Yakawich, Mike

Meet the Candidate

Running For:
State Senate
District:
24
Political Affiliation:
RepublicanView Current Legislative Scorecard

Survey

Response Legend

  • SSStrongly Supports
  • SSupports
  • OOpposes
  • SOStrongly Opposes
  • *Comment
  • Declined to respond
  • Declined to respond, Position based on citation

Question Response Comments/Notes
1. Public Schools in Montana are overfunded: -
2. Public Schools in Montana are underfunded: -
3. Public Schools in Montana are adequately funded: -
4. Parental choice in education should be expanded through tax credits, education savings accounts, vouchers, and other means to allow children to attend any school of their or their parents choice: -
5. Parents should be allowed to home school their children without additional state regulation: -
6. The teaching of "Critical Race Theory" (CRT) should be banned in Montana public schools: -
7. Comprehensive sex education, beginning as early as kindergarten, should be allowed in public elementary schools: -
8. Income taxes in Montana are too high: -
9. Property taxes in Montana are too high: -
10. Corporate taxes in Montana are too high: -
11. The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows all citizens to own firearms for self-protection: -
12. Climate Change is a problem requiring increased regulation: -
13. Environmental regulations in Montana are too stringent: -
14. Environmental regulations in Montana are NOT stringent enough: -
15. Montanans should not be discriminated against or treated differently because of their vaccine status: -
16. Doctor assisted suicide should be legal in Montana: -
17. Abortion should be banned in ALL stages of pregnancy: -
18. Abortion should be banned during all stages of pregnancy, with the exceptions for rape and incest: -
19. Abortion should be banned only after a heartbeat is detected (around 6 weeks): -
20. Abortion should be banned only after the first trimester (12 weeks): -
21. Abortion should be banned only when a fetus becomes viable outside the womb (20 weeks): -
22. Abortion should be banned only after the 2nd trimester (28 weeks): -
23. Abortion should never be banned, not at any stage of pregnancy: -
24. The Montana Constitution should be amended to allow abortion: -
25. Infanticide (the killing of infants born alive with physical abnormalities, including infants born as a result of a botched abortion) should be banned in Montana. -
26. Companies and individuals should be allowed to opt-out of the abortion related mandates contained in Obamacare: -
27. Transgender athletes should be allowed to compete against athletes of the opposite sex: -
28. Doctors should be banned from performing sex-change procedures on minors: -
29. Homosexuals and transgender people should be allowed to adopt children: -
30. Non-discrimination laws should be expanded to protect sexual orientation and gender identity in the same way that race, creed, nationality, and religion are protected: -
31. Montana’s marriage laws should be changed to reflect the legalization of same-sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court: -