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Mike ter Maat
Mike ter Maat (Libertarian Party) ran for election for Vice President of the United States. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Ter Maat also ran for election for President of the United States. He lost in the Libertarian Party convention on May 26, 2024.
Biography
Mike ter Maat was born in Portland, Oregon. He earned a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1982, an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1983, and a Ph.D. in economics from George Washington University in 1992. Ter Maat's career experience includes working as a police officer in Broward County, Florida, an economist, an economics professor, and a substitute teacher.[1][2]
Elections
2024
Mike ter Maat was selected to serve as the Libertarian Party's 2024 vice presidential nominee at the Libertarian National Convention on May 26, 2024. Chase Oliver (L) was selected as the party's 2024 presidential nominee. Click the links below to read more about the 2024 presidential election:
- Chase Oliver presidential campaign, 2024
- Presidential candidates, 2024
- Presidential election, 2024
- Libertarian Party presidential nomination, 2024
2022
Special election
See also: Florida's 20th Congressional District special election, 2022
Florida's 20th Congressional District special election, 2022 (November 2, 2021, Democratic primary)
Florida's 20th Congressional District special election, 2022 (November 2, 2021, Republican primary)
General election
Special general election for U.S. House Florida District 20
The following candidates ran in the special general election for U.S. House Florida District 20 on January 11, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D) | 79.0 | 44,707 |
 | Jason Mariner (R)  | 19.4 | 10,966 | |
 | Mike ter Maat (L) | 0.7 | 395 | |
 | Jim Flynn (No Party Affiliation) | 0.5 | 265 | |
 | Leonard Serratore (No Party Affiliation) | 0.5 | 262 | |
 | Shelley Fain (No Party Affiliation) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 22 | |
| Total votes: 56,617 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Robert Ornelas (No Party Affiliation)
Democratic primary election
Special Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 20
The following candidates ran in the special Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 20 on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick | 23.8 | 11,662 |
 | Dale Holness | 23.8 | 11,657 | |
 | Barbara Sharief | 17.7 | 8,684 | |
 | Perry Thurston | 14.8 | 7,283 | |
 | Bobby DuBose | 7.0 | 3,458 | |
 | Omari Hardy | 5.9 | 2,902 | |
| Priscilla Taylor | 3.4 | 1,677 | ||
 | Elvin Dowling | 1.3 | 646 | |
 | Emmanuel Morel | 0.9 | 454 | |
 | Phil Jackson | 0.7 | 343 | |
| Imran Siddiqui | 0.6 | 316 | ||
| Total votes: 49,082 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dwight Anderson (D)
- Krystal Jordan (D)
- Matt Boswell (D)
- Pradel Vilme (D)
- Natalia Allen (D)
Republican primary election
Special Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 20
Jason Mariner defeated Greg Musselwhite in the special Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 20 on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jason Mariner | 57.8 | 3,500 |
 | Greg Musselwhite | 42.2 | 2,553 | |
| Total votes: 6,053 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Lateresa Jones (R)
- Roland Florez Jr. (R)
- Bernard Sansaricq (R)
- Vic DeGrammont (R)
Campaign themes
2022
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| Video submitted to Ballotpedia Released April 17, 2021 |
Mike ter Maat completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by ter Maat's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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From 2002 to 2009, he started and ran a professional education business for bank executives which included conferences, webcasting, and strategic consulting. Mike has traveled in thirty-five countries, taught economics at three universities and substituted at dozens of public schools.
Mike holds a BS in Aeronautical Engineering and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and MS and PhD degrees in Economics from The George Washington University.- Jobs & Wage Growth. Poverty is a political phenomenon, the result of bad public policy. There is nothing inherent in free markets that would naturally produce the persistent inter-generational poverty that we observe in so many American cities. Better schools as a result of open competition are the best way to interrupt the cycle of poverty.
- Mask & Vaccine Mandates. A pandemic does not suspend the Bill of Rights. The government does not have the right to tell you what to wear, what not to wear, who to be with or in what size groups. The lockdowns were harmful government overreaches. We must avoid government vaccine passports.
- Police & Justice Reform. Politicians must start negotiating for greater accountability and transparency in policework, not de-funding. Unions must allow for greater flexibility in the labor market for cops. Employers must stop hiding behind the doctrine of qualified immunity. The war on drugs must and the criminalization of victimless behaviors must end.
Our government should no longer be in the business of criminalizing the behavior of consenting adults. Nor should our government be sentencing our family members to prison terms five times longer than those in the rest of the world. We must demand that when our municipalities negotiate with police unions, they negotiate for what we care about, not defunding, but greater accountability, more transparency, more ability to fire officers as well as the right to offer incentives for excellence, and more citizen involvement in both recruiting and training police officers. And we must put an end to the practice of police employers hiding behind the doctrine of qualified immunity. All of this would make police contracts more responsive to markets, and to citizens.
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Campaign website
Ter Maat's campaign website stated the following:
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Jobs & Wage Growth Poverty is a political construct; it is the result of bad public policy. There is nothing inherent in free markets that would naturally produce what we call poverty. The number one bad policy we have in America is requiring our children to go to terrible public schools that we protect from competition. Politicians refuse to make the money they collect for education available to anything but public schools – dollar for dollar the worst educational investment in the modern world. In fact, our schools are so bad, that many teenagers decide to drop out altogether, either for a low paying job with no future, or to work in the illicit drug trade, itself an enticing opportunity created entirely by bad public policy. Poverty can persist as an inter-generational condition, when fed by continued bad policy made by politicians who mean well but who are utterly ill-equipped to make decisions about economics, much less about peoples’ lives. If you are no longer satisfied with Democratic politicians protecting bad schools and hanging to the tried-and-failed 1960s welfare programs that discourage work, if you are no longer satisfied with Republican politicians acting like it’s all your own fault, you might be a Libertarian. If you’re looking for a fresh new approach to protecting your liberty, an equal shot in a growing economy, and an equal shot at justice, you’re not just a Libertarian, you’re a part of this campaign. Mask & Vaccine Mandates If you believe – after considering all the evidence and advice available to us – that you should wear a mask, keep socially distanced, wash your hands, and get vaccinated, then you should. That’s what I’ve done. But just because we are in the midst of a pandemic, and we are, that doesn’t mean the United States Constitution has been suspended, it doesn’t mean the government has the right to shut down our economy, take away your right to earn a living, or to go to church or anywhere else. It doesn’t mean the government has the right to tell you what to wear, what not to wear, who to be with or in what size groups. I don’t like it when the government infringes on my rights, and neither should you, whether that be the result of authoritarian city ordinances, a condescending federal government, or a rogue police officer. Now there is a movement within our government to require you to carry a vaccine passport. This ultimately means deepening the divisions between us, between people who have complied with our overseers and those who have not. Just one more vehicle used by our government to intrude into our everyday lives. If you’re looking for a fresh new approach to protecting your liberty, your right to an equal shot in a growing economy, and an equal shot at justice, you’re not just a Libertarian, you’re a part of this campaign. Police & Justice Reform Our government should no longer be in the business of criminalizing the behavior of consenting adults. Nor should our government be sentencing our family members to prison terms five times longer than those in the rest of the world. The state’s heavy-handed approach to controlling us has driven a wedge between communities and police. Backing off the nanny-state attitude would allow people to solve real problems like drug addiction and community violence. We must demand that when our municipalities negotiate with police unions, they negotiate for what we care about, not defunding, but greater accountability, more transparency, more ability to fire officers as well as the right to offer incentives for excellence, and more citizen involvement in both recruiting and training police officers. And we must put an end to the practice of police employers hiding behind the doctrine of qualified immunity. All of this would make police contracts more responsive to markets, and to citizens. If you are no longer satisfied with Democratic politicians protecting bad laws and Republican politicians protecting bad cops, you might be a Libertarian. If you’re looking for a fresh new approach to protecting your liberty, an equal shot in a growing economy, and an equal shot at justice, you’re not just a Libertarian, you’re a part of this campaign.[3] |
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| —Mike ter Maat's campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
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See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 31, 2021.
- ↑ Mike Ter Maat For US Congress, "About Mike Ter Taat," accessed January 8, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Mike Ter Maat For US Congress, “Issues,” accessed January 8, 2022
