Martin Alexander

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Martin Alexander

Democratic Party

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Last election

May 3, 2022

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Martin Alexander (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Ohio's 6th Congressional District. Alexander lost in the Democratic primary on May 3, 2022.

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

Elections

2022

See also: Ohio's 6th Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Ohio District 6

Incumbent Bill Johnson defeated Lou Lyras in the general election for U.S. House Ohio District 6 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Bill Johnson (R)	67.7	189,883
		Lou Lyras (D)	32.3	90,500

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 280,383
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 6

Lou Lyras defeated Eric Jones and Martin Alexander in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 6 on May 3, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Lou Lyras	41.7	8,649
		Eric Jones	33.8	7,002
	Submit photo	Martin Alexander	24.5	5,084

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 20,735
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Shawna Roberts (D) (Unofficially withdrew)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 6

Incumbent Bill Johnson defeated John Anderson, Michael Morgenstern, and Gregory Zelenitz in the Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 6 on May 3, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Bill Johnson	77.3	57,292
		John Anderson	12.5	9,237
		Michael Morgenstern	6.7	4,936
		Gregory Zelenitz	3.6	2,634

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 74,099
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2021

See also: Ohio's 11th Congressional District special election, 2021

General election

Special general election for U.S. House Ohio District 11

Shontel Brown defeated Laverne Gore in the special general election for U.S. House Ohio District 11 on November 2, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Shontel Brown (D)	78.9	82,913
		Laverne Gore (R)	21.1	22,198

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 105,111
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Democratic primary election

Special Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 11

The following candidates ran in the special Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 11 on August 3, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Shontel Brown	50.1	38,505
		Nina Turner	44.6	34,239
		Jeffrey Johnson	1.8	1,388
		John E. Barnes Jr.	1.0	801
	Submit photo	Shirley Smith	0.8	599
		Seth Corey	0.6	493
	Submit photo	Pamela Pinkney	0.2	184
	Submit photo	Will Knight	0.2	182
		Tariq Shabazz	0.2	134
	Submit photo	Martin Alexander	0.1	105
		James Jerome Bell	0.1	101
	Submit photo	Lateek Shabazz	0.1	61
	Submit photo	Isaac Powell	0.1	52

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 76,844
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Bryan Flannery (D)
• Daniel Corrigan (D)

Republican primary election

Special Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 11

Laverne Gore defeated Felicia Ross in the special Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 11 on August 3, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Laverne Gore	74.0	4,009
	Submit photo	Felicia Ross	26.0	1,405

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 5,414
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Martin Alexander is a long time Ohio resident and has lived in the Youngstown and Boardman areas for the past 12 years and previously resided in Shaker Heights for 30 years. He graduated from Shaker Heights High School. Next, Martin graduated, with honors, from New York University with dual majors in Politics and Sociology and a minor in History. Subsequently, Martin graduated from the Harvard Law School. In addition to working as an attorney, Martin has served the community working on the front lines before and during the pandemic as a substitute teacher (grades Pre-K - 12). I want to be a federal lawmaker, so I can utilize my Ivy League, legal education to make our society more democratic, fair and just. For instance, unbeknownst to most, the U. S. justice system has been transformed into an injustice system. The 7th Amendment used to guarantee every American citizen a constitutional right to a civil jury trial. But in 2007 and 2009, the Supreme Court's Twombly and Iqbal decisions overturned a landmark civil rights case Conley v. Gibson and unconstitutionally heightened the federal court pleading standard. In his Twombly dissent, former justice, the late John Paul Stevens warned that changing the pleading standard would lead to the unlawful, unconstitutional, immediate dismissals of Black peoples' lawsuits “... based on assurances of company lawyers that nothing untoward was afoot.” I will introduce or reintroduce a prior bill to legislatively overturn Twombly-Iqbal.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• I would introduce or reintroduce a bill to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. I will assist individuals, businesses, and municipalities in applying for and obtaining available federal funding. I would introduce a bill to allow those who have experienced economic misfortune for an extended period to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy. I would introduce a bill to require the Postal Service to replace its fleet of mail trucks with electric vehicles and have them produced in the 6th District. I would strive to increase federal funding for public education. I would introduce a bill to create a National Federal Job Placement Agency tasked with the duty of assisting lower income, unemployed or underemployed job seekers.
• I will fight to: end gerrymandering and ensure all Americans have access to the ballot and that every vote counts; ensure that every American has access to healthcare and their choice of private or public insurance; keep guns out of the hands of those who are convicted felons, mentally ill, or minor children; make using deadly force in self-defense a last resort; increase funding for better police training.
• Some judges now draw artificial distinctions to create two, divergent bodies of law: Precedential Law for wealthy Caucasians, and so-called Non-Precedential Summary Order Law for Blacks, other minorities, and less affluent white Americans. Precedential Law confers rights; Non-Precedential Summary Order Law takes those same rights away. This allows judges to pick and choose any law they want to produce the desired discriminatory result. This and other such Neo-Apartheid, Jim Crow 10.0 tactics are being used to surreptitiously disenfranchise American citizens. I will introduce a bill to stop this and all Neo-Apartheid, Jim Crow 10.0 legal tactics.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Economic Policy, Healthcare, Housing, Judicial Reform, Civil Rights.

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2021

Martin Alexander did not complete Ballotpedia's 2021 Candidate Connection survey.

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Footnotes

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Ohio's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Jon Husted (R)

Bernie Moreno (R)

Representatives

District 1

Greg Landsman (D)

District 2

David Taylor (R)

District 3

Joyce Beatty (D)

District 4

Jim Jordan (R)

District 5

Bob Latta (R)

District 6

Michael Rulli (R)

District 7

Max Miller (R)

District 8

Warren Davidson (R)

District 9

Marcy Kaptur (D)

District 10

Michael Turner (R)

District 11

Shontel Brown (D)

District 12

Troy Balderson (R)

District 13

Emilia Sykes (D)

District 14

David Joyce (R)

District 15

Mike Carey (R)

Republican Party (12)

Democratic Party (5)