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Randy Auxier
Randy Auxier (Green Party) ran for election to the Illinois House of Representatives to represent District 115. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Auxier completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Randy Auxier was born in Leitchfield, Kentucky. He earned a master's degree from the University of Memphis in 1988. He earned a Ph.D. from Emory University in 1992. Auxier's career experience includes working as a professor with Southern Illinois University, Carbondale from 1992 to 2020, as a radio host with WDBX Carbondale, as an author, and as a co-founder and co-director with the American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought.[1][2] Auxier's career experience also includes working as a teacher with Oklahoma City University from 1992 to 2000 and with a public high school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.[3]
Elections
2020
See also: Illinois House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Illinois House of Representatives District 115
Paul Jacobs defeated Randy Auxier and Ian Peak in the general election for Illinois House of Representatives District 115 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Paul Jacobs (R) | 77.7 | 34,331 |
![]() | Randy Auxier (G) ![]() | 14.1 | 6,216 | |
![]() | Ian Peak (L) | 8.3 | 3,655 |
Total votes: 44,202 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 115
Paul Jacobs defeated John Howard, Clifford Lindemann, Zachary Meyer, and Johnnie Ray Smith II in the Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 115 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Paul Jacobs | 33.5 | 3,289 |
![]() | John Howard | 28.8 | 2,826 | |
Clifford Lindemann | 16.0 | 1,573 | ||
![]() | Zachary Meyer ![]() | 11.7 | 1,147 | |
![]() | Johnnie Ray Smith II ![]() | 10.1 | 992 |
Total votes: 9,827 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Will Stephens (R)
2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Illinois District 12
Incumbent Mike Bost defeated Brendan Kelly and Randy Auxier in the general election for U.S. House Illinois District 12 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mike Bost (R) | 51.6 | 134,884 |
![]() | Brendan Kelly (D) | 45.4 | 118,724 | |
![]() | Randy Auxier (G) | 3.0 | 7,935 |
Total votes: 261,543 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 12
Brendan Kelly defeated David Bequette in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 12 on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Brendan Kelly | 81.0 | 40,555 |
![]() | David Bequette | 19.0 | 9,526 |
Total votes: 50,081 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Charles Koen (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 12
Incumbent Mike Bost defeated Preston Nelson in the Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 12 on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mike Bost | 83.5 | 31,658 |
![]() | Preston Nelson | 16.5 | 6,258 |
Total votes: 37,916 | ||||
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Green primary election
Green primary for U.S. House Illinois District 12
Randy Auxier advanced from the Green primary for U.S. House Illinois District 12 on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Randy Auxier | 100.0 | 131 |
Total votes: 131 | ||||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Randy Auxier completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Auxier's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|- Economic development, sustainable and forward looking; infrastructure, physical and technological.
- Improved affordable healthcare, especially for families.
- Improved education.
I think our taxes are too high and that our current government is inefficient and does not grasp that taxpayers have a right to good government in exchange for their taxes. I support the fair tax amendment, but more than that, the wealthy have npt been bearing their fair share of the expense of running the state.
http://radicallyempirical.com/author/randall-auxier/
But as a teacher, I think most of my stories (and I don't like to tell stories, I prefer to discuss ideas and issues), have to do with what I have seen students grow into and go on to accomplish. Many of my former students are successful and have become leaders in their communities. I hear from them often and am proud of what they have done. I regard myself as lucky to have had such people to teach in their formative years, and as friends in their active adult years. I am not going to brag on them individually, and, on the other side, I am not going to pretend to know people I really only met a few times who perhaps told me the kind of story we see in political commercials. I don't think that helps you know me or the people who told me their stories. It's easy to be impressed or affected by a story; it is harder to be a part of one that is unfolding. I believe listening to people is important, and a part of listening is not repeating their circumstances for my own gain or posturing. Yet, I have learned a lot from listening to people around this region when I ran for office before. My eyes were really opened by that experience.
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2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Randy Auxier participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on February 28, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Randy Auxier's responses follow below.[4]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
“ | 1) green energy |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
“ | I am especially interested in economic development that is sustainable given the inevitable decline in fossil fuelsCite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[6]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Randy Auxier answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
“ | Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Bernie Sanders[6] | ” |
“ | I suggest my own writings, especially my blog on: http://radicallyempirical.com/author/randall-auxier/[6] | ” |
“ | a deep seated sense of justice and fairness, egalitarianism, conservationism, economic democracy[6] | ” |
“ | I am uncompromising about justice and fairness, I am creative in problem solving, I am not self-interested, no one owns me, I am brave, and I am a good listener[6] | ” |
“ | transparency, fair-mindedness, courage, a grasp of the relation between local/regional benefits and service to a wider humanity[6] | ” |
“ | People could never say, with any truth, that I was ever self-serving or a hypocrite of any kind in my public service, and that honesty was my most unalterable commitment[6] | ” |
“ | The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in my hometown, when I was in first grade.[6] | ” |
“ | Baskin Robbins Ice Cream Parlor, when I was 14 (this was among the only places one could work prior to age 16). I was there for a year.[6] | ” |
“ | C'mon. We all know how an awkward date goes. Mine was a double date with Robin Clemons at 15 and I liked her but she didn't like me . . . I think. It was a haunted house, as I recall. I should try to find her now. . . . most of my (very few) dates went better.[6] | ” |
“ | Groundhog Day. It's the best way to blow off steam in a long winter.[6] | ” |
“ | Seriously? Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, if you must know. See my writings on it . . .[6] | ” |
“ | Lyra in Phillip Pullman's trilogy "His Dark Materials."[6] | ” |
“ | Books. All 30,000 of them. Because I have a book problem. I also like the art on all sides of them.[6] | ” |
“ | Cheap Trick's "Surrender," if you must know. I was trying to work out whether the third verse makes sense. My verdict: "no."[6] | ” |
“ | Trying to be more sensitive to how other people experience me.[6] | ” |
“ | This is an empirical question. I'll let you know if I ever get there.[6] | ” |
“ | Not necessarily.[6] | ” |
“ | To become aware of the true responsibilities that accompany great wealth and privilege. To become unafraid.[6] | ” |
“ | I belong in education and transportation, the first because I know it, and the second because I have a vision for it.[6] | ” |
“ | N/A[6] | ” |
“ | Sure.[6] | ” |
“ | I favor them. I would say 8 years max in the House. Three terms max in the Senate.[6] | ” |
“ | This is difficult. I like the idea that states control their own processes, but I think it makes sense to have minimum standards of geographical coherence for what gets called a "district."[6] | ” |
“ | Not really interested at this point. I do not care for the duopoly, as we Greens call it. The two-party system is broken. It really was always inferior to the multi-party alternatives.[6] | ” |
“ | I have always admired Thaddeus Stevens. I also have a strange respect for Timothy Pickering.[6] | ” |
“ | I have been impressed by the struggles and successes of Rich Whitney.[6] | ” |
Campaign website
Auxier’s campaign website stated the following:
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I want you to know what I think, but I also want to make it clear that I listen. Nothing here is set in stone or is beyond influencing. My basic values are settled at this point in my life, and they are well expressed in the ten key values of the Green party. But no one knows everything and no one can afford to act as if he/she has nothing further to learn. These statements represent my current best understanding of the issues I am addressing, but I fully expect to revise the specifics and even some general ideas as I learn more, from you and by dint of further study. I do not believe my opponents are as dedicated to detailed learning and I do not believe they want you to know the details of their thinking as I do. You decide. I am not personally the author of every piece published here, although I am the primary author of most. But we see this campaign as a group effort of a lot of people and incorporating each other's ideas is an important part of that. Thus, all of my pieces have been thoroughly edited by the group, and primary authorship of various pieces belongs to others including Sabrina Hardenbergh, Joshua Hellmann, and Kyle Rowbotham. The editing group also includes Rich Whitney, Lee Hartmann, and Vito Mastrangelo. I support the platform of the Green Party of the United States. Like all party members, I may disagree with specific statements in the platform, but it is a good guide for where I stand on the issues.
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—Randy Auxier's 2018 campaign website[7] |
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Email submission to Ballotpedia, March 30, 2018
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 23, 2020
- ↑ Ballotpedia staff, "Email communication with the Randy Auxier campaign," September 5, 2020
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Randy Auxier's responses," February 28, 2018
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 6.18 6.19 6.20 6.21 6.22 6.23 6.24 6.25 6.26 6.27 6.28 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Randy Auxier's 2018 campaign website, "Positions," accessed October 15, 2018