Corky Messner in National Public Radio
On Crime:
Criminal investigation requested of Messner Foundation
A former chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court has requested a criminal investigation into a charitable foundation run by Messner. The letter accuses Messner of running a fraudulent foundation purported to help low-income college students.
It was spurred by a Washington Post article describing how the Foundation awarded just one scholarship in its first 10 years.Messner's campaign says the scholarship program did not begin until 2016 and that a second student recently was awarded funds.
Source: National Public Radio on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Aug 12, 2020
On Civil Rights:
Black Lives Matter is revolutionary, don't defund police
Q: What is one specific action you would take if elected to combat systemic racism?Messner: The first thing I would do is I would bring together a group of people to broadly discuss issues around race in this country, and I would bring together
people from various factions, including those African-Americans who view the race issue in a different way than what we hear from the left.
Q: Do you support the Black Lives Matter movement?
Corky Messner: I do not. I think the Black Lives Matter movement is a revolutionary movement. For example their support of defunding police, I do not support. Safety and security is
important. Are there certain reforms that need to be made to law enforcement? Absolutely. But the idea of totally defunding police, I do not support. We need law and order. We need safety and security.
Source: National Public Radio on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Jul 9, 2020
On Health Care:
COVID: Supports wearing a mask, against mandatory mask order
You know, it's interesting about masks. In my reading about the H1N1 pandemic in 2010, I found part of a paper that was talking about masks,
and it was the same debate that's going on now. And so, yes, I support wearing a mask. No, I don't support a mandatory mask order.
Source: National Public Radio on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Jul 9, 2020
On Health Care:
We need tort reform, allow market forces to work
We need tort reform in health care. Frivolous lawsuits add a tremendous amount of money to our health care system, and that will help bring down the costs, if we have tort reform. I think the thing we ought to keep in place is allowing people,
children to stay on their health insurance until the age of 26. I think that's a good thing. But it's very important to get the cost of health care down, that we allow more market forces to work here, including transparency.
Source: National Public Radio on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Jul 9, 2020
On Principles & Values:
Against vandalism, but take down Confederate statues
I think it's important that we look at what's going on with respect to monuments and statues and identify the various vandalism that has been going on. I think with respect to monuments to Confederate generals and honoring the
Confederacy, yes, those statues need to come down. I believe that some of those statues should be in museums with full disclosure of what those folks did and what the Confederacy stood for.
Source: National Public Radio on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Jul 9, 2020
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