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Tyler Geffeney
Tyler Geffeney (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 52nd Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Geffeney completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Tyler Geffeney was born in California. Geffeney earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995 and a graduate degree from Biola University in 2010. His career experience includes owning a mortgage finance business and working as a minister.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: California's 52nd Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 52
Incumbent Juan Vargas defeated Tyler Geffeney in the general election for U.S. House California District 52 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Juan Vargas (D) | 66.7 | 100,686 |
 | Tyler Geffeney (R)  | 33.3 | 50,330 | |
| Total votes: 151,016 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 52
Incumbent Juan Vargas and Tyler Geffeney defeated Joaquín Vázquez in the primary for U.S. House California District 52 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Juan Vargas (D) | 59.1 | 56,827 |
| ✔ | | Tyler Geffeney (R) | 30.5 | 29,348 |
 | Joaquín Vázquez (D) | 10.4 | 9,965 | |
| Total votes: 96,140 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Judah Hosanna (R)
- Richard Bailey (R)
- Charles Weir (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Tyler Geffeney completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Geffeney's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Restore faith in God. John Adams wisely stated "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." He was and is right. And today we are seeing the utter breakdown of society on account of having lost site of this vital foundation for American governance. We are at a watershed moment in our nation’s history where we are experiencing large-scale corruption of our government, dishonest media, the moral breakdown of families, rampant dishonesty in business, evil indoctrination in government schools, and an increasingly entitled populous. If we are to flourish as a nation we must restore biblical virtue to our country.
- Skyrocketing crime under Democratic policies are fueling the meltdown of society. Defunding the police is true idiocy. Pitting races against each other as "oppressors and oppressed" via CRT curriculum is not the solution. Relaxing sentencing and changing laws to decriminalize what we all recognize as wrong is not the solution. We need to reverse the work of the Democratic party initiatives and empower the police and the prosecutors to do their jobs and restore law and order. Tying the hands of law enforcement and passing ridiculous criminal "reform" that decriminalizes felonies will of course decrease crime stats while increasing actual crime. No sane person wants the anarchy of the Democratic policies. We must reverse course.
- Inflation cripples the poor hardest. Rising gas, food, and home prices are the direct result of numerous Democratic derelictions: Consider gas. 1) CA has a special blend of gas that the rest of the nation does not use and drives our prices up. 2) CA has the highest gas tax in the nation. 3) Continuing to print money for "free stuff" leads to the collapse of a currency and shutting down businesses during covid cuts supply and together leads to inflation. We must reverse Democratic policies which induced inflation and bring back the economy of the former Republican administration.
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Campaign website
Geffeney's campaign website stated the following:
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1. FAITH IN GOD Most importantly each one of the virtues I support are built upon the foundation of my unwavering belief in God. Everything we do here on earth echoes in eternity, either for good or for evil, and I endeavor to stand before my Lord and God someday knowing I did all I can to love and care for His people, for His glory. It is only as children of God we have a claim to our inalienable rights, equality for all, and the pursuit for human flourishing as an objective good. Without God we have none of this.
Family forms the most fundamental unit of society and reform must start in the home. I stand for strong biblical families and parental rights free from government overreach like we have seen. Decisions regarding health and education should be the parents’ not power lusting bureaucrats. And the government’s use of academia for the sexualization and indoctrination of our youth which must be opposed. Schools should build our future leaders, not destroy family and the culture with it.
I stand for the sanctity of all lives including the unborn. The genocidal slaughter of innocent children butchered in the name of personal convenience has been tolerated for far too long and must stop NOW! I support healthy moral options including the expansion of Pregnancy support centers along with CalWorx programs which provide essential resources for moms facing unplanned pregnancies to be able to continue to pursue their career goals with dignity while courageously taking on the beautiful responsibly of caring for their precious child as opposed to the gruesome alternative.
Many hardworking good people who have come here pursuing a better life have been shoved aside on account of our out-of-touch government bureaucrats. The process for applying for foolishly insist on crowding the system with illegal immigrants who get pushed to the front of the line so legal immigrants are abandoned and can’t receive the citizenship they seek in their honest pursuit of the American dream. Such government neglect discourages legal immigration in favor of coming here illegally. And illegal immigration has developed a cesspool for drug and sex trafficking where countless youth being escorted by coyotes straight into slavery for sex. We need to close off our porous border while making the pathway to legal citizenship achievable.
For far too long our inalienable rights to freedom and the pursuit of happiness for all as bestowed to us by God and enshrined in our Constitution have been under attack by the very people duty-bound to protect them. Government exists for the people, not the people for the government. I intend reestablish proper restraints on government from the egregious overreach into our personal lives and businesses that we are experiencing today and continues to get worse. I will restore the very liberties the government never had the right to take.
Meeting with moms and dads in the 52nd district it is clear they just want better lives for their children. First-rate education is the best and highest priority to that end. Our career politicians have failed our students with outdated approaches to education fostered under government-controlled monopolies while bloated administrations continue siphoning most all the resources away from actually educating our future leaders. Monopolies were outlawed long ago as they are a detriment to competition therefore society. Yet we have perpetuated the most enduring monopoly in the most crucial area of public service; education. I support returning the power to the parents via school choice initiative which will incite healthy competition that will reward our best educators and in turn build exceptional schools.
1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, and others shall be utterly safeguarded to maintain a free and virtuous society. We are a republic of inalienable rights that shall never be infringed upon. These are non-negotiables and form the contract by which our nation is formed. Yet the Democrats have threatened these rights and insist on their demise in their quest for greater Orwellian control and power over the lives of the American people. I am going to Washington DC to stop this assault on our freedoms and restore the republic as founded.
Establishing election integrity is vital if we are to be a Democracy. I am working toward 9 policy actions needed to clean up our election process which, once implemented, will return the election back to the people.
Economic prosperity is now threatened with policies from the democrats killing our economy where Americans are gouged at the gas station and grocery stores while California is losing countless jobs and the income that does with them to states with far more business friendly policies. I will work to reinvigorate the economy of the 52nd district though decreased regulations, business friendly incentives, and channeling the enormous government waste in spending toward grant programs that foster innovations for improving people’s lives and maintain our American technological excellence. Far too many in the 52nd district remain in poverty on account of the failed policies voted by the Democratic party.
California has a serious crisis of housing and now San Diego is worst of all as it has recently taken #1 least affordable city in all America. This too while the homeless are abandoned by the establishment with no hope of proper shelter. Safe and affordable housing is essential for a functioning society and I will enact measure to build more homes, cut regulations, and provide shelter for those in need.[2] |
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| —Tyler Geffeney's campaign website (2022)[3] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 1, 2022.
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Tyler Geffeney For Congress, “Home,” accessed May 19, 2022
