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Brandon Beynon

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Brandon Beynon
Republican Party
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Last election
August 6, 2024
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General contractor
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Brandon Beynon (Republican Party) ran for election to the Washington House of Representatives to represent District 31-Position 2. He lost in the primary on August 6, 2024.

Biography

Brandon Beynon's career experience includes working as a general contractor.[1]

Elections

2024

See also: Washington House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for Washington House of Representatives District 31-Position 2

Josh Penner defeated Brian Gunn in the general election for Washington House of Representatives District 31-Position 2 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Josh Penner
Josh Penner (R) Candidate Connection
 
61.1
 
49,335
Image of Brian Gunn
Brian Gunn (D) Candidate Connection
 
38.8
 
31,338
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
96

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 80,769
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Washington House of Representatives District 31-Position 2

Josh Penner and Brian Gunn defeated Brandon Beynon and Bill Thomas in the primary for Washington House of Representatives District 31-Position 2 on August 6, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Josh Penner (R) Candidate Connection
 
38.5
 
14,825
✔
Image of Brian Gunn
Brian Gunn (D) Candidate Connection
 
30.2
 
11,625
Image of Brandon Beynon
Brandon Beynon (R)
 
24.3
 
9,344
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Bill Thomas (D)
 
6.8
 
2,633
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
64

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 38,491
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Endorsements

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2022

See also: Washington House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Washington House of Representatives District 31-Position 1

Incumbent Drew Stokesbary defeated Holly Stanton in the general election for Washington House of Representatives District 31-Position 1 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
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Drew Stokesbary (R)
 
60.0
 
39,051
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Holly Stanton (D)
 
39.9
 
25,929
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
69

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 65,049
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Washington House of Representatives District 31-Position 1

Holly Stanton and incumbent Drew Stokesbary defeated Brandon Beynon in the primary for Washington House of Representatives District 31-Position 1 on August 2, 2022.

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Votes
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Holly Stanton (D)
 
38.3
 
14,462
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Drew Stokesbary (R)
 
35.0
 
13,231
Image of Brandon Beynon
Brandon Beynon (R) Candidate Connection
 
26.6
 
10,044
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
65

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 37,802
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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2022

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Candidate Connection

Brandon Beynon completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Beynon's responses.

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Communication and community engagement are the qualities our district representative needs. I will make myself available, easy to contact and responsive to your concerns. As the minority party in Olympia, we need to be uncompromisingly opposed to the Seattle politics that are creeping into our neighborhoods. I will support and defend the Constitution, our children, law enforcement, the second amendment and personal freedom.

I have lived in Washington since 1998 and have seen the decline of our great state. It's time for change in Olympia. It is time for representation that understands the struggles of the average person and family.


I run a small family commercial construction business and understand the challenges all of us face trying to make a living. Our state government continues to raise taxes on our businesses, our homes and our employment despite a significant budget surplus. My background and business give me the unique perspective of viewing our public policy through both blue and white-collar perspectives. I believe this is critical for our district.
  • Activity, I believe a successful representative needs to be active and engaging. As the minority party in Washington, we need people who are willing to be loud, vocal and active to raise awareness and improve the branding of the party. Since we cannot outvote the democrats in Olympia, we have to out hustle them. We need to reach out constantly to our constituents and promote activity on a grassroots level. Being complacent won’t do it.
  • Law Enforcement, we must fight to remove the obstacles placed in the way of our police officers that are preventing them from effectively performing their jobs.
  • Economy, Washington had nearly a 6-billion-dollar surplus last year, yet voted to raise taxes once again on its people. It is an imperative must we bring tax relief to the citizens of Washington and continue to fight for more effective use of our current funding.
The Washington state Labor and Industries (L&I) and Employment Security Division (ESD) systems are incredibly broken. I saw first hand how these agencies tried to ruin my wife’s life. My wife has been a career server and was out on a L&I claim when the pandemic began. With all the restaurants closed in the state due to the pandemic, she was told she could return to work and they closed her claim. L&I told her she was unemployment's problem now. ESD then denied her claim immediately and she had to appeal. Every single day she tried to call, email, and use the messaging systems in the claim to contact the department. Every single attempt was met with silence. After four months of unresponsiveness from the ESD I tried reaching out to my state representative for help. I was also ignored.

Two years and a fully exhausted claim later my wife has still never spoken to a single person at the agency.

So many others have told me similar stories. It is criminal the way these departments have treated tax payers throughout the pandemic. I will introduce legislation to make it possible for claimant’s to be able to communicate with the ESD department. Each week when you file your claim you will have the option to check a box, that asks, “I need to speak with an ESD agent”. If the claimant clicks the box, ESD has 30 days to contact the claimant. It shouldn’t be that unreasonable to give the agency 30 days to get back to a person that has questions, concerns or needs
Activity, too many policy makers ignore constituent communication.
I would like to begin a new phase in politics in which the average person gets involved and helps stop career politicians. I would like to help enact term limits on all offices. That way if you want to be a career politician you would really have to earn it, as taking a new office from an incumbent is very difficult.
The space shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
Washington needs to fix 40 years of uncontested one party rule from the democrats. We need to do what's best for the people of our state and districts. We have to provide tax relief and slow the rate of which citizens are leaving the state.
No, i don't believe our founding fathers ever saw politics as a career choice. The roles were considered to be a duty or fulfilment of a obligation to want to give back to your country. A person would do a term or two and then go back to their career of farming, construction, printing etc. The career politicians are the ones making things worse not better. fresh eyes from fresh perspectives helps solve problems better than a room full of lawyers.
Yes, you're a team, cooperation is more productive then a adversarial position is.
Jim Walsh of the 19th LD, in Washington.
no, not at this time.
Legislature absolutely should be part of the checks and balances, for emergency powers. No single branch should be allowed to rule with unchecked power. The current the governor of Washington, Jay Inslee, has emergency powers and we cannot stop him due to the legislature being powerless to stop him.. At the time I am writing this he has had emergency powers for 854 days. He most likely will continue to have them until the 2024 election cycle because there is no check to his emergency power. Washington is the last remaining state in the nation with a governor with emergency powers from covid at this time.
It depends on the topic. usually but not always.

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Campaign finance summary

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Brandon Beynon campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024Washington House of Representatives District 31-Position 2Lost primary$9,081 $9,436
2022Washington House of Representatives District 31-Position 1Lost primary$8,494 $7,409
Grand total$17,575 $16,845
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Election Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

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