Ryan Brown (North Carolina)
Ryan Brown (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the North Carolina House of Representatives to represent District 32. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Brown completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Ryan Brown was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He earned a high school diploma from the Trinity Academy of Raleigh, an associate degree from Wake Tech in 2016, and a bachelor's degree from Appalachian State University in 2018. His career experience includes working as a system administrator. As of his 2024 campaign, Brown was chair of the North Carolina Libertarian Party.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: North Carolina House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 32
Bryan Cohn defeated incumbent Frank Sossamon and Ryan Brown in the general election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 32 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bryan Cohn (D) | 48.9 | 21,215 |
 | Frank Sossamon (R) | 48.4 | 20,987 | |
 | Ryan Brown (L)  | 2.6 | 1,140 | |
| Total votes: 43,342 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Bryan Cohn advanced from the Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 32.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Frank Sossamon advanced from the Republican primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 32.
Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Ryan Brown advanced from the Libertarian primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 32.
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Brown in this election.
2022
See also: North Carolina State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for North Carolina State Senate District 18
Mary Wills Bode defeated E.C. Sykes and Ryan Brown in the general election for North Carolina State Senate District 18 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mary Wills Bode (D) | 51.4 | 42,783 |
 | E.C. Sykes (R) | 46.0 | 38,296 | |
| Ryan Brown (L) | 2.7 | 2,219 | |
| Total votes: 83,298 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Mary Wills Bode advanced from the Democratic primary for North Carolina State Senate District 18.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for North Carolina State Senate District 18
E.C. Sykes defeated Dimitry Slabyak in the Republican primary for North Carolina State Senate District 18 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | E.C. Sykes | 84.9 | 11,124 |
 | Dimitry Slabyak | 15.1 | 1,985 | |
| Total votes: 13,109 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Ryan Brown advanced from the Libertarian primary for North Carolina State Senate District 18.
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ryan Brown completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Brown's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Defend the Guard Legislation. This legislation would keep the NC National Guard in North Carolina unless there was a declaration of war by the US Congress. The NC National Guard is meant to protect North Carolina.
National Guard units have mad up a significant portion of deployed troops throughout the Global War On Terror. Around 40% of the Louisiana National Guard was deployed in Iraq during Katrina. Tennessee National Guard moved 700 soldiers out of the state to prepare to send them to the Middle East just days before the biggest disaster in decades.
North Carolina's National Guard needs to be home to defend the state. It is time to bring the empire home before it is too late. - Healthcare is a critical thing to so many North Carolinians. However, the system we have in North Carolina is completely captured by the government and their preferred healthcare providers. Healthcare in North Carolina is highly regulated and competition can not freely compete. Certificate of Need laws require that healthcare providers ask permission from the government and their competition to open new facilities or buy new equipment. In North Carolina it is impossible to compete without permission. We need to significantly reduce government red tape and allow competition. With reduced regulation and more competition, the people of North Carolina can finally get better and more affordable healthcare in North Carolina.
- There is currently a heated debate going on in North Carolina about how best to fund education and how the children in this state should be educated. One thing we can all agree on is that the public schools are not adequately educating the kids. North Carolina has only recently allowed vouchers for all families. The issue, however, is that when the government funds all education, either through the public system or via the voucher system, the only schools that will get funds are government approved funds. The real solution is getting government out of the education system for good. Parents know best for their kids and shouldn't have to run money through a government bureaucracy in order to spend their money where they see fit.
This is a highly controversial subject in North Carolina and the United States. I believe that all North Carolinians have the right to make, buy, or sell firearms or parts without any restriction from the Federal Government or the State Government. All people have the right to effective self defense, and guns are often the best tool for the job.
(Many found in digital and audiobook at Mises.org)
Anatomy Of The State - Murray Rothbard
Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
Enough Already - Scott Horton
Provoked - Scott Horton
While this may seem radical, most people live their life in this manner already. They choose where to work, worship, and socialize without government telling them where to go. They go throughout throughout their entire year with almost zero government direction.
Unfortunately, the general assembly and the government are involved, either via regulation or taxation, in the daily lives of all North Carolinians. We may not reach my ideal situation, but we should strive to get government out of our lives.
We must reduce our spending and our taxation, freeing up dollars to go to where the people decide.
If we can't trust the government with those permissions at all times, we certainly shouldn't trust them in an emergency.
They only way to get accountability where the government is currently involved is to get government out of it.
It would allow for popular ideas to be put before the people. Because of that, I would support adding it.
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2022
Ryan Brown did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 7, 2024
