Carl Boyanton
Carl Boyanton (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Mississippi's 4th Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on March 12, 2024.
Biography
Carl Boyanton was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His career experience includes founding Farmer Fresh Produce, LLC, and working as a warehouse laborer.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Mississippi's 4th Congressional District election, 2024
Mississippi's 4th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 12 Republican primary)
Mississippi's 4th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 12 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Mississippi District 4
Incumbent Mike Ezell defeated Craig Raybon in the general election for U.S. House Mississippi District 4 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mike Ezell (R) | 73.9 | 215,095 | |
| Craig Raybon (D) | 26.1 | 75,771 | ||
| Total votes: 290,866 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Mississippi District 4
Craig Raybon advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Mississippi District 4 on March 12, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Craig Raybon | 100.0 | 9,720 | |
| Total votes: 9,720 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Mississippi District 4
Incumbent Mike Ezell defeated Carl Boyanton and Michael McGill in the Republican primary for U.S. House Mississippi District 4 on March 12, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mike Ezell | 73.3 | 52,028 | |
| Carl Boyanton | 18.9 | 13,432 | ||
| Michael McGill | 7.7 | 5,493 | ||
| Total votes: 70,953 | ||||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Boyanton in this election.
2022
See also: Mississippi's 4th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Mississippi District 4
Mike Ezell defeated Johnny DuPree and Alden Johnson in the general election for U.S. House Mississippi District 4 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mike Ezell (R) | 73.3 | 127,813 | |
| Johnny DuPree (D) | 24.6 | 42,876 | ||
| Alden Johnson (L) | 2.0 | 3,569 | ||
| Total votes: 174,258 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Aaron Lee (Independent)
- Graham Hudson (Independent)
Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Mississippi District 4
Mike Ezell defeated incumbent Steven Palazzo in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Mississippi District 4 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mike Ezell | 53.8 | 31,225 | |
| Steven Palazzo | 46.2 | 26,849 | ||
| Total votes: 58,074 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Mississippi District 4
Johnny DuPree defeated David Sellers in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Mississippi District 4 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Johnny DuPree | 84.9 | 9,952 | |
| David Sellers | 15.1 | 1,766 | ||
| Total votes: 11,718 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Mississippi District 4
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Mississippi District 4 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Steven Palazzo | 31.5 | 16,387 | |
| ✔ | Mike Ezell | 25.0 | 13,020 | |
| Clay Wagner | 22.5 | 11,698 | ||
| Brice Wiggins | 9.3 | 4,859 | ||
| Carl Boyanton | 6.2 | 3,224 | ||
| Raymond Brooks | 4.6 | 2,405 | ||
| Kidron Peterson | 0.9 | 449 | ||
| Total votes: 52,042 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Louis Hook (R)
Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Alden Johnson advanced from the Libertarian primary for U.S. House Mississippi District 4.
2020
See also: Mississippi's 4th Congressional District election, 2020
Mississippi's 4th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 10 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Mississippi District 4
Incumbent Steven Palazzo won election in the general election for U.S. House Mississippi District 4 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Steven Palazzo (R) | 100.0 | 255,971 | |
| Total votes: 255,971 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Mississippi District 4
Incumbent Steven Palazzo defeated Robert Deming, Samuel Hickman, and Carl Boyanton in the Republican primary for U.S. House Mississippi District 4 on March 10, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Steven Palazzo | 66.8 | 54,318 | |
| Robert Deming | 14.1 | 11,463 | ||
| Samuel Hickman | 9.8 | 7,981 | ||
| Carl Boyanton | 9.3 | 7,533 | ||
| Total votes: 81,295 | ||||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Carl Boyanton did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Boyanton’s campaign website stated the following:
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THE LATEST IN THE ISRAEL CONFLICT Members spend their entire lives in politics, becoming rich while in office or after because of their influence. Term limits could put an end to this and give other citizens the opportunity to bring new ideas to both Houses. My stance on term limits is this: Congress should be limited to six two-year terms, and the Senate should be limited to two six-year terms. Twelve years in either House should be a substantial amount of time for a politician to make progress. It is of utmost importance that we have new ideas, and to stop gridlock. Ideally, I would like to see Congressional terms extended to four years. Unfortunately, two-year terms keep politicians campaigning non-stop to stay in office. Four-year terms should be enough time to accomplish goals and break up the continuous campaigning. Other political positions— the president, governors, mayors—have term limits, so Congress and the Senate should as well. Term limits should also be placed on the Supreme Court. There should be no lifetime appointments. We need people to serve elected and re-elected, I commit to only being a Congressman for twelve years. Unlike other politicians, I will practice what I preach. ABORTION BUDGET As a businessman for forty years, I’m knowledgeable on how to manage a budget. We need to seek out areas in our budget that we can cut and make hard decisions. As a country, we waste trillions of dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse in all our welfare programs and Medicare. Logically speaking, our money is better spent on enforcement, which in turn can eliminate fraud and save us trillions of dollars. Also, we need to discuss all options to save Medicare and Social Security. This topic is often avoided, and that is why we need strong leaders who aren’t afraid to tackle tough issues. IMMIGRATION We can streamline the process and keep a record of every immigrant in the United States by using verification processes like Clear and TSA Pre. Every immigrant must pass a background check, get fingerprinted, submit a retinal scan, and submit their personal information. Once everything is set up, they can be issued an identification card that they use to enter and leave the United States. This way, we can keep track of the comings and goings of immigrants. The information they submit will be given to our law enforcement databases, in case a crime is committed so they can be identified and deported. We will bill them a thousand dollars a year for this service; this fee will pay for border enforcement and expenses to run the program. The fee is inexpensive in comparison to the money some immigrants spend to have a mule bring them into our country. We need to end chain migration, be stricter on asylum seekers, and end birthright citizenship. Like many government programs, Americans are getting taken advantage of and costing taxpayers billions. We need to change catch and release to catch and return immediately if immigrants do not enter legally. We need to take the 87,000 IRS agents that Biden hired to harass Americans and make them ICE agents. Task them with rounding up the Biden illegal immigrants and sending them back to Mexico. Not the countries they came from but back to Mexico. Once Mexico gets a couple million illegals returned to them they will probably build a wall on their side of the border. ELIMINATE FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS What works in California does not work in Mississippi, and we probably do not want it anyway. Fifty establishments working to solve problems within their state works more efficiently than one establishment. I believe we need to decentralize the government and give more power to the states; ultimately, this shift in power will also help balance the budget. COLLEGE LOANS We should also alter the cost of degrees to the value of the degree. If you are going to school to be a doctor or lawyer, you will be making an income that will allow you to pay back your loans. If you are getting a degree, such as interior design, that makes thirty thousand a year, how will you afford to pay back a hundred-thousand-dollar loan? The degree should not cost more than the one-year average salary of the job you will get with the degree. CLIMATE CHANGE As Republicans, we should give a common-sense solution that would suppress the fears of our youth and bring them into the Republican Party. There are common sense solutions that don’t cost money (which means no one wants them) and will fix what Democrats say about our carbon dioxide issue. One solution is to expand regenerative farming. This captures the CO2 in the soil, which is a good thing instead of releasing it into the atmosphere. This type of farming is being done already and expanding rapidly. Walmart and Whole Foods have both gotten behind this. The next solution is to grow industrial hemp. Yes, industrial hemp besides all the uses for hemp also absorbs CO2. Industrial hemp sequesters more CO2 from the atmosphere by double or triple than trees do. Industrial hemp takes 90 to 120 days to grow, unlike trees which take 30 to 40 years. There is research going on right now to show planting industrial hemp will bring the temperatures down. The best part is if we need to reverse this it’s easy to do. Climate change enthusiasts have pushed dirty solar panels that can’t be recycled, dirty wind turbines that kill endangered birds, and skylines with blades that can’t be recycled. As well as electric cars, all of these Democrat solutions are manufactured with rare earth minerals. Mined in 3rd world countries by slave labor and child workers. The effects of mining rare earth also is an environmental disaster. They don’t tell you that when pushing their narrative of climate change. And who is the beneficiary of our climate change agenda? China! All of these are made mostly in China. Batteries, rare earth, and solar panels come from China. PANDEMIC EDUCATION SECOND AMENDMENT |
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| —Carl Boyanton’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
2022
Carl Boyanton did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Boyanton's campaign website stated the following:
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TERM LIMITS Term limits is one of the most important issues that needs renovation. Congress is slow to make progress because of professional politicians in control of Congress and the Senate. Members spend their entire lives in politics, becoming rich while in office or after because of their influence. Term limits could put an end to this and give other citizens the opportunity to bring new ideas to both Houses. My stance on term limits is this: Congress should be limited to six two-year terms, and the Senate should be limited to two six-year terms. Twelve years in either House should be a substantial amount of time for a politician to make progress. It is of utmost importance that we have new ideas, and to stop gridlock. Ideally, I would like to see Congressional terms extended to four years. Unfortunately, two-year terms keep politicians campaigning non-stop to stay in office. Four-year terms should be enough time to accomplish goals and break up the continuous campaigning. Other political positions— the president, governors, mayors—have term limits, so Congress and the Senate should as well. Term limits should also be placed on the Supreme Court. There should be no lifetime appointments. We need people to serve elected and re-elected, I commit to only being a Congressman for twelve years. Unlike other politicians, I will practice what I preach.
It’s hard to believe that, in the 21 st century, we are still debating killing children. We are making excuses as to why we can’t prevent pregnancies, and instead of killing children out of convenience. We have pregnancy prevention that comes in many forms, and now the safety net of the “day-after pill.” We need better sex education programs and assistance on making the right decisions regarding sex and pregnancy. Having an abortion is a traumatic experience. We need to help do what we can before the pregnancy, thus eliminating the need for abortion. There are various birth control options, even options that last five years; we need to have these options for male birth control as well.
My stance on budget is to cut the budget and push a balance budget amendment. Recent budget cuts only cut projected spending or cut increases; however, I believe we need to cut the budget and live within our means. As a businessman for forty years, I’m knowledgeable on how to manage a budget. We need to seek out areas in our budget that we can cut and make hard decisions. As a country, we waste trillions of dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse in all our welfare programs and Medicare. Logically speaking, our money is better spent on enforcement, which in turn can eliminate fraud and save us trillions of dollars. Also, we need to discuss all options to save Medicare and Social Security. This topic is often avoided, that is why we need strong leaders that aren’t afraid to tackle tough issues.
My stance on immigration is that we need to build a wall, but with entry ports. We need labor, and immigrants provide labor. It’s not about cost because they make good money in the United States and send it back home. We need labor that will do the jobs Americans don’t or won’t do, such as pick fruits and vegetables. We can streamline the process and keep record of every immigrant in the United States by using verification processes like Clear and TSA Pre. Every immigrant must pass a background check, get fingerprinted, submit a retinal scan, and submit their personal information. Once everything is set up, they can be issued an identification card that they use to enter and leave the United States. This way, we can keep track of the comings and goings of immigrants. The information they submit will be given to our law enforcement databases, in case a crime is committed so they can be identified and deported. We will bill them a thousand dollars a year for this service; this fee will pay for border enforcement and expenses to run the program. The fee is inexpensive in comparison to the money some immigrants spend to have a mule bring them in our country. We need to end chain migration, be stricter on asylum seekers, and end birthright citizenship. Like many government programs, Americans are getting taken advantage of and costing taxpayers billions. We need to change catch and release to catch and return immediately if immigrants do not enter legally.
I believe we need to move as much power back to the states as possible. Who is better to serve their citizens than the state government they live under? Institutions such as insurance, education, labor, EPA, Medicare, Medicaid, and welfare would be better served at state level. What works in California does not work in Mississippi, and we probably do not want it anyway. Fifty establishments working to solve problems within their state works more efficiently than one establishment. I believe we need to decentralize the government and give more power to the states; ultimately, this shift in power will also help balance the budget.
High schools and colleges should be advising our children to the degree that best suits the student. Most students are unsure of what they want to be and, because of lack of assistance, get degrees they never use. With research and advisement, we can guide students to the degree that best suits their strengths and goals. We should also alter the cost of degrees to the value of the degree. If you are going to school to be a doctor or lawyer, we will be making an income that will allow you to pay back your loans. If you are getting a degree, such as interior design, that makes thirty thousand a year, how will you afford to pay back a hundred-thousand-dollar loan? The degree should not cost more than the one-year average salary of the job you will get with the degree.[2] |
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| —Carl Boyanton's campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
2020
Carl Boyanton did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Carl 4 Congress, "About Carl Boyanton," accessed April 19, 2022
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Carl Boyanton for Congress, “Issues,” accessed February 21, 2024
- ↑ Carl 4 Congress, “Issues & Priorities,” accessed April 9, 2022
