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Jeff Lewis (West Virginia)
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Jeff Lewis (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on June 9, 2020.
Lewis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jeff Lewis was born in Huntington, West Virginia. Lewis earned an undergraduate degree from Marshall University in May 2014 and a J.D. from the Florida Coastal School of Law in May 2017.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District election, 2020
West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District election, 2020 (June 9 Democratic primary)
West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District election, 2020 (June 9 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House West Virginia District 3
Incumbent Carol Miller defeated Hilary Turner and Belinda Fox-Spencer in the general election for U.S. House West Virginia District 3 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Carol Miller (R) | 71.3 | 161,585 |
 | Hilary Turner (D)  | 28.7 | 64,927 | |
 | Belinda Fox-Spencer (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Total votes: 226,512 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House West Virginia District 3
Hilary Turner defeated Lacy Watson, Paul Davis, and Jeff Lewis in the Democratic primary for U.S. House West Virginia District 3 on June 9, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Hilary Turner | 29.5 | 16,862 |
 | Lacy Watson | 29.3 | 16,760 | |
 | Paul Davis | 24.5 | 14,020 | |
 | Jeff Lewis | 16.7 | 9,542 | |
| Total votes: 57,184 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House West Virginia District 3
Incumbent Carol Miller defeated Russell Siegel in the Republican primary for U.S. House West Virginia District 3 on June 9, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Carol Miller | 70.3 | 40,226 |
| Russell Siegel | 29.7 | 17,024 | ||
| Total votes: 57,250 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Jeff Lewis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Lewis' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I have worked for organized labor including President of CWA Local 2003 for seven years, but overall for almost 17 years. In 2010 I decided to go back to school to become an attorney and I obtained my BA from a Marshall in 2014 in Criminal Justice and my JD from Florida Coastal School of Law in 2017. Although I was 44 when I started law school I was still selected and was part of the top ranked Moot Vourt team in the country while attending. I have also written a book "How to handle grievances and win!" It is currently available through iBooks and Amazon.
- Rause tge Federal Minimum Wage to $15/hr for those employers required to follow the FMLA law
- Ensure that while fighting the opioid crisis, those with serious health conditions can still get the medicines they need
- Decriminalize marijuana and release prisoners sentenced for minor drug offenses
Protecting employees pensions and benefits when the company they retired from files for bankruptcy protection.
Negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to get the drug prices more in line with those currently being charged in Canada. Make it a Federal crime to dramatically increase the price of a medication for no other verifiable justification other than to increase profit margins.
Make it so labor unions are no longer forced to provide the same protections to those employees who elect to be nonmembers for those states with a Right To Work law.
Strengthen the EPA so that those companies found to be in willful violation of Federal laws can face both severe criminal as well as civil penalties and actually enforce these laws.
Reimburse all teachers that pay fir school supplies or items needed by their students such as costs in the winter time out of their own pocket.
I look up to my father more than anyone eise. He has always been a strong honest Christian man that would literally give the shirt off his back if someone needed it. Growing up he worked hard all his life but he always made sure we had enough food to eat and we were taken to the dr if there was the slightest hint anything was wrong with my sister or I.
Politically I would like to follow the example of a John F Kennedy. He was a compassionate man to those in need but showed brute strength when necessary like the Cuban Missle Crisis.
Politically I would like to follow the example of a John F Kennedy. He was a compassionate man to those in need but showed brute strength when necessary like the Cuban Missle Crisis.
Integrity, honesty, and dependability. It is vital that the person who is ejected to represent such a large number id other people be honest in their position. Don't promise anything you don't know for sure you can deliver just to make that person happy or to get a vote. If you believe that you can do it, by all means you should tell them that along with the fact that nothing is guaranteed. As far as dependability, there are a large number of members in Congress that are absent shen they're supposed to be on the floor sometimes even during very important votes. If you are elected to the job of representing the people, being paid very well to do so, then unless an absence is absolutely necessary, you should be on the floor where you are supposed to be at all times!
I am very easy tempered but steadfast in my resolve to get things accomplished. I have built a reputation when I worked for CWA with the companies I negotiated with to be very fair and try and find common ground to resolve any issues that arose. Although most people believe that labor unions and their members employers are adversaries, I worked often to help the company whenever I could. Elaine Harris and myself worked very hard with Verizon to stop a government subsidized competitor from coming into West Virginia that would almost undoubtedly cost some of our members to lose their jobs. Verizon was told it couldn't be stopped outside of court. Yet, Elaine and myself found a way to stop it before it even was able to be given final approval. Having the attitude of there are no "winners and losers" not only works in labor negotiations but in any type of negotiation. Both sides willing to give some on what they originally wanted to accomplish something both sides are happy with, is what I'm very skilled at doing and what Washington desperately needs right now. Putting this to numbers, I had a successful negotiation rate of over 90% my final three years in office as Pfesident if CWA Local 2003.
That I was known to truly listen to the people I represented and even the ones that I didn't officially represent whenever I could. That I was always honest and fought just as hard as I coujd for something I believed to be right. Also, that I never let a lobbyist on either side dictate my vote and that I always voted the way I thought the people I represent would have given the chance, even if it's not the way I personally would have chosen.
Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 and I was ten years old at the time.
My first job was working fir Holiday Inn Gateway and it LT ended when I graduated high school.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I know this isn't the choice anybody wouid have expected. But it was my favorite book as a child and it shows how families can be so supportive and living if each other even when they own nothing of material value. Having been raised that way gave Charliebthe manners and respect for his riders that the spoiled children didn't have and it is why he was chosen in the end to be the only one that could be trusted to take uber the factory. It's a fictional story that still applies today. Material wealth means nothing if you don't have your faith and your family.
Benjamin Gates in National Treasure. The thought of following clues left by the founding fathers in search of a treasure they left, would be beyond a dream come true!
Tubthumping by Chumbawamba
I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and an inoperable brain tumor both in 2010. I was given a miracle in 2017 when my brain swelled but the tumor was gone once the swelling went down. It had grown every six months for seven years up to that point. I still habe MS and will have for the rest of my life. But I treat it the way I'm supposed to and although there's things I have to do differently now, it doesn't stop me from doing what I want to do. Being disabled dies not mean your incapable of anything. Even if I have to do what I need to do from a wheelchair, that thankfully I am not at that point yet, then I will do it from a wheelchair. The MS may slow down my body at times but it won't slow down my mind or my desire. In fact, I went back to school to obtain my Bachelors degree the same month I was diagnosed with MS.
The US House of Representatives has several very important responsibilities assigned to it by the US Constitution. First, the House is where all revenue bills must originate. Those bills can have amended changes proposed by the a senate, but any changes even on a bill that has already passed in the House, must be approved by the House of Representatives. Another unique responsibility of the House is happening right now and that is only the House can impeach am elected official including the President of the United States. If Articles of Impeachment are passed in the House, then selected members of the House must act as prosecutors and present those Artickes to the Senate. The Senate has the sole responsibility of being judge and jury in regards to any Articles of Impeachment passed by the House. Finally, the House of Representatives selects the President of the United States in the event of an Electoral College tie. Also, the Speaker of the House is third on line to the Presidency directly behind the Vice President.
In some cases, I believe it could be helpful but in just as many cases I believe it is a hinderance. When a politician has won numerous terms by a large margin and no longer are worried about losing their position, many politicians don't take their constituents concerns as seriously as they did when they had to worry about reelection. I believe that a newcomer as long as they are familiar with the governing process, can bring new and fresh ideas to Washington on how to resolve many of the problems the country is currently facing. Plus everyone is a newcomer to politics at some point in their life. So it would be impossible to require anyone who wants to serve have prior political experience. A mixture of freshman and senior members of the Congressional delegation is in my opinion n the most beneficial for representing al of the American people.
The extreme partisanship that politics has created not just in politicians, but in the American people as a whole. We are going to face numerous serious obstacles in the next decade that politicians don't agree including climate change, mass shootings, the high price of prescription drugs, and the national debt just to make a few. In order for us to work together on any of these issues, we must remember that before any of us are identified as part of any political party that we are all Americans first! The hatred and sometimes violence that is being seen in today's political climate must stop. I believe the first step in healing the rest of the country from this dangerous partisanship is for the politicians we elect to get past it first. We need both sides to realize that accomplishing what's best for the country should always be their primary objective, working together to come to a bipartisan compromise, and not towing the line that it's "our way or no way at all." We're never going to agree on everything, we never have in the history of mankind. But it has never in my lifetime been so blatantly harsh and hurtful the things we say to one another just because they don't share some of the same ideals as we do. If we don't get the hate out of politics, it concerns me that it may literally end up destroying this beautiful country in two. It's not a Democrat, Republican or am Independent issue. It's an American issue which is each and every one of us and we must start remembering that and act accordingly as to what is in the best interest of our country and not what is in the best interest of our parties or the lobbyists that try and bend lawmakers into doing what they want even when the lawmakers know it is not the right thing to do!
The four committees I would most like to serve on would be the Education and Labor, the Foreign Affairs, the Ways and Means committee, and the Appropriations committee.
I believe that a four year term matching that of the President would be more convenient not only for the members but also the states. However, given that the Founding Fathers set the term I know they were far more educated in this regard than myself, so I would not ever vote to overturn their wisdom on the matter.
I am in complete support of term limits. Not like the Presidency where you can never run again. Instead, a politician must set out at least one full term before being eligible to run again. This would make it so new people could get in and have a chance to show their constituents if they could do a better job, and also stop people from voting strictly by habit because a person has been in the position for so long. It would also show if a politician sat out and then got elected again after the term was up, that their state must be very pleased with the job they had performed in their prior terms.
I would be honored to be elected by my fee low members of Congress for a leadership role that I believe I would gladly accept if offered. I would especially enjoy being the chair of one of the committees I am assigned.
Senator Robert Byrd. Senator Byrd held the respect of not only his constituents in West Virginia but by both parties inside of Congress especially the Senate. Senator Byrd fought hard to bring good paying jobs to West Virginia and stood up even against his own party when he felt it was necessary. I would be truly humbled to even be mentioned in the same discussion as Senator Byrd.
The price of insulin getting so high that a diabetic constituents had to stop taking theirs. When people are literally having to choose between the medication they need to survive and being able to buy groceries for their families, we can do better, we MUST do better when representing the people who ejected us.
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 28, 2020
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Shelley Capito (R)
Jim Justice (R)
Representatives
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Carol Miller (R)
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Riley Moore (R)
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