Omari Musa

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Omari Musa

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Independent

Elections and appointments

Last election

November 3, 2020

Personal

Birthplace

New Orleans, La.

Religion

None

Omari Musa (independent) ran for election for U.S. House Non-Voting Delegate District of Columbia. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Musa completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Musa appeared on the 2020 general election ballot as an independent. He self-identified as a member of the Socialist Workers Party.

Elections

2020

See also: United States House of Representatives election in the District of Columbia, 2020

General election

General election for U.S. House Non-Voting Delegate District of Columbia

The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. House Non-Voting Delegate District of Columbia on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Eleanor Holmes Norton (D)	86.3	281,831
		Patrick Hynes (L)	3.0	9,678
		Barbara Washington Franklin (Independent)	2.3	7,628
	Submit photo	Omari Musa (Independent)	2.1	6,702
		Natale Stracuzzi (G)	1.7	5,553
		David Krucoff (Independent)	1.5	5,017
		Amir Lowery (Independent)	1.5	5,001
		John C. Cheeks (Independent)	0.9	2,914
		Greg Maye (D) (Write-in)	0.0	0
		Other/Write-in votes	0.7	2,263

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 326,587
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Ford Fischer (L)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Non-Voting Delegate District of Columbia

Incumbent Eleanor Holmes Norton advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Non-Voting Delegate District of Columbia on June 2, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Eleanor Holmes Norton	98.0	103,898
		Other/Write-in votes	2.0	2,100

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 105,998
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Greg Maye (D)

Green primary election

Green primary for U.S. House Non-Voting Delegate District of Columbia

Natale Stracuzzi advanced from the Green primary for U.S. House Non-Voting Delegate District of Columbia on June 2, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Natale Stracuzzi	79.4	367
		Other/Write-in votes	20.6	95

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 462
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Libertarian primary election

Libertarian primary for U.S. House Non-Voting Delegate District of Columbia

Ford Fischer advanced from the Libertarian primary for U.S. House Non-Voting Delegate District of Columbia on June 2, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ford Fischer	85.7	138
		Other/Write-in votes	14.3	23

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 161
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Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Omari Musa completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Musa's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

    Omari Musa joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1969. A long-time trade unionist, he has worked in a variety of industries. Omari Musa is employed at Walmart. He explains the need for unions in every workplace, so workers can organize themselves to fight for better wages and working conditions.

He is a 50-year veteran in the fight for Black rights and against police brutality. He grew up in the south under Jim Crow conditions of institutional racial discrimination.

Musa defended clinics in Maryland against rightist thugs threatening a woman's right to choose abortion. He is a supporter of the Cuban Revolution and has participated in discussions with Cuban revolutionaries, at conferences and book fairs on the island for decades. He has worked with others to oppose the U.S. government's war against Cuba and is a leader of the DC Metro Coalition in Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Omari Musa calls for a union in every workplace to defend the interests of all working people against employer and govt.attacks.
• government financed public works program to provide jobs for the unemployed at union scale wages.
• For our unions to lead a class break with the Democratic and Republican parties. We need a labor party.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

WORKERS CONTROL OF PRODUCTION. Workers need to fight to wrest control of production out of the hands of the bosses.

AMNESTY FOR ALL UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS is a life-and-death question for the unions to unite workers

OPPOSE WASHINGTON'S WARS. US hands off Iran, Venezuela and Cuba. US troops out of
Afghanistan, Korea, the Middle East. End US colonial rule in Puerto Rico.

FOR RECOGNITION OF ISRAEL AND OF A CONTIGUOUS PALESTINIAN STATE. The leaders of Arab states, of Israel and Palestinian leaders to meet and recognize both the state of Israel and an independent Palestinian state. For the right of Jews to return to Israel as a refuge in the face of capitalist crisis, Jew-hatred and violence.

CUBA'S REVOLUTION - AN EXAMPLE. The Cuban Revolution showed it's possible for workers and farmers to transform themselves in struggle, to take political power and uproot capitalist exploitation. End the US rulers' economic war against Cuba; US out of Guantánamo.

FIGHT POLICE BRUTALITY! Demand that cops who kill and brutalize people be prosecuted. For the right to vote for ex-prisoners and workers behind bars. End solitary confinement.

HEALTH CARE FOR ALL. Fight for universal, government guaranteed health care and retirement income for all.

WOMEN'S RIGHT TO ABORTION. Defend women's right to access to family planning services, including to safe abortions.

DEFEND POLITICAL RIGHTS. Defend the right to vote, to free speech and assembly and to bear arms.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

can't remember.

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

A Love Supreme.

What process do you favor for redistricting?

see above.

What qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution?

it is not unique, but part of the form of capitalist rule over the majority.

Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?

no

What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

The U.S. is a class divided society. The overwhelming majority of us are workers and farmers whose labor provides the wealth that is appropriated by a tiny minority-the capitalist class. That capitalist class constantly tries to push the crisis of their system on the backs of working people. We resist by forming unions and pushing back against the bosses, banks and associated enforcers of exploitation and oppression.

We propose a workers and farmers government to organize society on the basis of human society not profits for the few.

Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?

not decisive.

What are your thoughts on term limits?

should be determined by congress of working people as capitalist rule is replace by a government of workers and farmers.

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See also

• Washington, D.C.
• Municipal elections in Washington, D.C. (2020)

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