Gerald Plummer
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Gerald Plummer (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent California. He lost in the primary on June 5, 2018.
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. Senate California
Incumbent Dianne Feinstein defeated Kevin de León in the general election for U.S. Senate California on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Dianne Feinstein (D)  | 54.2 | 6,019,422 |
 | Kevin de León (D) | 45.8 | 5,093,942 | |
| Total votes: 11,113,364 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate California
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. Senate California on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dianne Feinstein (D) | 44.2 | 2,947,035 |
| ✔ | | Kevin de León (D) | 12.1 | 805,446 |
 | James P. Bradley (R) | 8.3 | 556,252 | |
 | Arun Bhumitra (R) | 5.3 | 350,815 | |
 | Paul Taylor (R) | 4.9 | 323,533 | |
 | Erin Cruz (R) | 4.0 | 267,494 | |
 | Tom Palzer (R) | 3.1 | 205,183 | |
 | Alison Hartson (D) | 2.2 | 147,061 | |
 | Roque De La Fuente (R) | 2.0 | 135,278 | |
 | Pat Harris (D) | 1.9 | 126,947 | |
 | John Crew (R) | 1.4 | 93,806 | |
 | Patrick Little (R) | 1.3 | 89,867 | |
 | Kevin Mottus (R) | 1.3 | 87,646 | |
| Jerry Laws (R) | 1.0 | 67,140 | |
 | Derrick Michael Reid (L) | 0.9 | 59,999 | |
 | Adrienne Nicole Edwards (D) | 0.8 | 56,172 | |
 | Douglas Howard Pierce (D) | 0.6 | 42,671 | |
 | Mario Nabliba (R) | 0.6 | 39,209 | |
 | David Hildebrand (D) | 0.5 | 30,305 | |
| Donnie Turner (D) | 0.5 | 30,101 | |
| Herbert Peters (D) | 0.4 | 27,468 | |
 | David Moore (Independent) | 0.4 | 24,614 | |
 | Ling Shi (Independent) | 0.4 | 23,506 | |
 | John Parker (Peace and Freedom Party) | 0.3 | 22,825 | |
| Lee Olson (Independent) | 0.3 | 20,393 | |
 | Gerald Plummer (D) | 0.3 | 18,234 | |
 | Jason Hanania (Independent) | 0.3 | 18,171 | |
 | Don Grundmann (Independent) | 0.2 | 15,125 | |
| Colleen Shea Fernald (Independent) | 0.2 | 13,536 | |
 | Rash Bihari Ghosh (Independent) | 0.2 | 12,557 | |
| Tim Gildersleeve (Independent) | 0.1 | 8,482 | |
| Michael Fahmy Girgis (Independent) | 0.0 | 2,986 | |
| Total votes: 6,669,857 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Leigh Scott (R)
- John Estrada (R)
- Steve Stokes (D)
- Michael Eisen (Independent)
- Topher Brennan (D)
- Timothy Charles Kalemkarian (R)
- Jerry Leon Carroll (Independent)
- Charles Junior Hodge (Independent)
- John Melendez (D)
- Caren Lancona (R)
- Stephen Schrader (R)
- Donald Adams (Independent)
- Richard Mead (Independent)
- Clifton Roberts (Independent)
- Michael Ziesing (G)
- Jazmina Saavedra (R)
Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Gerald Plummer participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on May 16, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Gerald Plummer's responses follow below.[1]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | First and foremost, get the money out of politics. Do something smart with your smart-phone. We date online, shop and buy products, research cars before we go kick the tires. We can and WILL do this. I may fail in my efforts but my policy and concept is rock-solid and proven beyond all doubt. This will be the Amazon/ Napster of politics except unlike Jeff Bezos I am not going to get rich. Our country will reap the real benefits. Second, change the current rhetoric of hate, fear, misinformation, and outright lies. The Democrats’ failure at messaging is disgraceful. An example is the healthcare debate. I’ve yet to hear anyone mention we spend 3 trillion dollars each year in healthcare costs. That’s $10,000 for each man, woman and child in this country while millions go without coverage. Yet, people turned against the ACA because they were paying premiums of $400/ month. The true costs are more than double that. Medicare for all needs to be debated. It cares for the oldest and sickest with an overhead of 2% while private insurers skim off as much as 30%. Easily 500 BILLION dollars (30% of their part of the total market) that doesn’t buy a single bandage or life-saving procedure. Finally, wealth inequality… If you could spend a million dollars a year you’d feel pretty rich. Right? Someone like Meg Whitman can do that for the next 2,000 years. Jeff Bezos can do it for the next 100,000 years. Our system is way out of whack when the working class lives paycheck to paycheck, the government racks up debt in the trillions, cuts safety nets for the disadvantaged and hands the bonus of huge tax cuts to the uber wealthy.[2][3] | ” |
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | All of them actually. Preemptive wars is one. Continental Europe was at war for a thousand years through to mid 20th century. The devastation left in 1945 didn’t change that rinse and repeat cycle. The Marshall Plan, a blanket investment of re-building, industry, created an environment of commerce and partnerships that has led to a lasting peace. Same deal with former enemies like Japan. I am a strong advocate of skipping the war, death, destruction and going right to the Marshall Plan part. Imagine what would have happened if instead of terrible sanctions and a ridiculous attempt at regime change in Iraq, we had invested a small fraction of the cost of that war in a similar plan to pump our products into Iraq. Maybe today beside the Toyotas and Volkswagens on our freeways, there would be an Iraqi equivalent on our highways. War is way too expensive and our current way of keeping peace costs much more than what we should have learned about BUILDING PEACE.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[3]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Gerald Plummer answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?
| “ | My parents without doubt. Eighth grade educations, raised in the Depression, both by single parents. Both are gone now but they were common ordinary people who did uncommon and extraordinary things without the advantages many others take for granted. I am doing this very thing in hopes that the mark they left on me can be engraved, branded, burned into others. It’s not about what you have, it’s completely about what you are willing to share and give to others that really counts.[3] | ” |
| “ | The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra --- Here’s why “One man is no more than another, if he do no more than what another does.” “Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.” “The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.” “For neither good nor evil can last forever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.” “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” “To dream the impossible dream, that is my quest.” ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote[3] | ” |
| “ | Worthy of trust, Leadership, ability to re-call, intelligence, broad spectrum of experience, quick thinking, slow reacting, speak eloquently, find the positive in the most negative of situations, just to name a few key ones.[3] | ” |
| “ | All of those above plus I am a quick learner as proven by my track record of success in many different industries. I don’t have all the answers but I have learned how to find answers. I am comfortable working as a team member as well as leading a team because I understand that a true leader is really a dedicated servant.[3] | ” |
| “ | Serve the constituent and not just those who can get you re-elected. Provide what they need as a priority (What they want is less than secondary) and tell them what they need to hear rather than what you think they might want to hear.[3] | ” |
| “ | The Napster of Politics would be okay. The guy who to the power back from the rich and powerful corporations and returned it to the people. Kind of like a political Prometheus stealing fire from the gods on Olympus and giving it to the individual to light their way and warm the hearth.[3] | ” |
| “ | John F. Kennedy’s assassination. I was 10 years old. Later I stood at Deally Plaza, looked up at that book depository. JFK didn’t die alone that day in Dallas. A part of this country died right along with him. It was just the beginning of watching people with dreams die and not understanding who it is that are wanting to kill those dreams.[3] | ” |
| “ | Real Job? Pumping gas 10PM to 8AM, night shift all alone at a gas station when I was 15 years old. Lasted a couple weeks at the end of summer until school started and the owner of the station came back from vacation, took a look at me and likely figured out that, even though I was 6 foot tall, I wasn’t the 18 years old I’d lied about to get the job.[3] | ” |
| “ | The one that didn’t happen. A strikingly attractive college girl I asked, “Would you like to go out for dinner and a movie this Friday?” She said, “Sure.” And gave me her address and said I could pick her up at 6:30. I spent Friday afternoon washing and detailing my car, showering, put on my best casual clothes, found her house, knocked on the door. She opened it, took a momentary look at me and then said, “Did you think I was serious?” It was a 100 mile walk back to my car and to this day, 45 years later, I still can’t think of what I should have said or done in response.[3] | ” |
| “ | Thanksgiving. It is the beginning of a season of family, friends, acknowledging all that we should be thankful for and I do believe in Santa. I’ve seen him and appreciate how he changes the behavior of both children and adults for that brief period of time.[3] | ” |
| “ | “Jane Eyre.” For all of the human conditions and traits, loving another completely is the most powerful for me. I am a romantic.[3] | ” |
| “ | Batman. A mere mortal who competes with folks that are super-human. His only super power is money and humanity.[3] | ” |
| “ | Two things; my coffee grinder and the coffee pot. When the birds chirp I can hear the sunrise. When the coffee perks I can smell it. Making that first cup is like unwrapping a new day with all kinds of possibilities.[3] | ” |
| “ | Mister Rogers Neighborhood.[3] | ” |
| “ | Even when I explain on an elementary level what I need. In very simple terms as clearly as I possibly can, so many times my wife, my kids, and others simply do not understand what it is I’m asking/ begging for. I consider myself a pretty good communicator but people only hear what they want to hear.[3] | ” |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Gerald Plummer's responses," May 16, 2018
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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