Justin Cronin
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Justin R. Cronin is a Republican member of the South Dakota State Senate, representing District 23. He was first elected to the chamber in 2016.
Cronin is a former Republican member of the South Dakota House of Representatives, representing District 23 from 2009 to 2017. He served as House assistant majority leader in 2014.
Cronin earned his B.A. in business from the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 2003. His professional experience includes working as an Accountant for Cahill Schaefbauer & Bauer from 2003 to 2006.
Former Member, Agricultural Land Assessment Task Force, South Dakota State Senate
Former Member, Government Operations and Audit Committee, South Dakota State House of Representatives
Former Vice Chair, Government Operations and Audit Committee, South Dakota State Senate
Former Member, Joint Committee on Appropriations, South Dakota State Senate
Former Member, Joint Committee on Government Operations and Audit, South Dakota State Senate
Former Chair, Joint Subcommittee on Revenue Projection, South Dakota State Senate
Vice Chair, Appropriations Committee, South Dakota State Senate, 2019
Chair, Appropriations Committee, South Dakota State House of Representatives, 2015-2017
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- X
2. Abortions should always be legal.
- No Answer
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
6. Abortions should be subject to a mandatory waiting period.
- No Answer
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase
3. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status
4. Environment
- Maintain Status
5. Health care
- Slightly Increase
6. Highway patrol
- Slightly Decrease
7. Law enforcement
- Slightly Decrease
8. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase
9. Welfare
- Greatly Decrease
10. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
3. Corporate taxes
- Eliminate
4. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
5. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
6. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
7. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
8. Should state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Yes
9. Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget?
- Undecided
10. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- Undecided
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the current limit of terms for South Dakota governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support the current limit of terms for South Dakota state senators and representatives?
- Undecided
1. Individual
- Undecided
2. PAC
- Undecided
3. Corporate
- Undecided
4. Political Parties
- Undecided
5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Undecided
6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state-level political campaigns?
- Undecided
7. Should South Dakota participate in the federal REAL ID program?
- Undecided
8. Do you support compiling state budgetary information on a single publicly available website?
- Undecided
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support the death penalty in South Dakota.
- X
3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- No Answer
4. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
5. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
6. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X
7. Support state and local law enforcement officials enforcing federal immigration laws.
- X
8. Support hate crime legislation.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support state funding of universal pre-K programs.
- No Answer
2. Support federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students (No Child Left Behind).
- X
3. Support state education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students.
- X
4. Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X
5. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer
6. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
7. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- No Answer
8. Support using a merit pay system for teachers.
- X
9. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- No Answer
10. Support allowing illegal immigrant high school graduates of South Dakota to pay in-state tuition at public universities.
- No Answer
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today?s job market.
- No Answer
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector.
- X
3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer
6. Include sexual orientation in South Dakota's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
7. Include gender identity in South Dakota's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
8. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer
9. Support laws that prevent employers from dismissing employees at will.
- No Answer
10. Support financial punishments for those who knowingly employ illegal immigrants.
- X
11. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X
12. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil, etc).
- X
3. Support providing financial incentives to farms that produce biofuel crops.
- No Answer
4. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- No Answer
5. Support funding for improvements to South Dakota's power generating and transmission facilities.
- X
6. Support funding for open space preservation.
- No Answer
7. Limit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
- No Answer
8. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should background checks be required on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows?
- No
2. Should citizens be allowed to carry concealed guns?
- Yes
3. Should a license be required for gun possession?
- Yes
4. Do you support current levels of enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Yes
5. Do you support current state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Yes
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X
2. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- X
3. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X
4. Allow patients to sue their HMOs.
- No Answer
5. Require hospitals and labs to release reports on infections that are a risk to public health, while not compromising patient confidentiality.
- X
6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in South Dakota.
- No Answer
7. Support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should South Dakota recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No
2. Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry?
- No
3. Should South Dakota provide state-level spousal rights to same-sex couples?
- No
4. Do you support a moment of silence in public schools?
- Yes
5. Do you support voluntary prayer in public schools?
- Yes
6. Do you support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods?
- Yes
7. Do you support abstinence-only sexual education programs?
- Undecided
8. Should the state government consider race and gender in state government contracting and hiring decisions?
- No
9. Do you support affirmative action in public college admissions?
- No
10. Should South Dakota continue affirmative action programs?
- No
11. Do you support state funding of stem cell research?
- No
12. Do you support state funding of embryonic stem cell research?
- No
13. Do you support allowing pharmacists who conscientiously object to emergency contraception to refuse to dispense it?
- No
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Please explain in a total of 100 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- At this time I have many more than two or three issues. All of high priority. Basic fields of Taxes, government spending, and Energy