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Tim Geist
Tim Geist (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 1st Congressional District. He lost in the primary on June 7, 2022.
Geist completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Tim Geist was born on Midway Island. Geist earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1986. His career experience includes working as a caregiver, a science writer, and a published researcher with the University of California at Santa Barbara Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Geist has been a sustaining member of the Republican National Committee.[1][2]
Elections
2022
See also: California's 1st Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 1
Incumbent Doug LaMalfa defeated Max Steiner in the general election for U.S. House California District 1 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Doug LaMalfa (R) | 62.1 | 152,839 |
 | Max Steiner (D)  | 37.9 | 93,386 | |
| Total votes: 246,225 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 1
Incumbent Doug LaMalfa and Max Steiner defeated Tim Geist and Rose Penelope Yee in the primary for U.S. House California District 1 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Doug LaMalfa (R) | 57.1 | 96,858 |
| ✔ | | Max Steiner (D) | 32.8 | 55,549 |
 | Tim Geist (R) | 6.7 | 11,408 | |
 | Rose Penelope Yee (Independent) | 3.4 | 5,777 | |
| Total votes: 169,592 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Marcus Godfrey (L)
- Robert Lydon (D)
- David Zink (D)
- Jonathon Ramos (Federalist Party)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Tim Geist completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Geist's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Straight from the heart, this is who I am:
I have dug ditches and washed dishes all the while for poverty wages. I drove trucks for a few bucks and built houses through all of their stages. After youthful acts of defiance, I discovered science and published research judged worthy by sages.
My greatest achievement preceeded my greatest bereavement, faithfully serving my mother each day through Alzheimer's rages. I helped my mother make her last stand. I held my mother's hand.
as she passed on into what heaven now engages.- Strong Borders: Build the Wall and make it tall. We must know who is crossing our international borders, to protect our economy and our security.
- Strong Economy: Capitalistic innovation makes US great, keeps US great. Over-regulation stiffles innovation. Strong Unions built a strong middle class that propelled our economy forward in the 20th Century. In the 21st Century, Artificial Intelligence is coming for our jobs, and coming fast. We must anticipate the massive economic upheaval which is inevitable due to the rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence. Due to AI, with our current policies, most of the economy will be in the hands of very few families by the end of the 21st Century.
- Strong Democracy: Without democracy, we are nothing to those in power, nothing! For common people, there is no freedom without democracy and no democracy without the truth. A democracy that elects leaders because of lies, is not a democracy. It is a republic of the betrayed, led by its traitors. I have a problem with that! Don't you?
Today, there is a booming business model that spreads hate with vicious lies, for power and profit. This malignancy grows out from a well known phenomenon in the science of Sociology.
The Phenomenon:
Groups become more cohessive when they percieve, OR THINK, they percieve an external threat.
Leaders can LIE for the same effect!
1. Individuals in this group pay closer attention to group authorities that speak about these "threats." Advertizers love audiences that pay close attention and pay well $$$ for access to these anxious audiences.
2. Individuals in this group are more willing to contribute their own resources $$$ to leaders of the "threatened" group.
Donald Trump recieved about one quarter BILLION dollars $$$ in donations, AFTER the November 3, 2020 presidential election and before the January 6, 2021 attack against our democracy. These lucrative donations came from frightened victims of PresidentTrump's assertion that the election was stolen. President Trump's claim of massive election fraud was evaluated as "B---S---" by his otherwise completely loyal Attorney General, William Barr, whom investigated all of the allegations.
Honest Abraham Lincoln is the other amazing lesson in leadership. He won the presidency the hard way. Honest Abe told the truth. Honest Abe's role model rings true to me, as our democracy faces an existential threat from the vicious political liars that monger hate for fellow Americans, over policy differences, for profit and power.
Despite being in the middle of the Civil War and fully expecting to lose, Honest Abe insisted that elections be held on time, according to the Constitution, to which he swore an oath. It would be timely, for my fellow Republicans to remember Honest Abe Lincoln's discipline and honor at a time when Trump makes obvious that The Donald, if president during the Civil War, would have chosen to be king.
I possess the willingness to discover and openly admit I was wrong about something. That quality is not weakness. It's called being an adult. Critical thinking is a skill and discipline I developed, while in the world of science.
I have not been lucky in love, per se. Perhaps that is a good thing, because American Democracy is the love of my life. Survival of democracy is what I go to sleep worrying about. I am in this race because American Democracy is threatened by a very profitable business model that evokes hate with lies about fellow Americans, for profit and power.
I've been focussed on this corrupting threat for years. I aim to promote an original legal concept that can cause vicious political liars in Congress to hemorrhage support, without violating the First Amendment.
Help me make this Risk Opportunity a NATIONAL DISCUSSION.
Imagine a law allowing a Congressman to challenge another Congressman to a DUEL in federal court:
1. A TRUTHFUL Congressman could put his own life on the line and certify, under penalty of perjury, that a specific public statement from a LYING Congressman is untrue.
2. That TRUTHFUL Congressman, now in possession of his certification, can publically and perisitently challenge the LYING Congressman to certify the opposite, under penalty of perjury, that the LYING Congressman's specific statement is actually true.
3. IF and only if the LYING Congressman accepts the challenge to certify, under penalty of perjury, that his specific lie was true, THEN both Congressmen together go before a judge in Federal court and one of them goes to prison for years, for perjury, even if the perjury was an "honest" mistake.
Also, a Representative's job is to represent the interests of his constituents. His constituents are the democracy side of our democratic republic. That means what they want and what is in their interests are my highest priorities. Supporting your interests and well-being are the Resentative's job. If you are not working for your boss, while on the job, then you are stealing from him.
Even though I was only eight years old, Martin Luther King's speech meant something to me. It meant something to me, because Marie meant something to me. Together, they taught me that fairness and justice mean something real and worthwhile.
I happily worked away through each eight hour day, by calculating the money I was accumulating each fifteen minutes, from my princely salary of two dollars an hour.
One day, I had been digging ditches to lay in some plumbing all shift and had dirt all over me as a result. After work we went to the grocery store. As we waited in line at the cashier's register, I mentioned I was embarrassed because I was so dirty.
I love historically based novels. Mitchner and Clavell are my go to guys.
For "Truth, Justice and the American Way." What's not to like about that beautiful statement?
That said, I will never vote against our nation paying its debt obligations, NEVER! Refusing to raise the debt limit in order to prevent default is a cheap and reckless political trick that risks national disaster! If our nation defaults on its dept payments, the ensuing inflation and recession will cripple our economy for years. It's Russian Roulette with a one chamber revolver. I will not play that game with your children's economic future.
It is also beneficial to study the issues before applying. My youth as a professional student has layed the foreground for life-long learning. I have been independently studying our nation's government and its problems for years.
Over much of the last decade, I have been deeply concerned about how our democratic republic has been cheated out of the Constitution's promise that all power comes from the people. Every political lie is an attempt to cheat our democracy, our government of the people, out of their right to make choices based on facts. I've discovered that there is actually something we can do about it, without violating the First Amendment of the Constitution.
1. There are no laws against vicious political lies that breed hate over policy differences (see my video).
2. Artificial Intelligence is coming for our jobs, fast.
Domestic challenges:
A. INFLATION Too much money (demand) chasing too few resources (supply). I don't like the Fed greatly raising rates to reduce jobs and how much money is circulating (demand). It is too easy to cause recessions. I prefer increasing supply with more drilling for oil and development of alternative energy sources, increasing water resources and farming resources for cheaper food, bringing good paying manufacturing jobs back home to America (supply).
B. Rising CRIME, in part from failed "criminal justice reform," needs our attention! I must say one of the stupidest policy ideas I have ever heard is "DEFUND THE POLICE." I realize there is a lot of competition for stupidest idea, but that takes the cake. We need more police, not less! I understand that you can find bad apples in every bushel. I have a plan for that too.
I propose, a 20% PAY RAISE to increase the pool of highly qualified applicants to LAW ENFORCEMENT by applying federal funding to goto every policeperson in America, including sherrifs' deputies, that interacts with criminal elements. That increased income will attract plenty of talent.
To keep that pay raise, every officer must wear a body cam and keep it turned on every minute. Each time they forget it, or accidentally turn it off, etc, they lose a big piece of the raise for some long period of time.
C. National DEBT: We are picking our own children's pockets, every time government spends more than they take in. We must BALANCE the BUDGET!
District One is also in need of improved infrastructure, so the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure would be another good choice to bring resources back to Northern California, where they are needed.
However, if you believe in democracy, then don't voters have the right to keep electing their guy, for as long as they see fit???
Reality Check:
For Heaven's sake, over one million American men and women in the military have layed down their lives for our democracy. Contrast their heroism, to the pathetic, vast majority of cowards, currently "serving" in Congress, who apparently believe their greed for re-election is more important than the moral obligation of passing a viable democracy on to our children.
I particularly admire those who run for re-election, knowing they will likely lose, because they stood up for democracy. Because, they aren't quitters, quitting Democracy's fight. They run the race anyway, for the chance to keep arguing for what is right. I'm thinking of Liz Cheney, here. Representative Cheney knows this is almost certainly her last term in office, but she is making a stand for what she believes is true and important to our children's only chance for freedom, American DEMOCRACY!
With regards to Climate Change, which clearly adds to the frequency and intensity of wild fires, I hope to gently bring more of my fellow Republicans up to speed. My opponent Doug LaMalfa calls it "the religion of climate change." I've got a problem with that!
Four, calling a tail a leg, does not make it a leg.
Currently in America, there is a highly lucrative business model that employs vicious lies, designed to evoke hate and fear, of other political factions, over policy differances! This practice is not only wrong; it is evil. Beware, uncompromising hate of fellow Americans over policy differences is the stuff of fascist autocracies.
Not only do I have a problem with that, I HAVE A SOLUTION, in part. If voters backing my proposed law make this cure the difference between winning and losing elections, then it will become law. This proposal must become part of the national discussion! Unbridled vicious political lies are destroying democracies.
I explain HOW THE LAW CAN WORK , in a Youtube video demonstrating one of many possible variations employing the philosophy behind perjury statutes, to codify such a law.
Title: Law to Grab Vicious Political Liars by Their Tender Parts and Squeeze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ArwaU887u0
Yes, the title begs for attention, because the concept must be considered. If it reaches national attention, I believe you will find that the biggest opposition to this legislation will come from the biggest profit and power conniving liars and their minions.
In this last Youtube video, I explain WHY IT WILL WORK.
Title: How to Make Political Liars Hemorrhage Support and Truth Tellers Amass Support
China will soon have a GNP 50% bigger than our own, perhaps in less than 15 years. If our national debt continues growing at its present rate, then we will be highly vulnerable to economic attack, from China.
Presently, the US is fond of using economic sanctions against international threats. I support the sanctions against Russian war criminals. However, one day sanctions will deeply harm our own economy, when China's economy becomes much larger than ours.
I am not the first person to warn of international ATTACKS on America's ECONOMY. President Bush's (43) Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson mentioned such a threat in his 2010 book "On the Brink" page 161.
In 2008, as America was slipping into the Great Recession from the real estate bubble, Hank Paulson attended the Olympics in China. Chinese officials warned Paulson that RUSSIA invited CHINA to concurrently dump all one trillion dollars worth of their combined Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac (US backed real estate funds) stocks. If China had joined in on the economic attack, we might still be digging out of the rubble.
China still owns about $1 trillion of our debt! If they dumped all their US bond holdings at a critical time they could crush the dollar's value.
These threats loom large. Nevertheless, I pledge to never vote for any income tax increase for anyone making less than $400,000, without a polled majority approval of at least 60% from the residents in the 1st Congressional District of California. NEVER, even if I personally believe we should do so. If I change my mind and believe such a tax is necessary, it will be my job to convince the voters in my district it is needed.
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Campaign website
Geist's campaign website stated the following:
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STRONG BORDERS Build the Wall, Make it Tall Progressives should do the math: (Services for all in the USA) divided by (Infinite immigration) equals (Services for none in the USA) We need to know who every non-citizen is before they cross our international borders. Without such knowledge our Federal government is shirking its responsibility to protect us and our economy.
1. Where is the Congressional Committee dedicated to fighting inflation? The need is obvious! 2. Tim Geist drives a Tesla and owns a solar powered home. HOWEVER, GAS prices are far TOO HIGH! Drill, drill, drill, we must help wean the world off of Russian oil. This is an emergency. 3. Northern California could be exporting clean energy at a profit helping to pay for healthy forest infrastructure and full of prosperous farmers selling us less expensive food, IF we had the will to build more Dams for cheap abundant water. 4. CAP and Dividend: Big corporate polluters should PAY EVERY CITIZEN a portion of their fines for exposing US to toxins. 5. When Americans have more money in their pockets, they can put more of it back into their local economies. Tim will never stop thinking about ways to keep more of your money in your pockets.
Help Promote a Law to Nonviolently Make Congressmen Afraid to Lie to US Because We must Stop the Hateful Lies Before our Democracy Dies TIM HAS A PLAN. Give Tim Geist a voice in Congress and Tim will never stop promoting legislation to permit honest: Congressmen, Senators and Candidates for those positions, to CHALLENGE their LIAR piers to a DUEL in Federal Court where one of the two will surely be SENTENCED to PRISON, for their specific lie! If the liar does not accept the challenge, that will be proof to voters he is a COWARDLY LIAR. Because, the honest challenger verifiably put his very life at risk to prove the liar is a coward unworthy of voters' support. If voters demand it, it will beome law. Accept nothing less and we will earn our democratic republic, at last. I SUPPORT THE FIRST AMENDMENT'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUT I WILL NOT SUPPORT THE LIARS THAT ABUSE IT I TOOK AN OATH TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION, SO OF COURSE I SUPPORT THE SECOND AMENDMENT[3] |
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| —Tim Geist's campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 17, 2022
- ↑ Facebook, "Tim Geist," accessed May 18, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Tim Geist for Congress, “Tim's Platform,” accessed May 12, 2022
