Charles Cole (California)
Charles Cole (Republican Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 37. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Cole completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Charles Cole was born in Santa Barbara, California. He attended Santa Barbara City College. Cole’s career experience includes working as a media consultant. He is also a certified tax preparer.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2020
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 37
Steve Bennett defeated Charles Cole in the general election for California State Assembly District 37 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Steve Bennett (D) | 67.6 | 166,015 |
Charles Cole (R)  | 32.4 | 79,661 | ||
| Total votes: 245,676 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 37
The following candidates ran in the primary for California State Assembly District 37 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Charles Cole (R) | 27.5 | 41,945 | |
| ✔ | | Steve Bennett (D) | 24.6 | 37,516 |
| Cathy Murillo (D) | 19.4 | 29,498 | ||
 | Jonathan Abboud (D) | 7.9 | 12,039 | |
| Jason Dominguez (D) | 7.3 | 11,177 | ||
 | Elsa Granados (D) | 7.1 | 10,840 | |
| Stephen Blum (D) | 6.1 | 9,278 | ||
| Total votes: 152,293 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Charles Cole completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Cole's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- I will carefullly consider each proposed bill, for usefullness, is it needed, can the private sector do it better...
- Lessen regulations on business and private property rights.
- School choice means vouchers for all schools. Private charter and public.
Private Property - I will fight to protect and preserve Prop 13. Property owners are not the states piggy bank.
I will introduce bills to roll back rent control laws. 60% of Californians voted against rent control but now Newsom and the far left legislature has ignored the peoples will - when it conflicts with their socialist visions. Government control of prices only causes shortages and a decaying housing market.
Education - Teaching morality or immorality in public schools is not governments job description. Teaching morals, goodness and fairness is better left to the family and church. Schools hiring so called equity (race training) programs specifically discriminate against religion and race, paid for by tax dollars, a clear federal violation of the 14th amendment and a section 1983 violation. Charter and private schools shall be funded by vouchers. Government shall not use its powers to monopolize education funds, or use that power to push political or social viewpoints in public schools. Education funds are the peoples money, not the governments money. That means Vouchers
California spends nearly $200 billion a year on budget and even more off-budget in the form of programs paid with bonds, i.e. debt financing. As for the pension debt, of that nearly $200 billion, in the most recent budget less than $2 billion was allocated to paying down that pension debt. More than that was spent this year on a high-speed rail project currently estimated to cost $70 billion and which no one seems to want.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ ’’Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 25, 2020’’
