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Pete Hardin

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Pete Hardin
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Nonpartisan

Elections and appointments
Last election

June 7, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

University of Colorado, Boulder, 2002

Law

The George Washington University Law School, 2007

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Marine Corps

Years of service

2005 - 2013

Personal
Birthplace
New York, N.Y.
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Pete Hardin ran for election for Orange County District Attorney-Public Administrator in California. He lost in the primary on June 7, 2022.

Hardin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Pete Hardin was born in New York, New York. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2005 to 2013. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2002 and a law degree from The George Washington University Law School in 2007. His professional experience includes being a judge advocate in the U.S. Marine Corps, a special assistant United States Attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, and a deputy district attorney in the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.[1]

Elections

2022

See also: Municipal elections in Orange County, California (2022)

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Orange County District Attorney-Public Administrator

Incumbent Todd Spitzer won election outright against Pete Hardin, Bryan Chehock, and Michael A. Jacobs in the primary for Orange County District Attorney-Public Administrator on June 7, 2022.

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Todd Spitzer (Nonpartisan)
 
62.5
 
352,415
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Pete Hardin (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
21.3
 
119,886
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Bryan Chehock (Nonpartisan)
 
8.2
 
46,425
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Michael A. Jacobs (Nonpartisan)
 
8.0
 
45,190

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 563,916
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Pete Hardin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hardin's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I have spent my life fighting to keep our country and communities safe. I am a Marine Corps combat veteran and I have worked at every level of this country's criminal justice system. I have served as a Judge Advocate in the Marine Corps where I led the prosecution office for the largest command in the Marine Corps, as a Federal Prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and as a Deputy District Attorney in Orange County. Through my experience, I have seen how our current criminal justice system is over-reliant on incarceration and fails to promote programs that effectively reduce crime, such as rehabilitation programs and collaborative courts. Our current system often exacerbates recidivism rates and homelessness. Sustainable public safety requires us to hold violent offenders accountable and to rehabilitate those returning to our communities. It requires us to treat the underlying drivers of crime such as addiction and mental illness rather than simply using the bandaid approach of jails and prisons. Taking modern approaches will not only reduce recidivism and create fewer future victims, it will also reduce homelessness by ensuring the addicted and mentally get the treatment they need. This is how we break the cycle that leads from the streets to our jails and back to our streets. Ultimately, I believe that prosecutors should be judged in terms of long term community safety and offender outcomes rather than conviction rates and length of prison sentence. If we send s
  • I will expand victims services to ensure that all survivors receive the support and services necessary to heal. The needs of survivors extend beyond the courtroom. From hiring victim advocates, increasing victim compensation, promoting counseling, and investing in rehabilitative programs that prevent future victimization, I will fight to protect and heal victims.
  • I will implement programs that address the root causes of crime to end mass incarceration. From mental health issues to substance abuse to homelessness, I will treat the underlying drivers of crime to reduce recidivism and prevent victimization. I will embrace modern solutions such as ending the prosecution of kids as adults and expanding diversion programs.
  • I will focus resources on violent crime and crimes against vulnerable groups such as women, children, minorities, and the elderly. I will bring focus to sexual assault and harassment by ending the rape test kit backlog and training prosecutors to support and empower survivors of sexual assualt. As Orange County District Attorney, I will investigate and prosecute hate crimes and sex crimes to hold offenders accountable.
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    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 3, 2022
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