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Gene Davis (New Jersey)

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Gene Davis
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Education

Bachelor's

Kean University

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United States Navy
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Gene Davis was a 2017 Democratic candidate for District 12 of the New Jersey General Assembly.

Biography

Davis earned his B.S. in public administration from Kean University. His professional experience includes being the owner and operator of a diner for over 20 years. He served on the Linden Board of Education and as a councilman in Linden. He served in the United States Navy.[1]

Campaign themes

2017

Davis' campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Healthcare: My plan to address the epidemic is threefold:

  • We will work with local law enforcement and healthcare providers to create a system that treats addicts for their heath issues, rather than just incarceration.
  • We will create a system that allows athletic trainers, school nurses, families, and doctors to work together to ensure the usage of medication in schools is regulated to prevent addiction from occurring.
  • We will work with EMTs to ensure a sufficient supply of Narcan, a drug used to treat overdoses, to bring down the high death toll attached to opiod addiction.

Rebuild Our Infrastructure

  • New Jersey is a critical shipping hub on the East Coast, yet we have a crumbling infrastructure.
  • Under the failed Christie administration, NJ Transit saw a 90% reduction in funding, and the Governor constantly stripped money from our transportation budget in order to fund tax cuts for his wealthy donors. It’s been nearly a decade of cuts and now our infrastructure is crumbling.
  • As a Northeastern state next to the ocean, we face challenges in both winter weather and salt in the air degrading and destroying our infrastructure. We must double down on our commitment to roads, bridges, and tunnels in order to ensure we build infrastructure that can stand up to the tests of nature.

Fiscal Responsibility

  • We must address our opponents’ out of control spending habits to lower our tax bills.
  • New Jersey has one of the highest property tax rates in the nation. This is unsustainable, and our taxes only go up year after year. The state government needs to sit down with the municipalities and the counties to ensure a more equitable distribution of funds. Some towns may not need as much funding as others for schools and infrastructure, and we need to ensure the municipalities that need funding receive it.
  • As your state Assemblyman, I will also fight to ensure New Jersey applies for more grants and lobbies for more federal funding than we currently receive. We are currently ranked #50 out of 50 in terms of how much federal funding we receive for what we pay in federal taxes, and I will do my best to get us the funding we so desperately need.[2]
 ”
—Gene Davis[3]

Elections

2017

See also: New Jersey General Assembly elections, 2017

General election

Elections for the New Jersey General Assembly took place in 2017. All 80 seats were up for election. State assembly members are elected to two-year terms. The general election took place on November 7, 2017. A primary election took place on June 6, 2017. The filing deadline for the primary election was April 3, 2017.[4] Legislative districts in the New Jersey General Assembly are multi-member districts, with two representatives in each district. In Democratic and Republican primary elections, the top two candidates move forward to the general election, and the top two candidates in the general election are declared the winners.[5] The following candidates ran in the New Jersey General Assembly District 12 general election.[6][7]

New Jersey General Assembly, District 12 General Election, 2017
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Ronald Dancer Incumbent 29.25% 30,348
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Robert Clifton Incumbent 28.54% 29,610
     Democratic Gene Davis 20.67% 21,441
     Democratic Nirav Patel 19.66% 20,397
     Libertarian Anthony J. Storrow 0.98% 1,016
     Libertarian Daniel A. Krause 0.90% 938
Total Votes 103,750
Source: New Jersey Department of State

Democratic primary election

Gene Davis and Nirav Patel were unopposed in the New Jersey General Assembly District 12 Democratic primary election.[8][9]

New Jersey General Assembly, District 12 Democratic Primary, 2017
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Gene Davis 51.59% 5,928
Green check mark transparent.png Nirav Patel 48.41% 5,563
Total Votes 11,491
Source: New Jersey Department of State

Republican primary election

Incumbent Ronald Dancer and incumbent Robert Clifton defeated Eleanor Walker, Alex Robotin, and John Sheard in the New Jersey General Assembly District 12 Republican primary election.[10][9]

New Jersey General Assembly, District 12 Republican Primary, 2017
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Ronald Dancer Incumbent 31.34% 4,425
Green check mark transparent.png Robert Clifton Incumbent 29.77% 4,203
Eleanor Walker 19.22% 2,713
Alex Robotin 16.51% 2,331
John Sheard 3.16% 446
Total Votes 14,118
Source: New Jersey Department of State

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Gene Davis 2017 campaign website, "About Gene," accessed August 21, 2017
  2. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  3. ↑ Gene Davis 2017 campaign website, "Issues," accessed August 21, 2017
  4. ↑ New Jersey Secretary of State, "2017 Primary Election Timeline," accessed March 21, 2017
  5. ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Official List, Candidates for General Assembly for Primary Election, June 6, 2017," accessed April 13, 2017
  6. ↑ New Jersey Department of State, "Candidates for General Assembly for General Election 11/07/2017 Election," accessed September 14, 2017
  7. ↑ New Jersey Department of State, "2017 official general election results," accessed November 30, 2017
  8. ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Official Candidate List," April 6, 2017
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 New Jersey Division of Elections, “2017 official primary election results for general assembly,” accessed July 13, 2017
  10. ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Official Candidate List," April 6, 2017


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