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Kristian Stout

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Kristian Stout
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Education

Law

Rutgers School of Law

Contact

Personal website

Kristian Stout was a 2017 Republican candidate for District 14 of the New Jersey General Assembly.

Biography

Stout earned his J.D. from the Rutgers School of Law. His professional experience includes working as a computer programmer, as the owner of a software services firm, as a professor at Rutgers University, for the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, and at a nonpartisan think tank.[1]

Campaign themes

2017

Stout's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Outrageous Levels of Taxation that Drive Our Residents Out of the State

  • Property taxes are the master lock binding together many of the problems we face. Thanks to constant spending increases and no appetite among career politicians to actually cut spending, the cost of living in New Jersey — whether you rent or own — had gone through the roof.
  • And on top of being the most taxed state, we are consistently ranked as one of the worst states in which to start a business. Our legal and regulatory environment has grown together into a dense thicket of expensive red tape.
  • We need representatives who are serious about reducing the burdens that have driven over 2 million residents and over $18b of taxable income from the state – income that, if returned, would generate tax revenues that could be used to relieve our property tax burden.

Unfair Education Funding that Hurts our Schools, Kids and Teachers

  • The largest share of property tax expense in our district comes from education spending. To be frank, the state has fallen down on the job of supporting the schools in our community. And the answer is not more taxes, but a fairer distribution of the education funding we already have.
  • There is no reason that the towns in our community should be suffering punishingly high tax burdens when places like Jersey City are funded well beyond what they need to efficiently educate their students.
  • We need to rethink all the components that go into our school funding formula, but a fairer distribution of that money would go a tremendous way toward both easing our property tax burden as well as getting our kids and their teachers they resources they need.

Incumbent Politicians Who Take Us for Granted

  • For over a decade and a half we have “enjoyed” a one-party monopoly dominated legislature. And the result of such a unilateral government is entirely what you would expect: the same players move through the ranks, getting appointed to office and rewarded with campaign cash for dutiful service to their party.
  • The Democrat majority is not concerned about us. They don’t believe we will ever vote them out, and so they feel comfortable mouthing platitudes while allowing business as usual to continue. This has got to stop.
  • Until we let professional politicians know that they work for us, and that we will vote them out of office, they just won’t take us seriously. They have voted in their own interest for over fifteen years. Now it’s time to elect people to the legislature who will vote in our interest.[2]
 ”
—Kristian Stout[3]

Elections

2017

See also: New Jersey General Assembly elections, 2017

General election

Elections for the New Jersey General Assembly took place in 2017. All 80 seats were up for election. State assembly members are elected to two-year terms. The general election took place on November 7, 2017. A primary election took place on June 6, 2017. The filing deadline for the primary election was April 3, 2017.[4] Legislative districts in the New Jersey General Assembly are multi-member districts, with two representatives in each district. In Democratic and Republican primary elections, the top two candidates move forward to the general election, and the top two candidates in the general election are declared the winners.[5] Incumbent Wayne DeAngelo (D) and incumbent Daniel Benson (D) defeated Kristian Stout (R) and Steven Uccio (R) in the New Jersey General Assembly District 14 general election.[6][7]

New Jersey General Assembly, District 14 General Election, 2017
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Wayne DeAngelo Incumbent 30.04% 35,596
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Daniel Benson Incumbent 29.61% 35,088
     Republican Kristian Stout 20.86% 24,725
     Republican Steven Uccio 19.50% 23,106
Total Votes 118,515
Source: New Jersey Department of State

Democratic primary election

Incumbent Wayne DeAngelo and incumbent Daniel Benson were unopposed in the New Jersey General Assembly District 14 Democratic primary election.[8][9]

New Jersey General Assembly, District 14 Democratic Primary, 2017
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Wayne DeAngelo Incumbent 50.75% 10,474
Green check mark transparent.png Daniel Benson Incumbent 49.25% 10,165
Total Votes 20,639
Source: New Jersey Department of State

Republican primary election

Kristian Stout and Steven Uccio were unopposed in the New Jersey General Assembly District 14 Republican primary election.[10][9]

New Jersey General Assembly, District 14 Republican Primary, 2017
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Kristian Stout 50.79% 3,996
Green check mark transparent.png Steven Uccio 49.21% 3,872
Total Votes 7,868
Source: New Jersey Department of State

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Kristian Stout 2017 campaign website, "About Stout," accessed August 21, 2017
  2. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  3. ↑ Kristian Stout 2017 campaign website, "Issues," accessed August 21, 2017
  4. ↑ New Jersey Secretary of State, "2017 Primary Election Timeline," accessed March 21, 2017
  5. ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Official List, Candidates for General Assembly for Primary Election, June 6, 2017," accessed April 13, 2017
  6. ↑ New Jersey Department of State, "Candidates for General Assembly for General Election 11/07/2017 Election," accessed September 14, 2017
  7. ↑ New Jersey Department of State, "2017 official general election results," accessed November 30, 2017
  8. ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Official Candidate List," April 6, 2017
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 New Jersey Division of Elections, “2017 official primary election results for general assembly,” accessed July 13, 2017
  10. ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Official Candidate List," April 6, 2017


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