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Dylan Conley
Dylan Conley (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on September 8, 2020.
Conley completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Dylan Conley was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Boston College in 2009 and a J.D. from Florida State College of Law in 2012. Conley’s career experience includes working as an attorney. He served as a member of the policy board of the United Way of Rhode Island and was named teacher of the year of the Roger Williams University Paralegal Studies Program.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020
Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020 (September 8 Democratic primary)
Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020 (September 8 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2
Incumbent Jim Langevin defeated Robert Lancia in the general election for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jim Langevin (D) | 58.2 | 154,086 |
 | Robert Lancia (R)  | 41.5 | 109,894 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 577 | ||
| Total votes: 264,557 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2
Incumbent Jim Langevin defeated Dylan Conley in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2 on September 8, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jim Langevin | 70.1 | 31,607 |
 | Dylan Conley | 29.9 | 13,485 | |
| Total votes: 45,092 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2
Robert Lancia defeated Donald F. Robbio in the Republican primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2 on September 8, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Robert Lancia | 73.5 | 7,485 |
| Donald F. Robbio | 26.5 | 2,705 | ||
| Total votes: 10,190 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
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Ballotpedia survey responses
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Dylan Conley completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Conley's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- The status is quo is literally killing us, from lack of healthcare and financial or job security to deaths of despair and extrajudicial murder. We need systemic change.
- True freedom only comes from true equity. We need to bridge the gap between the highest aspirations of the American Dream and our shared American reality. So long as our zipcode, gender, race, or sexuality can predict our health and wealth without considering anything we have actually done ourselves, we are not truly free.
- We need human centered capitalism with national policy that reverses the trickle down flow of money to a gush-up economy supported by increases in the earned income tax credit, child tax credit, tax credits for housing and rent, tax cuts for the first $50,000 of income etc. Working class families need better margins and discretionary income because they will spend it in their neighborhood. When working class families have money, they support small business which creates a positive feedback loop of local economic support.
During the pandemic:
- Monthly stimulus payments for working class Americans.
A 1-time stimulus doesn't protect families, and the fact that it is unpredictable or unknown if any further stimulus is coming implies that people will save the money or use it sparsely thus undercutting its value as stimulus.
- Back to Workshare.
Creating an incentive for unemployment is damaging to the economy. Move the $600 bonus from unemployment to workshare and split the money between the employer and the employee. This re-engages the employment relationship, provides full compensation for less than a full week of work which allows for more total jobs, and subsidizes employer re-hiring costs.
- Cover 100% of all costs related to the fight against COVID-19.
- Medicare Option
Expand medicare to cover children and create an option for everyone to enroll in medicare if they so choose.
Plan for after the pandemic:
- Increase minimum wage to $15/hour
- Increase the Earned Income Tax Credit
- Reduce income taxes on our first $50,000 of income, especially income below the poverty line
- Shift payroll taxes to corporations
- American Family Act boost to the Child Tax Credit
- Mandatory Paid Family Leave, and support programs such as universal pre-k and universal childcare to help mitigate the gender pay gap
- Prepare the healthcare system for Medicare for All
My image of Bobby Kennedy is a simple one. To me, he seemed like a person who found injustice to be absolutely intolerable and worked as hard as he possibly could to root it out anywhere and anyway he could. I hope to follow that example.
RFK took a hard look at America, and saw our greatest injustices: poverty and racism. He fought them. I hope to follow in his footsteps.
I had the great privilege of knowing Steven McDonald, a NYC Police Officer who was shot and paralyzed by a 15 year old boy, but instead of anger or vengeance, he turned to forgiveness and hoped for redemption. On a car ride back from going out to eat with Mr. McDonald and his family, he spoke about how much he loved Robert Kennedy's "Cleveland Speech" about the "Mindless Menace of Violence" and asked me to read it aloud to everyone in the car. That moment really struck me. (here's the speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt7IuKoETEc)
Mr. McDonald went on to tell me how RFK helped prevent riots in Indianapolis Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered by giving a speech about how anger can lead to polarization and greater violence or we can give an effort to try to understand each other. (here's the speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoKzCff8Zbs)
That man, citing those speeches, was very powerful to me. It struck a deep chord that has made a silent demand of me. I must not be indifferent.
When rumors of riots in my neighborhood forced me to sleep in my front room because my 17-month old son's window is closer to the street than my bedroom, I was drawn back to that moment with Mr. McDonald discussing the genius of Robert Kennedy. That chord in me started to reverberate until it shook my soul. Indifference and inaction is not an option for me. That is why I am running for congress.
"For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter. This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt7IuKoETEc
- Once you have accepted that you do not know everything, you must find people that can help. Work with people that have experiences and perspectives that you don't. Rely on experts and scientists and people who study the areas of our society that you are governing. Listen more than speak.
I have been blessed with the ability to surround myself with excellent people and I have an awareness that no matter how much I know, none of us is as smart as all of us. This has allowed me to constantly develop myself by working with other people to learn more and understand more by relying on their experiences, knowledge, and expertise.
I want my legacy to be a wrapped up in the legacies of others. I want my legacy to be that I helped everyone else build their legacy. I want to become truly great at giving everyone else a chance at their own greatness.
The Republic recognizes that the state and the human soul can be understood by examining each other because the state is comprised of a myriad of human souls. This concept is then pushed into particulars on the development of knowledge and understanding and the obstacles inherent to human understanding. I talk about the divided line once a week haha
Honestly, I don't know that I want to "be Bender" as much as he's just my favorite character of all time.
I know I am supposed to write something like "Mr. Smith from Mr. Smith goes to Washington" but when I read or watch fiction I generally do it to relax.
In fact, thinking aloud as I type, I want to be Ford Prefect from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. My mother likes to tease me saying that I have a knack for getting myself into a mess and then somehow coming out the other side better for it. (The actual quote contains profanity, I don't know the ballotpedia policy on that... haha) But yeah, that is kind of Ford Prefect's MO, I think I could play that role.
Also, I have been listening to a lot of Jackson Brown lately
My battle everyday is seeking to understand, and the first step is acknowledging that I need look beyond myself and work with other people in order to have any hope of understanding anything.
The cause of our problems is the ever slimming margins working class families are forced to live on. That reality is the result of American systems of markets and institutions. Congress designs those systems.
At the core of racism, health, education and housing is the cancer of economic inequity. We need true freedom of opportunity where race, gender, sexuality or zipcode do not control our ability to pursue happiness.
I am far more interested in governing than politics. We need serious system changes which require identifying all of the myriad policy errors that have had unintended or untoward consequences. I look forward to playing a roll that meticulously hunts for failures in our system and roots them out one by one while serving as a driver for new, bold, and ambitious policy.
That family was subjected to that horrifying experience, and that chance of things going fatally wrong because his mother's cellphone company gave her a phone number that had been used in the past by some criminal.
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 8, 2020
