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Randall Meyer (Hawaii)
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Randall Meyer ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Meyer completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Randall Meyer earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Rhode Island in 2002. His career experience includes working as a scientist.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024
Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (August 10 Democratic primary)
Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (August 10 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Hawaii District 2
Incumbent Jill Tokuda defeated Steven Bond, Aaron Toman, and Randall Meyer in the general election for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jill Tokuda (D) | 66.5 | 166,251 |
 | Steven Bond (R) | 30.2 | 75,471 | |
 | Aaron Toman (L)  | 1.8 | 4,497 | |
 | Randall Meyer (Nonpartisan) | 1.6 | 3,937 | |
| Total votes: 250,156 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2
Incumbent Jill Tokuda advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on August 10, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jill Tokuda | 100.0 | 84,978 |
| Total votes: 84,978 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Rick Swing (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2
Steven Bond advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on August 10, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Steven Bond | 100.0 | 19,627 |
| Total votes: 19,627 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Lono Mack (R)
- Brandon Kuehner (R)
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2
Randall Meyer advanced from the primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on August 10, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Randall Meyer | 100.0 | 580 |
| Total votes: 580 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
Libertarian primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2
Aaron Toman advanced from the Libertarian primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on August 10, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Aaron Toman | 100.0 | 361 |
| Total votes: 361 | |||
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No Labels Party primary election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Lono Mack (No Labels Party)
We the People primary election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- BlessingStar De La Cruz (We the People)
- Clifford Kauaula (We the People)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Meyer in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Randall Meyer completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Meyer'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 fell off the Left end of the political scale, on October 27, 1996, when Kang and Kodos, dressed as Clinton and Dole, informed me that the two party system could be used to sell a load of hogwash to a docile and un-reflective America. When I say I am far left, the word "progressive" certainly applies, but not necessarily Communist or Socialist. I agree with the root words, but am ambivalent about the "-isms", nor do I fear capital or barter systems. The only "-ism" that really interests me, is "Darwinism". I am a scientist. I have been censored and ostracized for 20 years, and my rights to life, liberty, and freedom of speech, and especially academic freedom, have been severely curtailed and removed. The ACLU offered no help. I have sued, Pro Se, five times, in federal court to reinstate my rights, and your rights. The courts do not function for unemployed, homeless, ostracized and censored scientists, or at least, did not do so in my case(s). I fled the country, to Canada, in 2020, and sought political asylum, but was deported after 2 years there, and dragged back to America to be punished some more. I live in a rainforest, on the slope of an active volcano, and when I am done losing Congress to Kang and Kodos, I will be relocating my scientific notes and devices to either NZ or AUS, so that my research can begin, in earnest, amongst literate, and conscientious people. ThankU4 your time, & vote.
- I only make one promise, and its not "a chicken in every pot". I promise not to make it any worse than it already is. (There are 434 other representatives, and everybody in America is familiar with their ethic, efficacy and work methodologies.).
- Oh, OK. You need more than one promise? I'll relent. I promise to at least TRY to make things better.
- Overpopulation is real, and scary, but from a Left perspective, environment persp. and a scientist's persp. Its not a secret, scary world gov't plot2 kill us off, nor isit a corp. plot2 kill usoff. Corp's do like abundant, cheap labor, but this is a REAL serious issue and it is prob. THE MOST important, next2 nuclear war, energy, farm pol., and "terror."/"immig." (so-called). The reason it doesn't get much press / gov't attention is A) people's freedom2 build families how they wish is inviolable, and rightly so, B) there isn't any practicable way for gov't 2control it. The sensible thing for gov't 2do, is discuss it freq. and how it affects other probs. we face
Honest governance, empiricism, philosophy, history, science, and real conversations; not polite, wishy-washy, brainwashed, pre-scripted dialogue/monologue.
Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Andres Segovia, Charles Darwin,Bernie Sanders, Ralph Nader, Stephen Jay Gould, Noam Chomsky. These were my heros, in my college years, and they shaped and formed and framed my understanding of the world.
(1) "Man With a Plan", the Vermont Story of Fred Tuttle, the Farmer who (almost) went to Congress, available, free, on youtube. 1 1/2 hour viewing. (2) John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), Walt Whitman "Song of Myself", Kafka, Orwell, Huxley, Vonnegut (The Big Trip Way up Yonder), Heller, Zamiyatin, Kapek, Swift (A Modest Proposal), Jaroslav Hasek, Dr. Seuss, Charles Darwin, Samuel Butler, Stephen Jay Gould, George Carlin, The Last Poets, Tom Lehrer, Weird Al, Woodie Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Julius Edgar Lillienfeld, Greenleaf Whittier Picard, Carl Marcus Olson, Walter Guyton Cady, Charles Sanders Peirce, Hume, Locke, Chomsky, Dennett, Dawkins, Jean Hoerni, Chuck Peddle, Bill Mensch, Ray Holt, Federico Faggin, Lee Boysel, James Janesick, Walt et al (DNA mircoarrays; FOIC), White and Voltmer (SAWs), and Wohltjen and Dessy (SAWs-chem), Ralph Nader, Bernie Sanders, "You're very well read, its well knooooowwwwnnn"~ Bob Dylan , circa 1966
Ability to analyze factual information, and apply new or old facts, and through that person's working knowledge of how things presently function, delivering an ability to affect positive change or forestall negative changes, delivering effective governance to the constituents.
I am scientist. This means, neither left nor right, but a "straight-shooter", and an empiricist, excellent at logistics. A scientist must hypothesize, but also must design and execute the experiment, and must assess the results, whether succesful or failed.
(A) Bring home the pork. (B) Vote with the "correct side". But more important than both of those basic and unenviable, perfunctory tasks, (1) author interesting, unique, creative and utilitarian bills and draft laws, and (2) perhaps most important of all, discuss current affairs in such a way that national dialogue can be shifted and an informed electorate can help to make the decisions that move nations, and peoples and cultures, forward, into the future; smartly and wisely, and in a transparent way.
I'd like to go and get a PhD and write my science book. I've been waiting 20 years to start, in earnest, but I haven't been idle : I've been preparing carefully to do so. It is my hope that no creative (intelligent, determined, competent, well-schooled) youth in America will be stifled by illegitimate process, in the future. Though this is perhaps an unrealistic goal, we can at least attempt to minimize the pathways for abuse of power and violation of free speech in academia and in the public sphere. Censorship of intellectuals is perhaps the worst thing a nation can do to itself, and its future generations. In addition to the immediate effects upon the individuals persons, it causes a chilling effect against others who would dare to speak or write freely. The source of the censorship, in governemnt, or in government aided corporations or government aided academic institutions, is immaterial; the effec is real and it matters greatly.
At age 2 , I was brought to the ocean in Maine, to see my aunts wedding. There is a picture of me smiling at the waves as they rushed in to meet my feet. I eventually got a Marine Biology degree. This was historical, for me. But I suppose, at age 7, or 9, the Berlin Wall fell. There probably is an earlier moment, an perhaps a vague notion of the Challenger disaster, but I don't recall a specific moment of hearing the news of that items. So Berlin Wall, I vaguely recall, seeing on the news.
McDonald's grill employee. weekend opener, and after school help; 14.5 years old; as soon as the law allowed.
"The Structure of Biological Theories, by Paul Thompson, or "The Human Eye, its Structure and Function", by Clyde Oyster, or James Janesick's "Scientific Charge Coupled Devices". Why? I enjoy being a scientist. I see the world in ways that others can't possibly see it, until I help them along a bit. This is my life's work. So, these three books made me the scientist I am today, and can help me make my society (or significant parts of it) into the kind of society that I want to see in the future. or, at the very least, these books provide a common frame of reference, upon which meaningful conversations about the future can be had. Maybe one or two more books: Nicholas Wade's "A Natural History of Vision" and David Park's "Fire Within the Eye".
Commander Data, Star Trek the Next Generation
I m a musician, so, undoubtedly, it was three different peices of three different songs, half finished, and half whistled. But, maybe "Outside there's a box car waiting ... So Long ", by ? I don't know the band.
Academic censorship, aided and abetted by an unresponsive governance structure(s).
All bills that raise revenue must originate in the U.S House. But it is a larger body, and there is less time to get your point across and have your voice be heard.
Overpopulation. That is the global challenge of the coming millenium. All other areas are effected by it, but government is constrained to only an advisory role, since it is one of the human population's most cherished personal freedoms : the planning of their own families and family choices. This requires a deft touch and conciliatory, advisory role of the government, merely empowering people to make the correct decision regarding the simplification and easing of their footprint upon our finite earth and its finite resources.
Yes. Though, arguably, it is hardly time to "get your feet wet" and "learn the ropes", before it is time to go fund-raise and run for election again. I suppose this is unfortunately true, as I feel two years is the correct amount of time, despite this obvious drawback. I do not plan on serving more than 4, or 6 at most, and I am plenty happy with just 2 years.
Its an issue that matters and is important, but it is also a "political football" that people toss around to sound like they are doing or saying something, when really its like complaining about the weather. Everybody complains about the weather, but does anybody DO anything about it? Would you trust a Congressman who actually thought he/she REALLY WAS DOING something about the weather? I would consider them a bit loopy. But, I suppose, with climate change, we might try to do SOME things about the weather, since we are bound to affect it a bit, anyway. We might as well try to have a good effect. And, so, with term limits. People who are good at their jobs deserve to be re-elected for as long as the population at large hold their reputations in good standing. But one hopes that the person is also reflective and understanding of their own potential, and one hopes that they are cognizant of their own activities and effect upon the institutions. If they can't make anymore positive contributions, they should be able to come to this conclusion and leave of their own accord.
Bernie Sanders.
No. I live in a "media saturated age", and have grown my entire life in such a society. The "instant feedback loop" (whether CableTV induced, or affected by internet and social media) has made for all sorts of disingenuous politics. The real stories I hear, are "on the road", in "the streets" and rarely is a camera rolling to catch the particulars. Maybe, I once heard about Bernie Sanders helping the tomato pickers of Immokalee, FL, even though they are a thousand miles from his home state of Vermont. But modern day slavery is a stain upon all of our virtue, as a nation; I suppose I am more embarrassed by the inaction of the other 434 members of Congress.
Never trust an atom .... they make up everything!
See above comments regarding "pork". I suppose "earmarks" are an interesting topic too. I will do no better and no worse than the representative before me, but the task is a drudgery and unenviable. Real leadership will occur on other issues, like technology, and on the social services that keep a healthy society that can function enough to expand and invent and invest and utilize and contemplate the importance of , said technologies.
Sparingly. Too much "gotcha game" in modern politics. Ideally the executive branch would be more aggressive, or at the very least, more of a "stickler" for the letter of the law, so that Congress is free to do what it does best. Whit collar crime is vastly under-reported and under-prosecuted.
Conservation, Research and Biotechnology; Forestry; Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies ; Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies ; Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation ; Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education ; Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions ; Higher Education and Workforce Development; Science, Space and Technology; and etc .
Its good. Money is just a promise. So as long as the promise is made, the promise is delivered, or attempted in good faith, and unavoidably de-railed, or partially complete, the money has served its purpose. Too often, in modern governance, I see people neglecting both the intentions of the promise and the follow through. It is even worse if the promise is disingenuous and there is no real path to completion of said promise. That is governance and finance at its worst, in my pinion.
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2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 12, 2024
Senators
Mazie Hirono (D)
Brian Schatz (D)
Representatives
District 1
Ed Case (D)
District 2
Jill Tokuda (D)
Democratic Party (4)
