Danny Fabricant
Danny Fabricant (Republican Party) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent California. He declared candidacy as a write-in for the primary scheduled on March 5, 2024.
Biography
Danny Fabricant was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Valley College.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: United States Senate election in California, 2024
General election
The primary will occur on March 5, 2024. The general election will occur on November 5, 2024. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate California
The following candidates are running in the primary for U.S. Senate California on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | ||
 | Sharleta Bassett (R) | |
 | James P. Bradley (R) | |
 | Eric Early (R) | |
 | Steve Garvey (R) | |
 | Denice Gary-Pandol (R)  | |
 | Laura Garza (No party preference) | |
 | Sepi Gilani (D) | |
 | Don Grundmann (No party preference) | |
| Forrest Jones (American Independent Party of California) | |
 | Harmesh Kumar (D) | |
 | Barbara Lee (D) | |
 | Sarah Sun Liew (R) | |
 | Gail Lightfoot (L) | |
 | James Macauley (R) | |
 | Christina Pascucci (D) | |
 | David Peterson (D) | |
 | Douglas Howard Pierce (D) | |
 | Katie Porter (D) | |
 | Perry Pound (D) | |
 | Raji Rab (D) | |
 | Jonathan Reiss (R) | |
 | John Rose (D) | |
| Mark Ruzon (No party preference) | |
 | Adam Schiff (D) | |
| Stefan Simchowitz (R) | |
 | Major Singh (No party preference) | |
| Martin Veprauskas (R) | |
| Eduardo Berdugo (Independent) (Write-in) | |
 | Danny Fabricant (R) (Write-in) | |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Paul Anderson (G)
- Carson Franklin Jr. (D)
- Barack Obama Mandela (R)
- Zafar Inam (D)
- Renee Martinez (Independent)
- Lexi Reese (D)
- Peter Yuan Liu (R)
- Joe Sosinski (Independent)
- Roxanne Lawler (R)
- James Shuster (R)
- Frank Ferreira (Independent)
- Rommell Montenegro (D)
- Jeremy Fennell (D)
- Zakaria Kortam (R)
- John Pappenheim (R)
- Jacob Farmos (D)
- Joshua Bocanegra (D)
- Alexander Norbash (D)
- Dominick Dorothy (D)
- Jehu Hand (R)
- Dana Bobbitt (Independent)
- Fepbrina Keivaulqe Autiameineire (Vienmerisce Veittemeignzce USA)
- Jessica Resendez (D)
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2022
See also: United States Senate election in California, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. Senate California
Incumbent Alex Padilla defeated Mark Meuser in the general election for U.S. Senate California on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Alex Padilla (D) | 61.1 | 6,621,621 |
 | Mark Meuser (R) | 38.9 | 4,222,029 | |
| Total votes: 10,843,650 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate California
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. Senate California on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Alex Padilla (D) | 54.1 | 3,725,544 |
| ✔ | | Mark Meuser (R) | 14.9 | 1,028,374 |
 | Cordie Williams (R) | 6.9 | 474,321 | |
 | Jonathan Elist (R) | 4.2 | 289,716 | |
 | Chuck Smith (R) | 3.9 | 266,766 | |
| James P. Bradley (R) | 3.4 | 235,788 | |
| Douglas Howard Pierce (D) | 1.7 | 116,771 | |
 | John Thompson Parker (Peace and Freedom Party) | 1.5 | 105,477 | |
| Sarah Sun Liew (R) | 1.1 | 76,994 | |
 | Dan O'Dowd (D) | 1.1 | 74,916 | |
 | Akinyemi Agbede (D) | 1.0 | 70,971 | |
 | Myron Hall (R) | 1.0 | 66,161 | |
 | Timothy Ursich Jr. (D) | 0.8 | 58,348 | |
 | Robert Lucero (R) | 0.8 | 53,398 | |
 | James Henry Conn (G) | 0.5 | 35,983 | |
 | Eleanor Garcia (Independent) | 0.5 | 34,625 | |
 | Carlos Guillermo Tapia (R) | 0.5 | 33,870 | |
 | Pamela Elizondo (G) | 0.5 | 31,981 | |
 | Enrique Petris (R) | 0.5 | 31,883 | |
 | Obaidul Huq Pirjada (D) | 0.4 | 27,889 | |
 | Daphne Bradford (Independent) | 0.4 | 26,900 | |
| Don Grundmann (Independent) | 0.1 | 10,181 | |
 | Deon Jenkins (Independent) | 0.1 | 6,936 | |
| Mark Ruzon (No party preference) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 206 | |
 | Lily Zhou (R) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 58 | |
| Irene Ratliff (No party preference) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 7 | |
| Marc Roth (No party preference) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 1 | |
| Total votes: 6,884,065 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Chloe Hollett-Billingsley (D)
- Dhruva Herle (D)
- Chris Theodore (D)
- Ernest Taylor (D)
- B. John-Michael Williams (Independent)
- Marie Encar Arnold (D)
- Peter Yuan Liu (R)
- Brian Ainsworth (R)
- Yvonne Girard (R)
- Elizabeth Heng (R)
- Erik Urbina (R)
- Denard Ingram (D)
- Ellerton Whitney (L)
- Danny Fabricant (R)
- Fepbrina Keivaulqe Autiameineire (Independent)
- Paul Gutierrez (R)
- Mary Glory Thach (Independent)
2020
See also: California's 30th Congressional District election, 2020
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 30
Incumbent Brad Sherman defeated Mark Reed in the general election for U.S. House California District 30 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Brad Sherman (D) | 69.5 | 240,038 |
 | Mark Reed (R) | 30.5 | 105,426 | |
| Total votes: 345,464 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 30
Incumbent Brad Sherman and Mark Reed defeated Courtney Berina, Raji Rab, and Brian Carroll in the primary for U.S. House California District 30 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brad Sherman (D) | 58.1 | 99,282 |
| ✔ | | Mark Reed (R) | 22.7 | 38,778 |
 | Courtney Berina (D) | 11.1 | 18,937 | |
| Raji Rab (D) | 4.7 | 7,961 | |
| Brian Carroll (D) | 3.5 | 5,984 | |
| Total votes: 170,942 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Susan Collin (Independent)
- Royce Dorazio (Unaffiliated)
- Paula Kahn (D)
- Naora Ben-Dov (R)
- Danny Fabricant (R)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2022
Danny Fabricant completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fabricant's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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WHO ARE YOU? I'm just a normal guy [Perhaps not as 'normal' as Jimmy Stewart in the 1939 Movie 'Mr. Smith Goes To Washington' who is a part of the rapidly growing percentage of Californians who are disgusted with politicians and the year-round, multi-$ Billion business that politics and elections have become. My campaign will not ask for nor accept ANY donations. We're going to conduct the entire campaign via social media. The bills I plan to introduce in the Senate will be for the benefit of normal people in California, not business owners, union officials, foreign governments or any out-of-state interests. I'm all for improving air quality and the environment, but some people want to do it so fast that it will cause headaches for normal Californians who can't afford the increased costs the people pushing for rapid changes will cause. I'm all for a minimum wage higher than the current $7.25, but California has already done this, in a reasonable way. I am heavily into protecting animals. In fact, as my websites explains, if you have money that's burning a hole in your pocket or purse, instead of giving it to some politician, donate it to a no-kill animal shelter. My websites will list and link to many of these places.
- 1. I want to re-write the entire Federal Criminal Justice system. The system in operation today was written as a prosecutor's wish list. Everything is wrong about it. President Biden, who was the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1994, when most of the changes were made, now realizes what a mess was made of the whole system, and is willing to sign any Bill to fix parts of it, as soon as they make it through the legislative process. I have more hands-on experience than anyone else in either the House or the Senate. I can explain to the others, in colorful detail, what the system has become, because of the laws that were re-written, at the behest of Federal prosecutors.
- 2. I will NOT speak to lobbyists. In fact, I don't think ANY elected official should accept anything from them, nor speak to them. The people that Senators and Congresspersons represent have plenty of good ideas, that will help the communities they represent. Instead of flying around the world on 'Fact-Finding Missions,' paid for by Lobbyists, big companies or foreign Governments, they can take a 'Fact-Finding Mission' using their computers. But, that won't happen anytime soon. I intend to call out Hypocrites, loudly, wherever I am when those windbags start flag-waving and lying to each other and the American public.
- 3. I plan to set up a Senatorial website that will send out copies of pending Bills, with an easy to understand summary of what each Bill both appears to want to accomplish and what it actually would accomplish, or hurt. I will ask the opinions of everyone who gets the data, but I will only take the suggestions of California residents, who will have to send my Office a redacted (blotting out identifying numbers/DOBs/Street Addresses) California Driver's License or ID, and my staff will verify that they still live in California and they will only be able to register one e-contact to register their comments on Bills. Not having someone with 10 emails getting 10 votes on something. Maybe that idea will catch on with other politicians?? NaaaaaH
You've read this far, might as well do some more research... You like what I am saying because you have been thinking it for a long time! I am passionate about justice, the United States Constitution, honesty and equality across the lands for all citizens of AMERICA!
A person's "experience" with the Federal Criminal "Justice"(?)system starts with their being arrested, often by an army of Federal Agents, who bring the local news stations along. There was a ridiculous Bill passed years ago called the 'Bail Reform Act,' What that Act means is hardly anyone gets a bail set, so they are permanently Detained. When bails are set, they're usually ridiculously high.
Some perfect examples are Martha Stewart, Felicity Huffman & Lori Loughlin the two actresses who were arrested, along with their husbands, for paying to get their kids into fancy colleges. What do you think their bails were set at? Of course, they were (obviously) considered some sort of flight risks/dangers to the community, so their bails were astronomical!!!
It isn't really a 'who.' Its the general image of a person who does the right thing, regardless of the consequences, and seeks no thanks or notoriety for their actions. There's no one person who fits this image, except for TV and movie heroes. John Wayne, the Lone Ranger, Batman, etc. Sometimes doing the right thing breaks society's rules and laws, but its still the right thing to do, at the time.
It would be a combination of things. A little bit of the 1939 Jimmy Stewart movie "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" would be a good start. John Wayne and The Lone Ranger westerns are another example, but I think the best example would be what most people imagine THEY would do if somehow they got themselves elected, the way I'm trying to do, by not asking for a cent from anyone.
Don't expect to see any lawn signs, TV commercials, hats, T-shirts or anything else with my name on them. You won't get bombarded with spam about me. You'll actually have to Google my name to read about me and then make up your own mind. You'll see a lot of stuff that might shock you and will amuse you (like the 25 year-old clip of me on YouTube explaining how I was beamed up to a Space Ship, where they took my brain out and 'made it better'), but all things considered, am I any worse than the Hypocrites who are now making the laws and rules that affect you, almost every day? I’ll be the first to yell "The Emperor has no clothes on" or to accuse another Senator, from ANY Party, of being a Hypocrite, on C-Span.
The most important one is complete honesty. How often do we see that in Washington? Politicians on both sides will abandon the things they once (usually, to get elected, or re-elected) were 'chest beating' about, when the majority in their party 'decide' that "we're all against that," for whatever reason. Unfortunately, the number 1 consideration for a much too large percentage of politicians is getting re-elected, which normally takes a lot of money. The last election cycle (including the Georgia Senate races) reported more than $15, BILLION in spending. That's a lot of votes owed to special interests and not to the little people who cast their votes for the person.
I'm not asking for a cent from anyone. I Will NOT accept a cent from anyone. Voters will hear about me from word-of-mouth or from my many social media sites, which were all put together by people who are sick of the multi-Billion Dollar, year-round business that Politics has become.
Honesty. My vote will NOT be for sale. I won't speak to lobbyists, union people, anti-abortion people or anyone representing anything not in California or directly affecting California. I'll speak to those people IN California, not in my Washington D.C. Office.
I believe the function of a Senator is to do what is right, for the people of his or her State. Not to sell their vote to whoever gives the most money to their past or future campaigns, or who hires their 10 year old son or daughter to be a 'consultant' or a 'Board Member' to a company whose name they don't even know.
Think it doesn't happen?
An honest guy who did what he said he 'd do, who would not back down and accomplished a great deal of what he set out to accomplish.
The Kennedy assassination, which sort of shattered what kids my age had thought about the United States and the world. I was in Junior High school at the time.
Besides lawn mowing and leaf raking for neighbors, I've worked at my family's Glass and sliding door businesses, on and off, pretty much my whole life. I also bought and sold cars, trucks and motor cycles, after repairing or rebuilding them.
Most of the John Grisham books, about lawyers.
"A combination of Dwight Eisenhower, Batman, Schwarzenegger, Stallone, most of their action movies except for the Rocky Series, Zorro and Bruce Willis in the Die Hard movies"
Elvis' "Falling in Love' (after watching 'Crazy Rich Asians').
PEOPLE that lie.....Liars, oh and LIARS
China, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, the next pandemic, the next recession, domestic terrorists; take your pick.
The U.S. Senate has the responsibility to not only pass Bills
that will become laws that affect the whole world, but they also are responsible for approving the appointment of Judges and Justices for all the Federal Courts, Cabinet members and the heads of dozens of Federal Agencies, as well as Ambassadors to almost 200 Countries.
Do the current members of the Senate do this with the best interests of the United States in mind? No. They listen to their Party leaders most of the time, with a few notable exceptions. How rare is a unanimous vote on something, except a bill to raise their salaries.
No. That's the crux of the problem with today's Senate. As well as money. The reported donations/expenditures in the 2020 election cycle exceed $15 Billion. And then there's all the 'dark money,’ and the money that slips into the pockets/purses of entrenched
politicians in various sneaky ways. Do I need to cite examples?
It has it's uses and purpose, HOWEVER, it needs to be changed back to what it used to be. One Senator (not a 'tag team' headed by Ted Cruz R-Cancun) should be allowed to get up and flag wave, sing the National Anthem and the Battle Hymn of the Republic as well read the names from their local phone book and of course the NOW CENSORED / Cancelled Dr. Seuss Books... That person can talk, without more than bathroom breaks, until they can speak no more, and then the vote is taken. They'll have made their point. As former President
Usually, what's best for the Country, unless there's something glaringly wrong with the person.
Yes, the Judiciary Committee. I have more hands-on experience with the Federal Criminal Justice system than anyone else in the Senate. I also have hands-on experience with the actual ramifications and results of (often well-meaning) Federal laws, that were not foreseen by the drafters of the Laws and the Senators (and Congresspersons) who enacted those laws. The usual problem is, nobody want's to fix their past mistakes, regardless of the harm those mistakes continue to cause.
There isn't one. It would be a combination of different outstanding qualities of many different Senators.
Go to YouTube.com/DannyFabricant for one of my Stand-Up comic routines, from 25 years ago. (you have to have sound on your computer)
Their history of fairness. Not too liberal nor conservative and willing to make new case law, in an appropriate situation.
I have no idea. I'll be calling out liars and hypocrites, publicly. That will permanently alienate much of the Senate, but there will be some of them that will (at least silently) agree with me and listen to what I have to say and seriously consider the many Bills that I will either introduce myself or join in with as a co-sponsor. The Press will love talking to me and will help me shame (in the rare instances when a Senator can be shamed any more than many of them have already been shamed) the liars, hypocrites and bootlickers, in both parties.
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2020
Danny Fabricant did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2024 Elections
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 17, 2021
