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Rich Kinney
Rich Kinney (Republican Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 14. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Kinney completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Kinney was a 2016 Republican candidate for District 9 of the California State Senate. He ran unsuccessfully for District 15 of the California State Assembly in 2014.
Elections
2022
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2022
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 14
Incumbent Buffy Wicks defeated Rich Kinney in the general election for California State Assembly District 14 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Buffy Wicks (D) | 88.4 | 139,331 |
 | Rich Kinney (R)  | 11.6 | 18,242 | |
| Total votes: 157,573 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 14
Incumbent Buffy Wicks and Rich Kinney advanced from the primary for California State Assembly District 14 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Buffy Wicks (D) | 100.0 | 85,180 |
| ✔ | | Rich Kinney (R) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 37 |
| Total votes: 85,217 | |||
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2016
- See also: California State Senate elections, 2016
Elections for the California State Senate took place in 2016. The primary election was held on June 7, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was February 25, 2016, for candidates filing with signatures. The deadline for candidates using a filing fee to qualify was March 11, 2016.[1] Incumbent Loni Hancock (D) did not seek re-election.
Nancy Skinner defeated Sandré Swanson in the California State Senate District 9 general election.[2][3]
| California State Senate, District 9 General Election, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Nancy Skinner |
62.19% | 236,133 | |
| Democratic | Sandré Swanson | 37.81% | 143,573 | |
| Total Votes | 379,706 | |||
| Source: California Secretary of State | ||||
Nancy Skinner and Sandré Swanson defeated Katherine Welch and Rich Kinney in the California State Senate District 9 Blanket primary.[4][5]
| California State Senate, District 9 Blanket Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Nancy Skinner |
47.82% | 116,710 | |
| Democratic | Sandré Swanson |
30.47% | 74,365 | |
| Democratic | Katherine Welch | 13.40% | 32,698 | |
| Republican | Rich Kinney | 8.31% | 20,287 | |
| Total Votes | 244,060 | |||
2014
Elections for the California State Assembly took place in 2014. A primary election took place on June 3, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was March 7, 2014. Elizabeth Echols (D) and Tony Thurmond (D) defeated Clarence Hunt (D), Sam Kang (D), Pamela Price (D), Rich Kinney (R), Eugene E. Ruyle (Peace & Freedom) and Bernt Rainer Wahl (I) in the blanket primary. Thurmond defeated Echols in the general election.[6][7][8]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Tony Thurmond |
54.3% | 66,661 | |
| Democratic | Elizabeth Echols | 45.7% | 56,071 | |
| Total Votes | 122,732 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |
Elizabeth Echols |
31.1% | 21,664 | |
| Democratic | Tony Thurmond |
24.4% | 16,963 | |
| Democratic | Pamela Price | 17.1% | 11,898 | |
| Republican | Rich Kinney | 10.8% | 7,531 | |
| Democratic | Sam Kang | 6.7% | 4,630 | |
| Democratic | Clarence Hunt | 4.8% | 3,329 | |
| Peace and Freedom | Eugene E. Ruyle | 3.5% | 2,426 | |
| Independent | Bernt Rainer Wahl | 1.6% | 1,132 | |
| Total Votes | 69,573 | |||
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Rich Kinney completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kinney's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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As a native Californian, I'm concerned about the breakdown of our society - the misuse of educating our children, our struggling free market economy, the unequal treatment of the rule of law, the constant attacks against our Constitutional rights, and seeing a clear vision for a brighter California future.
When I was sworn in as police chaplain, City Council Member and Mayor I made an oath to God and to all the people that I would uphold and protect the Constitution of my state and country. Let's get our State back on track starting with our district.- Several previous Assembly members have prioritized Oakland and Berkeley while largely neglecting the West County Cities. I't time we have proper representation at the State Capitol for all our Cities.
- A vote for me will get everyone back to the table to discuss refocusing the education of our children from preschool to grad school, address the real issues that contribute to homelessness and close those holes in the safety net, get the unsheltered into living situations that they want to stay in, and get us into the energy independence California is fully capable of.
- Your vote for Rich Kinney will get a strong advocate for protecting Cities from the State's requirements to build additional housing when they're already built out and/or have local desires majorities to protect their historical identity. I will protect the unborn and provide pregnant mothers with acceptable options to brutally killing their babies for hire and supporting the Abortion Industry's thirst for murder.
I'm passionate about getting California energy independent and becoming a provider of energy to other States. There's no reason we can't be exporting more energy and help boost our economy.
I'm passionate about our educational systems returning to world class education and refrain from divisive measures putting unnecessary strains on our children and restraints on our parents from maintaining their responsibilities as parents.
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2014
Kinney's website highlighted the following campaign themes:[9]
- Excerpt: "increasing jobs and better paying jobs in our district,"
- Excerpt: "developing more job training for unemployed and under-employed,"
- Excerpt: "greatly reducing the transportation gridlock on the I-80 corridor,"
- Excerpt: "attracting more businesses and large corporations throughout our district,"
- Excerpt: "either ban transportation strikes like New York, Chicago, Boston and Washington DC has, or impose stiff fines and penalties to parties that leave negotiations before ending the strike,"
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Key Dates and Deadlines," accessed April 18, 2017
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Certified List of Candidates for the November 8, 2016, General Election," accessed September 7, 2016
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "2016 General Election results," accessed December 23, 2016
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Certified List of Candidates for Voter-Nominated Offices," accessed April 4, 2016
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Statement of Vote," accessed August 22, 2016
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official 2014 Primary election candidate list," accessed March 27, 2014
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official primary election results," accessed July 15, 2014
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official general election results," accessed December 14, 2014
- ↑ votekinney.com, "Official Campaign Website," accessed May 9, 2014
