Joseph Powers
Joseph Powers (Republican Party) ran for election to the Rhode Island State Senate to represent District 26. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Powers completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: Rhode Island State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Rhode Island State Senate District 26
Incumbent Frank Lombardi defeated Joseph Powers in the general election for Rhode Island State Senate District 26 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Frank Lombardi (D) | 57.6 | 5,635 |
 | Joseph Powers (R)  | 42.2 | 4,128 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 23 | ||
| Total votes: 9,786 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 26
Incumbent Frank Lombardi defeated Eric Asselin in the Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 26 on September 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Frank Lombardi | 68.9 | 1,686 |
| Eric Asselin | 31.1 | 760 | ||
| Total votes: 2,446 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Michael Stephens (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 26
Joseph Powers advanced from the Republican primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 26 on September 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joseph Powers | 100.0 | 690 |
| Total votes: 690 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Joseph Powers completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Powers' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Started a family business in 2012 in real estate and worked as a small business consultant/advisor helping people start their own real estate investment business.
During that time I became a national speaker/trainer conducting training classes across the U.S.- Education: I firmly believe that reading, writing and arithmetic are the backbone to teaching our children to give them the best opportunity to succeed. I believe that parents and teachers need to work as a team to ensure that our children put in the work to learn the basics. I believe tha parents should parents and teachers should teach, one does not work without the other.
- Small Business Focus: Rhode Island has never ranked very high on the business friendliness scale, (currently 45th out of 50)that needs to change. We cannot get Rhode Island back on track with jobs and economy without job producers. We need to make the changes necessary to bring back the job producers, outside of the government, to make RI the industrial juggernaut it once was, and it was!
- Taxes: Rhode Islanders have been taxed to the brink of failure, and yet Rhode Island remains in deep fiscal trouble, a direct result of years of poor governance by the General Assembly.The only way out of our fiscal and economic hole is to cut spending and reduce our overall tax and regulatory burden so as to attract business and jobs.
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See also
2022 Elections
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