exceeding those of the common citizen had the European citizen been properly armed, and that's why they ensured that Americans would always have the right to bear arms.
10. Montanans should not be discriminated against or treated differently based on their vaccination status. SS
11. Climate change is a serious problem that requires increased government regulation. SO
12. Environmental regulations in Montana are currently too restrictive. SS* Regardless of the varying views on environment, the current global policy is to use "man-made climate change" as an instrument to achieve totalitarian power over the populace. The free citizen is under attack and is being blamed through phony science for any and every weather phenomenon that occurs, and this is being done so distant bureaucrats in cubicles far, far away can dictate terms to the populace. They seek to dig into the citizen's bank account and take what they believe they need for environmental purposes. This is simply a sham means for imposing the power of administrators acting on behalf of an overcentralized federal (and eventually, global) government. Environmental issues today are all about power; not the environment.
13. Abortion should be illegal at all stages of pregnancy. SS
14. Abortion should be legal only in the early stages of pregnancy and restricted after a specific point, except when necessary to save the life of the mother. O* Abortion should not be allowed for convenience or as a means of birth control. If it comes down to the life of the mother or the baby--and I mean the LIFE and not the comfort or desire of the mother or her mental state--then an abortion should be allowed. Had I been forced to make the decision between the life of my wife and an unborn baby, I would have chosen the life of my wife. Life starts at conception and ends with natural death--but natural death means just that, and it does not mean "unnatural life". Today our medical capabilities can keep a person alive on machines and in a doped stupor for a very long time, and that does not/not constitute "natural death". In some of these cases, a person in possession of all their mental facilities but faced with not dying a natural death but instead living an unnatural life should be allowed to make a decision regarding their own fate.
15. Abortion should remain legal at all stages of pregnancy, without restriction. SO
16. Individuals and organizations should be allowed to opt out of abortion-related mandates, if those mandates violate their religious or moral convictions. SS
17. Physician-assisted suicide should be legal in Montana. S
18. Biological males who identify as transgender should be allowed to compete in women’s and girl's athletic competitions. SO* Men are men. Boys are Boys. Women are Women, and girls are girls. It is becoming clearer with each passing day that all transgenderism is a form of mental illness and one that can become extremely dangerous. This nonsense has to stop, and people seeking to self-mutilate or engage in transgenderism should be treated for the mental illness they clearly possess instead of being integrated into society as yet another group with special rights, permissions, privileges, and guarantees.
19. Medical procedures intended to change a minor’s sex or gender should be prohibited. SS
20. Same-sex couples should be permitted to adopt children. SO
21. State and local nondiscrimination laws should be expanded to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the same manner as race, religion, and national origin. SO
22. Montana’s marriage laws should be revised to reflect the U.S. Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. SO
23. Objective moral truths exist and should inform laws and public policy, rather than shifting cultural preferences. SS
24. Government should be limited in scope, with most decisions best made by individuals, families, and local communities rather than centralized authorities. SS
25. Homosexuals and transgender people should be allowed to adopt children: SO
26. Personal responsibility and self-governance are more effective at solving social problems than expanded government programs: SS
27. Parents—not government institutions—are the primary authority responsible for the education and moral formation of their children: SS* My answers to these questions say it all.