Robby Starbuck
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Robby Starbuck (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Tennessee's 5th Congressional District. He lost as a write-in in the Republican primary on August 4, 2022.
The Tennessee Republican Party ruled to remove Starbuck from the 2022 primary ballot in April. On June 3, 2022, Starbuck successfully appealed the decision in court on the grounds that the Republican Party executive committee violated open meeting laws by making the ruling in a private meeting. The Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the lower court ruling on June 10, 2022, meaning Starbuck did not appear on the Republican primary ballot.[1][2]
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates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)
Endorsements
To view Starbuck's endorsements in the 2022 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Robby Starbuck did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Starbuck's campaign website stated the following:
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Freedom I believe that freedom is our most essential value and that it’s value most under threat in the United States. I will always fight to give you more freedom, not less. That means being an advocate for your:
I will not stand by and allow Big Tech companies or our government to intrude on your private life, intrude on your privacy or destroy your livelihood. FREEDOM IS A HUMAN RIGHT.
Have you ever watched a Congressional Big Tech hearing only to be frustrated beyond belief when you realize that a LARGE number of our representatives don’t understand the technology they’re supposed to be holding accountable? I have. It was just another motivator to run for office. We need people who understand the algorithms and who understand how Big Tech is abusing our citizens by intruding on their privacy. Trust Busting: I believe that Big Tech companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter are monopolies who have grossly abused their power. Countless small businesses all over our country have been destroyed by Amazon’s monopolistic behavior, all the while Amazon paid no where near what they should have in tax. I will hold them accountable and work to break up these monopolies. I fight for small business. Censorship: Social Media Companies have an outsized role in our politics. Their ability to be judge and jury with no explanation is not in alignment with the spirit of free speech and expression in America. I always tell people to imagine they were on the phone with their friend venting about something in politics and then imagine that a representative from the phone company came on the line all of a sudden to tell you that you can’t say those words on the phone… Then they ban you. We’d all recognize what a horrible overreach this is. We’d all recognize how this violates our rights. There’s a reason phone companies are banned from doing this. We must ban social media giants from being able to behave this way. A wise person once said that the answer to speech you disagree with is better speech. Beat bad speech with better speech in the arena of debate and the best ideas will prevail. I’ll always believe in that. For those who agree with the social media bans we’ve seen in recent years, I ask you how you’d feel if you were next because the new management at a social media company decided they don’t like your opinions? More speech is the answer. Privacy: Big Tech Companies abuse your data on an hourly basis. They extract as much data as they can about you without your knowledge and sell it to the highest bidder. You deserve to have informed consent. Every Big Tech company should have a simple explainer that people have to agree to in order to have their data mined and sold. Not agreeing to having your data sold should NOT be a reason to withhold the ability to use services that should be defined as a public utility. You may be interested in reading my opinion piece breaking down how the modern left has turned into a pseudo religion. It touches on the need they have to censor opposition. https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/13/6-ways-leftism-acts-like-a-religion/
School Choice: School Choice is the civil rights issue of this generation. I trust PARENTS to decide what school is best for their child. The one size fits all model of public school is not always the best school for a child’s needs. I believe PARENTS know their child’s needs more than the government does. I support full school choice with no strings attached meaning that whatever dollar amount is earmarked for your child to attend public school would be given to you so that you can choose which school is best for your child whether that be a public school, private school, a religious school, a micro school, a school specialized for learning differences or homeschooling. “No Strings Attached” is the important part of that statement. I believe government must simply give back the tax dollars that are earmarked for your child’s education and allow you to decide the best school for them whether it’s at home, a private school, a public school or some other option. Government needs to get out of the way and let parents do their job! Critical Race Theory: CRT is a poison infecting our schools. It’s teaching kids that the skin they were born with means they’re either privileged or oppressed without any regard for other circumstances in their life. We’ve seen kids go through CRT and come out hating the skin they were born with. That’s not okay and it’s NOT the role our government should be playing. I would support a full ban on this harmful marxist ideology along with a way for parents to report the use of CRT by rogue teachers. Being the son of a Cuban refugee, I like to remind people that this racially divisive policy in schools is not new. Every Marxist “revolution” had elements of this push to divide people by race through education. We can’t allow this to infect our children’s minds any further. I believe we must make the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. a reality so that our children will be judged NOT by their skin but by the content of their character. Protecting Girls Sports: I will always stand to protect girls sports. Biological males have inherent physical differences that create an unfair playing field. This is not a hateful statement. This is not bigoted. It’s common sense. I’ve seen it, you’ve seen it, there’s no denying it and I won’t be gaslit into denying reality. Politicization: When I was a kid I didn’t know how my teachers voted. That’s how it should be. It means you’re getting an unbiased education. Every child is entitled to a politically neutral education. It’s not the job of our schools to politically indoctrinate a child to hold any political view. I’ve seen this with my own children where they come home knowing exactly what view their teacher holds because they put a political candidates sticker in the classroom or trashed a candidate during class. This isn’t okay. We need to end the politicizing of our classrooms and our children. The same reporting option I mentioned above for CRT should be available to report a teacher or school who are injecting their political views into the learning environment. No matter what view the teacher holds, by stating it they cause unnecessary stress in the classroom and they make half of their class uncomfortable. This isn’t the purpose of school, nor is it a healthy learning environment. Radical Gender Theory: I will not support any education program that pushes radical gender theory into the classroom. In places like California they’ve mandated children as young as first grade be taught that gender is a spectrum with unlimited possibilities. This is unscientific and we should not be teaching extremist theories to children as fact. I believe in biology. I believe the science of biology. Biology says and has said very clearly since it’s ability to examine chromosomes that any human born with XX chromosomes is a female and any human born with XY chromosomes is a male. That is the science. Any theory being pushed beyond that is denying the very clear biological science. I oppose it!
The first thing I have to say about law enforcement is that it’s hard work and I’m so thankful for the sacrifices our police make for us. The modern left rarely recognizes this. Their side is intent on demonizing the police and defunding them. The march on the modern left to defund and abolish the police is similar to what has happened during every marxist “revolution” in history. They pit people against one another, dividing us by race or creed because that’s what gives them power. The question is, will we continue to let them divide us like this? I won’t. The simple truth is that there are a few bad apples in policing just like there are in every job. No one disputes that they should be held accountable but to get the very best policing we need MORE funding and MORE training. Not less. I like to ask people who criticize all police a very simple question: If a few members of any group, race or religion do something bad, is it okay to blame the entire group, race or religion for it? The hypocrisy of their ideology becomes clear very quickly after that. We can’t punish all police for the actions of a few bad apples. We must treat officers as the individuals they are. The vast majority are heroic. In terms of policy, I ask myself “What will make policing safer for both the officer and the people interacting with an officer?” and “What will make our streets safer?” The answer to both questions is the same:
Here’s an example of my outside the box thinking: I believe we should have training in high schools where police explain their job to students, explain how a stop works, what an officer is thinking during a stop and then do an exercise where the student plays the officer role and has to decide when someone is a threat. This exercise alone will result in better outcomes. You may be interested in reading my recent piece in the NYPost where I explain part of the problem with crime in America right now (Hint, Left wing donors like George Soros are funding extremist prosecutors): https://nypost.com/2021/12/01/george-soros-has-blood-on-his-hands-for-the-rise-in-killings-nationwide/ You may also want to read my previous deep dive on races Soros is spending money in. I’ve warned people for years now! https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/19/why-arent-we-allowed-to-talk-about-george-soross-plan-to-remake-america/
Human Trafficking is an epidemic. My wife Landon and I have personally invested our time and energy in fighting the epidemic of human trafficking. Due to our interstate access District 5 sees a disproportionate number of trafficking victims trafficked through the district. It’s our job to do everything we can to end Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking and Child Trafficking. The Marxist elements in our politics like Odessa Kelly and “The Squad” in Congress believe that so called “Sex Work” should be legalized. I oppose this. Legal “Sex Work” does not fit Tennessee values and it hurts victims of sex trafficking more than anyone because law enforcment no longer would search out for potential vicitims forced into prostitution. Here’s how I commit to fighting the trafficking epidemic:
Together we can work to end modern day slavery!
The border crisis is a preventable tragedy. Strong borders make strong countries. Caring about borders is not racist. As a Latino man and the son of a Cuban LEGAL refugee, I feel a duty to say that. Strong countries have to plan for increases in migration. You have to plan economically, for public health, for safety and for culture. With our unemployment issue, we can’t afford to wait any longer to stop this surge. I believe in LEGAL immigration but in order for us to have a smooth legal immigration system, we must get control of our illegal immigration crisis. The tragedy of this crisis is that innocent kids end up sexually assaulted and sold by cartels as a result of open borders policies. We have the ability to end this and we MUST end this. So here’s what I support:
You may be interested in watching my appearance on Tucker Carlson about the March To The Border event my wife organized that I helped lead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c5AcxyM8XQ You may be interested in reading my piece on Democrats enabling illegal immigration: https://www.ocregister.com/2019/09/03/when-will-big-city-democrats-stop-enabling-illegal-immigration/
We MUST take a leadership position on this issue to prevent socialized healthcare from becoming a reality in America. Why? Let me tell you a story… I have a family member who died a few years ago in Cuba after years of extremely painful illness that went untreated despite her best attempts to get help from the government. For years she couldn’t even get a scan to diagnose the cancer. Finally she did but it was years too late. She was terminal. Cuba decided not to treat her at all, not even with pain medicine because at that point, she was an item line, not a human being. She died on a cold metal bed in a hospital room that had no medical equipment in it and a view of dirty walls serving as a reminder of how Cuba had decayed since Marxists stole control of the country. I like to remind people that there’s a reason Canadian citizens come to the US to get surgeries and it’s not because their socialized system is better. We can’t just complain about how dangerous socialized healthcare is though, we have to offer a solution that fixes our broken system. Here’s my solution:
We need to restore trust in our elections. With the accelerated growth of technology and the security holes that are constantly arising in all facets of technology, we need to go back to basics. Every election should move to paper ballots that are counted in a timely manner. No more waiting for days to find out who won a race, with questions arising the entire time. Until we have a system that we feel can be entirely protected (likely via blockchain) it’s essential to have a process we all know and trust that can provide built in safeguards via a non-partisan auditing process that everyone has access to.
Even if you disagree with the choice someone makes, our country is not an authoritarian one. We must let people choose what’s right for their life, their health situation and their religious beliefs. Taking part in society has risks and we all agree to those risks by participating in society. Adding medical requirements to that social contract is a slippery authoritarian slope that could violate your firmly held beliefs tomorrow. So agree or disagree with the decision someone makes now — we should all agree that protecting Freedom is essential to our core values as Americans.
I’m proudly pro-life. I stand up for the rights of the unborn and will continue to be pro-life for kids after they’re born. We have a duty as a strong country to give every child a great education. No child in America should ever be without food and no child should ever be without medical care. If you haven’t voted Republican before you might be confused reading that but looking after these kids after they’re born is part of our conservative values despite what the left wing media may have told you. You may have also heard the modern left attack us as anti-science. It’s actually their pro-abortion point of view that’s divorced from science. The science of fetal pain has advanced tremendously since Roe V. Wade. We now understand that unborn human beings who are aborted today due to the Roe decision can feel pain during the abortion. We now have the benefit of 4D ultrasounds that show us the traumatizing reality of abortion for the baby. We also have advanced neurological science that shows us brain wave activity earlier than they thought possible when Roe essentially legalized abortion nationwide. It’s time to protect life. Think of the doctors, president’s, #1 Moms and Dad’s of the Year we’ve missed out on because of abortion. It doesn’t have to be this way. We have among the most permissive abortion laws in the world. Many developed countries have much stricter laws dictating when you can abort an unborn child. America can do better and must do better. We also need to offer support to struggling mom’s who need the support of their community and we need to rebuild a culture where Dad’s are present in their kid’s lives and duty bound to their responsibilities as a father.
My whole platform is about freedom and unleashing our potential as a nation. Seeing people within our government pushing for policies that limit our potential by over regulating or by forcing business owners to do things that don’t work for their businesses is a big reason why i’m running. Bitcoin falls right into that. I believe the government needs to stop trying to control Bitcoin. I think what’s so beautiful about Bitcoin is it’s ability to ultimately be controlled by the people. By over regulating Bitcoin we’re going to end up with all of the innovation surrounding Bitcoin happening in other nations while the top 0.1% are still able to profit but everyone else will end up severely limited in their ability to grow with Bitcoin as it grows. The more control we allow the 0.1% to have over Bitcoin, the less everyday people will be able to feel the positive effects of Bitcoin’s growth. My goal on the Bitcoin/Crypto front is to put every Bitcoin holder in a position where the government is going to stay out of their life so that they can sink or swim by virtue of the investment decisions they make. Government has no place banning or controlling our investments because they say they want to protect us. There’s few things scarier to me than the government telling us that they want to protect us. The unilateral freedom that usually ends up stripped as a result never leads to good things. Bitcoin if you contrast it against that, It has done so much good for ALL. Suffice to say i’ll be a voice that fights to unleash the potential of Crypto.[3] |
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See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ The Tennessean, "Nashville judge restores Robby Starbuck to 5th congressional Republican primary ballot," June 4, 2022
- ↑ The Tennessean, "Tennessee Supreme Court: Robby Starbuck off the ballot again in GOP's 5th Congressional primary," June 10, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Starbuck 2022, “Issues,” accessed August 9, 2022
