Christina Paylan
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Christina Paylan (Republican Party) ran for election to the Florida State Senate to represent District 16. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Paylan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Christina Paylan was born in Istanbul, Turkey. She earned a high school diploma from Glendale High School. In 1994, Paylan earned an M.D. from the University of Southern California.[1][2]
Elections
2022
See also: Florida State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Florida State Senate District 16
Incumbent Darryl Rouson defeated Christina Paylan in the general election for Florida State Senate District 16 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Darryl Rouson (D) | 63.9 | 93,839 |
 | Christina Paylan (R)  | 36.1 | 52,927 | |
| Total votes: 146,766 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Darryl Rouson advanced from the Democratic primary for Florida State Senate District 16.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Christina Paylan advanced from the Republican primary for Florida State Senate District 16.
Campaign finance
2020
See also: Florida State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for Florida State Senate District 19
Incumbent Darryl Rouson defeated Christina Paylan in the general election for Florida State Senate District 19 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Darryl Rouson (D) | 68.7 | 174,343 |
| Christina Paylan (No Party Affiliation) | 31.3 | 79,463 | |
| Total votes: 253,806 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Darryl Rouson advanced from the Democratic primary for Florida State Senate District 19.
Republican primary election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Kriztofer Cole (R)
- Yolanda Valdez (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Christina Paylan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Paylan's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Paylan, daughter of an immigrant family from Turkey, earned her medical degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California in 1994, going on to complete her fellowship in plastic surgery at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida in 2003. Started private practice in 2003 and in 2019, ran for Florida Senate as a first time candidate during the pandemic. Currently running for the same Florida Senate seat for November 2022. .
- People from all walks of life need to be in government positions so we can say we have a truly reprepsentative government
- Evil and corruption have been brewing in our court systems because we have been bamboozled by judicially created laws that afford absolute immunity to judges and prosecutors. We have made judges and prosecutors "kings" because there is no mechanism in place to hold them accountable
- Humanity has been slowly eroding from our lives and we need to recognize and fix this right away
Mental Health Recognition remains very inadequate. We have to implement ways to recognize mental illness at early stages of education by training teachers about signs and symptoms that surface. Only through creating a task force which focuses on
Our criminal court system is outdated. We need to create a new updated system Rules of Evidence and Rules of Procedure that comport with the times we live in. Tthe current system gives too much weight to circumstantial evidence which creates a significant loophole in a system for prosecutors who have zero accountability.
Margaret Thatcher
My favorite book is Catcher in the Rye and I often feel that my role in life is to give heads up as I sit on the fence as to what might be on the other side of the fence and help those who need help to jump over the fence.
Unequivical devotion to fairness for all irrespective of the diversity in constituency
Fair and unwavering devotion to projects that I set my mind to accomplishing.
Accountability and Transparency
I would like my legacy to say that she was a surgeon whose passion for fairness for all humans no matter what walk of life they come from led her to revamp an outdated criminal court system that has made the United States as the number one country for mass incarceration.
I worked at a movie theater selling popcorn much to my parents' shigrin- I was 16 years old. Iremember this job so well because it was during the time that Staying Alive with John Travalto had come out and it was so busy and I was working so many hours that once I fell asleep at the movie theater and my parents were so worried about me.
Catcher in the Rye
To overcome the cultural expectations as I decided to become the first female surgeon in my immediate and extended family who adhere very strongly to the Armenian culture where most women are expected to be homemakers.
Governor should never be able to override the decisions made by the legislators.
To make sure that people from all walks of life, instead of just lawyers, being elected to legislature positions.
Unicameral legislative body would decrease representation of the people. Bicameral legislature is more desirable for a wider net representation of the people.
No not at all because the government is supposed to be a representative government and if we require candidates to have prior experience in government or politics then we will have what we have now- which is all lawyers and little to no other professionals.
Most definitely. Divisiveness is not the way to make laws that govern people from all walks of life. It is critical to build relations from the across the aisle so that the idealogies of those who do not have the same as yours can still be respected and accounted for.
Health Care, Criminal Justice and Oversight
Not as of now
I heard from a mother of two who was arrested for a bad check that she wrote that was only $50- she was put on probation for the next year requiring her to pay $32 a month with all administrative and probation fees. It is hard to believe that we call this a civilized society when this kind of situation is not that uncommon.
I also heard from a physician who was unjustly prosecuted by the federal government who had to spend time in federal prison for four years until his case was reversed by the United States Supreme Court. The prosecutors were coming after this physician for taking care of his patients who needed pain management. The lack of accountability for prosecutors had turned the federal prosecutors in this physician's case into 'kings' where the prosecutors were making one false after another false representation about the medical practice of this physician
Sensible Compromise is necessary for policy making.
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2020
Christina Paylan did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Christina Paylan, MD," accessed August 30, 2022
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 28, 2022
