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Brad Allen (California)
Brad Allen (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 8, 2022.
Allen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Brad Allen was born in New York, New York. Allen earned a bachelor's degree from Lafayette College in 1976 and an M.D. from Chicago Medical School in 1991. His career experience includes working as a pediatric heart surgeon and visiting adjunct clinical professor of surgery at the USC Keck School of Medicine.[1][2]
Elections
2022
See also: California's 24th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 24
Incumbent Salud Carbajal defeated Brad Allen in the general election for U.S. House California District 24 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Salud Carbajal (D) | 60.6 | 159,019 |
 | Brad Allen (R)  | 39.4 | 103,533 | |
| Total votes: 262,552 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 24
Incumbent Salud Carbajal and Brad Allen defeated Michele Weslander Quaid and Jeff Frankenfield in the primary for U.S. House California District 24 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Salud Carbajal (D) | 60.0 | 111,199 |
| ✔ | | Brad Allen (R) | 31.0 | 57,532 |
 | Michele Weslander Quaid (Independent) | 7.5 | 13,880 | |
 | Jeff Frankenfield (Independent) | 1.5 | 2,732 | |
| Total votes: 185,343 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Gurpinder Singh Sagoo (R)
- Kenneth Young (Independent)
Endorsements
To view Allen's endorsements in the 2022 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Brad Allen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Allen's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- As a pediatric heart surgeon, I’ve trained my entire life in the art and science of solving problems and helping people live better lives. This same problem-solving approach is needed in Washington. Democratic politicians have worsened Californian’s daily lives in more ways than I can count. I want to work with the leadership to bring common sense back to Congress. Instead of more politics, or a particular ideology, I want to provide actual solutions to these problems by using the pragmatic problem-solving approach I learned as a doctor to improve American’s daily lives.
- Inflation is at a 40-year high, with surging gas, food and housing costs. Supply chain issues have led to shortages in just about everything. We have gone from energy independent, to begging other countries to produce more oil. The growing federal bureaucracy and is punishing small businesses. Congress just keeps printing money as though it has no consequences, but it does. It is one of the major causes of inflation, and it has increased the national debt to over $30 trillion. I want to restore financial sanity and stop spending money we don’t have by just printing more. As a small business owner I understand we need to cut the regulatory burden on small businesses to allow them to flourish and reduce supply chain issues.
- I will bring “real” life experience to Washington. The problem in Washington is not that we don’t have enough politicians, it's that we have too many. I have spent my life explaining complex topics like pediatric heart surgery to people in simple terms so they could understand the problem, and what was needed to fix it. With so many problems facing our country, this is approach is needed. So if you have finally “had enough” of Washington as usual, then vote for someone who brings life experience and a pragmatic problem-solving approach to Washington instead of a bureaucrat.
But having having worked as a doctor for 40years, I am particularly passionate about healthcare. And having worked at major universities in the United States and Canada, as well as Veteran’s hospitals, I understand how healthcare works, and how it can be improved. We need real people to fix our healthcare, not politicians.
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Campaign website
Allen's campaign website stated the following:
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Law Enforcement I believe we need to support our police, not Defund them. Our streets and homes need to be safe—that is one of the primary roles of government. I will give law enforcement a powerful voice in Washington. They have a hard enough job and they shouldn’t have to fend off calls to “defund” them. I will support efforts to ensure law enforcement always have the resources they need to do their job. I am opposed to “anti-law” proposals like “cashless bail” that just put criminals back on the street. I would support bills like the Protect and Serve Act that creates federal penalties for people that deliberately target law enforcement officers with violence. I would also consider federalizing certain crimes that local governments either can’t or won’t control. For example, trafficking Fentanyl, since Fentanyl overdose is now the number one killer of adults 18-45 years old.
Inflation is at a 40-year high, with surging gas, food and housing costs. Supply chain issues have led to shortages in just about everything. We have gone from energy independent, to begging other countries to produce more oil. The growing federal bureaucracy and over-regulation is punishing small businesses. We need people in Washington to remember Government works for us, not against us. Politicians always talk about the money they bring back to the district or their success in passing bills without any regard to what these bills cost. Last year the government spent almost $7 trillion while collecting only $4 trillion in taxes. Democrats are still trying to pass “Build Back Better” at a cost of $5 trillion, and forgive student loans that could cost of up to $1.5 trillion. Printing all this money has huge consequences. Excess spending is one of the major drivers of inflation, and it increases the national debt, which has ballooned to over $30 trillion. My goal in congress would be to cut inflation by restoring financial sanity. We need to stop spending money we don’t have by just printing more. And Congress should try to rescind as much money that is in the pipeline as possible. Like American families, Congress needs to be financially responsible to get inflation under control. The Spending Spree must stop. We have enough on our credit card. We need to stop punishing small businesses with federal over-regulation so they can create new jobs. But the Democrats have done the opposite. During the first year of the current administration, they put in place more than $200 billion in new regulatory costs and 131 million hours in new annual paperwork. This puts it far ahead of the two preceding administrations’ first years by a wide margin. As a small business owner, I understand how deleterious this can be. My goal would be to cut the regulatory and licensing burden on individuals and businesses. This will allow them to flourish, and help reduce supply chain problems by letting businesses and essential workers be more productive. And by lowering business costs, reduce inflation. And no new corporate taxes as the Democrats now propose to support more inflationary spending. Corporate tax increases will increase inflation as the higher costs will simply be passed on to consumers. We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem.
Democrats one-size-fits-all approach to Covid-19 has failed miserably. They stopped following the science ages ago, and failed to actively pursue therapeutics and testing. Their reliance on lockdowns inflicted enormous economic and societal costs while providing little to no health benefit, and imposing them on children caused severe damage, including mental and social anguish. I can’t just sit by and let the politicians continue to mismanage Covid and healthcare. As a practicing doctor for almost 40 years, I and have worked at major universities in the United States and Canada, as well as in Veteran’s hospitals. So, I understand how healthcare works, and how it can be improved. As a medical researcher with almost 100 papers and 7 book chapters I understand research. I understand the data and science of COVID and how best to manage this disease. I am opposed to prolonged lockdowns, as they have only been shown to cause economic harm without being beneficial, and I believe it is critical to keep our children in school as the science and multiple studies support this approach.
I believe that a good education is essential to a better future, and that parents have the right to be part of their children’s education. Our children should have the same opportunities that we had when we grew up. We need to get back to being more concerned about their education in terms of math, science, and literature, rather than gender identity and CRT (critical race theory). And we need to allow parents more school choice, as parents know what is best for their children. This means expanding vouchers, scholarship tax credit programs, education savings account programs, charter schools, and public school open enrollment. Education is the most important thing we can give our children.
This is a significant public crisis. Services are being provided, but the homeless population just keeps growing so it is clear the current approach is not working. Our goal should be to get people back to a place where they can be self-sufficient, not to just get them into a temporary shelter. We need to remember that 75-85% of homelessness is caused by substance abuse or mental illness, and so they have different needs than someone who just doesn’t have a home. A one size fits all approach will not work—we need to tailor the treatment for different groups. I would support a single high-level position (maybe just below the cabinet secretary) to deal with this problem. I would like to include incentives for people, such as better housing if they get a job, or stop their addiction. I would never house children with people with mental illness or substance abuse. And the homeless shouldn’t be allowed to break the law when help is available.[3] |
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| —Brad Allen's campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Candidate U.S. House California District 24 |
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 5, 2022
- ↑ Santa Barbara Independent, "Three Challengers Take On Salud Carbajal for California’s 24th Congressional District," May 10, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Dr. Brad Allen US Congress, “The Issues,” accessed September 1, 2022
