What is your name?

Katy L. Stamper

What office are you running for?

U.S. House of Representatives, Georgia's 11th Congressional District

Are you the incumbent?

No

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Tell us more about yourself

I’m a veteran, small business owner and lawyer. I was born in Texas while my dad was an Air Force flight instructor and mom was a homemaker. For my dad's work, we moved to Pennsylvania for a few years, then moved to Georgia in 1971. I joined the U.S. Army in1976 for three years, working as a 31-J, teletype repairman. After law school, I clerked for a judge in Floyd County where I ran for Statehouse in 1990 as a Libertarian. While in Rome, the superior court judges there ordered me to represent indigent criminals for free, which I declined to do. Rather than submit, I sued the three judges. Since the trial court ruled against me, it was possible I would be sent to jail for refusing to represent criminals, so I moved to Cherokee County. I appealed the decision to the Georgia Supreme Court which ultimately agreed I had to be paid if ordered to represent criminals.

Where did you go to school?

Elementary: Cathedral in Greensburg, Pennsylvania (Catholic school) High school: Temple High School, Temple, Georgia College: - West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia - Cochise College, Sierra Vista, Arizona - Emory University, Decatur, Georgia, B.A., Political Science - University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, J.D.

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What is your job/occupation?

I'm a lawyer that does wills, powers-of-attorney, medical directives and probate. This means I help parents with young children choose someone to have custody of their children if, God forbid, the parents die prematurely. I help the healthy, the sick and the dying arrange for the management of their medical and business affairs while they are alive if they become incapacitated, and plan for the distribution of their assets after they pass away. I also help families with the legal processes required to settle the affairs of a family member that has passed away including negotiating debts and distributing assets. I have gone to private homes, hospitals, assisted-care facilities and nursing homes in this work, and I am grateful for my many repeat clients and their referrals.

What city/neighborhood do you live in?

Cherokee County outside of Woodstock.

What is your top policy priority if elected? How would addressing this issue make a difference for the people you are seeking to represent and what skills or qualities do you possess that will make you an effective elected official?

Inflation is hurting almost everyone and is unnecessary. Washington can’t live on a budget, spending 50% more than five years ago. For practical purposes, it is driving a car down the road, rolling down the windows and throwing money out with both hands. We must stop Congress from spending more than we pay in taxes and stop the Federal Reserve from printing more money. I will not vote for a budget that does not reflect an Americans-first outlook: reduced spending; Americans-first in housing, schools, medical care and anything else of value. Further, I will support deporting at least 25 million illegal foreign nationals which will relieve demand pressure on housing, food, medical care, schools, police, and everything else it takes to live in America. Large-scale deportations will also increase Americans' wages, further helping to reduce the pain of inflation. My willingness to work and to stand my ground even when the standard insults are hurled will make a difference. I don't want a career or a family business from this. I want improvement in America.

Share an example of a time when you had to compromise or adapt your position on an issue.

I'm a lawyer and have negotiated and settled many cases, although they cannot all be settled. This focus on compromise implies a preference for someone that normally caves. No thank you.

The rising cost of living, including housing, health care, and childcare, is a concern for families in Georgia. What would you advocate for in Congress to help alleviate these pressures? What would you do to continue to control inflation?

As noted above, I will refuse to vote for any dirty budget that spends more than the federal government is taking in, even if it slows down the government. The term "shutdown" is just a marketing word by the establishment. Also, the deportation of at least 25 million illegal foreign nationals will reduce demand on all the things it takes to live, like food, gasoline, housing, medical care, et cetera. And rather than merely auditing the Federal Reserve, we should end the Federal Reserve, as it has devalued the dollar to dust, not to mention is a private entity used to avoid the Constitution's command of sound money. I personally bought penny candy as a child. And it was good! Crypto is competition to the dollar and is a good thing.

What is your position on term limits for members of Congress? How do you believe term limits would impact the effectiveness of and trust in government?

I support the constitutional amendment proposed by U.S. Term Limits: three 2-year terms for house members and two 6-year terms for senators. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky stated even with term limits the problems in Congress would remain. He advised instead that citizens call their representatives' offices once a month and email them occasionally. At the same time, he suggested running for local office and moving up the chain so we would get more people with a real interest in governing instead of just having the prestige of being a member of Congress. While I agree with most of his sentiments, term limits would help us remove the dead wood more quickly and increase the confidence in our government.

A recent poll shows a majority of Americans across partisan lines want to see reforms take place on the Supreme Court. Do you support a judicial code of conduct, and term limits or any other changes for Supreme Court justices? Why or why not?

I do not support a judicial code of conduct because it will too easily become a tool of vicious partisans to oust justices merely because they disagree with them. I would support an age limit of 82 and probably term limits of roughly 25 years, give or take. I do support revival of a very liberal and muscular application of impeachment against judges and justices. For example, the Supreme Court justices that gave us limitations on states' abilities to prevent invasion by foreigners and to protect the integrity of our laws against them, and those that usurped states' rights and gave us homosexual marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges should be impeached. In addition, jurisdiction over many areas of law should be removed from S.C.O.T.U.S. pursuant to U.S. Constitution, Article III, Sec. II, Clause 2, such as states' powers on protecting external borders and immigration, and the definition of marriage.

What steps, if any, would you support to secure the southern border? What is your stance on pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for many years?

Build the wall; deport them all. The "wall" with state-of-the-art technology should be built along the entire 2,000 mile southern border. Calling illegal aliens "undocumented immigrants" implicitly presumes that foreign nationals of no special significance should decide our immigration policies rather than Americans and the duly-elected officials of the United States. There is a reason changes to our immigration laws have not occurred -- it is because Americans do not want them! We want the current ones enforced! If we have any change to immigration law, we should reduce legal immigration of over one million green card holders per year to zero and remove all executive branch discretion in border enforcement, deportations and immigration. Several administrations have abused discretion; it must end. I also support reversing the Supreme Court decision that fundamentally altered our country by creating birthright citizenship. We must also increase the numbers of interior immigration law enforcement officers to handle finding 25,000,000 illegal aliens and deporting them. Considering how many travelers our airports handle each year, this should be accomplished without difficulty. Furthermore, we should use every data base, every geo-fencing technique and any other information and technology available to locate, detain and deport these illegal foreign nationals. Too many illegal aliens refuse to assimilate, refuse to speak English to their children while we pay exorbitant sums to teach it to them, use our hospital emergency rooms gratis, overload our jails and courts, suck up charity resources, cause road overcrowding, require expensive taxpayer-paid interpreters, and insult us endlessly into the bargain. For those that have "lived in the United States for many years," I can make no exception. They buy or make forged documents and steal identities; we will never know how long they have been here. In this age of easy travel, too many of them go back and forth to their home countries instead of forging iron-clad bonds to America, retaining dual citizenship that Mexican leaders use to leverage for influence over the United States. No pathways to citizenship for a single one. Finally, I would work to convince my fellow Americans to endure the insults and the propaganda that will come to dissuade us from mass deportations, because unless we endure these miseries, we will not give our children the beautiful and prosperous America we remember. Instead we will give them a growing nightmare of armed gangs, never-ending inflation, a slave’s wages and no free speech. We cannot be the land of the free, if we are not the home of the brave.

How would you address the spread of misinformation and disinformation? What role do you believe social media companies and the government should play in combating these issues? Are you confident that elections in Georgia are conducted freely and fairly?

New York Times v. Sullivan must be effectively repealed by whatever means necessary. The carte blanche given to libel and slander with almost no care in the world, damages our culture tremendously and is used by knaves and scoundrels to protect undeserved establishment prerogatives. Social media companies are having their cake and eating it too, by having Section 230 immunity for whatever is posted upon their sites while also being granted the ability to deplatform anyone they disagree with, which they do, and often. I would happily introduce legislation to render them a utility like Ma Bell with zero ability to deplatform except for obvious exceptions, such as child pornography. I lack confidence that Georgia elections are conducted freely and fairly. When an election goes awry days count, but our appeals courts' decisions are years away. It's a travesty. The electronic black boxes we use hold allegedly proprietary code we are told we cannot inspect and must merely "trust." This is an insult to our intelligence and creates distrust which leads to conflict and thus instability in our country. Nothing connected with voting should be proprietary. We should have paper ballots and one day of voting with very limited grounds for absentee ballots, and no drop boxes. All paper ballot images should be available under open records, and indeed, scanned and posted online within 72-hours of the polls closing.