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Ashur Gabriel
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Ashur Gabriel (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 53rd Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the primary on March 3, 2020.
Gabriel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Ashur Gabriel was born in Monterey, California.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: California's 53rd Congressional District election, 2020
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 53
Sara Jacobs defeated Georgette Gómez in the general election for U.S. House California District 53 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Sara Jacobs (D) | 59.5 | 199,244 |
 | Georgette Gómez (D) | 40.5 | 135,614 | |
| Total votes: 334,858 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 53
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 53 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sara Jacobs (D) | 29.1 | 58,312 |
| ✔ | | Georgette Gómez (D) | 20.0 | 39,962 |
 | Chris Stoddard (R) | 13.0 | 25,962 | |
 | Janessa Goldbeck (D) | 8.5 | 17,041 | |
 | Famela Ramos (R) | 7.5 | 15,005 | |
 | Michael Oristian (R) | 7.4 | 14,807 | |
 | Tom Wong (D) (Unofficially withdrew) | 3.6 | 7,265 | |
 | Annette Meza (D) | 2.2 | 4,446 | |
 | Joseph Fountain (D) | 2.0 | 4,041 | |
 | Jose Caballero (D) | 1.6 | 3,226 | |
 | Joaquín Vázquez (D) | 1.5 | 3,078 | |
 | John Brooks (D) | 1.4 | 2,820 | |
 | Fernando Garcia (Independent) | 0.9 | 1,832 | |
 | Suzette Santori (D) | 0.8 | 1,625 | |
 | Eric Kutner (D) | 0.4 | 734 | |
| Total votes: 200,156 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Devorah Ann Fox (D)
- Zack Fields (D)
- Peter Sharma (D)
- Ashur Gabriel (R)
- Daniel Phillip Ferrara (D)
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ashur Gabriel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Gabriel's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Hi, my name is Ashur Gabriel. I am a Christian Conservative running for Congress in California's 53rd Congressional District. I am also an architect and a musician. I have designed and created buildings and roads since 2012 and have eventually combined them to create my hypothetical city, Dydws, within my hypothetical country, Toyland. I want to bring my personal architectural experience with me to Congress to significantly improve the lives of the residents of California's 53rd Congressional District. For my musical talents and experiences, I play and the piano and the drums. I have played the piano for 11 years since age 5 and the drums for 3 years since age 13. I frequently perform by playing the piano in my home church, Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, California.
- Improving Housing Affordability by Designing and Building New Single-Family Homes and Drastically Cutting Housing Regulations
- Expanding and Creating New California State Highways
- Successfully Changing the US Federal Tax System from a Progressive Tax System to a Flat Tax System for the Individual Income Tax and make it 5%
I am personally passionate about the transportation and housing policies of the US Government. As an architect myself, I know the value of a well-planned city or a residential neighboorhood and I strongly believe that improving these specific areas of the whole public policy in the United States Federal Government will be most clearly visualized in the life and surroundings of the average American. Any policy which affects and involves physical structures and road creation and improvements are most likely going to be the number one change that an American is going to visually see in their community, city, and county.
Personally, I look up to conservative commentator and filmmaker Dinesh D' Souza. His intellectual level when it comes to divisive political issues on U.S. History like the Big Switch (the claim that the Democratic and Republican Party switched sides in the 20th Century) and the debating tactics that he uses against his Democrat political opponents is inspiring to me because he uses facts, history, logic, and reason to give evidence to his claims and positions which ends up demolishing his opponent's argument very elegantly.
The most important characteristics for an elected official are to keep their promises that they post on their campaign websites and to be factually honest about the ideas or bills that they propose or support and if these bills are realistically possible to implement, especially mathematically (what the cost of the proposed bill would be and if there is enough local, state, or federal government revenue to pay for the bill's ideas).
I would like to leave an architectural legacy of new single-family neighborhoods in the congressional district, expanded and new interstate and state highways in and around the district , which combined will have a 53rd Congressional District that is architecturally more visually attractive and affordable in the sense of the cost of the average house in the district.
My favorite political book is Hillary's America by Dinesh D' Souza because D' Souza's explanation of the history of the United States Democrat Party from supporting slavery of African-Americans to enslavement of African-Americans through their political policies (especially the current United States welfare system) shows why the Democrat Party will never be willing to solve today's economic and social problems in the United States thanks to their inherent and relentless addiction to racism within their party (not just only the current awful political values of the US Democrat Party).
It is only beneficial to some degree for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics. The beneficial portion is that the representative will have a first-hand experience in how sponsoring and voting on a proposed bill works through that specific governmental/legislative body and will use that valuable experience in their new legislative body. The nonbeneficial portion is that an experience with a legislative body will not matter because if that representative identifies with the United States Democrat Party, then their political values are not in line with the supporting negative results that Democrat policies produce, with a notable example being the homeless and sanitation situation of major, Democrat-run inner cities like Los Angeles, CA and San Francisco, CA.
I perceive that the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade is the $23 trillion dollar United States national debt that we have to figure out how to decrease and how to best fight and defeat the Democrat Party's ideology and values through facts, logic, reason, and compare and contrast methods. For example, the Republican Party value of low taxes and deregulation of business in the United States has proven to generate more jobs, faster overall economic growth, a sharper increase of the United States stock market (the DOW), which leads to a general overall betterment of the average American's life in contrast to the Democrat Party value of high taxes and overregulation of American businesses.
I have different opinions when it comes to the issue of term limits. On the positive side, term limits are beneficial because they hold elected leaders accountable by incentivizing them to keep their campaign promises to their constituents before they are unable to run for reelection and also term limits keep out bad politicians out of office who have political values that are hazardous to the good of their community. On the negative side, term limits is a poor idea because it keeps out good politicians who have excellent political values and are still in the process of keeping their political promises to their constituents.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 4, 2020
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