Charles Mconaughay
Election Information:
Party:
Democrat
District:
27B
Office:
State House or Assembly
Contact Information:
https://charlesformn.com
Survey Responses:
S = Support
O = Oppose
NR = No Response
O = Oppose
NR = No Response
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Life
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S | O | NR |
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1.Protecting Life: Protecting the right to life of an unborn baby with a beating heart. |
X | ||
2.Taxpayer Funded Abortion: Allowing taxpayer dollars to fund organizations that provide abortion. |
X | ||
3.Physician-Assisted Suicide: Allowing voluntary physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. |
X |
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First Amendment
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S | O | NR |
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4.Conscience Rights for Professionals: Prohibiting the government from denying required licensure or certification to individuals because of their religious or political beliefs. |
X | ||
5.Conscience Rights for Faith-Based Organizations: Exempting faith-based organizations (e.g. adoption/foster care providers, private schools) from regulations that cause them to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs. |
X | ||
6.Prohibiting De-Banking/Insuring Based on Beliefs: Prohibiting financial institutions from shutting a customer’s bank account or canceling their insurance because of their religious or political views. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
I support protecting individuals from government discrimination based solely on their religious or political beliefs. Professional licensure should be based on qualifications, competence, and adherence to professional standards, not ideological litmus tests. I cannot answer question 5 as written. I support religious liberty and the ability of faith communities to practice their beliefs. At the same time, exemptions should be evaluated carefully based on the specific regulation involved, whether public funding is being received, and the potential impact on the public. A simple support-or-oppose response does not capture those distinctions. I support protections against discrimination based solely on a person's lawful religious or political views. Financial institutions should make decisions based on objective legal, financial, and operational criteria rather than ideological agreement or disagreement with customers.
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Family
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S | O | NR |
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7.Protecting Kids from Social Media: Requiring platforms to by default prevent underage accounts without parental permission, preserve parents' authority when access is allowed, and remove addictive design features and data exploitation from underage accounts. |
X | ||
8(a).Parental Rights: Allowing parents to obtain professional counseling for a child struggling with gender confusion to help the child find comfort with his or her biological sex. |
X | ||
8(b).Parental Rights: Protecting parents from losing custody of their child solely because they treat their child consistent with his or her biological sex. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
I am unable to answer this question 7 as written. The question combines several distinct policy proposals into a single support-or-oppose choice and assumes a particular role for government that I do not necessarily share. Parents are ultimately responsible for monitoring and guiding their children's online activity. While technology companies should be transparent and act responsibly toward minors, I do not believe it is the government's role to broadly determine what content should be hidden from children or to substitute governmental judgment for parental involvement. These issues are best addressed through parental engagement, digital literacy, and targeted consumer protections rather than a single, bundled mandate. I am unable to answer question 8a as written because it relies on the phrase "gender confusion," which reflects a particular viewpoint rather than a neutral description of a complex issue. More importantly, the question presumes a specific goal for counseling rather than focusing on whether children and families should have access to professional mental health support. I believe families should be able to seek qualified counseling and mental health resources when a child is experiencing any form of emotional, psychological, identity-related, or personal distress. The question's framing does not allow for that distinction. I am unable to answer question 8b as written because it presents a highly complex issue as a simple support-or-oppose choice. As a general principle, I believe parents have significant rights and responsibilities in raising their children, and government intervention in family relationships should be reserved for situations involving abuse, neglect, or demonstrable harm. However, the wording of this question is framed around a specific political narrative and does not allow respondents to address the legal, medical, and family considerations involved. For that reason, I cannot accurately answer it in its current form.
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Education
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S | O | NR |
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9.School Choice: Allowing the use of tax credits, vouchers, and/or education savings accounts to cover the cost of children attending the school of their parents’ choice, including private religious schools. |
X | ||
10.Free Speech at School: Protecting teachers and students from being forced to refer to a person by inaccurate pronouns that do not align with the person’s sex. |
X | ||
11.School Healthcare Disclosure to Parents: Requiring schools to inform parents of any mental, physical, or emotional health information and treatment that a child is receiving at school. |
X | ||
12.Transparency in School Curriculum & Activities: Giving parents access to the curriculum, presentations, and activities that their children are learning in school and allowing them to opt their children out of school extra-curricular activities, presentations, or specific lessons to which the parents object. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
Question 9 presents parental choice as the only consideration while overlooking the role of public education and public funding. I support strong public schools that serve all students. Parents are free to choose private education, including religious education, but I do not support diverting public education funds to private institutions. Taxpayer dollars intended for public education should remain dedicated to public education. Question 10 is framed around a disputed definition of what constitutes an "accurate" pronoun and therefore embeds a particular viewpoint into the question itself. I believe people should be treated with dignity and respect, and I would encourage individuals to respect how others identify. However, I do not believe government should be in the business of compelling or prohibiting particular forms of speech except in narrow circumstances where a compelling governmental interest exists. Question 11 raises legitimate questions about parental rights and school responsibilities. As a general principle, parents should be informed about significant matters involving their minor children. While I recognize that some students may come from difficult home situations, I do not believe schools should routinely withhold important information from parents. Any exceptions should be narrowly tailored to situations involving credible concerns for a child's safety. I cannot answer this question as written because it does not account for situations where disclosure may create a credible risk of harm to the child, and it therefore oversimplifies a complex issue into a binary choice. Question 12 combines transparency and opt-out provisions into a single question. I strongly support parental access to curriculum and educational materials. However, broad opt-out policies risk creating inconsistent educational experiences and may undermine the shared educational foundation that public schools are intended to provide. These issues should be evaluated separately rather than bundled together in a single support-or-oppose question. I cannot answer this question as written because it combines multiple distinct policies, some of which I support and others for which I have significant concerns, into a single response.
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Health and Welfare
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S | O | NR |
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13.Medical Rights of Conscience: Protecting health care workers from losing their jobs if they decline to participate in a procedure or treatment that violates their personal beliefs and conscience. |
X | ||
14.Women’s Privacy: Preventing males who identify as female from entering sex-separated spaces intended for females, such as showers, locker rooms, bathrooms, dormitories, women’s shelters, prisons, etc. |
X | ||
15.Protecting Pregnancy Centers: Ensuring pregnancy centers that provide life-affirming support to women and their families are not targeted or penalized by government officials. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
I left Question 1 unanswered because it does not describe a specific policy proposal and instead relies on language that can be interpreted in different ways by different people. Questions involving abortion policy are complex and deserve a level of specificity and nuance that a simple support/oppose response does not provide. I prefer to evaluate and discuss actual legislation, including gestational limits, medical exceptions, patient rights, and the role of healthcare professionals, rather than broad statements that can mean different things to different respondents. I supported Question 2 because I believe legal medical services should be treated consistently within our healthcare system and because access to healthcare should not depend solely on personal financial circumstances. I supported Question 3 because I believe terminally ill individuals facing imminent death should have the ability, subject to appropriate medical review and safeguards, to make deeply personal end-of-life decisions. My support is rooted in personal autonomy, compassion, and respect for individual circumstances.