Shahid Buttar
Bio | Shahid Buttar graduated from Stanford Law School and now works as a constitutional lawyer in San Francisco. |
Status and Position | Former Candidate of N/A |
Political Party and Jurisdiction | Republican, N/A |
Elections | Election Jurisdiction | Started Campaign | Campaign Status | Poll Rankings (of the vote) |
| 2020 House of Representatives Election CA-12 | CA-12 | Yes | Running | N/A |
Campaign Financing | Buttar has included campaign finance reforms under his corruption policies, meaning he is in favor of campaign finance reform. |
Voting Rights | Shahid made no real statement about the issue. |
Opinions on Issues
Issues | Stance | Summary |
| Universal Healthcare | Unknown | Shahid has not made a public stance on the issue. Shahid has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Socialized Healthcare | Unknown | Shahid has not made a public stance on the issue |
| Private Healthcare | Unknown | Shahid has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| LGBT Rights | Unknown | Shahid has not made a public stance on the issue. Shahid has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Taxes | For | Shahid is for taxes. Shahid wants to repeal the tax cuts and increase real estate tax. |
| Flat Tax Rate | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. Shahid wants to repeal the tax cuts and increase real estate tax. |
| Abortion | For | Shahid is pro-choice. Shahid believes abortion is a human right and should be granted easily. |
| Gun Control | For | Shahid is for regulating gun sales. Shahid believes gun control is crucial for the safety of this nation. |
| Assisted Suicide | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. Shahid believes gun control is crucial for the safety of this nation. |
| Government Interference | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Planned Parenthood | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Welfare | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Welfare | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Death Penalty | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Mandatory Prison Sentence | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Military Spending | Against | He supports reducing military spending; source: https://issues.shahidforchange.us/category/466-economy. |
| War on Terrorism | Against | Shahid believes that the war on terrorism is affecting the US negatively in the long term and should be paused. source: https://issues.shahidforchange.us/article/465-foreign-policy-overview. |
| Foreign Policy International Interaction | For | Shahid is in favor of US interacting in international foreign policy, source: https://issues.shahidforchange.us/article/465-foreign-policy-overview. He believes that the US should stop supporting regimes that defy human rights principles like Saudi Arabia, Philippines and israel. |
| United Nations power | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Nationalism | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Free Markets | Nuance | Shahid is not in favor capitalism. Shahid believes in elected leadership for companies, in order to avoid creating individual huge fortunes. sources: https://issues.shahidforchange.us/article/470-democratic-ownership-of-economy-industries-and-cap. |
| Brexit | Unknown | Made no public statements for or against the issue. |
| Affirmative Action | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Government Spending | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Charter Schools | shahid does not support charter schools. | he believes that they should be frozen and should have unionized workers and public oversight through an elected board of education. source: https://issues.shahidforchange.us/article/485-charter-schools. |
| Common Core | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Clean Energy | For | Shahid is strictly in favor of clean energy transformation. source: https://issues.shahidforchange.us/article/445-green-new-deal. Shahid centralizes the green new deal as a platform which recommends the complete movement from fossil fuels to clean energy sources. |
| Religious Freedom | For | Shahid supports freedom of religion absolutely. Shahid supports H.R.489 which grants freedom to worship, according to him "I support this bill. This bill would prevent the executive branch from collecting information or building a database to classify either U.S. nationals or visitors on the basis of faith. It would buttress the protections of the First Amendment’s Establishment & Free Exercise Clauses." |
| Separation of Church and State | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Slavery Reparations | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Border Control | Against | Shahid is radically against border control. sources: https://issues.shahidforchange.us/article/434-immigration-overview. He supports abolishing ice, he is in favor of protecting dreamers, he wants to ban face surveillance technology. finally, he wants to demilitarize the border. |
| Passenger Profiling | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| DACA | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Sanctuary Cities | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |
| Legalizing Marijuana | Unknown | Has not made a public stance on the issue. |