Takona Scauflaire
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Takona Scauflaire (independent) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 6th Congressional District. She did not appear on the ballot for the general election on November 8, 2022.
Scauflaire completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Takona Scauflaire was born in Sandpoint, Idaho. She earned an associate degree from Pikes Peak Community College in 1983. She earned a military citation from the Defense Language Institute in 1987. Her career experience includes working as an international flight attendant. Scauflaire also has experience as a volunteer firefighter and an emergency medical technician.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Texas' 6th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 6
Incumbent Jake Ellzey won election in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 6 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jake Ellzey (R) | 100.0 | 149,321 |
| Total votes: 149,321 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Takona Scauflaire (Independent)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 6
Incumbent Jake Ellzey defeated James Buford and Bill Payne in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 6 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jake Ellzey | 71.2 | 38,683 |
 | James Buford | 15.9 | 8,636 | |
| Bill Payne | 12.9 | 7,008 | ||
| Total votes: 54,327 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Takona Scauflaire completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Scauflaire's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a fact based middle of the road independent candidate. I am tired of politics as it is currently played. There is lots of pointing at the other side as an excuse for why urgent problems are not being addressed. We need to elect people who are willing to write legislation for the benefit of district voters while making sure that it also benefits the nation as a whole. I plan to take the best ideas from both sides and to write simple bills that other legislators and voters can read and understand. I will sponsor numerous bills and work hard to enact them. I will work with other sponsors to get their worthwhile bills through as well. I will not stand back afraid that what I sponsor might cause me trouble with big donors. I have a lifetime of real working experience as well as experience running my own small business to help evaluate bills. I was an international flight attendant and speak several languages which gives me the flexibility to work with anyone from anywhere. I want to accomplish a lot in a few short years.
- Register, vote and make your voice count
- I am ready to listen to you and voters like you
- I do not have a PAC or own stocks. I will work for my constituents
1) I am personally passionate about actual tax reform which requires the top income earners to pay a minimum of tax and helps make it much more difficult to park money overseas. 2) We need to improve education by fixing funding so that we do not have poor districts and rich districts. We need all students to get the kind of education that prepares them to get a job in the future which pays their living expenses and allows them to prosper. As more education and technical skills are required we need to create a system which allows adults to get new skills and retraining for new types of jobs. We need to reduce the amount of interest students are paying on student loan debts which allows them to get to an earlier point of pay off. 3)Our current Healthcare system is a patchwork and costs much more than systems in other countries. The Government through medicare, medicaid and Veterans systems plus Native healthcare systems needs to negotiate drug prices. A more unified system needs to be created to bring regulations putting the system together in a unified manner. 4)We need to improve immigration by improving and upgrading the system for asylum to handle the backlog of cases and handle new ones. As we decide how many workers and what type our system needs we need to create visa programs allowing immigrants in on visas and prevent those who enter on a visa and overstay or cross the border illegally from working.
I would like to re-establish a more bi-partisan experience in the House of Representatives with Colleagues. I believe rational people can work together and get legislation passed. Many women have held leadership positions and I look up to Deborah Price of Ohio (R) who was a consensus builder. I also look up to Mike Mansfield (Senate Democratic majority leader) who I met as a young child several times. Mike told me I should get in to politics! I would like to be on a sub committee and or an important committee working to create the laws we need.
I have read a lot of history including "Madison and Jefferson" and various biographies of the founding fathers as well as the constitution. I believe it is a good system and can accommodate the changes needed to keep our system functioning. There is too much dark money flowing in to our political system in a way that hides it's influence from voters. We would be well off as a country to help reduce gerrymandering for party political influence to enable voters to have better choices.
diligence and conscientiousness. Refusal of even the appearance of corruption. No corruption in the favor of friends or family.
reading and doing the hard work of keeping up with legislation and votes plus committees. Keeping in contact with constituents.
reading and doing the hard work of keeping up with legislation and votes plus committees. Keeping in contact with constituents.
I am diligent and conscientious. I genuinely like all types of people and like to be with them. I have empathy for people experiencing hard times. I am flexible and able to work with teams that change constantly. I have good stamina. I have been in 138 countries and seen the best and the worst of human abilities.
Creating and sponsoring legislation, reading legislation created by others and working with them to help pass it if desirable, working in a bi-partisan manner with other legislators, staying in contact with constituents and helping them with various government agencies, running your staff as a team leader by creating a good atmosphere in a diverse work force, keeping up with all the required paperwork.
I want to make things better for my constituents and for my nation. I would like to be a sponsor or sign as a sponsor for effective legislation to improve healthcare and education, budgeting capabilities and tax legislation.
I was aware of the aftermath of the Korean war because of family talk about it. I remember the end of the Eisenhower administration and the Kennedy vs Nixon debate because my parents traveled to see it on a TV at a relative's house. I remember the Cuban missile crisis and then John Kennedy's assassination. My family was aware of and interested in national politics even though we lived in a small rural town.
I worked as a gas station attendant for a year and a half. I was one of the first women hired for that job and I had just graduated from my sophomore year of high school. The station won numerous awards for having the cleanest bathrooms and the best local tourist display which was my idea. I've had numerous other jobs as I followed my enlisted husband during his 22 and half year career and had to find or create jobs depending on the circumstances both in the U.S. and in several foreign countries.
I've never wanted to be anybody else.
Hudson Bay Blues by Jack Gladstone (from Noble Heart)
I came from a family that lived close to the poverty line. I learned to live within a budget early. I married a man from overseas and learned what it took to gain a legal immigration visa for my spouse. When my husband joined the U.S. Army as an enlisted man I went back to living on a tight budget. I did many types of jobs as I followed my husband during his 22 and half years of service. I had to create jobs where none were to be found. I learned new languages and new skills during those years while raising my son. I wouldn't call it a struggle. I would call it life.
The House changes every two years which allows it to be closer to the public. Lots of legislation gets proposed but it must pass the hurdle of passing the Senate so House members should be trying to keep in close contact with Senators to get sponsors on that side. The Leadership of the House has proven to be more versatile in bringing legislation to the floor for a vote as it does not deal with the filibuster.
It can be beneficial but it depends on the personality and priorities of the legislator. Sometimes previous experience leads to cynicism and being unwilling to do the legislative work with ambitions to achieve a higher position or greater wealth. It often leads to connections to big donors with little connection to the constituents of the district. As soon as you take the oath of office you have a duty to every constituent whether they voted for you or not.
The U.S. will be facing political and economic competition from Russia and China neither of which have a democratic system of government. Worldwide political change is ongoing and the U.S. will have to cope with it and deal with various problems as they come up. We are currently undergoing great political division with extremists on both political sides and a tendency of social media to push voters and constituents in to media tunnels that affirm our bias and offer little to challenge the beliefs we already have. Gerrymandering offers political parties the tools to make sure they get their side elected but helps create a system where political primaries select the most extreme candidates on either side. Voters are then faced with choosing the best of two bad choices. The extremists are then unwilling to work in Congress for the benefit of the nation and often they can't seem to see beyond what is for their own benefit. Social media companies have great commercial power and have virtually wrapped up the marketplace for advertising by keeping huge amounts of information on individuals. At the same time social media companies have virtually no responsibility for the problems and divisions they have helped produce.
As a newbie I would try to become a member of appropriations, armed services, education and labor, or transportation and infrastructure but if I could not have what I wanted I would be willing to work on any of the other 12 standing committees. One can only be a member of two standing committees and up to 4 subcommittees.
The short term means that a representative needs to hit the ground running to accomplish as much as possible. That means that once elected the Representative should embark on an extensive study course about how to function in the House.
We have term limits for the House members. They are called elections and they happen every two years. Currently Gerrymandering rules make it too easy for whichever party is in power in a state to select their voters instead of voters selecting them. That gives a current incumbent about a 92% chance of remaining in office regardless of how competent they are or how much of their time they spend gathering donations. We could limit Gerrymandering for political benefit by changing the rules for who decides the lines or setting up independent committees to decide instead of legislators. I will not be staying in office long term if I get elected. I want to work hard for 2 terms (4 years) to accomplish what I think is most important.
I believe we are living through a period of time which has unique stresses for our democracy. It appears we have some voters who are ready to abandon the system set up by the constitution and put a "strongman" dictator type in the oval office. We do not need a dictator we need to use the system we have to satisfy enough voters to keep it running.
I used to go to D.C. and lobby the House and Senate for legislation I believed to be important as a constituent. It is very interesting to talk to the young staffers in the various offices and give them input on legislation. I learned a lot. I actually helped get a particular bill passed as part of larger legislation so I understand how the system works. The legislation I helped pass protects many transportation workers.
I believe compromise is highly desirable in order to get good policies through Congress and the Senate. There should be no fear of talking about and rewriting legislation to knock off the rough edges, remove parts of legislation that could have bad effects or add new phrases to improve clarity. It is through reading and talking about legislation one can pick up ideas from other legislators or from constituents. I'm always open to gaining new ideas or improving old ones.
It is very important to create tax legislation that is relatively simple, fair and easy to enforce. The IRS has been whittled down to the point that it goes after mostly people at the bottom and lower end of the scale because it is afraid to take on the highly paid tax avoidance industry. It is obvious where the money is so we need to create an alternative minimum tax at the million and above income scale.
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See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 15, 2022
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Lance Gooden (R)
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Morgan Luttrell (R)
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Al Green (D)
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Craig Goldman (R)
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Jodey Arrington (R)
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Joaquin Castro (D)
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Chip Roy (R)
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Tony Gonzales (R)
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Roger Williams (R)
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Brandon Gill (R)
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