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Lavern Spicer
Lavern Spicer (No Party Affiliation) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Florida's 24th Congressional District. She lost as a write-in in the general election on November 5, 2024. She did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on August 20, 2024.
Biography
Lavern Spicer's career experience includes working as a cosmetologist. She has been affiliated with Curley's House of Style, the Liberty City Model Citizen Advisory Board, and the Federation of Republican Women.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Florida's 24th Congressional District election, 2024
Florida's 24th Congressional District election, 2024 (August 20 Democratic primary)
Florida's 24th Congressional District election, 2024 (August 20 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Florida District 24
Incumbent Frederica S. Wilson defeated Jesus Navarro and Lavern Spicer in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 24 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Frederica S. Wilson (D) | 68.2 | 194,874 |
 | Jesus Navarro (R)  | 31.8 | 90,692 | |
 | Lavern Spicer (No Party Affiliation) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 22 | |
| Total votes: 285,588 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Frederica S. Wilson advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 24.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 24
Jesus Navarro defeated Patricia Gonzalez in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 24 on August 20, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jesus Navarro | 56.8 | 5,755 |
 | Patricia Gonzalez | 43.2 | 4,371 | |
| Total votes: 10,126 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Lavern Spicer (R)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Spicer in this election.
2022
See also: Florida's 24th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Florida District 24
Incumbent Frederica S. Wilson defeated Jesus Navarro in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 24 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Frederica S. Wilson (D) | 71.8 | 133,442 |
| Jesus Navarro (R) | 28.2 | 52,449 | |
| Total votes: 185,891 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 24
Incumbent Frederica S. Wilson defeated Kevin Harris in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 24 on August 23, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Frederica S. Wilson | 89.3 | 56,776 |
 | Kevin Harris | 10.7 | 6,816 | |
| Total votes: 63,592 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Audrey Edmonson (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 24
Jesus Navarro defeated Lavern Spicer in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 24 on August 23, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jesus Navarro | 64.5 | 6,373 |
| Lavern Spicer | 35.5 | 3,506 | |
| Total votes: 9,879 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Patricia Gonzalez (R)
- Melinda Almonte (R)
2020
See also: Florida's 24th Congressional District election, 2020
Florida's 24th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Democratic primary)
Florida's 24th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Florida District 24
Incumbent Frederica S. Wilson defeated Lavern Spicer, Christine Alexandria Olivo, Howard Knepper, and Hector Rivera in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 24 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Frederica S. Wilson (D) | 75.6 | 218,825 |
| Lavern Spicer (R) | 20.4 | 59,084 | |
 | Christine Alexandria Olivo (No Party Affiliation) | 4.0 | 11,703 | |
 | Howard Knepper (R) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 17 | |
| Hector Rivera (No Party Affiliation) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 9 | ||
| Total votes: 289,638 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 24
Incumbent Frederica S. Wilson defeated Sakinah Lehtola and Ricardo De La Fuente in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 24 on August 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Frederica S. Wilson | 84.7 | 68,505 |
 | Sakinah Lehtola | 7.7 | 6,267 | |
 | Ricardo De La Fuente | 7.6 | 6,134 | |
| Total votes: 80,906 | |||
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Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Lavern Spicer advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 24.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Kirk Chong (R)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Lavern Spicer did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Spicer’s campaign website stated the following:
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SECURE THE DAMN BORDER NOW! |
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| —Lavern Spicer’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
2022
Lavern Spicer did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Spicer's campaign website stated the following:
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TERM LIMITS Our elected officials are meant to be public servants, not lifelong political albatrosses. The Founders believed civilian leaders should serve in government for a limited period of time, get the job done, and then go back to being a civilian. I THINK SO TOO. Today’s do-nothing problematic government has been ushered in by lobbyists and corrupt people who are in government not to serve the people, but to line their own pockets ad infinitum. My solution is that all Senators be limited to TWO six-year terms and the House being limited to FIVE two-year terms. TIMES CHANGE, ideas change, needs change — so must our leadership.
America is a great and prosperous nation and we need to keep it that way. This nation has always enabled immigrants to become a part of the American dream, and it has shaped the character of the nation in many ways. With that being said, the system is completely out-of-date. There are so many immigration loopholes now, that our laws don’t even mean anything. Our current immigration system needs to be completely overhauled in the following ways: 1. Complete the border wall on the US-Mexico border It’s not rocket science, it’s common sense! In the interest of national security, the flow of illegal immigration must be cut off before any meaningful reforms can be done. 2. Create a merit-based immigration system similar to what Canada and Australia have No immigrant should be admitted to the country who stands to become a burden on the system; we need to focus our resources on our citizens first. We want the world’s innovations to be created here and we can only do that by bringing the best of the best to our shores to enrich us with their labors and talents. 3. There are too many visas It seems like every letter of the alphabet has a visa category attached to it, and we need to close these “loopholes” that allow just anyone to come here and take jobs from hard-working Americans. We need to re-evaluate the various visas and eliminate ones that are out-of-date and frequently abused — such as the diversity visa lottery.
Remember last year when a $6 trillion spending package was passed? Remember how many thousands of pages it was? Remember how the Kennedy Center got $25 million in funds from a coronavirus relief bill? That all needs to end. Laws and bills that are proposed should not be allowed to be more than ten pages. This is not because I don’t like to read, but to ensure that the topics included in the bills are relevant to the cause at hand. Poison pills are so frequently slipped into various laws and bills that never even are found out until years later. Many times, great bills get held up for years because of one point in the bill that was included that is completely irrelevant. Let’s end all that. If the bill you’re proposing is more than ten pages, write a new bill for the other parts of it. Government efficiency.
My position on the Second Amendment is as follows: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” It does not get much clearer than that.
Americans paid into social security their whole lives. No one should ever touch it. It is not money that the government is giving us. It is money that we paid into the government and are owed back. Furthermore, social security should be tax-free. We paid into it our whole lives.
Social media has become a behemoth and through it we have been able to connect with people from around the country and around the world. But I bet if Facebook and Twitter would have told us right off the bat that, “We will be watching you and censoring you if we don’t like what you say to your friends,” those platforms never would have taken off. Social media censorship has become a direct attack on the 1st Amendment AS WELL AS A POLITICAL WEAPON FOR THE LEFT, and must be halted NOW! Mark Zuckerberg and Parag Agrawal should not arbiters of what can and cannot be spoken, and their combined power threatens to end American Democracy as we know it. When I am elected, I will support the removal of Section 230 protections on these companies. They have become publishers and curators of content rather than functioning as a global public square. Free speech is an absolute non-negotiable.
Homelessness is not just a Los Angeles and San Francisco problem, but one that should shock the conscience of ALL AMERICA. No family should be living on the street in a country that has spent over $8 trillion on fighting wars in the Middle East and sends multitudes of billions of dollars in foreign aid to the world. As a federal official, I will commit to raising this issue on a national scale. If local governments cannot OR WILL NOT get a handle on the problem, my solution is to work more closely with these local governments to ensure that money being sent to them to combat homelessness is actually used in proper ways and not “redirected’ or squandered.
COVID-19 has absolutely decimated small businesses. It will take years to recover from the draconian and ultimately pointless shutdowns that were imposed on the small businesses of America. President Trump’s PPP Loans were a great first step, but more needs to be done. Any subsequent stimulus bills that are passed in regards to coronavirus should focus on small businesses and direct relief for people. There should be no ludicrous unrelated spending on random projects throughout this country. There should be no padding of pockets of Biden cronies and Pelosi special interests. We must get the engine that is small business up & running again at full speed.
Every unborn child has a right to life, and our federal government should not be in the business of funding abortion because… ABORTION IS state-sponsored MURDER. Planned Parenthood should immediately be defunded because abortion is not birth control, nor is it a right as it appears nowhere in the Constitution or the Bible. I have zero room for discussion on this point. Furthermore, the sexualization of children in our country must end. We are watching as cartoons and other media (including state-sponsored media from PBS) intended for the youngest among us are being filled with sexualized content. This must end. Our internet is filled with child pornography and the smartphone makes it incredibly easy for human traffickers to target our children. This needs to be a priority for if we do not protect the children of America, we have no future.
The education system in America is broken. Public schools have been teaching our kids things that are simply anti-American. While I believe a strong public school system is a good thing, we should give Americans the power to choose the education style that fits their children best. Charter schools have produced incredible results in many communities, and they need to be lifted up as models throughout the nation. Furthermore, a focus on college education as a necessary step in one’s educational journey is something we need to move away from. If you want to go to college, fine. That’s great and I encourage it. That being said, college is not for everyone. We need welders, plumbers, electricians and so many other jobs that have been neglected in favor of this new notion that a four-year degree is the only way one can succeed. Trade schools should be brought to the forefront once again as an option right alongside college.[2] |
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| —Lavern Spicer's campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
2020
Lavern Spicer completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Spicer'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 also the owner of Curley's House Beauty Salon and the owner of the infamous Curley's House of Style Hope Relief Food Bank Inc. For a great many years, I have been a long standing community activist feeding and fighting for the food bank relief resources needed for poor people who been neglected by Congresswoman Frederic Wilson, District 24 and her congressional staff representatives.
I am also proudly married to Arthur Spicer for 2 years and we are managing partners of both businesses. I am looking to be the district next congressional representative and I need the Republican Party entire support.
Enough Is Enough- Time for a Change
- Hope is Here on the Horizon
- Ending a Do nothing Dynasty
I am looking forward to filing legislation that addresses our affordable housing needs and lack of economic opportunities.
I want to support policies that protect our 2nd Amendment and a right to bear arms
Truth Telling
Love for God and Country
Restrengthening and Rebuilding Our American Economy from the aftermath of the COVID-19 viruses.
Standing up to the democratic party political illegal alien invasion within America, but supporting and election non-citizens to public offices.
Transportation
Elderly
Criminal Justice
Education
Housing
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 19, 2020
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Lavern Spicer’s campaign website, “Issues,” accessed July 24, 2024
- ↑ Lavern Spicer for Congress, “Issues,” accessed August 19, 2022
