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Joel Dejean
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Independent

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 8, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1980

Personal
Religion
Catholic
Profession
Electrical engineer
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Joel Dejean (independent) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 38th Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Dejean completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Joel Dejean was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Dejean earned a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1980. His career experience includes working as an electrical engineer. He has been affiliated with the Schiller Institute and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).[1]

Elections

2022

See also: Texas' 38th Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 38

Wesley Hunt defeated Duncan Klussmann and Joel Dejean in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 38 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Wesley Hunt
Wesley Hunt (R)
 
63.0
 
163,597
Image of Duncan Klussmann
Duncan Klussmann (D) Candidate Connection
 
35.5
 
92,302
Image of Joel Dejean
Joel Dejean (Independent) Candidate Connection
 
1.5
 
3,970

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 259,869
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary runoff election

Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 38

Duncan Klussmann defeated Diana Martinez Alexander in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 38 on May 24, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Duncan Klussmann
Duncan Klussmann Candidate Connection
 
61.1
 
6,449
Image of Diana Martinez Alexander
Diana Martinez Alexander Candidate Connection
 
38.9
 
4,111

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 10,560
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 38

Diana Martinez Alexander and Duncan Klussmann advanced to a runoff. They defeated Centrell Reed in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 38 on March 1, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Diana Martinez Alexander
Diana Martinez Alexander Candidate Connection
 
44.6
 
9,861
✔
Image of Duncan Klussmann
Duncan Klussmann Candidate Connection
 
39.3
 
8,698
Image of Centrell Reed
Centrell Reed Candidate Connection
 
16.1
 
3,550

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 22,109
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 38

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 38 on March 1, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Wesley Hunt
Wesley Hunt
 
55.3
 
35,291
Image of Mark Ramsey
Mark Ramsey
 
30.3
 
19,352
Image of David Hogan
David Hogan Candidate Connection
 
4.9
 
3,125
Image of Roland Lopez
Roland Lopez Candidate Connection
 
3.2
 
2,048
Image of Brett Guillory
Brett Guillory Candidate Connection
 
2.2
 
1,416
Image of Jerry Ford Sr.
Jerry Ford Sr. Candidate Connection
 
1.6
 
997
Image of Richard Welch
Richard Welch
 
1.0
 
633
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Alex Cross
 
0.7
 
460
Image of Damien Mockus
Damien Mockus Candidate Connection
 
0.4
 
249
Image of Philip Covarrubias
Philip Covarrubias Candidate Connection
 
0.4
 
228

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 63,799
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Endorsements

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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Joel Dejean completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Dejean'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 became an electrical engineer because, as a young Haitian emigrant, I was inspired by the Apollo Program to study real science. Graduating from Bronx HS of Science, and NY State U at Stoney Brook, I was recruited in 1980 by Texas Instruments Defense Electronics Group in Dallas to design infrared detection and targeting systems for various National Air Forces internationally. After 7 years with TI, I met Lyndon LaRouche's Fusion Energy Foundation while visiting defense contractors on the West Coast. I have been working with the LaRouche movement since 1987, to promote nuclear fission and fusion as well as world-wide economic development, including fighting the Voodoo "science" of man-made climate change.
  • Reinstate Franklin Roosevelt's Glass-Steagall Act to separate the commercial banks from the speculating financial houses of Wall St.
  • Put the Federal Reserve under the U.S.Treasury Dept, like Alexander Hamilton's First National Bank, to issue long-term, low-interest credit for major infrastructure projects.
  • Fund a full-scale science driver program to achieve controlled thermonuclear fusion in the next decade, while fully funding the Artemis Program.
See answers to the Key Messages above.
Neil Armstrong, who took One Giant Leap for Mankind.

Chen Ning Yang, Stoney Brook physics professor, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957, at the age of 35. He was one of my freshman physics professors.

Lyndon H LaRouche, Jr, who laid out the 40-year mission to build a mining operation and launch site on the Moon, which would use native Helium-3 to power fusion rockets for a quick flight from the Moon to Mars, and provide the U.S. and the world's population with a future!
Book: "So, You Wish to Learn All About Economics," (1995) by Lyndon H. LaRouche

Book: "On Learned Ignorance," (1440) by Nicholas of Cusa

Book: "The Divine Comedy," (1320) by Dante Alighieri

Movie: "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964)
Man is in the living image of the Creator, and is charged with having dominion over the beasts of the field, the sea and the air, and all the known Universe.
The qualities that I have that I believe would make me successful as a Congressman are, my scientific background, an ability to overcome personal hardship, i.e., my blindness as an adult, and my persistence at fighting for policies that have been obstructed for decades, such as nuclear power, and fully funded space exploration.
To promote the General Welfare of ourselves and our posterity.
I would like to leave a legacy including having helped to make the human race extraterrestrial.
The Apollo Program inaugurated by President John Kennedy was a formative event in my young life, having arrived in New York in a Boeing 707 from Haiti, at the age of six.
Design Engineer specializing in infrared detection and targeting systems at Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas (1980-1987).
See the answer to the books (and movie) I would recommend for understanding my political philosophy.
The last song I had stuck in my head was Beethoven's Ich Liebe Dich!
The biggest personal struggle I have had in my life is with the onset of complete blindness after an unsuccessful retinal surgery at age 35.
The greatest challenges the nation faces over the next decade are:

1) The increasing danger of nuclear war with Russia and China that is being motivated by NATO moves on their borders, with U.S. support, when we had pledged not to move "one meter" towards Russia's borders if they would agree to reunification of Germany. We have now moved right up to their borders (1000 meters), with the U.S. State Dept coup in Ukraine. We also broke our own one China policy, by allowing, for example, the #3 person in line of succession to make an official visit to Taiwan, and military demonstrations in the South China Sea.

2) The need to deal with the current collapse of the financial system of the West, based only on money, rather than the interests of the people. See my policy solutions above, starting with Glass-Steagall; National Banking; long-term, low interest credit system for productive investments, such as NAWAPA water project, high speed rail, full funding for Moon-Mars exploration and development in cooperation with Europe, Asia, Africa, Iberoamerica and full funding for fusion energy development while funding the building of fission plants, creating millions of productive jobs..
House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

House Foreign Affairs Committee
I would rather divert funds from unnecessary or unconstitutional purposes, than raise taxes on ordinary people. Examples of where I would want to take funds from for my policy priorities would be: wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Ukraine; monies going for solar and wind projects. I would re-route such funds to R&D for fusion and space exploration; the building of Great water, energy, transportation projects; as well as engineering and construction aid to places such as Haiti. The government should also shoulder the costs for universal healthcare, including such policies as were implemented under FDR in the Hill-Burton Act, to build hospitals and provide beds per capita for all health issues.
I think term limits don't take into consideration that if someone in office is doing a terrific job, to remove them in the midst of their ongoing accomplishments, would be a mistake, given the dramatic lack of positive initiatives being carried out by Congress at this time.

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Campaign website

Dejean's campaign website stated the following:

“

HOUSING

HEALTHCARE

ENVIRONMENT

DIVERSITY

BUSINESS[2]

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—Joel Dejean's campaign website (2022)[3]

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 3, 2022
    2. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    3. ↑ Joel Dejean for Congress, “Platform,” accessed September 21, 2022


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