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Martin Lucas
Martin Lucas (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Indiana's 1st Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on May 7, 2024.
Biography
Martin Lucas was born in Chicago, Illinois, and lives in Schererville, Indiana. Lucas graduated from Mount Carmel High School. He earned a B.S. in finance from DePaul University in 1984 and an M.B.A. from Purdue Northwest University. Lucas' career experience includes working as an engagement lead with IBM and an account manager with AT&T.[1][2][3]
Elections
2024
See also: Indiana's 1st Congressional District election, 2024
Indiana's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (May 7 Democratic primary)
Indiana's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (May 7 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Indiana District 1
Incumbent Frank Mrvan defeated Randell Niemeyer and Dakotah Miskus in the general election for U.S. House Indiana District 1 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Frank Mrvan (D) | 53.4 | 172,467 |
 | Randell Niemeyer (R)  | 44.9 | 145,056 | |
 | Dakotah Miskus (L) | 1.6 | 5,200 | |
| Total votes: 322,723 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jason Brown (American Independent Party)
- Tiffany Ford (Independent)
- Samuel Kravitz (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 1
Incumbent Frank Mrvan advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 1 on May 7, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Frank Mrvan | 100.0 | 31,155 |
| Total votes: 31,155 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 1
Randell Niemeyer defeated Mark Leyva and David Ben Ruiz in the Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 1 on May 7, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Randell Niemeyer | 60.8 | 18,449 |
 | Mark Leyva | 24.8 | 7,509 | |
 | David Ben Ruiz | 14.4 | 4,367 | |
| Total votes: 30,325 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Martin Lucas (R)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Lucas in this election.
2022
See also: Indiana's 1st Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Indiana District 1
Incumbent Frank Mrvan defeated Jennifer-Ruth Green and William Powers in the general election for U.S. House Indiana District 1 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Frank Mrvan (D) | 52.8 | 112,656 |
 | Jennifer-Ruth Green (R) | 47.2 | 100,542 | |
| William Powers (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 9 | ||
| Total votes: 213,207 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 1
Incumbent Frank Mrvan defeated Richard Fantin in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 1 on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Frank Mrvan | 86.4 | 34,489 |
| Richard Fantin | 13.6 | 5,413 | ||
| Total votes: 39,902 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 1
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 1 on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jennifer-Ruth Green | 47.1 | 14,616 |
 | Blair Milo | 22.4 | 6,964 | |
| Mark Leyva | 13.5 | 4,173 | |
| Nicholas Pappas | 7.8 | 2,409 | ||
 | Martin Lucas | 3.6 | 1,114 | |
| David Ben Ruiz | 3.4 | 1,054 | |
 | Aaron Storer | 2.2 | 692 | |
| Total votes: 31,022 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Tom Madden (R)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Martin Lucas did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Martin Lucas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Lucas' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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On May 3, 2022, in the Indiana Republican primary, vote for Martin Lucas.
My website is www.votelucas.com.
- Term Limits
- Lifetime ban on all politicians and their families from becoming lobbyists
- Donate to charities not to political campaigns
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Campaign website
Lucas' campaign website stated the following:
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National Debt At the end of 2021, the United States federal debt was estimated at $29.7 trillion. To put this in perspective, 29.7 trillion seconds is more than 941,155 YEARS!!!! To make matters worse, this number is getting larger and larger each passing day.
"We need to eliminate waste, fraud, patronage, nepotism, cronyism, bureaucratic bloat, inside deals, conflicts of interest and pay-to-play and on and on. We must demand a government that serves the public first, not the powerful and connected." Above quote from Andy Shaw - President & CEO of the Better Government Association.
The political landscape is about money. The politician needs money to get re-elected. It has nothing to do about leading the country with ideas. Politicians spend millions on political consultants. Put the right image on the screen and the right words in the script, all the candidates has to do is read the lines. Do not blame the lobbyists and political action committees, but rather the self-serving career politician. Money provides access. Access is power. Access is clout. The career politician leaves Washington and becomes a lobbyist. The same people and families play the money game. Where is the incentive? Are you concerned about the welfare of your county or simply staying in power for personal financial gains? Term limits and a lifetime ban on the politician and their entire family from becoming lobbyists are two ways to correct this problem.
Most people attend school hoping to obtain a good job upon graduation. Businesses and education institutions should form more partnerships where specific education training matches the skills lacking and needed for businesses to excel in today’s global economy. We need more engineers, scientists and vocational career trades people. We need more efficient methods to produce more sources of energy that will continue to sustain and improve our lifestyles. From a K-12 level, we should provide vouchers to all who need them. We need to create charter schools to provide competitive alternatives and improve education. Focus at the local level rather than a top down approach with the student and families being the central focus.
If you go back in our nation’s history from slavery, crop duster, Jim Crow, denial of social upward mobility, red lining, denial of bank loans and home ownership, then you need to really admire how any black person has gotten ahead in this country. Let me tell two stories. The first story describes certain neighborhoods in this country that can best be described as war zones. I think every American should take a weekend vacation to these neighborhoods. Pack up a picnic basket, bring a kite and bicycles along with your 16-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son and experience life in the ghetto. Everybody is saying, “Are you crazy? I would not step foot in those neighborhoods.” I do not blame you, however, you must remember that people actually live there and have 16-year-old daughters and 13-year-old sons. How can our country be so indifferent? Why do we allow these neighborhoods to exist? Where is the compassion for improvement and assistance? The second story is pretending that two babies are being born at the exact same moment right now. The first baby has two parents that are both 28-years old and have been married for three years. It is their first child. The father is a manager at a Fortune 500 company. The wife is a schoolteacher. She has decided to quit her job for the first few years to raise the baby. The second baby has a mother who is 23 years old. This is her third child. She has never been married. Each child has a different father. None of the men provide any support to the woman or the children. All three men and the woman have drug problems and have been in and out of jail. Now with just those facts, which child do you think will be better off social-economically in twenty years? Wait, I forgot two facts. The married couple is black. The drug users and jail people are all white. Now that race has entered the picture, does your answer change?
I am a strong supporter of capitalism, however, here is a problem I have with Wall Street. A company has two choices. The first is building a new plant, hiring more workers, spending more money on research and development, and giving pay raises. The second is to take that money and buy back their own company shares. Wall Street punishes the stock price for first choice while rewarding the second choice. The first is much better for the long-term success of this country. The second is a mere paper transaction.[4] |
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| —Martin Lucas' campaign website (2022)[5] | ||
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 3, 2022
- ↑ Elect Martin Lucas, "Background," accessed March 17, 2022
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Marty Lucas," accessed March 17, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Elect Martin Lucas, “Thoughts and Issues,” accessed March 8, 2022
