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Joshua Brown (California)

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Joshua Brown
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Peace and Freedom Party

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Last election

June 7, 2022

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Redding, Calif.
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Joshua Brown (Peace and Freedom Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 1. He lost in the primary on June 7, 2022.

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

Biography

Joshua Brown was born in Redding, California. Brown has been affiliated with the Peace and Freedom Party, Redding Red Meals, and Communist Unity Roundtable USA.[1]

Elections

2022

See also: California State Assembly elections, 2022

General election

General election for California State Assembly District 1

Incumbent Megan Dahle defeated Belle Starr Sandwith in the general election for California State Assembly District 1 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Megan Dahle (R)
 
62.1
 
129,527
Image of Belle Starr Sandwith
Belle Starr Sandwith (D) Candidate Connection
 
37.9
 
79,068

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 208,595
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 1

Incumbent Megan Dahle and Belle Starr Sandwith defeated Kelly Tanner and Joshua Brown in the primary for California State Assembly District 1 on June 7, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Image of Megan Dahle
Megan Dahle (R)
 
52.5
 
79,201
✔
Image of Belle Starr Sandwith
Belle Starr Sandwith (D) Candidate Connection
 
34.0
 
51,237
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Kelly Tanner (R)
 
11.6
 
17,577
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Joshua Brown (Peace and Freedom Party) Candidate Connection
 
1.9
 
2,898

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 150,913
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2022

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Candidate Connection

Joshua Brown completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Brown's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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My name is Joshua Brown, I'm a communist revolutionary based in Shasta County. I have organized and participated in many progressive marches. I am the founder and chair of Redding Red Meals, a group that buys food for the homeless. I am also the Vice Chair of the Shasta County Peace and Freedom Party and founder and chair of the Red Unity Roundtable USA. I have three disabilities; autism, epilepsy, and OCD, and my experience in the special education and mental health systems give me a unique perspective.
  • Make the rich pay so we can have free, public and universal healthcare, education, housing, utilities, gas, etc. Eliminate markets, private property, and social-classes. Centralized control over all industry, planned in the interests of the workers.
  • NorCal EcoSocialist Jobs Initiative: Create enough green union jobs in infrastructure, transportation, mining and development of 100% green renewable energy, thinning the forests for need, logging, and construction that we rapidly industrialize like in Stalin's Soviet Union and have a Chinese-style Belt and Road Initiative.
  • Soviet-style collectivization of agriculture: Create a system of ecologically based, sustainable, organic agriculture based on family farms and farming cooperatives that guarantee full workers' rights, uphold all environmental and safety standards, and treat their live-stock in a humane manner. Create socially owned enterprises in the areas of transportation, storage, and processing of agricultural goods, controlled by boards comprised of farmers, farm workers, and community members.
I am on the side of the workers of the North State, opposed to wage-slavery, for a living wage ($35/hr, then wither away the wage-system itself) and supporting worker ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange. I am opposed to the system of private property where one person selfishly owns something and others do not. I think this land was made for you and me. So I am for the nationalization of Big Ag, getting rid of their created destitution, wage-slavery, and inorganic crap they call "food.".

Nationalizing the healthcare system. Sacramento Democrats, with cheers from Megan Dahle, killed single-payer healthcare twice (AB 1400 and SB 562), which proves that they are way out of touch with the working class who gets sick and dies, and the working class needs to get them all out of office, replace them with socialists who will make healthcare free, universal, and public. I knew I had to step up to the plate for this election.

Combatting Covid-19 like China, Cuba, DPRK, and Vietnam did. Gavin Newsom, with cheers from Megan Dahle, lifted the few Covid-19 restrictions we do have WAY too soon. Newsom might preach a mask here and a vaccine there. Don't get me wrong- I favor both masks and vaccines, but when will the government recognize that we're in a state of emergency, not recovery, and we need universal healthcare, a strong health infrastructure, comprehensive planning and layered implementation? Answer: When the people realize we need socialism.
Karl Marx, a leader of the international proletariat, and the greatest of all theorists of socialism because he turned it from a utopia into a science. Also, Eugene Debs, the greatest of all American theorists of socialism.
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Being socialist, being honest, and being principled.
I know what it's like to fall through the cracks. I've been through the mental health system, like a lot of people in the North State.
To represent the working class of the North State.
I'm a socialist who planted a red flag in the far rural Northern California region
I remember the Occupy Wall Street movement, because I participated
I have never had a job. I'm disabled, so I collect Social Security benefits.
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. It describes a world without religion, social-classes, war, possessions, greed, hunger, or private property. A brotherhood of man.
Gabrielle from Xena: Warrior Princess because she gets to be with Xena.
This Land is Your Land, the national anthem of the soon to be created American Socialist Republic.
Autism
The executive and legislative branches should keep each other in check. That's how representative democracy works, but the problem is we're not a genuine republic- not when we have corporate rule.
Climate change- fires and drought. That has to top all other issues, because if Earth turns to Venus and human beings go extinct, no other issues matter. And to combat it, I propose banning fossil fuels and moving to 100% renewable energy immediately, I propose an EcoSocialist Jobs Initiative.

Homelessness, and to combat it, I propose we take public ownership of all vacant houses and apartments, and house people for free. I also propose that we abolish landlords, rents, evictions, mortgages, etc. and transfer ownership of housing to the tenants.

The growing number of millionaires and billionaires and the corruption that comes with it. We have so many millionaires and billionaires in this so-called "left coast", and not just in Bel Air, but in the North State, we have my arch enemy Reverge Anselmo. I want them all in a jail cell, I want money out of politics, etc.
I think it would be a good idea, and Eugene Debs agreed. The Senate is a fascist idea from Ancient Rome that destroys democracy and is literally intended to give power to oligarchs. Enough of bureaucracy. Enough of good bills getting killed under the pretext of "separation of powers."
No, I think it's worse. Some might argue that a young socialist like myself has no experience, but I've gone through the mental health and special education system that's failing because of the politicians with pseudo-experience that are in office now, and I think I have better judgement than them, and I don't think bouncing around from one office to another opportunistically just to gain more power gives you real experience, and it definitely does not give you good judgement.
I don't think the answer to making change lies in building relationships with capitalist and reactionary legislatures. I think it lies in building great social movements and struggle with the people. For though they may offer us concessions, change does not come from above.
Just give each county one representative. We in District 1 have had enough of politicians that live 5 counties away and never visit, and are the complete opposite of us in ideology and in class. And enough gerrymandering- break up the agreement the duopoly has to split up California. The Republicans have the far North, the Democrats have the South, and they are both seeking to keep that order.
I do not know yet
N/A
No.
Yes. I will do whatever it takes to build the socialist movement.
Quite a few that I've heard about people lacking healthcare or dying from Covid-19.
I don't have one.
No. That power needs to be in the hands of the Governor. One executive needs to be able to declare a state of emergency.
No. We've had too much compromise already. Enough is enough- enough of capitalist parties, enough of capitalists and reactionaries. For the sake of the working class, its time there was some bold socialist leadership here.

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