Robert Sexton
Robert Sexton (independent) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 43. He lost in the primary on March 3, 2020.
Sexton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Robert Sexton was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Middlesex College for undergraduate study. Sexton's career experience includes working as a producer, director, and writer.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2020
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 43
Incumbent Laura Friedman defeated Mike Graves in the general election for California State Assembly District 43 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Laura Friedman (D) | 69.6 | 149,214 |
 | Mike Graves (R) | 30.4 | 65,270 | |
| Total votes: 214,484 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 43
Incumbent Laura Friedman and Mike Graves defeated Robert Sexton in the primary for California State Assembly District 43 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Laura Friedman (D) | 75.6 | 88,541 |
| ✔ | | Mike Graves (R) | 20.7 | 24,258 |
 | Robert Sexton (Independent) | 3.6 | 4,264 | |
| Total votes: 117,063 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Robert Sexton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sexton's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My grandmother, grandfather, uncle, and mother were Holocaust survivors... Catholics from Lithuania who were forced into a concentration camp by the Nazis. Seventeen million souls were lost in that genocide, but my family was lucky to escape and survive. They arrived at Ellis Island in January 1949 on the ship, The General Muir.
Not long after emigrating to the USA, my grandmother was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I grew up in a family that had to deal with the harsh realities of mental illness.
It was the night before I left to move to Los Angeles. November, 1990. I was living in New York, and it was at the height of the crack epidemic. There was an army of the homeless. Crime was unstoppable. Addicts were jonesing, everywhere. The voices in the heads of the mentally ill were a chorus of devils, unbroken and without refrain. I said goodbye to friends, schoolmates, teachers and old haunts... I was glad to leave.
I've lived in the Hollywood Dell for more than two decades, and have watched the multi-faceted homelessness crisis get worse. I see on the streets of Los Angeles what I saw in New York, and what I saw watching my grandmother struggle with limited help and resources. That is why I'm running.- Working to Solve the Multi-Faceted Homelessness Crisis
- Ensuring Rent Stabilization and Fair Housing
- Fixing Propositions 47 and 57
We need to prioritize and have a plan of action.
Helping those who can't help themselves.
Getting them and keeping them off the street.
Amending/changing/discarding Prop 47 and 57.
Please read my platform. I spell it out.
I'm not a politician. That's a good thing. I'm a producer by choice, political animal out of necessity, working to make this state a better place.
Polls show again and again that the homelessness crisis is the #1 issue on voters' minds in Los Angeles. Then why is incumbent Laura Friedman not taking action? It is time someone worked to truly fix this multi-faceted crisis. I have a 2020 Vision for the State of California.
This crisis is multi-faceted. I have proposed a number of solutions in my all-encompassing plan listed on my webpage. Go to Sexton2020Vision.com to learn more about my vision of how to help get individuals off the streets and keep them safe and healthy.
The lesser of two evils is still evil. Register and Vote Independent.
Midnight, May 8, 2018. I was going to bed when I heard a noise outside. I looked out the window, nothing. A few minutes later, another noise. Definitely something outside. A man had broken onto our property. I called out and asked what he was doing there. He responded with an expletive.
I was on the phone with 911 as I went outside to ask the man to leave. He appeared intoxicated but not super threatening. As I reached the gate, he grabbed a shovel from the shadows and repeatedly swung it at my head. The doorway arch was the only thing that stopped me from being decapitated. Police arrived one hour and 49 minutes later.
I'm 6'4, 225 pounds and I was shaken. Imagine if it had happened to my wife, or a child, or any of my neighbors. How would they have fared?
When the police arrived I was informed of the consequences of Propositions 47 and 57. I voted for both of these bills, like most of you, to help reduce prison populations and let out nonviolent offenders. But I soon learned that our Elected Representatives had failed us in failing to close loopholes freeing violent criminals. Then I became involved in a horrifying case...
Spring 2019. A homeless man, possibly suffering from mental illness, set his two pitbulls to attack an innocent bystander in a peaceful public park. This was the last of four separate attacks in five months committed by this man and his dogs.
Brutal visible injuries. (I have pictures of my neighbor who suffered through the last attack.) I spoke to the police... they were unable to do anything about it: The dogs were taken, and thankfully not euthanized, but the man was never arrested. After 2 court hearings that we were required to attend, after sworn testimony from victims, even after all the evidence was given, the powers that be wanted to and still want to give the pitbulls back to him.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 18, 2020
