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Gary Koniz
Gary Koniz (No Party Affiliation) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Florida's 5th Congressional District. He lost as a write-in in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Gary Koniz was born in Fort Meade, Maryland.[1] Koniz served in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1967. He earned a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1974, and studied law and social contract political theory at the University of North Florida. Koniz's career experience includes working as a heavy equipment operator with the International Union of Operating Engineers and as a journalist correspondent. He is affiliated with the AFL-CIO.[2]
Elections
2024
See also: Florida's 5th Congressional District election, 2024
Florida's 5th Congressional District election, 2024 (August 20 Republican primary)
Florida's 5th Congressional District election, 2024 (August 20 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Florida District 5
Incumbent John Rutherford defeated Jay McGovern and Gary Koniz in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 5 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | John Rutherford (R) | 63.1 | 267,471 |
 | Jay McGovern (D)  | 36.9 | 156,570 | |
 | Gary Koniz (No Party Affiliation) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 23 | |
| Total votes: 424,064 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Jay McGovern advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 5.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 5
Incumbent John Rutherford defeated Mara Macie in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 5 on August 20, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | John Rutherford | 67.1 | 48,628 |
 | Mara Macie | 32.9 | 23,792 | |
| Total votes: 72,420 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jim May (R)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Koniz in this election.
Pledges
Koniz signed the following pledges.
2022
See also: Florida's 4th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Florida District 4
Aaron Bean defeated LaShonda Holloway and Gary Koniz in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 4 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Aaron Bean (R) | 60.5 | 165,696 |
 | LaShonda Holloway (D) | 39.5 | 108,402 | |
| Gary Koniz (No Party Affiliation) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 5 | |
| Total votes: 274,103 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 4
LaShonda Holloway defeated Anthony Hill in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 4 on August 23, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | LaShonda Holloway | 50.2 | 29,352 |
 | Anthony Hill | 49.8 | 29,145 | |
| Total votes: 58,497 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Al Robertson (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 4
Aaron Bean defeated Erick Aguilar and Jon Chuba in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 4 on August 23, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Aaron Bean | 68.1 | 49,060 |
 | Erick Aguilar | 25.8 | 18,605 | |
 | Jon Chuba | 6.1 | 4,388 | |
| Total votes: 72,053 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jason Fischer (R)
- Michael Alan Davis (R)
2020
See also: Florida's 4th Congressional District election, 2020
Florida's 4th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Republican primary)
Florida's 4th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Florida District 4
Incumbent John Rutherford defeated Donna Deegan and Gary Koniz in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 4 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | John Rutherford (R) | 61.1 | 308,497 |
 | Donna Deegan (D) | 38.9 | 196,423 | |
| Gary Koniz (R) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 20 | |
| Total votes: 504,940 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Christopher Eagle (Independent)
Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Donna Deegan advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 4.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Monica DePaul (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 4
Incumbent John Rutherford defeated Erick Aguilar in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 4 on August 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | John Rutherford | 80.2 | 80,101 |
| Erick Aguilar | 19.8 | 19,798 | |
| Total votes: 99,899 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John White (R)
- Robbi Gleichauf (R)
2016
Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Republican. Incumbent Ander Crenshaw (R) did not seek re-election in 2016. John Rutherford (R) defeated David Bruderly (D), Gary Koniz (I), and Daniel Murphy (Write-in) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Rutherford defeated Bill McClure, Lake Ray, Hans Tanzler III, Stephen Kaufman, Edward Malin, and Deborah Katz Pueschel in the Republican primary on August 30, 2016.[3][4]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican |  John Rutherford |
70.2% | 287,509 | |
| Democratic | David Bruderly | 27.6% | 113,088 | |
| Independent | Gary Koniz | 2.2% | 9,054 | |
| N/A | Write-in | 0% | 11 | |
| Total Votes | 409,662 | |||
| Source: Florida Division of Elections | ||||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
John Rutherford |
38.7% | 38,784 | ||
| Lake Ray | 20.1% | 20,164 | ||
| Hans Tanzler | 19% | 19,051 | ||
| Bill McClure | 9.8% | 9,867 | ||
| Edward Malin | 7.9% | 7,895 | ||
| Stephen Kaufman | 2.4% | 2,419 | ||
| Deborah Katz Pueschel | 2.1% | 2,145 | ||
| Total Votes | 100,325 | |||
| Source: Florida Division of Elections |
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2014
Koniz ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent Florida's 4th District.[5] Koniz ran as an independent candidate. He was defeated by incumbent Ander Crenshaw (R) in the general election on November 4, 2014.[6]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Ander Crenshaw Incumbent |
78.3% | 177,887 | |
| Independent | Paula Moser-Bartlett | 15.7% | 35,663 | |
| Independent | Gary Koniz | 6% | 13,690 | |
| Write-in | Deborah Katz Pueschel | 0% | 13 | |
| Total Votes | 227,253 | |||
| Source: Florida Division of Elections | ||||
2012
Koniz ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. House to represent Florida's 4th District. Koniz ran on the Independent ticket.[7] Candidates wishing to run were required to file by the signature filing deadline of June 8, 2012. The primary elections were held on August 14, 2012. He was defeated by Ander Crenshaw on November 6, 2012.[8]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Ander Crenshaw Incumbent |
76.1% | 239,988 | |
| Independent | Gary Koniz | 0.1% | 246 | |
| Independent | James Klauder | 23.8% | 75,236 | |
| Total Votes | 315,470 | |||
| Source: Florida Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election" | ||||
Campaign themes
2024
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2022
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2020
Gary Koniz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Koniz's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Preservation Of The White Race from Bi-Racial Mulatto Genocide
- Preservation Of Our European American Soverienty
- Cost Of Living Wage For Workers With Affordable IRS Payroll Deducted Health Care
Resolving Systemic Racism in Our Country, has more so to do with "Attitudes" than with anyone's particular Race, Creed, Color, or National Origin, to relate with. What WE need to be doing here in The American United States at the present time Is To Dismantle the Negro Peoples of Color Race Relations Melting Pot Ideology of rendering the White Race To Go Extinct that is leading us on into Riot Wars, (and if not eventually into a Real Race War outright.) The Negro Mulattoes are rejected to keep them from Corrupting the White Race, and the Mulattoes hate the White People because they are rejected. This White Race Assimilation Opium Heroin Related Genocide started 7000 years ago, in India, and has continued on in absorbing many Middle Eastern Nations, including Egypt; and with the 1000-year Moorish Occupation of Italy and the Iberian Peninsula ending 1492; to be reenacted in the New World America in their Moorish design to Annihilate the White Race through infiltration into White American lives of Good Faith here by the perpetration of their guise of Slavery upon us; to what WE of the American Colonies had no part in initiating; and who, of these poor Africans, that WE took in and befriended as a gesture of Human Kindness.
THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATS, THE WHEAT FROM THE TARES, THE GOOD FISH FROM THE BAD FISH.
Leviticus 19:19 New International Version (NIV)
19 "'Keep my decrees.
"'Do not mate different kinds of animals.
"'Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.
"'Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.
Matthew 25:31-46 KJV
Integrity, Vitality, Goodwill, Vulnerability, Empathy, Humor, Humility
I awoke one day to find that I had become an old man.
With Much Of God's Work Still Left Undone ...
"The Wheat from the Tares ... and the Sheep from the Goats".
If you close off all dialogue concerning Peaceful Co-Existence between the Races present here, then you have no recourse to fix what the problems are. It is certainly bigger than anyone to-carry-on alone without support. And it is not all one-sided in Adversarial Demands is it? Take Heart and Lend an Ear. We have nothing to say that would offend anyone. Our motives are to preserve The White Race from Being Annihilated by Inter-Racial Breeding and to protect our American Sovereignty from Over-Run. In example of huge numbers of Illegal Immigrants being allowed to cross over our Sovereign American Borders, gain their Amnesty Citizenship on the Take Over of our American Government by Outnumbering Us and using our Military against us.
Either Fix What the Problems Are Here, or It's Going To Blow. There are Real Forces in play.
Be Strong.
Stand Your Ground.
OUR objective here is to Run the Country together as a "Combined Collective Intelligence;" not just the Government, but formally as the stern Social Mores of our Society as well, concerning the Attitudes self-governing over the People themselves, of Right from Wrong; that are ultimately to shape OUR destiny as a Nation. Saying "Yes" when WE mean "Yes," and "No" when WE mean "No."
That I liken to in understanding to be similar in nature to the Rules Of The Road that everyone "must" adhere to, and that everyone understands to be necessary to voluntarily observe and comply with in order to survive; and imprinted in the minds of each individual as the dominating Super Ego; termed "Hegemony."
I am always amazed of the millions and millions of cars on the road, and the millions and millions of people driving them, that intelligent reasoning order is being reasonably being maintained here; and that otherwise to ensure that absolute chaos does not ensue. And so thus to speak for a clean well-ordered Society for us to live out our lives in, of OUR Faith In God And Country.
Proper Education and Upbringing coupled with the Discipline of Restraint and the Correct Motivation of Being Cared For, then being the Key To Everything.
And to the honoring of The Indigenous North American Indians, who are to be so accorded The Vested Primacy of The Indigenous Sovereign here to the Soil and Territory of The United States proper, as such Treaty Covenant is set down to be described as: The Great North American Indian Sovereignty Covenant Treaty Agreement; of Permanent Constitutional Amendment in Agreement of Mutual Compact, it is agreed that this Covenant is forever to exist between the two separate and lawfully abiding Peoples, of their Nations constituting of The People of The Native American Indian Federation and Their Tribal Nations, and of The People of The United States of America and their Government, inclusive and intertwined of one another as they both stand to be reckoned for, in Shared Territorial Arrangement and Influence Defined, as having Rights of Domesticity unto each other as to the stating of Dual Sovereignty Arrangement unto The Heartlands of The Native American Indians, and unto the established Territory of The American People and their Government, The United States, as they are mutually destined in permanently binding arrangement to co-exist intertwined extensively to and among
The only way to a lasting peace here in Our Modern America is through Proper Realization of What Must Occur Here of how that people are to relate to one another. That is to take place by opening lines of mature dialogue and programed communication in publicly confronting and reasoning forth of the many crucial issues of State, and not to be hiding from them. And with that stated: "Public Cultural and Moral Attitudes Are Everything," termed as; "The Mores" of our Society; as positions acknowledged beyond laws that are encouraged by public awareness; such as: Cleanliness, Consideration, Kindness, Honesty, and Being Polite; that people adhere to in Herd Instinct that shape the course of our heritage. WE are drops of water in the ocean, but the ocean itself is made-up of many drops, and together WE make up the whole of our ways.WE, Are Defined as The American People. And there is Dire Trouble to occur here should certain outspokenly White European American Hating People of Color Third-World Muslim Foreign Nationalist Forces present here among us be allowed to Take Control over our American Government Politically and Economically by sheer strength of their numbers to be Over-Powering our Democratic Political System of Governing Over Ourselves, As So Worded.
It appears that politics has played us foul here; with its Mafia Gerrymandering and Upper-Class domination of our innocent population, who are being relentlessly brainwashed and betrayed-taken-in on the mistaken belief in the Sacred Values and Principles of Our Country, "For Which It Stands;" that it can Do No Wrong, and to trust what WE are being told.
Donna was raised on the Southside of Jacksonville and graduated from Bishop Kenny High School in 1979. She holds a BS '84 in Communications from Florida State University. She is the cousin of former Jacksonville mayor Tommy Hazouri.
Donna started her career in 1984 as the morning anchor for WTXL in Tallahassee. In 1985, she became the West Palm Bureau Chief for WTVX in Fort Pierce. She then became the morning and noon anchor for WPEC in West Palm Beach where she remained until August 1988. She then took the opportunity to return to her native Jacksonville and became the anchor of the weekend broadcasts on WTLV. In 1993, she became anchor of the 5:30 and 11 p.m. newscasts on WTLV.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia staff, "Email communication with Gary Moniz," September 25, 2020
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 5, 2020
- ↑ Florida Department of State, "Candidate Listing for 2016 General Election," accessed June 25, 2016
- ↑ Politico, " Florida House Races Results," August 30, 2016
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedcand - ↑ The Huffington Post, "Election 2014," November 4, 2014
- ↑ Florida Secretary of State, "Candidate List," accessed March 22, 2012
- ↑ ABC News, "2012 General Election Results," accessed November 6, 2012
