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Richard Allen Rowe
Richard Allen Rowe (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Florida House of Representatives to represent District 23. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 18, 2020.
Rowe also ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Florida's 3rd Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the Democratic primary on August 18, 2020.
Rowe completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Rowe's professional experience includes working as a truck driver, mechanic, carpenter, and general contractor.[1]
Elections
2020
State legislative election
See also: Florida House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Florida House of Representatives District 23
Incumbent Stan McClain defeated Cynthia Dela Rosa in the general election for Florida House of Representatives District 23 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Stan McClain (R) | 67.1 | 58,787 |
 | Cynthia Dela Rosa (D)  | 32.9 | 28,882 | |
| Total votes: 87,669 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Florida House of Representatives District 23
Cynthia Dela Rosa defeated Richard Allen Rowe in the Democratic primary for Florida House of Representatives District 23 on August 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cynthia Dela Rosa | 75.7 | 6,866 |
 | Richard Allen Rowe | 24.3 | 2,202 | |
| Total votes: 9,068 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dana Harshman (D)
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Stan McClain advanced from the Republican primary for Florida House of Representatives District 23.
Congressional election
See also: Florida's 3rd Congressional District election, 2020
Florida's 3rd Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Republican primary)
Florida's 3rd Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Florida District 3
Kat Cammack defeated Adam Christensen in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 3 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kat Cammack (R) | 57.1 | 223,075 |
 | Adam Christensen (D) | 42.9 | 167,326 | |
| Total votes: 390,401 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Edgardo Silva (R)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 3
Adam Christensen defeated Tom Wells and Philip Dodds in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 3 on August 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Adam Christensen | 34.5 | 21,073 |
 | Tom Wells | 33.2 | 20,290 | |
 | Philip Dodds | 32.3 | 19,730 | |
| Total votes: 61,093 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 3
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 3 on August 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kat Cammack | 25.2 | 21,679 |
 | Judson Sapp | 20.0 | 17,180 | |
 | Gavin Rollins | 15.3 | 13,118 | |
 | James St. George | 14.1 | 12,125 | |
 | Todd Chase | 9.5 | 8,165 | |
 | Ryan Chamberlin | 5.9 | 5,067 | |
 | Amy Pope Wells | 4.1 | 3,564 | |
 | Bill Engelbrecht | 2.3 | 2,001 | |
 | David Theus | 2.2 | 1,874 | |
 | Joe Dallas Millado | 1.4 | 1,168 | |
| Total votes: 85,941 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ed Braddy (R)
- Kent Guinn (R)
Campaign themes
2020
State legislative candidacy
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Richard Allen Rowe completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Rowe's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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We're running on a unique Industrial Progressive platform, engineered to flip districts like 23. Our platform emphasizing sweeping Industrial Reforms designed to reallocate economic power from global corporations to small business and local communities. This message of Opportunity for all resonates deeply across the political spectrum. Richard has been described by many Trump supporters as "the only Democrat I'd ever vote for."
Along with that, Richard's platform includes comprehensive initiatives for eliminating corruption and corporate influence, environmental protection, green energy, complete Justice System overhaul, Medicare for All, and an end to oppressive power structures both economically and socially.
Richard's platform on gun licensing and registration has support among many gun owners, and his reproductive rights program is groundbreaking popular on both sides of the isle.
Richard Rowe is a different kind of Democrat: a fighting progressive with broad appeal, the background, platform and personality to flip seemingly impossible districts like ours.
Because pretty words and talking points arent enough. We need bold, fearless fighters with unique ideas, who never back down from a battle. Richard Rowe is that person.- It's time to take America back from corporate interests, corrupt politicians and the endless greed destroying our nation.
- The Earth is dying, Democracy is disintegrating and there is no justice in our "Justice" System
- America is broken. The world is broken. And it's going to take a mechanic to fix it.
- Returning America to a local, small-business-based economy
- Undoing the damage caused by decades of political corruption
- Restoring the Earth to a sustainable state, so future generation don't die paying for our mistakes.
- Pursuing technological solutions to social, economic and environmental problems. Up to and including Geo-engineering.
- Medicare for All. Period.
- Standing up for those who need a champion. Fighting the battles they cannot, and winning on their behalf.
- Ending America's failed War on Drugs. Because all it's ever done is destroy lives and create organized crime. Both here, and abroad.
- Complete overhaul of our joke of a "Justice" System. From bottom to top. From courthouses to street cops, judges to prosecutors. It's time to bring accountability, responsibility and JUSTICE, to those who have sleazed by for so long without.
- Empowering our educators and unions, placing them in the places of honor they've so long been denied.
- Going to war against election fraud, and moving America into the 21st century with secure, convenient voting systems. There is a technological solution to voter suppression.
- Gun control utilizing a five-class licensing and registration system, which preserves rights and keeps weapons out of the hands of psychopaths.
Ben Franklin - Diplomat, inventor, writer and all around baller
Andrew Carnegie - Hardworking Industrialist who changed America, and gave me this: "Spend the first third of life learning everything you can, the second making everything you can, and the last third giving it away."
Alexander the Great - Earth's first LGBT hero, and unstoppable conqueror of all that lay before him.
The Prince, Nikkoli Machiavelli
The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
Putting the needs of others first, and sacrificing whatever need be for them.
Motivation, true and personal.
DC's Injustice - Every hero is a villain in the waiting.
Art of Racing in the Rain - Life is chaos. Never fear the slide...learn to control it.
Jurassic Park, anything by Michael Crichton - Reason required?
The Dune Series - Fear is the mind killer, which brings total oblivion.
I dont ask for other people's stories. Because I was there. Their stories are mine, as well.
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Congressional candidacy
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Richard Allen Rowe completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Rowe's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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A lifetime independent (till recently), born and raised in the Ocala National Forest, I like to think of myself as a "conservative-adjacent classical Progressive." I'm a gun enthusiast and former Pro-Life Evangelical who understands the issues and perspectives from that side. I've worked my entire life since 13 years old...sometimes doing well, others while homeless and living in the woods.
Our campaign carries a powerful new message under the Umbrella of "Industrial Reform," which aims to take back America from corrupt corporate interests, and restore us to a sustainable small business "Carriage Economy." We will build this new land on green energy, economic opportunity, clean government, secure elections, healthcare and justice for all. We will pursue smart, tech-based solutions to difficult problems, aimed at preserving American liberties while lifting those in need.
Lastly: I'm here for the fight. I'm not in this race to move up in the party; I don't care about parties. I'm here to win. To crush, dominate and decimate all who stand in the way of making our home everything I know it can be. Friend or foe. I don't care. So join the Industrial Progressives, get out of our way, or get crushed. It's all the same to me.- America's Economy is in a consumerist death spiral, a game we're destined to lose to China. Industrial Reform is the solution.
- Justice, opportunity and healthcare are human rights. Democracy, clean elections and true representation are American rights.
- It takes greater strength to lift another than to hold them down. A powerful nation is one of opportunity, not oppression.
Saving Capitalism from Itself - Capitalism does not exist in nature. It must be created, regulated and maintained to survive in a global economy. Otherwise, competition will die, innovation will cease and the whole system will eat itself alive.
Harnessing the Power of Industry to Serve Humanity - Capitalism is a big, stupid horse. Let it run wild, it'll stomp your crops, destroy the farm and ultimately die of starvation. Industrial Progressives work to harness and direct the power of industry to solve problems.
Technological Solutions for Human Problems - Be it guns, abortion, election security or climate change...we've got the tech for that. Industrial Progressives are about maximizing personal freedom and opportunity, preserving rights and thinking outside the law to deliver the best solutions for everyone.
Industrial Reform - A massive slate of regulatory strategies and tax plans meant to shift power from Wall Street to Main Street.
End Corruption and Election Fraud - Nothing matters more than this.
Green New Jobs - New industry happens when we make it happen. Florida is perfectly positioned to become a clean energy colossus.
Medicare for All - It'll save $2 trillion over ten years, provide better insurance than you can buy today and cover everyone in the country.
My first major influence has to be Ben Franklin; genius, writer, inventor, diplomat and overall shameless raconteur. If I could follow in any one person's example, it would be Ben Franklin's. Followed closely by Howard Hughes.
Following them, Thomas Jefferson and Nikola Tesla. Whitney, Curie, Ford and Carnegie, Einstein, Bohr, Lindbergh, Von Braun and Armstrong. Those are just the Americans; some born, others adopted to our nation. I could name any number of other classical scientists and inventors going back through Da Vinci to Archimedes and Hero of Alexandria.
I've always loved technology and innovators, pioneers and builders. The people who did it, the writers who wrote about it. Which is why Ben Franklin came first.
http://anx.media/politics/re-forge-america-richard-rowe-an-introduction-2/
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INDUSTRIAL PROGRESSIVES - 200 Years of Driving Society
http://anx.media/politics/industrial-progressives-200-years-of-driving-society/
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Small Business Progressives - Saving Capitalism from Itself
http://anx.media/politics/small-business-progressives-saving-capitalism-from-itself/
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The Dignity of Work - A Salute to the People Who Built America
http://anx.media/politics/the-dignity-of-work-a-salute-to-the-people-who-built-america/
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Industrial Reform (Part 1) - "Carriage Industry," The Cheap Crap Game, and How Consumerism is Engineered to Fail
http://anx.media/politics/industrial-reform-part-1-carriage-industry-the-cheap-crap-game-and-how-consumerism-is-engineered-to-fail/
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The Rowe Corporate Tax Plan - Opportunity for all and the Myth of Corporate Parity.
http://anx.media/politics/the-rowe-corporate-tax-plan-opportunity-for-all-the-myth-of-corporate-parity-and-saving-capitalism-from-itself/
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The Boomer Bust - America's Impending Economic Apocalypse
http://anx.media/politics/the-boomer-bust-americas-coming-economic-apocalypse/
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Engineering Earth - Solving Climate Change Forever, Today
But, ideally? Honesty, integrity and a sincere sense of duty to humanity and the people we represent. One who is driven not by a desire for power or money, but through a sense of obligation (even guilt) for what happens if they DON'T run. An ideal candidate should feel responsible for the evils of the world, for their lack of action and initiative. Should understand that within each of us lay the power to change the world...but with that power comes responsibility. So says Uncle Ben.
Because I am ruthless. Driven. Single-minded and cold-blooded. Loyal to no one and nothing but those who trust me, and willing to do anything it takes, to anyone, to achieve my goals. There is nothing more important to me in this life, no amount of money or personal gain, that is more important than this endeavor.
I have sacrificed much just to be here, and will sacrifice anything or anyone else necessary to accomplish my goals. This is the purpose of my life. I cannot be bought or negotiated with, have nothing to lose and nothing to gain that anyone can offer. I grew up reading Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Lao Tzu and Musashi. I am calculating, deliberate and strategic. I can be merciless, cruel and a tad sadistic. I believe in threat, intimidation, retribution and making examples of people who get in the way.
So, pretty well suited for politics.
Sometimes, that means being the bad guy. It means doing things you don't always feel good about. But personal moral sacrifice is one thing we must be prepared for, if it serves the interests of the trust we are bestowed. The core responsibility of any representative, of anyone in power, is to honor the trust they were granted, and prove their worthiness of it through action.
I would like to restore America to its rightful rulers; the people. I want to help usher in a new golden era of peace and prosperity, of opportunity and equality. To see the world as I die the future it can be, rather than the past it has been.
I want every American to wake up every day, seeing potential in the light of every sunrise. Never having to feel the things I have, or live the life I've lived. I want future generations to live in hope and happiness, looking back on our time as the darkest era in America's history. And this, the moment it all turned around.
I want to leave my home, Florida, as a shining beacon of hope and progress not just for America...but for all the world. A beautiful place, Eden's Metropolis. I want our home to SHINE, a blue-green jewel in the crown of humanity's achievements. I want children to play in the back yards of happy homes, and their parents to look on knowing they leave a better world behind. I want that they should feel the hope we are now denied, and the certainty that their endeavors amount to something worth caring about.
I want fireflies dancing in clean air, and whippoorwills to sing through the perfume of night blooming jasmine. Christmas lights and music, joy in life for one and all. I want young families to gaze into the stars, knowing that what may be lay always within reach. If they but grasp it. So that children may ask their parents from warm beds "What can I be?" And their mother answers, honestly: "Anything."
First serious job was as a nightwatchman at the Eckerd Camp for Boys. Full time, 10pm-6am while taking Honors classes in highschool and working a few other jobs in between. Most of the money went into my car, a black 1980 Buick Grand National. Worked on the car at night at Eckerd Camp, where I stayed until a year out of highschool.
Following that, decided not to go to college on the basis of cost. Had scholarships to a few universities, but couldn't afford the cost of living there. Specifically in Boca Raton, studying aeronautic engineering ant Embry-Riddle. So, became a semi-professional street racer running out of Moss Bluff. "Semi-professional" meaning I made just enough money racing and building cars to stay ahead of the costs of my own. Did a lot of straight line, also some Open Road around the 314a and Forest circuits.
But, in America, I think the House is the most responsive branch of government. Only because our election cycles are so short; every 2 years instead of every four or six. In that sense, because House reps are effectively always campaigning, we have to stay tuned in very closely to the needs of our constituents.
If by "experience," you mean one is a political insider crawling on spiderwebs of interweaving obligations to public and private entities...then yes. That can be very "beneficial" to getting elected. It's how most politicians maintain power.
Otherwise, and apart from the obvious rise of global fascism, the biggest problem we face over the next decade will be impending economic collapse. I've written extensively on the effects of the "Boomer Bust," but America is facing absolute economic devastation over the next decade. The catalyst will be the passing of a generation which currently possesses all the money, and from which very little downward wealth transfer will occur. The Boomer Bust will drop us into an economic cataclysm making 2009 look like a fart in the wind.
I would also be in favor of age limits on government office. Every major company in the world has a maximum retirement age, and the same should be true for American politicians. First, because the world is moving too quickly to rely on the biases and experience of people who are constantly reliving the Cold War. Second, because entrenched power systems aren't a solution. They're part of the problem.
Do you want to hear the story of how I went into truck driving because I couldn't afford to go to college at Embry-Riddle? How about when I watched my mother die because we couldn't afford in home care? I guess I could tell you about living in a trailer with no electricity, hooked on oxycontin and scratching a living fixing cars. We could talk about when I wound up living in the streets in South Florida, and contemplated killing my dogs before leaving them at the Humane Society.
If you want a funny story, I could tell you how I lost all my hair running into a burning meth lab to rescue a Pomeranian. Or I could tell you about my friend, a hooker named Angel who was stabbed and burned alive in Homestead. But, that's pretty dark. Want something more adventurous? How about when I was left for dead on Key Largo by the MAGA supporting owners of the tire shop where I lived...and putting together a junkyard hot rod in two days to escape Hurricane Irma.
Tragic? Okay. My sister is dying of kidney failure because she couldn't afford insulin for six months, and my girlfriend is going into heart failure because of a virus that could have been diagnosed and treated last year. My dog also just died of cancer because the money I was counting on for surgery was stolen from me by a scumbag trucking company. And ten years ago, our joke of a justice system railroaded me into taking a plea on a crime I didn't commit, ruining my career and marriage, costing me my home, my car and everything I loved.
Are those sad enough? Are we touched yet? Were those impactful enough?
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 5, 2020.
