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Jake Shaheen
Jake Shaheen (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District. He lost in the primary on November 8, 2022.
Shaheen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jacob Shaheen was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He received a bachelor's degree from McNeese State University in 2014 and a degree from iteach Louisiana in 2020. Shaheen's professional experience includes being a teacher and working for EMR metal recycling, the post office, and Popeyes.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District election, 2022
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 3
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House Louisiana District 3 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Clay Higgins (R) | 64.3 | 144,423 |
 | Holden Hoggatt (R)  | 10.9 | 24,474 | |
 | Lessie LeBlanc (D) | 10.5 | 23,641 | |
 | Tia LeBrun (D) | 9.4 | 21,172 | |
 | Thomas Payne Jr. (R) | 1.8 | 4,012 | |
| Gloria Wiggins (Independent) | 1.4 | 3,255 | ||
 | Jake Shaheen (R) | 0.9 | 1,955 | |
| Guy McLendon (L) | 0.7 | 1,620 | ||
| Total votes: 224,552 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dustin Granger (D)
2021
See also: Louisiana state legislative special elections, 2021
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
Special nonpartisan primary for Louisiana State Senate District 27
Jeremy Stine won election outright against Dustin Granger and Jake Shaheen in the special primary for Louisiana State Senate District 27 on November 13, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jeremy Stine (R) | 59.2 | 9,313 |
 | Dustin Granger (D) | 38.6 | 6,069 | |
| Jake Shaheen (R) | 2.3 | 357 | |
| Total votes: 15,739 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jake Shaheen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Shaheen's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Campaign Finance Reform
- Freedom
- You are beatiful.
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2021
Jake Shaheen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Shaheen's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I want to help shape an economy that works for all Americans. Not just the top 1%. I’m not naive enough to believe I can make the changes I seek come forth on my own. We need a movement, to replace corrupt politicians with working class citizens. I hope to a proof of concept, that working class voters can recognize their own and vote out the politicians who take large corporate donations. Once we have the people in place we can work to end corrupt campaign finance practices that keep the interest of working class Americans at arms reach.We now have the capacity to provide a basic standard of living for all people. Let’s do it.
- Money out of Politics
- Working Class Solidarity
- Election Reform / Ranked Choice Voting
A majority of Americans want Marijuana to be legalized. The reason it is not is because our representatives don’t represent us, they represent their donors.
Private Prison Industries, invested in keeping our citizens incarcerated to improve their bottom lines.
Pharmaceutical companies, which are invested in seeing our citizens addicted to their poison and are worried the free market would devalue their assets and improve our lives.
We don’t have free market capitalism in this country, we have Crony Capitalism. Corporations write laws in their favor, then bribe our politicians with giant campaign donations, independent expenditures, and lucrative jobs for politicians who prove loyal.
These corporations aren’t giving away money out of the goodness of their hearts. A corporation has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to maximize profits. These campaign donations are an investment. And time and time again these investments have proven very safe and profitable.
A donation of millions can mean billions in tax breaks and subsidies for a company. CEOs are rewarded for their hard work with huge bonuses, and the workers, the people who actually made them all that money, get replaced by robots as soon as it’s profitable.
I want to get an amendment to the constitution that would get big money corporate donors out of American politics.
Ask me tomorrow though.
A good one I guess.
I have a lot more to say but I wasn’t prepared to answer so many questions.
I don’t know if the other candidates lose as much sleep as I do about that.
Cause you have to use Amazon Composite…
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 9, 2021
