Mike Schatz for District 39
House of Representatives
 Currently
Representative from District 36
Retired living in New England, but former farmer, rancher (Hettinger
and Slope Counties), Social Studies teacher, Head Football Coach (4
State Championships), Oil field truck driver, executive director ND
Republican Party
House since 2008 with one term in 1988
House Appropriations Committee - Education and Environment Division
Past Committees: Education (Vice Chair); Transportation;
Agriculture; Natural Resources; State and Federal Government
Interim Committees: Higher Education; Government Finance (past Vice
Chairman); Budget Section
Past Interim Committees: Rules Committee; Natural Resources
Married: Wife Patti (6th grade teacher) 45 years
Children: Sarah (Thomas) – family practice doctor in Jamestown;
Nathan – construction in Grand Forks; Amber (Matt) – KX host of
Studio 701 Bismarck; Joshua (Kirsten) – Major in US Marine Corp
Helicopter pilot Yuma Az.
Four Grandchildren: Gavin – Grand Forks; Daisy, Everett, & Owen –
Bismarck
Former Vice President, Education Standards & Practices Board; Former
President, New England Park Board; Lifetime Member - ND Coaches
Association; NRA; ND Stockmen’s Association
ISSUES:
The FACT that the general
fund is overspent by $1.3 billion more than it takes in in all taxes
and fees every biennium during an oil boom, screams that we are
spending too much. It takes strong leadership done by people who
don’t have conflicts of interest or prejudges as to why roll backs
are made. Government serving the most people doing the most good is
most important.
I think it is the right and responsibility of the parents to educate
their children as they see fit, and it is NOT the responsibility of
the public school systems to indoctrinate children on nontraditional
matters. The basics are the most important in education and
unfortunately are being neglected as test scores have proven.
Our state government has become too powerful because weak
legislators have given up their power to the executive branch. They
prefer to have the “experts” tell us how to run our lives. I want to
take back the power that is in the constitution which has a weaker
administration branch and let the PEOPLE tell them what they want.
The agencies were intended to be the public servant and have now
become the public masters. My experience with government managers is
it usually boils down to two things: their salary and their
workload. If the first one is going up and the second one is going
down, you are in good shape with them.
Taxes are not going down even though they should be. I believe in
lower taxes especially in property tax and income tax. Our property
taxes have become such a political football that it is time for an
overhaul. Some people (elderly) can’t afford to own property because
of the upward swings in property taxes. The Legislature did a good
thing by giving credit for income tax this past session, but we must
expand it and make it permanent.
Economic Development. What does that mean? If it means taking the
taxpayer’s money and giving it to a board who will give grants and
in doing so, pick winners and losers in business? Then I am against
it. If it means taking private donations from the wealthy and
businesses and giving it to a board to pick winners and losers, then
I am ok with it. The problem is that the board usually picks its
friends as winners and its enemies as losers, and these choices may
be just the opposite of mine.
I believe in the second amendment and have an A rating from the NRA.
The only way to ensure a free people is to keep them armed. I am Pro
Life and believe that life begins at conception. I also have a 100%
rating with Pro Life organizations.
As important as these two items are, because a person is pro-gun and
pro life does not make them a conservative. I feel you need to
believe in a strong national defense, individual responsibility,
limited government, and lower taxes; and your voting record must
show that! If it doesn’t, then that person is not a conversative.
The only way we are going to get government under control is to
elect strong conservatives!
"I have a proven conservative voting
record and would like to ask for your vote!"
North Dakota Legislative Branch | (ndlegis.gov)
American
Conservative Union -
http://ratings.conservative.org/
FPA-ND_LegislativeReportCard_2019.pdf (familypolicyalliance.com)
NRA-PVF | Grades and Endorsements (nrapvf.org)
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