Randell Hynes
Randell S. Hynes (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Nevada's 3rd Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on June 14, 2022.
Hynes completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Randell Hynes was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Hynes' professional experience includes working as a senior infrastructure architect, driver, lobbyist, and solar trade association founder. He served in the U.S. Army from 1986 to 1992. Hynes earned an associate degree from Monterey Peninsula College in 1990 and attended Butler University.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Nevada's 3rd Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Nevada District 3
Incumbent Susie Lee defeated April Becker in the general election for U.S. House Nevada District 3 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Susie Lee (D) | 52.0 | 131,086 |
 | April Becker (R)  | 48.0 | 121,083 | |
| Total votes: 252,169 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Robert Bruce Morris (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Nevada District 3
Incumbent Susie Lee defeated Randell S. Hynes in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Nevada District 3 on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Susie Lee | 89.7 | 37,069 |
 | Randell S. Hynes | 10.3 | 4,265 | |
| Total votes: 41,334 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Nevada District 3
April Becker defeated John Kovacs, Clark Bossert, Noah Malgeri, and Albert Maxwell Goldberg in the Republican primary for U.S. House Nevada District 3 on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | April Becker | 64.9 | 28,260 |
 | John Kovacs | 11.1 | 4,857 | |
 | Clark Bossert | 10.4 | 4,553 | |
 | Noah Malgeri | 9.1 | 3,981 | |
 | Albert Maxwell Goldberg | 4.4 | 1,920 | |
| Total votes: 43,571 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Reinier Prijten (R)
- Steve Schiffman (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Randell S. Hynes completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hynes' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Consider me because I'll consider you!
I believed America needed a new third party to represent a moderate majority. After studying it, I came to this resolve:
Parties are ingrained in America. We lean towards a party like we show loyalty to our favorite sports team, no matter their win/loss record. Parties are our starting points to uphold the same American values to keep us safe, unite us, create opportunities and economic certainty.
I recall Roe v Wade and felt the impact of that important decision, while growing up with a Congress that was more responsive in the 1960s and 1970s. Congress used to have hundreds of Moderate Democratic Party and Republican Party members. Chamber leadership now dictates the agenda, and as membership has become more partisan, so has the agenda. A moderate caucus could influence the agenda. We've seen recently how disruptive a few Moderates were in the Senate.
Congress members are an exact reflection of the low turnouts at Primary elections. About 10% of mostly partisan voters, one neighbor on each street picking who we vote for later. The rest of us show up in November and vote for one of two most ultra partisan nominees.
Show up to make nominees more representative of your District.
Informed Voters are a danger to the status quo and a friend to a Republic.- I'll consider the affordable priorities of most Americans. After affordability, I'll weigh these common-sense factors: Will it keep us safe, unite us, create opportunities, add to economic certainty, share resources between Federal departments and consider all stakeholder opinions.
- Congress People should consider the interest of the American people without considering Party interest. Parties do not transcend American values.
- My professional expertise is cloud programming. I'll stay in touch by streaming regularly. Technology is far too advanced to do otherwise. With today's technology, there should be an app for each Congressperson to collect a straw vote about each upcoming vote from confirmed constituents. I'll build that app before day one.
Transitional Training is under-resourced in the United States.
Nevada has resources and big build experience that could rapidly expand Transitional Training into a centralized industry. A training facility built on Federal land adjacent to Nellis Airforce base with private dollars could offer training to residents of the 8,000+ underserved Opportunity Zones.
Part of rebuilding the budget should be a prioritization to invest in the next generation that we've so heavily indebted. With focus on developing a Transitional Training infrastructure that any American can use during life transitions, like student to adult, drug rehab to sober, prisoner reform, return to workforce, military to civilian, foster kids aging out and many others. There could be a system to get the training needed by expanding the ideas of Opportunity Zones for investment in training infrastructure and building out new 21st Century defense challenges like cyber attacks, pandemic protection, overseas & border electronic surveillance, deep space monitoring, and other challenges we haven't even considered, yet.
Common-sense Journalists are turning to the Internet to report fairly. The perfect example to me are mostly women, Bari Weiss, Megan Kelly, Abigail Shrier and Melissa Chen are making a difference.
I thought, mistakenly, when I cast my first vote for Ronald Reagan that the Republican Party spoke for me. I didn't know that the GOP had already started its courtship with the Church that made Roe v Wade a moral issue, different than it was decided on, which was a privacy issue. I struggled with that and the odd co-existence of the 2A and the Church.
I voted for Barack Obama the first time, then was upset with how his first term went.
Should I have a legacy, I'd hope it is that I found a way to make the 2022 election system work to elect Moderates into Congress and make it more responsive, even if my effort was unsung.
I watched the Apollo moon landing on TV, July 19, 1969, three days before my 8th birthday.
In 1973 my position in support of Roe v Wade was set after learning about the importance of the decision from family members.
As a teen I used my excellent grass mowing skills to cut grass on Indianapolis public golf courses.
Thanks for reminding me.
Like what I'm asking the people of Nevada's 3rd Congressional District, my neighbors, to entrust me with. I know it's bigger than me. I'm ready and not the least bit concerned about the road ahead. I'll serve well.
Both Chambers have fallen short of these basic principles by considering everything other than the interests of We The People.
I just submitted my US Term Limits Pledge.
There can be accountability.
Wealthy Americans use Federal tax laws to pay as little taxes as possible. Many have stated that a minimum tax should be in place. That's all I would consider as relevant.
Giving wealthy Americans tax breaks on investments made into a proposed Transitional Training infrastructure would keep much of the money that would presumably be sheltered elsewhere here to work for a decade. Similar to the advantages of the current Opportunity Zones program that seems in need of some updates.
Tax Revenue has doubled every Census year except 2010 since 1930. The massive debt that past Congresses have saddled future families with will require us to invest more in future generations so they can eventually recover the revenue being paid into interest and perhaps find a way to pay the principle.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 1, 2021
