{"id":14209,"date":"2012-10-12T11:26:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=14209"},"modified":"2012-10-12T11:26:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:26:36","slug":"nc-state-house-district-35-chris-malone-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/2012-general-election-voter-guide\/2012\/10\/12\/nc-state-house-district-35-chris-malone-r\/","title":{"rendered":"NC State House District 35 \u2014 Chris Malone (R)"},"content":{"rendered":"

[media-credit name=”Chris Malone” align=”alignright” width=”120″]\"\"<\/a>[\/media-credit]Chris Malone \u2014 NC State House District 35
\nPolitical Party: Republican
\nHow long in district: 20 years
\nOccupation: Works at C4S insurance investigations
\nCampaign website: http:\/\/malonefornchouse.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The economy is at the top of voter\u2019s mind in this year\u2019s elections. What do you think elected officials can actually do to address it?<\/strong>
\nI had a guy come in here today and reiterate what I had heard myself. Often times, politicians, they hear from people that think like them but they don\u2019t hear the other side. I know a guy who sees people from both sides in his business. What they were all telling him was the same thing. What they said is that they couldn\u2019t start their small business today with the restraints that the state and federal government have for them. Too many regulations, too many taxes, too many mandates, things of that nature. They\u2019d never be able to get off the ground. As it is, they\u2019re not hiring because they don\u2019t have the capital, because the capital is wrapped up in meeting those regulations and those taxes so people are left without jobs. So what we need to do is relieve them of this situation. So, today\u2019s conversation confirmed for me what everybody already understands but doesn\u2019t always want to talk about. That is that we have to generate a free market approach here in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

We need to make sure that our taxes are at a reasonable level. What is it? Our income tax is the 8th worst in the country. Sales tax is the fourth worst in the country\u2026 Our unemployment rate is the fourth worst in the country \u2026 While a neighboring state like Virginia is at 5.7 [percent unemployment rate]. We\u2019re 9.5. You cannot tell me that we are competitive in that scenario. You cannot say that the nearly 120 years of Democratic control and then the last few years with a Democratic governor, who has stopped some of what the Republicans have tried to implement hasn\u2019t had a negative effect on the lives of average North Carolinians.<\/p>\n

We need to bring in more jobs. We need to do it through less regulations and less taxes. I believe in regulation. It\u2019s just that we went to far. Some people think that saying less regulations means you\u2019re against regulation as a whole. Now, that\u2019s not the facts at all. Not for me. I just simply believe we\u2019ve gone too far in the wrong direction. We need to rectify and that and become more flexible<\/p>\n

Why should your constituents elect you?<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s a great question. A number of different things. First of all, I believe in the things that are going to bring in jobs. If we continue the course that we\u2019ve been on in the past, we\u2019re not going to be able to bring in jobs. And more and more people are going to find it difficult to get along. They\u2019re going to find it more and more difficult to bring money into the education system because there\u2019s going to be less money to do so.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always been honest with them. I\u2019ve been good with constituency service. I\u2019ve never asked anybody what party they were a part of. If they asked for help they got help. I think they trust me to tell them the truth and keep my political promises. I just ask them to give me the opportunity to serve them, because that is what I am. I\u2019m a servant to them and I think that\u2019s as it should be.<\/p>\n

What do you think of the state\u2019s new fracking law and how it should be implemented?<\/strong>
\nHere\u2019s the issue: I don\u2019t get to make that choice right now. Neither does Ms. Millberg or anybody else for that matter. What the state did and what the state had to do was make fracking legal so that the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, DENR, in order to allow DENR to investigate the issue, to do the study, determine the efficacy of engaging in fracking, we first have to make it legal, because they are precluded from looking at anything which is illegal.<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re doing right now is taking a look at where we are. We\u2019re going to give them the time to do their study and determine their criteria. Philosophically, it\u2019s something I think we should really seriously consider. I\u2019m philosophically for it, if it can be done in the right way.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to wait and see what DENR has to say.<\/p>\n

In a recent Supreme Court ruling, the court gave states the option of expanding the Medicaid program to cover many low-income adults, and the federal government will be paying for the bulk of the expansion. What, if anything, do you think North Carolina should do about expanding Medicaid?<\/strong>
\nFirst of all, they can\u2019t penalize North Carolina. It\u2019s part of the Supreme Court ruling that if we decide not to go that route, they can\u2019t penalize us as far as that is concerned. They have to continue to pay at the same levels they did in the past. I\u2019m against bringing the exchanges here to North Carolina, because all they are is DMVs for your health insurance. I don\u2019t want people to have to have to stand in line and be treated like they are at the DMV when it comes to their health. People are far more important and have far more value than just being a widget in a system. It\u2019s impersonal and I don\u2019t like anything about it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m against Obamacare as a whole because it\u2019s a power grab and takes away freedom from the individual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[media-credit name=”Chris Malone” align=”alignright” width=”120″][\/media-credit]Chris Malone \u2014 NC State House District 35 Political Party: Republican How long in district: 20 years Occupation: Works at C4S insurance investigations Campaign website: http:\/\/malonefornchouse.com\/ The economy is at the top of voter\u2019s mind in this year\u2019s elections. What do you think elected officials can actually do to address it? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[968],"tags":[838],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}