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Jim Bennett (Georgia)
Jim Bennett (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Georgia's 3rd Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on May 21, 2024.
Bennett completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2024
See also: Georgia's 3rd Congressional District election, 2024
Georgia's 3rd Congressional District election, 2024 (May 21 Republican primary)
Georgia's 3rd Congressional District election, 2024 (May 21 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Georgia District 3
Brian Jack defeated Maura Keller in the general election for U.S. House Georgia District 3 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Brian Jack (R) | 66.3 | 273,036 |
 | Maura Keller (D)  | 33.7 | 138,749 | |
| Total votes: 411,785 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- George Cantrell (Independent)
Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Georgia District 3
Brian Jack defeated Mike Dugan in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Georgia District 3 on June 18, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brian Jack | 62.6 | 29,654 |
 | Mike Dugan | 37.4 | 17,693 | |
| Total votes: 47,347 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 3
Maura Keller defeated Val Almonord in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 3 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Maura Keller | 53.0 | 13,237 |
 | Val Almonord | 47.0 | 11,730 | |
| Total votes: 24,967 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Rodney Moore (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 3
Brian Jack and Mike Dugan advanced to a runoff. They defeated Mike Crane, Philip Singleton, and Jim Bennett in the Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 3 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brian Jack | 46.7 | 32,877 |
| ✔ | | Mike Dugan | 24.9 | 17,522 |
 | Mike Crane | 15.9 | 11,182 | |
 | Philip Singleton | 6.7 | 4,743 | |
 | Jim Bennett | 5.8 | 4,076 | |
| Total votes: 70,400 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- David Jenkins (R)
- Raymond Blair (R)
- Michael Corbin (R)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Bennett in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jim Bennett completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bennett'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 am a former police officer. I became an officer when I was 19 in 1987. By 23 I was a shift Sergeant, was teaching at the Georgia Police Academy and GA Public Safety Training Center, and was a SWAT team member. I was introduced to The great Rush Limbaugh via AM radio in my patrol car. I have seven commendations.
My wife was also an officer, (she still is) and we had two children. After seven years someone had to leave law enforcement to provide for our family. Two police salaries were not enough. I joined Trintex Corp (which became part of Carlisle Tire and Wheel) and worked there for the next 21 years.
I quickly became the IT Director. In 2008 Trintex burned to the ground. I joined the National Procurement Team at Carlisle and became a Global Commodity Manager. I managed ~$100million of annual spend between Steel and Purchased Finished Goods.
I like to say that I learned to work with people as a police officer, and I learned to work with other people's money in procurement.
In 2016 I stopped traveling and retired.
I joined the Carroll County Republican party. I became the Tyus Precinct Chair, then a state committeeman and 2nd Vice Chair of the 3rd District. With your help, I will replace Mr. Ferguson as your next Congressman.
- Our debt and deficit is unsustainable. This isn't the normal Republican Party mantra of wanting to lower taxes, this is nation destroying deficits and debt limits that cannot be maintained as they will continue to increase interest rates and inflation. A debt ceiling increase is a tax. It is taxation through inflation. The Federal governemnt gets paid up front and then We The People have to pay the bill through inflation.
- The border must be closed. The border is not only a humanitarian crisis and a magnet for evil, it is the lynchpin in the plan of the Globalists to destroy the Rule of Law in the USA. When lawless ness is ignored, you get Antifa, BLM, and the son of a Vice-President/President sellign influence to the highest bidder. When law enforcement, Attorneys General and District attorneys choose how laws are prosecuted based on politics, again, you are looking beyond a single act, you are looking at a coordinated attack on the sovereignty of the nation itself. Rule of Law supports our civil liberties. Selective prosecution takes them away.
- The US Congress must return to regular order. Omnibus spending bills and the various mutations of it must not be tolerated. Omnibus bills are not only a way hide pork and earmarks, they hide the intentions of the members who are voting on them. They increase the powers of special interest and lobbyist and pervert the entireity of the process.
In 2017 and 2018 Drew Ferguson voted against the Border Wall. There have been 8+ MILLION alien crossings since then resulting in chaos, Fentanyl, Sex Slavery, terrorist crossings.
IN 2021, Drew Ferguson voted FOR Nancy Pelosi's massive Omnibus spending bill which pushed government spending ~40% above 2019 spending and has resulted in a $2.25Tr annual deficit.
I stand opposed to the positions that Mr. Ferguson has taken.
I will never vote for an Omnibus spending bill. I will never vote for a CR that continues an Omnibus spending bill.
I support hermetically sealing our borders to anything but LEGAL immigration and finding and deporting everyone who has entered this country illegally or overstayed a visa.
I support school choice. Parents must be in control of their child's education and the money for them to do that must follow the child.
I support a radical restructuring of the Federal government that returns to the 13 enumerated powers given to Congress by our Constitution which will have the by product of lowering taxes.
I support a constitutional amendment that limits House members to 3 terms and Senators to 2.
I believe in the restoration of the Rule of Law in America's major cities, starting with Washington DC and the Sea of Corruption upon which it floats.
He understood the nature of our modern government and set a great example for future generations.
To preserve the liberties and rights that their constituents are born with.
To protect the boundaries and integrity of the USA.
The Border Crisis
2 Terms of Senators
Her husband has a major medical condition and the VA has failed him miserably. We cannot treat our warriors with dishonor after they have given so much to us,
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Campaign website
Bennett’s campaign website stated the following:
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LIFE: We are conceived with unalienable rights. Our government does not grant them, it protects them. Our governments protect us by protecting our borders, providing a fair and just court system, and with conscientious police departments and prosecutors. Washington is currently actively working against this unalienable right. Our border is a wide open. Our military is distracted with woke and DIE agendas. Our court system is bifurcated. Our prosecutors disregard our civil rights with impunity. I want to protect your life. I want strong borders with every illegal invader deported. I want merit to be the only consideration within our military for advancement. I want legislation to rein in rogue District Attorneys and Attorneys General. I want our police departments fully funded as they are frequently the first and best limit on crime. LIBERTY: I am a Constitutional Conservative. That means I believe The Constitution actually means what it says, because it does. Our Constitutional rights are not granted by our government. Since we are conceived with our rights intact, no government has the right to infringe upon them. The Biden Regime is constantly attacking its political opponents with the administrative state and the court system. It’s called Lawfare. We must reverse this trend and return accountability to the Deep State and Department of Justice. I believe in the Tenth Amendment. It states clearly, “any powers that are not specifically given to the federal government, nor withheld from the states, are reserved to those respective states, or to the people at large”. The power that the federal government has usurped must be returned to the people. HAPPINESS: We have an unalienable right to happiness. How can we return happiness to the people?
In short, let’s get the Government OUT OF OUR LIVES.[1] |
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| —Jim Bennett’s campaign website (2024)[2] | ||
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Jim Bennett’s campaign website, “Issues,” accessed April 24, 2024
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