Bryan Simonson

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Bryan Simonson

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Libertarian Party

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November 6, 2018

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Bryan Simonson (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the Washington State Senate to represent District 36. Simonson lost in the general election on November 6, 2018.

Simonson was a 2016 Libertarian candidate for District 41 of the Washington State Senate.

Campaign themes

2016

Simonson's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Jobs and unemployment:

  • We need to make sure Washington’s economy is robust enough to get people back to work and resilient and flexible enough to meet the many challenges we will face in the years to come.
  • The key to long-lasting job-creation, economic growth, and rising incomes is open and competitive markets that reward value-creation and operate under the rule of law.

Government spending:

  • Libertarians want to end wasteful and inefficient government spending

Minumum wage:

  • Libertarians advocate a world not of mandates, force, and decrees, but of voluntary agreements, opportunity, and freewill
  • Since just the year 2000, the dollar has lost 25% of its purchasing power. It has lost an incredible 96% of its value over the past 100 years. It’s no wonder that many feel squeezed. This unstable valuation has put America’s financial system on a foundation of quicksand and jeopardized the living standard of every person, as employees find out that their earnings don’t buy as much as they once did, and as savers and seniors discover that their rainy-day funds and retirement accounts aren’t worth nearly as much as when they had worked to earn that money.

Health and welfare:

  • First, we need to fight any further federalization of health-care policy. Federal policies are a major source of the pathologies in our health-care system. Federal laws increase many of the problems they were meant to address, they produce a host of new problems, and they render states powerless to fix anything. The Affordable Care Act is only moving us further in the wrong direction. Our experience with health care is proof that centralized planning by politicians and bureaucrats simply doesn’t work.
  • Libertarians favor returning health-care regulation to the states. In addition to eliminating many of the laws, regulations, and tax rules that wreak havoc on the incentives faced by businesses and employees, we also need policy freedom at the state level with regard to public spending on health-care for the poor and elderly. Let Washington take care of Washingtonians. We can succeed where federal programs have failed and achieve better health outcomes at much lower cost to taxpayers.

Education:

  • To prepare our children for the real world, we need to adopt a modern approach that is proven to work and built to last.

This means two things:

  • Parents, not politicians or bureaucrats, should be in charge of the education dollars spent on their children.
  • Teachers need to be liberated from the politicized, bureaucratic status quo and rewarded for the educational value (i.e., student learning) they create.[1]
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—Bryan Simonson, [2]

Elections

2018

See also: Washington State Senate elections, 2018

General election

General election for Washington State Senate District 36

Incumbent Reuven Carlyle defeated Bryan Simonson in the general election for Washington State Senate District 36 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Reuven Carlyle (D)
 
89.0
 
78,753
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Bryan Simonson (L)
 
11.0
 
9,707

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

Total votes: 88,460
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Washington State Senate District 36

Incumbent Reuven Carlyle and Bryan Simonson advanced from the primary for Washington State Senate District 36 on August 7, 2018.

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Reuven Carlyle (D)
 
89.4
 
45,284
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Bryan Simonson (L)
 
10.6
 
5,389

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Total votes: 50,673
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2016

See also: Washington State Senate elections, 2016

Elections for the Washington State Senate took place in 2016. The primary election was held on August 2, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was May 20, 2016.

Lisa Wellman defeated incumbent Steve Litzow in the Washington State Senate District 41 general election.[3]

Washington State Senate, District 41 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Lisa Wellman 51.86% 37,107
     Republican Steve Litzow Incumbent 48.14% 34,446
Total Votes 71,553
Source: Washington Secretary of State


Lisa Wellman and incumbent Steve Litzow defeated Bryan Simonson in the Washington State Senate District 41 top two primary.[4][5]

Washington State Senate, District 41 Top Two Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Lisa Wellman 48.79% 14,800
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Steve Litzow Incumbent 47.29% 14,344
     Libertarian Bryan Simonson 3.92% 1,189
Total Votes 30,333
Source: Washington Secretary of State

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  2. ↑ Bryan Simonson, "Solutions," accessed July 11, 2016
  3. ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "General Election Results 2016," accessed December 2, 2016
  4. ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "2016 Candidates Who Have Filed," accessed May 23, 2016
  5. ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "August 2, 2016 Primary Results," accessed August 25, 2016


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