Adam M. Plimpton
Adam M. Plimpton was a 2014 Democratic candidate for District 62 of the California State Assembly.
Campaign themes
2014
Plimpton's website highlighted the following campaign themes:[1]
Education Reform
- Excerpt: "Education remains extremely important in transforming our youth into respectable citizens"
Homelessness
- Excerpt: "For Adam Plimpton, the issue isn’t just about getting the homeless off the streets, it’s about finding solutions to prevent homelessness from the get-go. "
Infrastructure
- Excerpt: "I will work to improve, and replace, our infrastructure so that the threat of loss of shelter, schools, jobs and emotional hardship would be greatly lessened, and even more so, thousands of jobs would be created overnight."
Crime/Public Safety
- Excerpt: "In order for this problem to be fixed, both the more vulnerable and younger citizens of Los Angeles must be better educated."
Death Penalty
- Excerpt: "According to deathpenaltyinfo.org, Today in 96% of the states still practicing the death penalty, there are concrete patterns of discrimination regarding race"
Elections
2014
Elections for the California State Assembly took place in 2014. A primary election took place on June 3, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was March 7, 2014. Autumn Burke (D) and Ted J. Grose (R) defeated Simona A. Farrise (D), Paul Kouri (D), Adam M. Plimpton (D), Mike Stevens (D), Gloria Gray (D) and Emidio "Mimi" Soltysik (I) in the blanket primary. Burke defeated Grose in the general election.[2][3][4]
Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | ![]() |
75.9% | 54,304 | |
Republican | Ted J. Grose | 24.1% | 17,261 | |
Total Votes | 71,565 |
Recent news
This section links to a Google news search for the term "Adam + Plimpton + California + Assembly"
See also
- California State Assembly
- California State Assembly elections, 2014
- California State Legislature
- California State Assembly District 62
External links
- Official campaign website
- Legislative Profile from Project Vote Smart
- Biography from Project Vote Smart
- Adam Plimpton on Twitter
Footnotes
- ↑ adamplimpton.com, "Official Campaign Website," accessed May 13, 2014
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official 2014 Primary election candidate list," accessed March 27, 2014
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official primary election results," accessed July 15, 2014
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official general election results," accessed December 14, 2014