Michael Madrid
Michael Madrid (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent New York's 10th Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Madrid completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Briography
Michael Madrid was born in Quezon City, Philippines. He attended Columbia College for undergraduate study. Madrid's professional experience includes working in software development and finance and teaching English in Japan. He received certification as an AWS professional.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: New York's 10th Congressional District election, 2020
New York's 10th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 23 Democratic primary)
New York's 10th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 23 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House New York District 10
Incumbent Jerrold Nadler defeated Cathy Bernstein and Michael Madrid in the general election for U.S. House New York District 10 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jerrold Nadler (Working Families Party / D)  | 74.5 | 206,310 |
 | Cathy Bernstein (R / Conservative Party) | 24.1 | 66,889 | |
 | Michael Madrid (L) | 1.2 | 3,370 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 407 | ||
| Total votes: 276,976 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jeanne Nigro (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 10
Incumbent Jerrold Nadler defeated Lindsey Boylan and Jonathan Herzog in the Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 10 on June 23, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jerrold Nadler | 67.3 | 51,054 |
 | Lindsey Boylan | 21.8 | 16,511 | |
 | Jonathan Herzog | 10.3 | 7,829 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 445 | ||
| Total votes: 75,839 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Darryl Hendricks (D)
- Bob Wyman (D)
- Amanda Frankel (D)
- Holly Lynch (D)
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Cathy Bernstein advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House New York District 10.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dylan Stevenson (R)
Conservative Party primary election
The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Cathy Bernstein advanced from the Conservative Party primary for U.S. House New York District 10.
Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Michael Madrid advanced from the Libertarian primary for U.S. House New York District 10.
Working Families Party primary election
The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Jerrold Nadler advanced from the Working Families Party primary for U.S. House New York District 10.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Michael Madrid completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Madrid's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Michael would like to apply best practices he has learned in software, such as agile and continuous improvement, to government. He's mystified that we entrust economic policy to a bunch of lawyers with very little understanding of the unintended consequences of their legislation. He will change that.
He also holds a MA in Math of Finance and a BA with a concentration in philosophy, both from Columbia.
Michael has two wonderful twins, Julius and Isabela with his best-friend Karla, and a wonderful wife Lily, from Tianjin, China. As one on our newest productive citizens, Lily is helping promote MAMA - Make America More Awesome!- Simplify: life is hard enough without needless regulation making it more so
- Legalize Housing: Rents are too high and homelessness is a huge problem. Our community needs housing. Let's get rid of the barriers to building housing...and build housing.
- Basic Income: We need an simple, efficient, always on safety net there during crisis and normal times, not the huge tangle of wasteful, mis-targeted, inaccessible services we purport to offer now
Decrim: we need to stop putting people in jail for victimless non-crimes. And let's make the police follow the same laws as everybody else
Environment: we need an efficient solution to deal with climate change now. This doesn't happen by pretending markets don't exist. Let's lower pollution by making it more expensive and stop financing large polluters like fossil-fuel companies, agribusiness, and foreign wars.
Government scope. I'm concerned about the overreach of the hugely inefficient big government we've created:
We shouldn't waste huge amounts of resources on a bloated military and foreign wars.
We shouldn't dole out corporate welfare to well-connected firms.
We shouldn't pretend our overlapping, confused maze of social programs are effective.
We make it way too difficult for hard-working people to immigrate to our country.
We allow government to "protect" large corps with tariffs, instead of allowing our consumers and firms to buy the best the world has to offer at best price.
We create a mind-boggling array of licensing reqs, which breed a cabal of licensees, while preventing qualified people from working.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 8, 2020
