Daniel Christmann
Daniel Christmann (Libertarian Party) ran for election for President of the United States. He lost in the Libertarian Party convention on May 23, 2020.
Christmann (New Moderate Party) also ran for election to the New York State Senate to represent District 18. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Christmann completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Daniel Christmann's professional experience includes working as a service manager for a plumbing and heating company. He began doing plumbing and heating work in 2003.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: New York State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for New York State Senate District 18
Incumbent Julia Salazar defeated Daniel Christmann in the general election for New York State Senate District 18 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Julia Salazar (D / Working Families Party) | 97.5 | 95,939 |
 | Daniel Christmann (New Moderate Party)  | 2.3 | 2,235 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 258 | ||
| Total votes: 98,432 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New York State Senate District 18
Incumbent Julia Salazar defeated Andy Marte in the Democratic primary for New York State Senate District 18 on June 23, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Julia Salazar | 86.7 | 29,435 |
 | Andy Marte | 13.0 | 4,399 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 97 | ||
| Total votes: 33,931 | |||
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Working Families Party primary election
The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Julia Salazar advanced from the Working Families Party primary for New York State Senate District 18.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Daniel Christmann completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Christmann'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 a hardworking, Blue-Collar, lifelong New Yorker. I want what is best for our City and State. Let's empower our children to dream and be successful, to create, and not look for handouts. The city is planning to build highly monitored, extremely expensive, rental housing all over the city. They actually call this super-expensive, inequitable, culture killing housing that only oligarchs can build, own, and collect rents on... "Affordable Housing"
My opponent has endorsed, Scott Stringer, for Mayor 15 months before the election. Because the exclusive "Affordable Housing Builders" and "Financiers" told them to, and not because they believe in the democratic process.
I am a no nonsense humanist. I want what is best for the little guy without, punishing hard work and hustle at the same time.
I believe in free markets and understand that when unchecked they become so oppressive that even Communism becomes appealing, hence our current housing market.
My goal is to help the people, and eliminate the areas of our current model that exploit us, and make housing inequitable. Mortgage companies, funded mostly by renters, need to be held accountable for out leveraging our economy and squandering our communities' wealth, while inflating our rents.
Policing- Our Bill of Rights have not been applied to all Americans. That MUST change and the NYPD will abide by the U.S. Constitution!- Deeds Not Leases- We need ownership to fight poverty and create upward mobility!
- Empower Small Business- We can not fine small business to save us from our current economic dilemma. We need to enable their success instead!
- Tax Big Tech. Tax the Trans-Atlantic Fiber Optic Cables. Big Tech is coming to NYC for our Global Fiber Optic "Ports" tax it to fund health care!
It is exploitation, extortion, theft to the highest degree, and pure incompetence.
80% of the buildings didn't have HEAT, HOT WATER, and/or WATER.
Meanwhile 7 of the top 10 highest paid NYC Employees are NYCHA plumbers!!!
There was a lead paint scandal where the Federal Government paid NYCHA $115M to do lead inspections that never got done.
Not one person got in trouble, nor were audited, or even questioned, on these finances, everyone in government is complicit.
The issues are endless, mainly because the worker's at NYCHA checks clear if the job gets done or not.
Ultimately there were so many NYCHA failures that many of these Complexes are being bought by private managers, and transferred to an even more predatory income restricting HUD Model "Section 8".
Mayor de Blasio even sold their sky-rights to luxury developers.
NYCHA residents got NOTHING despite having paid 1/3 of their income for rent, and in some cases residents pay well over a thousand a month for decades!
The solution is humane, smart, empowering, cheaper, and is what I am fighting for!!!
We need to give the NYCHA residents the apartments as a Condo or Co-OP. Set a baseline of ownership.
The tax payers can continue help to pay for maintenance issues, while drastically cutting down on expenses and liability.
My favorite quote by Buckminster Fuller-
"Dare to be Naive." I feel now more than ever, politically, we need to drop our biases and try to figure out systems that will work. Hence Dare to be Naive
Malcolm X- It would have been very easy and convenient for Malcolm to appeal to the white liberal. Malcolm understood the exploitation attempts of the white liberal, He understood very well that what the white liberal was creating in his time, Would ultimately be seen as heinous, and soon experienced as 'systemic-racism."
I have only live in the City for 20 years but I grew up upstate and understand life up there too.
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 4, 2020
