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Tim Turner (Washington)
Tim Turner was a Libertarian candidate for Washington secretary of state in the 2016 elections.[1] He was defeated in the August 2 top-two primary election.
He was also a 2014 Libertarian candidate for District 48-Position 2 of the Washington House of Representatives.[2]
Biography
Born in Oregon and raised in Washington, Turner has also lived in South Carolina, New York, California, Guam, and Kansas. Following the attacks on September 11, 2001, he enlisted in the U.S Navy where he served aboard the submarine U.S.S. San Fransisco monitoring the onboard nuclear reactor. Turner attended DeVry University in Federal Way, Washington, after finishing his naval service, then entered the private sector as a software engineer specializing in video game production, geolocation, and photo recognition technology. He also taught high school for a year at Pierce County Skills Center in Puyallup.[3]
Education
- B.S. in game and simulation programming, DeVry University
Elections
2016
- Main article: Washington Secretary of State election, 2016
Turner filed to run as a Libertarian in the 2016 election for secretary of state of Washington.[1] He competed with incumbent Kim Wyman (R) and Democrat Tina Podlodowski in the state's August 2 top-two primary election. Turner was defeated by Wyman and Podlodowki, who placed first and second respectively, in the primary election.
Incumbent Kim Wyman and Tina Podlodowski defeated Tim Turner in the Washington primary for secretary of state.
| Washington primary for secretary of state, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican |  Kim Wyman Incumbent |
47.90% | 645,614 | |
| Democratic | Tina Podlodowski |
46.13% | 621,732 | |
| Libertarian | Tim Turner | 5.98% | 80,570 | |
| Total Votes | 1,347,916 | |||
| Source: Washington Secretary of State | ||||
Campaign finance
| Tim Turner Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| To date | As of August 2, 2016 | $ | $1,509.33 | $(1,241.33) | $ | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $1,509.33 | $(1,241.33) | ||||||||
2014
Elections for the Washington House of Representatives took place in 2014. A blanket primary election took place on August 5, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was May 17, 2014. Joan McBride (D) and Tim Turner (L) were unopposed in the primary. McBride defeated Turner in the general election.[2][4][5]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Joan McBride |
69.2% | 24,815 | |
| Libertarian | Tim Turner | 30.8% | 11,049 | |
| Total Votes | 35,864 | |||
Campaign themes
2016
Turner's website outlined his "long term plan" for the secretary of state office:[6]
| “ | Work to make all third parties and independent candidates more viable. Increase access, increase exposure, and increase training for minor parties and independent candidates.
Work within the limits of the law to encourage more campaigns from ordinary citizens. Investigate structural changes to our election system that will weaken political parties. We have a winner-takes-all system which penalizes you for voting your conscience and rewards you for voting for a party. In other legislatures, like the British Parliament, people vote on a Proportional Representation system which means that if a party gets 10% of the vote, they get 10% of the political power. This encourages more small parties and naturally dissolves large parties. This is a major proposal, which will require months or years of discussion. It will also require some big legal changes, so you’ll need to send some State Representatives and Senators to Olympia to support this. I will keep on saying “Fix the party system” and I will not stop until it’s fixed.[7] |
” |
See also
- Washington State Legislature
- Washington state legislative districts
- Washington House of Representatives
- Washington House of Representatives elections, 2014
- Washington Secretary of State
- Washington state executive offices
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Washington Secretary of State, "2016 candidates who have filed," accessed May 23, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Washington Secretary of State, "2014 Candidates Who Have Filed," accessed May 20, 2014
- ↑ Tim Turner for Washington Secretary of State, "About Tim," accessed July 13, 2016
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "August 5, 2014, Official Primary Results," accessed August 5, 2014
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Official general election results, 2014," accessed December 2, 2014
- ↑ Tim Turner for Secretary of State, "Issues," accessed July 13, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
