Shawn Collins
Shawn Collins (Republican Party) ran for election for Governor of California. He lost in the primary on June 7, 2022.
Collins also ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 45th Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the primary on June 7, 2022.
Collins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Shawn Collins was born in Dallas, Texas. Collins served in the U.S. Navy and has served in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He earned a bachelor's degree from Rice University in 2003 and a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 2006. Collins' career experience includes working as an attorney.[1][2]
Elections
2022
Gubernatorial election
See also: California gubernatorial election, 2022
General election
General election for Governor of California
Incumbent Gavin Newsom defeated Brian Dahle in the general election for Governor of California on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Gavin Newsom (D) | 59.2 | 6,470,104 | |
| Brian Dahle (R) | 40.8 | 4,462,914 | ||
| Total votes: 10,933,018 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Governor of California
The following candidates ran in the primary for Governor of California on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Gavin Newsom (D) | 55.9 | 3,945,748 | |
| ✔ | Brian Dahle (R) | 17.7 | 1,252,800 | |
| Michael Shellenberger (Independent) | 4.1 | 290,286 | ||
| Jenny Rae Le Roux (R) | 3.5 | 246,665 | ||
| Anthony Trimino (R) | 3.5 | 246,322 | ||
| Shawn Collins (R) | 2.5 | 173,083 | ||
| Luis Rodriguez (G) | 1.8 | 124,672 | ||
| Leo Zacky (R) | 1.3 | 94,521 | ||
| Major Williams (R) | 1.3 | 92,580 | ||
| Robert Newman (R) | 1.2 | 82,849 | ||
| Joel Ventresca (D) | 0.9 | 66,885 | ||
| David Lozano (R) | 0.9 | 66,542 | ||
| Ronald Anderson (R) | 0.8 | 53,554 | ||
| Reinette Senum (Independent) | 0.8 | 53,015 | ||
| Armando Perez-Serrato (D) | 0.6 | 45,474 | ||
| Ron Jones (R) | 0.5 | 38,337 | ||
| Daniel Mercuri (R) | 0.5 | 36,396 | ||
| Heather Collins (G) | 0.4 | 29,690 | ||
| Anthony Fanara (D) | 0.4 | 25,086 | ||
| Cristian Morales (R) | 0.3 | 22,304 | ||
| Lonnie Sortor (R) | 0.3 | 21,044 | ||
| Frederic Schultz (Independent) | 0.2 | 17,502 | ||
| Woodrow Sanders III (Independent) | 0.2 | 16,204 | ||
| James Hanink (Independent) | 0.1 | 10,110 | ||
| Serge Fiankan (Independent) | 0.1 | 6,201 | ||
| Bradley Zink (Independent) | 0.1 | 5,997 | ||
| Jeff Scott (American Independent Party of California) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 13 | ||
| Gurinder Bhangoo (R) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 8 | ||
| Total votes: 7,063,888 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Errol Webber (R)
- Laura Smith (R)
- Chaz Flemmings (Independent)
- John Drake (D)
- Mohammad Arif (D)
- Hilaire Shioura (Independent)
Campaign finance
Congressional election
See also: California's 45th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 45
Incumbent Michelle Steel defeated Jay Chen in the general election for U.S. House California District 45 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Michelle Steel (R) | 52.4 | 113,960 | |
| Jay Chen (D) | 47.6 | 103,466 | ||
| Total votes: 217,426 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 45
Incumbent Michelle Steel and Jay Chen defeated Long Pham and Hilaire Shioura in the primary for U.S. House California District 45 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Michelle Steel (R) | 48.2 | 65,641 | |
| ✔ | Jay Chen (D) | 43.1 | 58,721 | |
| Long Pham (R) | 8.6 | 11,732 | ||
| Hilaire Shioura (No party preference) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 6 | ||
| Total votes: 136,100 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Terry Dale (R)
- Shawn Collins (R)
- Jennifer Richter (R)
- Adam Hancock (R)
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Gubernatorial election
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Shawn Collins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Collins' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Shawn grew up in a broken home in the inner city among challenging circumstances. Shawn has never let his disadvantages define or limit him. He leveraged basketball to receive invaluable education from Rice University and then went on to earn a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Shawn and his wife Zeina have four children and have lived in Orange County for more than 15 years. Zeina is a Lebanese immigrant, and Shawn was by her side when she became an American citizen. He is active in his community, serving as a board member of the Orange County World Affairs Council. He coaches his children’s basketball and baseball teams and former Division 1 collegiate athlete.
- Shawn is the best choice for California. He has seen firsthand the struggles that Californians face everyday, and he knows what it means to have to fight for everything you have. Now, he is ready to take that same spirit to Sacramento and fight just as hard for every Californian.
- Shawn has witnessed the struggles that everyday Americans face, and he is passionate about bringing back opportunity and prosperity for the people of California. California used to be the dream destination for people all over the world, and over time, Shawn has seen the golden luster fade. People are leaving in droves, and Californians are frustrated. Shawn is eager to restore the California Dream, and leave the state better than it is now, for the next generation.
- Under its current leadership, California is failing on every single big issue. The taxes and high cost of living are driving businesses and families to other states. California has the worst homeless crisis in America. Our cities are overrun with crime and drug addiction, and our schools have fallen to some of the lowest in the nation. We can and will make California the best place to start a small business, give parents a real voice in their children’s educations, and bring compassion and law and order together to end the human tragedies on our streets.
Education- Over the last several decades, our public schools have been taken over by special interests producing an outdated, insufficient, and very expensive public education system that is failing our children. We need an innovative education model that prepares our kids for a creative and dynamic future that will be characterized by constant and rapid advances in technology, rather than remaining subservient to an education model that was built a half-century ago. It’s time to put our kids first and fund students, not systems and brick buildings.
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Campaign website
Collins' campaign website stated the following:
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PUBLIC SAFETY The number one responsibility of the Governor of California is to ensure that the citizens of California are safe, so that they can engage in their day-to-day activities without fear of physical harm. Governor Newsom has failed miserably at this most sacred of Gubernatorial responsibilities, and the ramifications for the state have been catastrophic. Major cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles are on the verge of lawlessness, due in large part to the homeless crisis in these cities that have allowed criminals, drug addicts, and the mentally ill to take over entire neighborhoods, and in countless other cities and urban cores around the state, addicts and mentally ill are defecating and shooting up in plain sight. It is time to call the situation what it is – a Safety, Health, and Environmental Disaster. This disaster can be traced directly back to recent policies and several high-profile measures that have released thousands of criminals from jail (AB 109) and decreased penalties for career criminals (Propositions 47 & 57), effectively incentivizing lawlessness. Recent court opinions (Jones v. the city of Los Angeles), ballot measures, and ill-conceived legislation that have tied the hands of law enforcement have only exacerbated this disaster. Collins Solutions Career politicians have failed to protect the people of California. As governor, I will fight to restore the California Dream, making our communities a safer and more prosperous place to live.
California has a long history of being a world leader when it comes to technology and innovation, but its leadership position is in jeopardy due to the current state of California’s K-12 education. Over the last several decades, our public schools have been taken over by special interests producing an outdated, insufficient, and very expensive public education system that is failing our children. Despite spending more on a vast state education bureaucracy than most states spend on education in total – $119 billion for all K-12 education programs at $15,261 per pupil – the National Assessment of Educational Progress consistently ranks California in the bottom tier of academic achievement (currently 45th), which is well below the national average. Collins Solution We need an innovative education model that prepares our kids for a creative and dynamic future that will be characterized by constant and rapid advances in technology, rather than remaining subservient to an education model that was built a half century ago and was designed to create employees for an industrial economy. It’s time to put our kids first and fund students, not systems and brick buildings. The California constitution promises a free public education to all 6.6 million kids in our state, but as we have seen through recent court rulings, our public schools are not required to make the education high-quality. As governor, I will ensure all of California’s kids receive a high-quality education that incorporates Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) in a manner that prepares them for jobs in a future where cars and airplanes operate autonomously, space travel is the norm, and artificial intelligence is utilized to enhance every aspect of the human experience. As governor, I am also in favor of providing more choice to parents in their children’s educational options, including:
For those that are reasonably happy with their neighborhood public school and want to stay, my administration will make sure to assist with special educational needs, ensure that school construction is held to the highest standards, and ensure that funding is equitably appropriated and accountable to local oversight committees of concerned citizens.
California was once the state where people from all over the world came to pursue their dreams, but as its Golden luster fades, people are leaving in droves. We pay some of the highest taxes in the nation on income and gasoline, yet public services and infrastructure are considered among the worst. Government regulation has increased the cost of food, transportation and housing. Fewer Californians can find affordable housing to rent, let alone to buy a home. Despite so much growth and its status as the fifth highest GDP in the world, innovators are increasingly leaving California, moving to states that are more friendly to their business and family. It’s time for California to lead once again and empower its people for a brighter future. Collins Solution California ranks 50th in terms of upward mobility. It’s time to restore the golden standard and uplift working families.
In addition to being a leader in technology and innovation, California also leads when it comes to feeding the world. The state’s nearly 70,000 farms produce over $50 billion in value and add to the rich fabric of the state and country’s history and culture. However, instead of celebrating the contributions of our farmers and empowering them to continue being the agriculture standard for the world, elected officials in the state have chosen to heavily regulate them. California suffers through periodic droughts where both the lack of precipitation and leadership limit the amount of water that is stored and available for growing crops. Collins Solution For farmers to continue feeding our neighbors, they need more water and less regulations on growing, caring for and harvesting their crops and livestock. As governor, I’ll eliminate every barrier to the construction of new water storage and conveyance infrastructure. In 2014, the citizens of California overwhelmingly passed Proposition 1, which allocated money for state water supply infrastructure projects, such as public water system improvements, surface and groundwater storage, drinking water protection, water recycling and advanced water treatment technology, water supply management and conveyance, wastewater treatment, drought relief, emergency water supplies, and ecosystem and watershed protection and restoration. California needs a governor that is capable and wiling to execute the will of the people. More water allows us to meet the high demand from agricultural, municipal, and environmental users.
For us to solve California’s homelessness problem, we first must start viewing our homeless brethren as fellow Californians and care for them with the same common-sense compassion and understanding that we would care for our own family members. My policy position is informed by the fact that I have a family member (my uncle) living on skid row in downtown Los Angeles, and his life – along with the lives of every person in California – matters. Compassion alone, however, will not solve California’s homelessness problem, and we know that based on years of throwing billions of dollars at the problem, only to see it get progressively worse. Collins Solution Solving the homeless crisis in California will require rethinking the nature and meaning of compassion for the homeless, a reassessment of the underlying assumptions that have informed the policies of recent years, and a recalibration of where tolerance ends, and law enforcement begins. As governor, I will treat California’s homeless with the compassion that they deserve, but it will be common-sense compassion, not blind compassion. For far too long, California has blindly thrown money at the problem and failed to apply common-sense solutions that will get those who are homeless the specific help they need. As an initial matter, California must distinguish between the people who have fallen into homelessness due to a lost job or other catastrophic event (the “have nots”), those who are homeless due to addiction or mental illness (the “can nots”), and those who are resistant to any help when it is judiciously provided to them (the “will nots”). Much of our chronically homeless population (roughly 60%) are the “can nots” and the “will nots”, who are suffering from addiction and mental health issues, and for far too long, California has tried to help addicts and the mentally ill with a housing first policy that simply puts them in a motel without addressing their mental health or drug addictions.
Every Californian should have access to affordable and quality healthcare that is focused on the life of the individual, and not arbitrarily determined by one-size-fits-all insurance premiums. A California run single-payer healthcare model, like the one recently voted on in the California Assembly, would only push us further from our goal of affordable and quality healthcare for all. As a member of the U.S. Navy, I have personally experienced the inefficiencies and inadequacies of a government-run healthcare program. Under a California run single-payer model, California would assume a $400 billion dollar a year system that would virtually eliminate everyone’s insurance plan, leaving doctors to ration care and provide services in a manner that is comparable to what most Californians experience at the DMV. Collins Solution Acknowledging that there are exceptional issues that prevent a healthy life for some people, the state’s healthcare policy should incentivize preventative care to alleviate the financial burden that is imposed on the healthcare system by ailments that are often foreseeable and preventable. In conjunction with a policy that promotes preventative care, data and technology should be utilized to personalize healthcare plans for Californians, rather than forcing employers and families to choose from one-size-fits-all policies that do not take into account the unique circumstances of their situation. Allowing companies to experiment with creating their own healthcare plans while prioritizing proactive healthcare measures will help avoid bureaucracy, cut government excess, and put money back into the pocket of hardworking Californians.
In times of crisis, there is nothing more important than bold and steadfast leadership. Governor Newsom has lacked both qualities throughout the pandemic, which is why California has lingered in a perpetual state of uncertainty, while other states have flourished. The COVID-19 pandemic rightly caused great concern in the world of public health at the beginning of 2020, but as the science evolved on the most effective ways to combat the virus, Governor Newsom’s policies should have evolved as well, so that Californians could return to some version of normal as soon as possible. Instead of bold and steadfast leadership, Governor Newsom has repeatedly chosen to implement policies that lack scientific rigor and consistency, as evidenced by his failure to personally adhere to these policies (i.e., French Laundry and the NFC Championship football game). These unfounded policies have destroyed small businesses, severely impacted the educational development of our children, promoted fear, and divided our state like never before. Collins Solution I trust Californians to make the right decisions for their families, according to the best scientific information they have available to them. My administration will never use fear to control the levers of the economy or keep schools closed, and instead will focus on making sure that Californians have access to the most up to date scientific information on the virus so that they can plan their professional and personal lives accordingly.
It’s time to restore individual liberty all while being mindful of the elderly, those with chronic illnesses and other comorbidities.
California is home to some of the world’s most beautiful landmarks. I, like everyone else, want clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and a state that protects her most beautiful resources, from the coasts to the Sierras. Preserving the environment is a shared responsibility. Unfortunately, extreme climate policies have promoted a big government agenda that has done nothing but increase taxes and push businesses out of the state. Collins Solution Poor air quality, raging wildfires, and periodic drought are all a direct result of government mismanagement. When people feel little to no ownership over the environment, it is difficult to have a common goal to conserve our precious resources for the next generation. We can and must do better.
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| —Shawn Collins' campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
Congressional election
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Shawn Collins did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Shawn Collins for Governor 2022, "About," accessed May 5, 2022
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 24, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Shawn Collins for Governor 2022, “Solutions,” accessed April 28, 2022
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