Rick Shannon
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Rick Shannon (independent) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Tennessee's 5th Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Shannon completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Rick Shannon was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1987 to 1992.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Tennessee's 5th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Tennessee District 5
Andy Ogles defeated Heidi Campbell, Derrick Brantley, Daniel Cooper, and Rick Shannon in the general election for U.S. House Tennessee District 5 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Andy Ogles (R) | 55.8 | 123,558 |
 | Heidi Campbell (D)  | 42.3 | 93,648 | |
 | Derrick Brantley (Independent) | 0.9 | 2,090 | |
 | Daniel Cooper (Independent) | 0.5 | 1,132 | |
 | Rick Shannon (Independent) | 0.4 | 847 | |
| Total votes: 221,275 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 5
Heidi Campbell advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 5 on August 4, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Heidi Campbell | 100.0 | 30,830 |
| Total votes: 30,830 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Justicia Rizzo (D)
- Jim Cooper (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 5
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 5 on August 4, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Andy Ogles | 35.4 | 21,325 |
 | Beth Harwell | 24.9 | 15,021 | |
| Kurt Winstead | 21.1 | 12,721 | |
 | Jeff Beierlein | 6.8 | 4,093 | |
 | Robby Starbuck (Write-in) | 4.1 | 2,492 | |
 | Natisha Brooks | 2.9 | 1,747 | |
 | Geni Batchelor | 1.7 | 1,017 | |
| Timothy Lee | 1.4 | 845 | |
 | Stewart Parks | 1.0 | 586 | |
 | Tres Wittum | 0.7 | 398 | |
| Total votes: 60,245 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Sarah Grams (R)
- Richie Lee (R)
- Quincy McKnight (R)
- Baxter Lee (R)
- David Vitalli (R)
- Morgan Ortagus (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Rick Shannon completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Shannon's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Local entrepreneur, veteran, author, father, and pastor, Rick Shannon, is officially announcing his U.S. Congressional candidacy for United States Congress for Tennessee's 5th District as an Independent. Rick has spent his whole life serving others in everything he has ever done and wants to share that passion and expertise with our community here in Mid TN
- To bring the "United" back to our United States.
- We are all Americans. We have to stop letting special interest groups tell us who we are.
- Race, religion, sexual orientation, or financial status, doesn't matter when a disaster happens. It shouldn't matter any other time.
From our border security to our education system, everything is broken. We need to come together to solve every aspect of our broken government and government's overreach. We are a free nation where our freedoms are being stripped without any accountability.
We have to have term limits to eliminate career politicians. We cannot have a society that is evolving with politicians that are not. People of the people, not professional politicians.
The biggest challenge will be, to come back together as Americans and stop letting interest groups separate us.
There should be term limits on all politicians.
While personal views are an individual's driving force, one must sometimes compromise for the benefit of all.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 8, 2022
