Mike Philips (Texas)
Mike Philips (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 8th Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on March 1, 2022.
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Biography
Mike Philips was born in Pasadena, Texas. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1976 to 1989. He earned a bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University in 1976. His career experience includes working in the telecommunications field.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Texas' 8th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 8
Morgan Luttrell defeated Laura Jones and Roy Eriksen in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 8 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Morgan Luttrell (R)  | 68.1 | 153,127 |
 | Laura Jones (D) | 30.5 | 68,715 | |
 | Roy Eriksen (L) | 1.4 | 3,126 | |
| Total votes: 224,968 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 8
Laura Jones advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 8 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Laura Jones | 100.0 | 14,496 |
| Total votes: 14,496 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 8
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 8 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Morgan Luttrell | 52.1 | 34,271 |
 | Christian Collins | 22.3 | 14,659 | |
 | Jonathan Hullihan | 12.6 | 8,296 | |
 | Dan McKaughan | 2.4 | 1,585 | |
 | Jessica Wellington | 2.4 | 1,550 | |
 | Candice C. Burrows | 2.3 | 1,519 | |
 | Chuck Montgomery | 1.8 | 1,169 | |
 | Mike Philips | 1.3 | 871 | |
 | Jonathan Mitchell | 1.2 | 791 | |
 | Betsy Bates | 1.1 | 712 | |
| Taylor Whichard | 0.4 | 295 | |
| Total votes: 65,718 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Christopher Revis (R)
- Ryan Jarchow (R)
- Salvador Gallegos (R)
- Adrian Kaiser (R)
Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 8
Roy Eriksen advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 8 on March 19, 2022.
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Mike Philips completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Philips' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Mike was born in Pasadena, Texas. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University in 1976 and attended graduate school at George Washington University. His professional experience includes the United States Marine Corps, NATO, NASA Hubble Space Telescope, Management and Executive Positions with MCI/Verizon, Nextel and Sprint in Information Technology. Mike is retired from Verizon.
We must end abortions now. Roe V Wade was decided on the principle of privacy that comes out of the 14Th Amendment giving former slaves the right to vote. That come directly from the Supreme Court decision. That isn’t a good enough reason for me. Abortions are immoral in my opinion. They are not any part of my moral compass. I will do everything in my power to end all abortions in the United States and make sure we don’t spend taxpayers money to fund abortions anywhere in the world.
We must finish the southern border wall now. Last year almost 2M illegal immigrants crossed that border into the US. Most were from Mexico. The population of Mexico is only 128M. At this rate it will only take about 60 years for virtually all of Mexico to illegally immigrate to the United States. I hope you can see the problem with this. Even if half or a quarter or a tenth of Mexico illegally enters the US, it will be too much. Add on top of that the fact they are unvaccinated against COVID 19, they are not vetted in many cases and they are responsible for some rather horrible crimes in America. I say enough is enough.
We must save Social Security. The Trustees of the Social Security Trust Fund issued a report last Fall that said Social Security checks will be automatically cut by 22% before 2034 and that might happen much sooner if we have high inflation and a recession. Well, we already have high inflation. If a recession occurs we could all be looking at a $440 cut in the average Social Security check. We must fix this now and I have a rational plan to do it.
The Federal Budget and Defense. We must balance the budget. I have written two books on the subject and many of my ideas have come to fruition. But Congress just keeps spending more and more money on both sides of the aisle. I will do everything in my power including a Constitutional Amendment to balance the budget. I also want to influence the Department of Defense in the way it handles procurement so that we can get a lot more out of every tax dollar, starting with very long term procurement packages.
Jesus Christ, Sam Rayburn, Barbara Jordan, Sam Houston, Ronald Reagan.
Freedom Has A Cost by Mike Philips and Kristin Beck on Amazon Kindle books and Meet Mike Philip by Mike Philips on Apple iBooks.
Leadership, integrity, compassion
Leadership, Integrity, Compassion
Represent your constituents.
A Balanced Budget
The assassination of President Kennedy. I was nine years old.
I ran my own lawn care company from middle school through high school. I also worked summers and school holidays at Astroworld in Houston for two years. But my first real job was in the US Marines. I was on active duty for four years and in the reserves for ten more years.
Ira Levine’s “This Perfect Day”. This book, like “”1984” is very insightful as to where America is headed.
John Denver’s “Today”
Saying too much.
National and Global Leadership.
Massive debt, unparalleled illegal immigration, the loss of 22% of our social security checks, welfare, unemployment, social breakdown, Main Street media and a couple of countries who are bent on destroying America, starting with our core values.
Ways and Means
Both the Senate and the House should be limited to 12 years.
Barbara Jordan, Sam Rayburn, Sam Houston.
I’m from A&M so I can tell this one. A reporter at the Texas State fair stops an Aggie holding a pig under his arm and asks, “Where did you get him?” The pig answers” I won him at the fair”.
I believe in vigorous debate but I will never compromise my core values.
One of the principle reasons I am running is to balance the budget.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 19, 2022
