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Charlie Thompson (Alabama)
Charlie Thompson (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Alabama's 5th Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on May 24, 2022.
Thompson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Charlie Thompson was born in Huntsville, Alabama. Thompson earned a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2004. His career experience includes owning a business.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Alabama's 5th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Alabama District 5
Dale Strong defeated Kathy Warner-Stanton and P.J. Greer in the general election for U.S. House Alabama District 5 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Dale Strong (R) | 67.1 | 142,435 |
 | Kathy Warner-Stanton (D) | 29.6 | 62,740 | |
 | P.J. Greer (L)  | 3.2 | 6,773 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 369 | ||
| Total votes: 212,317 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Alabama District 5
Dale Strong defeated Casey Wardynski in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Alabama District 5 on June 21, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dale Strong | 63.4 | 48,138 |
 | Casey Wardynski | 36.6 | 27,794 | |
| Total votes: 75,932 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Alabama District 5
Kathy Warner-Stanton defeated Charlie Thompson in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Alabama District 5 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kathy Warner-Stanton | 57.2 | 9,010 |
 | Charlie Thompson | 42.8 | 6,739 | |
| Total votes: 15,749 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ben Gyasi (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Alabama District 5
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Alabama District 5 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dale Strong | 44.7 | 45,319 |
| ✔ | | Casey Wardynski | 23.0 | 23,340 |
 | John Roberts | 13.8 | 13,979 | |
 | Paul Sanford | 11.4 | 11,573 | |
 | Kevin Andrew Blalock | 5.5 | 5,608 | |
| Harrison Wright | 1.5 | 1,509 | ||
| Total votes: 101,328 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dexter Donnell (R)
Campaign themes
2022
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Charlie Thompson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Thompson'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 am the candidate that will lead. I will put my neck on the line and stand up for my ideas. I will not cower from criticism, trials, and tribulations but instead overcome them and show America what a good, honest, strong, leader can achieve by lifting up the working class and exposing political corruption.
- I believe in Unity. I believe the United States was built on Unity of all Americans and compromise between the parties. I think hyper partisanism and corruption have caused division in America. I believe Lincoln and Jesus were right when they said, "a house divided against itself cannot stand." I will fight the corruption and lies that have divided our country and I will work to get the power of the country back into the hands of the American people. I will do this by passing anti-corruption legislation like Term Limits, Campaign Finance Reform, harsher consequences for ethics violations, and allowing the American people to vote on Congressional and Presidential pay raises.
- I believe in rebuilding the American family. I support working Americans and my people of North Alabama. I will do any and everything to guarantee better lives for working class families. I will not raise taxes on working class families like Republican Rick Scott wants to do. I will work to get families the resources needed to raise children and spent time with them to help their growth and development. I want affordable education so we can help mold our children into leaders and improve the American economy. I will get working families needed healthcare. My goal is to double the GDP of North Alabama from $20 to $40 Billion in the next 10 years with these policies.
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Campaign website
Thompson's campaign website stated the following:
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Protecting American Values North Alabama has a large military presence that brings resources and opportunities to the area. I support NASA and the United States military, and I understand their importance to the people and economy of North Alabama. Also, with rising tensions in Russia and China we must make sure our Military is economically sufficient to combat these international threats. I am a true Constitutionalist; I support all 27 amendments to The Constitution not just a few cherry-picked amendments to support my arguments. I have my concealed carry permit and I support the 2nd amendment, but I believe proper background checks and mandatory gun safety classes are important to minimizing the destruction caused by criminal renegades and limit the number of innocent children killed by improperly stored guns in America. I do not support gun bans instead I support gun education. We banned alcohol and alcohol use and crime increased. We started the “War on Drugs” and drug use and crime increased. The only people likely to follow a gun ban are the people that need personal protection the most. We must as a country take an active stand against gun violence. We must not stand by passively and let American families suffer gun violence and only offer “our thoughts and prayers.” I am completely in favor of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to practice your religion. I am not in favor of the sin of “bearing false witness” and the corrupt people’s use of these lies to undermine America. We must protect everyone’s Constitutional rights and limit government overreach when it pertains to individual rights. Redeeming The American Soul We have a problem with corruption in our government. We have seen how the effects of policies like Citizen’s United have increased corruption in our government. We must enact laws to eliminate political corruption to protect our Democracy. We must get dark money SuperPACs out of politics. We must deem lobbyist’s political contributions as bribery. We must enact term limits to discourage career politicians and push for harder punishments for ethics violations to clean up Washington. In our race here in Alabama’s 5th Congressional district the 6 Republicans running have all stated publicly that if they win, they will vote for Donald Trump to be Speaker of the House and then they intend to Impeach Biden and Harris to usurp power and hand the Presidency back to Trump. This is not the act of a party of Conservative Constitutionalist but of a party pushing for an Authoritarian Dictatorship. This race is boiling down to a choice between a Dictatorship full of lies and Democracy, and I stand for Democracy! Unifying The Country We the People of the United States, are the first words of The Constitution and the entire point of my campaign. The Corrupt have caused so much disillusionment in America that many people are talking about armed conflict against our own nation. As President Lincoln said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” and I will not let my country collapse into a Second Civil War. I will not let my fellow Americans suffer the possibility of our country collapsing. It is time someone stands up for our country and push for the most logical and profitable answer for all of America and not just the upper one percent. Balancing The Budget We must be economically conservative when it comes to the United States budget. We are more than $28 Trillion in debt and have a national debt to Gross Domestic Product ratio of 128%. This is dangerous to the development and growth of the United States. We must take responsibility for this debt and control our government spending before it overwhelms us and crashes the U.S. economy. We must look for new revenue streams while at the same time not raising taxes. This will be one of the hardest endeavors that we as a government will undertake in our lifetime. We cannot allow our government to put more economic strain on our children and instead reign in our spending and be responsible to the U. S. taxpayers. Combating Climate Change We must combat Climate Change. It does not matter how much money we make if our environment becomes so bad that our species’ survival becomes impossible. God gave us this beautiful world as a home, and we are destroying it to benefit corrupt and greedy. Imagine being a father and buying your child a home and they look at you laugh and light it on fire because, “They don’t like the color.” How would you feel as a parent that your child disrespected you in such a way when you were going through that much work just to support them? That feeling is what God must be feeling about us because we are not taking care of his gift. God gave us this world and dominion over it. We should not just oversee it but also be responsible and preserve our world to honor God. Rebuilding The American Dream By raising the minimum wage, we can guarantee more money to the working classes. With the working class having more available money then they will not need to work as many hours. This will ensure more time is spent with the family. This encourages family togetherness, discipline, and allows children to have more time with family and more help with homework and other issues in their life. Financial problems are quite devastating to relationships and eliminating those stresses from a couple’s life can increase the strength of their marriage. Financial problems can also cause other problems such as substance abuse, increased crime rates, and mental health problems all of which can destroy the American family if not properly addressed. The corruption of the medical industry and the insurance industry has made affordable healthcare and important requirement for improving the American family. The prices for insurance and hospital visits are limiting people’s ability to remain healthy. People who are diabetic cannot afford insulin. People with major injuries are avoiding hospitals because they fear the bill because it will bankrupt their family. We cannot let American families go through these financial hardships and physical ailments. Both health problems and bankruptcies destroy American families, its as simple as that. Affordable education is important if we are to improve the American family. This eliminates the financial burden of the family and encourages students to work harder to get a better education at universities and trade schools. This improvement in education increases the possibilities of the educated children giving them the financial stability to build and maintain a family of their own in the future. A better educated population also gives Americans the tools to fight the problems of today and the problems that will come, which guarantees America first. Voting Rights Every legal citizen over the age of 18 that is legally allowed to vote should have the right to their vote without restrictions. Every district should have polling places proportionate to their population density and distance. Every voter, male and female who are legal and lawful to vote, should be registered to vote when they register for the draft. Absentee ballots should be accessible to every American. Voting day should be a national holiday to encourage more people to exercise their right to vote. We must renew the fight for voting rights since the Trump party has become so concerned with limiting people’s access to properly vote with more red tape and regulations.[2] |
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| —Charlie Thompson's campaign website (2022)[3] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 4, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Charlie Thompson For Congress, “Where Charlie Stands,” accessed March 8, 2022
