Grady, Latisha

Meet the Candidate

Party Legend

  • DDemocrat
  • GGreen
  • LLibertarian
  • RRepublican
  • UUnaffiliated

Running For:
NC House
District:
18
Political Affiliation:
R
Candidate Website:
https://electlatishagrady.com/

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Question Response Comments/Notes
1. Should North Carolina parents who choose to educate their children in a non-public school be eligible to receive a state-funded scholarship grant to assist with the cost of tuition and fees? Y* Every year, the fight over North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship program follows the same script. Supporters call it freedom. Opponents call it a raid on public education. Both sides talk past the one question that actually matters: why would any parent — rich, poor, Black, white, rural, urban — want to take their child out of a specific public school in the first place? A mother making $28,000 a year and a family making $280,000 will describe the exact same reasons for leaving the exact same kind of school. Income doesn’t create the problem. It just determines who has an easier time solving it without the state’s help — which is, precisely, the inequity gap the opportunity scholarship means to close. That said, some of the criticism is fair, and I walk through it in my a blog post in detail with possible solutions. See it here: https://electlatishagrady.com/school-choice-isnt-the-enemy-of-public-schools-complacency-is/ But underneath a lot of the opposition, stripped of euphemism, is an ideological one: that conservative policy generally favors the wealthy at the expense of the poor, and this voucher fight is one instance of that broader accusation, not a standalone fiscal dispute. The idea that choice is fine for the wealthy, who have always had it — through the house they can afford to buy, the tuition they can afford to pay — but suddenly choice becomes suspect the moment it’s extended to everyone else? I don’t accept that logic. But I also don’t think supporters of this program get to wave away the legitimate part of the critique, so let me address it, directly.
2. Should the N.C. General Assembly authorize non-tribal commercial gambling casinos in North Carolina? U
3. Should abortion be prohibited in North Carolina once a fetal heartbeat is detected? Y* Life begins at conception. Let's follow the pro-abortion logic of a baby being an inconsequential glob of tissue without viability. Two mothers are 2 months pregnant. Mother #1 is excited and preparing to welcome the child. Mother #2 is upset and doesn't want the baby and makes an abortion appointment. Mother #1 and baby are killed in a carjacking. Mother #2 is murdered before she is able to make her abortion appointment and baby dies as a result of the murder. The criminal in the first scenario is charged with homicide and infanticide. How should the law treat scenario #2 when the mother planned to abort the child? Does the law go against all logic, common sense, and biology and agree with the pro-abortion lobby about when life begins--when a mother decides she wants to have it? Or, does a human life begin when God says it does? The point is the law in NC will charge both assailants with homicide and infanticide because in the eyes of the NC law, the baby is a life at conception. And as for the pro-abortion rebuttals that abortion needs to be legal to protect victims of rape, 1-2% of abortions are reported as a response to rape. That rebuttal is a reach and red-herring to escape accountability. Finally, the argument around medical complications during delivery to save the life of the mother is equally weak and reaching because there is a legal medical procedure called a D & E to remove a fetus when the mother's life is in danger.
4. Should North Carolina voters be required to show a photo ID in order to vote in North Carolina? Y* When you show up to vote we need to know you are who you say you are to register to vote and to vote on election day. And we need have an election day, not an election month.
5. Should the N.C. General Assembly legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes? U
6. Should state nondiscrimination laws include "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" as protected classifications? N
7. Should biological male students who identify as female be allowed to participate on female sports teams? N
8. Should organizations that provide abortions be allowed to receive state funds? N
9. Should North Carolina law allow a medical professional to assist another person in ending their life? N
10. Should a health care practitioner, who is present at the time a child is born alive after a failed abortion attempt, be required by state law to exercise the same degree of skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of that child as would be expected for any other child born alive at the same gestational age? Y
11. Should North Carolina public schools be required to allow students to voluntarily participate in “released time” religious instruction during school hours—provided that it takes place off-campus, with parental consent, and at no cost to the public school unit? U
12. Should N.C. law (G.S. §90-21.5) continue to allow minors to consent to the treatment of venereal disease or other reportable communicable diseases, pregnancy (not including abortion), abuse of controlled substances or alcohol, and emotional disturbance, without parental consent? N
13. Should churches and other qualified religious organizations continue to receive tax-exempt status? U
14. Should a person’s religious beliefs influence the decisions they make while serving in public office? Y* My relationship with Jesus Christ is the biggest asset to my voters because I’m accountable to Christ, first. I am seen when no one else is looking.
15. Should the number of terms a state legislator may serve in the North Carolina General Assembly be limited? Y* Term limits will limit the time for the weak and immoral to be tempted to engage in corruption.