Jerry Dickinson
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Jerry Dickinson (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on May 17, 2022.
Elections
2022
See also: Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 12
Summer Lee defeated Michael Doyle in the general election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 12 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Summer Lee (D) | 56.2 | 184,674 |
 | Michael Doyle (R) | 43.8 | 143,946 | |
| Total votes: 328,620 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Donald Nevills (R)
- Stephanie Fox (D)
- Jake Webster (D)
- Bhavini Patel (D)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 12
Summer Lee defeated Steve Irwin, Jerry Dickinson, Jeff Woodard, and William Parker in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 12 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Summer Lee | 41.9 | 48,002 |
 | Steve Irwin | 41.0 | 47,014 | |
 | Jerry Dickinson | 10.9 | 12,440 | |
 | Jeff Woodard | 4.8 | 5,454 | |
 | William Parker | 1.5 | 1,670 | |
| Total votes: 114,580 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 12
Michael Doyle advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 12 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Michael Doyle | 100.0 | 39,531 |
| Total votes: 39,531 | |||
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2020
See also: Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District election, 2020
Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Democratic primary)
Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 18
Incumbent Michael Doyle defeated Luke Negron, Daniel Vayda, and Donald Nevills in the general election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 18 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Michael Doyle (D) | 69.2 | 266,084 |
 | Luke Negron (R) | 30.8 | 118,163 | |
| Daniel Vayda (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | ||
 | Donald Nevills (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Total votes: 384,247 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 18
Incumbent Michael Doyle defeated Jerry Dickinson in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 18 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Michael Doyle | 67.2 | 90,353 |
| Jerry Dickinson | 32.8 | 44,170 | |
| Total votes: 134,523 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Janis Brooks (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 18
Luke Negron defeated Kim Mack in the Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 18 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Luke Negron | 100.0 | 30,497 |
| Kim Mack (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | ||
| Total votes: 30,497 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jeremy Cartner (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jerry Dickinson did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Jerry Dickinson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Dickinson'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 am running for Congress because for too long government and our politicians have been run for the benefit of the privileged few. While corporate profits go up, wages stay down. While healthcare companies thrive, people suffer. While certain neighborhoods are celebrated for their charm, others are left to decay until predatory developers swoop in. While the fossil fuel industries rake in profits, our air and water are choked by their pollution.
Enough is enough.
I was born into the Allegheny county foster system and grew up in Shaler with my ten other foster and adoptive siblings. Together, we have struggled through many of the same difficulties that ordinary Pennsylvanians face every day: joblessness, homelessness, illness, addiction, and incarceration. I have been inside prison walls pleading for fair treatment for my siblings. I have helped them struggle with drug addiction. I have watched as they worked two and three jobs at a time trying to make ends meet.
For decades, the same old politicians have played the same old politics. It's time for change.
We need to act boldly and urgently to confront the crises we face. We cannot wait any longer. I will fight each and every day for a better tomorrow for all, through healthcare reform, combating the climate crisis, and working for a more equal, more just tomorrow.
- It's time for our government and our politicians to work for everyone and not just the privileged few. While the incumbent takes hundreds of thousands of dollars from the fossil fuel and energy industries and executives, my campaign is built solely on individual contributors like you.
- Our district and our nation are facing crises that require bold, urgent action - such as on healthcare and climate change. This is not the time for sitting on the sidelines. Together, we can make Pittsburgh a leader and push for real change and real progress across the nation through Medicare for All and the Green New Deal.
- From fair wages to fair schools, we need to root out the systemic inequalities that plague our country. I will fight to break up the concentrations of wealth, power, and privilege that allow the few to prosper while the rest of us are left behind.
I am also fiercely passionate about the two most urgent crises that face us: healthcare and climate change. As the father of a beautiful young daughter, I know that we need to act now to make things right. Healthcare costs are out of control and industrial pollution is poisoning our air and water and causing our climate crisis. There is absolutely no time to waste on making both Medicare for All and the Green New Deal a reality.
If we don't act now on climate change, the repercussions will ripple outwards for generations to come. I believe that we need to strive to make the Green New Deal a reality for everyone. We need to strive for carbon neutrality by 2030, moving from fossil fuels to sustainable green energy, and building a new growth economy that will provide jobs and innovation far into the future. Pittsburgh can lead the way, combining its world class education and tech resources with the powerful manufacturing and labor sector to create green industries. We need to ban fracking and restrict industrial emissions and move towards a cleaner future now. We can't afford to wait any longer.
We also need urgent action on healthcare. Prices are out of control and only getting worse. Premiums rise twice as fast as wages and millions of Americans can't afford proper care. We need to work hard and push to make universal healthcare like Medicare for All a reality. We've seen in real-time what happens when our country is unprepared for a healthcare emergency. There is no time to sit idly by.
In Clairton, I met an older woman who came to the door with a respirator mask on. She had lived her whole life in the shadow of the Clairton coke works plant and was suffering from asthma. She could barely afford her medication and she couldn't afford to move out of the area.
In Bridgeville, we came across a Planned Parenthood clinic that was closed most of the week and with limited hours on the days it was open because of the loss of funding due to the Trump administration.
In Braddock, there was a server in a restaurant who used to be a business owner but lost her whole life savings battling cancer.
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See also
2022 Elections
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