Corey Reid
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Corey Reid (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Nevada. He lost in the Democratic primary on June 14, 2022.
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Biography
Corey Reid was born in Lanham, Maryland. Reid's professional experience includes working as a bartender. He earned an associate degree from Anne Arundel Community College in 2006.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: United States Senate election in Nevada, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Nevada
Incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Adam Laxalt, Barry Lindemann, Neil Scott, and Barry Rubinson in the general election for U.S. Senate Nevada on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Catherine Cortez Masto (D) | 48.8 | 498,316 |
 | Adam Laxalt (R) | 48.0 | 490,388 | |
 | Barry Lindemann (Independent)  | 0.8 | 8,075 | |
 | Neil Scott (L) | 0.6 | 6,422 | |
 | Barry Rubinson (Independent American Party) | 0.5 | 5,208 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.2 | 12,441 | ||
| Total votes: 1,020,850 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Joseph Destin (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Nevada
Incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Corey Reid, Allen Rheinhart, and Stephanie Kasheta in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Nevada on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Catherine Cortez Masto | 90.9 | 159,694 |
 | Corey Reid | 2.6 | 4,491 | |
 | Allen Rheinhart | 2.2 | 3,852 | |
| Stephanie Kasheta | 2.0 | 3,487 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.4 | 4,216 | ||
| Total votes: 175,740 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Nevada
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Nevada on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Adam Laxalt | 55.9 | 127,757 |
 | Sam Brown | 34.2 | 78,206 | |
 | Sharelle Mendenhall | 3.0 | 6,946 | |
 | William Conrad | 1.5 | 3,440 | |
 | William Hockstedler | 1.2 | 2,836 | |
| Paul Rodriguez | 0.8 | 1,844 | ||
| Tyler Perkins | 0.4 | 850 | ||
 | Carlo Poliak | 0.1 | 332 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.7 | 6,277 | ||
| Total votes: 228,488 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Corey Reid completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Reid'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 was inspired to run for office after spending the last two years seeing hypocritical elected officials effectively shutting down my life, and ending the livelihoods of myself, my friends, and associates while ensuring that it effected their lives minimally if at all; I feel that as a Bartender on the Las Vegas strip and a member of Union Local 165 for over a decade I have had an unique opportunity to talk to people from all over the world and from all walks of life and understand their points of view. I feel that this experience of having a decade's worth of locals, tourist, and convention attendees who work every profession imaginable has given me their completely unfiltered opinions on past and current policies and events. This is what makes me qualified to represent the average American, because I am and know average Americans.
- I promise to do what I think every politician should, however very few actually do; that is to approach every vote, be it Democrat, Republican, or Independently backed, as if it was non-partisan. I do not think it should matter which side of the isle a bill or amendment comes from, if it is good for America and Americans I will vote for it to pass, and if not so be it. I also believe that despite their best intentions too many politicians are attempting to pass bills at breakneck speeds in case the power tips the other directions and average Americans are facing the unintended consequences.
- If elected one of my biggest priorities would be to attempt to fix the gratuity tax situation, anyone who has ever worked in a tipped based profession knows just how broken the system is, especially if you get audited by the IRS. It is actually almost impressive how little IRS agents understand how tips actually work, and how they just make up numbers and expect workers to pay tax on money they never actually made, which is currently a big problem on the Las Vegas strip, and anywhere else that uses tip compliance. Honestly my end goal would be to find a way to end the taxation of tips across the board, there is no reason for a server making $3.00 should pay taxes on money that is completely optional for customers to pay.
- I feel like the government is overextending its reach, the government should not of forced the vaccine on anyone, or banned people from activities or their jobs for refusing to take the vaccine. In the same way I do not feel like the government should have any say when it comes to abortions, that is a discussion between a woman, her doctor, and whoever else she deems fit; and given the option I will vote accordingly.
I am passionate about policies that affect the average American; I feel that far too often those who make decisions effecting the working class do not fully understand the impact of those decisions. For example I have heard California is attempting to make a 32 hour workweek the new normal, which sounds great for a salaried employee who would only have to work 4 days a week, however if this means that any hours over 32 would be overtime for hourly workers than all that would do is take a way a shift a week from many that are already struggling to make it; unfortunately most politicians do not see the negative aspects of their policies because they are too far removed from average Americans.
I have also been thinking a lot about the drought in the western states, along with the depletion of Lake Mead; and if elected I would attempt to find a solution. I believe a solution that would help the country as a whole would be to set up a network of water pipelines that would take excess fresh water from areas prone to flooding, filter it, store it, and then move it to areas that need it. Not only would this help by moving water to drought ridden places, it would hopefully also help stop some of the runoff from farms during storms, stopping excess fertilizer from getting into gulfs, lakes, and bays causing algae blooms and wreaking havoc on their ecosystems.
I have also been thinking a lot about the drought in the western states, along with the depletion of Lake Mead; and if elected I would attempt to find a solution. I believe a solution that would help the country as a whole would be to set up a network of water pipelines that would take excess fresh water from areas prone to flooding, filter it, store it, and then move it to areas that need it. Not only would this help by moving water to drought ridden places, it would hopefully also help stop some of the runoff from farms during storms, stopping excess fertilizer from getting into gulfs, lakes, and bays causing algae blooms and wreaking havoc on their ecosystems.
My political philosophy comes from many different sources, the biggest two however would probably be the Simpsons, and television personality Mike Rowe, his shows, and more importantly his podcast. Like most of my generation I spent my younger years watching countless reruns of the Simpsons, and it is a well known fact that all the classic episodes had some sort of political joke in them, over the years they have shown examples, cartoonishly exaggerated perhaps, of voter fraud, corruption at every level of politics, bribery, you name it. Growing up watching this you know even at a young age that the politicians depicted are doing the wrong thing, and yet I have seen too many real life examples that mirror the show too closely. When it comes to Mike Rowe all of his shows, Dirty Jobs, Somebody's Gotta Do It, etc..., have the same basic premise; this “Average Joe” shows up and attempts to do someone's job for a day, this gives us at home an insight into jobs and careers that most of us would've never given a second thought to. This is what launched his career and his mission to help push the younger generations more towards the trades; what relates most to my political philosophy is that he never really mentions his political alignment. I believe this is because that's not what he's trying to sell, he does not seem to care if his listeners vote for candidate A or B, all he cares about is raising money for his nonprofit, a scholarship to send kids to trade schools, and closing the skills gap in this country. I hardheartedly believe that as a nation we need to get back to listening to ideas and beliefs for what they are and stop trying to politicize everything into a Democrat vs. Republican debate.
I would like to not be remembered; I don't think that a legacy should be the goal of a politician. I feel that too many politicians are trying to cement their legacy when they should be focusing on what is good for America, instead they are more concerned with trying to get a bill or law named after them.
The first major historical event that I remember is 9/11; I was 15, I was a sophomore in high school. There are other historical events that I can remember being in the news, like the Clinton scandal, however 9/11 was the first event I remember as it happened. We were all sitting in first period when calls started coming in, our teacher turned on the TV and we all watched as the 1st tower was burning then as the 2nd tower got hit, at this point we knew that this was going to be one of the biggest events of our lives, however it was not until we heard about flight 77 hitting the Pentagon that it really hit home for most of us. I went to high school about 15 miles from the Pentagon, I was later told you could see the smoke from flight 77 from the roof of my high school; a lot of my classmates' parents, my father included, worked in D.C. Most of which for the government, it was shortly after that all the cellphone towers became jammed and there was little communication coming in or out. Classmates would receive phone calls and run out of classes, teachers were desperately trying to get in touch with their spouses and children, I was looking for my brother to ask if our father was working at the Pentagon that week or the prior week, thankfully it was the latter. 9/11, that was the day all of America stood still, and it seems like that was when everything started to go down hill, shortly after in 2004 my community was terrorized by Lee Malvo the “D.C. Sniper,” 2 years later the liquid bomber, 2013 the Boston Marathon, and of course Route 91 Harvest music festival on October 1st 2017, along with too many more to name; I do not think any of us knew how good we had it, and unfortunately the younger generations never will.
Batman A.K.A. Bruce Wayne. Worst case scenario I could give up the life of vigilantism and just be a billionaire playboy.
I believe that the President should stay at 2 terms, the Senate should be limited to 2 terms, and The House should be limited to 4 terms; if you are not going to get done what you need to get done in that time frame than you are probably never going to get it done. I'm a little sick of hearing the same politicians running on the same platform for decades, knowing deep down they do not actually want change because then they would have to find a new platform. This would also limit the corrupt power dynamic between the more veteran politicians and the newer ones, allowing for actual change and less corruption. The United States government was never intended to have career politicians, and that is part of the reason we are in such dire straits right now.
I believe that previous experience, in any field, is only as good as the job that was done; for example if you are attempting to become a welder and spend a whole week working as a welder but all of your welds are subpar and need to be fixed then you do not have any experience being a good welder; if a politician has previous experience doing a horrible job, as most have done in recent years, than it is not beneficial experience; they just know how to do a poor job. It is unfortunate that in this country we have a tendency to vote for the incumbent despite their repeated failings because their party thinks they will have a better chance in the general election and because they have had the time and resources while in office to raise more money it is true. It's sad that it is said, and true, that politicians spent the last years of their current position not doing their job but focusing on their next election.
I have always felt that the filibuster is silly; the only thing more ridiculous is how whenever it is used the other party speaks out against it, however they will not hesitate to use it themselves when an opportunity arises. This is the type of hypocrisy that has lead to both parties having no credibility.
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2022 Elections
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Footnotes
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Senators
Catherine Masto (D)
Jacky Rosen (D)
Representatives
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Dina Titus (D)
District 2
Mark Amodei (R)
District 3
Susie Lee (D)
District 4
Steven Horsford (D)
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