Donna Imam

Donna Imam (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 37th Congressional District. She lost in the Democratic primary on March 1, 2022.

Biography

Donn Imam earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from Trine University and an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University. Imam's career experience includes founding Inteleaf and working as a computer engineer, a senior product manager with Dell, and a vice president of product marketing with Consert. She served as the president of ProductCamp Austin.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Elections

2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 37

Incumbent Lloyd Doggett defeated Jenny Garcia Sharon, Clark Patterson, and Sherri Taylor in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 37 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Lloyd Doggett (D)	76.8	219,358
		Jenny Garcia Sharon (R)	21.0	59,923
		Clark Patterson (L)	2.2	6,332
	Submit photo	Sherri Taylor (Independent) (Write-in)	0.1	176

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 285,789
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Benjamin Ovard (Independent)

Republican primary runoff election

Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 37

Jenny Garcia Sharon defeated Rod Lingsch in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 37 on May 24, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Jenny Garcia Sharon	59.1	6,923
	Rod Lingsch	40.9	4,791

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 11,714
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 37

Incumbent Lloyd Doggett defeated Donna Imam, Christopher Jones, and Quinton Beaubouef in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 37 on March 1, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Lloyd Doggett	79.3	60,007
		Donna Imam	17.7	13,385
		Christopher Jones	2.0	1,503
	Submit photo	Quinton Beaubouef	1.1	804

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 75,699
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Hasani Burton (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 37

Jenny Garcia Sharon and Rod Lingsch advanced to a runoff. They defeated Jeremiah Diacogiannis in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 37 on March 1, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Jenny Garcia Sharon	46.8	9,087
✔	Rod Lingsch	27.8	5,403
	Jeremiah Diacogiannis	25.4	4,938

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 19,428
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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 37

Clark Patterson defeated Nazirite Perez in the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 37 on March 19, 2022.

		Candidate
✔		Clark Patterson (L)
	Submit photo	Nazirite Perez (L)

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source
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2020

Texas' 31st Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Democratic primary)

Texas' 31st Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 31

Incumbent John Carter defeated Donna Imam, Clark Patterson, and Jonathan Scott in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 31 on November 3, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	John Carter (R)	53.4	212,695
	Donna Imam (D)	44.3	176,293
	Clark Patterson (L)	2.2	8,922
	Jonathan Scott (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	147

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 398,057
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Jeremy Bravo (Independent)
Moshe Schrauth (Independent)

Democratic primary runoff election

Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 31

Donna Imam defeated Christine Eady Mann in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 31 on July 14, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Donna Imam	56.6	21,026
	Christine Eady Mann	43.4	16,109

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 37,135 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 31

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 31 on March 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Christine Eady Mann	34.7	24,145
✔		Donna Imam	30.7	21,352
		Tammy Young	14.3	9,956
	Submit photo	Michael Grimes (Unofficially withdrew)	10.8	7,542
		Eric Hanke	5.9	4,117
		Dan Janjigian	3.6	2,471

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 69,583
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 31

Incumbent John Carter defeated Mike Williams, Christopher Wall, and Abhiram Garapati in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 31 on March 3, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	John Carter	82.3	53,070
	Mike Williams	8.6	5,560
	Christopher Wall	4.9	3,155
	Abhiram Garapati	4.2	2,717

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 64,502
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

John Bohlin (R)

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 31

Clark Patterson advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 31 on March 21, 2020.

		Candidate
✔		Clark Patterson (L)

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified.
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Campaign website

Imam's campaign website stated the following:

“

HOUSING

Over half a million Americans don't have a place to call home. More than 25,000 are here in Texas. Veterans stand outside HEB in Austin, while our tax dollars fund endless wars. Donna’s solution ensures that cities nationwide have the resources to address homelessness, without burdening residents of compassionate communities.

HEALTHCARE

Donna's signature Healthcare for All policy (HCA) is a single-payer plan that fortifies and accelerates Medicare for All (M4A), drastically lowering the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs. HCA scales healthcare infrastructure, delivers higher quality care, and is cheaper than what we pay today. With HCA, your deductible won't keep you from seeing a doctor.

EDUCATION

Higher education and high skilled training is the single most effective path to innovation and securing our nation's future. Donna's Education for All (EDA) policy proposal ensures everyone in the United States can go to college, trade schools, or certification programs without being in debt forever.

REAL PAY

Pay should reflect value created and where we live and work. Picking an arbitrary number for minimum wage and running our economy backs of Americans who can’t afford basic needs is not capitalism. Donna's Real Pay for All (RPA) policy proposal ensures that Americans thrive and not just survive.

EQUAL JUSTICE

Black Americans represent 13% of the United States population, yet since 2015 they account for 26% of fatal police shootings. The US military has stricter rules of engagement for troops deployed in war zones than our police officers do in our residential neighborhoods. That’s illogical and this must change.

VETERANS

There are more Veterans per square mile in the Central Texas area than anywhere else in the state. Many struggle to receive benefits that were promised to them. Donna’s solution addresses healthcare, homelessness, and suicide, all of which impact Veterans disproportionately.

IMMIGRATION

Asylum seeker detention camps and the child separation policy are inhumane and un-American. We need a swift path to citizenship for Dreamers and DACA recipients, and a legal way for the undocumented to come out of the shadows. We must protect workers by requiring employers to stop undercutting American wages by abusing immigrant pay.

CLIMATE

Climate change is impacting our health, water, and food supply. Corporations and commercial fishing are the largest source of pollutants and plastics in the ocean. We need to diversify our energy sources with renewables, incentivize carbon neutral solutions, invest in research to mitigate climate change, and institute sustainable farming and fishing practices.^[4]

”

—Donna Imam's campaign website (2022)^[5]

2020

Donna Imam did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Imam's campaign website stated the following:

“

Healthcare for All (HCA)

Problem:

The current cost of healthcare, health insurance and prescription drugs in the United States is simply unsustainable. In 2018 the United States spent $3.65 trillion dollars on healthcare while leaving almost 28 million Americans uninsured and 44 million underinsured. Underinsured Americans have health insurance but are unable to get care or forgo care because they can’t afford $10K deductibles and copays.

Solution:

Donna’s HealthCare for All (HCA):

Establishes a single-payer plan that fortifies and accelerates Medicare for All (M4A)
Scales healthcare infrastructure to cover everyone in the US
Drastically lowers the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs
Improves the quality of healthcare
Decouples health insurance from employers
Increases the number of healthcare professionals
Reduces health and maternal health disparities experienced by Black and Latino Americans

Benefit:

HCA provides better quality care, creates more choices and costs less than what taxpayers pay today, which makes HCA the fiscally responsible solution to the healthcare crisis that Americans face.

Education for All (EDA)

Problem:

Two-thirds of graduates carry over $30K in student loans, 1.5 times the total credit card debt. The federal government can garnish wages for defaulting on student loans without a court order. Filing bankruptcy is not an option, ever.

Falling behind in higher education is the single biggest threat to America’s national security. Economic powers like China are pouring capital into students making leaps in artificial intelligence, machine learning and the internet. They are gaining an insurmountable military and economic advantage over the United States.

Solution:

Donna’s Education for All (EDA):

Requires the immediate halt of the current federal loan program(s). Halts interest accrual on existing loans, provides a path to refinance into a new low-interest loan or an option to declare bankruptcy
Mandates public education institutions and trade schools to reduce the cost of higher education to half the current cost in four years
Establishes a bidding system by which federal funds are awarded to public educational institutions and trade schools that meet and excel in five measurable criteria

Benefit:

EDA offers every student the opportunity for higher education or trade school through a three tiered tuition-free, interest-free and low-interest loan program structured for repayment within a 10 year target. EDA guarantees access to higher education for every American protecting our national security.

Real Pay for All:

Problem:

The median wage for workers in the US in the first quarter of 2019 was $47,060 per year for a 40-hour workweek. That means half of all American workers make less than that.

40% of rural Americans have difficulty paying for basic needs such as housing, food and medical bills, and almost half said they could not handle an unplanned $1,000 bill. More than half of all Americans have no savings.

30% of all American workers make less than $15/hour. Setting a random number for minimum wage makes no sense! Pay must reflect where we work and live.

Running a so-called “profitable” business on the backs of people who can’t afford basic needs and can’t save for a down payment on a house or for retirement is NOT capitalism, it’s a failed business taking advantage of desperate people trying to stay alive.

A living wage is a temporary solution designed for survival. Americans don’t want to “just get by”, they want to thrive.

Solution:

Donna’s Real Pay for All (RPA):

Requires that all businesses pay what it takes for an individual to live within a reasonable commute, save for retirement, and get career advancement leading to higher pay.
Ensures that no American is forced to work more than 40 hours a week to earn “Real Pay”.
Requires that businesses accommodate employees pursuing professional job training and continuing education.
Creates a lower pay rate program for kids under the age of 18, who are enrolled full time in high-school, and live at home with parents, to gain valuable work experience limited to 15 hrs per week when school is in session.

Benefit:

RPA lifts Americans from being on welfare and ends the perpetual cycle of poverty. It rebuilds the middle class and safeguards the path to upward mobility when paired with EDA and HCA.

Equal Justice for All:

Problem:

Black Americans represent 13% of the United States population, yet since 2015 they account for 26% of fatal police shootings. Black Americans are being killed by police at double the rate of any other population.

Black men between 20 - 35 yrs. are at the greatest risk. Race must be included in the solution to the injustice of our justice system.

The US military has stricter rules of engagement for troops deployed in war zones than our police officers do in our residential neighborhoods. That’s illogical and this must change.

Solution:

Donna’s Equal Justice for All (EJA):

Federally decriminalize marijuana possession and expunge all nonviolent marijuana-related convictions
Require body cams, de-escalation training, and liability insurance for all law enforcement officers
Reform predatory cash bail charges, targeted at low-income individuals
End incarceration for all nonviolent drug convictions and reduce penalties to fines and community service
End taxpayer funding of for-profit private prisons and instead fund job training and counseling for ex-felons
Ban the Box: Remove questions regarding nonviolent offenses from job application forms

Benefit:

The focus of the justice system should be to rehabilitate people back into being productive citizens of the community. EJA erases drug convictions restoring the livelihoods of millions. It holds law enforcement responsible for their actions and limits police departments from hiring previously fired officers.

Veterans:

Problem:

Homelessness: Vets account for about 11% of US adult homeless population
Suicide: Vets account for 14% of all suicides
Health: 12% to 20% of non-injured veterans and 32% of combat casualty vets suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Harassment and Assault: 23% of women reported sexual assault, 55% of women and 38% of men have experienced sexual harassment in the military
Families of Vets: Military spouses experience high stress, anxiety, depression and higher rates of unemployment while military children average six to nine moves before the end of high school

Solution:

Stop denying Veterans and Disabled Veterans their earned benefits
Provide on-the-job traning programs to transition skills learned in the military to the public and private sector
Make Healthcare for All (HCA) available to all Veterans to address physical and mental post-deployment health, regardless of when and how they sustained their injuries
Expand support to parents, spouses and children of service members and gold-star families that have lost a service member

Benefit:

Providing our vets with guaranteed healthcare through HCA as they transition to industry will ensure that we can utilize valuable skills they gained while serving in the military. HCA ensures that vets don’t have to travel to a VA clinic or hospital to get the care, they can get care at the physician of their choice, near the neighborhood where they live. Taking care of vet’s families will give them the support required to be successful.

Farmers in Rural America:

Problem:

40% of rural Americans have difficulty paying for basic needs such as housing, food and medical bills, and almost half said they could not afford an unplanned $1,000 bill.

Food stamp participation is highest overall among households in rural areas (16%) and small towns (16%).

Approx 25% of rural Americans are unable to get health care and 45% cannot access or afford the healthcare they need. For 23% of rural residents the healthcare facility was too far away or had closed down, and 19% could not find a provider who accepted their health insurance.

Solution:

Donna’s Healthcare for All (HCA), Education for All (EDA) and Real Pay for All (RPA) policy proposals together ensure that rural Americans have equal access to medical professionals, social workers and teachers.

Benefit:

Taking care of our farmers and rural Americans, secures our food supply and solidifies the bedrock of our overall economy.

Immigration

Asylum seeker detention camps and the child separation policy are inhumane and un-American. We need a swift path to citizenship for Dreamers and DACA, and a legal way for the undocumented to come out of the shadows. We must protect workers by requiring employers to stop undercutting American wages by abusing immigrant pay.

Climate

Climate change is impacting our health, water, and food supply. Corporations and commercial fishing are the largest source of pollutants and plastics in the ocean. We need to diversify our energy sources with renewables, incentivize carbon neutral solutions, invest in research to mitigate climate change, and institute sustainable farming and fishing practices.

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”

—Donna Imam's campaign website (2020)^[6]

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Footnotes

↑ Information submitted on Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form on June 29, 2019
↑ Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Donna Imam," July 9, 2019
↑ LinkedIn, "Donna Imam," accessed January 29, 2022
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
↑ Donna Imam for Congress, “Home,” accessed January 17, 2021
↑ Imam's 2020 campaign website, “Solutions,” accessed March 16, 2020

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[bio-1] Information submitted on Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form on June 29, 2019

[bio2-2] Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Donna Imam," July 9, 2019

[bio3-3] LinkedIn, "Donna Imam," accessed January 29, 2022

[quotedisclaimer-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

[5] Donna Imam for Congress, “Home,” accessed January 17, 2021

[6] Imam's 2020 campaign website, “Solutions,” accessed March 16, 2020

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Donna Imam

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Elections

2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 37

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary runoff election

Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 37

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 37

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 37

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Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 37

2020

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 31

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary runoff election

Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 31

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 31

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 31

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 31

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2022

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2020

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