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John James

Nationalist
Republican
House Representative
Michigan - District 10

Current Position: US House Representative MI-10

Running For: Governor

Policy Positions

Economic Policy

  • For eliminating Michigan's state income tax through spending cuts and economic growth

Business & Labor

  • For reviewing and providing relief from COVID-19 enforcement actions, including clearing non-violent COVID citations, refunding fines for small businesses, and creating a restitution fund

Health Care

  • Against the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare); supports repeal and replacement, calling it 'a monstrosity'
  • For requiring parental consent for medical treatments for minor children and prohibiting school or medical staff from hiding children's medical records from parents

Education

  • For parental rights in education, including opt-in consent for sensitive topics, full access to children's school and health records, and prohibition on schools withholding information from parents about their children
  • For school choice and education freedom; supports federal K-12 Education Freedom Tax Credit, expansion of charter schools, and homeschooling without excessive government regulation

Civil Rights

  • Against abortion rights; described himself as pro-life, sought to defund Planned Parenthood, and compared Roe v. Wade to 'genocide'
  • Against allowing employers to fire workers due to their sexual orientation
  • Against transgender athletes competing in female sports; supports restricting competition to biological sex categories and protecting girls' restrooms and locker rooms under Title IX
  • Against gender identity and sexual orientation curricula in K-12 schools without parental consent; opposes Michigan state board of education's gender identity standards and supports legislation to reverse them
  • For app store accountability legislation requiring parental approval before minors can download apps and preventing minors from accessing age-restricted content

Voting Rights & Democracy

  • For limiting emergency executive powers; supports requiring legislative approval to extend emergency orders beyond 14 days and implementing sunset clauses
  • For government ethics and transparency reforms, including ending FOIA exemptions for the governor's office and legislature, banning session fundraising, imposing a four-year lobbying ban on former legislators and statewide officials, and requiring full financial disclosure from senior executive officials

Immigration & Foreign Affairs

  • For banning foreign governments such as China from buying American farmland
  • For designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a terrorist organization; stated immigrants who fail to assimilate 'will go home'

Public Safety

  • For Second Amendment rights; described himself as 'pro-second amendment'
  • Against the death penalty
  • Against legalization of recreational marijuana