Ed Farmer
Ed Farmer (Republican Party) ran for election to the New Jersey General Assembly to represent District 6. He lost in the general election on November 2, 2021.
Farmer completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Ed Farmer was born in Camden, New Jersey. He earned an associate degree from Camden County College in 1983 and a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University in 1988. His professional experience includes working in the IT industry, running a small wedding photography business, and working in tax preparation.[1]
Elections
2021
See also: New Jersey General Assembly elections, 2021
General election
General election for New Jersey General Assembly District 6 (2 seats)
Incumbent Louis D. Greenwald and incumbent Pamela R. Lampitt defeated Ed Farmer and Richard Super in the general election for New Jersey General Assembly District 6 on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Louis D. Greenwald (D) | 33.1 | 48,497 | |
| ✔ | Pamela R. Lampitt (D) | 32.5 | 47,612 | |
| Ed Farmer (R) | 17.4 | 25,537 | ||
| Richard Super (R) | 17.1 | 25,015 | ||
| Total votes: 146,661 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 6 (2 seats)
Incumbent Louis D. Greenwald and incumbent Pamela R. Lampitt advanced from the Democratic primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 6 on June 8, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Louis D. Greenwald | 50.3 | 17,909 | |
| ✔ | Pamela R. Lampitt | 49.7 | 17,710 | |
| Total votes: 35,619 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 6 (2 seats)
Ed Farmer and Richard Super advanced from the Republican primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 6 on June 8, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Ed Farmer | 50.7 | 6,094 | |
| ✔ | Richard Super | 49.3 | 5,931 | |
| Total votes: 12,025 | ||||
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Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ed Farmer completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Farmer's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Lower business and personal income taxes.
- Improve the business climate.
- Improve services for our citizens.
From his father, I learned a quiet confidence that came from his service in World War II. Although he never talked about the war and we know precious little about what he did in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, I also received from him my love of history and of our country.
Politically, my views were formed by Ronald Reagan. As a 19 year old in 1980 I recognized Jimmy Carter as a failure but I was too liberal to vote for Reagan so I cast my vote for John Anderson. By 1984 I was only 23 and just finishing college. That year, I'm embarrassed to say, I didn't vote for Reagan either. But, Reagan's second term, when his policies started to take hold, coincided with my first years of fulltime work: My entry into the job market and the economy of our country. Those four years galvanized my economic Conservatism and taught me what Reagan had been says for many years. It all came together then.
Read the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights and read some version of The Federalist Papers (the original is a difficult read and there many good modern language summaries.)
If you vote for or against a bill, don't be afraid to explain why. Do not allow the media, your opponents or anyone else to assign reasons for your vote.
I knew that these were not my "career" jobs. I also worked a lot of short term jobs at McDonald's, delivering furniture for J.B. vanSciver and some time working for a plumber who was a friend of my family. All of these small, starter jobs, taught me the value of work and, more importantly, the importance of and reward for doing more than the minimum required.
Professionally, my first job was with the Philadelphia Electric Company. There I learned the seriousness of business. While I was working on the first quality assurance program for software involved in nuclear reactor safety the Chernobyl accident occurred in the Soviet Union and the Challenger Space Shuttle exploded. I followed both incidents closely and did my best to integrate what I learned into the rest of my work.
A close second . . . Ball Four, which I read at ten years old. It taught me that our heroes are not perfect and that they do not need to be perfect in order to be our heroes.
No bill was ever passed 1 to 79 . . . You need to have 40 others that agree with your idea. This is always easier accomplished with those whom you already have a relationship with.
For example, NJ has 12 congressional seats and 21 counties. I would start with the one county, perhaps Cape May as the southern most, and then add neighboring counties until the population needed is reached. In the case where a county has too many citizens to be a district itself, groups of towns can be carved out and moved to neighboring districts but this shouldn't be done piecemeal.
As noted earlier . . . Ronald Reagan . . .
However, I'm 60 years old. I don't see this an another career. My current opponents have been in the same offices for 26 and 18 years. I expect to be retired before serving anywhere near that long.
This has been a difficult year for our state and her citizens. All of these stories have touched me deeply.
I believe that this would have limited much of the damage that has been done to our economy.
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See also
2021 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 12, 2021
