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Lee Turner (South Carolina)
Lee Turner (independent) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent South Carolina's 4th Congressional District. She lost as a write-in in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Turner (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent South Carolina's 4th Congressional District. She lost in the Democratic primary runoff on June 26, 2018.
Elections
2022
See also: South Carolina's 4th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House South Carolina District 4
Incumbent William Timmons defeated Lee Turner in the general election for U.S. House South Carolina District 4 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | William Timmons (R) | 90.8 | 165,607 |
 | Lee Turner (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 9.2 | 16,758 | ||
| Total votes: 182,365 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ken Hill (D)
- Michael Chandler (Constitution Party)
Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Ken Hill advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 4.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Justin Bennett (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 4
Incumbent William Timmons defeated Mark Burns, Michael LaPierre, and George Abuzeid in the Republican primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 4 on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | William Timmons | 52.7 | 24,800 |
 | Mark Burns | 23.8 | 11,214 | |
 | Michael LaPierre | 17.1 | 8,029 | |
 | George Abuzeid | 6.4 | 3,024 | |
| Total votes: 47,067 | |||
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Constitution convention
Constitution convention for U.S. House South Carolina District 4
Michael Chandler advanced from the Constitution convention for U.S. House South Carolina District 4 on March 26, 2022.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | Michael Chandler (Constitution Party) | |
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2018
General election
General election for U.S. House South Carolina District 4
William Timmons defeated Brandon Brown and Guy Furay in the general election for U.S. House South Carolina District 4 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | William Timmons (R) | 59.6 | 145,321 |
 | Brandon Brown (D) | 36.6 | 89,182 | |
 | Guy Furay (American Party) | 3.8 | 9,203 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 244 | ||
| Total votes: 243,950 | |||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House South Carolina District 4
Brandon Brown defeated Lee Turner in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House South Carolina District 4 on June 26, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brandon Brown | 62.1 | 7,097 |
| Lee Turner | 37.9 | 4,340 | |
| Total votes: 11,437 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House South Carolina District 4
William Timmons defeated Lee Bright in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House South Carolina District 4 on June 26, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | William Timmons | 54.3 | 37,096 |
 | Lee Bright | 45.7 | 31,236 | |
| Total votes: 68,332 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 4
Lee Turner and Brandon Brown advanced to a runoff. They defeated Eric Graben, Will Morin III, and J.T. Davis in the Democratic primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 4 on June 12, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lee Turner | 29.5 | 7,070 |
| ✔ | | Brandon Brown | 28.5 | 6,833 |
| Eric Graben | 25.7 | 6,174 | ||
 | Will Morin III | 9.1 | 2,192 | |
 | J.T. Davis | 7.2 | 1,733 | |
| Total votes: 24,002 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Chris Chastain (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 4
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 4 on June 12, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lee Bright | 25.0 | 16,742 |
| ✔ | | William Timmons | 19.2 | 12,885 |
 | Dan Hamilton | 18.6 | 12,494 | |
 | Josh Kimbrell | 11.1 | 7,465 | |
| James Epley | 8.0 | 5,386 | ||
 | Stephen Brown | 7.6 | 5,078 | |
 | Shannon Pierce | 3.6 | 2,442 | |
| Mark Burns | 2.5 | 1,662 | |
| Claude Schmid | 2.1 | 1,415 | ||
| Dan Albert | 0.8 | 510 | ||
| John Marshall Mosser | 0.7 | 457 | ||
| Justin David Sanders | 0.5 | 354 | ||
 | Barry Bell | 0.3 | 200 | |
| Total votes: 67,090 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jordan Brown (R)
- J. Alan Ruff (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Lee Turner did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Turner's campaign website stated the following:
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Threat to DEMOCRACY Our current representative, William Timmons. voted against upholding the 2020 election. That act alone disqualifies him to serve the people of South Carolina.
No one likes abortion. No one wants more abortions. We reduce abortions by preventing unwanted pregnancies. We can make great strides towards that end by making long-term birth control readily available. We all want the same thing...fewer abortions...but we must not diminish one's individual rights to accomplish that goal. The government does NOT have the right to invade your privacy, forcing women to give birth. Decisions about giving birth are not merely a 9-month inconvenience. It's a decision with life-long consequences for women and their families. For 50 years, Roe v Wade laid out a workable balance between the needs of individuals and the interests of the state. Lee will work to codify our right to abortion once in Congress.
One of Lee's long-time sayings is "A livable wage cures many ills". She also refers to a livable wage as "the ultimate trickledown". Both sayings are packed with meaning. The trickledown of livable wages begins with additional funding of Social Security/Medicare, the very system the GOP strives to destroy. Federal, State and local Sales Tax coffers also benefit. These wages are spent in the local economy, NOT used for stock buybacks as was the 'trickledown' from Tax Reform. Livable wages make housing more affordable, whether for rent or qualifying for a mortgage. We cannot BUILD our way out of our affordable housing crisis in Greenville and Spartanburg, but we can WAGE our way out of this crisis. And the gift that keeps on giving? When parents can support their families working 40 hours/week, they have time to PARENT. When parents have time to parent, their children are more likely to show up to school rested, fed, stimulated and ready to learn. How to achieve a livable wage without causing inflation?? Get our employers out of the business of providing healthcare insurance!
While managing Healthcare from 1999-2012 as a CFO in the granite monument industry, Lee began to understand what impacted healthcare premiums. Later, after she saw premiums quadruple over the next decade, she pieced together what she had learned during those years. When the ACA was introduced, we insisted the for-profit insurance industry currently providing coverage, to provide all the things we needed...coverage of pre-existing conditions, no lifetime limits of our coverage, and our kids to remain on our policy until age 26. We wanted everyone to have coverage. Unfortunately for our pocketbooks, the ACA asked the for-profit marketplace to do ALL the things they did not want to do. As determined as the healthcare insurance industry was to maintain it's desired profit margin, well, you know the rest of the story. Until we get the PROFIT MOTIVE out of healthcare, we will NEVER have affordable healthcare insurance premiums.[1] |
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| —Lee Turner's campaign website (2022)[2] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Write In Lee Turner for Congress, “Issues,” accessed October 10, 2022
