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Constance Johnson (North Carolina)
Constance Johnson (Democratic Party) (also known as Lov) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent North Carolina. She lost in the Democratic primary on May 17, 2022.
Johnson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Constance Johnson was born in Salisbury, North Carolina. She earned a bachelor's degree in psychology/sociology and a master's degree in education, guidance, and counseling. She also studied at the Lutheran School of Theology and did political and campaign training with the Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg. Her professional experience includes working as the publisher of CityPolitical News and as the president of the Black Legislative American Caucus (BLAC). Johnson is also a public administration scholar operating through BLAC and Johnson Public Administration, which she founded. Johnson has been affiliated with the Greater Charlotte Alliance of Black School Educators.[1][2][3]
Elections
2022
See also: United States Senate election in North Carolina, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. Senate North Carolina
Ted Budd defeated Cheri Beasley, Shannon Bray, Matthew Hoh, and Michelle Lewis in the general election for U.S. Senate North Carolina on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ted Budd (R) | 50.5 | 1,905,786 |
 | Cheri Beasley (D) | 47.3 | 1,784,049 | |
 | Shannon Bray (L)  | 1.4 | 51,640 | |
 | Matthew Hoh (G) | 0.8 | 29,934 | |
 | Michelle Lewis (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 137 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 2,378 | ||
| Total votes: 3,773,924 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Michele Parks (Independent)
- Marc White (Independent)
- Charles Roberson (Independent)
- Susan Gaddy (Independent)
- Brenda Rodriguez (Independent)
- Hayden Boyette (Independent)
- Barry Caulder (Independent)
- Kimrey Rhinehardt (Independent)
- Adrien Meadows (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate North Carolina
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate North Carolina on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cheri Beasley | 81.1 | 501,766 |
 | James Carr Jr. | 3.5 | 21,903 | |
 | Alyssia Hammond | 3.4 | 21,005 | |
 | Marcus Williams | 2.8 | 17,446 | |
 | Constance Johnson | 2.0 | 12,500 | |
 | Everette Newton | 1.6 | 10,043 | |
 | Chrelle Booker | 1.6 | 9,937 | |
 | Brendan K. Maginnis | 1.1 | 7,044 | |
 | Robert Colon | 1.1 | 6,904 | |
 | Greg Antoine | 0.8 | 5,179 | |
 | Tobias LaGrone | 0.8 | 5,048 | |
| Total votes: 618,775 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jenna Hamrick (D)
- Richard Watkins (D)
- Keith Davenport (D)
- Erica Smith (D)
- Jeff Jackson (D)
- Ava Edwards (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate North Carolina
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate North Carolina on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ted Budd | 58.6 | 448,128 |
 | Pat McCrory | 24.6 | 188,135 | |
 | Mark Walker | 9.2 | 70,486 | |
 | Marjorie K. Eastman | 2.9 | 22,535 | |
| David Flaherty | 1.0 | 7,265 | ||
 | Kenneth Harper Jr. | 0.9 | 7,129 | |
 | Jennifer Banwart | 0.4 | 3,088 | |
| Charles Moss | 0.4 | 2,920 | ||
 | Leonard L. Bryant | 0.4 | 2,906 | |
 | Benjamin Griffiths | 0.4 | 2,870 | |
 | Debora Tshiovo | 0.4 | 2,741 | |
 | Lee Brian | 0.3 | 2,232 | |
 | Lichia Sibhatu | 0.3 | 2,191 | |
| Drew Bulecza | 0.3 | 2,022 | ||
| Total votes: 764,648 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Rene Borghese (R)
- James Gaghan (R)
- Carlton Ellerby (R)
- Marty Cooke (R)
- Jon Warren (R)
- Len McBride (R)
Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Shannon Bray advanced from the Libertarian primary for U.S. Senate North Carolina.
2020
See also: North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction election, 2020
General election
General election for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction
Catherine Truitt defeated Jen Mangrum in the general election for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Catherine Truitt (R) | 51.4 | 2,753,220 |
 | Jen Mangrum (D) | 48.6 | 2,605,169 | |
| Total votes: 5,358,389 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction
Jen Mangrum defeated Keith Sutton, Constance Johnson, James Barrett, and Michael Maher in the Democratic primary for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jen Mangrum | 33.2 | 378,396 |
 | Keith Sutton | 26.6 | 303,592 | |
| Constance Johnson | 21.1 | 240,710 | |
 | James Barrett | 10.8 | 122,855 | |
 | Michael Maher | 8.3 | 95,239 | |
| Total votes: 1,140,792 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction
Catherine Truitt defeated D. Craig Horn in the Republican primary for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Catherine Truitt | 56.7 | 391,915 |
 | D. Craig Horn | 43.3 | 299,578 | |
| Total votes: 691,493 | |||
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Campaign finance
2017
Vi Lyles defeated incumbent Jennifer Roberts, Joel Ford, Constance Johnson, and Lucille Puckett in the Mayor of Charlotte Democratic primary election.[4]
| Mayor of Charlotte, Democratic Primary Election, 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Vi Lyles |
46.13% | 15,805 |
| Jennifer Roberts Incumbent | 36.23% | 12,412 |
| Joel Ford | 15.95% | 5,466 |
| Constance Johnson | 0.91% | 311 |
| Lucille Puckett | 0.78% | 268 |
| Total Votes | 34,262 | |
| Source: North Carolina State Board of Elections, "Official Primary Election Results," accessed September 18, 2017 | ||
2014
Elections for the North Carolina State Senate took place in 2014. A primary election took place on May 6, 2014. The general election took place on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was February 28, 2014. Incumbent Andrew C. Brock was unopposed in the Republican primary, while Constance L. Johnson was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Brock defeated Johnson in the general election.[5][6][7][8]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Andrew Brock Incumbent |
66.1% | 38,010 | |
| Democratic | Constance Johnson | 33.9% | 19,533 | |
| Total Votes | 57,543 | |||
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Constance Johnson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Johnson's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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The US Senate is a group of lawmakers, that read mountains of bills, rules and regulations, executive orders, departmental news, judicial verdicts, and global and domestic news articles. Constance Lov Johnson has traveled extensively around the nation and internationally to study global governance. Some of her sacrifices included living in shelters, serving as a social scientist, vocational rehabilitation consultant, spending time in England with parliament members experiencing the differences and commonalities of cultures, economies and theologies. She knows the causes of poverty and great wealth. She is a theologian that understands cultural and religious beliefs to unify us in our social and political relations. I run to utilize my eclectic and high level of political knowledge to keep the constituency of North Carolina and the nation fully aware and engaged in the congressional process for our beautiful culture and to enrich our lives.
- A Senator should have experiences with diverse cultures to know the needs of all people. International travels alone to lean on other nations to determine their treatment of strangers and their own people are key to lawmaking with ethics.
- Our businesses are drained of funds being in the midst of a pandemic. A new Senator walks in with answers to the problems of her state and nation. I have the solutions we need and already engaging in procedures to prep students and business owners to build with quality and compete internationally.
- We are not engaging citizens in the systems of law. We are violating laws on every level of government and our foundations of ethics and morality are deteriorating. Without a sound and solid foundation of fairness, due process, honesty, and integrity our currency will erode and we will destroy our leadership role around the world. Our products will lose value and we will lose our wealth and health.
My plan is to enforce the proper systems of governance to follow regulations to ensure the improvements needed to best serve our nation and citizens. We are hacking, stealing intellectual properties, omitting wealth from Black, Brown, Yellow, and Beige people through tactical budgeting, and hiring by party.
We need a systematic governance that bathes in the Constitution for the sake of a dirt free infrastructure. We have the most powerful and effective government system in the world. We have to get back to using it.
US Senate Candidate Constance Lov Johnson
Joyce Waddell, Dianna David, Harvey Gantt, Mel Watt, Velma Speight, Pat Cannon, Claude Alexander, Felicia and Herb Gray, Carlos Gladden, Kenneth Muhammad, Leon Gatewood, Spurgeon Webber, Paul Hoggard, Earl Graves Jr., Blanche Penn, and Dan Blue
The Johnson Family Reunion
By Constance Lov Johnson
Awaken the Giant Within (audio)
Anthony Robbins
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Journey of Man (film)
By Stephen Wells
Lincoln (film)
The Promised Land
Barack Obama
The Bible (Gen-Rev, NSRV)
The Constitution
The Narrative
Honesty
Truthfulness
Civility
Scholarly
Empathetic
Direct
Global
Courageous
Builder
Innovative
Eclectic
Multicultural
Historic
Systematic
Constitutional
Adaptive
Conversational
International
I have built six to seven figure businesses and organizations from $500 startups.
I am a government and business scholar in Public Administration, which is a field that theorizes and applies effective solutions and profitable operations.
I have worked with officials on all levels of government on their campaigns and projects.
I am a political publisher of news magazines and have cited the successful and failed legislation.
I have written bills that were ratified and utilized by local to federal government as a publishing politician and candidate.
I have built projects (CotyPolitical) and organizations (BLAC) that were effective in increasing the participation in the political process and saving businesses and churches in urgent times.
I have toured the shelters of the nation’s Capitol and consulted on mayoral committees and redesigned plans to sustain homes for housing authorities.
I have developed business organizations and concepts that provide opportunities for small businesses to be partnered by corporations and contracted by government agencies.
I am fiercely honest.
I run a church that provides sermons and prayer for our nation’s leaders.
I am a supporter of farmers and organized a plan for grocery store corporations to cut gas consumption by contractors local farmers.
I am highly creative and complete every project I propose.
… to serve humbly.
… to be willing to give one’s life.
… to care for one’s world.
… to work for the common man and woman.
… bring happiness and music.
… to distract the people through events and activities.
… to improve and stabilize the United States.
… to promote the ideals of the Constitution.
… to gather the citizenry around the law.
We have yet to scratch the surface and are presently scratching the wrong holes. I seek to bring the nation and the world to a realistic understanding of where we need to scratch to build our foundations. We have much to do because we were given so much. It has to be based on the goals of the ethical, moral, and successful ancestors that brought us to this technological, space exploring, and constitutional successful civility. Let us March on …
I am from a smart father, an educator, that taught me to compete with Whites, men, and enemies for what I need to achieve and to experience other cultures and nations as equals. My grandparents and older family members helped him take care of me and my siblings until he was old enough. He dedicated himself to us and we sometimes struggled, but we are greatly blessed and ordered by God, so all but one made it this far. My mother left us to find better lives for us in New York and was not strong enough to survive it. She turned to hard narcotics and lost her mind by the age of 35. We spent her last years together enjoying each other’s company. She died at age 60.
I believe my varied and eclectic family experiences added to my natural talents I gained from the Johnson’s (advanced Black farmers and entrepreneurs), Partee’s and Henderson’s (Entrepreneurs in housing, rail innovators, US Senate and US House Officials, Lawyers, and Pastors).
Economic Growth
Unity
Advancements in Technology
Environmental Innovations
Educational Scholarliness
International Alliances
Global Markets
Transportation Efficiencies
Effective Health Plans
Border Nations Sanctuaries and Reconciliation
I plan to marry the Senate for six or more years, and will dedicate myself to the Constitution to align the bills I sponsor and committees I serve on to build the economies of the United States to uplift all America’s people where we are purposed. God has blessed America and has promised America it’s pursuits. It is through my work on the US Senate that will charge the Congress to focus on those pursuits.
Education
Business Development and Entrepreneurs
Budgetary
Defense
Policing
Technology
(Just made this up. ~CLJ)
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Campaign website
Johnson’s campaign website stated the following:
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| —Constance Johnson’s campaign website (2022)[10] | ||
2020
Constance Johnson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Johnson's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Self supported through college and graduate school with full scholarships awarded for degrees.
- Former Teacher, Counselor, and School Adminostrator
- Publisher and Entrepreneur. Owner of CityPolitical Magazine.
Curriculum and Textbook Diversity and Inclusion.
Fundraising.
Parental engagement.
Bethune
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.
2017
Johnson participated in Ballotpedia's 2017 survey of municipal government candidates.[11] The following sections display her responses to the survey questions. When asked what her top priority would be if elected, the candidate made the following statement:
| “ | Minority and Small business financial development.[9] | ” |
| —Constance Johnson (August 1, 2017)[1] | ||
Ranking the issues
The candidate was asked to rank the following issues by importance in the city, with 1 being the most important and 12 being the least important: city services (trash, utilities, etc.), civil rights, crime reduction/prevention, environment, government transparency, homelessness, housing, K-12 education, public pensions/retirement funds, recreational opportunities, transportation, and unemployment. This table displays this candidate's rankings from most to least important.
| Issue importance ranking | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate's ranking |
Issue | Candidate's ranking |
Issue |
| Unemployment | Environment | ||
| Housing | Transportation | ||
| K-12 education | Government transparency | ||
| Crime reduction/prevention | Public pensions/retirement funds | ||
| Civil rights | City services (trash, utilities, etc.) | ||
| Homelessness | Recreational opportunities | ||
Nationwide municipal issues
The candidate was asked to answer questions from Ballotpedia regarding issues facing cities across America. The questions are in the left column and the candidate's responses are in the right column. Some questions provided multiple choices, which are noted after those questions.
| Question | Response |
|---|---|
| Very important | |
| State | |
| Increased economic opportunities | |
| Recruiting new businesses to your city | |
| I am proud of the city's engagement and attentiveness to political and government issues that affect the distinct communities. | |
| The inequity in jobs, businesses, and beautification in the geographical regions of Charlotte. |
Additional themes
Johnson's website highlighted the following campaign themes:[12]
Education
- Excerpt: "As Mayor of Charlotte, NC, the schools will balance economically and I work closely to ensure communications is effective by working closely with the news sources of the city to ensure that all information is accessible by parents and guardians; all resources are accounted for with equity in every region of Charlotte, and each child and teacher are given the highest level of respect possible to provide an environment that promotes academic achievement and excellence in teaching."
Diversity
- Excerpt: "What we fail to see is when all areas of our population are prospering and well educated our city is targeted for greater wealth by large corporations bringing jobs, contracts, scholarships for educational advancements and a better living. Let's work together to ensure that all regions of Charlotte are excelling and competing with the other major cities."
Housing
- Excerpt: "As Mayor of Charlotte, I will rectify this problem immediately and find adequate housing for all those trapped in homelessness. Our military make up more than 20% of shelters of Charlotte and their sacrifice demands that we do better. I promise you I will. I will work with state and US officials to gather all dollars needed to house those suffering from not having the comfort and security of a stable home."
Small business
- Excerpt: "Small business suffers greatly in Charlotte, NC. Most don't surive past a year. The city offers numerous courses and networking meetings for small businesses but minority businesses never seem to receive contracts or financial opportunities generally awarded to small businesses. These intentional omissions effect the wealth of minorities, employment, educational attainment, and so forth and so on."
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ballotpedia's municipal government candidate survey, 2017, "Constance Johnson's Responses," August 1, 2017
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 5, 2019
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia via email on July 21, 2021
- ↑ Mecklenburg County Board of Elections, "Candidate List," accessed July 23, 2017
- ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections, "Primary Candidate List Grouped by Contest," accessed March 7, 2014
- ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections, "General Election Candidate List Grouped by Contest," accessed August 12, 2014
- ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections, "05/06/2014 Official Primary Election Results - Statewide," accessed December 5, 2014
- ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections, "11/04/2014 Official General Election Results - Statewide," accessed December 5, 2014
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Constance Johnson’s campaign website, Press Release, accessed April 10, 2022
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Constance Johnson website, "Platform," accessed August 4, 2017
