Vincent Beck-Jones

[{"question": "Ballotpedia survey responses", "answer_html": "<p>See also: <a href=\"/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection</a></p>\n<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-10 col-md-6 col-xs-offset-1 col-md-offset-3\"><p><a href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\"><img align=\"middle\" alt=\"Candidate Connection\" src=\"https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/8/88/Candidate_Connection_Logo.png\" width=\"90%\"/></a></p></div></div>\n<p>Vincent Beck-Jones completed <a href=\"/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection</a> survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Beck-Jones' responses.</p>\n<p><span class=\"expand-all\">Expand all</span> | <span class=\"collapse-all\">Collapse all</span></p>\n<div aria-multiselectable=\"true\" class=\"panel-group\" id=\"accordion\" role=\"tablist\"><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-bio-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading-bio-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-bio-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-bio-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWho are you? Tell us about yourself.\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading-bio-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-bio-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tVincent was born in San Diego, and moved around throughout his childhood from foster care, to New Mexico and finally graduating high school in Lawton, OK. From there he joined the Navy and served multiple campaigns and was deployed in theater for the entirety of Desert Shield/Desert Storm. After receiving an honorable discharge he received his Associates Degree from San Diego City College and entered the work force.\r\n<p>Vincent has worked in multiple disciplines in the public sector including cellular and mainly biotech/biomed in electro-mechanical technician and engineering roles. He has also run his own Espresso vending cart in San Diego. Vincent moved to Phoenix in 2012. \r\n</p><p>Vincent has spent much of his life supporting and advocating for animal welfare. He has been instrumental in getting protections placed for endangered mountain lions in the Cuyamaca Mountains of California, to campaigning for wildcat protections in Arizona and eventually playing a lead role in the coyote killing contest ban in Arizona. \r\n</p>\nVincent's activism led him to an active political role in Arizona's Green Party. Sharing ideals like social and economic equality, education and health care for all, and public protections for wildlife and lands in danger of ruin from unapologetic corporate machines who have never even set foot in the southwest. He has sat on the Green Party steering committee as Vice Co-chair and Treasurer for over 3 years.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading-key-message-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-key-message-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tPlease 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?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading-key-message-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-key-message-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><ul><li>Community. We have lost touch as a community. The duopoly of Republican/Democrat government have put us at odds with each other. The truth is, it is community that holds us together. Not a government. In times of crisis it is each other that we can rely on. In times of charity or need it is us as a community that provides relief.\r\nIt is as a community that we should govern ourselves. The duopoly has for too long, only given us a choice of bad or worse. There are other options but Americans are afraid to vote for them. We must trust in our community, trust in eachother and know, the same bonding principles that guide us as communities, can guide us as a governnent as well.</li><li>Health care. Everyone has the right to equal health care. Doctors take an oath, one that was originally purposed on doctors providing care when was needed and not to do unnecessary harm.\r\n\r\nThroughout the deregulation and privatising of public medicine, we have allowed profiteers to determine the effect of our health care. Nobody should be denied, medicine or care based on a private companies profit margins. \r\n\r\nWe need massive health system reform. We need to put the care back in health care.</li><li>Education.\r\n\r\nEveryone has the inalienable right to at least a QUALITY basic education. Private franchises are selling drive-through educations and stealing public education money for their profits.\r\n\r\nTeachers required to have Master's Degrees in addition to teaching credentials are making BELOW THE LINE salaries. This is a disgrace and shame on the American institution in general. If we don't have a government with a priority dedication to education, why do we even have a government? We need to stop selling our children's futures to cookie cutter franchised education.</li></ul></span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading1-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse1-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading1-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse1-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tAll areas. It's important to understand the concerns of a community and respond to it's needs. <br/><br/>\n<p>Health and welfare of living beings. You have nothing if you don't have a people.<br/><br/>\r\nClimate change, agriculture, and animal rights. The earth will survive, with or without us. It's up to us to ensure our survival.<br/><br/>\r\nHealth care, nobody should go without because of social economic status.<br/><br/>\r\nPro choice. Nobody's life should be in jeopardy because of some ancient belief.<br/><br/>\n</p>\nImmigration. This country was founded on it. Now because of some racists, we have all forgotten that.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse2-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading2-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse2-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse2-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWho do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading2-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse2-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tJames T. Jones. My step father. He always made sense in a salt-of-the-earth real world values kind of way. He taught me so much with so few words. I don't know of any examples I would like to follow. I try to look at multiple paths and possible outcomes and choose to follow which one looks like it could end up with a positive and useful outcome. Right now I have a great job doing research and development on products that save peoples' lives. I also feel I can have a promising impact of the future of everyone in the country through politics. I suppose it will be the voters that choose which path I will end up on, but both have a positive outcome.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse3-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading3-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse3-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse3-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tIs there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading3-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse3-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tAsk me in 4 years. :) Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging and Freedom are great books about the human experience. They're short reads but his observations about real life and in situ human nature are remarkable, making you feel like these are things you already knew but hadn't defined for yourself.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse4-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading4-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse4-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse4-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading4-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse4-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tI think it's important for an elected official to remember, it's not the 1% that put them in office, it's the 99% that believes in them. An elected official is a public servant. That means you serve your constituents. Know their needs, evaluate the social climate, act according to what's best for the people and their future. <br/><br/>\r\nMoney will always be there. Businesses come and go. Power and energy, raw materials, health trends, communications. All these things ebb and flow. It's important to understand when it's time to let go of outdated paradigms and move on to cleaner, better, advanced ideas, resources, and methods. There will always be something new and better. That means something else will disappear. As long as the next step is more useful and less wasteful, then it's time to move on. An attentive elected official will know this, and take action that present the greatest benefit to everyone.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse5-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading5-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse5-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse5-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading5-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse5-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tAs mentioned before, my word. I believe a lot of officeholders forget themselves once they obtain office. I have no other predisposition about being a congressman outside of contributing to a better future for everyone.<br/><br/>\n<p>I am intelligent. I have always tested in the 96th percentile. Yes I like to boast about it. But I do think its a quality that will prove to be an asset in office. <br/><br/>\n</p>\nI am literally everyday Joe. I went to public school, did military service, when to community college, worked in food service, high tech and have run some entrepreneurial ventures as well. I have rented apartments, bought and sold real estate, have weathered recessions, been laid off, and have worked some great jobs as well. I use the same health coverage as every American and I have the same complaints and recognize the same failures in the \"system\" as everyone else. I hear, feel and experience what America really needs.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse6-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading6-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse6-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse6-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading6-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse6-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tCore responsibilities are to the people of America. It's important to remember this on your last day in office as if it was your first. I friend asked me if I thought it wasn't a good time to be a junior member of Congress. After giving it some thought, it is the BEST time for being a junior member of Congress. Now is the time for something new. We have so much opportunity to do right by the people, right now. The only things holding us back are fear and greed. Fear and greed are not virtues, ambition, motivation, and belief in people are.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse7-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading7-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse7-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse7-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat legacy would you like to leave?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading7-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse7-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tAww. I would just like to be recognized as doing the best I could.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse8-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading8-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse8-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse8-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading8-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse8-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tI remember the gas crunch of the mid 70s. I remember sitting in gas lines for what felt like hours. I was 5 or 6.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse9-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading9-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse9-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse9-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat was your very first job? How long did you have it?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading9-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse9-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tWorking at a laundromate/car wash. I only worked it for the summer.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse10-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading10-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse10-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse10-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat is your favorite book? Why?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading10-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse10-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tAh so many. I like classics. But of late some of my favorite authors are Chuck Palahniuk and Sebastian Junger, Both have a way of describing life as you see it in words you may not choose yourself.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse11-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading11-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse11-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse11-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tIf you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading11-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse11-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tHong Kong Phooey. Smooth voice, had a cat that did most of the heavy lifting for him. Folks didn't expect too much from him because you know, because he a dog that's a janitor.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse12-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading12-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse12-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse12-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat was the last song that got stuck in your head?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading12-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse12-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tShane's Dentist by Mojo Nixon. It's about Shan McGowan's teeth. Both of them, very talented musicians, passed this year. Of all the entertainers from my youth that we have lost over the past few years these had the greatest affect on me. I hope you guys meet, wherever you went.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse13-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading13-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse13-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse13-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat is something that has been a struggle in your life?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading13-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse13-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tTrying to get people to believe that animals deserve the same rights we have. Animals feel sadness, anxiety, pain and loss, just like we do. Sadly people are quick to dispense with them. We have so many pets in animal control centers and rescues, meanwhile puppy mills are breeding animals with disease and physical deformities in squalid conditions to sell to unsuspecting customers. Even Agriculture animals are raised in filthy horrible CAFOs and farms. They live in their own excrement and pollute the environment for miles around. Why do people support this?\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse14-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading14-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse14-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse14-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading14-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse14-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tThe environment to bring together, delegates from many cultures and microcosms throughout the US, to discuss the needs of the present and future for all America. It is shameful that the House is divided, not on true beliefs, but along party lines. This is why we need to break the duopoly. So we can get back to what we truly believe in, not what your party tells you to.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse15-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading15-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse15-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse15-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tDo you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading15-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse15-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tNo. It is more beneficial for law makers to experience the needs of its constituents. It is beneficial for representatives to have previous experience as baristas, single mothers, homeless, engineers, veterans, security guards, bodega owners, cab drivers, food service folks, doctors, veterinarians. These are the people who know what the people need. These are the people that should speak for the people. These are the people that should represent the people.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse16-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading16-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse16-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse16-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading16-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse16-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tInflation, climate change, health care.<br/><br/>\n<p>Inflation compounds itself. Our system of capitalism is designed for the wealthy to make money, whether we, the people, thrive or starve. In my lifetime, the wealthiest' income has increased by 10,000 times while we, the peoples' income has increased 10 times. This isn't a good model for an economic system. Money has to move around in order to have a successful economy otherwise we, the people suffer. We can have a golden age or we can have a recession, but the bottom line is, the wealthy who hoard the money, need to get out of their accounts and moving.<br/><br/>\r\nClimate change is happening. If you don't believe that, then sit back and don't get in the way. The rest of us have work to do. We need to reduce fossil fuel usage and products by massive amounts. Microplastics are in everything including our food. The earth and the seas are literally choking on it. We're next. We need to refocus our minds, and money off of fossil fuel related everything and work on more sustainable solutions. <br/><br/>\n</p>\nHealth care is in crisis. It has been since President Regan deregulated medicine in the 1980s. Health care should be an essential and undeniable human allowance. We give billions of dollars to animal agriculture which is singularly responsible for the decline of America's health. Meanwhile we only give hundreds of millions to earth sourced agriculture which is the natural remedy for heart disease, liver disease, kidney disease, arterial blockage, etc., etc. This financing system is upside down. It's time for real reform.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse17-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading17-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse17-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse17-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tDo you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading17-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse17-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tNo. Nothing gets done in 2 years. It takes longer than that for a bill to get from computer to the floor.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse18-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading18-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse18-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse18-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat are your thoughts on term limits?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading18-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse18-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tGood idea, bad idea. It's great to have new people and fresh ideas. Although it seems fair if a public likes the person they put in office, like the job they're doing, they should have the option of keeping that person there. I disagree with the way politicians use legislation to make it harder for new candidates to run against them. It's an election, the public gets to choose who fills those seats. A politician shouldn't be allowed to threat to sue everyone who challenges them. That's straight bullying in the most dishonest way.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse19-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading19-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse19-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse19-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tIs there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading19-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse19-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tNo but there are some whom I do admire. I don't believe we should be modeling the future on the past.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse20-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading20-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse20-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse20-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tBoth sitting representatives and candidates for office hear many personal stories from the residents of their district. Is there a story that you’ve heard that you found particularly touching, memorable, or impactful?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading20-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse20-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tWhen I tell someone I'm running for office I hear a new story every time. They are all impactful because they are all someone's personal story.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse21-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading21-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse21-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse21-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tTell us your favorite joke.\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading21-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse21-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tOh this is not a very good idea. I don't know it's appropriate for this questionnaire. :D\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse22-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading22-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse22-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse22-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tDo you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading22-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse22-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tSome compromise is useful. Then there are virtues and values one shouldn't compromise. My stepfather told me \"never go back on your word. It's the one that that doesn't cost you anything, but is worth everything.\" Never compromise what's in your heart, always stay true to your word.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse23-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading23-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse23-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse23-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tThe Constitution says that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House. What role would this power play in your priorities if elected?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading23-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse23-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tFirst I think we need to take a realistic look at what our government is doing with our money right now. Tens of billions of dollars to help a country commit genocide against another is disgraceful. And we have been doing this since the end of WWII. We have better things to do with the money we waste. When we control the waste, you can ask me about raising more revenue.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse24-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading24-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse24-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse24-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tHow should the U.S. House use its investigative powers?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading24-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse24-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tThey should be used to control obvious abuses of power and station and they should end in decisions and actions that are useful to the investigation. It makes no sense to investigate someone if you're not going to do anything about it in the end. We either need better investigative processes or effective punitive measures.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse25-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading25-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse25-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse25-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat committees interest you?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading25-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse25-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tEnergy and Commerce. We need to correct our fossil fuel follies.<br/><br/>\n<p>Agriculture. The money we spend on eating right is money we don't spend on medication, surgery and hospitals later in life.<br/><br/>\r\nVeterans. It wouldn't be America without veterans. Yet veterans are treated as a burden instead a national treasure. Everyone in this country literally owes everything to those who fought for it.<br/><br/>\n</p>\nEducation and workforce. Educations is the FIRST thing it should be guaranteeing its citizens.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse26-242930-2024-05-22\" id=\"heading26-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse26-242930-2024-05-22\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse26-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat are your views on financial transparency and government accountability?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading26-242930-2024-05-22\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse26-242930-2024-05-22\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\t100% transparency. 100% accountability. When you choose to be a public figure, you open your life to the public. If there are things you are concerned about public criticism, perhaps you should rethink your actions? These are tax dollars. The publics money. We have a right to know how it's being spent.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div></div>\n<div class=\"small\" data-nosnippet=\"\"><p><i><b>Note:</b> 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.</i></p></div>", "answer_text": "See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection\n\nVincent Beck-Jones completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Beck-Jones' responses.\nExpand all | Collapse all\nWho are you? Tell us about yourself. Vincent was born in San Diego, and moved around throughout his childhood from foster care, to New Mexico and finally graduating high school in Lawton, OK. From there he joined the Navy and served multiple campaigns and was deployed in theater for the entirety of Desert Shield/Desert Storm. After receiving an honorable discharge he received his Associates Degree from San Diego City College and entered the work force. Vincent has worked in multiple disciplines in the public sector including cellular and mainly biotech/biomed in electro-mechanical technician and engineering roles. He has also run his own Espresso vending cart in San Diego. Vincent moved to Phoenix in 2012. Vincent has spent much of his life supporting and advocating for animal welfare. He has been instrumental in getting protections placed for endangered mountain lions in the Cuyamaca Mountains of California, to campaigning for wildcat protections in Arizona and eventually playing a lead role in the coyote killing contest ban in Arizona. Vincent's activism led him to an active political role in Arizona's Green Party. Sharing ideals like social and economic equality, education and health care for all, and public protections for wildlife and lands in danger of ruin from unapologetic corporate machines who have never even set foot in the southwest. He has sat on the Green Party steering committee as Vice Co-chair and Treasurer for over 3 years. 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? Community. We have lost touch as a community. The duopoly of Republican/Democrat government have put us at odds with each other. The truth is, it is community that holds us together. Not a government. In times of crisis it is each other that we can rely on. In times of charity or need it is us as a community that provides relief.\r\nIt is as a community that we should govern ourselves. The duopoly has for too long, only given us a choice of bad or worse. There are other options but Americans are afraid to vote for them. We must trust in our community, trust in eachother and know, the same bonding principles that guide us as communities, can guide us as a governnent as well. Health care. Everyone has the right to equal health care. Doctors take an oath, one that was originally purposed on doctors providing care when was needed and not to do unnecessary harm.\r\n\r\nThroughout the deregulation and privatising of public medicine, we have allowed profiteers to determine the effect of our health care. Nobody should be denied, medicine or care based on a private companies profit margins. \r\n\r\nWe need massive health system reform. We need to put the care back in health care. Education.\r\n\r\nEveryone has the inalienable right to at least a QUALITY basic education. Private franchises are selling drive-through educations and stealing public education money for their profits.\r\n\r\nTeachers required to have Master's Degrees in addition to teaching credentials are making BELOW THE LINE salaries. This is a disgrace and shame on the American institution in general. If we don't have a government with a priority dedication to education, why do we even have a government? We need to stop selling our children's futures to cookie cutter franchised education. What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? All areas. It's important to understand the concerns of a community and respond to it's needs. Health and welfare of living beings. You have nothing if you don't have a people. Climate change, agriculture, and animal rights. The earth will survive, with or without us. It's up to us to ensure our survival. Health care, nobody should go without because of social economic status. Pro choice. Nobody's life should be in jeopardy because of some ancient belief. Immigration. This country was founded on it. Now because of some racists, we have all forgotten that. Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why? James T. Jones. My step father. He always made sense in a salt-of-the-earth real world values kind of way. He taught me so much with so few words. I don't know of any examples I would like to follow. I try to look at multiple paths and possible outcomes and choose to follow which one looks like it could end up with a positive and useful outcome. Right now I have a great job doing research and development on products that save peoples' lives. I also feel I can have a promising impact of the future of everyone in the country through politics. I suppose it will be the voters that choose which path I will end up on, but both have a positive outcome. Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy? Ask me in 4 years. :) Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging and Freedom are great books about the human experience. They're short reads but his observations about real life and in situ human nature are remarkable, making you feel like these are things you already knew but hadn't defined for yourself. What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official? I think it's important for an elected official to remember, it's not the 1% that put them in office, it's the 99% that believes in them. An elected official is a public servant. That means you serve your constituents. Know their needs, evaluate the social climate, act according to what's best for the people and their future. Money will always be there. Businesses come and go. Power and energy, raw materials, health trends, communications. All these things ebb and flow. It's important to understand when it's time to let go of outdated paradigms and move on to cleaner, better, advanced ideas, resources, and methods. There will always be something new and better. That means something else will disappear. As long as the next step is more useful and less wasteful, then it's time to move on. An attentive elected official will know this, and take action that present the greatest benefit to everyone. What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder? As mentioned before, my word. I believe a lot of officeholders forget themselves once they obtain office. I have no other predisposition about being a congressman outside of contributing to a better future for everyone. I am intelligent. I have always tested in the 96th percentile. Yes I like to boast about it. But I do think its a quality that will prove to be an asset in office. I am literally everyday Joe. I went to public school, did military service, when to community college, worked in food service, high tech and have run some entrepreneurial ventures as well. I have rented apartments, bought and sold real estate, have weathered recessions, been laid off, and have worked some great jobs as well. I use the same health coverage as every American and I have the same complaints and recognize the same failures in the \"system\" as everyone else. I hear, feel and experience what America really needs. What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office? Core responsibilities are to the people of America. It's important to remember this on your last day in office as if it was your first. I friend asked me if I thought it wasn't a good time to be a junior member of Congress. After giving it some thought, it is the BEST time for being a junior member of Congress. Now is the time for something new. We have so much opportunity to do right by the people, right now. The only things holding us back are fear and greed. Fear and greed are not virtues, ambition, motivation, and belief in people are. What legacy would you like to leave? Aww. I would just like to be recognized as doing the best I could. What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time? I remember the gas crunch of the mid 70s. I remember sitting in gas lines for what felt like hours. I was 5 or 6. What was your very first job? How long did you have it? Working at a laundromate/car wash. I only worked it for the summer. What is your favorite book? Why? Ah so many. I like classics. But of late some of my favorite authors are Chuck Palahniuk and Sebastian Junger, Both have a way of describing life as you see it in words you may not choose yourself. If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be? Hong Kong Phooey. Smooth voice, had a cat that did most of the heavy lifting for him. Folks didn't expect too much from him because you know, because he a dog that's a janitor. What was the last song that got stuck in your head? Shane's Dentist by Mojo Nixon. It's about Shan McGowan's teeth. Both of them, very talented musicians, passed this year. Of all the entertainers from my youth that we have lost over the past few years these had the greatest affect on me. I hope you guys meet, wherever you went. What is something that has been a struggle in your life? Trying to get people to believe that animals deserve the same rights we have. Animals feel sadness, anxiety, pain and loss, just like we do. Sadly people are quick to dispense with them. We have so many pets in animal control centers and rescues, meanwhile puppy mills are breeding animals with disease and physical deformities in squalid conditions to sell to unsuspecting customers. Even Agriculture animals are raised in filthy horrible CAFOs and farms. They live in their own excrement and pollute the environment for miles around. Why do people support this? What qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution? The environment to bring together, delegates from many cultures and microcosms throughout the US, to discuss the needs of the present and future for all America. It is shameful that the House is divided, not on true beliefs, but along party lines. This is why we need to break the duopoly. So we can get back to what we truly believe in, not what your party tells you to. Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics? No. It is more beneficial for law makers to experience the needs of its constituents. It is beneficial for representatives to have previous experience as baristas, single mothers, homeless, engineers, veterans, security guards, bodega owners, cab drivers, food service folks, doctors, veterinarians. These are the people who know what the people need. These are the people that should speak for the people. These are the people that should represent the people. What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade? Inflation, climate change, health care. Inflation compounds itself. Our system of capitalism is designed for the wealthy to make money, whether we, the people, thrive or starve. In my lifetime, the wealthiest' income has increased by 10,000 times while we, the peoples' income has increased 10 times. This isn't a good model for an economic system. Money has to move around in order to have a successful economy otherwise we, the people suffer. We can have a golden age or we can have a recession, but the bottom line is, the wealthy who hoard the money, need to get out of their accounts and moving. Climate change is happening. If you don't believe that, then sit back and don't get in the way. The rest of us have work to do. We need to reduce fossil fuel usage and products by massive amounts. Microplastics are in everything including our food. The earth and the seas are literally choking on it. We're next. We need to refocus our minds, and money off of fossil fuel related everything and work on more sustainable solutions. Health care is in crisis. It has been since President Regan deregulated medicine in the 1980s. Health care should be an essential and undeniable human allowance. We give billions of dollars to animal agriculture which is singularly responsible for the decline of America's health. Meanwhile we only give hundreds of millions to earth sourced agriculture which is the natural remedy for heart disease, liver disease, kidney disease, arterial blockage, etc., etc. This financing system is upside down. It's time for real reform. Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives? No. Nothing gets done in 2 years. It takes longer than that for a bill to get from computer to the floor. What are your thoughts on term limits? Good idea, bad idea. It's great to have new people and fresh ideas. Although it seems fair if a public likes the person they put in office, like the job they're doing, they should have the option of keeping that person there. I disagree with the way politicians use legislation to make it harder for new candidates to run against them. It's an election, the public gets to choose who fills those seats. A politician shouldn't be allowed to threat to sue everyone who challenges them. That's straight bullying in the most dishonest way. Is there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after? No but there are some whom I do admire. I don't believe we should be modeling the future on the past. Both sitting representatives and candidates for office hear many personal stories from the residents of their district. Is there a story that you’ve heard that you found particularly touching, memorable, or impactful? When I tell someone I'm running for office I hear a new story every time. They are all impactful because they are all someone's personal story. Tell us your favorite joke. Oh this is not a very good idea. I don't know it's appropriate for this questionnaire. :D Do you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking? Some compromise is useful. Then there are virtues and values one shouldn't compromise. My stepfather told me \"never go back on your word. It's the one that that doesn't cost you anything, but is worth everything.\" Never compromise what's in your heart, always stay true to your word. The Constitution says that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House. What role would this power play in your priorities if elected? First I think we need to take a realistic look at what our government is doing with our money right now. Tens of billions of dollars to help a country commit genocide against another is disgraceful. And we have been doing this since the end of WWII. We have better things to do with the money we waste. When we control the waste, you can ask me about raising more revenue. How should the U.S. House use its investigative powers? They should be used to control obvious abuses of power and station and they should end in decisions and actions that are useful to the investigation. It makes no sense to investigate someone if you're not going to do anything about it in the end. We either need better investigative processes or effective punitive measures. What committees interest you? Energy and Commerce. We need to correct our fossil fuel follies. Agriculture. The money we spend on eating right is money we don't spend on medication, surgery and hospitals later in life. Veterans. It wouldn't be America without veterans. Yet veterans are treated as a burden instead a national treasure. Everyone in this country literally owes everything to those who fought for it. Education and workforce. Educations is the FIRST thing it should be guaranteeing its citizens. What are your views on financial transparency and government accountability? 100% transparency. 100% accountability. When you choose to be a public figure, you open your life to the public. If there are things you are concerned about public criticism, perhaps you should rethink your actions? These are tax dollars. The publics money. We have a right to know how it's being spent.\nNote: 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."}, {"question": "Campaign website", "answer_html": "<p>Beck-Jones’ campaign website stated the following:\n</p>\n<div style=\"height:400px;overflow:scroll;border:1px solid gray;margin:20px;padding:10px;\">\n<table data-nosnippet=\"\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; border: none;background-color: transparent; auto; ;\">\n<tbody><tr>\n<td style=\"border:none; color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px 3px;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20\">“\n</td>\n<td style=\"border: none; padding: 4px 10px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<p>We need real change and we need it now.\n</p><p>Our country was once based on ideals of freedom and choice. But, for 237 years we have been held to an Us vs Them system. A duopoly of politics where the two parties are merely just opposite sides of a single coin. We are left choosing which option seems less detrimental to us. This isn't real choice. Without choice we have no freedom.\n</p><p>Everyone I talk to has a different story. Health care driven by insurance companies for profit. Education money going to private school profits instead of children's education. Corporations taking lands, polluting environments, destroying the earth, for profit. The 99% of real Americans bear the consequence of their actions, for none of the profit.\n</p><p>In my lifetime, education has suffered, healthcare has suffered, climate has suffered. We have polluted lands, dried up rivers, and created islands of garbage in the oceans. We have made Americans sick from the food that is supposed to keep us alive. All for someone else's profit. We give billions of dollars to Israel to murder hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Make no mistake, it's not our war, therefore it is murder.\n</p><p>The standard American diet, the age old \"food triangle\" was never meant to keep us healthy. It was meant to get Americans to buy dairy and meat. Foods we don't need. These industries have become so big, they are allowed to make us sick with impunity. Pasteurization means the blood and pus from dairy cow infections, are sterilized but they are still part of your dairy. Meat in the grocery store is not free of salmonella, FDA allows 7-25% salmonella positives over collected samples during a year. Meat was never meant to be the mainstay of your diet. Early settlers often suffered from gout because of their consumption of meat. It is also a great source of transfats. These are the things that contribute to heart, kidney, liver, and vascular disease as well as diabetes.\n</p><p>Politics rarely evokes praise from anyone but politicians. This tells us one thing, they are politicking for themselves, not us. We the people. The 99% of real Americans. In my lifetime the wealthy have increased their incomes by a factor of 10,000 while the 99% of real Americans have increased ours by a factor of 10.\n</p><p>The old ways have failed us. Our population is growing, our discovery, technology, medicine and science are advancing. We need new ideas to accommodate the new world we are heading into. Old ways no longer work. We need Change.\n</p><p>Because the past is not the path to the future.<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-quotedisclaimer_2-0\"><a href=\"#cite_note-quotedisclaimer-2\">[2]</a></sup>\n</p>\n</td>\n<td style=\"border: none; color: #B2B7F2; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px 1px;\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"20\">”\n</td></tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"cquotecite\" colspan=\"3\" style=\"border: none; padding-right: 4%\"><cite style=\"font-style: normal;font-size: smaller; float: right;\">—Vincent Beck-Jones’ campaign website (2024)<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-3\"><a href=\"#cite_note-3\">[3]</a></sup></cite>\n</td></tr></tbody></table>\n</div>", "answer_text": "Beck-Jones’ campaign website stated the following:\n“ We need real change and we need it now. Our country was once based on ideals of freedom and choice. But, for 237 years we have been held to an Us vs Them system. A duopoly of politics where the two parties are merely just opposite sides of a single coin. We are left choosing which option seems less detrimental to us. This isn't real choice. Without choice we have no freedom. Everyone I talk to has a different story. Health care driven by insurance companies for profit. Education money going to private school profits instead of children's education. Corporations taking lands, polluting environments, destroying the earth, for profit. The 99% of real Americans bear the consequence of their actions, for none of the profit. In my lifetime, education has suffered, healthcare has suffered, climate has suffered. We have polluted lands, dried up rivers, and created islands of garbage in the oceans. We have made Americans sick from the food that is supposed to keep us alive. All for someone else's profit. We give billions of dollars to Israel to murder hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Make no mistake, it's not our war, therefore it is murder. The standard American diet, the age old \"food triangle\" was never meant to keep us healthy. It was meant to get Americans to buy dairy and meat. Foods we don't need. These industries have become so big, they are allowed to make us sick with impunity. Pasteurization means the blood and pus from dairy cow infections, are sterilized but they are still part of your dairy. Meat in the grocery store is not free of salmonella, FDA allows 7-25% salmonella positives over collected samples during a year. Meat was never meant to be the mainstay of your diet. Early settlers often suffered from gout because of their consumption of meat. It is also a great source of transfats. These are the things that contribute to heart, kidney, liver, and vascular disease as well as diabetes. Politics rarely evokes praise from anyone but politicians. This tells us one thing, they are politicking for themselves, not us. We the people. The 99% of real Americans. In my lifetime the wealthy have increased their incomes by a factor of 10,000 while the 99% of real Americans have increased ours by a factor of 10. The old ways have failed us. Our population is growing, our discovery, technology, medicine and science are advancing. We need new ideas to accommodate the new world we are heading into. Old ways no longer work. We need Change. Because the past is not the path to the future. [2] ” —Vincent Beck-Jones’ campaign website (2024) [3]"}]