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Karsten Weide
Karsten Weide (Republican Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 19. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Weide completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2022
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 19
Incumbent Phil Ting defeated Karsten Weide in the general election for California State Assembly District 19 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Phil Ting (D) | 81.0 | 133,316 |
 | Karsten Weide (R)  | 19.0 | 31,252 | |
| Total votes: 164,568 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 19
Incumbent Phil Ting and Karsten Weide advanced from the primary for California State Assembly District 19 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Phil Ting (D) | 80.0 | 89,910 |
| ✔ | | Karsten Weide (R) | 20.0 | 22,509 |
| Total votes: 112,419 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Karsten Weide completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Weide's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Spiking violent crime. Homelessness and addiction. Failing public schools. The lack of affordable housing. A hostile business climate. State government mismanagement.
Our current leadership has created this crisis, and continues to only make things worse.
We can fix San Francisco - but we need new, fresh ideas to solve our city’s problems.
I am a pragmatic moderate who believes in facts, reason, and dialog. Left, right, center, no matter - let’s get together in the middle again, only that way can we turn our city around. Let’s tackle our challenges, and let’s have all ideas out on the table, without dogma or prejudice, and let’s debate the best way forward. California could be our paradise - but only if we make it so, together.
I am an industry analyst by profession, and I have spent all of my career in media and technology. I am a dad of three kids, two of which are still in school here in San Francisco. I am an immigrant from Germany. I have lived in the United States for more than 20 years, and 18 of those in San Francisco.
I grew up during the Cold War in democratic West Germany. I have been to socialist East Germany during the Cold War, also to Poland, Hungary and the Soviet Union. I have witnessed socialism in the real world - and the poverty and leaden oppression that come with it.- First and most importantly, we must restor public safety
- Secondly, we need to help homeless addicts, and get them off the street and into treatment.
- Thirdly, we need to fix our broken public schools.
Homelessness and addiction
Public schools
Affordable housing
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Candidate California State Assembly District 19 |
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