U.S. Congressional District 24 Candidates in the Republican Primary March 1
Beth Van Duyne
Age: 51
Campaign website: BethForTexas.com
Best way for voters to reach you: Email - contact@bethfortexas.com
Occupation: Member of Congress proudly representing the people of Texas’ 24th District
Education: Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University
Have you run for elected office before? (Please list previous offices sought, with years): City Council of Irving, Texas (2004) Mayor of Irving, Texas (2010). DFW Airport Board (2013).
Have you ever been arrested, charged with a crime or otherwise been part of a criminal proceeding? If yes, please explain: No
Have you been involved in a civil lawsuit or bankruptcy proceeding? If yes, please explain: Divorce. Contract Dispute – settled out of court. Have twice been sued in my capacity as Mayor (one of which was by a former political rival) – both were dismissed. During other lawsuits against the City, I have been named along with the rest of the City Council.
Who are your top three campaign contributors?: With strict contribution limits, we have dozens of people who have chosen to show their support for our campaign with a maximum contribution.
Why are you seeking this office?: I am running for reelection because there are tremendous opportunities for us to change the direction of our country and empower sustainable growth and opportunity to help millions of North Texans. I have worked tirelessly to advocate for conservative solutions as alternatives to the damage liberal policies are causing our country. Rather than spending time on liberal pet projects we need a pragmatic, pro-jobs, pro-American family legislative agenda. My number one issue has always been jobs - I brought thousands of jobs to North Texas as Irving’s Mayor, I have advocated for employers and helped connect North Texans with jobs in my first term in Congress and would like to return to DC to continue this focus. That is why I will keep fighting for polices that will actually help our economy grow, so more people have an opportunity to work hard, start new careers, or open businesses that will put their American dream in reach.
What are the biggest challenges facing your district?: The biggest challenge for North Texans is navigating our economy so the businesses employing our citizens can thrive. North Texas is home to thousands of small businesses who are facing inflation, worker shortages, supply chain issues and they do not have the ability to weather the economic storms like a major corporation. That is why I spent 2021 meeting with employers, passing legislation to enable them to compete, addressing the supply chain issues, connecting North Texans with jobs, and hosting round tables with business owners to ensure their needs are being addressed in Washington. We have also seen President Biden’s crisis at the border have a devastating effect here in North Texas. Sex traffickers are using this border to traffic minors at staggering rates. Fentanyl has become the number one killer of Americans under 45, and it is pouring across our border and finding its way to our streets.
What would your top 3 policy priorities be?: This year I will continue to work hard on the same issues I have been making progress on during my first year in Congress: stopping the crisis at our southern border, working to improve economic outlook for small businesses, and improving the future of healthcare for all Americans. I have worked to implement policy that will either require the federal government to do its job and secure our southern border, or enable Texas the resources necessary to do it ourselves. Small businesses employ millions of people across the country, are the cornerstone of our communities, but have been disproportionally affected by the economic challenges of the pandemic. This past year, I was proud to host the largest job fair in our region with more than 200 business partners from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies and nearly 10,000 attendees looking to find a new or better career.
Why should voters choose you over your opponent(s)?: Republicans sent to Congress in 2020 have been given a large responsibility by our voters – to work together against the anti-American leftist agenda put upon our country by Nancy Pelosi who is catering to the extremists in her party. The day of my swearing in, I knew Republicans would be in the minority, yet I have passed two bills to strengthen small businesses across America and worked every day to both fight against socialist policies and ensure that our district office was one of the best in the country - working to keep a 100% response rate to constituents, providing programs for students of every age, and hosting the largest job fair in DFW since before COVID to get North Texas families back to work. I am also honored to be endorsed by numerous law enforcement organizations who recognize my work to fight the Defund the Police movement.
What should Congress do to combat inflation?: The first thing we must do to fight this inflation that is crushing working families is stop the spending. This year Democrats have already passed an extra $4 trillion of spurning on new and expanded programs and they have pushed for more even as they have seen our inflation spiraling out of control.
How should the federal government change COVID policy to reflect the omicron variant outbreak?: The pandemic drags on because the Biden administration has decided it is better to leave Americans scared, locked down and controlled. Instead of pursuing a multipronged approach to pandemic recovery, prioritizing personal choice and economic stability, Democrats have decided only vaccines, lockdowns, and mandatory masking will do. Their myopic and destructive plans have been a failure. The Biden Administration was literally handed distribution networks, stockpiles of vaccines, tests, and treatments when they assumed office. This Administration should have followed the blueprint put into action by the previous Administration by maintaining contracts for vaccines, testing, treatments – principally monoclonal antibodies - and maintained the distribution networks to quickly treat people who contracted COVID. Instead, all energy was diverted into unconstitutional vaccine mandates, that are both destabilizing our workforce and not doing anything against the latest fast-moving variant.
Should Congress enact a vaccine mandate for workplaces?: No.
How should the federal government respond to high levels of illegal immigration? Do you support changes in asylum policy, and if so, how would you alter it?:. There is no greater crisis caused by Joe Biden than the systematic, purposeful destruction he has inflicted on border security. This past year I have been to the border to hear from border agents and Texas DPS officers who told me how their jobs have been made impossible; visited Biden’s vastly overcrowded and inhumane detention centers for thousands of people being trafficked by drug cartels; and I have seen hundreds of pounds of lethal drugs confiscated from the drug runners our law enforcement was able to apprehend. In addition to closing asylum loopholes the cartels exploit, we need to build walls where the border patrol deems necessary in order to gain operational control and hire more border agents to not only deal with surges pushed by the cartels but also to interdict the drug trafficking. The Remain in Mexico policy needs to be fully reinstated and enforced as it was an effective policy to help us process legitimate asylum claims.
Did Joe Biden win the 2020 election fairly?: Joe Biden was unfortunately elected President (and the American people are now paying, literally, a very heavy toll) but many legitimate questions remain about voting irregularities, fraud, and unconstitutional election changes that were made unilaterally by Governors or courts without the consent or approval of state legislatures.
What voting-rights legislation or other election regulation would you support?: I am not in favor of any House bill that puts the Department of Justice and the bureaucracy of the federal government in charge of Texas elections. Right in North Texas in 2020, there was an arrest and conviction of a man who was falsifying mail in ballots - there is ballot fraud and we must protect the votes of every American to ensure that all legal votes are counted and those who would seek to falsify those votes are prosecuted. States need to adopt legislation that cleans up voter rolls every two years and maintains an auditable trail of ballots either returning to paper ballots or moving to blockchain technology.
Nate Weymouth
Age: 55
Campaign website: nateweymouthtx.com
Best way for voters to reach you: weymouthtx24congress@protonmail.com or 972-913-4361
Occupation: Scientific and Patent Analyst in Venture Capital and Biotechnology Business Entrepreneur
See LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nateweymouth2332b52
Education: MS Molecular Biology Southern Methodist University
See LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nateweymouth2332b52
Have you run for elected office before? (Please list previous offices sought, with years): No, I have volunteered for the Dallas GOP office the last two years, including assisting the Genevielle Collins campaign. Been involved with numerous philanthropic efforts. Given the limitations on space, a complete unabbreviated version of answers (when indicated (*)) will be posted on Twitter and on my website.
Have you ever been arrested, charged with a crime or otherwise been part of a criminal proceeding? If yes, please explain: No
Have you been involved in a civil lawsuit or bankruptcy proceeding? If yes, please explain: No
Who are your top three campaign contributors?:Family, friends, and I. I want to keep it simple this primary. Due to the late redistricting, I wanted to run in the district that I lived in unlike Derrik Gay on the Democratic side. I have committed myself to running for this seat two more times as a Republican.
Why are you seeking this office?: In short, I am running for Congressional District TX24 because of ill formed Covid policies have adversely affected so many both medically and economically in this country. Federal policy decisions on a host of different topics, including healthcare, have been made without any objectivity and a sense of public service for many years, especially during this pandemic. Rank partisanship, inciteful talk points, and extremism rhetoric needs to be replaced with thoughtful ideas. Not enough attention is being placed on objective solutions. I want to change this by leading with a sense of hope and reasonableness with an obligation to serving the needs of all. Service above self and giving back to the country I love.
What are the biggest challenges facing your district?:
Healthcare issues related to pandemic policies.
Economic issues related to pandemic policies.
Consequences of unregulated immigration:
- Costs to the taxpayers, especially in Texas.
- Increase in crime and possible terrorist activity.
- Importation of narcotics especially opioids.
Immigration must be comprehensive, equitable, and enforceable by laws otherwise:
- Unfair to those who do go through the process lawfully.
- It undermines the social safety net for those working poor US citizens who depend on social services during periods of unemployment and emergencies, like a pandemic.
Containing the cost of healthcare while preserving affordability by reforming ACA, medical insurance, and price transparency by applying market forces *.
What would your top 3 policy priorities be?:
1) Reforming pandemic policies objectively that have adversely affected citizens both medically and economically which includes issues related to testing, vaccines, reporting of data, public health mandates, emergency sick leave laws, and supply chain.
2) Creating comprehensive, equitable, and enforceable immigration policies and laws that ensure:
- It is fair to those immigrants who do go through the process lawfully.
- It doesn’t undermine the social safety net of those working poor US citizens during periods of unemployment and emergencies.
- Deters the importation of crime, potential terrorism, sex trafficking, and drugs into this country*.
3) Creating policies that ensures energy independence and less dependance on OPEC oil. Those policies would have the following objectives:
- Encourage the building of pipelines including the Keystone.
- Encourage an increase in refining capacity.
- Set standards for water and air emissions reporting which can be regulated by the EPA*.
Why should voters choose you over your opponent(s)?:
I am more qualified to tackle the current issues facing this country for the following reasons*:
a) Substantial qualifications, experience, and expertise in the life sciences, healthcare, and business development:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nateweymouth2332b52
b) More reasonable substantial proposals to solve this country’s problems *.
c) Better understanding of aviation and supply chain issues essential to TX24.
d) Van Duyne’s propose bills lack cogency and substance and don’t deal with pandemic related issues.
e) More substantial proposals to contain the cost of healthcare by reforming ACA, price transparency, and medical insurance.
Public servants are expected to exhibit tact, discernment, and objective thought when discussing policies, not divisive rhetoric. True public servants unite rather than divide. Sadly, in recent years, many so called “public servants” have epitomized completely the opposite, including Beth. I will also demonstrate servant leadership.
What should Congress do to combat inflation?:
Congress needs to tackle this both medically and economically given they are interrelated *. Monetarily, Congress needs to do the following:
- Encourage the Federal Reserve to reduce the money supply gradually.
- Increase interest rates gradually until we reach full labor participation rate.
- Increase small business grants to customer facing businesses in an equitable manner based mostly on earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization (EBITA) *.
Non-monetary and non-medical related policies that Congress should implement:
- Implement changes in sick leave laws such it increases leave for those at-risk individuals during a pandemic or outbreaks of transmissible infectious diseases.
- Incentivize employees to offer medical insurance to its employees especially government agencies, non-profits, and businesses with an EBITA above a given threshold.
- Natural immunity must be recognized legally, and vaccination should be encouraged but not required *
How should the federal government change COVID policy to reflect the omicron variant outbreak?: Medically, Congress needs to implement the following policies*:
a) A focused public health response helping those at risk individuals of serious complications of infection by making sure all have access to rapid antigen testing, PPE, protein vaccines, and therapeutics like monoclonal antibodies.
b) Increase frequency of rapid antigen testing and PCR among those at risk groups especially the elderly living in long term care facilities. Testing policy should fall under FDA guidance not the CMS.
c) Rapidly approve all protein vaccines for Covid with proven efficacy and safety standards as demonstrated in animal and clinical trial studies including Covaxin and Medigen vaccines.
d) All PCR and rapid antigen test kits must be validated with data.
e) All mRNA vaccines must undergo full FDA approval which includes transparency on animal studies involving pk, biodistribution, and toxicology data. These vaccines must meet same standards of non-Covid vaccines before the pandemic started.
Should Congress enact a vaccine mandate for workplaces?: No, the government has not proven quantitatively the risk of serious complications of infections in the workplace*. Further, the vaccinated are still getting infected and sick with the current mRNA vaccines. The vaccinated with mRNA vaccines and unvaccinated exhibiting the same viral loads, indicative of potential viral shedding. Vaccine mandates for employment will only increase hesitancy. More FDA transparency is needed on the translation step in regards in mRNA vaccine safety. Traditional protein vaccines avoid these concerns.
See scientific article which substantiates my concerns about mRNA vaccines:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8402319/pdf/vaccines-09-00848.pdf
Supreme Court has ruled private business vaccine mandates via OSHA are unconstitutional. The Biden administration will continue to seek ways to make vaccine mandates a legal requirement for employment. Until risk is quantified and mRNA vaccines are vetted properly, mandates are not necessary..
How should the federal government respond to high levels of illegal immigration? Do you support changes in asylum policy, and if so, how would you alter it?:
Dovetailing on my policy priorities in regard to immigration and the unfairness, the impact on the social safety net for working poor citizens, and cost of assimilation, my policy solutions would be as follows*.\u0009
Creating comprehensive, equitable, and enforceable immigration policies and laws that ensure:
a) It is fair to those immigrants who do go through the process lawfully.
b) It doesn’t undermine the social safety net of those working poor US citizens who need social services during periods of unemployment and unforeseen emergencies.
c) Deters the importation of crime, potential terrorism, sex trafficking, and drugs into this country.
d) Lowers the financial burden to this country and its taxpayers for the cost of assimilation of indigent immigrants whether documented or undocumented.
Rescind Biden’s Immigration Nationality Act (8 USC 1157) because it will exacerbate the situation, encouraging more illegal immigration, and even calling for asylum of potential Jihadists.
Did Joe Biden win the 2020 election fairly?: Yes, I seen no evidence of systemic collusion between mostly democratic county elections divisions within the municipalities of Atlanta, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Phoenix *. Fraud does happen in local elections divisions. Nothing revealed in legal challenges suggest there was any collaboration to overthrow the election results.
Since election integrity is part of the national debate, we should address it practically with solutions. Factors that contribute to local election fraud:
a) Ballot harvesting and improper accounting of mail in ballots.
b) Improper chain custody of issues involving electronic voting data.
c) Lack of oversight in ensuring all employees at election divisions act in an impartial manner.
The lack of reasonableness, discernment, and divisiveness displayed by our former President in the debates contributed more to the outcome. True public servants unite rather than divide. Please take note of Beth Van Duyne’s political track record in this regard.
What voting-rights legislation or other election regulation would you support?:
If elected to Congress, I would advocate for the following:
a) All non US citizens are forbidden to vote in all US elections, local, state, and federal. This right is reserved for US citizens only.
b) All voters are required to be properly registered with county elections division, which requires a birth certificate and driver’s license or proof of residence.
c) No ballot harvesting and proper accounting of mail in ballots.
d) Proper legal guidelines for dealing with chain of custody issues when handling electronic voting data.
e) All voting machines must be annually audited by the Secretary of State.
f) All voters must show voter registration certificate, driver license, and/or birth certificate plus proof of residence.
g) Eliminate influence of PAC money and Citizens United decision has on all elections.
These policies present an equal obligation for all voters, regardless of race, to preserve the integrity of one’s Constitutional right to vote *.
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