David Kraftchak
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David Kraftchak (Republican Party) (also known as Krafty) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Kentucky's 5th Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on May 21, 2024.
Kraftchak completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
David Kraftchak was born in West Palm Beach, Florida. Kraftchak served in the U.S. Navy from 1998 to 2018. His career experience includes working as a airline pilot.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Kentucky's 5th Congressional District election, 2024
Kentucky's 5th Congressional District election, 2024 (May 21 Republican primary)
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2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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David Kraftchak completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kraftchak's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a retired US Navy Veteran and currently an airline pilot who has a drive to serve his country. I have been blessed to achieve my goals and do what I love with the support of my family. I would be honored to serve the people of KY and uphold our Constitution.
- Energy and economic independence of the 5th District of Kentucky. We need to reopen coal mines and drill for the oil and natural gas that are abundant in Eastern Kentucky. This allows for jobs to return and new jobs to be created in the rural areas of Eastern Kentucky.
- Improve educational opportunities in Eastern Kentucky. Redirect wasteful spending to go towards our children's educational opportunities. Provide federal resources to create trade schools within the district to ensure training and development of our communities.
- Protect and Defend Our Constitution. Repeal and Replace: the 13th Amendment, remove "except as punisment..." the 16th Amendment, limit taxation, Make amendment for Term Limits
Energy Independance: open new mining contracts for coal and oil in Eastern Kentucky while preserving the environment through the use of modern technology.
Educational opportunities: Redirect spending and put strict restrictions on how federal government money is used in our children's education. Redirect wasteful spending and subsidize the creation and development of trade schools in rural areas.
LGBTQ Rights: Protect our children from harmful policies that are meant to corrupt our children and create policies that encourage the development of traditional households. Sponsor federal law that protects our children from medical procedures that provide transition and classify such procedures as child abuse.
Term Limits: There should be term limits in the U.S House and Senate. These positions should not be careers and should not be a place for anyone to be able to enhance their wealth.
Foreign Policy: We need to uphold peace through strength. Maintain our military readiness and stop sending our money around the world without the consent of taxpayers.
Boarder Security: Support programs like "Remain in Mexico;" Complete the southern Boarder wall; Support Boader Patrol and enhance boarder security through civilian contracts and well-regulated militias.
Uphold the Constitution: We need to honor the articles and amendments of our Constitution the way they were written and ratified. If we want to change something, we must go through the proper process.
Honor and Honesty. Elected officials take the oath to Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States. This is an oath these people should be ready to give the ultimate sacrifice for. Be honest and communicate truthfully with their constituents. Represent the people who elected them and don't bow down to party line votes; they should always ask themselves how they are working for the people of their district, is it constitutional and how will this impact their district and the nation.
I'm honest, goal oriented, a proven team leader, not afraid to speak out, understanding and empathetic, patriot.
The first clear historical event for me was witnessing the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. I was in 2nd grade and actually witnessed it from the playground.
Of course I had many small jobs as a teenage and throughout college as a server, managed a bowling center and assistant funeral director. I served in the U.S. Navy for 20 years and retired in 2018.
Absolutely not! Our government is designed to be run by it's citizens. We need people that are everyday members of their community willing to stand up and speak. People that are in touch with local problems and will represent their constituents and not corporate interests and deep state politics.
Military and Economic superiority. We need to grow our military forces and get rid of Woke policies that are weakening our fighting forces. We need to lower corporate taxes and provide incentives for companies to not only return to American soil, but also move into areas that are economically depressed.
I strongly support tern limits. These positions were never designed by our founding fathers to be a full-time job or position. Why did we fight the British in the American Revolution?
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Campaign website
Kraftchak’s campaign website stated the following:
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Reopen and Open New Coal Mines in Kentucky’s 5th District
- Obtain federal land grants and licenses to operate coal mines
- Boost the local economy through new jobs and resources
- Focus on new technology to protect the environment
Access Untapped Oil in Southeastern Kentucky
- Obtain Federal contracts to drill for untapped oil
- Obtain Federal grants for oil exploration
- Provide economic opportunities through new jobs and use of natural resources
- Take preventative safety measures to prevent oil spills and protect the environment.
Expand Educational Opportunities
- Redirect wasteful spending in Washington D.C. to subsidize our children’s education in all curriculum
- Put clear restrictions on federal funds that ensure the money is distributed properly
- Provide federal resources to open new trade schools in the rural part of the district
- Subsidize Apprenticeship, Journeymen and Master Programs in order to expand opportunity for well paying jobs.
- Put tighter restrictions on federal funds to raise teacher pay and block administrators from lining their own pockets
- Hold teachers’ unions accountable to representing teachers and root out corruption and representative pocket lining
Boost Tourism Opportunities
- Explore and Provide Federal grant money to develop tourism throughout the Daniel Boone National Forest
- Enact legislation that will allow for the preservation of federal lands while simultaneously allowing access and use of it’s natural resources
- Incentivize local businesses to encourage bringing in tourism
- Develop infrastructure to accommodate tourism growth
Repeal and Replace the 13th Amendment
- Remove: “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”
- See redevelopment of Federal Prison System
Repeal and Replace the 16th Amendment
- Replace with language that will put a maximum percentage restriction on how much the federal government could leavy on any tax
- This would not allow the government to tax citizens beyond a certain amount
Stance on Roe vs Wade
- The Supreme Court has ruled this is a States Issue
- The citizens of each state need to work with their state representatives and find working solutions that will work for their citizens
- I DO NOT SUPPORT any federal money going to any clinic or resource that would direct the money to abortions
LGBTIQA+ Issues
- Every adult has the right to live how they wish to live as long as they are not harming others
- We need a federal law that makes any medical transitioning help from doctors for children under 18, other than mental, from Psychiatrists and Physiologist classified as child abuse and can be punished as the law for such crimes determine
- Legal adults can peruse transition freely without recourse or prejudice, but no federal funding should be permitted in any stage of care
- Doctors reserve the right to administer or not administer care without fear of reprisal
- Men and Women’s sports should remain as strictly open to biological sex at birth. The trans community should be allowed to pursue specified trans sport associations
- Create federal laws to strengthen protection against the sexualization of children
- Create programs to revitalize the benefits of the nuclear family
- No company should be forced to participate in any designated monthly activities.
- Celebration/Reference/Remembrance of monthly events should be allowed to be determined by local ownership/management of franchises and businesses without reprisal
- Introduce federal laws that would make a social credit score and CEI system illegal in order to protect citizens and the free market
Redevelopment of the Federal Prison System
- Focus on rehabilitation of inmates
- Provide adequate nutrition
- Inmates should receive the same quality level food as our military basic training candidate
- Better nutrition equals better health
- Pay inmates a decent subsidize minimum wage while incarcerated when they work jobs within the prison
- Allows them to have the opportunity to be productive citizens upon release by being able to afford housing, clothes, and a more stable footing to gain employment
- Reduces repeat offences of people just trying to survive.
- Can help reduce offenders reverting to the old way of life when they have a true desire to change.
- Upgrade facilities with modern technology to protect inmates and staff.
- Increase oversight on Federal Prisons to ensure wardens and upper-level staff are doing the duties they are charged with.
- Disincentivize private facilities that breed corruption, abuse prisoners and provide safe havens for people who shouldn’t work in the prison system.
Border Security
- Redirect federal funding to complete the Southern Border Wall
- Support the Stay in Mexico Program
- Provide incentives and training to our Border Patrol and it’s agents.
- See Federal Funding for Militias
Human Trafficking and Drug Smuggling
- Provide assistance to federal and local law enforcement agencies to ensure stings and prevention programs are being carried out as they intend.
- Work with state and local governments to examine more effective laws that directly target the criminals, protect the victims and ensure freedom for their citizens.
- Increase federal penalties for crimes related to human trafficking and drug smuggling.
Give Farmers Back Their Land
- Reduce federal regulation and oversight of farms and ranches.
Proper Research and Development of Alternate Energy Sources
- Allow for development of Solar and Wind without the federal government engaging with special interest groups.
- Explore the options of expanding nuclear energy with new power plant grants.
- Explore the development of Hydrogen as a clean energy source to include vehicles and infrastructure to support it.
- Introduce federal legislation that counteracts ESG.
Federal Minimum Wage for State and Local Law Enforcement
- Redirect wasteful spending to supplement State and Local Law Enforcement and provide a minimum wage dedicated to these officers.
- Ensures a rise in recruitment levels
- Better and more qualified candidates
- More accountability from law enforcement
Federal Minimum Wage for Teachers
- Redirect wasteful spending to supplement Elementary, Middle School and High School teachers and provide a mandated minimum wage to teachers, teacher assistants and substitutes
- Teachers that will engage with students
- Better and more qualified teachers and assistant teachers
- Encourage more people to become teachers
Provide Federal Funding for Militias
- Redirect wasteful funds to develop programs that Militias can be vetted and trained to work with local law enforcement
- Militias would have oversight from local law enforcement and work as a large volunteer police force
- Focus on suburbs and rural areas where police presence is small
- Protect citizens from radical groups like BLM and ANTIFA
- Train and work with Border Patrol on securing our boarder and be an additional resource in combatting Human Trafficking and Drug Smuggling [2]
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- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 18, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Krafty, “Issues,” accessed March 3, 2024
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