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Andrew Dixon (Pennsylvania)
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Andrew Dixon (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 29. He lost in the general election on November 6, 2018.
Dixon completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2018. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Dixon attended Lafayette College from 1997 to 2001 and Temple University from 2002 to 2011. He works as a college instructor and an organizer with the American Federation of Teachers.[1]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 29
Meghan Schroeder defeated Andrew Dixon in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 29 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Meghan Schroeder (R) | 52.2 | 16,555 |
 | Andrew Dixon (D)  | 47.8 | 15,157 | |
| Total votes: 31,712 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Bernard O'Neill (R)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 29
Andrew Dixon advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 29 on May 15, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Andrew Dixon | 100.0 | 4,062 |
| Total votes: 4,062 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 29
Incumbent Bernard O'Neill advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 29 on May 15, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bernard O'Neill | 100.0 | 4,331 |
| Total votes: 4,331 | |||
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Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia biographical submission form
The candidate completed Ballotpedia's biographical information submission form:
| “ | What is your political philosophy?
I think government is the steward of the people's resources and a vehicle for ensuring a minimum set of acceptable conditions for all citizens. I am running because I think we need stronger leadership in Harrisburg on educational and particularly environmental issues. |
” |
| —Andrew Dixon[1] | ||
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Andrew Dixon participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on August 7, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Andrew Dixon's responses follow below.[3]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | (1) Implementing a severance tax on Marcellus shale gas extraction so we can (2) fully fun the Department of Environmental Protection and protect Pennsylvania's environment and natural resources and (3) restore funding to public education to both the K-12 and state higher ed systems, to improved educational outcomes, reduce local property tax burdens, and work against the accumulation of student debt by young people attending state institutions.[4][2] | ” |
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | I am passionate about environmental protection policies, because in its constitution, Pennsylvania guarantees to every citizen "a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment." I am passionate about Education because it is the investment that is the driver of innovation in the state and retention of young people as they grow up.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[2]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Andrew Dixon answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?
| “ | Martin Luther King, Jr. is to me the ultimate example of service to the community and selfless work for the betterment of the world in which he lived. The best thing anyone can do is to sacrifice personal safety and comfort to help people and make the world a better place. Martin Luther King did that every day of his life, until he was killed for it. His death was an unspeakable tragedy, but the symbol he made of his life is a beacon that will last forever. He is without a doubt my favorite American.[2] | ” |
| “ | There is an excellent book of essays by Isaiah Berlin on liberty (called Liberty, edited by Henry Hardy) and the distinction between the freedom TO do things (like speak, bear arms, and assemble), and the freedom FROM certain kinds of oppressions and conditions (secret surveillance, but also crushing poverty) that is very important to me. There was also recently a book by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson called Winner-Take-All-Politics which provides a cogent analysis of how America is today and how we got here that I find enlightening.[2] | ” |
| “ | I think, first and foremost, a commitment to what is best for democracy and for people's faith in the system is most important. That can mean supporting things that threaten one's own power - like redistricting processes that hand the decisions to people who are not involved in the political process - but without people's basic belief in the fairness and trustworthiness of the system, democracy is lost.
I think honesty is very important, and accessibility, particularly at this level. We are here to represent a limited number of people in what is, in the grand scheme of things, a small district. We should be available to our constituents, not only through our staffs, but personally.
And finally I think a commitment to working hard and actively to help people and solve problems should be a minimum requirement for elective office.[2] |
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| “ | I am a hard worker and active listener who likes to speak with people, hear their concerns, and try to answer them as best I can. In my current "day" job I spend all day listening to people and then working with them to coordinate together to help them solve their own problems, and doing whatever I can to assist. I would bring that energy and commitment to the job of representing the people of the 29th district.[2] | ” |
| “ | I believe the core responsibilities are to be actively engaged with our community so I can accurately represent its concerns in Harrisburg, to be a leader in Harrisburg on issues that are of importance to our communities here in Buckingham, Ivyland, Warminster, and Warwick, to always do what's right when the choice is clear, and to put the good of the community, the state, and frankly the democratic system ahead of my own personal gain or power.[2] | ” |
| “ | That I was always forthright with people about who I am and what I believe, that I did what I thought was right even if it wasn't politically expedient, and that my greatest care was to do the greatest good for the greatest number![2] | ” |
| “ | The Challenger explosion, in 1986. I was 7.[2] | ” |
| “ | My very first job was working at a summer camp in our area (Camp America, in Chalfont). Of course it only lasted the summer, but I did it three summers in a row, the first when I was 15 going on 16 (1994).[2] | ” |
| “ | Oh boy, years ago I went on one date with a young lady to a Phillies game. She was someone I had known a little bit in high school and we were reconnecting. I was living in Center City Philadelphia at the time so we walked to the subway to go down to the game, and the train we got on just died right there on the tracks. She was completely unused to public transportation and I had been singing its praises on the way, and then of course this happened. We waited and waited and waited and finally I suggested we start walking. We wound up walking the whole way there. Got there in the 8th inning. Then when we did I spilled a beer on myself and her. Funny, I never saw her again after that![2] | ” |
| “ | I love the whole run of Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas, but my favorite has got to be St. Patrick's Day. My mother's family are all 100% Irish. Her father used to have a party every year, and it always felt like the unofficial kick-off to spring. Great music, great friends, great fun, and, silly as it is, I love green and making stuff that normally isn't green, green. Look forward to it every year![2] | ” |
| “ | So many to choose from. I have had so many over the years. William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury is a devastatingly beautiful novel and a raw experiment in form. Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is a terrifyingly intense but beautiful study in human frailty. T.H. White's The Once and Future King is a beautiful rendition of an age-old foundational myth. If I had to go with an absolute favorite, I would probably cheat a bit and go with William Shakespeare's history sequence of Richard II - Henry IV Part I - Henry IV Part II - Henry V. The sense of statecraft, the brilliance of the poetry, the tragedy of the deposed king and its long after-effects, the grandeur and the pensiveness on display in Henry's character as he comes of age in Henry V - this is excellent stuff.[2] | ” |
| “ | To be Sherlock Holmes and "know everything" would be quite something.[2] | ” |
| “ | I am a collector of a wide variety of oddities, but my wife gave me a lovely poem she wrote for Christmas one year, and that is my favorite single thing.[2] | ” |
| “ | If I tell you it will get stuck there again.[2] | ” |
| “ | Making sure I don't get myself too wrapped up in something relatively small to the exclusion of a lot of what is important.[2] | ” |
| “ | State house candidates really represent relatively small areas and numbers of people, so we have an opportunity to get to know large percentages of our constituents and towns. I see house members as the first line of defense/engagement: when something is going on, we ought to know about it, because we ought to be in on the ground meeting with constituents and getting the most direct line on the issues. The senate's job is to balance, to some degree, the needs of small areas of the state against the whole by either helping their corresponding house delegations solve an issue locally, or using their chamber and leverage to bring the full attention of the state to whatever the issue is.[2] | ” |
| “ | I think so, but at this level it's also true that "you have to start somewhere." I have been on the school board locally so I have a sense of how budgets work, how compromises get done, and how to move agendas.[2] | ” |
| “ | Getting the budget balanced and our credit rating back up. There are structural changes needed to make that happen, but ideally I'd also like to see us grow our population, and we do that by improving our infrastructure and our education system to make this state as attractive as possible to new and relocating businesses. An educated population who is mobile and ready to work will help bring fresh blood to our area.[2] | ” |
| “ | Ideally the governor and the state legislature can agree upon the broad framework of an agenda for the state in each legislative session, with the legislature hammering out details, and the governor using his/her position to make sure the agenda keeps moving and things get done on time.[2] | ” |
| “ | I think you have to. This is not to say that each legislator should not retain his or her individual sense of priorities or conscience and vote as s/he feels right, but the fact of the matter is you need a majority of votes to pass anything which means this is a team sport we are playing. In the best case scenario legislators can work together around issues instead of on purely politics, giving each piece of legislation passed a bi-partisan feel and each legislator a sense of individual autonomy instead of just plain obedience to a central authority.[2] | ” |
| “ | I favor the plan put forth by Fair Districts PA. A bill they favored first got mangled, and then dropped, in the latest legislative session, but I certainly hope to work with that organization to pass something if I am elected.[2] | ” |
| “ | As someone who has worked his entire adult life, both professionally and as a volunteer, in education, I would hope to be on the education committee. As a former chair of the Environmental Advisory Council in Warminster, I would want to be on the Environmental Resources & Energy Committee. And as someone who is deeply committed to getting a fair shake for working people, while at the same time also very interested in Pennsylvania's business growth, I would want to be on the Labor & Industry committee.[2] | ” |
| “ | If elected this would be my first term, so I would expect to have to "wait my turn" to be involved in leadership, but eventually I would do whatever is asked of me.[2] | ” |
| “ | At the congressional level, I admired the work of Patrick Murphy when he represented Bucks County in the U.S. Congress. He was an Iraq War veteran who brought a practicality and energy born of service to the position, and I would do well if I could emulate that.[2] | ” |
| “ | I ran for this office because local constituents asked me to run. My plan is to win and remain the legislator here for a long time. If constituents ask me to run for the state senate or some other position some day, I will certainly consider it, but I am also a bit of a home body and so is my wife. I grew up here, all of my friends are in the area, and my wife likes me home as much as possible. So not only would someone have to ask, the opportunity would have to be extraordinary.[2] | ” |
| “ | I have heard many stories about people's concerns about the water in our area, and the fears they have about real experiences they encounter with cancer, fertility issues, and the like. My own family has had these issues. Every time I hear one, particularly about the instances of child cancer around Newtown Road and how many there seem to have been over the years, I am reminded of how important it is that we take no short cuts as a state when it comes to protecting our natural resources. What happened at the NAWC and Willow Grove in terms of fire fighting foam getting dumped is bad, but it's understandable - everyone was acting in good faith and no one, at the time it was being done, understood the potential impact of what they were doing. This does not excuse us from doing whatever it takes now to clean it up, and what it should do is also serve as an instructive example of the importance of being smart and preventative in the measures that we take, to avoid this kind of situation in the future. That we are not charging a severance tax on Marcellus shale, while our state Department of Environmental Protection goes underfunded, is pure negligence, and it definitely won't be something future generations should just wave off or exonerate us for if we don't fix it. I pledge to do my part to do just that.[2] | ” |
See also
- State legislative elections, 2018
- Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2018
- Pennsylvania House of Representatives
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted on Ballotpedia's biographical information submission form on August 7, 2018
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Andrew Dixon's responses," August 7, 2018
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