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Jeremy Stubbs
From Ballotpedia
Jeremy "Carlton Heston" Stubbs was a 2018 write-in candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 6th Congressional District of Georgia.
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Georgia District 6
Lucy McBath defeated incumbent Karen Handel in the general election for U.S. House Georgia District 6 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lucy McBath (D) | 50.5 | 160,139 |
 | Karen Handel (R) | 49.5 | 156,875 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 18 | ||
| Total votes: 317,032 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Georgia District 6
Lucy McBath defeated Kevin Abel in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Georgia District 6 on July 24, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lucy McBath | 53.7 | 14,285 |
 | Kevin Abel | 46.3 | 12,303 | |
| Total votes: 26,588 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 6
Lucy McBath and Kevin Abel advanced to a runoff. They defeated Bobby Kaple and Steven Knight Griffin in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 6 on May 22, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lucy McBath | 36.3 | 15,138 |
| ✔ | | Kevin Abel | 30.5 | 12,747 |
 | Bobby Kaple | 26.2 | 10,956 | |
 | Steven Knight Griffin | 6.9 | 2,901 | |
| Total votes: 41,742 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Richard Keatley (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 6
Incumbent Karen Handel advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 6 on May 22, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Karen Handel | 100.0 | 40,410 |
| Total votes: 40,410 | |||
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Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Carlton Heston participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on April 10, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Carlton Heston's responses follow below.[1]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Abolishing land speculation, solving the housing crisis. 2) Life in prison for drug exec architects of the opioid crisis. |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | 1. Economic policies which affect housing and employment. The cost of housing is artificially high, and wages remain stagnant. The same land speculation that inflates housing prices also inflates the cost of doing business. The result is rows and rows of empty commercial and residential buildings, sitting, collecting dust and simultaneously destroying employment and creating poverty. I came of working age in '08, and started applying during that time. I didn't get called back for an interview until 2013. While a few jobs I've held have been above today's minimum wage, after inflation they've all been equivalent to about a dollar lower per hour than the 1980 minimum wage: $3.10. The prospect of covering housing, today, on less than the 1980 minimum wage is insane. I aim to end the inflation. 2. The opioid epidemic. This never would have happened without the unethical and dishonest business practices of drug companies like Purdue. These policies were catastrophic, and they have more than enough resources to predict the results but instead chose to chase profits by marketing stronger, more addictive, less effective opioids and overselling them while understating the risks. The result has been hundreds of thousands of deaths and ruined lives as a result of lax prescription standards (lobbied for by the drug sellers) and the flood of lethal drugs into the market. I've known people with real pain and legal prescriptions - no less addicted, and no less dead now, than any stiff that ever got theirs from a street corner. More than anyone else, the big drug companies are guilty of mass murder. For those executives and top shareholders responsible for these decisions, I - only out of mercy - call for life in prison. 3. Ending the Patriot Act. I have had the discomfort of knowing the extent of this power grab since 2001. It is a monumental insult to our constitution, and this never stopped being the case. The 9/11 hijackers were already under surveillance before the attack - what was needed was not further surveillance power, but competent communications within our security agencies. Due process of the law is essential, and so the Patriot Act cannot be accepted by a free society and must be removed. 4. Tech - I will restore net neutrality and stop SESTA/FOSTA. I've been discussing net neutrality for about 10 years, now - before there was any political spin on it. Not allowing censorship or preferential treatment in communications is just good policy, and since the internet was created with taxpayer money and the infrastructure to this day often continues to be funded publicly, the public should not be ignored when they say they don't want interests from the government or private entities controlling what they have access to. Some big ISPs would rather extort money from content they don't own than take the small risk of providing good, competitive service - and they want the public to pay for them to do it! This is corporate welfare, and wrong. With regards to SESTA/FOSTA, this legislation does little to stop sex trafficking while representing a massive turn towards censorship which stands to damage small websites, hurt free speech, and endanger sex workers. 5. Politicians' salaries - our national politicians' salaries are way too high. As your representative, I will advocate slashing the salaries of all US politicians until all people we represent have access to decent jobs and can afford at least a modest living (food, shelter, and money to spend) at the lowest positions available without having to rely on benefits or charity. No one who is unwilling to do this for the people they represent has earned six figures. 6. No tax exemptions for big corporations, no corporate welfare. It's anti-competitive. Any firm worth its salt should be able to succeed on its own without government cronyism. Our tax dollars should not be dangled in front of them as though they were politicians' bargaining chip. This is corrupt, and has gone on for too long.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[3]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Carlton Heston answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
| “ | Good people and great artists - Sally Cruikshank, Henry George, Gerald Scarfe, David Gilmour, Toussaint Louverture, Buck Dharma, Richard Meltzer, Nick Blinko. Henry George for economics, Sal and Scarfe for animation, Gilmour, Dharma and Blinko in music, Meltzer for writing, Toussaint Louverture for conviction.[3] | ” |
| “ | No - just my platform.[3] | ” |
| “ | Honesty, good faith, tenacity, and fortitude. If elected, I will not back away. My beliefs outlined in my platform will serve as my guide.[3] | ” |
| “ | Honesty, good faith, tenacity, and fortitude. And an understanding of the ongoing long-term economic decline and how it needs to be reversed.[3] | ” |
| “ | To represent those who elected them and deny special privileges to a moneyed or powerful few. Liberty and justice for all - no exceptions and no extra helpings.[3] | ” |
| “ | An end to the housing crisis, an end to cronyism, and an end to mass murder perpetrated by drug companies. A society which realizes the need to mobilize against those who would take away their rights or those of their peers.[3] | ” |
| “ | Probably the Atlanta olympics and Centennial Olympic Park bombing. I was four at the time.[3] | ” |
| “ | I worked in a bar. About 6 and a half months. First call-in I got was from a bar, too, but most bars here wouldn't hire me 'til I was 21 so my first interview ended with me getting kicked right out of the place because they had only skimmed my application. See my platform for my solution to this sort of thing.[3] | ” |
| “ | I wouldn't call any of my most awkward dates 'dates.'[3] | ” |
| “ | Probably Halloween, if that's really a proper holiday. Horror flicks and confectionery.[3] | ” |
| “ | Probably Richard Meltzer's 'Aesthetics of Rock.' Interesting insights, and I enjoy his style of prose.[3] | ” |
| “ | An average American living in the 2010s who has good job opportunities and their Constitutional rights respected.[3] | ” |
| “ | My guitar. It's got a great sound.[3] | ” |
| “ | Green Jello - "Rock'n'Roll Pumpkin"[3] | ” |
| “ | Employment, tolerating apologists of our dismal economic situation.[3] | ” |
| “ | Amount of weasels per capita.[3] | ” |
| “ | It would make it easier for me to run - so from a practical standpoint, dynasties and lifelong political grooming are absolutely beneficial to those who are part of them. Otherwise this experience is not necessarily beneficial, no.[3] | ” |
| “ | Poverty, stagnant wages, and declining standards of living.[3] | ” |
| “ | Yes.[3] | ” |
| “ | Largely opposed. Change takes time.[3] | ” |
| “ | No.[3] | ” |
See also
- United States House of Representatives
- Georgia's 6th Congressional District election, 2018
- Georgia's 6th Congressional District
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Carlton Heston's responses," April 10, 2018
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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Hank Johnson (D)
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Rich McCormick (R)
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Austin Scott (R)
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Andrew Clyde (R)
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