Brian Mannix
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Brian Mannix (independent) is running for election for President of the United States. He declared candidacy for the 2028 election.
Biography
Brian Mannix was born in Mineola, New York. Mannix earned a bachleor's degree from Bucknell University in 1994 and an M.D. from the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in 2004. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Leadership Program in 2007. His career experience includes working as the CEO of Mannixlab Productions, a branding, website, app, animation, and workflow automation company.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: New York's 8th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Democratic primary election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Yuri Dashevsky advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House New York District 8.
Conservative Party primary election
The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Yuri Dashevsky advanced from the Conservative Party primary for U.S. House New York District 8.
2022
Brian Mannix completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Mannix's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My name is Brian Mannix and I am a Forward Party member running to change the way the two party, bifurcated system operates. To achieve a more diverse republic, I'm taking the office to create a system of open primaries, Ranked-Choice Voting, a Universal Basic Income, a human a centered economy, a fact based government and one that operate with grace and tolerance. These are the pillars of The Forward Party which is a necessary political party trying to break into a system that we all know is broken.
I am not a politician, but a public servant and my campaign will be more of a non-profit NEED solution enterprise than a traditional campaign for Congress. I, along with my extended network of those in the Digital Natives Congressional Internship Program who are going to help collect, categorize, develop a solution plan and then execute it for as many resident of New York's 8th District. The Mannix for Congress campaign will carve 'a new path forward' by fulfilling as many of the top NEEDs of the residents of District 8 BEFORE election day, all the while livestreaming my entire campaign from morning until night from Google Glass and broadcast on YouTube and Instagram as well as using clips distributed by the DNCIP to various social media channels.
The bots are here. Andrew Yang was late in 2020. You can say, 'Ok Google, talk to Brian Mannix for Congress' to a Google Assistant/Home and interview my BotRep about my entire background and history.
Vote Mannix Forward - Break up the two party system. The American system of government is broken, operating with only two major parties, almost evenly divided across our nation and we need the ability to address issues with more nuance and greater effectiveness by having a third party to help move this country forward. I am the candidate from The Forward Party here to bring real change to NY-8 and the rest of the congressional districts throughout the country.
- Universal Basic Income of $1,000 a month, no strings attached for anyone 18 years old and older along with a human centered economy where we measure more what matters than just the money.
- There must be a federal responsibility for housing, healthcare and public education in this country, We need pass legislation giving the federal government more power, more responsibility and more accountability over the primary needs of those who are tired and poor. That is what our country is supposed to be all about.
In addition to the Forward Party core tenets, I am most concerned about the state of our Earth because without a hospitable environment to live in, pretty much all other policies are beside the point, therefore I am proposing a Manhattan Project styled collective called the Climate Change Challenge Initiative whose sole goal is to build a team of international experts to work on coming up with the scientific means to remove the existing carbon that is trapped in our atmosphere and constantly and considerably depleting the Earth's protective ozone layer. After starting with this dramatic challenge, I will move toward making the right to healthcare, public education and having a place to call home fundamental rights responsible by our federal rather than state governments. In addition, to these rights, I stand for single payer healthcare for all, mandatory minimum spending standards, modified by a community's standard of income, giving a minimum requirement to 20-1 teacher to student classrooms, access to the internet with a personal device in the classroom because gone are the days of the chalkboard. The most important systems which are required to be able to truly 'pursue happiness' as it says in the Declaration of Independence that was formed after my Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Grandfather, Richard Henry Lee, offered The Lee Resolution before the 2nd Continental Congress, urging the colonies to break free from Great Britain and form this fantastic country.
I look up to a great many people, both in politics and outside of it, but I would say one of the main themes I live my life by is from Teddy Roosevelt's speech where he said:
'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.'
These are words I live by every day. We all must get in the arena in one way or another. I have chosen pubic service. You can understand my political philosophy by saying, 'Ok Google, talk to Brian Mannix for Congress' to a Google Assistant/Home/Nest and you can ask my BotRep any question you'd like to know.
Honesty, transparency and availability. These are three core tenets of representation that is so missing from our represented officials. There is so much money in the game of politics that those who are able to be lured by the seduction of money will be. I am honest to a fault. Not the best quality for a politician, but I am not a politician. I am a public servant looking to serve the community of voices that live in New York's 8th District in the House of Representatives. Most of my campaign is livestream via Google Glass with meetings recorded and available for public consumption. As part of the work on the Select Committee on Modernizing Congress, I will push for a much more open, livestreaming of each and every non-classified meeting on a digital platform that allows for public participation, We have the technology. We might as well use it.
While I am a public servant, it would take a fool to not recognize that the game of lawmaking is played by brutal and monied forces that will do almost anything to get on the right side of legislation for their particular business. A successful officeholder must be able to stand firm in his/her/their convictions and only compromise on issues that aren't of life or death consequences. A successful officeholder must be able to communicate messages to his constituents through a variety of sources and mediums. We need to find the people where they are and adapt to them rather than the other way around. Government is supposed to be the voice of the people, but now it seems it is an oligarchy controlled by corporations who pay little to nothing in federal taxes. A successful officeholder takes risks for their district. A successful officeholder is available to connect, meet and speak with their constituents and a successful officeholder has to have empathy for the people whose voice they represent.
I have been a millionaire and I have been homeless. Through both of those rather dramatic and life-changing experiences, I have more skills to deal with people of varying socio-economic backgrounds. I can relate because I've been on top of the world and I had a long slow dark struggle to the bottom. That experience will serve me when I stand in the House of Representatives for New York's District 8.
The core responsibilities of this or any office is public outreach to your constituents. You must know the voices you are supposed to represent and you need to be able to hear and understand them, especially when they vastly differ from your position. My 'School Me Up Tour' is meant to do just that: meet with community organizations and civic groups that have something to say. My campaign is capturing those voices, categorizing their top NEEDs by skill-set needed and then developing a plan to solve the top NEED of each and every resident of NY-8. In order to do this there needs to be a back and forth between the Mannix for Congress Campaign and my future constituents. As I hear the voices of the community, undoubtedly some of my positions will change and some will grow where there was nothing before.
NY-8 needs a public servant who doesn't raise 95% of his money out of district. I wonder which core responsibility my opponent has given all of the monied corporate interests he is in debt to.
Once this information is gathered from the constituents legislation must be drawn up to attempt to solve the problem if there is not an existing one at hand, You can change the world, only if you try. I want to be the example of that effort for change; the effort to bring our nation closer to the ideals represented in the Declaration of Independence that my 6th Great Grandfather, offered we propose to break free from Great Britain and form the United States of America. I want my legacy to be that I did everything I could on this Earth to make the world a little calmer, our neighborhoods safer and the structure of our constitutional government a little bit more perfect.
I remember being four years old and watching the bicentennial celebration of our country's 200th Birthday. I can remember all of the huge and glorious ships passing by the Statue of Liberty and remember being filled with pride at being an American, but even at such a young age, having had seen the mini-series Roots, I was deeply affected by the reality of the privileged upbringing and the fact that my cleaning woman, who was African American, seemed all too similar to the slaves that the masters of Kunta Kinte. I didn't know then about our direct relation to Richard Henry Lee. In fact, I was always told that we were cousins with John Adams on my mother's side of the family, who also had the direct lineage from the man who not only proposed we break free from Great Britain, but only did I recently learn, also, in his first act as a representative of Virginia's House of Burgesses proposed the abolition of slavery.
My patriotism runs deep, but only extends to the ideals of this country, unwilling and uninterested in looking past its flaws. We are all here to try to form a more perfect union. That's the point of improving our country's laws and traditions. I intend to do just that as a Congressional representative of the 8th District of New York, carving a new path forward where the rights of all, not just the monied elite, will be given due attention and service. I am not a politician, but a public servant for all of us. If you cast your vote for me, that is exactly what you are going to get.
My first job was a Newsday delivery boy. I got the route from one of my friends who somehow managed this glorious job for years before I got to deliver papers. It was a fantastic first, very entrepreneurial job. I was responsible for keeping track of all of my customers, their delivery schedule, their payment and making sure that all of the newspapers were placed in plastic bags if there was a threat of rain.
I loved getting to know the people on my route and became quite close with many of them. I learned how with a little bit of ingenuity, a little hard work, and a pleasant attitude could get you a pretty long way in this world.
The world isn't that much different than it was then. Some people would always pay on time. Others would say they had paid when they hadn't. Some would tip tremendously, others not at all. The world has changed a lot since there were young people delivering newspapers. Today, my digital native children don't even think newspapers are a thing that exists, much less influences their lives.
We need to keep the experience of the Digital Immigrants and pass that along to the Digital Natives because soon the analog world we once knew with flashing clocks that always read 12:00 will be dead and gone and there will be a day when the Digital Immigrants are no longer.
That is the biggest immigration problem we need to deal with. The connection between those who were born with computers connected to the internet available like air compared with those who were raised after the age of the internet.
I call it the Digital Chasm, those born between about 1970-1976. Anyone born after 1976 is a full fledged Digital Native. Anyone born before 1970 is most likely a Digital Immigrant. People born in that 6-7 year period where computers were introduced to consumers and scholars at a mass level can often be either a Digital Native or a Digital Immigrant or a little bit of both. This new world is THE immigration problem. 1984 by George Orwell. It was terrifyingly frightening and widely predictive of some of the capabilities our modern governments have along with the increasing threat of public surveillance.
I would want to be George Bailey from It's A Wonderful Life so that I could fully know and see the positive and potentially negative impact of my life decisions. It would be great to learn from to see how some decisions made a positive impact and others did not. That's the only way to grow. To imagine how we could be different. By seeing the impact of our actions here on Earth, we would be much better equipped to do things differently and better moving forward.
Thrift Shop by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
As is the case with so many of us, I have had some rather dramatic family struggles over the past several years in my denouement into homelessness. The struggle, filled with ups and downs, highs and lows, has taught me one thing: struggle is often worth the effort. I have two wonderful parents who are gratefully still living, 3 older brothers, 3 sons and an angel girl. They are my rock and my quicksand. They are my answers and at the same time my questions. They are determined. They are fierce. They are wickedly intelligent, but most importantly, they are kind. The struggle is ongoing. I'm sure it will never end, but I've learned that love can never die and that love is what can lead us to a new path forward.
The House of Representatives is a unique arm of the United States Constitution that deals with the spending the people's taxes in the form of an annual budget that is passed by the House and then sent to the Senate for confirmation. The House is where the money is and I believe I can be a voice like no other that can be heard with the intensity of passion and a determined optimism that can get even the greatest tasks accomplished. I will fight to see that the black, brown, latinx, Asian and all minorities who have been by-passed in the past will have an equal opportunity to carve a new path forward toward one where equity of opportunity and justice serve as the guiding mottos.
It depends on the person. An individual used to changing norms of a system may benefit by actually having less experience with some of the tried and true traditional ways of doing things that simply no longer achieve their desired results. I've had experience as an elected representative serving as Trustee to the Village of Sea Cliff. There I gained experience being the voice for a diverse group of people with a diverse group of interests. I gained experience balancing the budget of our village, overseeing the Sea Cliff Library, The Sea Cliff Fire Department and the Sea Cliff Website Committee which I served on and help start. Experience can help, but it can lock you into ways of doing things that make no sense. We've had two parties going back and forth for the last forty years and now we are divided as a country right down the middle. It's time for a new path forward with Brian Mannix as your representative in New York's 8th District in The House of Representatives.
The greatest challenge we face is both the existential threat of climate change making our Earth uninhabitable and the threat of a World War breaking out with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Obviously, without the Earth, no other policies matter and if nuclear weapons are used in the upcoming conflict, we will be living in a different world where the post-World War II order has inextricably changed for the worse. America needs to lead the way, both on reducing the existing carbon issue with the Climate Change Carbon Challenge, which I am calling which will bring together the world's greatest scientists to solve the problem of removing and re-purposing the existing carbon in our atmosphere which is destroying our protective ozone layer. We also need to lead when it comes to world affairs and make sure that every nation's sovereignty is protected and defended,
I definitely would want to be a part of the Education and Labor Committee, the Science, Space and Technology Committee, the Budget Committee, the select Committee on The Climate Crisis and the select committee on The Modernization of Congress..
I believe that my streamlining government efficiencies in the digital world and developing a user friendly Citizen Portal where all government activity takes place. We have the technology. It's time to build a new 21st century government that can serve information as well as applications and forms on a single website.
No, I do not believe that two years is the right term for representatives. The way our political infrastructure works is that. the name of the game is money. The more money you raise for advertising and staff, the more likely you are to win. Ideas, policies, integrity has become secondary with the public only getting a chance to see a quick moment from the candidates who will represent them. If we had term limits, I would suggest three four year terms as a limit and a length so that the representative can learn the system and get things done before they have to reach out to their base and start raising money again. With a two year term, too much of a Congressperson's time is spent on fundraising when it should be spent on designing policies that work for all of the people in the United States.
I think term limits are a necessary component of a healthy and sustainable republic. When people become career politicians, they let the game break away the good intentions they came in when they entered office. Term limits will give much more control back to the people because it will take away the huge advantage of long-term incumbency.
I much prefer to model myself after several individuals, attempting to adopt their particular strengths. If I had to design a perfect Congressperson, it would be someone with President Obama's temperament, an individual with Senator McCain's tenacity, Senator Franken's senses of humor, and Lincoln's ability to get the 13th Amendment, freeing the slaves, passed by any and all means necessary.
I also must confess to using President Clinton's means of coming to a decision. I ask every and anyone what they think about certain issues because I believe firmly that each and everyone has something important to say and an important perspective when coming to decisions. Once I've asked as many people as I can to get a broad overview of the many sides of each issue at hand, I then make my decision. I want to hear people's opinions about everything because I am open minded enough to know that I can be wrong, but as long as I remain open to argument and various perspectives and points of view, I believe that my decisions will be made with the most information possible about the particular issue.
The story that I heard upon moving to Kings County was that one of the employees at the local deli was sleeping in a side room with nowhere else to go. I made friends with the young gentleman, arranged for him to stay at my house until he could get a roof over his head. After about a month and a half we were able to get a place to stay for my new found friend from the deli.
The problem is that there are many homeless people in my neighborhood who are not being well served by the facilities that are provided in NYC and in District 8. 'Tony' was one of money. I was able to help him, but that is no long term solution. We need to pass a federal right to housing so that every single resident in the entire United States does not have to worry about having a roof over their head. I've been a millionaire and I've been homeless. There is nothing worse than having every day people pass you on the street as if you weren't there. I was told never to go to a homeless shelter because the people that worked there would rob from you. That was in Long Island and I've heard the same tales of woe from many different homeless people I've encountered on the street. It's not the people that needs fixing, it's the system. So many of us are a $400 emergency away of being out on the streets. We need to develop a better system to make sure that every American has a roof over your head. You cannot pursue your right to happiness without a roof. It's time to carve a new path forward.
The two party system is working.
Without compromise, we are lost. Compromise is the essential component in passing any legislation and is not something to be feared but revered by those with the strength to make difficult decisions.
This role will help define me and define where I will put my energies and where I will insist our taxpayer's money needs to go. There are so many institutions in. need of repairing, but if we don't spend some serious money developing a team of scientists purposed with the single task, Manhattan project style, to remove the existing excess carbon from our atmosphere. Without the Earth, our money is valueless. Our policies are pointless and our lives, those of whom make it through the create surge of our oceans when the ice caps melt. This problem needs more than adequate funding to make sure we succeed at the greatest existential crisis the earth has ever faced. My second priority with regard to money spent would be on making sure no one who is on the street that doesn't want to be there has to stay there. We must have safe, functional and federally funded housing for individuals who have fallen down the economic ladder of our society.
The second power of the purse that I would exercise is an attempt to level the way we fund the schools in our country, creating a mandatory minimum standard of student to teacher ratios, school infrastructure and access to a laptop and a smart phone. Chalk no longer cuts it. We need to give everyone an equal access to quality public education by making public education a federal right in our Constitution, one where the federal government will provide a baseline level of funding, dollar cost averaged for standard of living deviations, for each state to provide a minimum of educational standards for the 21t Century and beyond.
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