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Elections and appointments
Last election

November 5, 2024

Education

Bachelor's

Fort Hays State University, 2009

Graduate

Fort Hays State University, 2013

Personal
Birthplace
Savannah, Ga.
Profession
Teacher
Contact

Gregg Marcel Dixon (United Citizens Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent South Carolina's 6th Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Gregg Marcel Dixon was born in Savannah, Georgia. Dixon's professional experience includes working as a teacher. He earned a bachelor's degree from Fort Hays State University in 2009 and a graduate degree from Fort Hays State University in 2013.[1]

Elections

2024

See also: South Carolina's 6th Congressional District election, 2024

South Carolina's 6th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 11 Republican primary)

South Carolina's 6th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 11 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House South Carolina District 6

Incumbent James Clyburn defeated Duke Buckner, Michael Simpson, Gregg Marcel Dixon, and Joseph Oddo in the general election for U.S. House South Carolina District 6 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of James Clyburn
James Clyburn (D)
 
59.5
 
182,056
Image of Duke Buckner
Duke Buckner (R)
 
36.7
 
112,360
Image of Michael Simpson
Michael Simpson (L) Candidate Connection
 
1.7
 
5,279
Image of Gregg Marcel Dixon
Gregg Marcel Dixon (United Citizens Party)
 
1.6
 
4,927
Image of Joseph Oddo
Joseph Oddo (Alliance Party) Candidate Connection
 
0.3
 
1,056
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
299

Total votes: 305,977
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent James Clyburn advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 6.

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 6

Duke Buckner defeated Justin Scott in the Republican primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 6 on June 11, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Duke Buckner
Duke Buckner
 
55.8
 
10,145
Image of Justin Scott
Justin Scott Candidate Connection
 
44.2
 
8,050

Total votes: 18,195
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Alliance Party convention

Alliance Party convention for U.S. House South Carolina District 6

Joseph Oddo advanced from the Alliance Party convention for U.S. House South Carolina District 6 on April 20, 2024.

Candidate
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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House South Carolina District 6

Michael Simpson advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House South Carolina District 6 on May 4, 2024.

Candidate
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United Citizens Party convention

United Citizens Party convention for U.S. House South Carolina District 6

Gregg Marcel Dixon advanced from the United Citizens Party convention for U.S. House South Carolina District 6 on March 9, 2024.

Candidate
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Gregg Marcel Dixon (United Citizens Party)

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Endorsements

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2022

See also: South Carolina's 6th Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House South Carolina District 6

Incumbent James Clyburn defeated Duke Buckner in the general election for U.S. House South Carolina District 6 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of James Clyburn
James Clyburn (D)
 
62.0
 
130,923
Image of Duke Buckner
Duke Buckner (R) Candidate Connection
 
37.9
 
79,879
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
226

Total votes: 211,028
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 6

Incumbent James Clyburn defeated Michael Addison and Gregg Marcel Dixon in the Democratic primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 6 on June 14, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of James Clyburn
James Clyburn
 
87.9
 
48,729
Image of Michael Addison
Michael Addison
 
7.6
 
4,203
Image of Gregg Marcel Dixon
Gregg Marcel Dixon Candidate Connection
 
4.5
 
2,503

Total votes: 55,435
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 6

Duke Buckner defeated A. Sonia Morris in the Republican primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 6 on June 14, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Duke Buckner
Duke Buckner Candidate Connection
 
74.4
 
15,638
Image of A. Sonia Morris
A. Sonia Morris Candidate Connection
 
25.6
 
5,374

Total votes: 21,012
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Campaign themes

2024

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Campaign website

Dixon’s campaign website stated the following:

A Better Deal for Black America

You can view my reparations plan in full detail here and its accompanying formula here.

America has paid and continues to pay reparations every single day. They paid to Japanese Americans forced into concentration camps, they just paid it to residents of Guam who were taken as prisoners of war during World War II, they paid it to the victims of the Iranian Hostage Raid, and they even paid it to American enslavers but not to the Black Americans they enslaved! They are paying it now to Native American tribes, to people exposed to radiation, and even mostly to Jews who survived the Holocaust. In many of these cases, the people who went through the actual wrong had already died, and in that case, the reparations went to their surviving spouse, or their direct descendants.

No group has been through more government sanctioned injustice than American Freedmen, Black Americans Who Are Descendants Of Americans Slaves, from nearly 250 years of brutal chattel slavery to over 100 years of government sanctioned discrimination, land theft, lynch mobs, exclusion from federal programs, destruction of Black Wall Streets, Jim Crow, and redlining that resulted in the loss of trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives!

We cannot say “justice for all” and yet somehow justify this nation doing reparations for other groups; spending trillions of dollars on unnecessary, stupid wars; caring for illegal immigrants; aid to foreign nations, many that actually hate America, bailing out big banks and corporations; and yet tell Black Americans we do not deserve reparation.

Not doing reparations hurts ALL Americans, according to one study, since the year 2000 alone, anti-black racism has caused the United States SIXTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS! It goes without saying then, just as US Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina stated, a thriving Black America is a thriving America, hence, the motto of my campaign, “Repair Black America To SAVE America”.

Black Americans vote nearly 90% for the Democrats and yet, in the past 60 years of doing so, we have seen our home ownership drop, our land ownership nearly disappear, our wealth is going backwards, and we have aborted nearly 20 million beautiful black babies. This must stop! We can make EXCUSES for these past leaders or we can make a CHANGE and choose BETTER LEADERS! My “Better Deal For Black America” will give us local control over our own resources as is done for many Native American tribes, protect us from big government which has historically hurt us more than it has helped us, pay us what we are owed, and see us get the generational wealth we have long been due. This country CAN afford it, it will not come from your tax dollars, it will help everyone, it is owed, and it is OVERDUE!

This package will include:

  • direct monetary payments, tax exemption status, debt cancelation, land grants, business grants, special class protected status; the investigation of cold cases of anti-black racial terrorism; the reform of heirs property
  • The reestablishment of the Freedmen Bureau, this time it will be managed by the American Freedmen, not the federal government, the federal government will just provide the agency with a budget as they do for Native American tribal governments, this will allow us to have an independent body, governed by us, and immediately responsive to our needs

Better Transportation

The 6th Congressional District of South Carolina is 97% rural, only 3% urban, and to that end, over 90% of individuals here, including myself, commute to work every day. For many people in SC District Six, myself included, public transportation is nowhere near where we live, completely inaccessible, and hence, our vehicles are an absolute necessity. Without them, we can quickly lose our jobs, lose our homes, everything, and yet many struggle to have and maintain adequate transportation. It is even worse for Black Americans, Black Americans are the most likely to not have a vehicle. From my own experience, I have seen how something as seemingly mundane as a flat tire can send someone into economic ruin. My plan will:

  • introduce a car buyer’s assistance program; partner with the many car mechanics in my area, especially in the small towns, to develop a car maintenance assistance program to help qualified car owners with repairs in order to keep their vehicles running adequately
  • Introduce tax write-offs for individuals in rural counties that have to commute to receive essential services such as access to nutritous food and medical attention since rural communities often lack even the most basic institutions such as hospitals and post offices and for those that have to commute 25 miles or more for employment to fight the abandonment of Rural America that is occurring throughout the nation.

Better Education

South Carolina is home to the “Corridor of Shame,” a disappointingly long list of schools along I-95, that are in deeply impoverished counties that have long experienced neglect and academic failure. I attended one of such schools from kindergarten to 12th grade and have taught at them for nearly two decades in my native Jasper County. I used to scoff at the label “Corridor of Shame” but now, I embrace it because the “shame” is not for the individuals that live in those counties, but for the politicians that have done absolutely nothing to lift them out of deep poverty. Schools cannot be “The Great Equalizer” if they are inherently unequal and financed in a way that perpetuates inequality, do not have a sufficient amount of quality teachers, if the teachers are unsupported and mistreated, if the citizens of the communities and in the schools that serve those communities are not having their needs met. My plan addresses all of this. It will:

  • Develop a median, state standard for each respective state and ensure that no school’s funding falls beneath this median amount; teacher starting salary of at least $60,000.00; restrict class sizes to no more than 22 students; free breakfast, lunch, and nutritious snacks;
  • Drastically increase the number of guidance counselors and social workers
  • Require and provide tax write-offs for all jobs that provide parents and guardians with time off to attend parent/teacher conferences;
  • mandate parental involvement of parents and guardians in their children’s education;
  • make vocational training, community college, and public universities tuition free for qualified for all recipients.

A Better Plan for Thriving Communities

Government programs have their place. I believe there is a need for government programs but a government program that is effective should LESSEN the need for government, not increase it. I want to build self-sustaining, safe, thriving communities. We do that by tackling the causes of crime and if you want to fight crime, you have to fight poverty. None of us are safe until we are all safe. That includes unborn children. They will be protected too. We can protect our 2nd Amendement rights and keep guns from going in the hands of dangerous individuals.

South Carolina District Six is THE SIXTH POOREST DISTRICT out of 435 Congressional total districts in the United States of America. James Clyburn has had 30 years to get it right and he has failed. Conditions like this lead to people living lives of extreme stress and uncertainty, and struggling to provide for themselves and their families. My plan will:

  • introduce a livable wage; conduct an inclusive study on poverty; have a public health option; conduct a comission on “Deaths Of Despair” of white American males; invest in preventitve health; support measures to fight obesity; invest in community infrastructure and development
  • Substitute abortion, outside of exceptional circumstances, with support to build thriving families and communities;
  • Shift to a community directed public safety approach ;
  • Change the language of the constitutional limitations of police force from “knowingly” to “recklessly”
  • Protect our 2nd Amendment rights while also keeping guns from going into the wrong hands
  • Eliminate all illegal immigration and deport anyone in our country illegally
  • Invest in environmentally friendly sources of energy and use of wasted energy to via innovative industries such as Bitcoin mining to greatly decrease energy costs;
  • Invest in research, technologies, and development of infrastructure to bring possibly promising industries and well paying jobs such as seaports, high speed rail, Bitcoin mining, and more[2]
—Gregg Marcel Dixon’s campaign website (2024)[3]

2022

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My name is Gregg "Marcel" Dixon, I grew up and still live in one of the poorest areas of the United States of America, the SIXTH POOREST out of the 435 districts of the United States of America and this is after having James Clyburn as its representative for nearly 30 years. My area has been neglected and now, I am running for Congress to represent my district and most of all, my people, Native Black Americans, Freedmen, those that are Descendants of The Black Americans That Were Enslaved By the American Government. I have no experience, I have no money, I have no machine but the people in Congress right now have all of that, and look at where it has gotten us, NOWHERE. People do not want "experience" they want RESULTS, they want answers to the problems that impact their lives, relief from the pain that has been inflicted on them, especially in the case of Black Americans. I know that pain, I have felt it my entire life, I have seen it inflicted on the people I love, and whether we realize it or not, all of us will continue to hurt even if just one of us hurts. As the great Fannie Lou Hamer said "nobody's free until everybody's free", now I say that America will never truly be great until America has truly been made whole and America will truly never be made whole until it makes amends and the needed repairs to fix the damage it has done to Black America.
  • The only way to truly fix America is to repair Black America which is something that is over 400 years overdue. America can never truly be great if America is not truly whole and America will not ever truly be whole until it has truly repaired all the damage it has inflicted upon Black America. My Better Deal For Black America Plan will address all these harms via direct monetary payments, land grants, business grants, a protected class designation, the return of the Freedmen's Bureau to address the needs of Black Americans, and more
  • If we want to fight crime then we must fight poverty and poverty is more than just a lack of money but it is a lack of access to resources, every American should have easy access to quality healthcare for their physical and mental needs, equitably funded schools, safe communities, a liveable wage, adequate food, decent housing, trustworthy childcare, and high levels of community investment. Citizens that have access to resources for their physical, mental, social, and emotional needs lead to happy families that lead to happier and SAFER communities, this is a right of every American citizen.
  • America is a large country with large counties, cities, and towns but many Americans are literally trapped in their small corners of the world, many struggle to commute a few miles from their home to get to work or school let alone a neighboring state. A car can no longer be considered a luxury, it is a need for many families, especially rural families, a necessity. Too often when the issue of transportation is discussed people think of public transportation modes such as subways and buses but cars are used by most Americans for transportation and many Americans struggle to buy and maintain one. I have a plan where qualified Americans will be able to receive immediate assistance for purchasing, maintaining, and paying for a car.
A leader does not do what is popular, a leader does what is right. That is my motto and in that spirit the area of public policy of which I am most passionate is the area of racial justice for Native Black Americans, meaning Black Americans That Are The Descendants Of Those Enslaved By The American Government, Freedmen.

Outside of that, I feel extremely passionate about the fact that it is morally wrong, evil, and near unforgivable for America to constantly declare that we are the richest, greatest, and most powerful country in the world while we have millions of people that live in poverty, suffer from a lack of food, die early due to preventable health challenges for which they lacked the means to obtain proper care, attend poorly funded and supported schools, live in areas plagued by extreme gun violence, and there is extreme inequality with the wealthiest neighborhoods being just minutes from the poorest. I am unapologetically an advocate for America to provide wider and stronger safety nets to take care of our citizens instead of spending billions of dollars on citizens in other countries and resources on people that are not citizens of the US.
Elected officials should always seek to do what is right even if it is not popular, even if it is not easy. What is right is always going to be that which works for the good of all citizens, that which is humane, that which is just. An elected official should serve with a strong sense of not just integrity but self accountability, meaning that if they see that in spite of their best efforts they have not been effective at providing for the needs of their constituents then they ought to have the decency, the courage, the humanity to say that this is not the job for them, and resign immediately. They should want to engage with their constituents, making themselves as accessible as possible, to seek to be held accountable. If any elected official cannot live up to these basic principles of serving others and serving them well then they need not be an elected official.
He did, not what was popular, not what was easy but what was right.
My first was job was cleaning vacation homes with my great-grandmother and her best friend, my honorable great-grandmother, "Mrs. Frances" on Hilton Head Island. They took my sister and me with them and sometimes other relatives such as my aunt would also accompany us. I did the job for 3 summers; 1999, 2000, and 2001.
Ideally, the US House of Representatives should give different sections of a state that will definitely have different cultural, religious, linguistic, social, economic, and political backgrounds all the opportunities to have their voices, views, desires, and needs addressed and represented. It is a chance for the heterogeneity of a state's citizenry to be presented which is unlike the Senate that is statewide, the US House of Representatives is more responsive to the immediate needs of a state's citizenry since it has a more personal connection and a smaller number of constituents.
It is not necessarily beneficial because just because someone has worked in the government or politics and might even know the processes and protocols does not automatically result in better outcomes in the lives of their citizens as clearly shown in the case of James Clyburn who has been in office for nearly three decades and all he has to show is a majority-black district that is the sixth poorest out of the 435 districts in the United States of America. What I believe is beneficial for a representative to have is effectiveness at improving the lives of their constituents.
The greatest singular challenge to the United States is its continuing failure to address the continuing legacy of anti-black racism. If not for this the US would have a long time ago implemented greater social programs to provide a far, far higher quality of life for its citizens; it would have long ago held traitors, insurrectionists, and domestic terrorists accountable to the greatest extent of the law; the US would be a far more equitable and educated country which would have to eliminate the high levels of poverty, violence, and inequality we see now. Until the US does right by its Black American citizens, the descendants of the people that built the nation, it will continue to be plagued with serious social issues.
I am flexible but as an educator for nearly twenty years, I have a particular interest in the labor and education committee. However, the transportation and infrastructure, ways and means, ethics, and judiciary committees all interest me as well.
Yes, the voters have the right to decide if they like what they have seen, if the representative has been responsive and truly representative of their needs.
Term limits should be decided by the voters of an official's district or state.
There are too many and as a teacher of nearly two decades, and now as a candidate, I am hearing even more. One, in particular, was how a family, a Black American family of five, were driving their children to school, and then the parents were planning to go to work. Unfortunately, their tire blew, and since they did not have the money to pay for a tire nor an available spare tire since the car was old, they and their three children had to walk home for miles in the rain. The children and the parents missed days of work and fell further into poverty when they were fined for leaving their vehicle on the side of the road. One parent lost their job, the family had to enroll their children in a school that provided transportation to and from school, and they were on the brink of homelessness since the one parent's check could not sustain the needs of the household. This story showed me how far too many families, especially black families, are living on the edge economically, socially, mentally, physically, and emotionally and all it takes is even the most mundane of life's inconveniences to hurl a family into a crisis.
No, flexibility is needed for policymaking but not compromise. "Compromise" in the sense of American politics usually means which group do we care about the least, if at all, and hence let us do policies to make the group of which we are most concerned, which usually means white people, happy, and let us do absolutely nothing or even pass policies that will hurt the group of which we care little for or not at all, and that has always meant Black Americans. Flexibility on the other hand refers to letting us pass policies that will make America a happy, stable, prosperous, and EQUITABLE country for everyone even if it means we have to explore another avenue that I had previously not considered to get there.
This would not drastically impact my priorities but I do intend to make sure that all Americans are paying their fair share with a tax rate that can help supplement the budgetary responsibilities that the federal government has. This will primarily be in the role of taxing assets and raising the taxes on corporations to ensure they are giving back to the communities where they are located.

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Gregg Marcel Dixon campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* U.S. House South Carolina District 6Lost general$112,944 $129,089
2022U.S. House South Carolina District 6Lost primary$253,740 $235,701
Grand total$366,683 $364,790
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

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on November 6, 2021
  2. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  3. Gregg Marcel Dixon’s campaign website, “Marcel's Vision For A Better America,” accessed October 15, 2024


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