Vanessa Marie Hoffman

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Vanessa Marie Hoffman

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Republican Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

July 19, 2022

Personal

Birthplace

District of Columbia

Religion

Roman Catholic

Profession

Small business owner

Vanessa Marie Hoffman (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Maryland's 5th Congressional District. She lost in the Republican primary on July 19, 2022.

Biography

Vanessa Marie Hoffman was born in Washington, D.C. She earned an undergraduate degree in January 2013 after studying at Howard Community College and the University of Maryland, College Park. Her professional experience includes working as a small business owner. Hoffman is affiliated with the Sunrise HoCo.

Elections

2022

See also: Maryland's 5th Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Maryland District 5

Incumbent Steny Hoyer defeated Chris Palombi in the general election for U.S. House Maryland District 5 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Steny Hoyer (D)	65.9	182,478
		Chris Palombi (R)	33.9	94,000
		Other/Write-in votes	0.2	442

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 276,920
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 5

Incumbent Steny Hoyer defeated Mckayla Wilkes and Keith Washington in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 5 on July 19, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Steny Hoyer	71.3	68,729
		Mckayla Wilkes	19.1	18,403
		Keith Washington	9.6	9,222

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 96,354
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Elaine Belson (D)
• Colin Byrd (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 5

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 5 on July 19, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Chris Palombi	67.5	24,423
	Submit photo	Vanessa Marie Hoffman	9.8	3,538
	Submit photo	Tannis Villanova	6.8	2,445
		Michael Lemon	5.0	1,818
	Submit photo	Toni Jarboe-Duley	4.4	1,578
	Submit photo	Patrick Stevens	3.7	1,344
	Submit photo	Bryan Duval Cubero	2.8	1,024

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 36,170
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2020

See also: Maryland's 5th Congressional District election, 2020

Maryland's 5th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Democratic primary)

Maryland's 5th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Maryland District 5

Incumbent Steny Hoyer defeated Chris Palombi in the general election for U.S. House Maryland District 5 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Steny Hoyer (D)	68.8	274,210
		Chris Palombi (R)	31.0	123,525
		Other/Write-in votes	0.3	1,104

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 398,839
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Rashad Dwayne Lloyd (Unaffiliated)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 5

Incumbent Steny Hoyer defeated Mckayla Wilkes, Vanessa Marie Hoffman, Briana Urbina (Unofficially withdrew), and William Devine III in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 5 on June 2, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Steny Hoyer	64.4	96,664
		Mckayla Wilkes	26.7	40,105
	Submit photo	Vanessa Marie Hoffman	4.2	6,357
		Briana Urbina (Unofficially withdrew)	2.7	4,091
		William Devine III	1.9	2,851

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 150,068
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Darryl Kevin Jones (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 5

Chris Palombi defeated Douglas Sayers, Kenneth Lee, Lee Havis, and Bryan Duval Cubero in the Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 5 on June 2, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Chris Palombi	36.0	11,761
		Douglas Sayers	29.8	9,727
		Kenneth Lee	15.3	5,008
		Lee Havis	11.0	3,593
	Submit photo	Bryan Duval Cubero	7.9	2,585

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 32,674
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Mark Leishear (R)

Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2020

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

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a small business owner who feels that the entire system has been corrupted with bad policy, lax regulation, poor enforcement of laws, and an insidious agenda to destroy the middle class so that the richest can enslave and control the poor masses. The CCP has some more influential people in our country's politics, economics, and work and home life than is safe or smart. We need to bring back the fundamentals of what people need to have healthy and whole life. There is no reason to force them buy into a system that sells "hell on earth as the only path forwards. We need to break up monopolies, fix the the legislative system , and regrow our nations home-based business and manufacturing economy while educating healing and rebuilding our people, and the infrastructure that keeps daily life functioning smoothly.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• The Climate Crisis should be what moves all ideas and agendas forwards
• Government needs to protect the well being and interest of the people not corporations by being run by people who are not compromised by wealth, power, or influence.
• Human rights should extend to all humans equally. Women, the unborn, the disabled, minorities,children, and LGBTQ all deserve equal rights to safety, education, gainful employment, affordable housing, childcare, healthcare, quality public transportation, privacy, equal rights, free speech, etc.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Environmental/Animal Rights/Factory Farming

Human rights (Women, immigrants, minorities, the sick, elderly, LGBTQ, the disabled, children, the imprisoned)
Government imbalance
National Debt/
US economy/manufacturing/policy/trust busting
National Security
Global Security
Crime and Punishment
Infrastructure/Housing/transportation
Waste Management
Schools/extracurricular
Healthcare/disease prevention

Socialization/Media/Privacy

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Diane Fossie. She is a martyr for animal rights. She went into the beautiful Congo in Africa and studied the gorillas of the Virunga Mountains. She wrote a wonderful book called "Gorillas in the Mist" (I never saw the movie), and in it she describes witnessing the Majesty of nature and the depths of human depravity when it comes to butchering animals and people for money. She was murdered just like the park rangers there recently. All of them gave their lives trying to protect what is left of God's most beautiful creations. I hope to follow in her footsteps of exploration and sacrifice as a servant for the greatest good and God's creation both great and small.

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

The two books that I would recommend are Fahrenheit 451 and The Jungle. We need a balance between some government and no government. We can't have our very thoughts being controlled by our elected officials, but we can'tallow deplorable conditions to exist for men or animals even if either one provides more wealth and power . A great government allows the flow of thought and action but suppresses diseased mentalities and actions that draw people and culture away from morality and ethics as it pertains to human, animal, and environmental rights.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Smart problem solver who can visualize solutions while utilizing information provided by specialists to engineer symbiotic systems of change that reward people for moral and ethical usage of their skills and talents when used to grow our economy and preserve our planet.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

I am a creative, critical thinking, problem solver who utilized information provided to me by thinking in pictures to design the architecture and mechanical engineering needed to solve any problem. I like to creatively manage people and situations. I also work especially well in high stress emergency situations, where others would panic I step up.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

To listen to specialists, the people who elected them, and see the big picture of the future as it stands now and as if will stand after properly designed laws and protocols after being sent to the executive branch of government are enforced and played out

What legacy would you like to leave?

I want to see a country that leads as well as it follows when it comes to economic policies that reward hard work and savings, that protects the rights of workers, animals, and the environment from abuse, exploitation, and neglect. I want to see an education system that teaches people to lead not just follow. That teaches people how to see problems, speak up and solve issues. I want to leave a world where Truth and transparency is mandated for the benefit of the citizen. I want to leave a world where trusts and monopolies have been busted up and sold piece by piece to the locals for them to turn into small/local businesses that cares about consumers and the quality of their products because caring about what their community needs and wants, serving high quality products and services, and paying their employees fairly keeps them in business because their customers are their employees, neighbors, family and friends, their employees are their friends, family, neighbors, and customers. I want to see people who commit crime get the help they need, and victims get the restitution they require and deserve to move of with their sanity and lives. I want to see farmers treat their produce and animals with the dignity and respect that they and the environment supporting and surrounding them deserves and requires.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

I remember seeing the oil fields on fire in the middle east being shown on the TV. It was traumatizing. The black un-moving tornadoes of death that choked out the sun put a knot in my stomach like I never felt before; it like I was slowly falling. That was the first time I knew earth was dying. I was five.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

Working as a stenographer at my father's company for a summer while his secretary was away. It was very interesting work.

What is your favorite book? Why?

The Bible. It allows for leaders to know how to follow and followers to know how to lead. It teaches humanity to excel in morals and ethics, and never to permit any evil in the world. It shows that love and respect for God, self, and other are always paramount, and when we fail to love even those who hurt us we perpetuate pain; forgive but don't forget. Love, but if God asks you to, leave. Help those who can't or won't help themselves. Support the Truth and sniff out corruption. Hold loyalty to Goodness and love, and use your skills, talents and wealth to lead others to hold loyalty to Goodness and love so they too will use their skills, talents, and wealth to lead others to do the same.

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Red Sonia, from the 1985 movie because she is what every women should aspire to be. She has high moral and ethical standard for herself and others, while staying fit for combat. (If I were her though I would wear more clothes.)

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

How great thou art

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

I struggle dealing with bad management that focuses on how things effect them rather than how things effect the business and the employees. There is a lot of bad managers who should learn what it is to be an employee first before they are allowed to manage.

What qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution?

The House makes the rules and can employ every kind of specialist to help inform the planning of a future where all prosper and a those who harm others can and will be incentivized to change their ways or lose their privileges as citizens.

Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?

At this point in the game all that is important is if they have the ability to visualize, communicate, and plan with others, while delegating tasks to be accomplished for the greater good of the whole. Experience in government doesn't make a person a great problems solver. What is needed is a brain that is designed to problems solve, that can grasp and use information to build conceptual models of what the future will look like so as best to architecturally design and mechanically engineer a functional system of economic growth build upon the lattice work of policy and law that prevent harm and rewards the productivity of those who employ themselves to the services and products that the world needs.

What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

National and Global Security to stop the planned economic collapse permitted by our bought elected politicians who for decades have allowed China and other countries to rape our economy; leaving our people penniless, and enslaved to jobs and consumables that keep the US in debt and addiction. We need to cut ties with China, we need a manufacturing renaissance, We need to elect and hire people to government that are not compromised by wealth, status, or influence from abroad or at home. We need to protect our privacy, our data, and our people. We need to stop allowing our citizens to be indoctrinated to and incentivized to give up their rights in exchange for a meager pay check or a government handout. We need to stop bailing out economically leprous companies that intentionally tank the economy to walk away with citizen tax dollars to. When we stop taking bribes and start enforcing morality and ethics we will see corruption in corporations crumble and good management step up to their rightful roles, resulting in prosperity returning. The longer we allow ourselves to be leashed and taken for a walk to the slaughter house door the sooner we will all be living IN not on a hot dead planet, learning to love a short lived bunker life in the ground.

If you are not a current representative, are there certain committees that you would want to be a part of?

The committees that deal with:

Environmental/Animal Rights/Factory Farming
Human rights (Women, immigrants, minorities, the sick, elderly, LGBTQ, the disabled, children, the imprisoned)
Government imbalance
National Debt
US economy/manufacturing/policy/trust busting
National Security
Global Security
Crime and Punishment
Infrastructure/Housing/transportation
Waste Management
Schools/extracurricular
Healthcare/disease prevention

Socialization/Media/Privacy

Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?

Four years would be better due to the fact that it takes sometimes years for any real changes to happen especially with the broken down system of how the house functions these day. We need time to work with the president, work with specialists, work in committee after committee with our peer, and still have enough time to actually work with the executive branch long enough to fix problems before being drowned with campaigning for reelection. Two years is basically not enough time to focus anyone's attention for long enough to see and set up solutions to fix all the cracks in the system

What are your thoughts on term limits?

We need to allow for breaks. Hoyer has been in for about 40 years straight. That is the equivalent for being king. So I suggest, since people don't like change and tend to stick with what they know even if it kills them, we set the length of terms to 4 years and term limits to no more than three terms straight before new leadership is mandated for at least one term. the candidate can seek reelection after the four year break and work for another 3 terms but then again would have to take another 4 year break. This would allow for people to not grow complacent and would get more people to engage in being active in government.

If you are not currently a member of your party’s leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, would you be interested in joining the leadership? If so, in what role?

Yes, any role that gets us to address the Climate crisis,the national debt, and broken government simultaneously

Is there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?

Abraham Lincoln

Both sitting representatives and candidates for office hear many personal stories from the residents of their district. Is there a story that you’ve heard that you found particularly touching, memorable, or impactful?

The stories I was privileged to hear were all mostly the same. Remove trump, fix schools, Improve transportation, stop over development. Why can't we recycle this? Police should be held accountable. Drugs and crime are growing like invasive weeds.

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Maryland's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Angela Alsobrooks (D)

Chris Hollen (D)

Representatives

District 1

Andrew Harris (R)

District 2

John Olszewski (D)

District 3

Sarah Elfreth (D)

District 4

Glenn Ivey (D)

District 5

Steny Hoyer (D)

District 6

April McClain-Delaney (D)

District 7

Kweisi Mfume (D)

District 8

Jamie Raskin (D)

Democratic Party (9)

Republican Party (1)