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Ronald Payne
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Ronald Payne (Republican Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 120. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Biography
Ronald Payne lives in San Antonio, Texas. He served in the U.S. Army and the National Guard. Payne's career experience includes working as a licensed vocational nurse and as an emergency medical technician.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 120
Incumbent Barbara Gervin-Hawkins defeated Ronald Payne in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 120 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Barbara Gervin-Hawkins (D) | 67.5 | 26,413 |
| Ronald Payne (R) | 32.5 | 12,718 | ||
| Total votes: 39,131 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 120
Incumbent Barbara Gervin-Hawkins advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 120 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Barbara Gervin-Hawkins | 100.0 | 7,964 |
| Total votes: 7,964 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 120
Ronald Payne advanced from the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 120 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Ronald Payne | 100.0 | 3,638 | |
| Total votes: 3,638 | |||
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Campaign finance
2020
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 120
Incumbent Barbara Gervin-Hawkins defeated Ronald Payne and Shawn Huckabay in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 120 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Barbara Gervin-Hawkins (D) | 65.8 | 40,004 |
| Ronald Payne (R) | 31.0 | 18,830 | ||
| Shawn Huckabay (L) | 3.2 | 1,950 | ||
| Total votes: 60,784 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 120
Incumbent Barbara Gervin-Hawkins advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 120 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Barbara Gervin-Hawkins | 100.0 | 13,240 |
| Total votes: 13,240 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 120
Ronald Payne defeated Andrew Vicencio in the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 120 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Ronald Payne | 71.6 | 3,080 | |
 | Andrew Vicencio | 28.4 | 1,224 | |
| Total votes: 4,304 | |||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Texas House of Representatives District 120
Shawn Huckabay advanced from the Libertarian convention for Texas House of Representatives District 120 on March 21, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | Shawn Huckabay (L) | |
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Campaign finance
2018
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 120
Incumbent Barbara Gervin-Hawkins defeated Ronald Payne in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 120 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Barbara Gervin-Hawkins (D) | 68.4 | 28,864 |
| Ronald Payne (R) | 31.6 | 13,354 | ||
| Total votes: 42,218 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 120
Incumbent Barbara Gervin-Hawkins advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 120 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Barbara Gervin-Hawkins | 100.0 | 6,161 |
| Total votes: 6,161 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 120
Ronald Payne advanced from the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 120 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Ronald Payne | 100.0 | 3,161 | |
| Total votes: 3,161 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Ronald Payne did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Ronald Payne did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Ronald Payne participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on August 8, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Ronald Payne's responses follow below.[2]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1. Growing the economy by abolishing and lowering taxes as much as possible and to control government spending in such a manner as to balance the budget, generate surplus revenue, and to eliminate the public debt.
2. To ensure that the Government is providing honest, essential, efficient, and high quality public services. 3. To ensure that our public infrastructure is expanded, replaced, repaired, and maintained to the greatest extent possible.[3][4] |
” |
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | I am a Strict Constitutionalist. As a Retired Senior Non-Commissioned Officer of the United States Armed Forces, I have taken an oath to Support and Defend the Constitution, ALL OF IT, and I honor that oath to the Constitution as much today as a Candidate for the Texas Legislature as when I swore my first Oath of Enlistment in 1985.
I am passionate to Honorably and Faithfully Serve the People as their Representative in the Texas State House of Representatives!Cite error: Invalid |
” |
Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Ronald Payne answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?
| “ | Wisdom is found everywhere, often times it is where it is the least expected to be found, but mostly it is found in common sense.[4] | ” |
| “ | I have a mixed Conservative Ideology and Libertarian Philosophy.[4] | ” |
| “ | Honesty and Common Sense.[4] | ” |
| “ | I have an extensive military and civilian education and experience background in multiple occupations including combat and combat support operations; law enforcement, security, and intelligence activities; fire-fighting, search, and rescue operations; and healthcare services. I have served as a Delegate to the State Convention with both the Republican and Libertarian Parties where I developed and voted for and against, additions, amendments, and repeal of Provisions of the Republican and Libertarian Party Platform, Statement of Principals, and Declarations of Legislative Priorities. And I have served as a Member of the California Superior Court Grand Jury in and for the County of Madera, where I participated in criminal investigations and indictments, as well as participating in the civil oversight function as a member of the Grand Jury Committee on Government Accountability and Reform.[4] | ” |
| “ | To honorably and faithfully serve as a True Representative of the People by hearing everyone's issues, concerns, and proposals for public policy, and then to develop a public policy that is constitutional and strikes a consensus or compromise that reasonably balances the various competing positions of the electorate.[4] | ” |
| “ | That the State of Texas and our Local Communities improved and continues to improve daily.[4] | ” |
| “ | I remember the 1974 OPEC Oil Embargo when I was but a young child, sitting with my mother in the family car waiting in a very very long line that stretched around blocks waiting for a turn to buy fuel.[4] | ” |
| “ | My first job was when I was about 10 years old and I set up a Kool-Aid Stand. When I was about 12 I had my own weekend lawn mowing business. At 16 I worked fast-food. At 17 I joined the military and served in the Army and Air Force for almost 30 years when I was medically retired for disability incident to military service.[4] | ” |
| “ | Not going there...[4] | ” |
| “ | Memorial and Veterans Day's for obvious reasons.[4] | ” |
| “ | I have a very extensive and well stocked home library complements of Half-Price Books and Goodwill Stores.[4] | ” |
| “ | I am content with who I am...[4] | ” |
| “ | My Family and Friends...[4] | ” |
| “ | Idan Raichel Project, Israeli Band, just awesome and plain wholesome music...[4] | ” |
| “ | As I go older, which beats the alternative of not growing older, my mind works better than the body, not so sure that qualifies as a struggle.[4] | ” |
| “ | YES to a greater or lessor degree. As the body that controls the State Military Forces (National Guard and State Guard) it helps to regulate an institution that the Legislator was previously a member of and has been where they could order others to go.[4] | ” |
| “ | The only constant is change itself. The State should be prepared to adapt to any situation or circumstance resulting from the passage of time and natural or human caused events.[4] | ” |
| “ | Checks and Balances.[4] | ” |
| “ | The Legislature is a collection of the Peoples Representatives from which consensus and compromise is required to develop public policies that serve the best interests of the People.[4] | ” |
| “ | Districting of any kind ultimately leads to the gerrymander by whomever is in power for the purpose of remaining in power. I support the concept of At-Large Elections with proportional allocation of Representatives corresponding to the percentage of the vote received.[4] | ” |
| “ | 1. Government Oversight and Reform
2. Armed Services 3. Judiciary[4] |
” |
| “ | United States House of Representatives[4] | ” |
| “ | I was asked by a Democrat Constituent if I as a Republican could truly represent them and their interests. My first response was to say that while I was the Republican Candidate, if I was elected, my title would be State Representative rather than Republican Representative. We then discussed my political ideology, philosophy, and policy proposals, from which that person then stated to me that I had their vote...[4] | ” |
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Ronald Payne for Texas State House of Representatives District 120, "About," accessed February 10, 2018
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Ronald Payne's responses," August 8, 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 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 4.24 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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