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Don Hewett
Don Hewett (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Washington's 10th Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Don Hewett was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He entered the United States Air Force in 1983. Hewett earned bachelor's degrees in mathematics and in computer science from the University of Washington in 1985. He later returned to the University of Washington to earn a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. His career experience includes working at Microsoft, Boeing, and Intel, and he served in security police in the Air Force.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Washington's 10th Congressional District election, 2024
Washington's 10th Congressional District election, 2024 (August 6 top-two primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Washington District 10
Incumbent Marilyn Strickland defeated Don Hewett in the general election for U.S. House Washington District 10 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Marilyn Strickland (D) | 58.5 | 203,732 |
 | Don Hewett (R) | 41.2 | 143,492 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 820 | ||
| Total votes: 348,044 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Washington District 10
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House Washington District 10 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marilyn Strickland (D) | 54.3 | 93,942 |
| ✔ | | Don Hewett (R) | 26.7 | 46,258 |
 | Nirav Sheth (R) | 11.7 | 20,208 | |
 | Desirée Toliver (D) | 3.7 | 6,424 | |
 | Eric Mahaffy (D) | 2.0 | 3,527 | |
 | Richard Boyce (Congress Sucks Party) | 1.2 | 2,056 | |
 | Kurtis Engle (Union Party) | 0.3 | 545 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 192 | ||
| Total votes: 173,152 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jay Fratt (R)
- Edward Saner (D)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Hewett in this election.
2022
See also: Washington's 10th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Washington District 10
Incumbent Marilyn Strickland defeated Keith Swank in the general election for U.S. House Washington District 10 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marilyn Strickland (D) | 57.0 | 152,544 |
 | Keith Swank (R) | 42.9 | 114,777 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 427 | ||
| Total votes: 267,748 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Washington District 10
Incumbent Marilyn Strickland and Keith Swank defeated Dan Gordon, Eric Mahaffy, and Richard Boyce in the primary for U.S. House Washington District 10 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marilyn Strickland (D) | 55.3 | 90,093 |
| ✔ | | Keith Swank (R) | 33.9 | 55,231 |
| Dan Gordon (R) | 6.3 | 10,315 | ||
| Eric Mahaffy (D) | 2.3 | 3,710 | |
| Richard Boyce (Congress Sucks Party) | 2.0 | 3,250 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 189 | ||
| Total votes: 162,788 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Don Hewett (R)
2020
See also: Washington's 10th Congressional District election, 2020
General election
General election for U.S. House Washington District 10
Marilyn Strickland defeated Beth Doglio in the general election for U.S. House Washington District 10 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marilyn Strickland (D) | 49.3 | 167,937 |
 | Beth Doglio (D) | 35.6 | 121,040 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 15.1 | 51,430 | ||
| Total votes: 340,407 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Washington District 10
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House Washington District 10 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marilyn Strickland (D) | 20.3 | 45,988 |
| ✔ | | Beth Doglio (D) | 15.2 | 34,254 |
 | Kristine Reeves (D) | 12.9 | 29,236 | |
 | Rian Ingrim (R) | 11.4 | 25,688 | |
 | Jackson Maynard (R) | 8.2 | 18,526 | |
 | Dean Johnson (R) | 7.4 | 16,700 | |
 | Nancy Slotnick (R) | 6.7 | 15,201 | |
| Don Hewett (R) | 4.8 | 10,750 | |
 | Phil Gardner (D) | 2.3 | 5,292 | |
 | Ryan Tate (R) | 1.9 | 4,196 | |
 | Mary Bacon (D) | 1.8 | 3,992 | |
 | Todd Buckley (Independent) | 1.6 | 3,552 | |
 | Eric LeMay (D) | 1.4 | 3,072 | |
 | Joshua Collins (Essential Workers Party) | 1.2 | 2,667 | |
| Richard Boyce (Congress Sucks Party) | 1.0 | 2,302 | |
| Ralph Johnson (R) | 0.6 | 1,441 | ||
| Gordon Allen Pross (R) | 0.5 | 1,186 | ||
| Sam Wright (D) | 0.5 | 1,129 | ||
| Randy Bell (D) | 0.2 | 563 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 267 | ||
| Total votes: 226,002 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dan Gordon (R)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Don Hewett did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Hewett’s campaign website stated the following:
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Education I will give a voice to the voiceless. I believe that the education system has left many of our students behind, the U.S. ranks 38th out of 71 countries in math and 24th in science. I will make the education of ALL students a top priority, and insure parents are in control of their children’s education.
I believes that the United States maintains a military to protect our homeland and impose America’s will on its enemies and to prevent a would be enemy from doing so to the United States. As a result, the United States must maintain a military strong enough to be able to win decisively in combat. In order to accomplish this, I believes our military must be equipped with properly maintained modern equipment and adequately staffed and provisioned units.
I believes that Washingtonians work hard for their money and they deserve the opportunity to save, spend, and invest as they see fit. I believes that keeping taxes low will strengthen the middle-class and open up new opportunities for Washington families and families throughout America.
I will support our police and all of our first responders. I believes that law and order is paramount for our society. These are the guy who keep us safe and make sacrifices that we many never know to do this. Let’s bring law and order back to our streets and reduce our crime rate.
I believes that we must maintain and recover our lost freedoms. He fully supports our second amendment rights as well as all of our other rights. We must never let our guard down, and must always fight to keep our freedoms. The U.S.A. is the shining city on the hill because of our freedoms. I will fight to keep and recover our freedoms.
I will work to make our government become more fiscally responsible. Our government needs to spend money as if it is their own money, not as if it is just someone else’s money. We don’t need a government that buys stuff we don’t need with money we don’t have.
I believes in putting America first. This does not mean put America only, but if we do not take care of ourselves, we will not be able to help others. This includes taking care of ourselves by protecting our borders and the security of our own country.
I believes that there are four branches of government. The Executive branch, the Legislative branch, the Judicial branch, and the People. The fourth branch of government, the people need to take back our government, and this can only be done with a representative who will listen to your voice and empower you as the fourth branch of government to regain control of your government.
We will bring back common sense to our government and not allow our country to be destroyed by stupid government policies. We will not destroy ourselves and lose our freedoms. [2] |
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| —Don Hewett’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
2022
Don Hewett did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Don Hewett completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hewett's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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It is my passion is to help serve you by meeting with you often, and bringing your message to our federal government. It is time for us, (the 4th branch of government) to be heard. It is you that sent men to the moon and brought them back safely, not our politicians. We are capable and very smart, we just need to be heard. It is not my job to change our system with what I think should happen, but to change it to what you the people want our country to be like.
I want to focus on keeping and returning more freedoms and rights back to you. The side effect of writing laws is that our government creates more criminals. We need to focus on laws that are positive, not negative that threatens you with punishment. For example, suppose we wished to get more people to follow the speed limit on a road. Perhaps we should put up equipment to check car's speed as they travel down the road, record their speed and license number. For those who follow the speed limit they should be automatically entered into a lottery to win a $20 gift certificate. A positive law that we want to follow. I would like to see more rights and freedoms and less punishment.
- Integrity, common sense, and humanity are being lost in our government. This will not happen with our profession politicians that are striving to be powerful lifelong members of congress. I will not lie, cheat, or steal and will not tolerate anyone who does. When I have completed my work in congress, I am coming back home. Our congress members are out of touch with the real life that we live, and do not realize how hard we work. They have consequently lost touch with realizing that we are all brothers and sisters on this planet.
Humility is also very important. A representative needs to realize that their job is to represent their constituents, not to just push their own ideas. They need to have the humility to realize that they are not always right. For example, I do not believe that legalizing marijuana is a good idea. But, the people have voted to legalize it. I am wrong, because by definition the people are right. I will stand by legalizing it because the people have voted to legalize it. I will stand by your decisions and have the humility to realize when my opinions are wrong.
I feel that I am a very good active listener. I have learned from others everything that I know and have learned to appreciate others. In fact, I would rather have discussions with people I disagree with more than those who just agree. I learn more that way.
I have strong leadership skills. I have worked as a more senior engineer and performed many activities in which I had to take the lead on projects and organize others to complete tasks. I have learned how to utilize the skill of others to get jobs accomplished.
Immigration is a problem that we face. Immigration is a good thing, but we need to be able to control immigration into our country. The first priority of the U.S. government is to protect its citizens. When you get on an airplane, it says that you put your oxygen mask on first. You must do this so you will not become a casualty. If you do, you will not be able to help others. We need to put ourselves first, but not over do it, so that we will still be able to help others.
Wealth inequality is another of our great challenges. Although your productivity has pretty much tripled since 1972, you purchasing power has not increased since then. This is causing our society to stratify into the few wealthy and everyone else.
Increasing costs for health care is an issue that we have. The cost of health care is growing far faster than our income.
Education is a big issue. The rising costs for schooling, especially college. Fewer and fewer of our children to be able to get higher education. This is causing student loan debt to be rising at an alarming rate. It is also causing our employers to have difficulties finding qualified employees.
National debt is out of control. Every dollar that is borrowed has to be paid back with interest in future. We are about $67,000 in debt per person. It cost you almost $1200 just pay the interest each year.
We will probably be facing another housing crisis. Housing costs are rising far faster than our incomes. When this reaches a crisis, the bubble will burst.
I think I could add value to the United States Committee on Oversight and Reform. I believe some financial common sense needs to be brought back into our government. We need members that treat the public's money just as if it were coming out of their own pockets.
The United States House Committee on Small Business is a committee that I would like to work in. All big businesses were at one time small businesses. We need to promote our small businesses because they are the back bone of our country.
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ ’’Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 6, 2020’’
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Don Hewett for Congress, “Issues,” accessed July 17, 2024
