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Quick Facts
Personal Details

John Carney is a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, representing District 51. Carney is running for re-election in the primary on May 22, 2018. The general election will take place on November 6, 2018. Carney served as Minority Whip from 2013 to 2014.

Carney's professional experience includes working as a social studies teacher and coach at Taylor County High School, special education teacher and coach at Campbellsville High School, social studies teacher and head basketball coach at Washington County High School, and for the Campbellsville Municipal Water Company. Carney is a member and basketball coach at Living Grace Church and a teacher's representative on the Parent-Teacher-Student Organization of Taylor County High School.

Education

  • Certification, Teaching, Campbellsville University
  • MA, Instructional Leadership, Eastern Kentucky University, 2005
  • BA, History, Berea College, 1991

Professional Experience

  • Certification, Teaching, Campbellsville University
  • MA, Instructional Leadership, Eastern Kentucky University, 2005
  • BA, History, Berea College, 1991
  • Social Studies Teacher, Taylor County High School, 2004-present
  • Former Special Education Teacher, Campbellsville High School
  • Former Employee, Campbellsville Municipal Water Company
  • Former Social Studies Teacher/Head Basketball Coach, Washington County High School

Political Experience

  • Certification, Teaching, Campbellsville University
  • MA, Instructional Leadership, Eastern Kentucky University, 2005
  • BA, History, Berea College, 1991
  • Social Studies Teacher, Taylor County High School, 2004-present
  • Former Special Education Teacher, Campbellsville High School
  • Former Employee, Campbellsville Municipal Water Company
  • Former Social Studies Teacher/Head Basketball Coach, Washington County High School
  • Representative, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives, District 51, 2009-present
  • Majority Floor Leader, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives, present
  • Former Minority Whip, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives
  • Candidate, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives, District 51, 2018, 2020

Former Committees/Caucuses

Former Member, Appropriations and Revenue Committee, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, House Budget Review Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, House Budget Review Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education and Workforce Investment, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, Joint Committee on State Government, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, Small Business and Information Technology Committee, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, State Government Committee, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Education Assessment and Accountability Review, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on School Finance, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Current Legislative Committees

Member, Committee On Committees

Member, Education Committee

Vice Chair, Enrollment Committee

Member, Joint Committee on Education

Member, Legislative Research Commission

Vice Chair, Rules Committee

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • Certification, Teaching, Campbellsville University
  • MA, Instructional Leadership, Eastern Kentucky University, 2005
  • BA, History, Berea College, 1991
  • Social Studies Teacher, Taylor County High School, 2004-present
  • Former Special Education Teacher, Campbellsville High School
  • Former Employee, Campbellsville Municipal Water Company
  • Former Social Studies Teacher/Head Basketball Coach, Washington County High School
  • Representative, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives, District 51, 2009-present
  • Majority Floor Leader, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives, present
  • Former Minority Whip, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives
  • Candidate, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives, District 51, 2018, 2020
  • Member/Basketball Coach/Usher, Living Grace Church, present
  • Teacher's Representative, Parent-Teacher-Student Organization, Taylor County High School, present
  • Member, Taylor County Board of Education, present
  • Former Member, Future Farmers of America (FFA)
  • Member, Taylor County High School, Site-Based Council
  • Coach, Upward Basketball
  • Member, Washington County High School Site-Based Council
Policy Positions

Kentucky State Legislative Election 2008 Political Courage Test

Abortion

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.

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

Budget and Tax

State Budget: Indicate what state funding levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one level per category, you can use a number more than once.

1. Education (Higher)
- Maintain Status

2. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase

3. Emergency preparedness
- Slightly Increase

4. Environment
- Maintain Status

5. Health care
- Slightly Increase

6. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase

7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase

8. Welfare
- Slightly Decrease

9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

State Taxes: Indicate what state tax levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one level per category, you can use a number more than once.

1. Alcohol taxes
- Slightly Increase

2. Cigarette taxes
- Slightly Increase

3. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status

4. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status

5. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status

6. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Maintain Status

7. Property taxes
- Maintain Status

8. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status

9. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status

10. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

11. Should state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Yes

12. Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget?
- Undecided

13. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- Undecided

14. Do you support an increase in Kentucky's cigarette tax to fund education?
- Yes

15. Other or expanded principles
- Increased revenue from cigarette tax needs to also go to health care and farming.

Campaign Finance and Government Reform

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.

1. Do you support the current limit of terms for Kentucky governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Kentucky state senators and representatives?
- Undecided

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative candidates?

1. Individual
- Yes

2. PAC
- Yes

3. Corporate
- Yes

4. Political Parties
- Yes

5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes

6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state-level political campaigns?
- Yes

7. Should Kentucky participate in the federal REAL ID program?
- Undecided

8. Do you support a constitutional amendment allowing casinos in Kentucky?
- No

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime.

1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- X

2. Support the death penalty in Kentucky.
- 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.
- No Answer

8. Support hate crime legislation.
- X

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Education

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.

1. Support state funding of universal pre-K programs.
- X

2. Support federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students (No Child Left Behind).
- No Answer

3. Support state education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students.
- No Answer

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.
- X

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.
- X

8. Support using a merit pay system for teachers.
- No Answer

9. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X

10. Support allowing illegal immigrant high school graduates of Kentucky to pay in-state tuition at public universities.
- No Answer

11. Other or expanded principles
- In regard to question e, only if the public school is in decline.

Employment

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.

1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today?s job market.
- X

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.
- X

5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer

6. Include sexual orientation in Kentucky's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer

7. Include gender identity in Kentucky'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.
- No Answer

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

Environment and Energy

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.

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).
- No Answer

3. Support providing financial incentives to farms that produce biofuel crops.
- X

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 Kentucky's power generating and transmission facilities.
- No Answer

6. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X

7. Limit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
- X

8. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Gun

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns.

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?
- No

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
- In regard to B, only with a permit.

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health.

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.
- No Answer

3. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X

4. Allow patients to sue their HMOs.
- X

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 Kentucky.
- No Answer

7. Support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Social

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding social issues.

1. Should Kentucky recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No

2. Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry?
- No

3. Should Kentucky 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?
- Undecided

7. Do you support abstinence-only sexual education programs?
- Yes

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 Kentucky continue affirmative action programs?
- Undecided

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?
- Yes

14. Other or expanded principles
- IN regard to question M, a person could always find another pharmacists.

Legislative Priorities

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.
- No Answer

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