Charles Lutin

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Charles Lutin

Republican Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

May 24, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

Vanderbilt, 1974

Graduate

University of North Carolina, 1979

Medical

Duke University, 1978

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Air Force

Years of service

2007 - 2011

Personal

Birthplace

Nashville, Tenn.

Religion

Jewish

Profession

Doctor

Contact

Campaign website

Charles Lutin (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Georgia's 14th Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on May 24, 2022.

Lutin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Charles Lutin was born in Nashville, Tennessee. Lutin served in the U.S. Air Force from 2007 to 2011. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University in 1974, an M.D. from Duke University in 1978, and a master's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina in 1979. Lutin’s career experience includes working in medical practice.

Elections

2022

See also: Georgia's 14th Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Georgia District 14

Incumbent Marjorie Taylor Greene defeated Marcus Flowers in the general election for U.S. House Georgia District 14 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Marjorie Taylor Greene (R)	65.9	170,162
		Marcus Flowers (D)	34.1	88,189

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 258,351
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Angela Pence (L)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 14

Marcus Flowers defeated Wendy Davis and Holly McCormack in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 14 on May 24, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Marcus Flowers	74.7	20,082
		Wendy Davis	19.1	5,141
		Holly McCormack	6.2	1,662

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 26,885
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Ronnie Baker (D)
• Brittany Trambauer-Smith (D)
• Lateefah Conner (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 14

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 14 on May 24, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Marjorie Taylor Greene	69.5	72,215
		Jennifer Strahan	16.9	17,595
		Eric Cunningham	6.2	6,390
		James Haygood	3.6	3,790
		Charles Lutin	2.2	2,304
		Seth Synstelien	1.5	1,547

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 103,841
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Mark Clay (R)

Campaign themes

2022

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Ballotpedia survey responses

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Charles Lutin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Lutin'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.

Charles Lutin is a retired physician, originally from Nashville, TN. He has practiced 35 years in hospitals and 5 years in the US Air Force and has treated 250,000 ED patients just like you without mishap or problem with medical ethics. Charlie has been retired from medical practice for about two years. Charlie has two children ages 22 and 36 years. He is an outdoorsman and has a longstanding love of aviation. He has been a private pilot with additional ratings since 1983. This is his first run for public office. He is a Conservative Republican without extreme views to detract from his policies.

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?

• Term Limits for Congress
• Modernization and Reorganization of the Armed Forces
• Ethics in public officeholders

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

There should not be indefinite service in Congress or careerists in the job. It is far too easy to gain office and gather power, then to cash in on nonpublic information to get rich. Ownership of private corporations and individual stocks represents a conflict of interest for Congressmen.

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

Honesty

Public Service Mentality

Analytic ability

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

Integrity, Bipartisanship, deep understanding of our military preparedness and Emergency response agencies

What legacy would you like to leave?

I would like to be remembered as the guy who sent MTG home where she ought to be.

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

I remember the Presidential Campaign of 1960 and the Kennedy-Nixon debates on TV, when I was seven years old. I remember that it was a matter of controversy that Kennedy might be the first US President who was Catholic. I grew up and went to high school during the US involvement in the Vietnam War, and the draft was ended a few months after I finished college in 1974. I remember the Presidential Campaign of 1968 vividly, as I was fifteen years old. I remember the assassinations and the riots that year, and Lyndon Johnson's announcement that he would not seek another term as US President.

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

My first job was in the Experimental Animal House at Vanderbilt Hospital after my 10th grade year in school. I had to appear at the Board of Education to obtain a release to work and certify that I was not being forced into employment! I worked at Vanderbilt one summer and then worked after school and summers in the music industry until I went to College. I worked for a company that installed sound and recording equipment.

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

I Got My Mind Set on You (George Harrison)

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

We have a distinctly antidemocratic faction in the modern Republican Party that nearly overturned an election violently and harbors ambitions to do it again. We have a serious global commercial competitor in China and a military competitor in Russia, but the most significant problem facing the US is within ourselves.

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

Armed Forces Committee
Modernization of Congress Committee

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

Yes

What are your thoughts on term limits?

Yes, we need term limits. I believe that 18 years in the US House or Senate is long enough for a person to serve continuously in Congress.

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

Carl Vinson, Sam Nunn

Do you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking?

Compromise is a necessary part of policymaking and budget making. The art of compromise and working across the aisle seems to be lost at present.

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Campaign website

Lutin's campaign website stated the following:

“	Term Limits for Congress Term Limits for Congress is Doctor Lutin’s signature policy measure and it will, over time, lead to several important benefits for the country. It will require an amendment to the US Constitution to get this done and it will not be easy to obtain the votes of 2/3 of the members of the House of Representatives and 2/3 of the Senate. On the other hand, the benefit would be immense. We would no longer have Congressional leaders who serve indefinite terms, so we would have new blood brought into Congressional Leadership positions on an intermittent basis. We would also have a guaranteed number of seats that would turn over at the end of each term of office, giving the holders of these seats license to speak and vote the truth in an uninhibited fashion. This would tend to reduce the posturing and unreasonableness that we see at present, leading to gridlock and dead-end debates. This, alone, is worth a Constitutional Convention if Congress will not pass it, in my opinion. Education No more important issue exists for our future as a country than the education of our children today. Education as a free benefit of Citizenship is vital to the development of our towns and our citizens. Education must be fully funded, free of bias, factual, and comprehensive. I am not in favor of free tuition at colleges but I do favor a graduation bonus to graduates of accredited institutions, to be applied to reduction of Federal loan balances as applicable. Second Amendment The right to bear arms is crucial in a free society, but that right is not unlimited. No one is proposing to take guns away from citizens, but weapons of war are not properly used by private citizens. Law Enforcement I have utmost respect for the men and women who wear blue and preserve public safety. We should and must preserve and protect the service that preserves and protects us. It is also necessary that we maintain some type of accountability for police actions at all times. We have a few bad apples in the barrel, and the bad apples need to find some other type of work. Reorganization of the VA It is no surprise to any veteran who has dealt with the VA healthcare bureaucracy that navigating the complexity of the organization makes even simple care extremely complicated. The VA is set up for the benefit of the employees, not for the benefit of the Veteran. The system is slow and unresponsive, and shifts the burden of follow-up and appointments to the Veteran. There is essentially no customer service orientation, and evaluation of routine problems requires going through several clinic appointment processes, frequently taking months for specialty evaluation and necessary testing and imaging. It would be better to simply close all the VA facilities and make veterans beneficiaries of non-government healthcare instead of keeping the current inefficient system. If it cannot be fixed it should be replaced. Secure the Borders No country is secure without security at its borders. At the same time, we need immigrant labor and we must take a humane approach to adults who crossed the border as children with their parents. I favor securing the border, and comprehensive Immigration Reform to allow applicants for asylum to be fully evaluated and admitted in reasonable circumstances.	”
—Charles Lutin's campaign website (2022)

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Georgia's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Jon Ossoff (D)

Raphael Warnock (D)

Representatives

District 1

Earl Carter (R)

District 2

Sanford Bishop (D)

District 3

Brian Jack (R)

District 4

Hank Johnson (D)

District 5

Nikema Williams (D)

District 6

Lucy McBath (D)

District 7

Rich McCormick (R)

District 8

Austin Scott (R)

District 9

Andrew Clyde (R)

District 10

Mike Collins (R)

District 11

Barry Loudermilk (R)

District 12

Rick Allen (R)

District 13

David Scott (D)

District 14

Marjorie Greene (R)

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Democratic Party (7)