Chuck Meyer
Chuck Meyer (Republican Party) ran for election for the Chief Justice judge of the Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals. He lost in the Republican primary on March 3, 2020.
Biography
Meyer earned a graduate degree in law from the University of Oxford. He also holds a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, an M.S. degree in Operations Research from George Washington University and a J.D. degree from the Washington College of Law of the American University.[1]
Meyer has worked as an engineer, a patent examiner, a judicial law clerk, a lawyer, a business leader in a publicly-traded company, and most recently as a Registered Patent Attorney and Partner of the law firm, FisherBroyles, LLP, and as part-time Assistant District Attorney for Hardin County.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Texas intermediate appellate court elections, 2020
General election
General election for Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals Chief Justice
Scott Golemon won election in the general election for Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals Chief Justice on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Scott Golemon (R) | 100.0 | 413,116 | |
| Total votes: 413,116 | ||||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals Chief Justice
Scott Golemon defeated Jay Wright in the Republican primary runoff for Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals Chief Justice on July 14, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Scott Golemon | 50.4 | 20,056 | |
| Jay Wright | 49.6 | 19,734 | ||
| Total votes: 39,790 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals Chief Justice
Scott Golemon and Jay Wright advanced to a runoff. They defeated Chuck Meyer, Colleen Cordts Rice, and Jarrod Walker in the Republican primary for Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals Chief Justice on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Scott Golemon | 25.1 | 28,570 | |
| ✔ | Jay Wright | 25.1 | 28,510 | |
| Chuck Meyer | 19.6 | 22,304 | ||
| Colleen Cordts Rice | 16.4 | 18,679 | ||
| Jarrod Walker | 13.8 | 15,638 | ||
| Total votes: 113,701 | ||||
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Campaign finance
2016
| Texas 410th District Court, Republican Primary, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Jennifer Robin |
43.37% | 29,558 |
| Kristin Bays |
34.88% | 23,772 |
| Chuck Meyer | 21.75% | 14,823 |
| Total Votes (100) | 68,153 | |
| Source: Montgomery County, Texas, "March 1, 2016 Primary Elections," accessed March 1, 2016 | ||
Selection method
- See also: Partisan election of judges
The judges of the Texas District Courts are chosen in partisan elections. They serve four-year terms, after which they must run for re-election if they wish to continue serving.[3]
Though Texas is home to more than 400 district courts, the courts are grouped into nine administrative judicial regions. Each region is overseen by a presiding judge who is appointed by the governor to a four-year term. According to the state courts website, the presiding judge may be a "regular elected or retired district judge, a former judge with at least 12 years of service as a district judge, or a retired appellate judge with judicial experience on a district court."[4]
Qualifications
To serve on the district courts, a judge must be:
- a U.S. citizen;
- a resident of Texas;
- licensed to practice law in the state;
- between the ages of 25 and 75;*[5]
- a practicing lawyer and/or state judge for at least four years; and
- a resident of his or her respective judicial district for at least two years.[3]
*While no judge older than 74 may run for office, sitting judges who turn 75 are permitted to continue serving until their term expires.[3]
2014
Meyer ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent Texas' 36th District. Meyer was defeated by Brian Babin and Ben Streusand in the Republican primary on March 4, 2014.[6][7]
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Brian Babin |
33.4% | 17,194 | ||
| Ben Streusand |
23.3% | 12,024 | ||
| John Manlove | 6.9% | 3,556 | ||
| Doug Centilli | 6.8% | 3,506 | ||
| Phil Fitzgerald | 6.6% | 3,388 | ||
| Robin Riley | 5.1% | 2,648 | ||
| Dave Norman | 4.5% | 2,325 | ||
| Chuck Meyer | 3.1% | 1,574 | ||
| John Amdur | 2.9% | 1,470 | ||
| Kim Morrell | 2.8% | 1,444 | ||
| Jim Engstrand | 2.5% | 1,288 | ||
| Pat Kasprzak | 2.2% | 1,116 | ||
| Total Votes | 51,533 | |||
| Source: Texas Secretary of State |
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2012
Meyer ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. House to represent Texas' 36th District. He was defeated by Steve Stockman and Stephen Takach in the Republican primary on May 29, 2012.[8][9]
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
|
Stephen Takach Incumbent |
22.4% | 12,208 |
| Steve Stockman |
21.8% | 11,858 |
| Mike Jackson | 19.8% | 10,786 |
| Jim Engstrand | 9.4% | 5,114 |
| Ky D. Griffin | 7.4% | 4,025 |
| Charles Meyer | 4% | 2,156 |
| Kim Morrell | 3.5% | 1,930 |
| Lois Dickson Myers | 2.9% | 1,558 |
| Jerry Doyle | 2.7% | 1,479 |
| Keith Casey | 2.3% | 1,225 |
| Daniel Whitton | 2% | 1,110 |
| Tim Wintill | 1.8% | 984 |
| Total Votes | 54,433 | |
2010
Meyer ran unsuccessfully as an Independent, Write-in candidate in the United States Congress elections, 2010, for the U.S. House, to represent Texas' 18th District. Incumbent Representative, Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee, won the election.[10]
| U.S. House of Representatives General Election, Texas, Congressional District 18, 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Sheila Jackson Lee Incumbent |
70.2% | 85,108 | |
| Republican | John Faulk | 27.3% | 33,067 | |
| Libertarian | Mike Taylor | 2.6% | 3,118 | |
| Write-in | Charles B. (ChuckM) Meyer | 0% | 28 | |
| Total Votes | 121,321 | |||
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Chuck Meyer did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2014
Meyer's campaign website listed the following issues:[11]
- Secure Data Privacy and Data Protection
- Excerpt: "As a result of my 30 years’ combined experience as a systems engineer, a technology lawyer, educator, and business leader, I understand from many perspectives the complex issues surrounding data protection and data privacy. I am committed to fight to put in place sound Constitutional and legal safeguards to protect the private data of all of our citizens from invasion by not just the government, but also by those who seek to do us grave harm by stealing our financial data, our health and other personal data, and critically, our identities."
- Unleash Entrepreneurial and Industrial Economic Growth
- Excerpt: "Free Market economies cannot function if they are burdened by unnecessary, unconstitutional and uncontrolled federal, state and local regulations. While a Congressman can do little to rein in state and local regulations, there is much that we can do to stop the massive over-regulation of our businesses, large and small."
- Reform Congress and the Executive Branch
- Excerpt: "I will support any legislation that requires Members of Congress, Congressional staffs, the Executive Branch and its employees to live under the same laws and regulations that our government imposes upon the rest of the nation."
- Return to the People a Constitutionally-limited Government that is not Drowning in over 17 Trillion Dollars of Debt
- Excerpt: "Our debt burden is unsustainable, and if we were a private enterprise, our government would have long ago been liquidated in bankruptcy. The massive amount of debt we have accumulated is putting at risk not only our future, but also the future of generations yet unborn."
- Restore our Promises to Our Veterans
- Excerpt: "We must meet the commitments that We the People, through our elected leaders, have made to our men and women who served under our nations flag to defend our Constitution and to keep America safe and free. It is simply unconscionable that we would take any steps to reduce the pensions of those who have pledged their lives for the protection of our freedoms."
2012
Meyer's campaign website listed the following issues:[12]
- No Budget, No Pay
- Excerpt: "adopt the proposal of the No Labels Organization that stops paying Members of Congress if they don’t pass a budget in a timely fashion."
- Rational Term Limits
- Excerpt: "work to amend the Constitution to provide a maximum of three consecutive terms for Representatives and two consecutive terms for Senators, but include a sunset provision."
- Significantly Amend the Voting Rights Act
- Excerpt: "either have it apply to all states equally or eliminate it entirely in exchange for greater restrictions on political gerrymandering in federal Congressional districts."
- Eliminate Special Treatment of Members of Congress
- Excerpt: "go beyond the Stock Act and ensure that every act of Congress applies the same way to its Members as it does to the rest of the nation."
- Streamline the tax code
- Excerpt: "remove special interest provisions and establish two tax rates at 10% and 25% for both corporations and individuals, with an income threshold for individuals at least 4 times the poverty level before the 10% rate kicks in."
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
| Charles Meyer | |
| Republican National Convention, 2016 | |
| Status: | At-large delegate |
| State: | Texas |
| Bound to: | Donald Trump |
| Delegates to the RNC 2016 | |
| Calendar and delegate rules overview • Types of delegates • Delegate rules by state • State election law and delegates • Delegates by state | |
Charles Meyer was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Texas. Meyer was one of 48 delegates from Texas bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention.[13] As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016.
Texas primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Texas, 2016
| Texas Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
| Jeb Bush | 1.2% | 35,420 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 4.2% | 117,969 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.1% | 3,448 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz |
43.8% | 1,241,118 | 104 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 3,247 | 0 | |
| Lindsey Graham | 0.1% | 1,706 | 0 | |
| Elizabeth Gray | 0.2% | 5,449 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 6,226 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 4.2% | 120,473 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.3% | 8,000 | 0 | |
| Marco Rubio | 17.7% | 503,055 | 3 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 2,006 | 0 | |
| Donald Trump | 26.8% | 758,762 | 48 | |
| Other | 1% | 29,609 | 0 | |
| Totals | 2,836,488 | 155 | ||
| Source: Texas Secretary of State and CNN | ||||
Delegate allocation
Texas had 155 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 108 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 36 congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the primary vote in a district in order to be eligible to receive any of that district's delegates. If only one candidate met the 20 percent threshold in a district, he or she won all of the district's delegates. If two candidates met this threshold, the first place finisher received two of the district's delegates; the second place finisher received the remaining delegate. If no candidate won 20 percent of the vote, the top three finishers in a district each received one of the district's delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in a district, he or she received all of the district's delegates.[14][15]
Of the remaining 47 delegates, 44 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the statewide primary vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's at-large delegates. If only one candidate broke the 20 percent threshold, the second place finisher still received a portion of the state's at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, he or she received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[14][15]
Personal
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Meyer is married and has three children.[16]
See also
2020 Elections
External links
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- Campaign website
- Facebook page
- Biography from Project Vote Smart
- Texas Judicial Branch
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Campaign website, "About Chuck," accessed January 29, 2014
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "Official candidate list," accessed December 18, 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Texas," archived October 3, 2014
- ↑ Texas Courts Online, "Administrative Judicial Regions," accessed September 12, 2014
- ↑ Texas State Historical Association, "Judiciary," accessed September 12, 2014
- ↑ The Texas Tribune, "Primary 2014 Election Results," March 4, 2014
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "2014 March Primary Election Candidate Filings by County," accessed December 10, 2013
- ↑ Texas GOP, "Republican candidate list," accessed May 10, 2012
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "Unofficial Republican primary results," May 29, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ Campaign website, "Issues," accessed January 29, 2014
- ↑ Campaign website, Platform
- ↑ Texas GOP, "National Convention," May 19, 2016
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
- ↑ Project Vote Smart, "Biography," accessed June 2, 2014
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