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Will Johnson
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Independent

Elections and appointments
Last election

March 3, 2020

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Long Beach, Calif.
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Agnostic
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Will Johnson (independent) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 46th Congressional District. He lost in the primary on March 3, 2020.

Johnson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Johnson was a 2018 independent candidate for the same seat.

Biography

Will Johnson was born in Long Beach, California. Johnson served in the United States Army from 1997 to 1999. He earned an undergraduate degree in surgical technology from American Career College in 2011.[1]

Elections

2020

See also: California's 46th Congressional District election, 2020

General election

General election for U.S. House California District 46

Incumbent Lou Correa defeated James Waters in the general election for U.S. House California District 46 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Lou Correa
Lou Correa (D)
 
68.8
 
157,803
Image of James Waters
James Waters (R) Candidate Connection
 
31.2
 
71,716

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 229,519
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 46

Incumbent Lou Correa and James Waters defeated Pablo Mendiolea, Ed Rushman, and Will Johnson in the primary for U.S. House California District 46 on March 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Lou Correa
Lou Correa (D)
 
58.2
 
60,095
✔
Image of James Waters
James Waters (R) Candidate Connection
 
27.4
 
28,302
Image of Pablo Mendiolea
Pablo Mendiolea (D)
 
9.0
 
9,257
Image of Ed Rushman
Ed Rushman (Independent) Candidate Connection
 
3.2
 
3,288
Image of Will Johnson
Will Johnson (Independent) Candidate Connection
 
2.3
 
2,380

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 103,322
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2018

See also: California's 46th Congressional District election, 2018

General election

General election for U.S. House California District 46

Incumbent Lou Correa defeated Russell Lambert in the general election for U.S. House California District 46 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Lou Correa
Lou Correa (D)
 
69.1
 
102,278
Image of Russell Lambert
Russell Lambert (R)
 
30.9
 
45,638

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 147,916
(100.00% precincts reporting)
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 46

Incumbent Lou Correa and Russell Lambert defeated Ed Rushman and Will Johnson in the primary for U.S. House California District 46 on June 5, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Lou Correa
Lou Correa (D)
 
62.2
 
43,700
✔
Image of Russell Lambert
Russell Lambert (R)
 
32.4
 
22,770
Image of Ed Rushman
Ed Rushman (Independent)
 
3.3
 
2,313
Image of Will Johnson
Will Johnson (Independent)
 
2.0
 
1,425

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified.

Total votes: 70,208
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Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

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

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I come from a working class background and it has molded me into the person that I am today. It also has made me realize just how bad the working people of this country have been screwed over by big business and the rich, for practically my entire lifetime of 40 years. This will give me the motivation to never give up in service to the people, who are entrusting me to fight on their behalf on a multitude of issues that negatively impact them and their families.

My grandmother, who just recently passed away, wanted to stay in her own home when her health and mobility started to go five years ago. I decided to spend those years caring for her each and every day, because she meant the world to me and it was something that was important to her. I will have the same determination to spend every waking hour, ensuring that working people get exactly what they need from a government that's supposed to work for them.

This is who I am and these are the values that I will take with me to Washington. Thank you for your consideration.
  • Fight for working people and be their voice in Congress
  • Fight for the passage of Medicare4all, free public college, the green new deal, $15 minimum wage
  • I won't take any money from corporations or the rich, so I'm only beholden to the people
I want to see a whole host of policies passed into law. This includes medicare4all, free public college, the green new deal, $15 minimum wage, federal jobs guarantee, cannabis legalization, immigration reform, getting money out of politics with a constitutional amendment, ending all the wars, net neutrality, nationwide infrastructure bill, and free childcare/after school programs.

I do not want to here about these things being called pie in the sky handouts or freebies when we allow the government to spend trillions on foreign regime change wars, billions on subsidies for oil & gas companies, pharmaceutical companies and giant agricultural companies. Not to mention tax cuts for billionaires and large multinational corporations. If we don't spend money on all of that nonsense, then we would have more than enough to implement all of the things mentioned in the paragraph above.

It just takes leaders with the guts to take on all of these monied interests and enact all of the policies that would finally help the working people of this country. I will not stop until this vision is accomplished.
Bernie Sanders. I don't care for famous actors, athletes or musicians, but people like Senator Sanders are so rare for their commitment to fighting for working people and remaining consistent on issues that are important to them. I hope to get elected at the same time he becomes president, so I can fight just as hard in the house to enact his working class policies for the people of this country. I also have high regard for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Dr. Jonas Salk. Dr. King because he had a very low tolerance for moderate incrementalism that would take years to solve problems that needed addressing now. Dr. Salk because he invented the polio vaccine and then promptly gave it to the general public, forgoing millions in royalties.
To remain unbought. It's really that simple, because once you take the corporate money, you are beholden to them and then your responsibility to the people that elected you to represent them falls by the wayside. You will be less likely to show up for townhalls, because you know you won't be able to deliver what they need. You will only take votes that will enrich yourself and your donors. You will only here the concerns of rich people who only want to save a nickel in taxes, rather than the working people who struggle just to make ends meet.

Also, that when I'm on a committee and the rich and powerful show up to lie to my face, all them out and embarrass them in front of a national audience. Not to perform some sort of kabuki theatre, but to hold them accountable for their misdeeds and send a message to everyone else who would try to do the same.
I want to look back at the end of my service and realize all the great things done for working people. All the policies of the platform that I laid out were not only passed, but are new institutions that people can rely on and serve them and their children well for years to come. To have people take my place that will ensure that nothing will be repealed or watered down because of monied interests.
Outside of sports, I really didn't pay attention to much news wise. I was at school when the Challenger space shuttle exploded. I was seven and didn't see it then, but was told about it by stunned teachers. When I got home, I was able to see the horrible footage of what happened and was very saddened, realizing that those people died so violently. The next concern was for my grandfather, who was a welder at Rockwell International. He was freaking out thinking it was something he and his team did wrong. He later found out that it was due to another company's work on the booster rockets. It was a relief in one sense, but still heartbreak at knowing that wonderful people had died nonetheless.
My first job was at a movie theater at the Santa Ana mainplace mall. I had it for the summer and learned that the job has to be done, whether you want to or not. It made me aware of how hard work matters and that you do your best for people that spend their hard earned money. It set the tone for when I went to the Army a couple of years later, that's when I really learned what discipline was all about.
No, because that experience only serves to promote corruption and to keep corrupt people in power. They take their cues from lobbyists and then do the bidding of the rich and multinational corporations. We need working people who realize what must be done for the working people and then don't stop fighting until it's achieved.
The world's greatest challenge, let alone the United States, is to combat climate change. This will mean development of renewable energy sources on day one, so we can get away from oil & gas within ten years or less. This will also mean creating a smart electrical system that is impervious to hackers. We must start a national underground highspeed rail network that will transport people and goods form one place to another. We need to find a biofuel alternative to aviation kerosene as well as for use in generators. When the energy costs lower because of all the renewable innovations, then we will need to use desalination plants to produce water for primarily the states of the southwest and utilize pipelines for water, instead of oil & gas.
Energy and Commerce committee, because it will be at the forefront of deciding how we address climate change and if anything will be done about it.

Agriculture committee, because that decides what people eat and is responsible for why we have more access to empty calories than to nutritional foods.

Transportation and Infrastructure committee, because this will be where we come up with bold ideas on how we remake our transportation system and finally start to compete with other industrialized nations in the 21st century and beyond.
Yes, but senators should be reduced to four years.
It sounds good on paper, but if people are termed out from ever serving again, then the only people who will be around are lobbyists. Future representation will have no choice but to rely on these vultures to navigate the system and will, in all likelihood, end up doing what the rich and multinational corporations want instead of what the people want.
Speaker of the House. I know, not right away, but people will soon realize that I can't be bought, I'm not there to make friends and I will have a laser focus for ensuring that working people are taken care of first. No votes would come to the floor if they only seek to benefit the rich and multinational corporations. I will remove corrupt officials from their committees and seek to have them removed from office if they do not do what there constituents want them to.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Simply because he knew of the rich and powerful's hated for him and he welcomed their hatred. This describes me to a tee. If the rich and powerful hate me, then I know I'm doing a great job on behalf of the people.
There were many stories I heard the last time I ran that centered around healthcare and they all would have been solved by medicare4all. Form the person that had a premium increase that made their monthly payment over $1000, to the person that had to go bankrupt because their cancer treatments weren't fully covered, to the widow whose husband died because they couldn't afford the deductible before they would cover the dialysis treatments, etc. These stories are heartbreaking and made me realize that I had to try again, so that I can prevent those things from happening to good people in the future.

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