Bill Johnson (Kentucky)
William Ejner Johnson, Jr. was a Republican candidate for Kentucky Secretary of State in the 2011 elections.
Biography
Johnson is a businessman and a veteran of the United States Navy.[1][2] He was a member of British Petroleum's international leadership team and a corporate auditor/global information security manager for General Electric. He also owned and operated a business repairing and maintaining aircraft airframes and power plants. Johnson served as a nuclear propulsion engineer for the U.S. Navy from 1988 to 1998.
Elections
2011
Johnson ran for Kentucky Secretary of State in the 2011 election. He won the Republican nomination by defeating Hilda Legg. He lost to Democratic candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes in the general election.
| Kentucky Secretary of State, 2011 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Alison Lundergan Grimes |
60.6% | 494,368 | |
| Republican | Bill Johnson | 39.4% | 321,065 | |
| Total Votes | 815,433 | |||
| Election results via Kentucky Secretary of State | ||||
| Kentucky Secretary of State - Republican Primary | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote Percentage | |
| Republican Party |  Bill Johnson
|
50.42% | |
| Republican Party | Hilda Legg | 49.58% | |
| Total Votes | 131,714 | ||
- NOTE: Hilda Legg requested a recanvass of the vote in the Republican primary, which was conducted on May 26. It did not change the result.[3]
Issues
Johnson's campaign website outlined three issue positions: civic education, honest elections, and "business advocacy. Specifically, he promised to "work to expand civic education programs," to push a bill that would require photo identification to vote, and to continue efforts to automate business interactions with state government.[4]
2010
In 2010, Johnson ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate from Kentucky.
| U.S. Senator from Kentucky - Republican Primary[5] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote Percentage | |
| Republican Party | Rand Paul
|
58.8% | |
| Republican Party | C.M. "Trey" Grayson | 35.5% | |
| Republican Party | Bill Johnson | 2.2% | |
| Republican Party | John Stephenson | 2.0% | |
| Republican Party | Gurley L. Martin | 0.8% | |
| Republican Party | Jon J. Scribner | 0.8% | |
| Total Votes | 352,275 | ||
Campaign contributions
2011
Kentucky Secretary of State
In July 13, 2011, the breakdown of Johnson's campaign finances during the primary season were as follows:
| Kentucky Secretary of State -- Republican Primary[6] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Contributions | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | |||
| Total | --- | --- | $25,691.09 | $23,861.85 | --- | |||
| 60-Day Post-Primary | 7/16/2011 | $1,860.74 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $1,860.74 | |||
| 30-Day Post-Primary | 6/16/2011 | $1,771.65 | $1,650.00 | $1,560.91 | $1,860.74 | |||
| 15-Day Pre-Primary | 5/2/2011 | $3,539.35 | $925.00 | $2,574.20 | $1,890.15 | |||
| 32-Day Pre-Primary | 4/15/2011[7] | $4,714.06 | $13,146.09 | $14,470.80 | $3,389.35 | |||
| Quarterly | 12/31/2010[8] | $0.00 | $9,970.00 | $5,255.94 | $4,714.06 | |||
2010
U.S. Senator from Kentucky
According to OpenSecrets.org, Johnson raised $78,046 in 2010 for his senatorial campaign.[9]
See also
External links
- Bill Johnson for Secretary of State Campaign website
- Bill Johnson's Facebook profile
- Bill Johnson's Twitter account
Footnotes
- ↑ Cincinnati Inquirer, "Bill Johnson to run for secretary of state in 2011" 28 Sept. 2010
- ↑ Bluegrass Politics, "Bill Johnson files to run for secretary of state" 8 Nov. 2010
- ↑ Lexington Herald-Leader, "Legg concedes Republican Secretary of State primary to Johnson," May 27, 2011
- ↑ Bill Johnson for Secretary of State, "Issues," accessed July 13, 2011
- ↑ Kentucky State Board of Elections - 2010 Republican Primary Election Results
- ↑ Kentucky Registry of Election Finance, "Candidate Searches," accessed July 12, 2011
- ↑ Amended on 5/3/2011
- ↑ Amended on 1/4/2011
- ↑ Open Secrets - Campaign Contributions for William Ejner Johnson Jr., 2010
