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Mico Lucide

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Mico Lucide
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Mico Lucide was a 2017 Green Party candidate for District 2 of the New Jersey General Assembly.

Campaign themes

2017

Lucide's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Atlantic City
The state has no right to take over Atlantic City and deprive the duly elected representatives in the city of their right to govern. Atlantic City needs to be heard by Trenton, not the other way around. Mico's plan is:

  • End the Takeover
  • No sale of the Water Utility
  • Grants for first time small business owners who live in the city
  • Establish a Liaison to the Governor's Office from Atlantic City, chosen by Atlantic City
  • Renew the effort to build offshore wind farms and require at least 20% of the workers be Atlantic City residents

Government Efficiency
New Jersey has extraordinarily wasteful practices at every level that must be ended in order to utilize tax dollars more appropriately and provide for property tax relief.

  • Stricter laws regarding contract extensions for building projects
  • Sensible municipal services consolidation
  • Energy efficient renovations for all state, county, and municipal buildings over the course of 10 years
  • Simple solutions like turning off lights in buildings with no people in them

Single Payer Healthcare
It doesn't make sense to have such a complex healthcare system, where your employer and insurer decide what is covered. A Single-Payer healthcare system in New Jersey must be achieved to help heal our people, and ultimately save them and the state money.

  • Use existing funds from Medicare and Medicaid, and other funds like taxes on cigarettes and gambling earmarked for prevention and treatment to begin funding a single payer system
  • Instead of paying absurdly high insurance costs as part of your employers plan, a tax of 2% on employees and 6% on employers is sufficient to make a single-payer system solvent long-term
  • The savings for both employer and employee results in more opportunity for job creation and wage increases

Minimum Wage and Jobs
It has been shown time and time again that when people have money, they spend it, and when money is spent, demand and jobs grow. New Jersey needs to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour, and it needs to happen now.

  • $15 per hour minimum wage now, providing tax breaks for small businesses for 2 years to assist with the transition

Incentivize employee owned co-ops

  • Develop plans for each county to have a Small Business Incubator centered in an economically depressed area of that county
  • Fix the pension system by reinstating the estate tax, instituting a single-payer healthcare system, and asking the ultra wealthy to pay their fair share

Marijuana
Legalize and tax recreational marijuana, devoting the tax money to go toward single-payer healthcare. Ensure that the business created by legalizing marijuana does not further damage the economies of urban areas by focusing the growth of these businesses in those epicenters.

  • Legalize for 21 year olds and older to smoke, not in public areas
  • Tax at 10%
  • Suburban growing centers, urban dispensaries[1]
 ”
—Mico Lucide[2]

Elections

2017

See also: New Jersey General Assembly elections, 2017

General election

Elections for the New Jersey General Assembly took place in 2017. All 80 seats were up for election. State assembly members are elected to two-year terms. The general election took place on November 7, 2017. A primary election took place on June 6, 2017. The filing deadline for the primary election was April 3, 2017.[3] Legislative districts in the New Jersey General Assembly are multi-member districts, with two representatives in each district. In Democratic and Republican primary elections, the top two candidates move forward to the general election, and the top two candidates in the general election are declared the winners.[4] The following candidates ran in the New Jersey General Assembly District 2 general election.[5][6]

New Jersey General Assembly, District 2 General Election, 2017
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Vincent Mazzeo Incumbent 28.56% 27,601
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png John Armato 26.58% 25,683
     Republican Vince Sera 21.54% 20,814
     Republican Brenda Taube 21.33% 20,611
     Independent, Honest, Reliable Heather Gordon 1.25% 1,208
     Green Mico Lucide 0.74% 718
Total Votes 96,635
Source: New Jersey Department of State

Races we watched

Ballotpedia identified eight races to watch in the New Jersey General Assembly 2017 elections: three seats with two Democratic members, three seats with two Republican members, and two seats split between the parties. Based on analysis of these districts' electoral histories, these races had the potential to be more competitive than other races and could possibly have led to shifts in a chamber's partisan balance.

This district was a Race to Watch because the district was split between the parties following the 2015 elections, both incumbents had margins of victory that were less than five percent, and an incumbent of the opposite party from the 2016 presidential winner did not file for re-election. In the 2015 elections, all four candidates for District 2 were within five points of each other. Incumbents Chris Brown (R) and Vincent Mazzeo (D) received 26.5 percent of the vote and 25.5 percent, respectively. Their challengers Colin Bell (D) and Will Pauls (R) received 24.4 percent and 23.6 percent, respectively. Brown was first elected in 2011 and Mazzeo was first elected in 2013. Brown did not file for re-election in 2017 in order to run for the District 2 state Senate seat. District 2 was one of 28 New Jersey state legislative districts that Democrat Hillary Clinton won in the 2016 presidential election. Clinton carried District 2 by 11.4 points. In 2012, Democrat Barack Obama won District 2 by 20.8 points. As of 2017, District 2 contained parts of Atlantic County.

Democratic primary election

The following candidates ran in the New Jersey General Assembly District 2 Democratic primary election.[7][8]

New Jersey General Assembly, District 2 Democratic Primary, 2017
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Vincent Mazzeo Incumbent 37.46% 7,197
Green check mark transparent.png John Armato 29.13% 5,596
Ernest Coursey 20.05% 3,852
Jim Carney 6.65% 1,278
Theresa Watts 4.81% 925
Rizwan Malik 1.90% 365
Total Votes 19,213
Source: New Jersey Department of State

Republican primary election

Vince Sera and Brenda Taube were unopposed in the New Jersey General Assembly District 2 Republican primary election.[9][8]

New Jersey General Assembly, District 2 Republican Primary, 2017
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Vince Sera 50.70% 5,551
Green check mark transparent.png Brenda Taube 49.30% 5,398
Total Votes 10,949
Source: New Jersey Department of State

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  2. ↑ Mico Lucide 2017 campaign website, "Policy positions," accessed August 18, 2017
  3. ↑ New Jersey Secretary of State, "2017 Primary Election Timeline," accessed March 21, 2017
  4. ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Official List, Candidates for General Assembly for Primary Election, June 6, 2017," accessed April 13, 2017
  5. ↑ New Jersey Department of State, "Candidates for General Assembly for General Election 11/07/2017 Election," accessed September 14, 2017
  6. ↑ New Jersey Department of State, "2017 official general election results," accessed November 30, 2017
  7. ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Official Candidate List," April 6, 2017
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 New Jersey Division of Elections, “2017 official primary election results for general assembly,” accessed July 13, 2017
  9. ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Official Candidate List," April 6, 2017


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