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Adam King
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Adam King was a 2014 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 37th Congressional District of California.[1] Adam King (California) lost the general election on November 4, 2014.

Biography

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King has been an adviser to The Child of the Universe Project, an education reform project being undertaken in Africa. He has worked internationally in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Romania, Hungary, Mexico, Haiti, Georgia/Azerbaijan, France and Turkey.[2]

Campaign themes

2014

King's campaign website listed the following issues:[3]

“
  • Education: "Elections are neither won nor lost in the eyes of Americans based on Foreign Policy. That is why I have created an entire domestic platform to combat the mismanagement of our country. We have a failed education system in our country. Out of 30 developed nations we rank 26th in Math and 21st in Science. Our top five% of students rank 23rd out of 29 developed nations. These are tremendous problems."
  • Job Creation: "As outlined in the foreign policy section on China, our trade war with China has done tremendous bad for our economy as US companies have exported their manufacturing base to China. We must bring back our manufacturing domestically which will bring back an overwhelming amount of Jobs to the country."
  • Budgetary Efficiency: "Government is at an all time spending high. In many cases of our Federal Budget, government is overpaying drastically for goods and services that can be rendered to the State for a fair price. In some cases that I have identified, such as budgets to house soldiers returning back from war, the government is paying 400% more than the premium price of housing in the neighborhoods to ensure the space for returning soldiers."
  • The Affordable Care Act : "The roll out of the Affordable Care Act was so sloppy and so full of mistakes that for just about as many people that gained health insurance for the first time, the others lost theirs. About 5 million people gained health insurance while about 5 million people lost their health insurance. California was one of the hardest hit states where nearly 1.1 million people have lost their health insurance."
  • Immigration: "Our immigration policies are sadly dated and antiquated. We must address immigration from a national security standpoint. We have an insane amount of undocumented people living in this country and that is dangerous for our national interests."

[4]

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—Adam King's campaign website, http://adamkinginfo.com/political-platform/bookview/

Elections

2014

See also: California's 37th Congressional District elections, 2014

King ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent California's 37th District. King and incumbent Karen Bass (D) advanced past the blanket primary on June 3, 2014, defeating Mervin Evans (D). King was then defeated in the general election on November 4, 2014.[5][6]

U.S. House, California District 37 General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngKaren Bass Incumbent 84.3% 96,787
     Republican Adam King 15.7% 18,051
Total Votes 114,838
Source: California Secretary of State
U.S. House, California District 37 Primary, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngKaren Bass Incumbent 79.6% 47,639
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngAdam King 14.3% 8,530
     Democratic Mervin Evans 6.1% 3,677
Total Votes 59,846
Source: California Secretary of State

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official candidate list," accessed March 28, 2014
  2. ↑ Campaign website, "About," accessed April 24, 2014
  3. ↑ Campaign website, "Issues," accessed April 24, 2014
  4. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  5. ↑ The Huffington Post, "Election 2014," November 4, 2014
  6. ↑ The New York Times, "California Primary Results," May 3, 2014


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