Jacqueline Abernathy
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Jacqueline Abernathy (independent) ran for election for Governor of Texas. She lost as a write-in in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Abernathy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jacqueline Abernathy's professional experience includes working as a consultant. Abernathy earned a bachelor's degree from the University of North Texas in 2003, a graduate degree from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2005, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas in 2012.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Texas gubernatorial election, 2022
General election
General election for Governor of Texas
The following candidates ran in the general election for Governor of Texas on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Greg Abbott (R) | 54.8 | 4,437,099 | |
Beto O'Rourke (D) | 43.9 | 3,553,656 | ||
Mark Tippetts (L) | 1.0 | 81,932 | ||
Delilah Barrios (G) | 0.4 | 28,584 | ||
Jacqueline Abernathy (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 1,243 | ||
Mark Goloby (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 394 |
Total votes: 8,102,908 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Reginald Jennings II (Independent)
- Jorge Franco (Independent)
- Jeremy Rios (Independent)
- Ricardo Turullols-Bonilla (Independent)
- Justin Cunneen (Independent)
- Sean Sharp (Independent)
- Demetra Wysinger (Independent)
- Chioma Okoro (Independent)
- Star Locke (Independent)
- Raul Cortina (Independent)
- Patrick Wynne (Reform Party)
- Jal Dennis (Independent)
- Deirdre Dickson-Gilbert (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Governor of Texas
Beto O'Rourke defeated Joy Diaz, Michael Cooper, Rich Wakeland, and Inocencio Barrientez in the Democratic primary for Governor of Texas on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Beto O'Rourke | 91.4 | 983,182 | |
Joy Diaz | 3.1 | 33,622 | ||
Michael Cooper | 3.0 | 32,673 | ||
Rich Wakeland | 1.2 | 13,237 | ||
Inocencio Barrientez | 1.2 | 12,887 |
Total votes: 1,075,601 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Governor of Texas
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Governor of Texas on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Greg Abbott | 66.5 | 1,299,059 | |
Allen B. West | 12.3 | 239,557 | ||
Donald Huffines | 12.0 | 234,138 | ||
Chad Prather | 3.8 | 74,173 | ||
Rick Perry | 3.1 | 61,424 | ||
Kandy Kaye Horn | 1.2 | 23,605 | ||
Paul Belew | 0.6 | 11,387 | ||
Daniel Harrison | 0.6 | 10,829 |
Total votes: 1,954,172 | ||||
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Green convention
Green convention for Governor of Texas
Delilah Barrios advanced from the Green convention for Governor of Texas on April 9, 2022.
Candidate | ||
✔ | Delilah Barrios (G) |
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Governor of Texas
Mark Tippetts defeated Fidel Castillo in the Libertarian convention for Governor of Texas on April 10, 2022.
Candidate | ||
Fidel Castillo (L) | ||
✔ | Mark Tippetts (L) |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Andrew Jewell (L)
- Daniel Behrman (L)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jacqueline Abernathy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Abernathy's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|I’m Dr. Jacqueline Abernathy, I’m a wife, mother, and consultant from San Antonio. and I am running for Governor of Texas for the American Solidarity Party. I believe that we shouldn’t be stuck with two choices that don’t respect life in all its stages. Beto O’Rouke and his disrespect for the unborn, and Greg Abbott who does not value the dignity of disadvantaged groups such as migrants and the homeless are not the ideal choices for a pro-life voter.
I earned my Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from the University of North Texas. Also, I am an accomplished advocate for life. I played an instrumental role in the passage of HB 3074 which prevents medical professionals from removing feeding tubes from patients without consent.
- Life is the basis upon which all other rights exist.
- I support compassionate, common sense policies that promote justice for all.
- Public safety is threatened by corrupt criminal justice policies & cult-like gun culture. We need reform now.
There was not a non-violent, moral choice for governor prior to my entering the race. Every other candidate supports some form of lethal violence against human life. Beto O'Rourke is an unapologetic abortion extremist, in favor of violence toward the youngest, smallest, & most defenseless Texans. Anyone who champions the legal right to kill other human beings (our own sons /daughters at that) is not a person fit to lead nor someone I could vote for, lest I be complicit in the utmost crime against humanity.
Likewise, the supposedly pro-life Greg Abbott does indeed oppose abortion violence but that does not justify his support of the death penalty, violence just as lethal as abortion yet reserved for born humans equally as human as the unborn ones he deems worthy of protection.
Between preborn people at the mercy of their mothers not to kill them on demand & born people condemned in a merciless system to be killed by the state, someone needed to step up & offer the option to cast a ballot for a candidate who protects human life from conception to natural death. I am that candidate.
My political philosophy is mainly that of the American Solidarity Party and the movement of Christian Democracy. More information about them can be found at my campaign site and solidarity-party.org
I do not support killing anyone. As if that were not reason enough, I support compassionate, common sense policies that promote justice for all.
This would be a major departure from the incumbent's reign of cruelty toward people he was exploit as political props. Let's start with his vendetta against asylum seekers fleeing violence in other countries & his latest stunt to bus these people out of state on the taxpayer's dime. I would joyfully pay to welcome & assist migrants, instead my money is used to treat them like they are garbage or vermin released on Abbott's empathic political adversaries. This is clearly not to inspire political change since Abbott is sending them to cities without any influence on federal law. This is more about being antagonistic & degrading human beings with human dignity. Weaponizing people to sadistically burden others is despicable, much like how he criminalized homelessness & banned those with nothing from finding shelter in public places.
The culture wars he wages for political fodder also have dangerous consequences for Texans targeted & their families, namely our transgender population which he harasses & threatens. Child Protective Services (CPS) remains underfunded, yet he weaponizes CPS to terrify children & parents who address gender dysphoria differently than he/his supporters prefer. Much effort was put into pressing the false narrative that biological males identifying as female are predators that prowl public restrooms to violate our vulnerable girls who thus must be banned from public restrooms despite no evidence of the sort.
His railing against basic measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, general science denial, &refusal to teach accurate history regarding racism in our society; this all must end. His outright refusal to even consider commonsense, nominal, but critical firearm regulations to curb the gun violence epidemic shows a callous disregard for human life. I am truly pro-life, pro-decency
There are certain areas where I will not compromise and I do not suggest compromise as a solution to polarization. I won't bargain about how much violence I will accept towards lives that aren't mine. I see much common ground. Let's start there.
Economic survival is a universal problem for post-boomer generations. My parents' generation were able to exit university without debt, walk into a secure job with just a bachelor's degree alone, support an entire family on one middle-class income and even buy a home to build wealth and security for their golden years. Many had the added bonus of workplace retirement pensions to supplement their savings and social security checks. I am just now entering my 40s and recall vividly the promises our parents made of lives like their own and how college was the ticket to a gratifying life, the key to opening doors to jobs that would allow them to enjoy the lifestyle their parents had. Only the cost of education meant that working our way through was impossible and debt inevitable. Once graduated and saddled with student loans, many quickly realized the jobs they were told to expect did not exist, did not pay what they once did relative to rising costs of living, insufficient to pay the loans off in a reasonable amount of time and disqualifying them from purchasing a home and investing in their homes rather than suffer from ever-increasing unaffordable rent amounts. Living off one income is nigh impossible, childcare costs crippling and petrifying this generation from conceiving the next. Savings are non-existent and many are one misfortune away from catastrophe. After paying student loans faithfully for decades and owing more- fully expecting to never see a social security check- we cripple our entire future.
Texas has let public university costs increase without penalties nor subsidies. We allow landlords to price people into homelessness out of pure greed. We allow business interests to rob citizens through property tax abatements ON TOP of no corporate income tax, doing so in the name of jobs, when those jobs do not pass along the savings so employees can pay their ever-growing property tax bills exported to all- even as rent hikes. Our priorities must change.
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Campaign website
Abernathy’s campaign website stated the following:
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Where do I stand on the issues? I believe in and support the policies and platform of the American Solidarity Party. Below are some key issues of the platform that affect Texans.
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—Jacqueline Abernathy’s campaign website (2022)[3] |
See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 10, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Jacqueline Abernathy’s campaign website, “Issues,” accessed September 29, 2022
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