Freedom's Heritage Forum is a Political Action Committee Founded for the purpose of supporting conservative candidates for local, state and national office.
How Freedom's Heritage Forum
Makes Endorsements
The iVoterGuide Process
What Are the Basics?
We at Freedom's Heritage Forum PAC participate in and evaluate candidates for state-level and federal level legislative offices through iVoterGuide and other trusted sources.
For the iVoterGuide process, various panelists analyze the publicly-available information on candidates and make a determination for how conservative or liberal those candidates are likely to be. Generally speaking, based on how conservative the candidates are determined to be, we make our endorsements.
What If There's Not Enough Info?
If there is not enough information to make a determination, then candidates are labeled as "insufficient information." We are not inclined to endorse any candidates without sufficient information.
Does Freedom's Heritage Forum
Make Money from This Process?
Freedom’s Heritage Forum pays thousands of dollars to iVoterGuide for this process, and some of our staff have also participated as panelists to evaluate candidates.
Where Can I See Kentucky iVoterGuide Info?
The public data on candidates for this election from iVoterGuide is available here:
What We Consider for
Endorsements and Recommendations
Our Eight Factor Framework
In making its endorsements and recommendations, Freedom’s Heritage Forum considers the following:
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The information from iVoterGuide panelists who analyze publicly-available info about candidates running for state and federal offices, including donations, endorsements, iVoterGuide questionnaire answers, known candidate social media profiles, candidate websites, and voting record scores
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Endorsements already made by other conservative organizations such as Kentucky Right to Life Victory PAC, as positive endorsements
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Endorsements already made by liberal and left-wing organizations such as C-Fair, the teachers unions, Democratic Socialists groups, Emily’s List, and Planned Parenthood’s PPAA PAC, as negative endorsements
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Our own prior endorsements and recommendations of candidates from previous elections
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Candidate’s responses to our own questionnaires for political office, especially if those candidates are local candidates running in a competitive office
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Candidate’s publicly-answered responses to questionnaires from Ballotpedia
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Any additional information that Dr. Frank Simon, our founder, has about the candidate based on what he has read and heard
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Any additional input from Christian lawyers or police officers, on judicial and sheriff races
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What We Don't Consider
Freedom’s Heritage Forum does not make our endorsements based on:
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How much money we have received from the candidate or from supporters of the candidate
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What race or gender the candidate is
(we don’t discriminate based on race or gender of the candidate)
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Why We Might Decline or Revoke Endorsements
Freedom’s Heritage Forum reserves the right to decline endorsements or remove endorsements if:
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We do not have sufficient information on the candidate as deemed by iVoterGuide panelists and or by our own questionnaire process
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The candidate has claimed to have dropped out of the race
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The candidate has encountered a scandal that Freedom’s Heritage Forum believes warrants a withdraw of endorsement
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The candidate’s publicly-available material about himself or herself seems to be mostly or entirely written by artificial intelligence rather than by the candidate (an A.I. cannot hold political office, and we need to know what candidates believe and have done, not what A.I. says would be nice)
Three Things That Don't Disqualify Candidates
What does not disqualify a candidate from getting our endorsement:
1. The candidate has lost a prior political race for office
2. The candidate lacks endorsements from other key conservative organizations
3. The candidate was born in another state