Carter Quillen
Carter Quillen (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Tennessee's 1st Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on August 6, 2020.
Quillen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Carter Quillen was born in Fort Myers, Florida. He served in the United States Coast Guard from 1976 to 1980. Quillen earned a bachelor's degree from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1985. His career experience includes working as a mechanical engineer, businessman, and merchant craftsman.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Tennessee's 1st Congressional District election, 2020
Tennessee's 1st Congressional District election, 2020 (August 6 Republican primary)
Tennessee's 1st Congressional District election, 2020 (August 6 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Tennessee District 1
Diana Harshbarger defeated Blair Walsingham, Steve Holder, and Josh Berger in the general election for U.S. House Tennessee District 1 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Diana Harshbarger (R) | 74.7 | 228,181 |
 | Blair Walsingham (D)  | 22.5 | 68,617 | |
 | Steve Holder (Independent) | 2.8 | 8,621 | |
| Josh Berger (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 4 | ||
| Total votes: 305,423 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 1
Blair Walsingham defeated Chris Rowe (Unofficially withdrew) and Larry Smith (Unofficially withdrew) in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 1 on August 6, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Blair Walsingham | 52.7 | 6,076 |
 | Chris Rowe (Unofficially withdrew) | 33.6 | 3,869 | |
| Larry Smith (Unofficially withdrew) | 13.6 | 1,572 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 3 | ||
| Total votes: 11,520 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 1
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 1 on August 6, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Diana Harshbarger | 19.2 | 18,074 |
 | Timothy Hill | 16.7 | 15,731 | |
 | Rusty Crowe | 16.1 | 15,179 | |
 | Josh Gapp | 14.2 | 13,379 | |
| Steve Darden | 12.4 | 11,647 | ||
 | John Clark | 9.4 | 8,826 | |
 | David Hawk | 5.0 | 4,717 | |
 | Nichole Williams | 3.0 | 2,803 | |
 | Jay Adkins | 1.7 | 1,635 | |
| Carter Quillen | 0.9 | 853 | ||
| Richard Baker | 0.3 | 298 | ||
 | Chad Fleenor (Unofficially withdrew) | 0.3 | 282 | |
 | Phil Arlinghaus | 0.3 | 274 | |
| Robert Franklin | 0.2 | 229 | ||
| Chuck Miller | 0.2 | 189 | ||
 | Chance Cansler | 0.2 | 147 | |
| Total votes: 94,263 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Cody Williams (R)
- Dan Street (R)
- J. S. Moore (R)
- Todd McKinley (R)
- Dustin Decal (R)
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Carter Quillen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Quillen's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Focus on the things we have in common as Americans to solve the unique challenges of the 21st Century.
Voluntarily change our language to avoid labels that demean those we disagree with.
- Employ fact and data driven analysis for analytical based decision making. The world is becoming more technologically complicated every day and we need technically competent leadership.
Civil Liberties
A desire to serve ALL the constituents in the district, not just big donors and cronies.
But for several years before that I had another job at our family business, which was a motel in Gatlinburg. I was in charge of the coke machine and had to manage my inventory, keep the machine loaded, and try to keep up with the bottles to return for deposit. As the cost of the soda went up we couldn't get the old bottle dispenser to charge more than 35 cents so I had to lease a can machine from Cocoa Cola. This was great because even though I had to pay rent on the machine, the price went up to 50 cents, my profit margin was way up, and best of all, I didn't have to keep track of the return bottles. It was good experience that gave me a lifelong entrepreneurial spirit.
And the big issue that exacerbates all our problems is automation and mechanization. We are automating our workforce out of its need for existence and we must begin to openly address this. Perhaps there is a need to leave some inefficiencies in our systems just to give people opportunities for meaningful work. The advent of artificial intelligence and robotics is having a devastating effect on our society as a whole. The new opportunities created by technological advancement are only a fraction of what is being taken away by it.
For example, there are 3.5 million good paying jobs that are literally the economic backbone of many communities in this country that will be lost in the next decade or so to automation. I'm talking about truck drivers. Soon, most of the freight being hauled in this country will be by automated trucks and drones that don't need individual drivers. We need to seriously ask ourselves if this is the world we want to shape in the future because there are a lot of smart people working really hard right now to make it so. Just because we can automate everything doesn't mean we should. There are many other examples of new technology doing away with job opportunity.
Energy and Commerce
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 21, 2020
