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Jessica Fore
Jessica Fore (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Georgia's 10th Congressional District. She lost in the Democratic primary on May 21, 2024.
Fore completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jessica Fore was born in Georgia. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia in 2002.[1] Her career experience includes working as a realtor, a musician, and an anti-abuse advocate.[2][3] Fore has been affiliated with the Athens Area Association of Realtors and the United Methodist Church.[4]
Elections
2024
See also: Georgia's 10th Congressional District election, 2024
Georgia's 10th Congressional District election, 2024 (May 21 Democratic primary)
Georgia's 10th Congressional District election, 2024 (May 21 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Georgia District 10
Incumbent Mike Collins defeated Lexy Doherty in the general election for U.S. House Georgia District 10 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mike Collins (R) | 63.1 | 256,442 |
 | Lexy Doherty (D)  | 36.9 | 150,274 | |
| Total votes: 406,716 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 10
Lexy Doherty defeated Jessica Fore in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 10 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lexy Doherty | 58.7 | 17,821 |
 | Jessica Fore | 41.3 | 12,532 | |
| Total votes: 30,353 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 10
Incumbent Mike Collins advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 10 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Collins | 100.0 | 62,109 |
| Total votes: 62,109 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Fore in this election.
2022
See also: Georgia's 10th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Georgia District 10
Mike Collins defeated Tabitha Johnson-Green in the general election for U.S. House Georgia District 10 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Collins (R) | 64.5 | 198,523 |
 | Tabitha Johnson-Green (D) | 35.5 | 109,107 | |
| Total votes: 307,630 | |||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Georgia District 10
Tabitha Johnson-Green defeated Jessica Fore in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Georgia District 10 on June 21, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tabitha Johnson-Green | 64.4 | 9,070 |
| Jessica Fore | 35.6 | 5,024 | |
| Total votes: 14,094 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Georgia District 10
Mike Collins defeated Vernon Jones in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Georgia District 10 on June 21, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Collins | 74.5 | 30,536 |
 | Vernon Jones | 25.5 | 10,469 | |
| Total votes: 41,005 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 10
Tabitha Johnson-Green and Jessica Fore advanced to a runoff. They defeated Phyllis Hatcher, Femi Oduwole, and Paul Walton in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 10 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tabitha Johnson-Green | 42.0 | 15,821 |
| ✔ | | Jessica Fore | 19.2 | 7,257 |
 | Phyllis Hatcher | 18.9 | 7,120 | |
 | Femi Oduwole | 11.7 | 4,427 | |
 | Paul Walton | 8.2 | 3,077 | |
| Total votes: 37,702 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Kimberly Reuter (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 10
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 10 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Collins | 25.6 | 28,741 |
| ✔ | | Vernon Jones | 21.5 | 24,165 |
 | Timothy Barr | 14.3 | 16,007 | |
 | Paul C. Broun | 13.3 | 14,901 | |
 | David Curry | 9.4 | 10,557 | |
 | Alan Sims | 6.6 | 7,388 | |
 | Marc McMain | 4.7 | 5,222 | |
 | Mitchell Swan | 4.6 | 5,184 | |
| Total votes: 112,165 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Matt Richards (R)
- Andrew Alvey (R)
- Patrick Witt (R)
- Charles Rupert (R)
- Todd Heussner (R)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jessica Fore completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fore's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Abusers of power in positions of public trust are the source of most of the human-caused problems threatening global and national stability. We need to get pathological manipulators out of positions of public trust, including politics and law enforcement. Good faith disagreement about how to solve problems is healthy democratic debate. Consolidating power over "the other side" in order to enjoy their distress and win by making them lose is antithetical to our aspirations as a country.
- The Federal government exists to secure the rights of regular working Americans, not to funnel wealth to a handful of special interests at our expense. It is past time to acknowledge the abject failure of Reaganomics to deliver "trickle down" prosperity for regular hardworking people. Wealth doesn't trickle down; wealth trickles up. The economy is stimulated when wages rise with productivity, a trend that ended in the U.S. in 1980. We need to change the reward structure for working Americans with higher wages, more affordable housing, and universal healthcare.
- Our current election system serves political parties, not voters. For example, the state of Georgia makes it so difficult to run for Congress as an independent that nobody has been able to do it for 60 years. We need to overhaul the system to achieve more expressive, diverse voting with measures like ranked choice voting, open primaries, using independent nonpartisan commissions to draw district lines without gerrymandering, and expanded ballot access for multiparty/independent candidates. We DON'T get there by voting third party in presidential elections under the current system; we get there by electing members of Congress who are willing to put country before party to change the system and serve the voters.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
Campaign website
Fore’s campaign website stated the following:
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Voting Rights Ensuring that everyone who has the right to vote can vote is the foundation of a functioning democratic republic. We should make voting easier for citizens, not harder.
Living Wages Any adult working full-time should not have to rely on government assistance. The wealth gap continues to widen as corporations are given tax benefits while being allowed to underpay their employees. Although there is a current misconception that Americans do not want to work anymore, the truth is, Americans do not want to be exploited anymore. Georgians deserve to be paid what they are worth. Minimum wages for working adults need to be indexed to local housing costs so that working people can keep a roof over their heads without relying on taxpayers. People have been misguided to believe the minimum wage is for “high school workers” or for adults who lack certain skills; this is not true. According to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who signed the federal minimum wage into law, the purpose was to ensure adults working full-time in the wealthiest nation were not living in poverty: "It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white-collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living." Environment Over 100 years ago, the US government introduced oil and gas subsidies to help foster the emerging automotive industry. Those subsidies never went away, which means that taxpayers are subsidizing the destruction of our planet while oil and gas companies are reaping record profits. Ending oil subsidies and encouraging the emerging green energy through clean energy subsidies can have a monumental impact on the fight against climate change. There is only so much an individual can do it combat climate change. If we want to make an actual difference, we have to deal with things on a macro level.
Universal Healthcare America is the ONLY wealthy, industrialized nation in the world where citizens have to worry about being financially ruined due to seeking healthcare. In the US, people die because they have to choose between affording basic medications like insulin or being able to pay rent or buy food. Georgia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country, and with recent rural hospital shutdowns, that will only get worse. The US has some of the highest healthcare spending yet some of the worst healthcare outcomes in the world among comparable nations. We can't claim to be the greatest country in the world while our citizens’ basic needs are not covered. We need universal healthcare. Taxes Before the 1980s, top marginal tax rates were as high as 70 - 94%. President Reagan promised that cutting those tax rates drastically would lead to better, higher paying jobs: trickle-down economics. Of course, this promise remains unfulfilled. Instead, the lower tax rates incentivized the skyrocketing CEO pay that we see today, where billion-dollar companies pay hundreds of millions in CEO bonuses while their employees look to government assistance to make ends meet. The promise of “trickle-down” became “corporate welfare.” We need to create a multi-tier top marginal tax rate in which lower tax rates are explicitly tied to the creation of domestic living wage jobs. If you're paying poverty wages, shipping jobs overseas, and expecting your workers to obtain taxpayer funded public assistance to make ends meet, you're going to pay higher taxes. If corporations want the lowest available tax rate, then they must prove they deserve it. Guns I enjoy target shooting and come from a family of gun owners and military veterans. I support responsible gun ownership. "Responsible" means safety and proficiency training for licensed carry, thorough background checks for purchases, and ensuring one's firearms are stored properly so that they don't fall into the hands of someone who should not have access. We need to do a much better job of keeping guns out of the hands of people who demonstrate elevated risk factors for violence to themselves or others, including people with a credible history of domestic violence, people making active threats of violence, and people who have had a recent mental health crisis. It is far past time to implement common sense measures like red flag laws, as well as fund gun safety research just like we do for other public safety issues in order to adopt data-based practices that save lives. Abortion Progressive policies like sex education and free contraceptives accomplish a far lower abortion rate than alleged pro-life policies that prosecute women. The U.S. maternal mortality rate, which is roughly double that of most other wealthy nations, drops when reproductive healthcare providers and their patients are free to make medical decisions without government interference. The procedure is an incredibly difficult and emotional medical decision to be made by a woman and her doctor. The government should be limited in their ability to interfere in our healthcare decisions. Based on elective abortion numbers and maternal mortality rates, the most pro-life and small-government vote anyone can cast on this issue is for a Democrat.[5] |
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| —Jessica Fore’s campaign website (2024)[6] | ||
2022
Jessica Fore completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fore's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- We need to get abusers of power out of positions of public trust, including politics and law enforcement. We need to protect democratic ideals of shared power: government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
- Federal legislation exists to secure the rights of regular, working Americans, not to funnel wealth to a handful of special interests at our expense.
- We need reality based policy debate focused on finding practical solutions to the problems we all face instead of political bloviating and power plays.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
Campaign website
Fore's campaign website stated the following:
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VOTING RIGHTS Ensuring that everyone who has the right to vote can vote is the foundation of having a functioning democratic republic. I support automatic voter registration, same day voter registration, and expanded early voting. Election day should be a federal holiday. If we can securely file taxes and bank online, we can establish a secure system for online voting. Polling places and voting machines must be allocated by population in a manner that ensures equitable access and reasonable wait times for all voters. Candidates in an election must be prohibited from any involvement in overseeing their own election process, and we must maintain independent, nonpartisan review of election procedures. LIVING WAGES Minimum wages for working adults need to be indexed to local housing costs so that working people can keep a roof over their heads. Businesses that don't pay a wage that allows their workers to afford a modest apartment have not yet developed a business model that accommodates hiring adult staff. FIRST JOB MINIMUM WAGE I'd propose a separate minimum wage program that would apply only to 16 and 17 year old high school students learning how to hold a part time job for the first time. These jobs could only be scheduled on weekends and/or between 4 and 9 p.m. on weekdays, for a cumulative total of no more than 20 hours per student. UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE We are the only wealthy, industrialized nation in the world where citizens have to worry about being financially ruined due to seeking healthcare, and where people die because they have to choose between affording basic medications like insulin or being able to pay rent and buy food. We have some of the highest healthcare spending yet some of the worst healthcare outcomes in the world among comparable nations. We can't claim to be the greatest country in the world, but unable to catch up to Finland, Japan, or any other prosperous nation in this area. We need universal healthcare. TOP MARGINAL TAX RATES The top marginal tax rate on excess income far beyond what most of us can imagine seeing in our lifetimes has, in the past, been as high as 94%. Reagan proposed that cutting taxes on the wealthy would result in better paying jobs and middle class prosperity for the rest of us. 40 years of data demonstrate that it didn't-- we have wage stagnation, declining homeownership, masses of full time workers living paycheck to paycheck, and greater inequality than ever before. And yet working people pay a higher percentage of our income in taxes than the wealthiest people in the country! Washington remains gridlocked over any attempt to increase tax rates on extreme excess wealth, with many using the same old disproven rhetoric: "Cut taxes on the rich and they'll create great jobs for everyone else." I propose making the folks who promote that idea put their money where their mouth is by having a multi-tier top marginal tax rate in which lower tax rates are explicitly tied to the creation of domestic living wage jobs. If you're paying poverty wages, shipping jobs overseas, and expecting your workers to obtain taxpayer funded public assistance to make ends meet, you're going to pay higher taxes. If you want the lowest available tax rate, show us the good jobs. MORE COMING SOON.[5] |
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| —Jessica Fore's campaign website (2022)[7] | ||
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 25, 2022
- ↑ Twitter, "Jessica Fore," accessed April 8, 2022
- ↑ JessicaForeGA.com, "Home," accessed April 8, 2022
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 18, 2024
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Jessica Fore’s campaign website, “Platform Issues,” accessed April 24, 2024
- ↑ JessicaForeGA.com, “Home,” accessed March 31, 2022
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