Joe Collins (Texas)
Joe Collins (Republican Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 70. He lost in the Republican primary on March 5, 2024.
Collins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Joe Collins was born in Los Angeles, California. Collins served in the U.S. Navy from 2004 to 2017. He earned a B.S. in accounting from the University of Phoenix in 2021. Collins' career experience includes working as a CEO, owning the government contracting company JT Acquisitions, and working as an accountant and military recruiter. He has served as a certified counselor for victims of rape and sexual assault.[1][2][3][4]
Elections
2024
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 70
Incumbent Mihaela Plesa defeated Steven Kinard in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 70 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mihaela Plesa (D) | 52.2 | 38,183 |
 | Steven Kinard (R)  | 47.8 | 34,933 | |
| Total votes: 73,116 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 70
Incumbent Mihaela Plesa advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 70 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mihaela Plesa | 100.0 | 5,790 |
| Total votes: 5,790 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 70
Steven Kinard defeated Joe Collins in the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 70 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Steven Kinard | 68.1 | 6,673 |
 | Joe Collins | 31.9 | 3,125 | |
| Total votes: 9,798 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Collins in this election.
2022
See also: California's 36th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 36
Incumbent Ted Lieu defeated Joe Collins in the general election for U.S. House California District 36 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ted Lieu (D) | 69.8 | 194,299 |
| Joe Collins (R) | 30.2 | 84,264 | |
| Total votes: 278,563 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 36
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 36 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ted Lieu (D) | 67.1 | 122,969 |
| ✔ | | Joe Collins (R) | 13.4 | 24,553 |
 | Derrick Gates (R) | 5.6 | 10,263 | |
 | Ariana Hakami (R) | 5.3 | 9,760 | |
 | Claire Ragge (R) | 4.0 | 7,351 | |
| Colin Kilpatrick Obrien (D) | 3.4 | 6,221 | ||
 | Steve Williams (Independent) | 0.6 | 1,180 | |
 | Matthew Jesuele (Independent) | 0.5 | 976 | |
| Total votes: 183,273 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Storm Jenkins (R)
- Mitchell Battersby (D)
Endorsements
To view Collins' endorsements in the 2022 election, please click here.
2020
See also: California's 43rd Congressional District election, 2020
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 43
Incumbent Maxine Waters defeated Joe Collins in the general election for U.S. House California District 43 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Maxine Waters (D) | 71.7 | 199,210 |
| Joe Collins (R) | 28.3 | 78,688 | |
| Total votes: 277,898 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 43
Incumbent Maxine Waters and Joe Collins defeated Omar Navarro in the primary for U.S. House California District 43 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Maxine Waters (D) | 78.1 | 100,468 |
| ✔ | | Joe Collins (R) | 11.0 | 14,189 |
 | Omar Navarro (R) | 10.8 | 13,939 | |
| Total votes: 128,596 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ron Kelly (Independent)
- Reginald Keys (Independent)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Joe Collins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Collins' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I proudly serve as the CEO of a contracting and development company, and I also have the privilege of sitting on the board of a private global development company.
As a licensed financial professional, I bring expertise to the table, holding a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of Phoenix.
In addition to my professional roles, I have had the honor of being the former host of KABC's radio show, New Black Republican, and currently, I am a candidate for the Texas House of Representatives District 70.- I will be focused on rebuilding our Texas economy
- I will support and enforce public safety
- I will stop this reckless government spending that has us in a recession and increasing inflation
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2022
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Joe Collins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Collins' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- I will be focused on rebuilding our economy
- I will support and enforce public safety
- I will stop this reckless government spending that has us in a recession and increasing inflation
Agriculture. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Armed Services. Foreign Affairs. Energy and Commerce.
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Campaign website
Collins' campaign website stated the following:
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1) Rebuild Our District "We're in this together, every man and woman, every color and creed. We struggle together and fight together in the same communities, so let's rebuild our district together." The work of rebuilding our country begins right here at home. Our District, California's 36th Congressional District, is home to remarkable residents from the Southern portion of Los Angeles to Beverly Hills, deserving of a much better quality of life. It starts with improving our communities through smart investments that will pay dividends for all. Investing in infrastructure is key to our economic success. We need more affordable housing, we need to repair the roads, traffic systems, sidewalks, and sewer systems, and attract more small, retail, corporate, and technologically advanced businesses for sustained growth. Our community has the resiliency and with my leadership, we have an economy to revive, neighborhoods to rebuild, and lives to save.
"I have been personally trained by the best and recruited for the best, the U.S. Navy, which has prepared me for helping my community. In turn, I will set up a better mechanism for our youth to advance to a brighter career future with quality jobs." We deserve quality jobs in the 36th District. In going forward, jobs and paychecks are the paths to reigniting the economy. My plan is to put working people front and center as we create a new economy. My goals are to help small businesses to expand, and create more jobs, thus creating more wealth for the people of our district. Our communities have a rich history of job innovation in aerospace, automobile, aviation, entertainment, manufacturing, medical, sports, and travel industries. My pledge is to reinvigorate quality job growth by implementing incentives in bringing businesses back to tap into the deep employable talent pool that exists in the 36th District.
"When you educate, you liberate. The greatest freedom comes from applying knowledge attained to advance your goals in life and career. We are responsible for ensuring our future by equipping our teachers and students for success." Education and innovation will be the currency of the new millenium. Our challenge of long-term economic prosperity depends greatly on our ability to equally educate our students and prepare them to compete in a dynamic global marketplace. Our young people deserve quality education whether they are in inner-city or in upper-class areas of our district. We need our institutions of higher learning to be a driver of innovation that can be shared with all businesses. We must provide more ladders to success for young men who fall into lives of crime and despair and young ladies who are more than equal to the task of competing in all segments of business and science industries.
"Real independence comes from personal empowerment attained by financial literacy. As a financial planning professional, it is my imperative to increase opportunity and resources for teaching our community constituents how to build generational wealth." Capitalism is the lifeblood of any economy and also any personal economic base. Difficulty saving and accumulating capital wealth can put important milestones out of reach, including purchasing a home, attending college, starting a business and saving for retirement. We must move past living from paycheck to paycheck. We need to know how to properly invest our hard-earned money, benefit from a growing economy, tighten the reigns on a shrinking economy, money manage our earnings, achieve ownership of property and assets, and save for personal retirement.
"Everyone deserves a place to live. As a society, we cannot continue to ignore the homeless population growing in our streets. This issue affects and touches everyone, so everyone together must unite to work on a lasting solution." The surge in homelessness in Los Angeles and other US cities has troubled many Americans as rents have risen further out of reach for those with the least. So, in addition to providing housing stability, it is clear we need improved services to help get homeless and housing-unstable members of our community back on their feet. People facing homelessness are hit especially hard by this pandemic. Many people who were already living with financial pressures are at serious risk of being pushed over the brink into homelessness as a result of the outbreak if we don't provide the right support. We have to also focus on support for at-risk youth, including those who are in foster care, experiencing homelessness, or suffering from challenges with mental health or addiction. During the coronavirus pandemic, we have seen how much we can achieve when we all work together. Ending homelessness is within our reach — if we act now.
"We all deserve a safe, stable place to live, work, and play. It's an American right and the rights of its people to ensure that."[5] |
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2019
Joe Collins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Collins' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Rebuild our district
- Quality Jobs
- Education
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia staff, “Email communication with Joe Collins," December 15, 2021
- ↑ Ballotpedia staff, “Email communication with Joe Collins," December 22, 2021
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 10, 2022
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 18, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Joe Collins for Congress, “Five Point Plan,” accessed June 10, 2022
