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Phillip Gioia
Phillip Gioia (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent New York's 24th Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on June 25, 2024.
Gioia completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Phillip Gioia was born in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1971, an M.D. from State University of New York, Upstate Medical University in 1975, and a graduate degree from the Columbia University School of Public Health in 1981. His career experience includes working as a physician. Gioia has been affiliated with the AAP, AMA, MSSNY, NYPHA, APHA, PNHP, AMIA, OWLA, and the Cayuga County Medical Society.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: New York's 24th Congressional District election, 2024
New York's 24th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 25 Republican primary)
New York's 24th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 25 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House New York District 24
Incumbent Claudia Tenney defeated David Wagenhauser in the general election for U.S. House New York District 24 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Claudia Tenney (Conservative Party / R) | 65.6 | 235,867 | |
David Wagenhauser (D) ![]() | 34.3 | 123,317 | ||
Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 223 |
Total votes: 359,407 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. David Wagenhauser advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 24.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House New York District 24
Incumbent Claudia Tenney defeated Mario Fratto in the Republican primary for U.S. House New York District 24 on June 25, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Claudia Tenney | 61.1 | 19,485 | |
![]() | Mario Fratto | 38.3 | 12,233 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 187 |
Total votes: 31,905 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Phillip Gioia (R)
Conservative Party primary election
The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Claudia Tenney advanced from the Conservative Party primary for U.S. House New York District 24.
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Gioia in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Phillip Gioia completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Gioia'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 advocated for the public good with the Medical Society of the State of NY (MSSNY), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the NYS Public Health Association (NYSPHA). I helped start and still help guide the Cayuga Community Health Network. I promote environmental health with the Owasco Watershed and Lake Association (OWLA). I promote information privacy and security with AMIA ( American Medical Informatics Association).
I believe that we must balance compassion and savings using tested knowledge and humility to continue to thrive on our planet in a enjoyable and humane way. To reduce harm and waste we should plan for a changing future using private and secure information systems for evaluation, interventions, and re-evaluations. Government and regulations should be used to help develop limited natural resources fairly for long term use. Markets work when there is open competition and the businesses operate fairly and pay for natural resources; and for the natural and social resources they use. Limited natural resources are air, water, minerals, and government land. Social resources are health, housing, education, transportation and energy.
- Promoting Health and Savings.
In the elections in the coming 9 months, please be mindful of supporting the health of our nation and in saving resources for our future. Promoting health for all people of our nation, may be done so that it helps to save our money and provides better health. With better nutrition, exercise, air, water, and awareness of ourselves and others, we will feel better and be more productive. With savings we may help our economy to produce healthy foods and products that help us live better and remove the burden of debt.
Health is a valuable resource to continue providing for ourselves and others. It is limited by our environment, behaviors, and our genetics. With good planning we improve it and save. - When we provide clean air/water by using clean energy, efficient nutrition/housing/activities, and effective health promotion/teaching/travel we also eliminate waste and preserve natural resources. In this way we may continue to strive for a better way of life for years to come. The Way: Knowledge Balances Territory and Compassion: my book fully describes our challenges to save resources and help ourselves using information that is well tested. That information should be supported by objective evidence and open debate only possible in a democracy that respects and is just for all. Further information is available at www.CHealthS.com. The book is at Amazon.com. Also see NASEM study – Emerging Stronger from COVID-19: Priorities for us.
- Currently many, including myself, are full of dread that the House of Representatives will be unable to pass funding bills for our Federal Government anytime soon. Current Speaker Mike Johnson with his slim Republican Majority just passed a one house bill to give Israel $14.3 billion in military aid and cutting $14.3 billion from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding previously approved. In 2021 the IRS got back $5 for every $1 it spent on enforcement. So, the actual savings claimed by House Republicans would be costing us about $66 billion in lost revenue besides the costs for the military aid. Other actions of the current House of Representatives to attempt to save money will cost us money and harm health and food aid in the USA.
Some examples are the WIC (Women, Infant and Children) program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ( SNAP), and Medicaid for all. These programs reduce illness, medical costs, and chronic disease and help workers stay on the job. The current Republican Congress has been cutting them back.
I also admire William Foege, MD who helped to eliminate smallpox from the natural world in 1978. Dr. Foege first had to convince the Lutheran missions to commit resources to help promote health rather than just treat disease that resulted from poor health promotion. Disease treatment is much more dramatic and attention attracting than helping somebody get vaccinated or avoid contact with a contagious disease. Dr. Foege taught governments, health promotion agencies, and disease control programs that "you get what you inspect". Using old fashioned paper documents and many inspection officers, he and his teams inspected records of vaccinations and disease to be sure that they eliminated smallpox in every village and neighborhood where it showed up.
Taoist philosophy also guides people in a similar way but in ancient cultures. Taoism is The Way by using compassion, frugality and humility, Compassion in current terms is promoting health for all. Compassion now is associated more with intense emotions but the Greek term agape might be better. In current terms health promotion for all people best expresses working to give all the people the best possible life and culture in the long term. Frugality now is more associated with penny pinching or extreme limits to expenditures. Savings are more positive and associated with long term success. Savings are in health, economics, infrastructure, housing, education, and resources both natural and social. Humility now is often is associated as being passive and avoiding conflicts. For current times the unbiased use of knowledge, discussion, debate, evidence, wisdom and science to test our plans to promote health, help people, save money, save people, and save resources is the most reasoned use of humility in challenging times when leaders and governments must do what is best to survive.
The Magic Flute Opera by Mozart deals with balancing the light or compassion with the dark of territory or waste. It is based on
To help use gather evidence for individual, group, and governmental decisions we need a private and secure information system to help us gain new knowledge and find problems. Such an information system may also help us act to solve the problems, and find out if the solutions work. The information system may then may be used to make solutions better, find more problems, and/or help prevent or resolve other problems. For the protection of individuals, groups and governments with our infrastructure the privacy and security of all must be protected as needed with secure identities and multifactorial authentications monitored by a well trusted unbiased authority.
Since selling my business to Auburn Community Hospital a few years ago, I am more involved in community and advocacy work with The Cayuga Community Health Network (CCHN), The Owasco Watershed and Lake Association (OWLA), and the Physicians for a National Health Plan. I have helped more in community health promotion, environmental health of the community, and in planning for health promotion at the state and national levels. This has gotten me more involved with discussions and debates on public policy issues.
Fortunately now we do try to have Equity in health promotion, though their is still much to be done to help all people have adequate support for all of the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) . The SDoH are environment, housing, nutrition, education, transportation, and access to health promotion. Polluted air and water is more common in low income areas. Housing if available often is contaminated by lead, rats, mold, and weather extremes. Low income areas often are in food deserts, lack access to fresh affordable fruits and vegetables, and have an overabundance of fast foods high in sugar, fats and salt. Education in low income school districts is often below the national standards. People with low income often have trouble getting to health care, jobs, supermarkets, and government offices. Access to health promotion is often difficult for low income people due a healthcare being focused on profit making.
Also volunteer work for the community and the public. Since 1981 with the Medical Society of the State of NY (MSSNY) advocating for patients, and physicians. In the early 1980's helping with Well Child Clinics for the County and supporting rural health centers. Since 1998 on the board of The Cayuga Community Health Network helping to promote health throughout our county. I also have been working more with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) the past few years advocating for children in need in NY State and the USA.
Another great book is Health and Sustainability by Tee L. Guidotti, MD. He thoroughly describes the meaning of sustainability and its importance to health promotion and the continued existence of humans. He also explains "the problem of the commons". When resources are owned and used by many people then one or a few people may use them to their own benefit if social or economic regulation is lacking.
For understanding our environment and biosphere Biogeochemistry- An Analysis of Global Change 4th edition by William Schlesinger, and Emily S. Bernhardt professors at Duke University is very complete.
For understanding the health promoting effects of a vegan diet I liked How Not to Die, by Michael Greger, MD.
To know more about the science of nutrition and the resistance to change read - The China Study - by T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Thomas Campbell, and their more recent books.
For a discussion of the problems of privatization read - The Privatization of Everything, How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back - by Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvfD5rnkTws video
For those addicted: to worshipping a false leader, to using a substance, to ingesting unhealthy foods, and/or to activities that produce a short term high the activities are self sustaining in the short run but lead to poverty, disease, and death in the long run.
The private and secure information with only authenticated access will promote health and savings with protection from attacks.
Currently we are involved in cyber warfare with at least Russia, China, North Korea , and Iran besides terrorists internal and external.
Due to the lack of security and authentication Russia helped swing the Elections of 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 in the favor of authoritarians. We should value authority based on facts, open discussion, and debate but authoritarians have only their leadership position to justify what they say. The dislike facts or debate if it gets in their way of what they want to do. Unfortunately, authoritarians often only benefit themselves, small groups of people, or small interest groups to the harm of the general population and most people. Lack of multifactor authentication makes it easy for big lies to spread and appear to be supported.
The Russian spy and informant Alexander Smirnov was believed by Congress but now his true identity is now and his ant-Biden testimony discredited.
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2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 4, 2024