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Frederic Schultz
Frederic Schultz (unaffiliated) ran for election for President of the United States. He lost as a write-in in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Frederic Schultz was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia in 1990 and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1994. His career experience includes working as a human rights attorney, voting rights attorney, and stock trading. Schultz helped found the Academy for Jewish Religion and has served on the board of directors and the founding academy council.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: California gubernatorial election, 2022
General election
General election for Governor of California
Incumbent Gavin Newsom defeated Brian Dahle in the general election for Governor of California on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Gavin Newsom (D) | 59.2 | 6,470,104 |
 | Brian Dahle (R) | 40.8 | 4,462,914 | |
| Total votes: 10,933,018 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Governor of California
The following candidates ran in the primary for Governor of California on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Gavin Newsom (D) | 55.9 | 3,945,748 |
| ✔ | | Brian Dahle (R) | 17.7 | 1,252,800 |
 | Michael Shellenberger (Independent) | 4.1 | 290,286 | |
 | Jenny Rae Le Roux (R) | 3.5 | 246,665 | |
 | Anthony Trimino (R) | 3.5 | 246,322 | |
 | Shawn Collins (R) | 2.5 | 173,083 | |
 | Luis Rodriguez (G) | 1.8 | 124,672 | |
 | Leo Zacky (R) | 1.3 | 94,521 | |
 | Major Williams (R) | 1.3 | 92,580 | |
 | Robert Newman (R) | 1.2 | 82,849 | |
 | Joel Ventresca (D) | 0.9 | 66,885 | |
 | David Lozano (R) | 0.9 | 66,542 | |
| Ronald Anderson (R) | 0.8 | 53,554 | ||
 | Reinette Senum (Independent) | 0.8 | 53,015 | |
 | Armando Perez-Serrato (D) | 0.6 | 45,474 | |
 | Ron Jones (R) | 0.5 | 38,337 | |
 | Daniel Mercuri (R) | 0.5 | 36,396 | |
 | Heather Collins (G) | 0.4 | 29,690 | |
 | Anthony Fanara (D) | 0.4 | 25,086 | |
 | Cristian Morales (R) | 0.3 | 22,304 | |
 | Lonnie Sortor (R) | 0.3 | 21,044 | |
 | Frederic Schultz (Independent) | 0.2 | 17,502 | |
 | Woodrow Sanders III (Independent) | 0.2 | 16,204 | |
 | James Hanink (Independent) | 0.1 | 10,110 | |
 | Serge Fiankan (Independent) | 0.1 | 6,201 | |
 | Bradley Zink (Independent) | 0.1 | 5,997 | |
| Jeff Scott (American Independent Party of California) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 13 | ||
| Gurinder Bhangoo (R) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 8 | ||
| Total votes: 7,063,888 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Errol Webber (R)
- Laura Smith (R)
- Chaz Flemmings (Independent)
- John Drake (D)
- Mohammad Arif (D)
- Hilaire Shioura (Independent)
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
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Frederic Schultz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Schultz's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- As Jefferson said, "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others." USA arrests over 10m people/yr, most for victimless/consensual activity that our hurts no one, thus illegal arrests. 2.2m are in our jails, most in state jails. I'll free all the slaves convicted of victimless/consensual "crimes" and reopen every case, b/c no judge ever tells the jury of their rights to "jury nullification", to vote not guilty for any reason. Many are guilty but jailed far too long. I'll free most of the slaves in our jails. Drug prohibition is main cause of crime in our nation and world, thus we must re-legalize drugs and all victimless "crimes" to stop most real crime. Safe abortions till birth f/ all USA!
- If Covid gets bad again, or if we have more and more frequent pandemics as scientists expect due to global warming (which we must reverse) I'll never lockdown or have mask or vaccine mandates, but will provide free N95 masks and safe real food, especially organic produce and oily fish, to all Californians and all Americans and people of world if possible, to protect us from severe illness or death by Covid. I'll ban sugar and processed food in school lunches and food stamps, to stop poisoning our citizens. Consuming processed "food" and over 5 tsp added sugar or 1 drink alcohol/day is main cause of inflammation, which not only is main cause of death by Covid, but also by most other diseases, causes 2.m / 3.5m deahts/yr in USA after Covid.
- We must have a wealth tax on our state's wealthiest 1% which starts at $10m, on all assets above that amount, so our state will honor our human rights to safe real food for all, clean air and water, housing (starting w/ $4k tiny trailers f/ all f/ far less than current $14B bill to treat us like prisoners in shelters or motels where not allowed a guest), to jobs and a basic income of $25k, making up the difference f/ those who earn less. If I win, I move into a tent and the homeless move into the mansion. Free college (public and private) and forgive all student loans. Fought f/ $20 living wage f/ 20 yrs, and f/ yrs f/ 4 day 24hr workweek. 1 armed guard/classroom! Human Rights now!
I will free all people wrongfully tortured and enslaved in our jails.
We must REPURPOSE THE POLICE to PROTECT US, not attack and murder us, disproportionately w/ darker skinned people, who have never hurt anyone. We need ARMED GUARDS IN EVERY CLASS to PROTECT OUR KIDS, slaughtered daily. Legalizing drugs will end most crime+accidental overdoses here +worldwide, as attempted prohibition and regulation raises prices, causing gangs and making drugs more concentrated or adulterated w/ fentanyl too. We must give all an equal chance in life, but no state discrimination.
Abortion rts till birth no matter what SCOTUS says!
- FreeShamu!
I've loved+emulated Mahatma Gandhi+Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. my whole life too! I love that they fought for our equal rights to democracy, to all live decent lives no matter our ethnicity (aka "race", which there is no such thing). I have always opposed grouping us by our ethnicity, "race" or religion since childhood when had to take my first standardized test+had to check off my "race" (which I didn't know!)+later RELIGION! Then they took my score+ lowered it based on what I checked! That is not fair! I've always believed what IS fair is to give all an equal chance at success by providing us all w/ equal education, free test prep, free college (pub+priv), income, housing, food, healthcare+childcare+ to FREEDOM if not hurting/robbing anyone, but not "affirmative action" discrimination!
The 9th Amendment says, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." This was added so that no one could ever say, "It doesn't say that in the Constitution, so you don't have that as a right!" Furthermore, it certainly should be interpreted to evolve over time: for instance, the slavery example I gave earlier!
As a Jew, I'm also acutely aware that my ancestors were slaves in Egypt, and I'm very focussed on ending all modern slavery in all its forms, starting with freeing most people in our jails and stopping most arrests, which are for victimless/consensual activity that our nation was founded to protect!
We are supposed to live in a Constitutional Democracy, but we live in neither. The USA is not and has never been a democracy, because democracy means "rule by the people" and we've been always ruled by a minority due to judges following the parts of the Constitution that enact the electoral college and senate, rather than those parts that ban them like the 9th and 14th Amendments.
I had the great joy, like being struck by lightning, of meeting him on a side street of Venice Beach, Los Angeles about 15 years ago! I remember it like yesterday! He was beaming with extraordinary love, warmth, caring, joy and interest! I was just blown away!
I've also read that he often fought off depression, and overcame many great hardships in his life, including late in life being robbed of all the money he'd earned by his "manager". When he sued and won, there was no money left to collect! This after having the royalties of the song "Suzanne" stolen by another "manager"!
His song everybody knows has the lyrics,
"Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long-stem rose
Everybody knows."
While campaigning, I've met hundreds of people who greatly support my campaign+want to help however they can, b/c they know that I am someone who cares about them, and is running not to oppress them, but to try to help!
I pray I can make the lyrics of that song a lie some day!
I consider my most important responsibility to be to free all jailed f/ victimless/consensual activity, which is supposed to be legal, pardon innocents, pardon M's! Why our founders fought f/USA, to protect those rights, as they say in the 9th Amendment!
Gavin Newsom DOES NOT believe we have human rights to do to our bodies as we wish, or he would have pardoned millions! I WILL!
Newsom DOES NOT believe we have rights to an equal vote in CA, or he would have appointed an AG who would sue less populous states for stealing our rights using the electoral college and US Senate! I beg you to also vote f/ DAN KAPELOVITZ f/ AG, b/c he promised me HE WILL sue f/ our rts to democracy, as I did f/ 3 YEARS to throw evil trump out b/c he LOST to Clinton by over 3m votes!
NEWSOM HAD a responsibility to protect us from disease w/o making us all poor, and he blew it! He could+should have known an air-transmitted pandemic was coming as scientists have predicted f/ decades+stockpiled N95 masks, which he only started doing months ago!
To end global warming: IF US congress won't, CA must produce enough FREE renewable energy converters for whole world! 1B ppl burn dried cow dung f/ fuel, killing planet, which is free, so we must have free clean alternative!
All he had to do was quickly grow enough safe real food f/ all, especially organic produce, fish+vitamins! For whole world, if no one else would!
If elected I will use emergency powers to get ppl off streets and into safe trailers! Will use to get ppl to quit sugar, processed food+alcohol, by banning added sugars, processed foods, chemicals+even as much as possible plastic packaging, which poisons foods, but also the planet, which we then consume!
We must use our emergency powers to reverse CA pollution, by banning most plastics, which the fish etc eat, then we eat!
Then use emergency powers, if legislature won't go along, to create waste to fuel plants, b/c we are all dying every second from plastic which w/in years will be larger content of plastic in ocean than fish! We can and must burn that plastic and all our waste in waste to fuel plants!
We should use our emergency powers to STOP ALL SCHOOL SHOOTINGS and declare public shootings a public health emergency, then use that power to have one armed guard/class, as I've said, as all experts believe police response will never be fast enough to prevent a few murders at least! My solution would prevent even one more murder, w/ perfect aim, of course.
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See also
2022 Elections
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- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 1, 2022
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