Joshua Richardson
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Joshua Richardson (Republican Party) ran for election for an at-large seat of the Charlotte City Council in North Carolina. Richardson lost in the general election on November 5, 2019.
Richardson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Richardson's career experience includes owning and serving as CEO of the Richardson Organization.[1]
Elections
2019
See also: City elections in Charlotte, North Carolina (2019)
General election
General election for Charlotte City Council At-large (4 seats)
Incumbent Julie Eiselt, incumbent Braxton Winston II, incumbent James Mitchell, and incumbent Dimple Ajmera defeated Joshua Richardson in the general election for Charlotte City Council At-large on November 5, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Julie Eiselt (D) | 23.9 | 67,713 |
| ✔ |  | Braxton Winston II (D) | 22.1 | 62,607 |
| ✔ |  | James Mitchell (D) | 22.0 | 62,508 |
| ✔ |  | Dimple Ajmera (D)  | 20.0 | 56,759 |
 | Joshua Richardson (R) | 11.3 | 32,167 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 1,784 | ||
| Total votes: 283,538 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Charlotte City Council At-large (4 seats)
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Charlotte City Council At-large on September 10, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Braxton Winston II | 19.4 | 45,018 |
| ✔ | | James Mitchell | 17.0 | 39,482 |
| ✔ | | Dimple Ajmera | 15.9 | 36,936 |
| ✔ | | Julie Eiselt | 15.9 | 36,868 |
 | LaWana Mayfield | 14.8 | 34,409 | |
 | Jorge Millares | 11.8 | 27,514 | |
 | Chad Stachowicz | 5.3 | 12,208 | |
| Total votes: 232,435 | |||
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Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Joshua Richardson advanced from the Republican primary for Charlotte City Council At-large.
Campaign themes
2019
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Joshua Richardson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Richardson'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 am a 21 year old native of North Carolina. I am a Christian and Conservative that wants to see real change in how we do business and what our goals are for political and social change. I personally feel that to be the difference you have to be different. Its why I use a mix of political and business strategies to provide local solutions to the problems people have. I am a soccer fan and enjoy reading in my spare time. I can see first hand how both areas develop and keep some one strong. In our modern world we have lost a true sense of community and I want to restore it through local programs like expanding affordable sports leagues. For me we fix our best problems inward and we need a government that stays focused on people not profit. I am a man made by my experience and my ideas made by the problems I have faced and that makes me who I am.
- Only back a government that backs you, your money, your time, and your ideas support our nation.
- Be tired of the political show, only settle for real change and not marketing.
- If we move forward it will only be through honesty, deamand action and accountability.
I want to change how we do business. We have a lot of for profit operations that are never profitable for people. Making manageable, lowered utility rates, ensuring revenue neutral taxation, and a local market economy that is prioritized on needs of the local people and not outside investment is key to the future. When we truly value our people and want to see the best for them we will make the policy changes and stop spending in areas that keep economic mobility at the bottom, over spending money, and generally fail to make results. We care more about looking good and than being it. it shows worse in safety. We played lose with drug laws when we made them now we are un doing them in the same manner. We are not looking to reduce exposure or treat people with addiction, simply turn a profit either from taxes from legal purchases or fees from arrests. We have to do better. We need need policing strategies that prioritize enforcing ordinances so a safer community that has a respect for the law can exist again. We also need to reforming zoning and code procedures. Our environment is being torn apart by endless building but this also causes higher levels of traffic that we have a infrastructure that was never built for. We have to limit this and do our best to fight predatory business ventures and property owners that do not do the right things and knowingly keep bad operations going.
I am a person of the people. Many candidates are recruited by donors and political parties. I was not, no one can call in a favor on me or expect me to vote a certain way. i will fully handle office through the needs and plans presented. These days political is a show and the greatest show performers are elected I want to change that and bring office back to the local issues and ensure we are operating well for people and not for profit.
Christ. He was the only person to sacrifice him self for people that he knew truly did not want it but truly needed it, and still loved them enough to lay him self down. Its the greatest sacrifice to die for people that truly do not want better. yet, you respect their lives and want them to succeed much more then they themselves that you do it anyways. No ones story has been greater.
Darkest Hour, The King's Speech, A Tale of Two Cities.
Honesty, Focus, selflessness, and understanding what sacrifice truly is. To do this job well, you give up a lot. That often pressures people into bad things to make up the lacks. You can not get caught up on the money, or being known and acclaimed you have to do better and be better. You have to be ready to take the heat and flack for a lot of things you frankly did not cause but have happened during your time in office. Knowing why you are there and what you are there for is the only way to avoid it over whelming you.
I have experienced life. I get what its like to be flushed out by the system and be in the minority trenches that no one else wants to admits are there. I am not based off my race but my faith. That faith leads me to believe in everyone and find the part of them that makes them the most successful. I didn't take the easy road but I did the behind the scenes work and wanted to be there for people. That's what made government and we have to return to it.
Ensure good policy is implemented, keep public finance in check, addressing citizen issues, and educating the public on what is taking place.
That I made politics something everyone could take part in and That I drafted holistic policy that touched all lives.
I started in lawn care. I spent some summer month cutting grass to earn money for a investment I wanted to make making games and doing game reviews in a company that was then called SOE. I also took some money and invested in the silver market. Those two transactions became my holding company, Richardson Organization.
Luke Skywalker. He fought hit own demons, brought down a empire and did not let that consumer him. Its a story of passion, trials of life, and completion of a mission.
Not letting what other people think direct me from the truth. Politics work in a party format and you get whipped to say the right things to the right people. Yet, truth should always out weigh popularity. I lost a lot in life and often I would hang on too people and things just to feel like life was okay. You have to learn to truly value your self and find a passion. Most politicians do not have passion as the only thing that matters is the next election.
All politicians have a duty to govern. It is our job to watch what staff and departments do and ensure they come in well budget and with good results. We have failed to do that and most accept simply what is told to them by workers.
Yes, if they did something with it. Experience only matters if you can present non political based results and you have a plan of policy that can be implemented to back it up.
I think a mix of community knowledge and business experience works best. Learning how to write policy and its legality would also prove effective.
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See also
2019 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 21, 2019
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