David Fournier

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State Representative - District 44
2026 Alignment Score 3.6

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2026 Candidate Survey

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Healthcare & Family 5 responses

Healthcare

Do you support legislation in Ohio that guarantees healthcare (comprehensive medical, dental and vision) for all Ohioans, regardless of income, employment or health status?
Yes, strongly

Early Childhood

Do you support legislation to make childcare more affordable and accessible for Ohio families, including a path to free Pre-K?
Yes, strongly

Bodily Autonomy

Do you believe every Ohioan has the freedom to make their own healthcare decisions, including reproductive and gender affirming care, without government interference in Ohio?
Yes, strongly

Family Leave

Do you support legislation that makes sure that Ohio workers can care for themselves and their families and ensures all workers have paid family and medical leave?
Yes, strongly

Family Caregiving

Do you support legislation protecting the caregiver stipend and expanding access to resources for Ohioans caring for disabled or ill family members?
Yes, strongly
Democracy & Government 6 responses

Campaign Integrity

Do you support legislation prohibiting dark money from manipulating Ohio politics-ending unlimited anonymous contributions from corporations and Super PACs?
Yes, strongly

AI Surveillance

Do you support legislation in Ohio that bans warrantless government surveillance that tracks private citizens (via Flock cameras, ALPR devices, and other AI-powered devices)?
Yes, strongly

Insider Trading

Do you believe members of Congress and the Executive branch, along with their families, should be banned from trading individual stocks while in office?
Yes, strongly

Electoral College

Do you support ending rural state overrepresentation by eliminating the electoral college?
Unsure

Supreme Court

Do you support reforming the Supreme Court by expanding the court and eliminating lifetime appointments?
Yes, somewhat

AI regulation

Do you believe that AI should be regulated by legislative policy rather than left to self-police via the market?
Yes, strongly
Economy & Workers 3 responses

Wealth Disparity

Do you support Ohio legislation to tax the rich and corporations in order to make the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share?
Yes, strongly

Corporate Welfare

Do you support legislation prohibiting Ohio taxpayer-funded subsidies or tax breaks from being given to wealthy corporations?
Yes, strongly

Minimum Wage

Do you support legislation leading to increasing the Ohio minimum wage to a minimum *living* wage, as it was originally intended?
Yes, strongly
Education 2 responses

Public Education

Do you believe Ohio should invest public education dollars in strengthening public schools and end subsidies and vouchers for private schools?
Yes, strongly

Higher Education

Do you support making public colleges, universities, community colleges, and trade schools tuition-free for Ohio students by taxing corporations and the extremely rich?
Yes, strongly
Environment & Infrastructure 4 responses

Clean Energy

Do you support incentivizing the production and infrastructure development for clean renewable energy in Ohio?
Yes, strongly

Environmental Protection

Do you support legislation that strengthens environmental protection to guarantee clean air and water to Ohioans?
Yes, strongly

Public Transit

Do you support legislation expanding public transportation and high speed rail systems in Ohio?
Yes, strongly

AI data centers in Ohio

What is your view on AI data centers in Ohio?

I don't want to live next to one. Local communities should have a seat at the table in any data center negotiation - no more NDAs for elected officials. If a data center is going to be installed, there needs to be robust regulatory framework that ensures that it doesn't pollute people out of their homes, and that we're not subsidizing mega-corporations' profits on our backs. And we need to stop negotiating against ourselves. No more tax abatements or sweetheart deals. Remediation expenses need to be funded up-front, and held in trust for when the facility is retired as well.

Justice & Public Safety 2 responses

War on Drugs

Do you support legislation in Ohio that focuses on lowering drug use and homelessness through harm reduction rather than criminal proceedings?
Yes, strongly

Gun Control

Do you support mandatory background checks, the closure of loopholes for firearm purchases, and regulation of homemade firearms?
Yes, somewhat
Foreign Policy 2 responses

Never-ending Wars

Do you support ending never-ending wars in the Middle East?
Yes, strongly

Israel and its recent actions

What are your views on Israel and its recent actions?

The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza distresses me deeply. The scale of civilian death, the starvation, and the destruction are not defensible. I also believe October 7th was a horror and that Israel's security and the safety of Jewish people are legitimate concerns.

And while it's uncomfortable to hold those competing realities about what's happening abroad, what's truly untenable is the friction it has caused here at home. This conflict has emboldened antisemites and Islamophobes both, and I firmly believe our Jewish and Muslim friends and neighbors deserve to feel safe in their own communities.

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