Robert MacGlaflin
Robert MacGlaflin (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 33rd Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on March 1, 2022.
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Biography
Robert MacGlaflin was born in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1995 to 1998. His career experience includes working as a business consultant with Cornwall Contracting and Consulting, a manager of client development with Southern Botanical, and a sales manager with Hadden Landscaping.[1][2][3]
Elections
2022
See also: Texas' 33rd Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 33
Incumbent Marc Veasey defeated Patrick Gillespie and Ken Ashby in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 33 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Marc Veasey (D) | 72.0 | 82,081 |
 | Patrick Gillespie (R)  | 25.6 | 29,203 | |
| Ken Ashby (L) | 2.4 | 2,746 | ||
| Total votes: 114,030 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 33
Incumbent Marc Veasey defeated Carlos Quintanilla in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 33 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marc Veasey | 69.5 | 16,806 |
 | Carlos Quintanilla | 30.5 | 7,373 | |
| Total votes: 24,179 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 33
Patrick Gillespie defeated Robert MacGlaflin in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 33 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Patrick Gillespie | 63.5 | 5,709 |
 | Robert MacGlaflin | 36.5 | 3,284 | |
| Total votes: 8,993 | |||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 33
Ken Ashby advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 33 on March 19, 2022.
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| ✔ | Ken Ashby (L) | |
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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While growing up, his Catholic faith led him to be an Alter Boy and he helped in the teaching of religious classes in his youth. He attended both Brookhaven and Richland Community Colleges in 1994 and 1995 and a Naval Prep School which broadened his opportunity for Officer Selection and Training.
After years of working up to three jobs at a time, he enlisted in the US Navy in 1995 and he was honored to serve as a Presidential Ceremonial Guard in 1996-98. He attended Officer Candidacy School in Rhode Island in 1998.
After being injured in the military, Robert went back to work in the landscape industry in project management, sales and business development. Through his work in this field he gained a true respect for the people who strap their boots on, get to work early and take care of their customers.- Education: We need to reinstate a level of education that helps the majority of children out there that cannot or do not want to attend college. Enforcing the idea that trades help strengthen the country. Too much importance is emphasized on degrees, which do not provide good paying jobs in most instances. Trades are disappearing in this country. We need plumbers, electricians and construction workers and other trade opportunities for our next generation of workers. Children need to be taught how to achieve success by learning how to budget their money and a real work ethic that the real world will expect of them as they enter the work force. Not CRT and divisive teachings. When so many of our children cannot read, write and do basic m
- Energy Independence: We must bring back Energy Independence to the United States. As much as we all would like to clean up the planet and the air quality, this will not happen overnight. The United States has come a long way toward cleaner air compared to other countries and will continue to do so. Purchasing our oil and gas from other countries when we have enough resources right here in our own country is ludicrous thinking that puts a major crunch on our citizens who must use their vehicles to get back and forth to work! This administration has plunged our oil and gas work force into unemployment with no remorse and with no idea how to replace or create good paying jobs to those lost. The future may be electric cars but that is in the
- Mandates and Freedom of Speech: People should have the right to choose what is right for them and their families. Mandates should not exist to force employers to make their employee’s get a vaccine in order to keep their jobs! We do not need to lose more doctors and nurses, which is so important to great health care in our country. The loss of hundreds of truck driver’s, who are the transportation backbone of this country, is causing huge backups in delivery systems all across the United States. Our hard working small business owners will lose their businesses and are currently going under due to labor shortages. We must get the country back to work! Stop the mandates! We must stop the attack of Free Speech from one group unto anothe
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Campaign website
MacGlaflin's campaign website stated the following:
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Education We need to reinstate a level of education that helps the majority of children out there that cannot or do not want to attend college. Enforcing the idea that trades help strengthen the country. Too much importance is emphasized on degrees, which do not provide good paying jobs in most instances. Trades are disappearing in this country. We need plumbers, electricians and construction workers and other trade opportunities for our next generation of workers. Children need to be taught how to achieve success by learning how to budget their money and a real work ethic that the real world will expect of them as they enter the work force. Not CRT and divisive teachings. When so many of our children cannot read, write and do basic mathematics during their school years, this is a long time disturbing trend that must be rectified. Parents should have the right to choose the school they want their children to attend and also to give their input as what is taught to their children. And that starts with schools sharing their content being taught in that school. Policing and Military We need to support our police and military, with MORE funding and respect. But at the same time, address the issues within these institutions that are broken and need fixing now. We need to help and provide more training for our police, on handling varying situations to avoid major force when not needed. To improve their community relationships, so that people can gain trust in their police again and the police can feel confident doing their jobs. Also we need to address the overwhelming mental health issues within the military and homelessness of our veterans and their health care. Immigration Borders need to be closed to the illegal influx of people from varying countries around the world through Mexico. They cannot be allowed to “jump the line” ahead of those that have waited years to come to the United States legally. Nor can we allow illegal immigrants to gain access to the country un-vetted and bringing illness to our country. Especially while we deal with the effects of Covid-19. Criminals from other countries should not be allowed into the United States so willy nilly, as this current administration has allowed. Nor should we allow the continuing illegal drug influx that is killing more Americans every year! Let’s spend that $450,000 per person that the Biden administration would like to hand out to those that have not put anything into this country and use it to take care of our poor and homeless, before the rest of the world. America First Energy Independence We must bring back Energy Independence to the United States. As much as we all would like to clean up the planet and the air quality, this will not happen overnight. The United States has come a long way toward cleaner air compared to other countries and will continue to do so. Purchasing our oil and gas from other countries when we have enough resources right here in our own country is ludicrous thinking that puts a major crunch on our citizens who must use their vehicles to get back and forth to work! This administration has plunged our oil and gas work force into unemployment with no remorse and with no idea how to replace or create good paying jobs to those lost. The future may be electric cars but that is in the future. The here and now needs to be addressed and a more common sense approach to this change. I support having our oil and gas companies investing in a future of electricity by recommending the programs Sweden uses! Let’s burn our trash to create electricity. We need to dispose of hundreds of thousands of tons of waste per year. Depositing all this trash into landfills is an ecological disaster to our fresh ground water resources! Only 1% of Sweden’s trash goes to landfills. So instead of forcing oil and gas companies to go broke, lets help those industries change the landscape and still provide jobs to those in the future. Mandates and Freedom of Speech People should have the right to choose what is right for them and their families. Mandates should not exist to force employers to make their employee’s get a vaccine in order to keep their jobs! We do not need to lose more doctors and nurses, which is so important to great health care in our country. The loss of hundreds of truck driver’s, who are the transportation backbone of this country, is causing huge backups in delivery systems all across the United States. Our hard working small business owners will lose their businesses and are currently going under due to labor shortages. We must get the country back to work! Stop the mandates! We must stop the attack of Free Speech from one group unto another! We must return to more civility among our peoples and learn to discuss and debate issues based on their merit and facts and compromise where we must. Violence against one another will not bring us together as a nation once again. We must learn to appreciate our differences and just agree to disagree rather than attack and disparage.[4] |
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| —Robert MacGlaflin's campaign website (2022)[5] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Robert MacGlaflin For Congress, "Meet Robert," accessed February 12, 2022
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Robert J. Mac Glaflin," accessed February 12, 2022
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 8, 2022.
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Robert MacGlaflin For Congress, “On The Issues,” accessed January 18, 2022
