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Merrill Anderson
Merrill Anderson (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Minnesota. He lost in the Republican primary on August 14, 2018.
Anderson was a Republican candidate for Governor of Minnesota in the 2014 elections. He was defeated in the Republican primary on August 12, 2014. The general election took place on November 4, 2014.
Biography
Anderson served as a Mandarin interpreter with the United States Army from 1956 to 1959. He proceeded to found the public relations firm Merrill Anderson & Associates, which he ran for 39 years. Anderson also created and oversaw a social service agency called Reachout Inc. for 33 years.[1]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Minnesota
Incumbent Amy Klobuchar defeated Jim Newberger, Dennis Schuller, and Paula Overby in the general election for U.S. Senate Minnesota on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Amy Klobuchar (D) | 60.3 | 1,566,174 |
 | Jim Newberger (R) | 36.2 | 940,437 | |
 | Dennis Schuller (Legal Marijuana Now Party) | 2.6 | 66,236 | |
 | Paula Overby (G) | 0.9 | 23,101 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 931 | ||
| Total votes: 2,596,879 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Minnesota
Incumbent Amy Klobuchar defeated Steve Carlson, Stephen Emery, David Robert Groves, and Leonard Richards in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Minnesota on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Amy Klobuchar | 95.7 | 557,306 |
 | Steve Carlson | 1.7 | 9,934 | |
 | Stephen Emery | 1.2 | 7,047 | |
| David Robert Groves | 0.8 | 4,511 | ||
| Leonard Richards | 0.6 | 3,552 | ||
| Total votes: 582,350 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Minnesota
Jim Newberger defeated Merrill Anderson, Rae Hart Anderson, and Roque De La Fuente in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Minnesota on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jim Newberger | 69.5 | 201,531 |
 | Merrill Anderson | 15.7 | 45,492 | |
| Rae Hart Anderson | 8.9 | 25,883 | ||
 | Roque De La Fuente | 5.9 | 17,051 | |
| Total votes: 289,957 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
2014
- See also: Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2014
Anderson ran for election as Governor of Minnesota. He lost the Republican nomination in the open primary election along with lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Mark Anderson. Current incumbent Mark Dayton, a Democrat first elected governor in 2010, ran for a second term in 2014.[2]
The general election took place on November 4, 2014.
Results
Primary
| Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, Republican Primary, 2014 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
 Jeff Johnson/Bill Kuisle |
30.3% | 55,836 | ||
| Kurt Zellers/Dean Simpson | 23.9% | 44,046 | ||
| Marty Seifert/Pam Myhra | 21.1% | 38,851 | ||
| Scott Honour/Karin Housley | 20.8% | 38,377 | ||
| Merrill Anderson/Mark Anderson | 3.8% | 7,000 | ||
| Total Votes | 184,110 | |||
| Election results via Minnesota Secretary of State. | ||||
Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Merrill Anderson participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on May 8, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Merrill Anderson's responses follow below.[3]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) NATIONAL SECURITY - The primary duty of the Federal Government under the Constitution is to protect the Lives, Liberties and Property of our citizens. Our sitting politicians have strayed from those precepts, embracing an ersatz internationalist concept of Americans as "world citizens:...which justifies, in their inds, giving away U.sS. sovereignty, "Open Borders" and other actions my constituency does not feel are good for America. We need to return to basics, secure our borders and reinvigorate American exceptionalism. 2) ECONOMY - Many of the problems now concentrated in our urban core sties: Structural Unemployment, Homelessness, Educational Disparities, Drug and STD Epidemics would change to a marked degree with improved entry level jobs and training. People with self pride in their ability to hold their own, identifyin with a career, are less likely to self injure themselves and their families with abusive bahaviorss. |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | HERE'S ON3 - LET MY OPEN LETTER TO CHUCK 3. SCHUMER SPEAK FOR ITSELF. https://www.facebook.com/search/str/mERRILL+ANDERSON+RE+SCHUMER/keywords_searchCite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[5]
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2014
Anderon's campaign website listed the following themes for the 2014 election:
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I'm going to try to pull off a kind of cybermiracle, using the internet to get my message across to overcome what I consider the bias of our state media outlets in favor of career politicians. A major reason I am running is to try, in the State of Minnesota at least, to break the stranglehold that machine politics have had on the majority of "cities of the first class" across the country, to all our disadvantage and for far too long. Controlling the vote in those population centers often propels candidates into statewide Constitutional offices who are unwilling ot unable to understand the interests and needs of citizens who live and work beyond the urban borders.. Despite the War on Drugs, Great Society, Model Cities Program, the National Defense Highway Program, generations of bloc grants....trillions of dollars poured into these and a multitude of other Federal, State and Local Education initiatives.....Drug use is trending up again, core cities are losing population fast...community relations are worse than ever...jobs are like hens teeth...you just can't find them...and our education system is dumbing down our kids...not preparing them for the future. And the Political Machines, like dragons eating their own tails, keep eating up more and more money from the taxpayers...with the people who are in need getting the leftovers, the dregs. I was born in Minneapolis 7 decades ago. I've been on scene long enough to remember when we kept up infrastructure and planned well for needed expansions. I remember a Minnesota which got it's streets and highways plowed curb to curb every winter and where the potholes were patched each spring and roads in need were repaved as required. We weren't sending so much money to Washington then and standing hat in hand begging for bits and pieces to come back. I believe I can knit together all the wonderfully disparate elements that go into building and maintaining a great state and good jobs for all who wish to work.. If it tickles your funny bone at all to shake up the powers that be....and think a fresh Governor's team might be just the thing...then be one of my Volunteers...get on your computer and SHARE this site with every friend you can think of. . Let's give the political pros and pundits something to chew on for the next few decades....and make some history![5] |
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| —Merrill Anderon's campaign website, (2014)[1] | ||
Campaign finance summary
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See also
- United States Senate
- United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2018
- Governor of Minnesota
- Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2014
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Merrill Anderson for Governor of Minnesota, "About Me," accessed August 6, 2014
- ↑ The Star Tribune, "Republican Scott Honour jumps into governor's race," April 24, 2013
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Merrill Anderson's responses," May 8, 2018
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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