Ronald Payne

Criminal Justice / Public Safety

I will support enacting federal and state legislation that will require all federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to fully comply with all warrants and detainer requests issued by any other federal, state, or local court or law enforcement agency. Learn more

Criminals who violate both federal and state laws should be simultaneously or subsequently prosecuted under both federal and state laws. In this regard, all federal, state, and local courts and law enforcement agencies should report all known or suspected violations of federal, state, and local laws to the appropriate federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies that would have jurisdiction over such alleged offense and offender. Learn more

I will support legislation that will ensure that sufficient appellate and trial courts are created and maintained so that court cases may be adjudicated in a fair and timely manner. I will also support legislation to ensure that our state and local law enforcement agencies are fully staffed, trained, equipped, and resourced to perform their duties. Learn more

Education

I support the right of parents to choose public, charter, private and home based schooling regardless of its status or classification as religious or secular. I also support the distribution of federal, state, and local educational funds utilizing a Weighted Standard Student Formula modeled after the Hawaii System of Educational Funding in such a manner that educational funding follows the student to any school regardless of its classification as a public, charter, private, or home based, and regardless of its status as religious or secular. Learn more

Environment / Energy

I support the protection of endangered species and ecosystems that is based upon science and common sense and that is equally balanced with conflicting societal needs and private property rights. Learn more

I support the development and employment of all forms of energy that are marketable in a free international and domestic market without governmental subsidies, including oil, coal, natural gas, bio-fuels, bio-mass, hydropower, geothermal power, solar power, wind power, and tidal power. Learn more

Government Reform

I will support a constitutional amendment that will require that all elected members of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches be subject to recall elections and lifetime term limits. Learn more

Guns

I support the second amendment right of the people to keep and bear arms for any legal or legitimate purpose, and the right of the people to protect themselves from harm and their property from destruction or theft, commonly known as the castle defense and stand-your-ground doctrine. Learn more

Healthcare

I will support legislation to facilitate Texas Medicaid Expansion and the expansion of Medicaid Dental Services to cover both adults and children, and I will support legislation to decrease Medicare and Medicaid burdensome regulations and to increase Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates to equal the average reimbursement rate of a comparable healthcare insurance policy in the private sector payable at the employer or group rate. Learn more

Medicare and Medicaid should be merged into a single health insurance program with a public option that has no limitations for pre-existing conditions and that is based upon a means-tested exemption from payment and a means-tested sliding scale for the reduced payment of monthly premiums, deductibles, and co-pays. Learn more

Immigration

I support the following Priorities for Immigrant Visas and Adjustment of Status to Permanent Resident. Learn more

I support the enactment of legislation that will simultaneously create and implement a border security and immigration enforcement program and a program for the registration of unauthorized migrants, conditional admission, probationary residency, and a reasonable pathway to permanent resident status and eventual naturalization. Learn more

Infrastructure / Transportation

I will support legislation to develop and implement critical infrastructure security capabilities and protection from hostile state sponsored sabotage, terrorist attack, and criminal vandalism. Learn more

I will support legislation that will fund critical state and local infrastructure expansion, upgrades, and maintenance with environmental considerations fully incorporated therewith. Learn more

Legislation

I will support a constitutional amendment that will create an Initiative Process for the people to directly submit to themselves proposals for enactment, amendment, and repeal of constitutional provisions and legislation. Learn more

Majority rule should not result in minority oppression. I will support a constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds vote of the legislature to enact, amend, or repel legislation, or a simple majority vote if the legislation is thereafter submitted to the people for ratification via referendum. Learn more

I will support a constitutional amendment that will require that supreme court judges to have previously served a full term as judges of the appellate courts; that judges of the appellate courts to have previously served a full term as trial court judges; and that trial court judges previously were members in good standing with the state bar and have been practicing attorneys for such time as is equal to, or greater than, the term of office for the trial judgeship to that which is sought. Learn more

I will support a constitutional amendment that will abolish absolute immunity and replace it with qualified immunity. Learn more

Taxes / Budget

I will support a United States Constitutional Amendment that will limit federal taxation to income, expenditure, imports, and exports, and will forbid all taxes not otherwise enumerated, and will limit all income and expenditure taxes not to exceed ten percent, and to otherwise authorize Congress to fix import and export taxes (tariffs and duties) in such amounts and under such circumstances as the Congress may deem in the National Interest. Learn more

I will support the elimination and reduction of any and all federal, state, and local taxes levied upon individuals and business entities to the absolute minimum amount possible to operate the government in the public interest while simultaneously stimulating a healthy economy. Learn more