Wayne Lewis (New Jersey)
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Wayne Lewis (Democratic Party) ran for election to the New Jersey General Assembly to represent District 9. Lewis lost in the general election on November 5, 2019.
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Elections
2019
See also: New Jersey General Assembly elections, 2019
General election
General election for New Jersey General Assembly District 9 (2 seats)
Incumbent Brian Rumpf and incumbent DiAnne Gove defeated Sarah Collins and Wayne Lewis in the general election for New Jersey General Assembly District 9 on November 5, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Brian Rumpf (R) | 34.5 | 36,537 |
| ✔ |  | DiAnne Gove (R) | 33.8 | 35,808 |
| Sarah Collins (D) | 16.4 | 17,320 | ||
Wayne Lewis (D)  | 15.3 | 16,247 | ||
| Total votes: 105,912 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Blayne Lavalle (A Fresh Face Party)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 9 (2 seats)
Sarah Collins and Wayne Lewis advanced from the Democratic primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 9 on June 4, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Sarah Collins | 51.8 | 4,335 | |
| ✔ | Wayne Lewis | 48.2 | 4,028 | |
| Total votes: 8,363 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 9 (2 seats)
Incumbent Brian Rumpf and incumbent DiAnne Gove advanced from the Republican primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 9 on June 4, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brian Rumpf | 51.0 | 9,035 |
| ✔ | | DiAnne Gove | 49.0 | 8,673 |
| Total votes: 17,708 | |||
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Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Wayne Lewis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Lewis' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Public Banking, Climate action from a deeper perspective including protection and regeneration of lost ecosystems, Facilitation of local ecconomic soveriengty typically called community wealth building or the cleveland/preston model.
Im passionate about A Green New Deal that is fair and just to all people, all life, and respects the uniqueness and soveriegnty of place. im also passionate about universal healthcare as a right, access to higher education as a right, cancelation of cripling consumer debt, reclaiming money creation as a public good...
Very long list, politically i admire Bernie Sanders for his persistence, integrity, commitment to building a fair and equitable society, and his willingness to accept new thinking and genuinely listen to people. Intellectually, the list is very long indeed including philosophers,prophets,mathematicians, biologists, physicists, complexity thinkers, anthropologists and polymaths.
Far too many to list...i'd start with kate Raworths Donut Ecconomics, Charles Eisenstien's sacred ecconomics, Marjorie Kelly Owning our Future, Jeremy Rifkins Zero Marginal cost Society, David Boliers Think like a Commoner, the entire website of p2pfoundation.net, thenextsystemproject.org, Bernard Lietar's rethinking money, David Graeber's Debt1: the first 5000 years...ive left out hundreds of books and other materials that are relevant.
Honesty, integrity, fairness, dedication, an open ended narrative cosmology in keeping with a rapidly changing evolutionary and radically emergent world.
Honesty, passion, open mindedness, cultivated wisdom, and vision guided with deep understanding of complex and living systems both scientifically and philisophically.
It is my primary responsibility to do my best to represent the best interests of my constituents, the human race, and the biosphere as cohesively as I can.
Universal Healthcare( not the sickcare we currently have), NJ state Bank, decriminilization of non narcotics and of narcotics for personal use(those addicted to drugs need help not jail sentences) so so many others.
The Vietnam War...i became aware of it when i was 6 in 1972.
First Job was delivering newspapers for the Bucks County Courier Times...i was 11
nothing much happened at all, not much conversation or anything else...i guess thats why it was so awkward.
My favorite book, if i had to pick one and its not a fair question as there are hundreds i could choose easily, is probably Stuart a Kaufmans Reinventing the Sacred because it begins to adress the vital question of how to reclaim the meaning and wisdom framework of religions in harmony with our most sophisticated accademic understanding. In the process of killing god and soul we have thrown out the baby with the bathwater. Our current secular nihlist worldview has left people with lives bereft of meaning and many crises have resulted. Our rational epistemology and explanatory cosmology is fine, but we need also a participatory cosmology that allows each of us to know, in the being mode, our place and purpose in the universe. an open ended mythopoetic narrative that doesnt conflict with our rational cosmology, but enhances it while endowing each of us with a sense of belonging. This is akin to a religion without a god in many ways.
Probably my computer and monitor where i do a great deal of reading, writing, and discussion with a wide variety of people from all over the world on some very deep interests.
God money, it was featured in the ending of the latest episode of black mirror with Miley Cyrus, and puts a finger on a major dysfunction in the prevailing worldview of post neoliberal western societies.
I struggle with a kind of addictive personality...its a blessing and a curse. Whatever i become interested in, and there are a great many things in that category, i tend to get very deeply into. On the negative side, when i recently started smoking cigars, i found it increasingly difficult not to smoke 1 or more per day and was forced to quit by my wife...well strongly coerced anyway. On the positive side, this leads me to deep intellectual dives into what some would call an amazing variety of superficially unrelated topics and constantly strive for a cohesive transcontextual synthesis of that work.
Not Nescesarily, prior experience can provide benefits in some ways, and in others such as preconceptions and political obligations it is perhaps not so good.
The greatest challenge over the next decade for all of us, everywhere will be to begin well the transition to a properly embedded human presence on earth. We can not know with full clarity beforehand what this will look like, but it will certainly mean a transition away from fossil fuels, but much more deeply, an end to growth and scarcity based ecconomics. It will mean a transition very deeply to what is called loosely circular ecconomics...more clearly a well embedded human presence means that ultimately, like every other species that is a long standing member of the biospheric commons, we must learn how to live in a way that is both fulfilling to us as self reflective conscious beings(this appears to be unique) and is also net positive by some complex assesment to the ecosystems we inhabit and interact with.
one of vigilant cooperation
Certainly it is beneficial to build relationships with other legislators and particularly to have good faith conversations with many with whom you strongly disagree with on key issues. It is vital however, not to allow political loyalty to sway your decisions on issues.
Redistricting should fall on a non partisan independent commitee. In general, i favor a process of sortiion (juriy selection) by which a demographically representatitive random group of people would be selected and would act with access to diverse non-partisan expert information at their disposal.
Banking, environment/climate, ecconomic developement
I would consider, if i feel i can accomplish anything important, running for us congress or senate at some point in the future.
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See also
2019 Elections
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Footnotes
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