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Vincent Beck-Jones
Vincent Beck-Jones (Green Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Arizona's 4th Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Beck-Jones completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Vincent Beck-Jones was born in San Diego, California. Beck-Jones' professional experience includes working as a research scientist. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1987 to 1993. Beck-Jones earned an associate degree from 20056 in 1996.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Arizona's 4th Congressional District election, 2024
Arizona's 4th Congressional District election, 2024 (July 30 Republican primary)
Arizona's 4th Congressional District election, 2024 (July 30 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Arizona District 4
Incumbent Greg Stanton defeated Kelly Cooper and Vincent Beck-Jones in the general election for U.S. House Arizona District 4 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Greg Stanton (D) | 52.7 | 176,428 |
 | Kelly Cooper (R) | 45.5 | 152,052 | |
 | Vincent Beck-Jones (G)  | 1.8 | 6,065 | |
| Total votes: 334,545 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 4
Incumbent Greg Stanton advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 4 on July 30, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Greg Stanton | 100.0 | 49,178 |
| Total votes: 49,178 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 4
Kelly Cooper defeated Zuhdi Jasser, Dave Giles, and Jerone Davison in the Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 4 on July 30, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kelly Cooper | 32.0 | 18,902 |
 | Zuhdi Jasser | 27.0 | 15,929 | |
 | Dave Giles | 23.0 | 13,575 | |
 | Jerone Davison | 18.1 | 10,664 | |
| Total votes: 59,070 | |||
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Green primary election
Green primary for U.S. House Arizona District 4
Vincent Beck-Jones advanced from the Green primary for U.S. House Arizona District 4 on July 30, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Vincent Beck-Jones (Write-in) | 100.0 | 31 |
| Total votes: 31 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Tre Rook (G)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Beck-Jones in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Vincent Beck-Jones completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Beck-Jones' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Vincent has worked in multiple disciplines in the public sector including cellular and mainly biotech/biomed in electro-mechanical technician and engineering roles. He has also run his own Espresso vending cart in San Diego. Vincent moved to Phoenix in 2012.
Vincent has spent much of his life supporting and advocating for animal welfare. He has been instrumental in getting protections placed for endangered mountain lions in the Cuyamaca Mountains of California, to campaigning for wildcat protections in Arizona and eventually playing a lead role in the coyote killing contest ban in Arizona.
Vincent's activism led him to an active political role in Arizona's Green Party. Sharing ideals like social and economic equality, education and health care for all, and public protections for wildlife and lands in danger of ruin from unapologetic corporate machines who have never even set foot in the southwest. He has sat on the Green Party steering committee as Vice Co-chair and Treasurer for over 3 years.- Community. We have lost touch as a community. The duopoly of Republican/Democrat government have put us at odds with each other. The truth is, it is community that holds us together. Not a government. In times of crisis it is each other that we can rely on. In times of charity or need it is us as a community that provides relief. It is as a community that we should govern ourselves. The duopoly has for too long, only given us a choice of bad or worse. There are other options but Americans are afraid to vote for them. We must trust in our community, trust in eachother and know, the same bonding principles that guide us as communities, can guide us as a governnent as well.
- Health care. Everyone has the right to equal health care. Doctors take an oath, one that was originally purposed on doctors providing care when was needed and not to do unnecessary harm. Throughout the deregulation and privatising of public medicine, we have allowed profiteers to determine the effect of our health care. Nobody should be denied, medicine or care based on a private companies profit margins. We need massive health system reform. We need to put the care back in health care.
- Education. Everyone has the inalienable right to at least a QUALITY basic education. Private franchises are selling drive-through educations and stealing public education money for their profits. Teachers required to have Master's Degrees in addition to teaching credentials are making BELOW THE LINE salaries. This is a disgrace and shame on the American institution in general. If we don't have a government with a priority dedication to education, why do we even have a government? We need to stop selling our children's futures to cookie cutter franchised education.
Health and welfare of living beings. You have nothing if you don't have a people.
Climate change, agriculture, and animal rights. The earth will survive, with or without us. It's up to us to ensure our survival.
Health care, nobody should go without because of social economic status.
Pro choice. Nobody's life should be in jeopardy because of some ancient belief.
Money will always be there. Businesses come and go. Power and energy, raw materials, health trends, communications. All these things ebb and flow. It's important to understand when it's time to let go of outdated paradigms and move on to cleaner, better, advanced ideas, resources, and methods. There will always be something new and better. That means something else will disappear. As long as the next step is more useful and less wasteful, then it's time to move on. An attentive elected official will know this, and take action that present the greatest benefit to everyone.
I am intelligent. I have always tested in the 96th percentile. Yes I like to boast about it. But I do think its a quality that will prove to be an asset in office.
Inflation compounds itself. Our system of capitalism is designed for the wealthy to make money, whether we, the people, thrive or starve. In my lifetime, the wealthiest' income has increased by 10,000 times while we, the peoples' income has increased 10 times. This isn't a good model for an economic system. Money has to move around in order to have a successful economy otherwise we, the people suffer. We can have a golden age or we can have a recession, but the bottom line is, the wealthy who hoard the money, need to get out of their accounts and moving.
Climate change is happening. If you don't believe that, then sit back and don't get in the way. The rest of us have work to do. We need to reduce fossil fuel usage and products by massive amounts. Microplastics are in everything including our food. The earth and the seas are literally choking on it. We're next. We need to refocus our minds, and money off of fossil fuel related everything and work on more sustainable solutions.
Agriculture. The money we spend on eating right is money we don't spend on medication, surgery and hospitals later in life.
Veterans. It wouldn't be America without veterans. Yet veterans are treated as a burden instead a national treasure. Everyone in this country literally owes everything to those who fought for it.
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Campaign website
Beck-Jones’ campaign website stated the following:
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We need real change and we need it now. Our country was once based on ideals of freedom and choice. But, for 237 years we have been held to an Us vs Them system. A duopoly of politics where the two parties are merely just opposite sides of a single coin. We are left choosing which option seems less detrimental to us. This isn't real choice. Without choice we have no freedom. Everyone I talk to has a different story. Health care driven by insurance companies for profit. Education money going to private school profits instead of children's education. Corporations taking lands, polluting environments, destroying the earth, for profit. The 99% of real Americans bear the consequence of their actions, for none of the profit. In my lifetime, education has suffered, healthcare has suffered, climate has suffered. We have polluted lands, dried up rivers, and created islands of garbage in the oceans. We have made Americans sick from the food that is supposed to keep us alive. All for someone else's profit. We give billions of dollars to Israel to murder hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Make no mistake, it's not our war, therefore it is murder. The standard American diet, the age old "food triangle" was never meant to keep us healthy. It was meant to get Americans to buy dairy and meat. Foods we don't need. These industries have become so big, they are allowed to make us sick with impunity. Pasteurization means the blood and pus from dairy cow infections, are sterilized but they are still part of your dairy. Meat in the grocery store is not free of salmonella, FDA allows 7-25% salmonella positives over collected samples during a year. Meat was never meant to be the mainstay of your diet. Early settlers often suffered from gout because of their consumption of meat. It is also a great source of transfats. These are the things that contribute to heart, kidney, liver, and vascular disease as well as diabetes. Politics rarely evokes praise from anyone but politicians. This tells us one thing, they are politicking for themselves, not us. We the people. The 99% of real Americans. In my lifetime the wealthy have increased their incomes by a factor of 10,000 while the 99% of real Americans have increased ours by a factor of 10. The old ways have failed us. Our population is growing, our discovery, technology, medicine and science are advancing. We need new ideas to accommodate the new world we are heading into. Old ways no longer work. We need Change. Because the past is not the path to the future.[2] |
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| —Vincent Beck-Jones’ campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
Campaign finance summary
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2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 22, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Vincent Beck Jones For Congressional District 4, “Home,” accessed July 3, 2024
