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John Briscoe
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Prior offices
Ocean View Elementary School District (Orange County) school board At-large

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 5, 2024

Education

Bachelor's

California State University, Long Beach

Graduate

Claremont Graduate University, 1989

Personal
Birthplace
Altadena, Calif.
Religion
Christian
Profession
Asset manager
Contact

John Briscoe (Republican Party) was a member of the Ocean View Elementary School District (Orange County) school board At-large in California.

Briscoe (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 42nd Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

John Briscoe was born in Altadena, California. Briscoe earned bachelor's degrees in psychology and speech communication from California State University at Long Beach, a master's degree in public administration from California State University at Long Beach, and a master's degree in business administration from Claremont Graduate University in 1989. His career experience includes working as a broker and a property asset manager with Crestview Property Management. Briscoe has served as the vice president of the Ocean View School District Board of Education.[1][2][3][4]

Elections

2024

See also: California's 42nd Congressional District election, 2024

California's 42nd Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 top-two primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House California District 42

Incumbent Robert Garcia defeated John Briscoe in the general election for U.S. House California District 42 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Robert Garcia
Robert Garcia (D)
 
65.9
 
76,245
Image of John Briscoe
John Briscoe (R)
 
34.1
 
39,523

Total votes: 115,768
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 42

Incumbent Robert Garcia and John Briscoe defeated Nicole López and Joaquín Beltrán in the primary for U.S. House California District 42 on March 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Robert Garcia
Robert Garcia (D)
 
52.1
 
49,891
Image of John Briscoe
John Briscoe (R)
 
31.9
 
30,599
Image of Nicole López
Nicole López (D) Candidate Connection
 
9.1
 
8,758
Image of Joaquín Beltrán
Joaquín Beltrán (D) Candidate Connection
 
6.8
 
6,532

Total votes: 95,780
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Endorsements

Briscoe received the following endorsements.

2022

See also: California's 42nd Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House California District 42

Robert Garcia defeated John Briscoe in the general election for U.S. House California District 42 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Robert Garcia
Robert Garcia (D)
 
68.4
 
99,217
Image of John Briscoe
John Briscoe (R)
 
31.6
 
45,903

Total votes: 145,120
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 42

The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 42 on June 7, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Robert Garcia
Robert Garcia (D)
 
46.7
 
43,406
Image of John Briscoe
John Briscoe (R)
 
26.1
 
24,319
Image of Cristina Garcia
Cristina Garcia (D)
 
12.6
 
11,685
Image of Peter Mathews
Peter Mathews (D) Candidate Connection
 
3.7
 
3,415
Image of Nicole López
Nicole López (D)
 
3.4
 
3,164
Image of Julio Cesar Flores
Julio Cesar Flores (G)
 
2.7
 
2,491
Image of William Summerville
William Summerville (D) Candidate Connection
 
2.5
 
2,301
Image of Joaquín Beltrán
Joaquín Beltrán (D)
 
2.4
 
2,254

Total votes: 93,035
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

2020

See also: California's 47th Congressional District election, 2020

General election

General election for U.S. House California District 47

Incumbent Alan Lowenthal defeated John Briscoe in the general election for U.S. House California District 47 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Alan Lowenthal
Alan Lowenthal (D)
 
63.3
 
197,028
Image of John Briscoe
John Briscoe (R) Candidate Connection
 
36.7
 
114,371

Total votes: 311,399
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 47

The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 47 on March 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Alan Lowenthal
Alan Lowenthal (D)
 
45.4
 
72,759
Image of John Briscoe
John Briscoe (R) Candidate Connection
 
16.8
 
27,004
Image of Amy Phan West
Amy Phan West (R) Candidate Connection
 
14.5
 
23,175
Image of Peter Mathews
Peter Mathews (D)
 
11.0
 
17,616
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Jalen McLeod (D)
 
8.7
 
13,955
Silhouette Placeholder Image.png
Sou Moua (R)
 
3.7
 
5,866

Total votes: 160,375
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2018

See also: California's 47th Congressional District election, 2018

General election

General election for U.S. House California District 47

Incumbent Alan Lowenthal defeated John Briscoe in the general election for U.S. House California District 47 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Alan Lowenthal
Alan Lowenthal (D)
 
64.9
 
143,354
Image of John Briscoe
John Briscoe (R) Candidate Connection
 
35.1
 
77,682

Total votes: 221,036
(100.00% precincts reporting)
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 47

Incumbent Alan Lowenthal and John Briscoe defeated David Clifford in the primary for U.S. House California District 47 on June 5, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Alan Lowenthal
Alan Lowenthal (D)
 
60.6
 
70,539
Image of John Briscoe
John Briscoe (R) Candidate Connection
 
21.6
 
25,122
Image of David Clifford
David Clifford (R)
 
17.8
 
20,687

Total votes: 116,348
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2014

See also: Ocean View School District elections (2014)

The election in Ocean View featured three seats up for general election on November 4, 2014. There was no primary election.

Three at-large incumbents, John Ortiz, Tracy Pellman and John Briscoe, were up for re-election. Briscoe, Jack C. Souders, and Joseph Anthony Gaglione won the three available seats by defeating Ortiz, Pellman, and Norm Westwell.

Results

Ocean View School District,
At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Nonpartisan Green check mark transparent.pngJack C. Souders 22.3% 10,544
     Nonpartisan Green check mark transparent.pngJohn Briscoe Incumbent 18.8% 8,909
     Nonpartisan Green check mark transparent.pngJoseph Anthony Gaglione 17.3% 8,197
     Nonpartisan Tracy Pellman Incumbent 16.7% 7,898
     Nonpartisan Norm Westwell 13.6% 6,427
     Nonpartisan John Ortiz Incumbent 11.3% 5,339
Total Votes 47,314
Source: Orange County Registrar of Voters, "Official Results for Election," accessed December 23, 2014

Funding

The Orange County Registrar of Voters does not publish and freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports that were filed by paper in their office. Ballotpedia staffers directly requested this information, but the municipal office refused those requests to make that information public.

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

John Briscoe did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Briscoe's campaign website stated the following:

HOMELESSNESS
The homeless problem in our communities of Los Angeles and Orange Counties is big and growing bigger. Today the ordinary resident must step over sleeping urine-soaked bodies strewn sleeping on our streets and sidewalks. Our parks can be seen filled with daytime sleeping homeless folks, “sleeping it off.” It is too much. We must put a stop to the rampant homelessness.

Being homeless is in and of itself not a crime; vagrancy laws citing “no visible means of support” are no longer enforceable. The majority of homeless folks are substance users and abusers including alcohol, marijuana, heroin, and many other illegal drugs. These drugs can be detected by various tests, both their presence and the amount of the intoxicant ingested.

It is illegal to be under the influence on the public streets and in public. Some cities like Huntington Beach even make it illegal to drink a can of beer on your own front porch! Our homelessness folks also are significantly damaged by mental illness. Many homeless persons suffer from both substance use and mental illness; they win the trifecta of conditions that destroy their lives.

Homeless persons cannot be detained just because they are homeless if there are not enough nighttime beds provided by local governments to house them. However, homeless folks can and should be brought before a judge if they are found to be under the influence. The judge can offer the accused a choice of jail for substance abuse or the opportunity to ‘take the cure’ and sober-up/dry out.

The US Congress can and should provide local communities the funding to pay for thirty or even ninety-day sober living treatment to first-time offenders of ‘under-the-influence’ laws. Once out of their sober living treatment these now ‘clean’ folks have the chance to make that life changing decision to stay sober or not. If the homeless person chooses to go back to substance use and abuse and is picked up again by the same city, it is a simple ‘Two-Sobriety-Strikes & You’re – Out!’ This would allow a judge to commit the twice guilty homeless person to long term treatment in a mental institution or jail as is appropriate, for being convicted twice of being under the influence.

ALL HOMELESSNESS MUST BE ADDRESSED
1. Bridge Abutment Homeless: Currently local municipalities focus on the dirty and disheveled derelicts that panhandle tourists and residents for money. These homeless people typically sleep on a park or bus bench, or under bridge abutments. However, there are many more types of homelessness that community services should and must address.

2. Car Living Homeless: There are many thousands of folks that live in their car using the car to commute to work in the day and sleeping in the car at night. Their car is their home.

3. Illegal Garage Conversion Homeless: Many garages that have been illegally dry walled and converted to a dwelling are called home by residents. The families living in these garages are at higher risk of fire death and sanitation related problems.

4. Motel/Hotel Living Homeless: There exist whole motel complexes inhabited by perma homeless families that change rooms every 29 days so the motel owner can avoid becoming entangled in a monthly rental contract.

5. Couch Surfing Student Friend Homeless: At every high school there are several many dozen students that have been kicked out of their legal domicile residence by their parents to wander the streets. The luckiest of these kids are taken in by peer friend parents and allowed to sleep on the couch for the long term until graduation from high school. Couch surfing also exists with older persons beyond high school. The problem is any teacher that knows of a couch surfing student in their class is legally required to report to the Police or CPS Child Protective Services; seldom is this report made.

6. Shelter Living Homeless: There are several many charity homeless shelters for women, families and youth. These residents all have a safe home but would certainly be considered homeless and in need of services by any measure.

7. Two Families in One Dwelling: Under Federal Law if two families inhabit one residential dwelling unit, one of those families is considered homeless. In communities of extreme poverty this is likely the largest single number of homeless persons.

Congress can and must pass legislation to provide support measures for these seven categories of homelessness that are currently addressed poorly or not at all in the 47th Congressional District.

IMMIGRATION
The Federal Government must secure our borders assuring only persons allowed and authorized enter the US. We are a sovereign nation and a secure border is essential to maintaining our sovereignty. We must fix our US visa system to ensure accurate industry based immigration. And once our border is secured, we can discuss pathways to citizenship for those who have earned it. Below I highlight three main areas of my stance on immigration.

FAMILY MIGRATION
Family migration is wonderful! Under current law if a family wants to bring in Granny from Cambodia or Vietnam, Granny is welcomed under family repatriation rules. However, the inviting family must promise in writing that Granny will never ever never be on welfare or collect social security. The sponsoring family promises to support Granny for all her remaining days of life. This is fantastic! Families brought together at no risk of taxpayer obligation.

FELON & CRIMINAL REMOVAL
The Federal Government must focus priority resources on getting rid of all convicted felons and criminals from other countries. The infamous “MS-13 Gang” is a prime example of bad seeds planted across our nation. Every “MS-13 Gang” member that is documented and deported represents tens-of-thousands of dollars saved for incarceration costs, community robbery costs, and rape & murders that will not happen.

BORDER SECURITY
The US owns and is responsible for maintenance of a secure and locked border. It is the job and duty of the Federal Government to assure that only authorized and approved persons cross our border into the USA. To accomplish this we must do everything possible to stop unauthorized border crossings. These measures can include airplane patrols, motor vehicle patrols, boats in river adjacent borders, radar, and fencing.

INFRASTRUCTURE
The Federal Government must spend the highway trust fund dollars on infrastructure as intended. Diversions of highway money to alternative uses like the “bullet-train-to nowhere” must stop. Private and public partnerships can extend tax dollars effectiveness with benefits for all. Project Labor Agreements are the bane of cost savings and taxpayer value. Below I highlight two main areas of my stance on infrastructure.

LONG BEACH HARBOR
Our Long Beach harbor is the economic engine of our City of Long Beach in the 47th Congress District. The harbor is one of the largest and busiest in the world with over half of all ship based US imports coming through the Long Beach/LA Harbor complex. We have a problem Houston, Panama has built new canal locks to steal away our Long Beach Port shipments. Heretofore large container ships could not fit through the old nineteenth century locks; shippers were forced to use Long Beach/LA ports. Today New York, Miami, and New Orleans ports are vying to steal our shipping. Congress must do everything possible to bolster the infrastructure of the harbor to keep it competitive with transshipment through the new Panama Canal locks.

ROADS AND BRIDGES
It is no secret; our roads and bridges are falling apart. Roads that cannot carry the traffic become a detriment to commerce and will stall our economic recovery from COVID 19. Currently, Congress uses the Highway Trust Fund that we all paid for with our gas tax dollars as a cushion to bolster the budget each year. I will make Congress spend OUR money on OUR roads and bridges as the federal gas tax trust fund was intended. My point is simple, we have the money, the trust fund money belongs to us, SPEND THE MONEY!

HEALTHCARE
I recognize the current need to protect preexisting conditions as part and parcel of all health insurance plans and should remain so. But there are other areas in which we need to get to work! We need to alleviate price controls on hospitals and doctors that do nothing, except drive prices up and open up the insurance market nationwide to increase competition and reduce pricing. Below I cover the three main areas of healthcare I plan to address.

PREEXISTING CONDITIONS
Current Federal Affordable Care Act laws protect preexisting conditions as part and parcel of all health insurance plans and should remain so.

OPEN TRANSPARENT PRICING
Hospitals, doctors, drug companies, insurance companies and third party administrators are locked into an evil cabal of price controls that do nothing but go up. In the same hospital for the same procedures and medical care there could be twenty or thirty different prices. The patient cannot see these ‘double-secret-handshake’ price lists because they are negotiated in secret with outside payers. All pricing must become open, published and transparent so the consumer can see what they are paying for and shop around for the best prices for the best services.

INTERSTATE INSURANCE COMPETITION
In the current health care insurance system, each state licenses and regulates its own insurance industry exclusive to that state. There is no open and competitive health care insurance sales between states across state lines. An extreme example of this can be found in Alabama where over 90% of all individual health care insurance policies are sold by only one company. If insurance companies were allowed to sell across state lines prices would fall for all policies.[5]

—John Briscoe’s campaign website (2024)[6]

2022

John Briscoe did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Briscoe's campaign website stated the following:

HOMELESSNESS

The homeless problem in our communities of Los Angeles and Orange Counties is big and growing bigger. Today the ordinary resident must step over sleeping urine-soaked bodies strewn sleeping on our streets and sidewalks. Our parks can be seen filled with daytime sleeping homeless folks, “sleeping it off.” It is too much. We must put a stop to the rampant homelessness.

Being homeless is in and of itself not a crime; vagrancy laws citing “no visible means of support” are no longer enforceable. The majority of homeless folks are substance users and abusers including alcohol, marijuana, heroin, and many other illegal drugs. These drugs can be detected by various tests, both their presence and the amount of the intoxicant ingested.

It is illegal to be under the influence on the public streets and in public. Some cities like Huntington Beach even make it illegal to drink a can of beer on your own front porch! Our homelessness folks also are significantly damaged by mental illness. Many homeless persons suffer from both substance use and mental illness; they win the trifecta of conditions that destroy their lives.

Homeless persons cannot be detained just because they are homeless if there are not enough nighttime beds provided by local governments to house them. However, homeless folks can and should be brought before a judge if they are found to be under the influence. The judge can offer the accused a choice of jail for substance abuse or the opportunity to ‘take the cure’ and sober-up/dry out.

The US Congress can and should provide local communities the funding to pay for thirty or even ninety-day sober living treatment to first-time offenders of ‘under-the-influence’ laws. Once out of their sober living treatment these now ‘clean’ folks have the chance to make that life changing decision to stay sober or not. If the homeless person chooses to go back to substance use and abuse and is picked up again by the same city, it is a simple ‘Two-Sobriety-Strikes & You’re – Out!’ This would allow a judge to commit the twice guilty homeless person to long term treatment in a mental institution or jail as is appropriate, for being convicted twice of being under the influence.

ALL HOMELESSNESS MUST BE ADDRESSED

1. Bridge Abutment Homeless: Currently local municipalities focus on the dirty and disheveled derelicts that panhandle tourists and residents for money. These homeless people typically sleep on a park or bus bench, or under bridge abutments. However, there are many more types of homelessness that community services should and must address.

2. Car Living Homeless: There are many thousands of folks that live in their car using the car to commute to work in the day and sleeping in the car at night. Their car is their home.

3. Illegal Garage Conversion Homeless: Many garages that have been illegally dry walled and converted to a dwelling are called home by residents. The families living in these garages are at higher risk of fire death and sanitation related problems.

4. Motel/Hotel Living Homeless: There exist whole motel complexes inhabited by perma homeless families that change rooms every 29 days so the motel owner can avoid becoming entangled in a monthly rental contract.

5. Couch Surfing Student Friend Homeless: At every high school there are several many dozen students that have been kicked out of their legal domicile residence by their parents to wander the streets. The luckiest of these kids are taken in by peer friend parents and allowed to sleep on the couch for the long term until graduation from high school. Couch surfing also exists with older persons beyond high school. The problem is any teacher that knows of a couch surfing student in their class is legally required to report to the Police or CPS Child Protective Services; seldom is this report made.

6. Shelter Living Homeless: There are several many charity homeless shelters for women, families and youth. These residents all have a safe home but would certainly be considered homeless and in need of services by any measure.

7. Two Families in One Dwelling: Under Federal Law if two families inhabit one residential dwelling unit, one of those families is considered homeless. In communities of extreme poverty this is likely the largest single number of homeless persons.

Congress can and must pass legislation to provide support measures for these seven categories of homelessness that are currently addressed poorly or not at all in the 47th Congressional District.


IMMIGRATION

The Federal Government must secure our borders assuring only persons allowed and authorized enter the US. We are a sovereign nation and a secure border is essential to maintaining our sovereignty. We must fix our US visa system to ensure accurate industry based immigration. And once our border is secured, we can discuss pathways to citizenship for those who have earned it. Below I highlight three main areas of my stance on immigration.

FAMILY MIGRATION

Family migration is wonderful! Under current law if a family wants to bring in Granny from Cambodia or Vietnam, Granny is welcomed under family repatriation rules. However, the inviting family must promise in writing that Granny will never ever never be on welfare or collect social security. The sponsoring family promises to support Granny for all her remaining days of life. This is fantastic! Families brought together at no risk of taxpayer obligation.

FELON & CRIMINAL REMOVAL

The Federal Government must focus priority resources on getting rid of all convicted felons and criminals from other countries. The infamous “MS-13 Gang” is a prime example of bad seeds planted across our nation. Every “MS-13 Gang” member that is documented and deported represents tens-of-thousands of dollars saved for incarceration costs, community robbery costs, and rape & murders that will not happen.

BORDER SECURITY

The US owns and is responsible for maintenance of a secure and locked border. It is the job and duty of the Federal Government to assure that only authorized and approved persons cross our border into the USA. To accomplish this we must do everything possible to stop unauthorized border crossings. These measures can include airplane patrols, motor vehicle patrols, boats in river adjacent borders, radar, and fencing.


INFRASTRUCTURE

The Federal Government must spend the highway trust fund dollars on infrastructure as intended. Diversions of highway money to alternative uses like the “bullet-train-to nowhere” must stop. Private and public partnerships can extend tax dollars effectiveness with benefits for all. Project Labor Agreements are the bane of cost savings and taxpayer value. Below I highlight two main areas of my stance on infrastructure.

LONG BEACH HARBOR

Our Long Beach harbor is the economic engine of our City of Long Beach in the 47th Congress District. The harbor is one of the largest and busiest in the world with over half of all ship based US imports coming through the Long Beach/LA Harbor complex. We have a problem Houston, Panama has built new canal locks to steal away our Long Beach Port shipments. Heretofore large container ships could not fit through the old nineteenth century locks; shippers were forced to use Long Beach/LA ports. Today New York, Miami, and New Orleans ports are vying to steal our shipping. Congress must do everything possible to bolster the infrastructure of the harbor to keep it competitive with transshipment through the new Panama Canal locks.

ROADS AND BRIDGES

It is no secret; our roads and bridges are falling apart. Roads that cannot carry the traffic become a detriment to commerce and will stall our economic recovery from COVID 19. Currently, Congress uses the Highway Trust Fund that we all paid for with our gas tax dollars as a cushion to bolster the budget each year. I will make Congress spend OUR money on OUR roads and bridges as the federal gas tax trust fund was intended. My point is simple, we have the money, the trust fund money belongs to us, SPEND THE MONEY!


HEALTHCARE

I recognize the current need to protect preexisting conditions as part and parcel of all health insurance plans and should remain so. But there are other areas in which we need to get to work! We need to alleviate price controls on hospitals and doctors that do nothing, except drive prices up and open up the insurance market nationwide to increase competition and reduce pricing. Below I cover the three main areas of healthcare I plan to address.

PREEXISTING CONDITIONS

Current Federal Affordable Care Act laws protect preexisting conditions as part and parcel of all health insurance plans and should remain so.

OPEN TRANSPARENT PRICING

Hospitals, doctors, drug companies, insurance companies and third party administrators are locked into an evil cabal of price controls that do nothing but go up. In the same hospital for the same procedures and medical care there could be twenty or thirty different prices. The patient cannot see these ‘double-secret-handshake’ price lists because they are negotiated in secret with outside payers. All pricing must become open, published and transparent so the consumer can see what they are paying for and shop around for the best prices for the best services.

INTERSTATE INSURANCE COMPETITION

In the current health care insurance system, each state licenses and regulates its own insurance industry exclusive to that state. There is no open and competitive health care insurance sales between states across state lines. An extreme example of this can be found in Alabama where over 90% of all individual health care insurance policies are sold by only one company. If insurance companies were allowed to sell across state lines prices would fall for all policies.[5]

—John Briscoe's campaign website (2022)[7]

2020

Note: Briscoe submitted the above survey responses to Ballotpedia on June 15, 2020.

Note: Briscoe submitted the above survey responses to Ballotpedia on May 14, 2020.

2018

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Candidate Connection

John Briscoe participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on May 29, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and John Briscoe's responses follow below.[8]

What would be your top three priorities, if elected?

1. Immigration & Sanctuary Cities 2. Gas & Car Tax Repeal 3. Bridges & Roads 4. Veterans Administration[9][5]

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?

Education: served 12 years as a thrice elected and reelected public school trustee. Taxes: tax reform is necessary with simplification and cost savings turned into tax reductions.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[5]

Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. John Briscoe answered the following:

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?

Ronald Reagan came out from the shadows of Hollywood and into elected governance first in California and thence to lead the free world. He was a bold and forthright truth speaker to power and authority.[5]
Is there a book, essay, film, or something else that best describes your political philosophy?
Atlas Shrugged
The Shack[5]
What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?
Forthright and stalwart advocacy for matters important to constituency and all members of the 47th Congressional District.[5]
What qualities do you possess that would make you a successful officeholder?
Experienced in governance and legislation with twelve years service as a public school trustee.[5]
What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?
Elected members of Congress must advocate for their district based on their core beliefs. Congress members tell nobody what to do (that is the job of the executive branch). Congress members have nobody that reports to them(except a small staff to service constituents). The job of a member of Congress is to propose and vote; repeat.[5]
What legacy would you like to leave?
Freedom.[5]
What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at that time?
September 11 remains seared into my memory, especially when all air traffic was shut down bringing normal commerce to a halt...…...and stranding me out-of-town. I was forty-six years old.[5]
What was your very first job? How long did you have it?
My first job was as an adult was being a student worker on-campus at CSULB California State University, Long Beach. I worked as a teenager living at home I worked from age twelve mowing yards, babysitting, Boy Scout Summer Camp staff, and of course newspaper route delivery.[5]
What happened on your most awkward date?
The 1964 Ford Lincoln Continental GIANT parents car I was driving was too big to park anywhere near the home of the date I was picking up, leaving me no choice but to park far away and walking to the house causing me to be very late for pick-up.[5]
What is your favorite holiday? Why?
Christmas, an annual joyous celebration of his birth and the fulfillment of prophesy.[5]
What is your favorite book? Why?
The Bible. This books incorporates the historic Jewish experience and subsequent Christian testimony to guide all of our lives. As a believer the Bible is second to none for guidance and directions. For non-believers the Bible provides the best direction for conduct of our lives with others and the planet our creator gave us (hint, take care of both carefully).[5]
If you could be any fictional character, who would you be?
John Galt[5]
What is your favorite thing in your home or apartment? Why?
Computer. These amazing devices give access to the world.[5]
What was the last song that got stuck in your head?
Disney "Its a Small World"[5]
What is something that has been a struggle in your life?
Foul potty-mouth folks that present themselves before our elected public school board using four-letter epitaphs pretending to represent anybody more than their foul selves. As an elected official I am required to sit and listen to their Public Meeting comment ad nauseum.[5]
What qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution?
The House of Representatives is responsible for the budget and war. They have done neither of these responsibilities well. The budget continues bloated, uncut, and in deficit. The war powers of Congress remain unsated with Representatives-without-backbone abdicating their war duties by giving the President power to conduct war...…...without doing their duty to either declare war of better yet NOT declare war.[5]
Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?
Yes.[5]
What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?
The deficit spending by successive profligate spending Congresses has left the US dependent upon other governments like China to buy and support our spending with bond purchased. Chinese cessation of bond purchases will result in an immediate collapse of business as normal in the US. The other significant problem that remains unaddressed is the risk of an EMP event whereby all electrical systems could be rendered useless by just on high altitude space launched atomic bomb. All our systems must be hardened to resist the very real risk of terrorist rogue nations launching just on atomic device to trigger an EMP in the US.[5]
If you are not a current representative, are there certain committees that you would want to be a part of?
Education & Workforce, Homeland Security, Indian Affairs[5]
If you are a current representative, why did you join your current committees?
N/A[5]
Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?
Yes[5]
What are your thoughts on term limits?
Term Limits are a GREAT idea. Congress must suppress itself and its natural interest in self aggrandization to actually have this happen, an unlikely event in current format.[5]
What process do you favor for redistricting?
The States have the Constitutional right and responsibility to redistrict themselves based on whatever system each state selects to use. CA voters have spoken, installing a so-called independent redistricting committee. Other states prefer the legislature approach. Both are valid and time-tested apportionment systems.[5]
If you are not currently a member of your party’s leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, would you be interested in joining the leadership? If so, in what role?
Of course I would be interested in taking an active role in my party leadership in Congress.[5]
Both sitting representatives and candidates for office hear many personal stories from the residents of their district. Is there a story that you’ve heard that you found particularly touching, memorable, or impactful?
A staunch democrat registered family I know from Boy Scouts needed some passport help. Their congressman and his staff jumped in personally and immediately to get the problem resolved; it was fixed after several months of struggle with federal bureaucrats. In addition to proposing and voting, these mundane but important matters are the reason there is local elected representation.[5]

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John Briscoe campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* U.S. House California District 42Lost general$355,605 $135,285
2022U.S. House California District 42Lost general$527,945 $296,850
2020U.S. House California District 47Lost general$65,302 $61,538
2018U.S. House California District 47Lost general$54,714 $48,137
Grand total$1,003,566 $541,811
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 15, 2020
  2. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 14, 2020
  3. John Briscoe For Congress, "About John," accessed May 31, 2022
  4. Facebook, "John Briscoe," accessed May 31, 2022
  5. 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 5.20 5.21 5.22 5.23 5.24 5.25 5.26 5.27 5.28 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  6. John Briscoe for Congress, “Key Issues,” accessed February 7, 2024
  7. John Briscoe For Congress, “Key Issues,” accessed May 23, 2022
  8. Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
  9. Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "John Briscoe's responses," May 29, 2018


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