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Latest revision as of 20:40, 2 August 2024
Ashmi Sheth (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent New York's 12th Congressional District. She lost in the Democratic primary on August 23, 2022.
Sheth completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Sheth's professional experience includes working as a policy writer and supervisor. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2014 and a graduate degree from Columbia University in 2019.[1]
Sheth has been affiliated with the League of Women Voters and Manhattan Young Dems.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: New York's 12th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House New York District 12
Incumbent Jerrold Nadler defeated Mike Zumbluskas and Mikhail Itkis in the general election for U.S. House New York District 12 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jerrold Nadler (D / Working Families Party)  | 81.6 | 200,890 |
 | Mike Zumbluskas (R / Conservative Party / Parent Party) | 17.9 | 44,173 | |
 | Mikhail Itkis (Itkis Campaign) | 0.3 | 631 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 411 | ||
| Total votes: 246,105 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Gil Obler (G)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 12
Incumbent Jerrold Nadler defeated incumbent Carolyn B. Maloney, Suraj Patel, and Ashmi Sheth in the Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 12 on August 23, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jerrold Nadler | 55.4 | 49,744 |
 | Carolyn B. Maloney | 24.4 | 21,916 | |
 | Suraj Patel | 19.0 | 17,011 | |
 | Ashmi Sheth | 1.0 | 937 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 128 | ||
| Total votes: 89,736 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jesse Cerrotti (D)
- Mike Fitzgerald (D)
- Vladimy Joseph (D)
- Rana Abdelhamid (D)
- Maya Contreras (D)
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Mike Zumbluskas advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House New York District 12.
Conservative Party primary election
The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Mike Zumbluskas advanced from the Conservative Party primary for U.S. House New York District 12.
Working Families Party primary election
The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Jerrold Nadler advanced from the Working Families Party primary for U.S. House New York District 12.
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ashmi Sheth completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sheth's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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The weight of survival makes me resilient. My parents had less than $25 when they immigrated from India. I remember when they finally paid off their credit card debt and neighbors taking care of us after school for free -- through hard times, we still had a home cooked meal for dinner every night.
My run for Congress is personal because we are experiencing an affordability crisis. Like millions of Americans, I am paying off an enormous student debt burden and experiencing a housing crisis. Accessing healthcare is complicated, especially as a person with a disability. Politics hasn’t been built for people like me. Even so, I gave up my job and income, regulating big banks at the Federal Reserve to run. The system undermines working class candidates. Our campaign is dedicated to 21st century governance (investing in climate resiliency, small business, public education, clean cities), equal opportunity for all, and increasing voter participation.- Build a 21st century government and invest in climate resiliency, public education, and small business. The biggest threat to our future is the climate crisis. As a first generation Asian American, I have directly lived through terrifying monsoon rains and extreme winter heat waves. It is necessary for Indigenous Peoples, immigrants, community members, and city dwellers to have a voice at the table on global climate justice. I fully support passing the Green New Deal and accelerating pathways to net zero emissions. Our campaign advocates to retrofit more than a million buildings in NYC, for a circular economy, a higher carbon tax, and eliminating all dependence on fossil fuels.
- Make life more affordable and address personal financial health and debt reduction, small business recovery, and rampant wealth inequality. As a former regulator, I will build stronger protections for working people. Most of us suffer from enormous debt burdens. I am running to cancel student debt, increase the number of affordable housing units in NYC, and subsidize healthy food. I have seen hundreds of people waiting in line for food through COVID, a rise in homelessness, and tuition rates increasing. Median rent for a studio apartment in Manhattan should not be $2,700 a month. Our district suffers the greatest level of income inequality in the country, and I will fight for a quality of life for all.
- Enforce equal opportunity for all and expand same day voter registration, voting rights, equal access to jobs, and representation in every institution. Many communities in our district, particularly minorities, have been neglected by our leadership and have faced the worst of the pandemic. I will prioritize mass voter registration efforts, creating spaces for new leaders who represent diverse interests, enforcing equal opportunity hiring, and ensuring our government equitably delivers services for everyone in our district - especially with COVID-19. Our voices have not been at the table. To take on big power, our campaign leads with our community and refuses corporate PAC money.
The biggest barrier to clean energy is not the lack of technology but the lack of political courage in places of power. To make all states 100% clean energy by 2050, we must address climate inequality the Global South and coastal cities experience by penalizing greenwashing. While most big business polluters deceptively market their efforts as “environmentally friendly,” in reality, only 5% of Fortune 500 companies are committed to powering all of their operations using renewable energy. With nearly every major company presence in NYC, we have a serious role holding the remaining corporations accountable and mandate total corporate carbon reduction.
Our campaign built a model where hundreds of community stakeholders have co-authored our platform with us over the last few years. We have already surrounded ourselves with a broad, diverse working coalition that continues to grow. From indigenous communities, to space policy experts, to scientists decomposing plastic waste -- they write our platform with us and this is an important characteristic we need in our elected officials.
A healthy democracy that will survive and adapt in the long run relies on competition and new voices in government -- on people doing the work to expand the electorate. I am not taking any corporate PAC money and we have built a grassroots campaign.
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Campaign website
Sheth's campaign website stated the following:[2]
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 29, 2021
- ↑ Ashmi Sheth, "Community-Built Platform," accessed August 3, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
