Seth Kaper-Dale

Seth Kaper-Dale

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Seth Kaper-Dale was a 2017 Green Party candidate for Governor of New Jersey. He was defeated in the general election on November 7, 2017.

Biography

Kaper-Dale and his wife, Stephanie, have served as co-pastors of the Reformed Church of Highland Park in Highland Park, New Jersey, since 2001. In 2006, he founded RCHP-Affordable Housing Corp., which seeks to provide housing support for struggling and transitional populations, such as women aging out of foster care, refugees, and homeless veterans. He also founded Interfaith-Refugee and Immigrant Services and Empowerment (Interfaith-RISE), which aims to welcome and provide resettlement assistance to refugees from around the world.

Kaper-Dale serves as the vice chair of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and as a member of the board of directors for Churches Accomplishing Long Term Recovery.

Education

• Princeton Theological Seminary

Elections

2017

See also: New Jersey gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2017

New Jersey held an election for governor and lieutenant governor on November 7, 2017. Governor Chris Christie (R) was term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election. New Jersey elects its governor and lieutenant governor together on a joint ticket.

The general election took place on November 7, 2017. The primary election was held on June 6, 2017. The filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in the primary election was April 3, 2017.

The following candidates ran in the election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey.

New Jersey Gubernatorial and Lieutenant Gubernatorial Election, 2017
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Phil Murphy/Sheila Oliver	56.03%	1,203,110
	Republican	Kim Guadagno/Carlos Rendo	41.89%	899,583
	Independent	Gina Genovese/Derel Stroud	0.57%	12,294
	Libertarian	Peter Rohrman/Karese Laguerre	0.49%	10,531
	Green	Seth Kaper-Dale/Lisa Durden	0.47%	10,053
	Constitution	Matt Riccardi	0.32%	6,864
	Independent	Vincent Ross/April Johnson	0.23%	4,980
Total Votes (6385/6385 precincts reporting)				2,147,415
Source: New Jersey Division of Elections

Kim Guadagno defeated Jack Ciattarelli, Hirsh Singh, Joseph Rudy Rullo, and Steve Rogers in the Republican primary.

New Jersey Republican Gubernatorial Primary, 2017
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Kim Guadagno	46.82%	113,846
Jack Ciattarelli	31.08%	75,556
Hirsh Singh	9.76%	23,728
Joseph Rudy Rullo	6.51%	15,816
Steve Rogers	5.84%	14,187
Total Votes		243,133
Source: New Jersey Division of Elections

Phil Murphy defeated Jim Johnson, John Wisniewski, Ray Lesniak, Bill Brennan, and Mark Zinna in the Democratic primary.

New Jersey Democratic Gubernatorial Primary, 2017
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Phil Murphy	48.42%	243,643
Jim Johnson	21.91%	110,250
John Wisniewski	21.57%	108,532
Ray Lesniak	4.83%	24,318
Bill Brennan	2.24%	11,263
Mark Zinna	1.04%	5,213
Total Votes		503,219
Source: New Jersey Division of Elections

Campaign themes

2017

Kaper-Dale's campaign is structured around his Last Are First Platform, which his website describes as including:

“	NJ Single Payer Medicine for All NJ Single Payer Medicare for All would provide first-rate health care for all New Jerseyans and would save the state, local municipalities, businesses and individuals, billions of dollars. It is the single change most able to transform this state. There is a growing awareness in America that the health care we receive is managed by an unnecessary and ridiculously expensive middle-manager — the health insurance industry. As long as that industry is calling the shots Americans will be paying far too much for our health care. NJ Single Payer Improved and Expanded Medicare is about Care, not Insurance. The cost of the state of NJ running its own health care program is projected to bring down costs to employers, and to employees, in dramatic ways. After eliminating insurance payments, an increase in payroll taxes (6% on the employer side, 2% on the employee) could put this program into effect immediately. This plan would have no deductibles, no co-pays, no premiums and would mean that we’d stop differentiating the care offered to public workers, wall street bankers and the poorest of the poor. Good health care is a right, not a benefit. Many in New Jersey live in fear of getting sick, not because they’re afraid of getting sick, but because you’re afraid of the cost of getting sick. It’s ridiculous for the state to be economically-sick because we’re throwing money away to what is an entirely unnecessary industry that overcharges many of us and is cost prohibitive to others. The cost savings related to NJ Single Payer would allow us to: Fix the public workers and teachers pension problem as state pensions are currently linked with health insurance expenses, reduce municipal/school budgets, lower property taxes, make it easier for business to transition to $15/minimum wage and free people up for job-mobility. New Jersey Public Banking Investments in the state of NJ are currently put into hedge funds managed by Wall Street banks. Our capital investments cost excessive fees and allow Wall Street banks to loan $10 anywhere in the world for every $1 of NJ monies we invest. The idea of a public bank is that the capital investments made by the people of New Jersey to the state, stay in the state. The state receives money through tax revenue and invests it in a public bank that has mandates about how the money can be loaned. When the state pays into the pension fund, for example, that money is held in a bank that is generating monies that help the state, even while meeting the retirement needs of workers. The mission for the NJ state bank will likely include loans to counties and municipalities for infrastructure projects, buying out mortgages of homes in contested processes of foreclosure and providing low interest loans to NJ university students to make higher education affordable. Banking professionals and stakeholders will play an important role in oversight of the bank to ensure it does not fall under the influence of politicians. In the coming days a more extensive explanation will appear on our website. Progressive Taxation Our tax codes and tax policies have been looked at through a ‘first are first’ lens for long enough. My Administration, without the burden of decades of promises to big donors, and with an eye for caring for the last, can take a fresh look at taxes in this state. Currently, NJ has a 7 bracket state tax system. High wage earners pay more based on reaching the next plateau in the bracket. Our tax bracket has remained stagnant even as wealth has dramatically increased among the highest wage earners. I propose that we, like other states, add new brackets. I propose we add an 8th and 9th bracket, so that those who have the good fortune of exorbitant wealth can contribute more to our state. Right now all monies after $500,000 are taxed at 8.97%. I propose $500,001-$750,000 at 10.50%, and $750,001 and above at 12%. I also propose that the Estate Tax be reinstated. The 20+ Democrats who voted to fund the Transportation Trust Fund even as a deal was cut with Governor Christie to eliminate the Estate Tax, have led us in a dangerous direction. Corporate welfare tax credits should be scrapped. If NJ goes with a NJ single payer Medicare for All, NJ business will have such incentive to do business in the state that there wouldn’t be a need for any additional tax credits.	”
—Seth Kaper-Dale

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