Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 24th Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Cole completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Thomas Cole was born in Los Angeles, California. Cole's professional experience includes working as an analyst, builder, and developer. He earned a J.D. from Santa Barbara College of Law in 1996.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: California's 24th Congressional District election, 2024
California's 24th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 top-two primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 24
Incumbent Salud Carbajal defeated Thomas Cole in the general election for U.S. House California District 24 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Salud Carbajal (D) | 62.7 | 214,724 | |
| Thomas Cole (R) | 37.3 | 127,755 | ||
| Total votes: 342,479 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 24
Incumbent Salud Carbajal and Thomas Cole defeated Helena Pasquarella in the primary for U.S. House California District 24 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Salud Carbajal (D) | 53.7 | 102,516 | |
| ✔ | Thomas Cole (R) | 37.2 | 71,089 | |
| Helena Pasquarella (D) | 9.1 | 17,293 | ||
| Total votes: 190,898 | ||||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Meet Thomas Cole Founder of Analytics805, an election data research company in Montecito and Coalition for Liberty an educational site. Retired developer and builder. Civil Rights Activist Patented Designer Stormwater capture patents and Wildfire suppression designs. Political Writer/Analyst See Coalition4liberty.com. SAR Member -Sons of American Revolution. YAF Presidential Circle Supporter Law degree, Southern California Institute of Law SB Parents First Republican. Pro-Second Amd. Heller Republican. Pro Farmer Pro water Pro dams Pro stormwater capture Pro-Medical Freedom candidate Pro-American Energy candidate Pro-Defence of Marriage candidate. Pro-Ballot Integrity candidate. Pro-Peace. Overseas Wars are Not Our Wars. Pro Federal Funding of Adoption Programs Pro Married with Children $100K tax credit to encourage marriage and lessen abortions. Marriage Requirement for welfare with children. Federal ban on trans surgeries/drugs under 18
- Close the borders as most of America's social and financial probelms stem from over population
- Work for peace. Stop the endless wars that America is always being drug into by the deep state and war camplexes.
- Protect children and Title IX in schools. Stop the trans gender madness. Vouchers for parents, not forced drag queen story hour.
Peace not war. Stop the debt, the fiat fake money, the endless printing and taxing. Close the open borders, bringing fentanyl, criminals, foreign terrorists, diseases and worthless people to put on welfare. Protect children from the radical liberals forcing their immoral bull crap onto innocent kids, trapped in government schools. Vouchers so parents have a choice.
What's So Great About America - Dinesh DeSusa
Protect the people and preserve their rights, their freedoms and their money from waste.
Not a communist.
Protect and preserve the US Constitution.
Lower th e debt. Increase our freedoms. Close our borders.
Cuban missile crisis... 6 years old
Paper route 1 year 13 years old
Life After Google by George Gilder
Chemical Warfare/Walking on Sunshine mashup by Bill McClintoc
Geting through the Obama years.
It's the voice of the regular people. Or it was supposed to be.
No. Experts in government have no experience in being frugal.
Remove the communists from political power.
When my democrat father said the bleeding hear liberals are ruining the county with open borders.
I sent out a selfie and got back 100 get well notices.
Not if you are winning.
Cut the daylights out of all the useless departments like Javier Milei... Just say no more money for useless, wasteful programs.
Hire private investigative companies and journalists to do it all. Bring in targets for questioning in public meetings.
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Campaign website
Cole’s campaign website stated the following:
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Cole has three questions for Salud -
1) Hey Salud, why are you flooding our country with millions of illegals? (7 million since 2020) |
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| —Thomas Cole’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
Cole’s campaign website also stated the following:
| CONGRESSIONAL POSITION | CONGRESSMAN CARBAJAL | THOMAS COLE |
|---|---|---|
| 1) TAXES | Raise taxes - fund 70,000 new IRS agents increase spending at all levels | Cut spending. Cut taxes. Cut government. 10% flat tax. Cut government spending in half |
| 2) ENERGY | Cuts Oil production. No drilling. Imports oil from the Saudis. Gov funds windmills killing millions of birds, eagles, raptors for undependable expensive energy all built in China with child labor. Regulate CO2 as a poison. New green fraud deal - YES | Drill USA for cheap energy, increase good paying oil jobs. Build nukes. Cut windmill funding. Save the birds from Chinese made windmills. New green deal is a hoax to kill America, kill American jobs and freedoms.. NO TO PARIS ACCORDS FRAUD DEAL. Manmade global warming is a hoax. |
| 3) HEALTHCARE | Government is sole provider of health care. Mandate gov healthcare. Mandate vaccines, mandate school closures, mandate firing if not vaccinated. Fire service members for non compliance...No choice for parents, no choice for workers soldiers no one.. | Allow free cross state access to Health care insurance. Create government hospitals staffed with government doctors. Gov hospitals that cannot be sued. Provide health care as needed. Cut costs with no lawyers. No mandates. No firing soldiers for noncompliance. No vaccine mandates. No school closures or mask mandates. Choice Choice Choice |
| 4) IMMIGRATION | Keep borders open. Keep fentanyl coming in. Keep child sex trafficking protected. Defend Cartels sex traffic rings. Keep all Illegal immigrants. College for illegal immigrants. Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants. No vax mandates for Illegal
Immigrants. |
Close the borders. Build wall. Stop the fentanyl. Stop the child sex trafficking. Deport all criminals. 30 year path to citizenship with no voting for 30 years. No anchor babies. No family reunification. Attack cartels in USA and Mexico if needed to control cartels and demilitarize Mexico, our neighbor. People leave Mexico because the cartel runs it. Tariff Mexico imports to USA 25%. Tariff remissions from US to Mexico 25%. |
| 5) SECOND AMENDMENT 2A | Carbajal restricts our second amendment civil rights. Restricts CCW. Burdensome regulations on law abiding citizens. Sides with globalist disarmament of America | Enough with the regulations. Heller says the second amendment means what it says. Shall Not Infringe. As Justice Thomas said: "The 2A requires courts to assess whether modern firearms regulations are consistent with the Second Amendment's text and historical understanding." |
| 6) GOV REFORM-VOTING | Statehood for DC. Statehood for Puerto Rico. Auto voter registration for more fraud. Non Citizens voting is fine. Month long voting fine. Internet elections are fine. | No statehood for the hood of DC. No statehood for corrupt debt ridden Puerto Rico. No auto voter sign up. One day voting. Paper ballots. Signature ON BALLOT. Bar code on ballot. |
| 7) VALUES VOTING | Congressman Carbajal loves the commission on J6 protestors. Jail protestors for years in solitary confinement - No problem. Illegal voters - no problem. Faulty ballots - no problem. 2,000 Mules funded by Zuckerberg no problem | Cole wants a commission on November 3rd, election day. Why the truckloads of ballots coming in from other counties/states? Why the media blackout election night. Why the millions of illegal ballots getting certified in the middle of the night. And why
did congress not stop for ten days to investigate? |
| 8) ABORTION | Cole wants a commission on November 3rd, election day. Why the truckloads of ballots coming in from other counties/states? Why the media blackout election night. Why the millions of illegal ballots getting certified in the middle of the night. And why did congress not stop for ten days to investigate? | Cole's asking - Is a five month limit too much? It's a reasonable ask- Testing can be done at that point. Cole will fund PP and also would fund alternative options, Church groups, to save babies if possible. Is that so horrible? Not. |
| FEDERAL ISSUES | CONGRESSMAN CARBAJAL | THOMAS COLE |
|---|---|---|
| 8) SAME SEX MARRAIGE | Love is love? Supports government forcing churches to marry two men or two women.
Supports forcing bakers to produce gay cakes. Next will be forcing black bakers to make KKK cakes. Supports government over reaching in to the religious construct of Marriage. |
Marriage is a religious construct of one man and one woman. Get government out of religion. Government
cannot force people to speak, to perform work to satisfy a viewpoint. Freedom of speech includes the right to not speak. Government can offer a 'Statement of Union' to legally join two men or two women. And next gov can decide if three men and a donkey can get a Statement of Union. |
| 9) TRANS MEN IN YOUR DAUGHTERS LOCKER ROOMS | Carbajal supports schools forcing your daughters to shower with trans men in school locker rooms. Voted nay on HR 743 which offered your daughters protection. | Carbajal supports schools forcing your daughters to shower with trans men in school locker rooms. Voted nay on HR 743 which offered your daughters protection. |
| 10) TITLE IX PROTECTION FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SCHOOL SPORTS | Title IX passed in the 70's and signed by President Nixon guarantees equal support and gov funding of women and girls run school sports. Carbajal votes with president Biden to intrude upon these protection by forcing trans men into women's and girls sports. Ruining records, safety, saingtity and scholarships for millions of girls and women. | Cole would support the current Title IX protection and guarantees for women and girls. Including the separation of men and women in locker rooms. That means no trans men in girls locker rooms. No trans men competing against girls and women. Trans men are men. They can compete against men or other transmen. They are not females, regardless of what the mind virus that infects our society today says. |
| 11) AFFIRMATIVE ACTION | Yes, supports affirmative action. In schools, in government hiring. Race based decisions in government and schools and hiring are fine. Salud even supports federal regulations making private business hire on the basis of race. | Cole does not support affirmative action. It has always been discriminatory to base government funding of schools, jobs, hiring on the basis of race. As Justice Thomas said: "The best way to not discriminate on the basis of race is to.. not discriminate on the basis of race" |
| 12) BORDERS | OPEN | CLOSE |
| 13) JOBS | Carbajal - Raise minimum wage nationwide to increase prosperity, regardless of cost of living differences between states. Kills high paying steady energy jobs. Replace with low paying gardener jobs. Floods nation with low wage, low education immigrants. Destroys wages for citizens. Pro union strikes. | Bring bank energy jobs. Build nukes. Close borders. Unions are fine, but employers are free to hire nonunion and fire strikers. Government unions are not guaranteed or needed. Government is an essential service, not a union wielded cuddle over the heads of citizens or politicians. |
| 14) CHINA | Good vote on Protect Uyghur Labor Act. To ensure fair treatment of enslaved people in China. Does nothing to protect child labor, slave labor of Chinese | Cole - Bar all trade with China. Trade Embargo with China until they demilitarize. "We don't trade with nations pointing nukes at us. Remove all Chinese nationals from University teaching and research positions. Stop and remove all funding of any American schools by China. (End Confucius program) |
| 15) MEXICO | Open border. Flood America with low wage low education immigrants. Supports State Department phone apps for illegal immigration - 'How to scam the system'. It's not fair to our nation, not fair to border states, not in America's interest to have 35% of Mexico move here. | 35% tariff on Mexican imports until they demilitarize, control cartels, control immigrants. Mexico consistently votes against USA in United Nation Votes. Brings in communist agitators, Lennon, Castro, Che.. Not a friend of the USA. Teach them some manners. Tariff or embargo. We are not your stupid gringo to the north. We protect you and finance you. |
| 16) UKRAINE/RUSSIA | Voted to fund US war against Russia. Russia a nuclear armed super power in a nation spanning 11 time zones, with 1,200 ICBM's and thousands of tactical nukes. Salud votes $140 Billion to support CIA puppet leader Zelensky and crew to grift billions and money launder cash back to the US Democrat politicians. Killing 400,000 Ukrainians in a useless war. | Stop funding CIA fomented war in Ukraine. Work for peace. Keep NATO out of Ukraine. Honor non militarized Ukraine treaties. Keep US and NATO bio weapons labs out of Ukraine. Keep NATO military out of Ukraine and off Russia's doorstep. Would we like Russia to arm up Mexico? Lead peace talks with Ukraine and Russia. Stop Pentagon and State Department from inciting and fomenting war efforts around the world. Work for peace. Stop fighting wars for colonialism and to protect our fake, fiat currency. |
| 17) DONALD J. TRUMP | Congressman Carbajal supports the Impeachment efforts against Trump - Supports current lawfare efforts to Indict 45 with Bidens AG Merrick Garland. Using the DOJ as a government funded political attack office. Supports FBI targeting of parents as terrorists for speaking up at school board meetings. Congressman Carbajal claims Trump Is a ringleader in the worst attack on America since the war of 1812. Does he realize in 1812 the English invaded America with 18,000 soldiers, burning down the White House and most of DC? Just asking. While Congressman Carbajal supports the House committee against Trump, destroying 'evidence' it collected claiming crimes were committed. Deleting files, videos of J6, hiding evidence of collusion by Pelosi and DC police chiefs to create a riot. The only people murdered wereby DC police. Cabajal supports the complete white washing of all Hunter/Joe Biden's bribery scandals. How does Joe Biden have a $60 million fortune on a government salary? How does Nancy Pelosi have a $160 million fortune? Congressman Carbajal doesn't want you to know. | Trump possibly America's most effective president since JFK /Abraham Lincoln. Because Trump fought for peace. Note: The people/forces who murdered JFK are the same people/forces trying to murder Trump. Both Trump and JFK fought for peace. JFK refused to invade Vietnam, Laos, Cuba while the pentagon and State Dept worked tirelessly behind JFK's back to create wars. Both JFK and Trump reached out to Russia to diffuse tensions and eliminate the Spector on an unthinkable nuclear confrontation. JFK's Pentagon recommended a first nuclear strike against Russia, killing 100 million people in an hour. Trump refused to kill fifty Iranians for a drone shot down despite military demanding action. These are leaders who save lives, by not founding and folding to the globalist war machines. Trump delivered the Abraham accords creating peace & friendship in the middle east. Now we are hated as usual and the Saudis have no place for our feted US government weaklings. Trump reached out with a firm hand to Russia, China, North Korea creating stability and trust as a leader should. Current president is creating war and division. Trump informed NATO they must find their own peace and prosperity, and not depend on USA taxpayers. Trump cut taxes. Protected American businesses. Tariffed China and Mexico. Closed our borders and stopped the Mexican invasion of unvetted, illegal, low wage, low education workers, criminals, fentenayl and child sex trafficking into the USA. 45 paid his presidential salary to a veterans charity, while Biden grifts millions from Ukraine using government powers to extort and kick back cash to him and Hunter. |
| 18) INFLATION FINANCE | Votes for all inflationary measures. Supports Fiat currency. Supports Fed Reserve fiat dollar. Supports inflation at any rate required by FED. Americans have been cheated out of 50% of their dollar, their savings, their pensions every decade. While inflation launches Americans into higher and higher tax brackets, to take more of Americans earned dollars, to pay down an endless Federal debt. | Will vote to place control of the US money supply back into congress where the Constitution says it belongs. End the FED. End inflation because it is theft by the government and the big NYC and international banks. Place a 1% tax on each stock transaction including currency trades made on US stock markets. Stop the speed traders from ripping off our currency, our stock markets. Markets are created and regulated by the SEC the government for the benefit and protection of Americans, not big city FED banks and foreign manipulators like Soros. |
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2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 13, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Thomas Cole for Congress, District 24, “Policy Positions,” accessed February 10, 2024
