Dylan Stevenson was born in London, England. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and economics from the University of Notre Dame in 2017. Stevenson's career experience includes working as an investment banker.[1]
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Dylan Stevenson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Stevenson's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
British born, conservative, millennial. I was born and raised in London, England, to an American mother, educated at Harrow School in the United Kingdom and the University of Notre Dame in the USA where I studied history and economics, before I moved to New York to start a career in finance. While I enjoyed this greatly, I was shocked to see just how many members of my generation were turning towards socialism, and away from the system of free enterprise and individual liberty that built this great country. My campaign is aimed at reaching those young voters in New York City - ground zero for socialistic ideas - providing a series of policies that would address the myriad problems they face, and demonstrating that socialism would only make those problems worse.
Rebuild the economy: reinvest in infrastructure, reform antitrust practices, and grow the energy sector
Reform the government: take power out of the hands of the Federal Government, break the governments hold on student loans, and make the housing market more accessible
Restore the American Dream: focus on expanding individual liberty and economic prosperity to our fellow citizens
Student Debt and Housing: these are arguably the two greatest issues facing the millennial generation today, and the former is simply the upstream part of the latter. Student debt is a $1.6 trillion problem affecting 44 million Americans. That means the average student debt holder carries about $35,000 in student debt. According to the Federal Reserve, $1,000 in student debt prevents or delays the purchase of a home by 2.5 months. That means the average student debt holder is delayed from purchasing a home by roughly 7 years. That. combined with rents that have skyrocketed and 400,000 New Yorkers in NYCHA government housing units, is a serious problem preventing access to the housing market and the fulfillment of the American Dream.
Mass Surveillance: the gross violation of our privacy by both the Federal Government and private companies in Silicon Valley is a stain on our status as a free country and must be combated. These people would not have the right to raid your home or open your mail, yet your data and online life are fair game. That needs to change.
Anti-Trust: multinational companies buy access to the corridors of power and use that to crush competition. The result of this is a less dynamic economy, rising prices for consumers, more regulation, difficulties for small businesses, & lower wages. We need an antitrust policy that preserve free and fair competition
Other matters of great importance include healthcare, energy, religion tolerance, & infrastructure
His Majesty, the late King George VI, and former Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill. The former was King of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, though he was never supposed to receive the Crown (his brother Edward VIII abdicated) and did not want the job, as he was not comfortable speaking publicly with his crippling stammer. Churchill, the latter, (who also attended Harrow School) was not highly regarded as a political figure, and had spent ten years as an outcast in the political wilderness between 1929 and 1939. Then the war came. While France, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and Holland fell, while many willingly joined the ranks of Germany, while the Soviet Union was being pushed back, while Nazi bombs pounded civilian targets in Britain, and while almost every major political figure in England wanted to surrender to Germany's march, these two men said no. The King refused to leave London and stayed in the beleaguered capital with his people, at great personal risk to himself and his family, offering the stoic resilience necessary to withstand the German bombardment, while Churchill rallied a nation from the brinks of defeat and willed it to, for years alone, stand up to the seemingly unstoppable advance of evil. From the rescue at Dunkirk, to the aerial Battle of Britain, to the landings at D-Day and the forging of the Special Relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom, these men are owed a debt of gratitude to those who live free today. To take Churchill's own words: "never before in the history of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few". They embodied the resolve contained in "Keep Calm and Carry On". They put their own reservations and fears aside in an hour of need. They rose to the occasion. Their sense of duty, honour, and courage are worth admiring, cultivating, and emulating.
- To represent the concerns of their constituents in the corridors of power, never forgetting that one's position exists to secure their freedom
- To make decisions to the best of their ability, with the most thorough examination of the evidence available, and to do so with a clear, calm, and level head untainted by personal misgivings
- To not actively worsen the situation at hand, working not to take us towards utopia, but to steer the ship of state from stormy seas to calmer waters
One of Restoration, where the decline witnessed in many aspects of American life is either slowed, halted, or ideally reversed. To have helped restore this great country to its rightful position as a global leader in individual freedom and economic prosperity. To have contributed to the national discourse around the direction of our country. In essence: to have simply played whatever part was necessary to leave things better than I found them
Good question. It's hard to pick just one. So I won't. Here's three:
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde is high on the list. It's short and artistically perfect. Oscar Wilde is a master of the English language and his book about the relationship between art and individuals, and those individuals with themselves, is as close to flawless as I can imagine.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien is a Magnum Opus of English literature, a beautiful series of books that grows deeper with each read. If you want to feel a sense of awe and wonder, from the heroism of the characters to the beauty of the prose and the impeccable worldbuilding done by the author, you would be hard pressed to find anything better.
Any collection of the short stories of Russian literature would also suffice, but particularly God Sees the Truth but Waits by Leo Tolstoy: a harsh short story but one that finds a way calm to those who read it. It's an excellent introduction to Tolstoy.
Internal domestic reform, particularly pertaining to market access is one of, if not the, single greatest issues facing the United States, as the impact of failing to address it will compound year over year. Currently there are too many Americans who, often rightly, find themselves shut out of the marketplace and are unable to compete and improve their lot in life. This restriction is why so many are turning to Socialism: it is a lie that promises that if you sacrifice your personal freedom and sovereignty, they will look after you. The United States must combat the spread of this ideology and focus on removing barriers to entry, namely by making home ownership more attainable, making student debt more easily repaid, making antitrust more thoroughly enforced, making the regulatory burden on small businesses lessened, and making the American economy more dynamic. This is done perhaps most effectively by considering this an exercise in the devolvement of power out of centralised hands and into the hands of the citizenry. If one were to work through each policy issue and do what maximised the devolution of power, one could go a long way towards achieving this end.
The Financial Services Committee would be at the top of my list. This is the committee responsible for the banking sector, Federal monetary policy, economic stabilisation, international commerce, housing, and urban development. Many of these areas pertain directly to the issues I have discussed previously, and the opportunity to make the case for domestic and economic reform on the committee most responsible for this sector would be the best use of my position and offer the greatest benefits to my constituents. Second on the list would be the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for much the same reason. It's jurisdiction includes healthcare, renewable energy, nuclear facilities, privacy and cybersecurity, and interstate commerce. Again, these are the areas that need to be examined to engage in the domestic reforms necessary to improve market access, enable more individuals to achieve the American Dream, undermine the advance of socialism in this country.
Congressman Jerry Nadler has been representing this district since 1992. To put into perspective just how damn long that is, I was born in 1994. That is too long for anyone to have their hands on power. Term limits are an absolute necessity.
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British born, conservative, millennial. I was born and raised in London, England, to an American mother, educated at Harrow School in the United Kingdom and the University of Notre Dame in the USA where I studied history and economics, before I moved to New York to start a career in finance. While I enjoyed this greatly, I was shocked to see just how many members of my generation were turning towards socialism, and away from the system of free enterprise and individual liberty that built this great country. My campaign is aimed at reaching those young voters in New York City - ground zero for socialistic ideas - providing a series of policies that would address the myriad problems they face, and demonstrating that socialism would only make those problems worse.
Rebuild the economy: reinvest in infrastructure, reform antitrust practices, and grow the energy sector
Reform the government: take power out of the hands of the Federal Government, break the governments hold on student loans, and make the housing market more accessible
Restore the American Dream: focus on expanding individual liberty and economic prosperity to our fellow citizens
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
Note: Stevenson submitted the above survey responses to Ballotpedia on February 7, 2020.
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