John McDermott (Michigan)
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John McDermott (Green Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Michigan's 9th Congressional District. McDermott lost in the general election on November 6, 2018.
McDermott completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2018. Click here to read the survey answers.
McDermott was a 2016 Green Party candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 9th Congressional District of Michigan.[1] McDermott was a 2014 Green Party candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 9th Congressional District of Michigan.[2]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Michigan District 9
Andy Levin defeated Candius Stearns, Andrea Kirby, and John McDermott in the general election for U.S. House Michigan District 9 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Andy Levin (D)  | 59.7 | 181,734 |
 | Candius Stearns (R) | 36.8 | 112,123 | |
 | Andrea Kirby (Working Class Party) | 2.2 | 6,797 | |
 | John McDermott (G) | 1.3 | 3,909 | |
| Total votes: 304,563 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Michigan District 9
Andy Levin defeated Ellen Lipton and Martin Brook in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Michigan District 9 on August 7, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Andy Levin | 52.4 | 49,612 |
 | Ellen Lipton | 42.4 | 40,174 | |
 | Martin Brook | 5.1 | 4,865 | |
| Total votes: 94,651 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Steven Bieda (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Michigan District 9
Candius Stearns advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Michigan District 9 on August 7, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Candius Stearns | 100.0 | 47,410 |
| Total votes: 47,410 | |||
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2016
Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Incumbent Sander Levin (D) defeated Christopher Morse (R), Matthew Orlando (L), and John McDermott (G) in the general election on November 8, 2016. No candidate faced a primary opponent in August.[3][4][1][5]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |  Sander Levin Incumbent |
57.9% | 199,661 | |
| Republican | Christopher Morse | 37.4% | 128,937 | |
| Libertarian | Matthew Orlando | 2.8% | 9,563 | |
| Green | John McDermott | 1.9% | 6,614 | |
| Total Votes | 344,775 | |||
| Source: Michigan Secretary of State | ||||
2014
McDermott ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent Michigan's 9th District. He was defeated by incumbent Sandy Levin (D) in the general election on November 4, 2014.
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Sander Levin Incumbent |
60.4% | 136,342 | |
| Republican | George Brikho | 36.1% | 81,470 | |
| Libertarian | Gregory Creswell | 2.1% | 4,792 | |
| Green | John McDermott | 1.4% | 3,153 | |
| Total Votes | 225,757 | |||
| Source: Michigan Secretary of State | ||||
Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
John McDermott participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on September 29, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and John McDermott's responses follow below.[6]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Peace, 2) Economic Justice, 3) Legal Justice.[7][8] | ” |
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | 1) Foreign Policy, 2) Economic Policy, 3) Rule of Law.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[8]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. John McDermott answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?
| “ | I admire Presidents Kennedy and Reagan. JFK sought to avoid entanglement in Vietnam (NSAM #263, Oct. '63), to prevent Federal Reserve overreach (Exec. Order #11110), to prevent unregulated nuclear weapon proliferation and to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act through his A.G. RFK. Reagan dignified our social 'Safety Net', demanded 'Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall' and renewed a sense of optimism about America.[8] | ” |
| “ | Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.[8] | ” |
| “ | Real leaders inspire their people to do what those people alone can do.[8] | ” |
| “ | I am willing to speak truth to power. For example, I may be the first candidate for Congress from Michigan to publicly say we were lied to about the nature of the 9/11 event. That murderous and traumatic event has been used as the pretext for the phony War on Terror, seventeen years of war in the Middle East, an open attack on our civil liberties and catastrophic deficit spending. 9/11 was an inside job whose perpetrators have escaped justice.[8] | ” |
| “ | An elected Representative must be willing and able to communicate candidly with constituents. Rep. Amash uses social media to discuss and report each of his votes. President Trump uses twitter, sometimes with powerful effect. Yet a disturbing percentage of the 9th District residents I have met do not even know who represents them in Congress!?[8] | ” |
| “ | I support and will defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.[8] | ” |
| “ | I could almost recite from memory a nearly complete starting roster of the 1968 Detroit Tigers although I was only a second grader. I was struck dumb and was unable to speak when I met Al Kaline in 1995. However, even before 1968 I can remember Walter Cronkite reporting body counts from Vietnam. I was two when JFK was killed and remember looking at Time/Life photos of the assassination from earliest childhood, but do not remember the event itself.[8] | ” |
| “ | I cut a neighbor lady's lawn from age nine until age sixteen.[8] | ” |
| “ | I did once spill a large glass of diet pepsi in my lap while reaching across a crowded restaurant table top for a forkful of flaming hot saganaki from her plate.[8] | ” |
| “ | All Hallow's Eve for personal reasons. Thanksgiving for best time with friends and best food. Christmas easily has the best collection of musical tributes from Pavarotti to Celine Dion to Alvin and the Chipmunks.[8] | ” |
| “ | I do not have one favorite book. However, one book which forever changed my then naive understanding of practical politics was Robert Caro's Master of the Senate.[8] | ” |
| “ | Let us each strive to be our authentic selves.[8] | ” |
| “ | I struggle with nicotine addiction.[8] | ” |
| “ | The House has no desks because its Members have not worked there in over one hundred years. House Members convene only in partisan caucuses which reinforce the partisan gridlock and reinforce the power of Party leaders instead of empowering the Members themselves. The British House of Commons is unlike our House and is at times an inspiring deliberative body.[8] | ” |
| “ | Our divisive partisan political culture has become so toxic we may be better served by Representatives who have no experience in Washington or Lansing.[8] | ” |
| “ | We must address our $21 trillion National Debt yet fund the retirement legacy costs of the Baby Boomers, ten thousand of whom are turning 65 every day. We must withdraw our military presence honorably from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Eastern Europe. We must drastically shrink our bloated Government's size by shrinking the Military Industrial Complex and the Pharma Medical Complex.[8] | ” |
| “ | Committee assignments are generally made at the pleasure of Party leaders.[8] | ” |
| “ | N/A.[8] | ” |
| “ | Yes.[8] | ” |
| “ | Term limits should not be necessary. They do not work. Voting works, if voters are informed and involved. However, our citizens have been deprived for years of accurate informative journalism regarding our government's conduct. Half of eligible voters do not bother to vote because they have so little faith in our government and so little faith their vote matters.[8] | ” |
| “ | I applaud VNP's Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission ballot proposal. Vote Yes on Proposal 2! I would have preferred the Michigan Legislature repair its own gerrymandering mess, but our Legislature lacks any integrity. I believe the Voting Rights Act ought to also be updated to reduce District gerrymandering and other electoral abuses in the future.[8] | ” |
| “ | There are currently no Green Party Members in the House.[8] | ” |
| “ | A friend was serving with the Army airborne at a base in US on 9/11. That base was promptly locked down. The troops could only sit watching the 9/11 event on television because they were prohibited leaving the base. The sappers watched the footage with professional insight and described in detail to their fellow soldiers why the WTC structures were clearly demolished by professionally placed, controlled demolition charges. Veteran suicides exceeded 20 per day in 2014.[8] | ” |
See also
- United States House of Representatives
- Michigan's 9th Congressional District election, 2018
- Michigan's 9th Congressional District election, 2016
- Michigan's 9th Congressional District elections, 2014
- Michigan's 9th Congressional District
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Michigan Secretary of State, "2016 Michigan Candidate Listing," accessed September 6, 2016
- ↑ Michigan Secretary of State, "2014 Unofficial Michigan General Candidate Listing," accessed August 20, 2014
- ↑ Michigan Secretary of State, "2016 Michigan Candidate Listing," accessed April 20, 2016
- ↑ Politico, "Michigan House Primaries Results," August 2, 2016
- ↑ CNN, "Election Results," accessed November 8, 2016
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "John McDermott's responses," September 29, 2018
- ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 8.15 8.16 8.17 8.18 8.19 8.20 8.21 8.22 8.23 8.24 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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