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Michael French
Michael French (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 21st Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on March 1, 2022.
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Biography
Michael French was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. French served in the U.S. Army from 1998 to 2015. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer networks and cybersecurity from the University of Maryland University College in 2017.[1][2]
French's career experience includes working as an intelligence analyst with Lackland Air Force Base, a functional analyst, and a satellite communications subject matter expert. He has been affiliated with the New Braunfels Conservatives, Texas Republican County Chairmen's Association, New Braunfels Republican Party, Bulverde Spring Branch Conservative Republicans, Convention of States Action, Blanco Country Republicans, Callahan Country Republicans, Hays Country Republicans, Travis Country Republicans, Young Conservatives of Comal Country (Helping Build), and New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce.[1][2]
Elections
2022
See also: Texas' 21st Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 21
Incumbent Chip Roy defeated Claudia Zapata in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 21 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Chip Roy (R) | 62.8 | 207,426 |
 | Claudia Zapata (D)  | 37.2 | 122,655 | |
| Total votes: 330,081 | |||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 21
Claudia Zapata defeated Ricardo Villarreal in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 21 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Claudia Zapata | 63.5 | 13,886 |
 | Ricardo Villarreal | 36.5 | 7,996 | |
| Total votes: 21,882 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 21
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 21 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Claudia Zapata | 47.2 | 16,604 |
| ✔ | | Ricardo Villarreal | 27.3 | 9,590 |
 | Coy Branscum | 9.0 | 3,157 | |
 | David Anderson | 8.6 | 3,038 | |
 | Scott Sturm | 5.3 | 1,865 | |
 | Cherif Gacis | 2.6 | 902 | |
| Total votes: 35,156 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 21
Incumbent Chip Roy defeated Robert Lowry, Dana Zavorka, and Michael French in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 21 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Chip Roy | 83.2 | 78,087 |
 | Robert Lowry | 8.1 | 7,642 | |
 | Dana Zavorka | 4.5 | 4,206 | |
 | Michael French | 4.1 | 3,886 | |
| Total votes: 93,821 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Michael French completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by French's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Finish the Wall and start Enforcing all Immigration Laws! A Gargantuan, unrelenting Tsunami of foreign nationals walk freely and without hesitation nor impedance throughout the southern border of Texas, immediately overwhelming all our southern cities and towns! We now have over 250,000 new illegal immigrants crossing each and every month! Fentanyl, drugs, sex-trafficking, human-trafficking, violence, COVID-19 infected, and death is marching over our border, wreaking havoc throughout the state of Texas and the rest of the United States! We do not have a Border!!! Our Nation's Sovereignty is at stake! Our Nation's Independence is at Stake! Our Nation's Liberties are at Stake! Our Nation's Freedoms are at Stake!
- To take Care of our National Debt and Unfunded Liabilities debt to the World. Our debt is killing our Nation! We are currently sitting at $28-34 Trillion in government national debt. We currently spend $6.8 Trillion to run this country and only take in $3.5 Trillion in federal tax revenue. We are currently borrowing, stealing I should say, over $154 Trillion in unfunded liabilities debt to the world, from countries like China and the Middle East. We are spending an average of $14 Trillion in nonsensical Bills each and every year that will not help our country, but to bring it to the brink of extinction from debt! We are formally over $205 Trillion dollars in a debt we do not expect to ever pay off! Stop the Spending!!!
- To take Care of our Military and our Police! Our military is the defender of freedom and liberty for all Americans! They provide safety and security to America and the World! Millions upon millions of American military men and women have given the ultimate sacrifice to allow all Americans to live free from tyrannical countries that wish us dead. We must fund them more and provide the tools they need to be successful and to generate a better fighting force. We must return to a “Peace through Strength” initiative! To Fund more the Police! We must defend and support our men and women of law enforcement! Our men and women in blue are being killed every day all across this nation! They are being disrespected and hated from the media!
I believe that we should have many tax breaks and tax cuts for every hard working American citizen! President Reagan and President Trump proved to us All that America can be very successful under this idea and action!
Within Government Operations, I believe that the federal government should be very small and should never interfere with the American citizen! We are far beyond the point of no return if we do nothing to finally control our overreaching, gargantuan, burdening, helping hand of the government. New policies and regulations that are conjured up by extreme environmentalists and Liberal minded youths are reaching into our pockets and banks accounts, and are strangling us to death! This must be stopped!!!
My Mother gave all she could to raise a family of five children and hundreds of pets! She made sure that we were loved and taken care of! My Father worked in the US Coast Guard. He gave us sight and responsibility! I do cherish everything they both did for us!!!
“Unfreedom of the Press”, Mark Levin: This book will show you, in great detail, the history of the press from the early American patriot press which promoted and talked about the ideals within the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution into a metastasized mutation by the Progressive hand and the introduction of propaganda, pseudo-events, and absolute lies communicated to America as actual news to promote an agenda for one particular party.
“Plunder and Deceit”, Mark Levin: This book will explain the steady growth of the federal government and the gargantuan, over reaching, overburdening hand over the American citizen. The parents within this country sit back and do nothing to politically fight back to control this growth and now it might be too late to stop it. W must rein back the powers of the government and give it back to the American people. From massive debt, second-rate education, the uncontrolled onslaught of illegal immigration, and the massively degrading military and national defense, this book goes through it all!
“American Marxism”, Mark Levin: Mark has created his greatest work to date! He explains the destruction of our United States Constitution and the progressive march to destroy everything American. Our freedoms are disappearing and I fear that we will never regain what we have lost. He explains that this new movement of the Democrat party, to destroy America, is and shall always be recognized as ‘American Marxism’!
A U.S. Representative must always put the citizen before thy self. A U.S. Representative has the awesome responsibility of making better the lives of the U.S. citizen, resolving any issues within a community and continuing the trust from the people they represent. I must provide the U.S. citizen a better pathway forward encompassing safety and security so that they do not have to worry about their future or their children’s future.
I have demonstrated how to be a true Leader, to those who know me! I have set extremely hard goals to Save Texas and to Save America! I will be unwavering when completing these goals! I do believe that you need a U.S. Veteran sitting in the U.S. Representative seat! I have the fighting fortitude and the ability to save Texas and to save America from Marxist charging Democrat Politicians! I will Not Fail!!! I Will Win! I Must Win!!!
I am extremely good at inspiring others to take action on pressing issues, and I will never collapse in my push to successfully complete the punishing task or tasks at hand.
I am very aware of myself and of others around me. I am a true fighter, and I can take criticism very well. Nothing phases me!
As an officeholder I must continuously look forward and constantly communicate with my constituents and listen to what they have to say. I will always keep them informed about every issue happening within my District, my State, and my country, and what I intend to do about it!!!.
As a great leader, I must understand every issue, the greatest and deadliest issues that are killing this Wonderful and Great Country. I must face these issues and I must Win! I must be brave and stand in the presence of the opposition and I must never fail over dangerous agendas!
I will never bend to the will of big corporations and to the Democrat Party! I will always have the interests of the people I represent and never choice me over them.
I will be extremely Fiscally Responsible, and I will be the fiercest of critics to the spending of America’s money!
I will only serve the American People! I will never forget this extremely important part of the job as a U.S. Representative!
Core Responsibilities:
• Faithfully serve, protect and preserve the United States Constitution, as written.
• Pledge allegiance to the United States of America and NEVER waiver from this pledge.
• Serve the U.S. citizen with great conviction and protect them from the evils of the world.
• Move with conviction to keep campaign promises and always care about the U.S. citizen.
• Never bend to the will of the opposition or the enemy, which would create great concern for the lives of the United States citizen and the future of our great country.
• Faithfully discharge the duties of the office and recognize that the people are always and forever in charge.
• Be forever truthful and honest about all issues and instances that are affiliated with the office.
I will show that the Republican Party is a Compassionate Party, and that it has always been a Compassionate Party. I will show that the Republican Party is an Aiding Party that Tirelessly concerns itself through Humility in Generosity, Prosperity, and has the will to fight for the success of all Americans. We constantly fight to ensure and Guarantee Freedom for All. We fight like hell to uplift the Citizen, not bring them down. We teach the idea of Freedom and Liberty. We help the Citizen to be successful in life and to be Independent. We do this, so that all Americans will know how to provide for their families and alone, create Financial Security and Stability, Everlasting Prosperity and Pride; a Reliable Future they can always count on, a future that they themselves have created. This is the great ingenuity of Americans. We can uplift one another and help one another to better our way of life. More importantly, we can show and teach the Citizen, that they can do all of this without the Helping Hand and the burden of the Government.
You Cannot Sell the Idea of Freedom to Those Who Think They are already Free!
I will show America that we need to build up our military and successfully bring back our Energy Independence! Our National Security is at risk, and we currently have very few elected officials that do care or comprehend this problem! We must stand up to China, to Russia, to Iran, to North Korea, and to Pakistan to engage in extremely heavy sanctions to stop them, as they are all very bad actors within this world! They want nothing more than to kill us!!! We must take back control while we still have the means to do it!
This September 11, 2001 event made me want to be a better soldier and a better American! I wanted to do my Greatest to protect America!!!
Today, we are frantically retreating from Afghanistan by leaving billions of dollars of highly sensitive and classified Armament, Artillery, Classified Documents and Computer Systems, American Citizens, and Strategic Military Bases to the enemy. We have abandoned and handed over our American citizens and military proprietary secrets to the enemy on foreign soil without regret. What America did was a Gargantuan Disgrace and we will feel the impact of this disgraceful retreat tactic for decades to come.
I was a Tankerman on pushboats and tugboats moving crude oil barges throughout the intracoastal waterways of Texas, Louisiana, and the Mississippi River. My extensive and grueling years working within the oil industry gave me the prodigious knowledge and understanding of how this industry operated and how it must continuously progress and move forward. Even at this early stage in my life, I recognized how this industry is of great importance to America’s National Security. I understand this industry and the Great importance it plays for the American families it employs and for Our Nation!
I have always struggled with finding a way to save my country. The thought of losing this Great and Wonderful country is something that cannot happen, but it seems to be on this perilous trajectory of Doom. I have been witnessing the obliteration of my family, my friends, my neighbors, and my fellow Americans as their Freedoms and Liberties are being taken away by the Gargantuan hand of the government. This devastating action has been happening for a great while. It has been thrusted into overdrive because of the COVID-19 lock-downs.
I am now bringing the responsibility to myself by running for U.S. Congress! I will fight hard to have a great impact and effect on stopping this total breakdown of our country! I must help heal Our Nations' Great Fracture!
The obligation of the US Representative is to act for the American people and to perform the assigned duties with the American people in mind, not to perform actions for the individual.
The House has the remarkable responsibility of introducing bills and resolutions, offer amendments and serve on committees. The House also has the power to initiate revenue bills, impeach government officials, and elect the President in the case of an Electoral College tie.
When an individual lives and breathes within a community, rendering countless years of time to be with that community, they will know firsthand everything needed for that community. This individual will be in a better position to advise and to help make better that community.
China has lost all respect for our nation and will continue to advance and strengthen their military! They are readying for War! China is actively attacking our power grids and other vital parts of our infrastructure. China is expanding and moving their military to every continent!
Russia has lost all respect for our nation and will continue to advance and strengthen their military! They are readying for War! Russia is actively attacking our oil pipelines, our power grids, our water supplies, our food plants! Russia is moving their military all over the world for global availability and easier access for military strikes! Russia is now becoming Energy Independent and is selling oil to Germany and other European countries! Hundreds of billions are now feeding the Russian military! Russia has joined forces with China militarily to prepare for War!
Iran has lost all respect for our nation and will continue to advance and strengthen their military! They are readying for War! Iran has moved successfully to 60% nuclear grade Uranium enrichment for nuclear weapons and are selling this material to Russia and China! Iran is being paid hundreds of Billions of dollars to become the world’s greatest terror state and will help Hamas defeat and kill Israel. Iran is selling battle ships and guns ships with intercontinental ballistic missiles to Venezuela.
North Korea has lost all respect for our nation and will continue to advance and strengthen their military! They are readying for War!
I would love to be a part of these committees:
• Agriculture
• Armed Services
• Budget
• Education and Labor
• Energy and Commerce
• Foreign Affairs
• Homeland Security
• Science, Space, and Technology
• Small Business
• Transportation and Infrastructure
• Veterans’ Affairs
• Select Committee on the Climate Crisis
• Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth
• Joint Economic Committee
https://www.termlimits.com/petition/
I Believe Heavily and Soul Heartedly in Term Limits! I believe that a New Broom Sweeps the Best! I believe that a stagnant Career Politician has aspirations to do much worse than they first intended. Politicians sit around the Capital for years upon accumulative years losing sight of why they arrived in the first place. The values and views of the office become theirs and theirs alone, not the public’s they have been elected to represent. Thus, the stagnant, lifeless, life-long career politician should be forced out by Term Limits and sent packing. Their rein, their time is now over. Good Riddance!
I believe that a US Representative should only have 4 terms at 2 years per term, for an 8 year stint. I believe that US Senators should only have 2 terms for a 12 year stint. I believe that if they stay any longer, they become worse than complacent. Stagnant politicians lose sight of their Responsibility, their Mission, and their Purpose of the Job. Stagnant politicians start working for themselves and not the people.
I will never waiver or crumble under the weight of the Democrat party politician. I will stand with conviction and I will be resolute in my continuous fight to save and preserve every Americans’ Rights, Freedoms, and Liberties, that have been given to us by God!
Our Irresponsible Growth within Comal County is Unsustainable and Cannot Continue. Our citizens are highly upset and our infrastructure must have a few years to catch up. We must have Responsible growth for our cities and our counties within District 21. Most of all our problems enveloped within our counties and cities are happening because of the Irresponsible Growth.
Our Postcard of a town called New Braunfels is losing its charm. We are now contending with San Antonio and Austin to see which city gains the most people in the shortest amount of time.
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If we continue to grow towards animosity for one another within the Congress and abandon the actions of compromise, debate, and voting, then we will have failed the American people. The American people will be the ones that are directly affected by the actions of the warring Congress. We must work together, we must regroup and communicate our differences There must be compromise and debate for ideal and fair policymaking.
Without compromise, we have nothing!
We must stand our ground and fight for what the "We the American People" believe in. We must do this within the debate stage of compromise! We must all come together to make a final decision from the compromise and we must live with this compromise.
The people make the final decision through the ballot box. You make a wrong decision within a compromised subject and you will lose your job. This is Democracy at its finest!
My personal stance on our federal budget and the spending is tremendously strong – We must Stop the Spending! You must ask yourself one simple question, "Are We Acting on the Now for something we Need, or Something We Want?!" We cannot Afford the Spending! We Must Stop the Spending!
Our fiscally irresponsible politicians have spent us all to death. We are over $154 Trillion in unfunded liability debt and $34 Trillion in federal debt, which equals to $188 Trillion we owe the world, to countries like China and the Middle East. There is $10 Trillion in interest alone on this debt, each and every year, and it only gets bigger every year. It takes over $7 Trillion to run this country to pay for all of our governmental programs and our military through mandatory spending and discretionary spending, coupled with interest on that spending.
We only take in $3.5 Trillion in federal income taxes each year. We are not paying for any part of our county to operate and to stay alive. China and the Middle East are providing everything for us. How are we going to pay them back? They do want their money, right? We are not going to pay any of this back. We don’t have a plan to pay any of this back. Our "Rob Peter to pay Paul Plan" is not working, it’s killing us to Death!
Future historians will be dumbfounded when they see how long people allowed for this worthless, unrelenting passage of unsurmountable, careless, and remarkably unconcerned spending to happen and continue to happen, as if there is nothing to worry about!
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Campaign website
French's campaign website stated the following:
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Below are 10 Major issues that are Killing this State and our Country! I need to address them Strongly as Your Congressman! 1. We need to take Back of our National Debt and Unfunded Liabilities debt to the World. Our debt is killing this Nation! We are currently sitting at $32 Trillion in government national debt. $165 Trillion in unfunded liabilities debt to the world! We must spend over $7 Trillion each year in actual spending to run all of our Governmental programs and the Military through Mandatory and Discretionary spending. We are now averaging over $12 Trillion in New nonsensical partisan spending Bills every year. We gross over $10 Trillion a year in interest! We do not expect to ever pay any of this off! We do not even have a plan to pay any of this off! This Rob Peter to pay Paul Plan in not working!!! Stop the Spending!!! You have to ask yourself, is this what we need, or is this what we want? We cannot afford the Want! 2 . We Must take Care of our Military. Our military is the defender of freedom and liberty for all Americans! Our Great military provides safety and security to America and to the World! Millions upon millions of American military men and women have given the ultimate sacrifice to allow us to live free from tyrannical countries that wish us dead. We must fund more our military armament and provide the tools for success for our great military men and women so that they can be successful and train to be a greater fighting force. We must return to a “Peace through Strength” initiative! They fight the fight out there so that we can live in peace over here. Every single year that goes by, our adversaries grow bigger and stronger through tremendous spending. Our leadership has stopped thinking of our Nations Security and has cut our Military's budget! 3. We need to Fund more the Police! We must defend and support our men and women of law enforcement! Our men and women in blue are being killed every day across this nation. They are being disrespected and hated from the media, celebrities, and Democrat party politicians. These courageous individuals leave their house, their families every morning with no guarantee of returning home alive! They know this might be the outcome and yet they still go to work, to protect and to serve! They selflessly and heroically provide safety and security to the American cities and streets, so that we can live in peace and harmony from all criminals that mean to do us harm or kill us. I love our police! The crime in our city streets is skyrocketing!!! We need more police to protect us and to rein back the crime and murders! 4. We need to take back Our Energy Independence! Our American oil industry was the greatest in the world and provided, not only energy independence from the world, but an extraordinarily Strong National Security stance. We need to be strong from the world or we will not last as a sovereign and free country! We must provide energy for our citizens, to our country at all times and at all costs! 5. We Must Defend Our Greatest Allies and support them in their darkest hour and attack from other tyrannical countries trying to kill them. We need our allies to depend on us. We are alone in a world without friends! Let us not turn our backs on our Greatest ally and friend, Israel! 6. We need to Seal the Southern Border of Texas! We Must Take Back Our Texas Border! We need an extraordinarily strong national border. We must protect our American citizens from the world of criminals that aim to hurt or kill us. America without an effective border is not a sovereign country, it will not last! A Country without Borders, is not a Country at all! 7. To take back the “Right to Live” for our tiny innocent little babies! WE are the only voice for the tiny babies that cannot speak up and defend themselves. I believe that any form of life has a living soul and must be given the right and opportunity to live! What give us the right to take that away!? God gave them the ability to live, we have no right to take that away! 8. To take back our 1st Amendment of Free Speech! Our media and government is slowly, but surely taking away our freedom of speech. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” You can say that all of these instances are being heavily violated. 9. To take back our 2nd Amendment of the Right to Bear Arms! “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.” Our government officials are trying like hell every day to take away all forms of guns from the hands of the American people. Little by little, they chip away! We must be able to defend ourselves against criminals trying to hurt our families and our lives! 10. We must hold a Convention of States! We do need to bring pressure to the state representatives to move forward with the Convention of States, given to our nation through Article V of the United States Constitution. As the Greatest Nation on earth, we have lost all control of our government. We the people are starting to believe and feel that we cannot do anything about it. How can we rein back the powers of the government? The answer is the Convention of States! Our masterful Constitution is the greatest governing document ever created. The Constitution has given every man, woman, and child, the right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, freedom of speech, worship, and the right to live our lives without the heavy hand of the government! In our history, Congress has amended the constitution 27 times over the life of our great country. The Constitution has been battered by the forces of greed and tyranny over the past few years. We must take hold and take back what Our Constitution means and stands for, before we completely lose it!!! We, United States Citizens, can no longer count on, nor depend on, career politicians to act against their own best interests and further strengthen their ravenous hunger for more government with more and greater power! We must amend the Constitution to strengthen our rights and liberties! We cannot count on the Representatives and Senators within U.S. Congress to perform this action, so we must use the method given to America through the United States Constitution – the Amendments under Article V, a Convention of States! Our Great framers thoughtfully understood that the real power of the nation should not be within the federal government, but from the people within the United States. Our framers created a pathway for the citizens to understand and to follow. They made clearly that if there are any changes to be made to the Constitution, the only virtuous and correct group of representatives to make these changes should come from the individual states and not the representation of the federal government.[3] |
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| —Michael French's campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 31, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Michael A. French for US Congress Texas 21, "Biography," accessed February 13, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Republican | Michael A. French for US Congress Texas 21 | Texas, “Platform,” accessed January 21, 2022
