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Ali Khorasani
Ali Khorasani (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 2nd Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on March 6, 2018.
Biography
Ali Khorasani lives in Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from St. Edward's University in 2012 and a master's degree in chemistry from George Mason University in 2015. Khorasani’s career experience includes working as a field service engineer.[1]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 2
Daniel Crenshaw defeated Todd Litton, Patrick Gunnels, and Scott Cubbler in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 2 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Daniel Crenshaw (R) | 52.8 | 139,188 |
 | Todd Litton (D) | 45.6 | 119,992 | |
 | Patrick Gunnels (L) | 0.9 | 2,373 | |
 | Scott Cubbler (Independent) | 0.7 | 1,839 | |
| Total votes: 263,392 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 2
Daniel Crenshaw defeated Kevin Roberts in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 2 on May 22, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Daniel Crenshaw | 69.5 | 19,430 |
 | Kevin Roberts | 30.5 | 8,523 | |
| Total votes: 27,953 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 2
Todd Litton defeated J. Darnell Jones, Silky Malik, H. P. Parvizian, and Ali Khorasani in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 2 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Todd Litton | 52.8 | 15,113 |
 | J. Darnell Jones | 22.1 | 6,308 | |
 | Silky Malik | 9.7 | 2,770 | |
 | H. P. Parvizian | 7.9 | 2,259 | |
 | Ali Khorasani | 7.5 | 2,148 | |
| Total votes: 28,598 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 2
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 2 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kevin Roberts | 33.0 | 15,273 |
| ✔ | | Daniel Crenshaw | 27.4 | 12,679 |
 | Kathaleen Wall | 27.1 | 12,524 | |
 | Rick Walker | 7.2 | 3,320 | |
| Jonny Havens | 2.0 | 936 | ||
 | Justin Lurie | 0.9 | 425 | |
 | Jon Spiers | 0.9 | 418 | |
| David Balat | 0.8 | 348 | ||
| Malcolm Whittaker | 0.7 | 322 | ||
| Total votes: 46,245 | |||
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Endorsements
- Our Revolution Texas[2]
Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Ali A. Khorasani participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on February 26, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Ali A. Khorasani's responses follow below.[3]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Environmental action with a Green New Deal |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Our politicians keep debating whether or not climate change exists while people across the world are experiencing the harsh effects of global warming. We need a strong voice for science—a scientist, perhaps—in Congress so we can finally take bold action for this threat. Climate change presents not only a crisis but also an opportunity for us to invest in in-sourced jobs, high-tech infrastructure, and modernization of our country. I am also particularly passionate about criminal justice reform, racial equality, and reproductive rights.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[5]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Ali A. Khorasani answered the following:
What was your very first job? How long did you have it?
| “ | I was an ice cream scooper from 2007-2008, the last time we raised the minimum wage.[5] | ” |
| “ | I have a small balcony garden I started shortly after Hurricane Harvey. I planted some easy-to-grow herbs and vegetables and to this day, most of them are thriving. Watching these small plants grow to delicious veggies and propagating cuttings with friends is a great metaphor for planting "seeds of revolution." By putting a little work in every day, we can blossom and grow.[5] | ” |
| “ | There are different kinds of experience--tenure and action. Experience in terms of how many years or months someone has held a seat is completely useless--what did they do with that time? Action is slightly better--they applied that time productively to achieve certain goals. However, I get inspired when I work with young people who have the ability to think outside the box and outside established norms. So much creativity is squelched because people are afraid to challenge the status quo.[5] | ” |
| “ | Our economic system is not sustainable, both from an environmental perspective and from a quality of life perspective. We will need to address unregulated capitalism and decide whether the strength of the economy is more valuable than people's quality of life. We will see more extreme weather, droughts, and floods in places where these things are unprecedented, and we will also see the rescue-demolish-rebuild-rehome cycle play out again and again in our communities, pushing people out of their homes for the sake of economic development.[5] | ” |
| “ | We need to change our leadership periodically to prevent political stagnation. I support limiting U.S. Reps to three consecutive terms, and limiting U.S. Senators to two consecutive terms.[5] | ” |
| “ | Redistricting must be automated, rather than having people decide who to place in what map. We need to address population shifts more frequently than every census cycle, and we need to ensure communities are not sectioned off precinct-by-precinct to let bad candidates keep their offices.[5] | ” |
Khorasani stated the following about his political philosophy in a biographical submission to Ballotpedia:[6]
| “ | I hope to provide an expert opinion on science while in office, as well as a voice to marginalized and underrepresented communities. I believe the House of Representatives should be representative of the myriad of professions, races, religions, and sexual orientations in this country, and belongs in the hands of ordinary working people. I chose to run for office because I saw a major lack of understanding for science among common political conversation. I also saw an overabundance of millionaires, billionaires, lawyers, business executives, and career politicians and wanted to better represent the 90% of the American working class.
I am a Leftist Progressive, a member of Generation Y (Millennial), and a scientist who was born and raised in Texas. Throughout my life, I have been committed to community service, starting with a canned food drive at the age of four. I went on to become an Eagle Scout and was an Interfaith Peer Minister at St. Edward's University. I have published my research in leading nanotechnology journals. My political activism kicked off during the 2013 special session of the Texas Legislature. Later on, I was inspired to run by a statement by Neil deGrasse Tyson, asking “Where are the scientists? Where are the engineers? Where is the rest of life?” in Congress. I hope to provide a bold progressive voice to the people in my community.[5] |
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See also
- United States House of Representatives
- Texas' 2nd Congressional District election, 2018
- Texas' 2nd Congressional District
External links
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- Campaign website
- Campaign Facebook page
- Campaign Twitter page
- Campaign Instagram page
Footnotes
- ↑ Ali for Congress, "About," accessed January 25, 2018
- ↑ Email submission to Ballotpedia, February 12, 2018
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Ali A. Khorasani's responses," February 26, 2018
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Information submitted on Ballotpedia's biographical information submission form on December 20, 2017
