Andy Caldwell
Andy Caldwell (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 24th Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Caldwell completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Andy Caldwell was born on the Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California San Diego in 1980. His professional experience includes working as the executive director for the Coalition of Labor, Agriculture & Business, as an editorial writer, and as a radio talk show host. Caldwell worked as a volunteer at Lompoc Prison and has been involved in business and community organizations. He is a father of seven.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: California's 24th Congressional District election, 2020
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 24
Incumbent Salud Carbajal defeated Andy Caldwell in the general election for U.S. House California District 24 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Salud Carbajal (D) | 58.7 | 212,564 |
 | Andy Caldwell (R)  | 41.3 | 149,781 | |
| Total votes: 362,345 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 24
Incumbent Salud Carbajal and Andy Caldwell defeated Kenneth Young in the primary for U.S. House California District 24 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Salud Carbajal (D) | 57.8 | 139,973 |
| ✔ | | Andy Caldwell (R) | 38.2 | 92,537 |
 | Kenneth Young (Independent) | 4.0 | 9,650 | |
| Total votes: 242,160 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Angela Kennedy (D)
- Michael Erin Woody (R)
Endorsements
To view Caldwell's endorsements in the 2020 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2020
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Ballotpedia survey responses
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Andy Caldwell completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Caldwell's responses.
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My mother was an immigrant - a war bride. My father was a veteran, one of the few survivors of the Bataan Death March. The trauma he suffered eventually killed him when I was 9 years old. We moved to Lompoc after my father's death.
I graduated from Lompoc High School and from UC San Diego.
After college, I worked as a seasonal laborer at Sinton & Brown before earning a promotion to Industrial Relations and Safety Manager of Union Sugar in 1988. I left in 1991, and founded the Coalition of Labor, Agriculture, and Business (COLAB) to fight for greater opportunity for area workers and small businesses.
For the past 30 years I have worked as a Government Watchdog , advocating for greater opportunity for workers and small businesses, government transparency, and common-sense solutions to problems that people face every day. That's the same commitment and tenacity I will take to Congress.- Restore respect for law and order with a focus on reforming certain aspects of our criminal justice system ensuring that poor people get better representation in our court system. I will also work diligently to end the school to prison pipeline. I have experience and passion for these things as I was a volunteer at a federal prison in Lompoc, my hometown, and I also served as a volunteer in the county probation dept. for a year.
- Restoring economic hope and prosperity. I have been working for 30 years for better paying jobs and affordable housing in our region. I understand exactly what is prohibiting job creation, upward mobility and affordable housing and how to fix these problems that are mostly driven by NIMBYs.
- Preserving our liberty. America is being threatened by anarchists, socialists and globalists, not to mention China, drug cartels and terrorists. Just like my father, I will serve to protect this great country from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Restoring our economic prosperity is the cornerstone of all we want to do to improve infrastructure, schools, and preparedness.
Education Choice and reforms will be vital for our economic future as a country and for our workers.
Our goals must be resent to prioritize solving problems and defending our country. Instead, nothing ever gets done.
Our seniors, veterans and active duty members don't have the support or resources they need. Health care is no longer affordable. Housing in CA is in short supply and too expensive. The working poor are having a tough time finding a better job. Our education system needs a serious revamping.
I would also like to restore faith in regular everyday men and women serving in office in order to serve the people versus our current experience a professional political class that makes a career out of partisan party politics.
After that I had two paper routes and after that, I had two jobs during high school.
Unfortunately, too many incumbents have only one goal and that is getting reelected. They will do or say anything to get reelected.
I believe the best way to solve these problems is to take away the power and the money from our do nothing Congress and go back to the prescription in our Constitution, namely, the 9th and 10th Amendments, which dictate that we restore power, money and the right to self-determination to the states and the people. They can address many of these problems more effectively and efficiently than an unwieldly federal government marred by waste, corruption and gridlock.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 29, 2020
