Curtis Godfrey

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Curtis Godfrey

Democratic Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

May 7, 2024

Curtis Godfrey (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Indiana's 7th Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on May 7, 2024.

Godfrey sought election to the seat in 2016 and 2014 as well.

Biography

Curtis Godfrey earned a degree from Indiana University.

Elections

2024

See also: Indiana's 7th Congressional District election, 2024

Indiana's 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (May 7 Democratic primary)

Indiana's 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (May 7 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Indiana District 7

Incumbent André Carson defeated John Schmitz and Rusty Johnson in the general election for U.S. House Indiana District 7 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		André Carson (D)	68.3	185,987
		John Schmitz (R)	29.0	78,792
		Rusty Johnson (L)	2.7	7,369

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 272,148
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 7

Incumbent André Carson defeated Curtis Godfrey and Pierre Quincy Pullins in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 7 on May 7, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		André Carson	91.1	30,868
		Curtis Godfrey	5.4	1,845
		Pierre Quincy Pullins	3.5	1,178

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 33,891
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 7

Jennifer Pace defeated Catherine Ping, Philip N. Davis, and Gabriel Whitley in the Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 7 on May 7, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jennifer Pace	31.2	7,716
		Catherine Ping	29.9	7,390
		Philip N. Davis	25.7	6,364
		Gabriel Whitley	13.1	3,249

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 24,719
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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Indiana District 7

Rusty Johnson advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Indiana District 7 on March 2, 2024.

		Candidate
✔		Rusty Johnson (L)

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2
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Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Godfrey in this election.

2022

See also: Indiana's 7th Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Indiana District 7

Incumbent André Carson defeated Angela Grabovsky and Gavin Maple in the general election for U.S. House Indiana District 7 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		André Carson (D)	67.0	117,309
		Angela Grabovsky (R)	30.6	53,631
	Submit photo	Gavin Maple (L)	2.4	4,240

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 175,180
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 7

Incumbent André Carson defeated Curtis Godfrey and Pierre Quincy Pullins in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 7 on May 3, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		André Carson	93.9	36,242
		Curtis Godfrey	4.0	1,526
		Pierre Quincy Pullins	2.2	830

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 38,598
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 7

Angela Grabovsky defeated Rusty Johnson, Jennifer Pace, Bill Allen, and Gerald Walters in the Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 7 on May 3, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Angela Grabovsky	53.6	6,886
		Rusty Johnson	17.0	2,185
		Jennifer Pace	12.1	1,556
		Bill Allen	11.7	1,505
		Gerald Walters	5.6	722

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 12,854
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Jimmy Klosowski (R)

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Indiana District 7

Gavin Maple defeated Ted Rusk in the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Indiana District 7 on March 5, 2022.

		Candidate
✔	Submit photo	Gavin Maple (L)
	Submit photo	Ted Rusk (L)

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source
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2018

See also: Indiana's 7th Congressional District election, 2018

General election

General election for U.S. House Indiana District 7

Incumbent André Carson defeated Wayne Harmon in the general election for U.S. House Indiana District 7 on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		André Carson (D)	64.9	141,139
		Wayne Harmon (R)	35.1	76,457

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 217,596 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 7

Incumbent André Carson defeated Sue Spicer, Curtis Godfrey, Bob Kern, and Pierre Quincy Pullins in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 7 on May 8, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		André Carson	88.0	37,662
		Sue Spicer	8.2	3,499
		Curtis Godfrey	1.7	725
		Bob Kern	1.6	704
		Pierre Quincy Pullins	0.5	226

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified.	Total votes: 42,816
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 7

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 7 on May 8, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Wayne Harmon	28.8	6,547
		Donald Eason	19.2	4,354
		John L. Couch	15.2	3,464
		J.D. Miniear	13.6	3,087
	Submit photo	Jon Davis	11.9	2,703
	Submit photo	Tony Van Pelt	11.3	2,568

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified.	Total votes: 22,723
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2016

See also: Indiana's 7th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Incumbent André Carson (D) defeated Catherine Ping (R) and Drew Thompson (L) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Carson defeated Curtis Godfrey and Pierre Quincy Pullins in the Democratic primary, while Ping defeated Wayne Harmon and J.D. Miniear to win the Republican nomination. The primary elections took place on May 3, 2016.

U.S. House, Indiana District 7 General Election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	André Carson Incumbent	60%	158,739
	Republican	Catherine Ping	35.7%	94,456
	Libertarian	Drew Thompson	4.3%	11,475
Total Votes				264,670
Source: Indiana Division of Elections

U.S. House, Indiana District 7 Republican Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Catherine Ping	53.1%	30,514
Wayne Harmon	29.5%	16,955
J.D. Miniear	17.4%	10,031
Total Votes		57,500
Source: Indiana Secretary of State

U.S. House, Indiana District 7 Democratic Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
André Carson Incumbent	85.6%	70,006
Curtis Godfrey	10.2%	8,306
Pierre Pullins	4.2%	3,435
Total Votes		81,747
Source: Indiana Secretary of State

2014

See also: Indiana's 7th Congressional District elections, 2014

Godfrey ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent Indiana's 7th District. Godfrey was defeated by incumbent André Carson in the Democratic primary on May 6, 2014.

U.S. House, Indiana District 7 Democratic Primary, 2014

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
André Carson Incumbent	89.1%	19,446
Curtis Godfrey	5.5%	1,209
Mmoja Ajabu	3.6%	782
Pierre Pullins	1.8%	390
Total Votes		21,827
Source: Indiana Division of Elections

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Curtis Godfrey did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

2022

Curtis Godfrey did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Godfrey's campaign website stated the following:

“	Education I realize that college is not for everyone, howver, as your Congressman, I will do all that I can to ensure that every American citizen has a fair and equal opportunity to get a free education or technical training, without the preasures of how it will be paid for it after completion of programs. As a college graduate, I remember the burden of paying for my education after I gratduated. I struggled to maintain my credit and pay my loans at the same time, the loans took precedence over other financial obligations that were equaliy important or greater. I believe that an educated society is vitally important to the national security of this country, technology and its advancements change rapidly and we need to be able to keep up and or become the trend setter of which other countries would copy. Housing Our country resources ought to be able to empliment a plan of action that would assure housing for everyone of its citizens. I do not believe that the great multitudes of people who live on the streets, makes a concious choice to do o. A roof over ones head a a decent meal is the least that this country can do for its own people. I know that we can achieve these goal of housing and feeding all of our citizens. Especially, since we can give billions of our tax dollars to do the same thing for other countries and they have no vested interest in America. We need to develop more cooperative home communities, wherein the residents have a vested interest in ownership of the property in which they live and offer growth of the same. This would make the tenants more responsible for the maintaince and upkeep of their houses; therefore making of a moe responsible neighbor who is motivated to take care of their investments. Diversity I believe that we the people, not only the, poor, disadvantaged wealthy, brown, black, white and red people, in oder to form a more perfect union, should have a congressional represenative who is honest and has integerity; willing to fight for the people of which they represent. We must learn to embrace the diffrences of each culture and ethnic differences. Some lifestyles may not be for each of us, to accept or understand, but the various types of people are who we are and those differences are incoporated into the fabric of our society. Therefore, we can learn to live together as a community or perish as fools. Sometimes it takes a bit of chaos to reveal that peace and order is the viable choice, that we must choose at the end of the day. And We the people are seeking a more perfect union, which we fall short of achieving so long as, there is a great devide among the people. We must set aside our differences and plege to work together for the good of mankind. I have worked with the departments of justice and have seen first hand the roots of many crimes and the effects of violence. However, I believe in the right to be a responsible gun owner and it is our duty to make sure that the guns don't end up in the hands of those, who would use them to rob, steal and kill for their own means. I have fought for the rights of others and advocated for the disadvantaged before vavious governmental agencies. Healthcare Health care is a right, since our Government is the determing factor as to how food and drugs are adminstred and sold to its people; via Food and Drug Administrattion and that same government has the final say, in so much as to what or how much bi-products are allowed in our food, we consume food and drugs; then that same Government should be equally responsible for the health care of its people, as a consequence of allowing the use and consumotion of the food and drugs that harm the health of the people. Especially since many of those same foods and drugs are/can be life threatening aa they come with many comlications or side effects, of which the public is unaware of; with all of the dangers involved with their use. I will strive to ensure that health care is a basic right of the people. A healthy America is a strong America and only the strong survive. Environment We must protect our wild life and preservation of the land, because land management is one of our greatest assets and it insures our co-exsistence as a people in a environmently safe ecosphere we call earth. We cannot allow polution or over useage of the land to go unchecked. We need to realize that we cannot eat money and profit and financial gain, does not make for a healthy and safe enviroment. We deserve to have a healthy and safe environment in which we work and play, to ensure our generations after will have the same enjoyments. We must ensure that the quality of water is safe for human consumption and the air is less polluted; we have to work at keeping global warming to a minimum and the quality of air ought to be clean as well.	”
—Curtis Godfrey's campaign website (2022)

2018

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Curtis Godfrey participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on March 27, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Curtis Godfrey's responses follow below.

What would be your top three priorities, if elected?

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1) Citizens rights 2) National defense 3) Federal budget ways and means.

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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?

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Protecting the rights of all veterans, ensuring that they are provided for their needs; since they are the ones whom make this all possible. Without them we would fall in the hands of other countries. We need to overhaul the title 38 as it is the federal laws that govern benefits for veterans and their families.

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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Curtis Godfrey answered the following:

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

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Honesty and integrity are essential to the office. Above all we should be getting out to the public and listening to their ideas and concerns on what they see daily as a issue for what keeps them from growing.

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What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

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I am persistent and committed to perfecting the office and getting back to the real job of Congress of writing laws that would help govern us all. Working towards legislation of laws that will help improve the quality of life for all of us.

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What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

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Ability to understand, interpret the federal laws and federal codes; write laws and legislation to deal with the changes in our society, which may not be in alignment with the laws as they were intended to work.

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What legacy would you like to leave?

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Change the views for the better, improve the communications and effective change in how business should be conducted in DC, for the people and by the people whom United for action and less talk. Taking visions from paper and apply actions, to effect the necessary change to ongoing problems where others say it can't be done.

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What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

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Summer job working for HUD and cleaning up our community.

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What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

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Dealing with my injuries that I received while I was in army.

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What qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution?

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The power to make inquiry into matters that need immediate attention for the good of the people and this country.

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Do you believe that it’s beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?

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No.., it is more important to know how the process works. Also ability to locate the appropriate laws and the policies governing a particular issue.

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What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

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Ridding itself of institutional racism ideology and balancing the injustices to those people likely affected, by unjust people who inappropriately empose their own maladdaptive opinion, instead of applying what the federal laws and regulations state as the appropriate course of action.

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Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?

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I believe there should be terms in all elected officials including Congress. Senators 2 terms total of 12 years. And Congress 5 terms of 2 years total of 10 years.

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What are your thoughts on term limits?

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As stated above, term limits should be imposed on all elected and appointed positions to including the supreme court appointments.

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Both sitting representatives and candidates for office hear many personal stories from the residents of their district. Is there a story that you’ve heard that you found particularly touching, memorable, or impactful?

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The Shelton Hickerson delima and his families struggle to provide him a better life style although he was paralyzed from his duties to the USA and we failed him and I helped to come up with HR 4102 113th Congress presented by then chairman Jeff Miller of the Veterans Affairs...the federal government owes his family over millions of dollars after he won, he died and VA said they get to keep the monies that was awarded to the veteran and not his survivors.

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2016

The following issues were listed on Godfrey's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here. {{scrollbox|

“	Education: I realize that college is not for everyone, howver, as your Congressman, I will do all that I can to ensure that every American citizen has a fair and equal opportunity to get a free education or technical training, without the preasures of how it will be paid for it after completion of programs. Housing: Our country resources ought to be able to empliment a plan of action that would assure housing for everyone of its citizens. I do not believe that the great multitudes of people who live on the streets, makes a concious choice to do o. A roof over ones head a a decent meal is the least that this country can do for its own people. Diversity: I believe that we the people, not only the, poor, disadvantaged wealthy, brown, black, white and red people, in oder to form a more perfect union, should have a congressional represenative who is honest and has integerity; willing to fight for the people of which they represent. We must learn to embrace the diffrences of each culture and ethnic differences. Healthcare: Health care is a right, since our Government is the determing factor as to how food and drugs are adminstred and sold to its people; via Food and Drug Administrattion and that same government has the final say, in so much as to what or how much bi-products are allowed in our food, we consume food and drugs; then that same Government should be equally responsible for the health care of its people, as a consequence of allowing the use and consumotion of the food and drugs that harm the health of the people. Environment: We must protect our wild life and preservation of the land, because land management is one of our greatest assets and it insures our co-exsistence as a people in a environmently safe ecosphere we call earth. We cannot allow polution or over useage of the land to go unchecked. We need to realize that we cannot eat money and profit and financial gain, does not make for a healthy and safe enviroment.	”
—Curtis Godfrey's campaign website, http://curtisgodfreyforco.wix.com/campaign#!platform/cee5

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Curtis Godfrey campaign contribution history

Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	U.S. House Indiana District 7	Lost primary	$0	N/A**
2022	U.S. House Indiana District 7	Lost primary	$0	N/A**
2018	U.S. House Indiana District 7	Lost primary	$0	N/A**
Grand total			$0	N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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Footnotes

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Indiana's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Jim Banks (R)

Todd Young (R)

Representatives

District 1

Frank Mrvan (D)

District 2

Rudy Yakym (R)

District 3

Marlin Stutzman (R)

District 4

Jim Baird (R)

District 5

Victoria Spartz (R)

District 6

Jefferson Shreve (R)

District 7

André Carson (D)

District 8

Mark Messmer (R)

District 9

Erin Houchin (R)

Republican Party (9)

Democratic Party (2)