Frankie Hyers

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Frankie Hyers
Image of Frankie Hyers

Unaffiliated

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 5, 2024

Education

High school

Reseda High School

Personal
Birthplace
Los Angeles, Calif.
Religion
Christian
Profession
Self Employed
Contact

Frankie Hyers (unaffiliated) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Louisiana's 1st Congressional District. He lost in the primary on November 5, 2024.

Hyers completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Frankie Hyers was born in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Reseda High School. He attended Los Angeles Valley College and Pierce College. His career experience includes working as a manager for UPS, an HVAC commercial and residential installer and journeyman, electrician, piano mover and technician, poet, writer, and composer.[1]

Elections

2024

See also: Louisiana's 1st Congressional District election, 2024


Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Louisiana District 1

Incumbent Steve Scalise won election outright against Mel Manuel, Randall Arrington, Ross Shales, and Frankie Hyers in the primary for U.S. House Louisiana District 1 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Steve Scalise
Steve Scalise (R)
 
66.8
 
238,842
Image of Mel Manuel
Mel Manuel (D) Candidate Connection
 
24.0
 
85,911
Image of Randall Arrington
Randall Arrington (R) Candidate Connection
 
5.0
 
17,856
Image of Ross Shales
Ross Shales (R) Candidate Connection
 
2.3
 
8,330
Image of Frankie Hyers
Frankie Hyers (Unaffiliated) Candidate Connection
 
1.9
 
6,781

Total votes: 357,720
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Endorsements

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2019

See also: Louisiana State Senate elections, 2019


Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Louisiana State Senate District 9

Cameron Henry won election outright against Frankie Hyers in the primary for Louisiana State Senate District 9 on October 12, 2019.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Cameron Henry
Cameron Henry (R)
 
78.4
 
23,647
Image of Frankie Hyers
Frankie Hyers (R) Candidate Connection
 
21.6
 
6,524

Total votes: 30,171
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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Frankie Hyers completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hyers' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I'm just a flawed citizen, that's seen and had enough! Enough of watching the most zealous of partisans, wielding power, the Constitution, and principles prescribed, would spare the 'Good Sense' of people, from suffering to. I mean to redress the causality, for our nation's, political strife. I'm committed to re-acquainting, 'Ourselves', with the fundamental principles that united the several states, to begin with.
  • The time for complaining about our gov't., has passed, while, the moment to correct for Ourselves, and for We the People, to become Our Government again, is Now!
  • We can send a clear message to Washington D.C. elites and their monied interests, this fall and put 'em on NOTICE: There will be; NO more PARTY for Congress!
  • It's time that we re-acquaint Ourselves with the fundamental principles that united us, to begin with, and reconsider how we empower the People's House, wherein any bill, to raise revenue, must originate. If "Power" to govern is distributed by means we don't understand, than we can not approve, and subsequently we are confined to acquiescence. We are obliged to; 'Secure the blessings of Liberty to Ourselves, and more importantly to Our Posterity, but what if we've lost what it means, to do so? Perhaps we'd settle for some sense of 'freedom', or 'equality'... Liberty, in the context of our preamble, would be something more tangible, and quantifiable, even!
Representation, and taxation. Insuring domestic tranquility, redressing the judicial branch, and the fundamental Guarantee of a Republican form of gov't.
Anyone over 6'1", George Washington, Statesmanship, and the ability to embrace, and discern between, differing opinions, respectfully.
The Federalist papers, Agrarians and Aristocrats, by John Ashworth, the official opinions of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and First Veto of the first President, all relating to the first enumeration, and apportioning of representatives to the several states, circa 1792
To be a public servant, and an understanding that, Politics is a Civic Duty.
Appreciation for my fellow citizens, and their concerns, related to taxation, appropriations, criminality, and punishment. Straight-forwardness, Accountability, transparency, and accessibility.
For a U.S. Representative, to understand the concerns of Citizens they serve, where taxation, spending, criminality, and punishment are paramount, to serving the office of trust.
The application of one ratio, or a basic divisor to determine the representative delegations allotted to the several states, re-established.
Electrician, 1 year. Then went to work for U.P.S., as a part-time supervisor for 4 yrs.
Agrarians & Aristocrats, by John Ashworth. Insight to the period, wherein our founding principles were forsaken.
IT is the People's House, and if Apportioned as prescribed, insures domestic tranquility by making those States afforded the power to impose direct taxes, pay an apportioned rate for the privilege to do so, and thus, "Pay the costs to be boss". With the fundamental principle forsaken, each generation continues upon the theft of revenue from our posterity, by making worse our condition of, UN-sustainable, and 'perpetual debt'.
Redressing the Apportionment of Our Representative Chamber, the People's House. Until we face the neglect, where the 'Power of self-determination' is concerned, the disparities grow worse, every Decade. Each state made the enemy of another, while the strength of power, afforded to citizens within ALL, is diminished, and they're more subjugated, with each enumeration. The 'quota' assigned to any given representative, continues to grow, exponentially at Our Republic's, and at Our Posterity's expense. "Persons" are not 'Quotas' to be assigned, Representatives are elected, of the people, by the people, and for the people, but the People, can not approve, what they do not understand.
Every 10 yrs., as citizens, we're obliged to reflect upon our gov't, and determine, at the federal, state, and local levels; Have our legislative bodies become a Tyranny of Few (too much power & $$s in too few hands), or a Confusion of Multitudes (Too many cooks in the kitchen), and then direct Our Rep's to adjust the 'Ratio' or the 'Basic Divisor', applied, accordingly. We the People, haven't had the chance to fulfill this obligation or Civic Duty in over 100yrs. due to a rule that Congress made for themselves, excluding the people from this responsibility, to serve the interests and combinations of the day, in 1910-1929. We must correct for ourselves, as those empowered have no motive to do so, until, WE the People insist.
NO WAY! An absolute affront to our constitution! '

Term Limits' are established by the specific length, of the term.
TL's: Insure the Incumbents of any office, so 'limited' will face NO challenges before being 'termed out', simply because the citizens, benefit, or suffer, directly, where "Seniority" is of consequence, within a legislative body.
TL's: Reward and/or benefit nepotism, rural (families empowered), and the monied interests, over common citizens, especially in densely populated states, or regions within a state. The 'Mayberry Effect'; Andy Taylor, picks his replacement! Term limits have NO beneficial effect on areas more rural.
TL's: Are merely a way to relieve an overwhelmed electorate from conducting the civic duty to which we're all obliged. A concession, that the electorate is incapable of removing their representative on their own accord, or by their own decision.
Taking power from Them, is NO solution, if we find Them lacking for the enlightenment required to exercise their control, with a wholesome discretion, better to Inform their discretion, as this will be the true corrective, for constitutional abuses of Power!

Lasty, TL's make anyone subject to them, more likely to abuse an 'office of trust' in their final 'Term', as they will not face the scrutiny of an electorate, and rarely subjected to political prosecutions.
Has to do with a doomed air-flight, with a 3 dignitaries (including one, whom believes himself to be the "smartest man in the world"), the pilot, and a common citizen. With only enough parachutes available for 4 individuals, and as it would happen... Each dignitary, explains how important their survival is, then clutching a parachute, exits the plane.. with just the pilot and the 'common' left aboard, the pilot informs the last passenger, not to worry.. "The smartest man in the world, just grabbed my backpack"
Sure. Once we re-establish apportioned representation, when the power to govern has been distributed by an arithmetical operation, upon which NO two persons, can differ, it's a lot easier to do so.
As long as there's a chance for one Representative, to believe that they've had their power diminished, by way of an arbitrary "Rule", then domestic tranquility, and the ability to negotiate or compromise, in good faith, is lost.
With restraint, and deliberate consideration
Gov't affairs, Taxation, Apportionment, Enumeration, Commerce, Environmental, Agriculture
Mandatory for a representative Republic. Lacking for an apportioned legislative House, sadly, the people's expectations in this regard have been poorly served, and lowered. Arbitrary taxation, reduces any financial transparency or gov't., accountability, to a token gesture, at best. 'Paying the costs, to be the boss', is the principle established in the 1st Article of Our Constitution, we would be well served to revisit this, fundamentally.

When upwards of 30 States are 'giving up', 3 Representatives, to 12 of the 14, least populated States, for EVERY 2 Rep's., they'd be allotted? 3 rep's, for 2?

We Are NOT Constitutionally Represented, in OUR HOUSE, as a Nation.

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2019

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Frankie Hyers completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hyers' responses.

What would be your top three priorities, if elected?

Firstly, Re-writing the state constitution! Secondly, Restore the principles of Republican form, first and foremost, where they apply to Apportionment, and state redistricting. Lastly, see "Secondly"!

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Apportionment! In the preamble to the Constitution, We are charged with an obligation: "Secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our Posterity". Without the application of a Basic Divisor, or common ratio to a population, and it's related governing districts, for constituting the number of Representatives to the populations largest legislative body? Republican form is lost! Can't "cap" without shifting power to smallest states or districts making up said, population. Jeffersonian Republican form, if you please!

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Mom, daughter, sister, Thomas Jefferson

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

Agrarians and aristocrats, by John Ashworth

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Accountability, Accessibility, Transparency, integrity, humility, grace, tolerance, forgiveness

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

First four from above and making a determined effort toward improvement on the latter. An adept sense of humor!

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

To make decisions on the behalf of constituents, and make themselves accountable to the same. Secure Liberty

What legacy would you like to leave?

Encourage my neighbors to become, OUR Government! If it's to be: "Of, By, and For" that will require me, and most importantly a whole lot of YOU!!

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

Presidential campaign of 1976, I was 8 yrs old

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

UPS part-time supervisor

What happened on your most awkward date?

Been too long since

What is your favorite holiday? Why?

Halloween, the costumes in Nola!

What is your favorite book? Why?

Federalist papers

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Loki, I was born on April fool's day!

What is your favorite thing in your home or apartment? Why?

My guitar..it plays

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Grace, and humility.

Do you believe that it’s beneficial for state legislators to have previous experience in government or politics?

Possible, but certainly not necessary, and under present lacking for Republican form, or principles, it's unlikely to be of benefit at all

What do you perceive to be your state’s greatest challenges over the next decade?

It's bloated constitution

What do you believe is the ideal relationship between the governor and the state legislature?

Same as the federal executive

Do you believe it’s beneficial to build relationships with other legislators? Please explain your answer.

Imperative!

What process do you favor for redistricting?

Jeffersonian principles, and the Republican form established in 1792, as promised!

If you are not a current legislator, are there certain committees that you would want to be a part of?

Govt administration

Is there a particular legislator, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?

TJ

Are you interested in running for a different political office (for example, the U.S. Congress or governor) in the future?

No

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Frankie Hyers campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* U.S. House Louisiana District 1Lost primary$0 N/A**
2019Louisiana State Senate District 9Lost primary$2,979 N/A**
Grand total$2,979 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 14, 2024


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