Ron Curtis
Ron Curtis (Republican Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Hawaii's 1st Congressional District. He is on the ballot in the Republican primary on August 8, 2020.
Biography
Curtis earned a bachelor's degree in computer science with minors in architecture, electrical engineering, physics, and mathematics from the University of Maryland Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Engineering. He is a Certified Cisco Network Administrator (CCNA). Curtis' professional experience includes working as a systems engineer as a government contractor for NASA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Agriculture. He retired in February 2016.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Hawaii's 1st Congressional District election, 2020
Hawaii's 1st Congressional District election, 2020 (August 8 Democratic primary)
Hawaii's 1st Congressional District election, 2020 (August 8 Republican primary)
The primary will occur on August 8, 2020. The general election will occur on November 3, 2020. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Democratic primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 1
Incumbent Ed Case is running in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 1 on August 8, 2020.
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Republican primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 1
Ron Curtis, James Dickens, Nancy Olson, Arturo Reyes, and Taylor Smith are running in the Republican primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 1 on August 8, 2020.
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Primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 1
Calvin Griffin is running in the primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 1 on August 8, 2020.
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2018
General election
Incumbent Mazie K. Hirono defeated Ron Curtis in the general election for U.S. Senate Hawaii on November 6, 2018.
General election for U.S. Senate Hawaii
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Mazie K. Hirono (D) |
71.2
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276,316 |
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Ron Curtis (R) |
28.8
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112,035 | |
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Total votes: 388,351 (100.00% precincts reporting) |
Democratic primary election
Incumbent Mazie K. Hirono advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii on August 11, 2018.
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii
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Mazie K. Hirono |
100.0
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201,604 |
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Total votes: 201,604 |
Republican primary election
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii on August 11, 2018.
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii
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Ron Curtis |
23.7
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6,370 |
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Consuelo Anderson |
19.3
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5,166 | |
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Robert Helsham |
14.9
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3,988 | |
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Thomas White |
13.6
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3,657 | |
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Roque De La Fuente |
11.4
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3,060 | |
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George Berish |
6.2
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1,658 | |
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Michael Hodgkiss |
5.9
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1,575 | |
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Eddie Pirkowski |
5.1
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1,357 | |
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Total votes: 26,831 |
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ron Curtis has not yet completed Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey. Ballotpedia is seeking 100 percent participation so voters can learn more about all the candidates on their ballots.
Who fills out Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey?
- 872 candidates completed the survey in 2019. This number represented 10.4% of all 8,386 candidates Ballotpedia covered in 2019. Out of the 872 respondents, 237 won their election. Candidates from 33 states completed the survey. Noteworthy respondents included Nashville Mayor John Cooper and Mississippi Lieutenant Governor Delbert Hosemann. Read the 2019 report for more information about that year's respondents.
- 1,957 candidates completed the survey in 2018. This number represented 6.9% of all 28,315 candidates Ballotpedia covered in 2018. Out of the 1,957 respondents, 477 won their election. Candidates from 48 states completed the survey. Noteworthy respondents included U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine. Read the 2018 report for more information about that year's respondents.
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
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What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Reduce the high cost of living in Hawai'i. 2) Reduce corruption in federal government (Campaign Spending Reform, Term Limits, Line Item Veto). 3) Hold government accountable (Balanced Budget, Transparent Accountability, Remand services and programs to private enterprise wherever possible).[3][4] | ” |
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Fiscal policy - Government is inept and wasteful because it has grown too big to be adequately managed or overseen. Health policy - ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and the Veterans Health Administration. We need one, efficient and effective nationally-guided healthcare system for everyone in the US.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag;
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Ron Curtis answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?
| “ | My first influence was Robert F. Kennedy and his vision. Later after learning history, John F. Kennedy with his outside-the-box thinking. Thomas Jefferson after researching him as a great US renaissance man. Ronald Reagan for his pragmatic and direct style of governing. Four others are Henry David Thoreau, Robert Frost, Albert Einstein, and Frank Lloyd Wright. I connect with the accomplishments and the thought processes of all of them.[4] | ” |
| —Ron Curtis | ||
| “ | Books: "Civil Disobedience", "Atlas Shrugged" Movies: "Kingdom of Heaven", "Braveheart", "The Patriot"[4] | ” |
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| “ | Elected officials are public servants under oath to serve the needs of the people. Government exists to protect our inalienable rights, to defend our sovereignty and borders, and to provide infrastructure for the common good. Based on the Constitution, the government that governs least, governs best. Government, at any level, should not perform functions which are better and less expensively performed by individuals or private organizations. Government enforces laws that allow for a prosperous free market; it does not compete with nor over-regulate the free market. Government is charged with the responsibility to craft long-term solutions rather than short-term fixes. Elected officials should be honest, transparent, open-minded, present, and focused on legislating based on what is best for the country and not their political careers.[4] | ” |
| —Ron Curtis | ||
| “ | I am open, honest, and caring for those around me and will be for those who I will serve. I am an agent of change. I had a 35-year systems engineering career in a wide variety of roles across multiple disciplines driving change and innovation to deliver or improve efficiency and effectiveness on government contracts while significantly eliminating or preventing waste. I am a catalytic problem solver and I will be a catalytic legislator. I bring outside-the-box thinking that is severely needed in Congress to drive positive comprehensive change across the whole of our federal government.[4] | ” |
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| “ | The serve the people of Hawai'i.[4] | ” |
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| “ | The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. I was 6 years old at the time.[4] | ” |
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| “ | I was a paper delivery boy. I held it for four years before moving on to larger jobs.[4] | ” |
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| “ | I actually believe exactly the opposite. There should be no such thing as a career politician. The average length of service by CEO's in US businesses, based on their ability to remain effective, averages to about 10 years. We need the continuous infusion of new ideas and new approaches from new members of Congress to keep our government current, efficient, and effective. Not the business as usual from career politicians.[4] | ” |
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| “ | I am against the filibuster and if elected, I will work to remove the filibuster from the Senate procedural rules.[4] | ” |
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| “ | It is definitely beneficial to build relationships with other senators and members of Congress. Especially those members also from my home state of Hawai'i.[4] | ” |
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Ballotpedia biographical submission form
The candidate completed Ballotpedia's biographical information submission form:
| “ | What is your political philosophy?
I am a common sense, moderate, reform Republican. Just like most everyone I know, I am frustrated with the current ineffective state of our federal government and its divisive underlying partisan politics in Washington DC. Our federal government is wasteful and inept because it has grown to the point that it is too big to be adequately managed or overseen. There isn't enough outside-the-box thinking in Congress to drive the positive change and innovation we need in our government. So I decided to run for office to be part of the solution. I am running on utilizing my systems engineering skill sets to affect my platform of comprehensive change across the whole of our federal government. I am an agent of change, positive change, comprehensive change. Is there anything you would like to add? I am retired at a good place in life. Through lifelong planning, hard work, good fortune, and making the most of opportunities, I was able to retire early on Kaua'i with a pension and a 401k savings account that will outlast my lifetime. I have always made an effort to live a pay-it-forward lifestyle. In an effort to pay my good fortune forward, the right thing to do with this senate opportunity is to run for the US Senate for the people of Hawai'i. I have no need to run for office myself and any of the senator salary that isn't used towards personal senatorial expenses, approximately $120,000 annually out of the $174,000 salary, will be donated to charities in Hawai'i for our keiki. Our keiki are our future and there is no better investment for our future than investing in our keiki. I am running on more than just issues, I am running on solutions. We need more solutions, not more business as usual. On my website, roncurtis808.com, I have posted comprehensive solutions to the issues I am addressing on my campaign platform and focus pages. Including a comprehensive approach to address my primary issue of reducing the high cost of living in Hawai'i. I am running on a message of improving our quality of life through reform and innovation that is strong enough, thorough enough, clear enough, and loud enough to reach the people of Hawai'i.[4] |
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| —Ron Curtis[1] | ||
Candidate website
Curtis' campaign website stated the following:
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The purpose of government is to serve the people. Government is charged with the responsibility to craft long-term solutions rather than short-term fixes. We have to hold our government accountable for securing the safety of our ‘Ohana, for expanding our economy, and for promoting fairness and justice for all the people of Hawai’i. “I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government” -Henry David Thoreau Core campaign principles:
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| —Ron Curtis’s campaign website (2018)[5] | ||
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted on Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form on June 22, 2018
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Ron Curtis's responses," June 22, 2018
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Ron Curtis for US Senate, "Campaign Platform," accessed October 19, 2018
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