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Paul Fournier
Paul Fournier (Republican Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 34. He lost in the primary on June 7, 2022.
Fournier completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Paul Fournier's professional experience includes working as a homelessness solutions provider, and a systems analyst and designer. Fournier earned a bachelor's degree from Cal Poly Pomona in 1983 and a graduate degree from Pepperdine University in 2003.[1]
Fournier has been affiliated with a local Rotary Club.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2022
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 34
Incumbent Tom Lackey defeated incumbent Thurston Smith in the general election for California State Assembly District 34 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tom Lackey (R) | 56.5 | 63,840 |
 | Thurston Smith (R) | 43.5 | 49,183 | |
| Total votes: 113,023 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 34
The following candidates ran in the primary for California State Assembly District 34 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Thurston Smith (R) | 31.1 | 23,663 |
| ✔ | | Tom Lackey (R) | 29.7 | 22,622 |
 | Rita Ramirez (D) | 26.8 | 20,384 | |
 | Raj Kahlon (D) | 5.3 | 4,063 | |
 | Paul Fournier (R) | 4.2 | 3,189 | |
 | Roger LaPlante (Independent) | 2.8 | 2,122 | |
| Total votes: 76,043 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Paul Fournier completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fournier's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Hablo español fluentemente.
I am a passionate and devoted follower of Jesus Christ, active in my church. I believe in the personal dignity of every human being, made in the image of God, and created to accomplish specific, magnificent things for God's glory.
I believe in personal liberty, and personal responsibility for one's own actions. I laughingly refer to myself as "slightly to the right of Atila the Hun". I am a lifelong Republican, though often disenchanted with the Republican party.
I believe the U.S. Constitution and our founding documents to be some of the most inspired writing in the history of mankind. The concept that government derives its power from the people rather than vice-versa is a history-changing concept.
- Prohibit Medical Tyranny (e.g. mask/vax mandates, lockdowns, business closures, etc.) - For the last 2 years, with COVID as an excuse, we have been in the middle of a 3-alarm fire, and what is burning is the constitution. I will do everything in my power to ensure that no executive, agency or bureaucrat can ever again infringe on our rights as they have during COVID, up to and including a constitutional amendment requiring a 2/3 popular vote to allow any such infringement.
- Protect Parental Authority (school choice, medical decisions, etc.) - I believe that children are a gift from God, that it is our homework assignment as parents to know our kids better than anyone else on Earth, and to create an environment for them to become who God created them to be and succeed in life. Parents are the educators; schools are the hired help. Early reading, writing and arithmetic are essential, as is vocational education. Further, parents need to be making educational and medical choices for their children - not the state and not the children.
- Ensure Election Integrity - An election must consist of one vote per verifiably eligible adult citizen, voting voter. That is not what happened in 2020.
- The ability of executives and bureaucrats to give executive orders
- Business and school closures
- Closing of taxpayer-funded facilities
- Suppression of preventive and early treatments
- Suppression of research and dissenting voices
- Destruction of doctor-patient sovereignty.
- Perverse incentives to hospitals and doctors to produce a COVID diagnosis or death and to use dangerous or ineffective treatments
- Mask mandates
- Vaccine mandates - particularly for any vaccine or other medication that has not undergone testing for long-term (i.e. 10-15 years) effects or for which the manufacturer is shielded from liability for damages.
- Social distancing mandates
- The use of literally $billions$ of taxpayer dollars to pay for propaganda to gain citizen compliance in all of the above.
- AND DON'T THINK FOR ONE SECOND THAT IT'S OVER!!!
I am pro:
- Constitution
- God
- First amendment
- Second amendment
- Bodily sovereignty
- School choice
- Pro-life
- Pro-human
- Pro-police
- Pro LEGAL immigration
- Pro property rights
- Pro Trump
- Water infrastructure
- Power infrastructure
- A national bank to replace the Federal Reserve
On a more human level, anyone who tries to do his best for God, family and those he meets, and does so with integrity, humility and grace.
Personal integrity is of utmost importance to me.
I have a great capacity for understanding technical and legal concepts and documents.
Executive orders (including bureaucratic rulemaking), which have become so popular of late must be *severely* restricted, with clear statutory limitations and very short time restrictions, with a requirement for legislative and or popular vote confirmation.
- Election fraud.
- Water infrastructure.
- Power infrastructure.
- The so-called "Jungle Primary" system.
Accountability and Administrative Review
Appropriations
Banking and Finance
Communications and Conveyance
Education
Elections
Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials
Health
Insurance
Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy
Military and Veterans Affairs
Natural Resources
Privacy and Consumer Protection
Revenue and Taxation
Rules
Utilities and Energy
For the past 3-4 years, I have worked helping to prevent and resolve homelessness. My first client was when I was a volunteer. I'll call him "Joe". Joe was a veteran who had been homeless for about 3 years. He had true psychosis - on any given day he believed he had killed his four living daughters. I received the call about Joe because he used to teach Sunday school at the church where I was the worship leader. Joe was at his core a good man, and I liked him a lot, but he was hard to help. Despite him being a veteran, which would make him the #1 homeless priority, it took me about 7 1/2 months working with the VA, the county and other organizations to get him off the streets. It took another 2 months to get him appropriate levels of case management and medication management from the VA, but once we did, the change was almost immediate. Within 10 days, he was reconnecting with his family, and the community, and anyone who knew him 10 years ago would know him again.
After a few months, Joe was placed in beautiful supportive housing run by the VA, attending group and individual therapy, and doing well.
Then COVID hit, and the "10 days to flatten the curve" hit, which became an excuse for all government entities to cease providing services. Working with the homeless, I couldn't get a replacement ID or Social Security Card or an appointment with the welfare office.
The VA cut off a lot of services, too, including Joe's therapy sessions. After a few weeks with no supervision, he presumably got off his meds, and wandered out his front door, leaving it wide open. He was found a few weeks later face down in someone's driveway, and treated as a John Doe at a local hospital. Eventually he died.
- The Pink Panther: Clouseau: "I thought you said your dog did not bite!" Hotel Clerk: "That is not my dog."
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See also
2022 Elections
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