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Steven Zilberg

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Steven Zilberg

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Steven Zilberg was a 2016 Libertarian candidate for District 14 of the Minnesota State Senate.

Campaign themes

2016

Zilberg's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Law Enforcement

  • Police brutality is a symptom of a larger disease. Diversity workshop attendance, better psychological testing, and individual liability insurance of all officers is needed. This will make families feel safer knowing that the officers protecting and serving them are brothers and sisters of the same humanity.

Education

  • Our public school system has moved from a system of knowledge and education into another state run behavioral enforcement program. Parents should have the right to choose between sending children to either public schools or private institutions such as charter schools, which I why I support vouchers. By giving parents a choice, it offers the best possible opportunity for education and brings forth benefits stemming from competition.

Incarceration Rate

  • African Americans and other minorities are incarcerated at an alarming rate unjustly higher than those of whites. One method of reducing that incarceration rate is by ending the war on drugs. Drug prohibition causes the cost of drugs to increase (without quality control) and makes the free will use of them an underground crime, strengthening gangs.

"War On Drugs"

  • Legalization of marijuana would instantly and dramatically improve conditions on our southern border. Marijuana is Mexico’s #1 illegal export; legalizing it would result in dramatically reducing the power and wealth of the drug lords, and instantly helping to restore stability in a nation whose stability and sustainability is truly vital to our economic and national security interests.

Drinking Age

  • By lowering the drinking age to 18, people could learn about alcohol long before they turned 16 and get their driver’s license. We should prepare young adults to make responsible decisions about alcohol in the same way we prepare them to operate a motor vehicle; to exercise the full privileges of adulthood so long as they demonstrate their ability to observe the law.[1]
 ”
—Steven Zilberg[2]

Elections

2016

See also: Minnesota State Senate elections, 2016

Elections for the Minnesota State Senate took place in 2016. The primary election took place on August 9, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was May 31, 2016. Incumbent John Pederson (R) did not seek re-election.

Jerry Relph defeated Dan Wolgamott and Steven Zilberg in the Minnesota State Senate District 14 general election.[3][4]

Minnesota State Senate, District 14 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Jerry Relph 47.45% 17,519
     Democratic Dan Wolgamott 47.07% 17,378
     Libertarian Steven Zilberg 5.47% 2,021
Total Votes 36,918
Source: Minnesota Secretary of State


Dan Wolgamott ran unopposed in the Minnesota State Senate District 14 Democratic primary.[5][6]

Minnesota State Senate, District 14 Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Dan Wolgamott  (unopposed)


Jerry Relph ran unopposed in the Minnesota State Senate District 14 Republican primary.[5][6]

Minnesota State Senate, District 14 Republican Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Jerry Relph  (unopposed)

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  2. ↑ Zilberg For Minnesota Senate, "Platform," accessed September 21, 2016
  3. ↑ Minnesota Secretary of State, "Candidate Filing Search," accessed August 25, 2016
  4. ↑ Minnesota Secretary of State, "General election results, 2016," accessed December 19, 2016
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Minnesota Secretary of State, "Candidate Filings," accessed June 3, 2016
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Minnesota Secretary of State, "Minnesota State Primary: Tuesday, August 9, 2016," accessed August 9, 2016


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