Antonio Sabas
Antonio Sabas (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent New Jersey. He did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on June 5, 2018.
Biography
Antonio Sabas earned a master's degree in diplomacy and international relations from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Sabas has served in the United States Army, Navy, and Marines.[1]
Career
Sabas received a master's degree in diplomacy international relations-conflict resolution from Fairleigh Dickerson University in 2012. A summary of Sabas' professional history includes:
- 2017-Present: Honorable advisory board member, UNESCO Center for Global Education
- 2012-Present: Chief of foreign affairs, Freedom of Choice United States
- 2007-2011: Six Sigma Evolution LLC. Black Belt & Deployment Leader
- 1998-2011: Manpower Staffing,Boston Bank Compliance, Fleet Investment Banking Private Clients Group, Bank of America
- 2010: New Jersey Army National Guard Youth Challenge (youth mentor)
- October-December 2007: Robert Half Management Resources, Gibraltar Private Trust Bank
- April-August 2007: TOPNY: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi- UFJ
- Army Officer Candidate School(OCS)
- 1990: United States Navy
- 1988: United States Marine Corp.[2]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. Senate New Jersey
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate New Jersey on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bob Menendez (D) | 54.0 | 1,711,654 |
 | Bob Hugin (R) | 42.8 | 1,357,355 | |
 | Madelyn Hoffman (G) | 0.8 | 25,150 | |
 | Murray Sabrin (L) | 0.7 | 21,212 | |
 | Natalie Rivera (For the People Party) | 0.6 | 19,897 | |
 | Tricia Flanagan (New Day NJ Party) | 0.5 | 16,101 | |
 | Kevin Kimple (Make it Simple Party)  | 0.3 | 9,087 | |
 | Hank Schroeder (Economic Growth Party) | 0.3 | 8,854 | |
| Total votes: 3,169,310 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Muhammad Usman (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate New Jersey
Incumbent Bob Menendez defeated Lisa McCormick in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate New Jersey on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bob Menendez | 62.3 | 262,477 |
 | Lisa McCormick | 37.7 | 158,998 | |
| Total votes: 421,475 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate New Jersey
Bob Hugin defeated Brian Goldberg in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate New Jersey on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bob Hugin | 75.1 | 168,052 |
 | Brian Goldberg | 24.9 | 55,624 | |
| Total votes: 223,676 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Antonio Sabas (R)
- Dana Wefer (R)
- Jeff Bell (R)
- Jerry Watson (R)
2014
Sabas ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. Senate, to represent New Jersey. He lost to incumbent Cory Booker (D) in the general election.[3] The general election took place on November 4, 2014.
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |  Cory Booker Incumbent |
55.8% | 1,043,866 | |
| Republican | Jeff Bell | 42.3% | 791,297 | |
| Libertarian | Joe Baratelli | 0.9% | 16,721 | |
| Independent | Jeff Boss | 0.2% | 4,513 | |
| Independent | Antonio N. Sabas | 0.2% | 3,544 | |
| Democratic-Republican | Eugene Lavergne | 0.2% | 3,890 | |
| Economic Growth | Hank Schroeder | 0.3% | 5,704 | |
| Total Votes | 1,869,535 | |||
| Source: New Jersey Division of Elections | ||||
2013
Sabas ran in the 2013 special election for the U.S. Senate, representing New Jersey. Sabas ran as the Freedom of Choice Party candidate.[4][5] He was defeated in the general election on October 16, 2013.[6]
| U.S. Senate, New Jersey Special General Election, 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Cory Booker |
54.9% | 740,742 | |
| Republican | Steve Lonegan | 44% | 593,684 | |
| Independent | Edward C. Stackhouse | 0.4% | 5,138 | |
| Independent | Robert DePasquale | 0.2% | 3,137 | |
| Independent | Stuart Meissner | 0.2% | 2,051 | |
| Independent | Pablo Olivera | 0.1% | 1,530 | |
| Independent | Antonio N. Sabas | 0.1% | 1,336 | |
| Independent | Eugene LaVergne | 0.1% | 1,041 | |
| Total Votes | 1,348,659 | |||
| Source: Official results via New Jersey Division of Elections[7] | ||||
2010
In 2010, Sabas ran for mayor in Irvington, NJ.
Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia biographical submission form
The candidate completed Ballotpedia's biographical information submission form:
| “ | What is your political philosophy?
To ensure that dignity, equality and mutual respect for all humankind. Providing a safe, supportive learning environment which promotes and encourages inclusion that will enable a more diverse and evolving America. |
” |
| —Antonio Sabas[1] | ||
2018
Sabas submitted the following answer to the question, "What is your political philosophy?" through Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form:
| “ |
Fighting for local and regional government working to achieve Sustainable Inclusion equality to advance opportunity for all. Sustainable Inclusion derives directly from the continual success of the Department of Education reach its sustainable goal in education. Over the last year, we have seen exponential growth in both community and government’s understanding of the importance of addressing sustainable inclusion in education equality. They say that “No two snowflakes are alike.” However, this metaphor is extremely true for most of our inner city schools. Deep and persistent educational disparities with depressed life opportunities for all, along with changing demographics, have driven a national concern to build more inclusive, responsive, and effective schools for learning. We have the opportunity to move a meaningful “side-by-side” strategy that leverages both the power and innovation for all communities with the power of local government to create a more sustainable and inclusive education system and infrastructure that benefits all children and faculty. Why is this important? According to a report by State of Our Schools: America’s K–12 Facilities, the answer is we’re falling short “The current system of facilities funding leaves school districts unprepared to provide adequate and equitable school facilities… In total, the nation is underspending by $46 billion – an annual shortfall of 32%,” the report states. Moreover, the state relies heavily on local districts and taxpayers and if f the wealth in the community isn’t there, new construction usually won’t get funded. While contribution made by the federal government, is about 45% and 10%, to school districts annual operating costs, the capital investment required to build and modernize buildings falls extremely short and especially we see it throughout our nation’s inner-city schools. [8] |
” |
| —Antonio Sabas | ||
2013
Sabas listed his main campaign themes on his campaign website. They included:[9]
- Protecting our seniors: "Protecting our seniors is a priority, ensuring that they receive the best quality of security and safe housing, Antonio Sabas will put forth simple ideas that the Senate should pursue, including increasing prosecutions on those who prey on seniors through fraud and financial crimes, protect seniors from identity theft, protect current benefits for seniors. As your Senator, I will seek more federal aid to improve the health care for our elderly and people with disabilities, currently in New Jersey."
- Healthcare: Except: "As Senator, I will support universal health care and every effort to make that result a reality in this country. I will also support current legislative efforts to make affordable health care available to millions who have never received it. I believe that a public insurance option remains the best safeguard against the continued dominance of private health insurers who literally now control the day to day practice of medicine....Every citizen should have the right to affordable healthcare, as we are now understanding with the increasing numbers of mental heath issue in America involving mass killings from the hands of mentally ill people, brings me to the conclusion that we as a Nation must ensure that everyone has accessibility to affordable health care and mental health care. Since the debate on the Affordable Care Act presented to Congress by President Obama, we have seen a spike of mass killings all across America. The necessity to come to an agreement that all Americans should have this entitlement is imperative to the health, livelihood and safety to all Americans we have no other choice but fund the Affordable Care Act."
- Education: "As your senator I will fight for college graduates that are facing the burden of their student loan repayment. Student loan debt in America now surpasses $1 trillion, according to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and is already hindering young people from making important economic decisions such as purchasing new homes or cars (Nawaguna, 2013). Every School deserves equal funding and resources, because every child deserves a quality education. However, since both economic and income inequality has been a generational fight and a generational investment that has to be made, if we are truly going to address income inequality that affects primarily on minorities in America. In order to combatant this, we must continue to add resource and invest in our infrastructure such as; education investment, job training, and keeping jobs here in New Jersey and throughout America."
- Economy: "As US Senator, I will work to address the failing economy, failing schools, criminal injustice system, inequality on Black and Brown communities, assault on the rights of women and girls, failing infrastructure, the crisis in energy, food production and other areas of the USA socio-political economy. In a recent survey released by Bankrate.com states that three-quarters of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck, with little to no emergency savings."
See also
- United States Senate
- United States Senate election in New Jersey, 2018
- United States Senate elections in New Jersey, 2014
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted on Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form on July 24, 2018 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "bio" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Information submitted to BP Staff, October 21, 2013
- ↑ Politico, "2014 New Jersey Senate Election Results," accessed November 5, 2014
- ↑ NJ.com, "6 N.J. independents running for U.S. Senate in October special election," accessed August 19, 2013
- ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Unofficial General Election List," accessed August 19, 2013 (dead link)
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedgenresults - ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Special Election General Election Results," accessed November 7, 2013
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Antonio Sabas for Senate, "Where I stand on the issues," accessed October 21, 2013
