Evan Wecksell
Evan Wecksell (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the California State Senate to represent District 25. He lost as a write-in in the primary on March 3, 2020.
Wecksell completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Evan Wecksell was born in Manhasset, NY. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University in 2001. Wecksell’s career experience includes working as a private tutor, as a human resources consultant for New York Road Runners, as an executive assistant for Paralysis Project of America, and as a comedian, podcast host, and author.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: California State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for California State Senate District 25
Incumbent Anthony Portantino, Jr. defeated Kathleen Torres Hazelton in the general election for California State Senate District 25 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Anthony Portantino, Jr. (D) | 64.0 | 295,432 |
 | Kathleen Torres Hazelton (R)  | 36.0 | 166,529 | |
| Total votes: 461,961 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Senate District 25
Incumbent Anthony Portantino, Jr. and Kathleen Torres Hazelton defeated Evan Wecksell in the primary for California State Senate District 25 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Anthony Portantino, Jr. (D) | 99.1 | 185,405 |
| ✔ | | Kathleen Torres Hazelton (R) (Write-in) | 0.5 | 952 |
 | Evan Wecksell (L) (Write-in) | 0.4 | 811 | |
| Total votes: 187,168 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Following Tufts, Evan's first work experiences included stops at the Boomer Esiason Foundation, National Hockey League and New York Road Runners.
Concurrently, Evan's budding comedy career began to take off so he took an opportunity to follow his wife Kelly Meyersfield to Los Angeles where he pursued comedy and worked other side jobs, most notably private tutor.
Since moving to Los Angeles in 2005, Evan has performed in 48 states while also tutoring several hundred students across 50 subjects spanning over 6000 hours and 1000 five-star reviews. He is even in the top 1% of all tutors on the international online tutoring platform Wyzant.
A prolific self-starter, Evan continues to tour his comedy and educate students through his own tutoring company. He has also hosted almost 100 episodes of his podcast 'Socially Awkward with Evan Wecksell,' and released two books on Amazon.
Despite his numerous individual endeavors, Evan knows that this next undertaking will take maximum effort, incredible empathy and cogent viewpoints. California is under attack. And Evan can wear as many hats as are necessary to fight for you.- To guarantee an individual's right to work and pursue their dreams.
- To create fiscal transparency for California and audit its most crucial programs.
- To make a safer neighborhoods by creating workable solutions for homelessness.
A freelancer can no longer freelance due to government overreach. A parent and doctor can't make an informed decision about medical procedures due to government overreach. We live in a state that has the highest taxes yet also the highest rate of poverty. This would not be possible without a combination of poor fiscal acumen and downright chicanery. Why is California the only state not to open its books? Why is California the only state not to launch an anti-trust probe into Big Tech as they manipulate the information we can access?
I can give you my homeless solutions, speak on state pension, opine on Proposition 13 (NO), but these are umbrella policies that should be secondary to just finding out how you are doing. Is life in California harder than it was four years ago?
I have no agenda. As a third party candidate I don't have to cower to peer pressure and scurry to a party line when a crucial bill is taken up.
Your biggest core responsibility is making sure you are protecting the welfare of your constituents and making sure they can flourish in their region and achieve success personally and professionally.
Another big responsibility is keeping special interests at an arm's length. Little by little they have been dictating the direction of California for the worse to where we are now both the most taxed state and the state with the most poverty. That seems impossible, but mysteriously it's our specialty. Fiscal transparency is urgently needed and we need to open the books.
You also have to be responsible to your fellow legislators and be able to help them when the cause is worthwhile and the state will benefit. Be willing to support a good idea whether or not they are in the same party as you.
Mike Francesa's Greatest Hits: A Collection of Timeless Conversations
Mike Francesa is a sports talk radio host at WFAN in NYC. He is someone I look up to and enjoy listening to, maybe because he reminds me of my dad.
While comedy was helpful when school was in session, I had begun a family, bought a house and needed to find other avenues of income. I was again up against how I would make it all work as someone who didn't work a traditional schedule. I had some private tutoring experience with several companies, but then I found some online platforms, local companies and private clients who needed my help. Fast forward several years I am now in the top 1% of over 30,000 tutors on a major tutoring site, I have logged over 6,000 hours helping children and received over 1,000 five-star reviews in the process, and all this while I am still an active touring comedian.
Health & Human Services
Well, it happened today.
My school terminated the brilliant pianist who has played for our choirs and musicals for the last six years. Let me be clear - she did not want to be forced to change to a W2, preferred her independent contractor status, and was happy with her pay. The cost to create a new employee position and transition her to a W2 employee was too high for our very small school's budget.
We may have to cancel all choir and musical theatre performances for the rest of the year, as we cannot legally hire any musicians to accompany these performances, even if they are one-time concerts. This affects about 200 performing arts students and a community that loves its very popular arts programs. Now I, as the director, have to design new curriculum for ensembles that have three months left of classes with no upcoming concerts to prepare for. Our big end-of-the-year showcase performance, usually accompanied by a live professional band, will not happen as planned. #repealab5
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 28, 2020
