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Thomas Quiter
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Libertarian Party

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Last election

November 8, 2022

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Sidney, N.Y.
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Thomas Quiter (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent New York. He did not appear on the ballot for the general election on November 8, 2022.

Quiter also ran for election to the New York State Senate to represent District 52. He did not appear on the ballot for the general election on November 8, 2022.

Quiter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Thomas Quiter was born in Sidney, New York. He attended Alfred State University of New York. Quiter’s professional experience includes volunteering as a disability advocate. He has also worked in subsistence farming, book repair and cleaning, computer repair, independent wheelchair maintenance, peer addiction counseling, organic produce cultivation, small farm sales, and political networking.[1][1]

Elections

2022

See also: United States Senate election in New York, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. Senate New York

Incumbent Chuck Schumer defeated Joe Pinion and Diane Sare in the general election for U.S. Senate New York on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Chuck Schumer
Chuck Schumer (D / Working Families Party)
 
56.7
 
3,320,561
Image of Joe Pinion
Joe Pinion (R / Conservative Party)
 
42.7
 
2,501,151
Image of Diane Sare
Diane Sare (LaRouche Party) Candidate Connection
 
0.5
 
26,844
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
4,151

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 5,852,707
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Chuck Schumer advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate New York.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Joe Pinion advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. Senate New York.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Conservative Party primary election

The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Joe Pinion advanced from the Conservative Party primary for U.S. Senate New York.

Working Families Party primary election

The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Chuck Schumer advanced from the Working Families Party primary for U.S. Senate New York.

2020

See also: New York State Senate elections, 2020

General election

General election for New York State Senate District 52

Incumbent Fred Akshar defeated Thomas Quiter in the general election for New York State Senate District 52 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Fred Akshar
Fred Akshar (R / Conservative Party / Independence Party)
 
86.6
 
96,052
Image of Thomas Quiter
Thomas Quiter (L) Candidate Connection
 
12.4
 
13,803
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.9
 
1,013

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 110,868
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Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Fred Akshar advanced from the Republican primary for New York State Senate District 52.

Conservative Party primary election

The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Fred Akshar advanced from the Conservative Party primary for New York State Senate District 52.

Independence Party primary election

The Independence Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Fred Akshar advanced from the Independence Party primary for New York State Senate District 52.

Libertarian primary election

The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Thomas Quiter advanced from the Libertarian primary for New York State Senate District 52.

Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Thomas Quiter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Quiter'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'm Thomas Daniel Quiter, never quitter and rarely quieter. I run to serve the people, their happiness, and their priorities.
  • Federal laws and regulations restrict our food security.
  • Federal laws and regulations restrict our healthcare.
  • Federal laws and regulations restrict our happiness.
Healthcare, criminal justice, agriculture, foreign aid and intervention, and anything that can be done to further the overall happiness of the people.
My parents, who are reasonable hard working fiscally responsible and socially liberal individuals.
I possess both logic, compassion, and a head for seeing the devil in the details. I come from poverty and I do not feel impoverished. I've proven to keep a level head in some the most dramatic or intense situations. I don't believe political messaging today can be considered any kind of honesty.
I would prefer my legacy to be that of someone who worked hard, did good, and left the world a better place.
Bill Clinton bombing Iraq when I was 8 years old.
I've been on disability welfare, which is a misnomer, since I was a child.
The Little Big Man because it is a story of self reliance against all odds. Don't watch the movie, they ruined it.
Richard Rahl
We Can't Make It Here

by James Mcmurtry
Getting past the government imposed hurdles to life by overbearing welfare systems.
How many seated representatives does it take to commit a felony?

One, because nearly all of them do.

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2020

Candidate Connection

Thomas Quiter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Quiter's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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My name is Thomas Daniel Quiter. I've been a self advocate for my disability for my entire life. For six years I have directly advocated for individuals whose needs were not met by the system, and found that I was able to produce results more quickly and cheaply when those individuals fell through the gaps. Directly counseling and mentoring my peers with addiction problems has lead me to believe that systemic ostracization through our systems of punishment does not help. Community inclusion, and the caring for our peers, produces better results in both disability and addiction related situations. I know my community and district. I was formerly the Vice President of a non-profit cooperative. I've been involved in several organizations that sought to improve our communities. Helping our communities is my passion. It has become obvious through my personal efforts as well as my own struggles that direct and out of system assistance is often more effective than government action. Many of these systems hurt the very people they are supposed to be helping, and restrictive rules prevent them from rising up above the systems. This is why I'm running - to truly serve those who are unserved.
  • With the majority of my district being agriculturally zoned, our economy would benefit most from encouraging small agriculture and doing away with unfunded mandates.
  • Regularly speaking with many different types of social workers has taught me that our social workers are often suffering from the lack of ability to help from within our systems.
  • I seek to return a spirit of caring to our communities because our state systems are not doing that.
I am particularly passionate about disability advocacy, resolving our healthcare crisis, and reviving the agricultural sector in my district to bring back economic opportunity. I have had to engage in significant self-advocacy for my disability and have seen the difficulties my social workers have faced from the state in assisting me. There are plenty of folks not as lucky, and they deserve better. This dynamic also has plagued NY's healthcare system, where options are limited, costs are high, and competition is nearly impossible. Additionally, prospects in NY-52 aren't looking good for our local farmers. Our rural district has been devastated by large agribusiness and economic downturn, and it's high time we made the business environment for small farmers much fairer to level the playing field.
Someone I greatly admire is William Peace. He was a professor and disability advocate born in 1961. He was heavily involved in the disability rights movement, and always said what needed to be said. William Peace was someone who spoke out against mistakes in the system that caused harm, such as policies that made victims of those with disabilities. Having been a victim myself of these harmful systems, reading the blogs he wrote encouraged me to speak out at every turn.
The various written works of John Locke.
To be a public servant, to protect the inalienable rights of all constituents in every situation.
I have a fighting spirit with tenacity to get through whatever comes my way. Compassion, and a basic sense of human caring are traits I have as well.
To listen to the needs of their constituents over the demands of higher government and large corporations.
I would like to be remembered as a man who cared about people, and not money or power. I hope that people will believe I was effective at increasing our communities' ability to care for themselves and each other.
The first historical event that I recall is the Gulf War, especially since I had an uncle who served as a mechanic during that time. He later died from a rapidly progressing cancer.
My first job involved helping my family around the farm. I started when I was 2, with weed removal. At age 5 I had my first experience with small game hunting, and I've been doing this kind of work my entire life. I still do, to this very day, and I live by a "waste not, want not" philosophy, allowing my budget and production to go to the furthest length possible.
"The Little Big Man" by Thomas Berger
It is a fictitious story about a character who struggles through finding solutions through rugged individualism. Despite the time period in which it was written, it was extremely inclusive of many demographics, including the disabled, Native Americans, and other ethnicities.
Richard Rahl from "The Sword of Truth" Series by Terry Goodkind
"We Can't Make It Here Anymore" by James McMurtry
Surviving the system that supposedly was designed to help those with disabilities.
The assembly has a more localized representation of our constituents, a wider pool of officials, and their districts are a bit more fairly drawn in terms of representation.
No, I believe it is beneficial to have representation by the common people for the sake of preventing the disconnect between our government and it's residents.
Encouraging the diversification for the sake of innovation within healthcare, lowering prices, and ending waste within state systems.
Ideally, the legislature should restrain the governor from taking too much power and believing one policy can work for every situation across the state. We need diversity in policy among our communities because there is diversity among our local problems, each of which needs to be handled differently as different problems in different places require different solutions.This allows for more innovation in policy and for the state as a whole to learn from itself across the board, different solutions for different problems and for different places.
Absolutely. Communication of the needs of each district is important and having those relationships will allow for the understanding that different places have different needs.
I favor limiting redistricting to only take place during a constitutional convention. Though the establishment of this limit itself would require a constitutional convention and the overturning of several current court rulings, by limiting the process to a constitutional convention we can limit the ease with which legislators manipulate districts. This also positions the citizens to better fight to keep senatorial districts to be closer to representing single counties, which allows for better representation of NY's counties in The Senate.
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If more than one Libertarian enters the legislature, I would be interested in leading in whichever way they so choose.
Nebraska State Senator Laura Ebke, a Libertarian who passed a fantastic occupational licensing reform bill on tripartisan lines.
I would potentially run for any office in which I believe I can have the capability to serve my constituents.
As a disability advocate I hear many stories from those with disabilities and other health conditions whom go unserved and fall through gaps that are continuously created. There is no more touching a story than those of individuals I personally know who have endured unnecessary suffering at the hands of poor policy.

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    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 21, 2020 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "bio" defined multiple times with different content


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