Joel Dejean
Independent | Texas
Candidate Profile*
Moderate
*Additional information appears below for educational purposes; however, only data received prior to the candidate deadline was considered during Panel Evaluation.
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Joel Dejean
Party
Independent
Election Year
2022
Election
General
Race
U.S. Rep., Dist.38
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
State University of New York at Stoney Brook, Stoney Brook NY, BS Electrical Engineering, 1980
WORK & MILITARY
Texas Instruments, Electrical Design Engineer, 1980-1988
AFFILIATIONS
Schiller Institute, Organizer, International Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member (1980-1988), The LaRouche Organization, Organizer
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Candidate did not provide
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
U.S. Congress, 1994
Houston Independent School Board, 1993
Race
ENDORSEMENTS
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (1)
Diane Sare, current Independent Senate Candidate in NY vs Chuck Schumer; Ron Wieczorek, former Independent Congressional Candidate in SD; and The LaRouche Organization.
OTHER INFORMATION*
*Additional information was received after the evaluation was assigned and was not considered in the Panel Evaluations, therefore it is for additional educational purposes only.
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).
Agree
I support 'aid in dying' laws which legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Strongly Disagree
Under what circumstances should abortion be allowed?
To protect the life of the mother.
ECONOMY
Redistribution of income is needed to lessen the gap between the wealthy and working classes.
Strongly Disagree
We need to expand the physical economy, building large water projects, nuclear power stations, transportation grids and space exploration, creating millions of new productive jobs. This should be financed by a Third National Bank of the United States, issuing noninflationary credit for productive activity, combined with re-instituting Franklin Roosevelt's Glass Steagall bank separation act of 1933.
The government should cut spending in order to reduce the national debt.
Strongly Agree
We should immediately stop the flow of the trillions going from the Federal Reserve to bail out the bankrupt financial institutions. We should also cut the military budget in half and shut down all of our foreign military bases. "We should not go abroad seeking monsters to destroy." (John Quincy Adams, July 4, 1821)
What changes, if any, should be made to the tax code?
Tax Wall Street financial speculators out of existence, for example, Black Rock and Goldman Sachs.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Religious liberty is at risk in the United States and deserves the highest level of protection in the law.
Strongly Agree
We don't need more laws for this. It's included in our First Amendment Rights. They need to be protected and enforced.
Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Strongly Disagree
What should be the relationship between the church and the state?
The government shall make no laws establishing a State religion. (First Amendment)
HEALTHCARE
Under what circumstances (if any) should a government, school, or employer be allowed to require vaccinations?
Public Health measures, which eliminated small pox and the dangers of polio, should be continued, and in order to meet Public Health measures, as needed, to stop epidemics turning into pandemics.
What most closely matches your view on healthcare: A) Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government with no private healthcare option. (includes "universal healthcare," "medicare for all," etc.) B) Healthcare insurance funded by the government should be available for all who want it, along with private healthcare options. C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary. D)Tax-payer funded health care should be abolished in all forms, and Medicaid and Medicare should be de-funded.
Medicare for all. Health care is part of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
iVoterGuide Notes:
"Universal Healthcare for all. Health care is part of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Staff Note: This revised survey response was submitted by the candidate after the survey deadline was reached and was not considered during panel evaluations.
NATIONAL SECURITY
With regard to America's foreign policy, which view most closely resembles yours: A) The United States should intervene whenever freedom is threatened. B) The United States should selectively help countries trying to grow democracy and fight tyranny. C) The United States has become too involved in others' policies and should remain focused on issues regarding our own sovereignty unless in imminent danger. D) The United States should stay out of foreign conflicts completely.
C: Since after World War 2, every war we have been involved in has been a total disaster.
I support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement to pressure Israel to withdraw from occupied territories, remove the separation barrier in the West Bank, allow full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees.
Strongly Disagree
All sanctions against all nations should be lifted. This mechanism does not promote peace and development.
The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.
Strongly Disagree
China has lifted 850 million people out of poverty and their government is their business. The United States should join the more than 100 nations that are working together with the PRC's Belt and Road initiative to lift billions of others out of poverty.
What should the United States do to help eradicate the threat of Islamic terrorism?
The CIA and British MI6 should stop funding Al Qeda, ISIS and the Wahabis of Saudi Arabia. Terror should not be a means of American intervention.
IMMIGRATION
The U.S. should do more to physically secure the southern border.
Disagree
If we made economic development a principle of US foreign policy, we wouldn't have millions of desperate people coming to our border. As a legal immigrant myself, I have some knowledge of this subject.
State and federal funds shall be denied to any public or private entity, such as a sanctuary city, that is not in compliance with immigration laws.
Strongly Agree
Who should be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and under what circumstances?
The U.S. is a nation of immigrants, of which I am a proud example, and again, if we were involved in development programs like the Belt and Road Initiative, people would be free to immigrate for other reasons, other than dire poverty or war.
VALUES
Sexual orientation and gender identity should be protected classes in non-discrimination laws.
Strongly Disagree
Individuals should be protected as human beings, not according to their sexual identity.
I agree with Critical Race Theory (CRT) which asserts that the institutions in the United States are fundamentally racist.
Strongly Disagree
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I believe in Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. My religious beliefs are private.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
What laws would you propose to change present voting practices?
The State should allow all eligible voters to vote and the voting and counting of the votes should be observable by delegations of citizens.
EQUALITY
Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.
Strongly Disagree
Is racism a threat to domestic security in the United States? Why or why not?
The threat to domestic security is ignorance.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
I support the use of hydraulic fracking to extract oil and natural gas resources.
Agree
We should be going largely with the use of more energy dense sources: fission and fusion energy and scrap all the windmills.
Which comes closest to your view? A) Stricter environmental laws and regulations cost too many jobs and hurt the economy. B) Stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost.
I'm for clean air and clean water.
ABOUT YOU
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?
Choose not to answer
I refuse to be pigeon-holed because Conservative Republicans and Liberal Democrats both want nuclear war with Russia and China. And neither have coherent economic policies to build the country.
Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).
Sare for Senate Symposium, sareforsenate.com; Laurence Gauthier of Westphalia Publishing; The LaRouche Organization
Have you ever been convicted of a felony or been penalized in either civil or criminal court for sexual misconduct? If so, please explain.
No
What else would you like voters to know about you, including your legislative priorities?
First, re-establish FDR's Glass-Steagall Act, separating Wall Street financial vultures from commercial banks. Second, create the Third National Bank of the United States by nationalizing the Federal Reserve; then third, begin to issue low interest credit for productive activity, including large infrastructure projects, such as the Ike Dyke, small scale nuclear reactors and high speed rail; fourth, full force funding for a crash program to develop commercial thermonuclear fusion reactors in the coming decade, as well as full funding for the Artemis Moon Mission.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY
Police officers should be personally immune from prosecution for conduct consistent with departmental policy (qualified immunity) while on duty.
Agree
I support redirecting funds from police departments to mental health and community programs.
Strongly Disagree
I support redirecting all the funds from the FBI, which is and has always been a political tool as a National Police Force -- which is prohibited by our Constitution -- as in the Lyndon LaRouche raid and prosecution of October 1986. (See thelaroucheorganization.com)
2ND AMENDMENT
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
Assault weapons should be restricted for use by police and military personnel.
Victims of gun violence should be able to sue firearms dealers and manufacturers.
Disagree
