Fred Simon Jr.
Fred Simon Jr. (Republican Party) (also known as Doc) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Nevada's 2nd Congressional District. He is on the ballot in the Republican primary on June 11, 2024.[source]
Biography
Fred Simon earned a B.A. in biology from Loma Linda University in 1976 and an M.D. from Creighton University in 1981. Simon's career experience includes owning a restaurant and working as a fellow with the Lahey Clinic Burlington Massachusetts Pancreatic-Biliary Fellowship Intra-Residency Fellowship program, the acting medical director of the surgical hospitalist program at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, and a real estate investor.[1][2][3]
Elections
2024
See also: Nevada's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024
Nevada's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (June 11 Republican primary)
General election
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The primary will occur on June 11, 2024. The general election will occur on November 5, 2024. Additional general election candidates will be added here following the primary.
General election for U.S. House Nevada District 2
Lynn Chapman, Javi Tachiquin, and Greg Kidd are running in the general election for U.S. House Nevada District 2 on November 5, 2024.
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Nevada District 2
Incumbent Mark Amodei and Fred Simon Jr. are running in the Republican primary for U.S. House Nevada District 2 on June 11, 2024.
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Aaron Kifle (R)
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2022
See also: Nevada gubernatorial election, 2022
General election
General election for Governor of Nevada
Joe Lombardo defeated incumbent Steve Sisolak, Brandon Davis, and Edward Bridges II in the general election for Governor of Nevada on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Joe Lombardo (R) | 48.8 | 497,377 |
 | Steve Sisolak (D) | 47.3 | 481,991 | |
 | Brandon Davis (L) | 1.5 | 14,919 | |
 | Edward Bridges II (Independent American Party) | 1.0 | 9,918 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.5 | 14,866 | ||
| Total votes: 1,019,071 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Bradley Beck (Independent)
- Monique Richardson (Independent)
- Austin Billings (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Governor of Nevada
Incumbent Steve Sisolak defeated Tom Collins in the Democratic primary for Governor of Nevada on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Steve Sisolak | 89.5 | 157,283 |
 | Tom Collins | 6.9 | 12,051 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 3.6 | 6,340 | ||
| Total votes: 175,674 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Governor of Nevada
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Governor of Nevada on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joe Lombardo | 38.4 | 87,761 |
 | Joey Gilbert | 27.0 | 61,738 | |
 | Dean Heller | 14.0 | 32,087 | |
 | John J. Lee | 7.8 | 17,846 | |
 | Guy Nohra | 3.7 | 8,348 | |
| Fred Simon Jr. | 3.0 | 6,856 | |
 | Tom Heck | 1.9 | 4,315 | |
 | Eddie Hamilton | 0.6 | 1,293 | |
 | Amber Whitley | 0.5 | 1,238 | |
 | William Walls | 0.4 | 833 | |
| Gary Evertsen | 0.2 | 558 | |
 | Seven Achilles Evans | 0.2 | 475 | |
| Edward O'Brien | 0.2 | 422 | |
 | Barak Zilberberg | 0.2 | 352 | |
 | Stan Lusak | 0.1 | 229 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.8 | 4,219 | ||
| Total votes: 228,570 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Michele Fiore (R)
2014
Incumbent Scott Peters won re-election to California's 52nd Congressional District in 2014. The race was a battleground district in 2014 due to the low margin of victory for Democrats in the last election and last two presidential elections. Incumbent Scott Peters (D) and Carl DeMaio triumphed in the blanket primary over Kirk Jorgensen (R) and Fred Simon (R). The general election race between Peters and DeMaio remained too close to call for several days after the election. The Associated Press called the race for Peters late on November 7, 2014, but DeMaio did not concede the race until November 9, 2014, due to the fact that there were still between 10,000 to 15,000 ballots left to be counted.[4][5]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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| Democratic |
 Scott Peters Incumbent |
42.3% | 53,926 | |
| Republican | Carl DeMaio |
35.3% | 44,954 | |
| Republican | Kirk Jorgensen | 18.5% | 23,588 | |
| Republican | Fred Simon | 4% | 5,040 | |
| Total Votes | 127,508 | |||
| Source: California Secretary of State |
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Campaign themes
2024
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2022
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Campaign website
Simon's campaign website stated the following:
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1 ★ VOTER ID On Day One of a Simon Administration, I will put the legislature on notice that no bills will be signed until they put a Voter ID bill on my desk. Everyone agrees, even Democrats, that you must produce a government photo ID with a signature match in order to vote. I will end mass mailing of ballots, return to paper ballots and make Voting Day a State holiday. On Day Two, I will announce that I am supporting and funding a citizen’s initiative to put Voter ID on the ballot. One way or another, I will deliver Voter ID.
Nevada cities are becoming overrun with criminal gangs, drugs and the homeless. I will provide more funding to our police and law enforcement agencies for training and install body cams and car cams to protect every officer and every citizen. I will bring in the toughest lawmen in the country to Nevada, men like Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik, and use Federal gun laws and RICO laws to break up the drug gangs and human traffickers. I support every citizen’s right to own a firearm, I support constitutional carry, and I will provide financial incentives to ammunition manufacturers to move to Nevada.
Nevada’s K-12 education system is completely broken. We are ranked 49th out of the 50 States in K-12 Education because of Teachers’ Unions, Progressive School Boards, and career politicians who just throw money at a broken system. I have a solid plan to fix our broken schools then implement SCHOOL CHOICE. To fix our government schools, Day One, I will fire every Governor appointee to the Nevada Education Board and replace them with experts who will adopt a new curriculum that eliminates CRT and SEL and focuses on core competency in math, reading, civics and history. I will bring back trade schools in high school. We will have a Zero Tolerance policy to school violence. Any violent student will be expelled and psychologically evaluated, drug tested and then placed into a remedial school environment. The State will measure every school twice a year and publish the results. Any school that falls below the 50% mean will be taken over by the State and remedial training of teachers, administrators, and students will commence. The real answer to improving education in Nevada is SCHOOL CHOICE. School choice provides the necessary competition to government schools so they CAN improve. School choice can only be adopted by the legislature, and I will be relentless in pushing the legislature to adopt a school choice plan. My goal is to provide parents up to $10,000 per child per year for education. Parents pick the school. And if you homeschool, you keep the money as your fair compensation.
Healthcare is rapidly deteriorating in Nevada thanks to Obamacare. We are ranked 38th in the nation in overall healthcare. 65% of all doctors are now employed by hospital systems and the government and are subject to cancel culture. And there are no doctors and nurses in rural Nevada. The fact is, care in Nevada is rapidly deteriorating and I am the only candidate with the knowledge and training to reverse this. I am a healthcare expert having been an independent physician and trauma surgeon for 40 years both inside large hospital systems and in small communities. I know all the ins and outs of the games played by insurance companies and hospital systems when it comes to billing and patient care. I will start by firing every Governor appointee to the Nevada Health Board. The Board completely failed to provide medical leadership during the Covid crisis. I will replace them with experts like Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Richard Urso, Dr. Heather Gessling and Dr. Ryan Coles who are Covid experts and who will protect Nevada from the next pandemic that is coming and will come from the Chinese Communist Party. If you are over 65, the evidence shows that hospital systems are adopting a substandard level of care to treat you. I will address this immediately with my new Health Board. I have a real plan to bring more doctors and nurses to rural Nevada, bring Supplemental Medicare insurance to our rural counties and establish Centers of Excellence for Diabetes, Heart disease, Colon and Breast cancer. I will restructure how we spend our Medicaid dollars, bring low-cost fee-for-service medical clinics to Nevada, and establish a long overdue program for treating mental illness and drug dependency. And I will do all of this without raising a single dime of taxes.
Dr. Simon is without a doubt the strongest candidate on the 2nd Amendment. A Dr. Simon administration will:
d) Will draft and support legislation for Constitutional Carry e) Will use our 10th Amendment rights to nullify any Federal regulation of the AR family of rifles, any Federal regulation on magazine capacity and any regulations on the purchase of ammunition. f) Will provide financial incentives to ammunition manufacturers to move to Nevada and make Nevada the “Ammo State”.
There was massive voter fraud conducted in Clark County in the November 2020 election. A Simon administration will press for legislation to ban electronic voting machines in the State of Nevada and return to voting on non-reproducible paper ballots. I will require that ballot vote tabulators be certified by two (2) independent audit firms, eliminate mail-out ballots, and eliminate DMV voter registration.
Governor Simon will create a Pandemic Strike Force in cooperation with the Gaming Industry and the UNLV Medical School. We will never shut down Las Vegas casinos again. Rather we will screen incoming guests at the airport and screen employees by taking temperatures and using rapid test machines to determine at risk persons and then provide them with low cost therapeutics and an activity monitoring regimen that they must follow.
Yucca Mountain is the key to Nevada’s financial future. There is $42 billion sitting in the Federal treasury waiting for Nevada to open Yucca Mountain. I intend to take $2.0 billion per year to create a world class, fully robotic, nuclear fuel storage, and recycling center. This will create thousands of good paying jobs and build a strong robotics industry right here in Nevada. I will take $1.0 billion per year and distribute check to every Nevada citizen just like they did in Alaska with Prudhoe Bay and trans-Alaska pipeline. We can do this, and Nevada will lead America.
The Biden administration is engaging in a criminal act by not enforcing our border and immigration laws. I want to reinstitute the Trump policies of a) completing the border wall, b) For Amnesty, you apply OUTSIDE the United States, c) immediately deport unaccompanied minors and adults that are apprehended. Further, I will expand the role of the Nevada State Police to track, expose and deport any human smuggling activity by the Biden administration into our State.
The Gross Receipts Tax is one of the most harmful legislative acts to come out of Nevada State government and it resulted in the largest tax increase in Nevada history. This tax targets successful growing businesses with over $4.0MM per year in gross revenue. This tax does great harm to our fastest growing businesses that drive employment in our State. It will be a top priority for Governor Fred Simon to work with the Legislature to repeal the Gross Receipts Tax on Nevada businesses.
Nevada is a sovereign State under the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution and Nevada has only given limited enumerated powers to the Federal Government. A Simon administration will use the 10th Amendment to push back against any unconstitutional legislation passed by Congress and against any regulations that are enacted by the Administrative State. Over 85% of Nevada land is currently under the control of the Federal Government and we will use the 10th Amendment to take back these lands for Nevada citizens. We will use the 10th Amendment to protect Nevada’s borders from the invasion of illegal aliens caused by the lawless Biden Administration.
Nevada is blessed with some of the greatest environmental resources in the country and we must have proactive policies to protect our forests, our wilderness and our water resources. We will implement new, global satellite early warning systems and drone technology to prevent out-of-control fires, manage our wildlife resources to provide our hunters and fisherman with world class outdoors opportunities and protect our rivers and lakes to provide recreational activities for our citizens.
Nevada State, Municipal and County workers are overpaid when compared to the same work in the private sector. This is massively unfair to Nevada taxpayers and is a direct result of the union bargaining structure in the State. A Simon administration will immediately institute a hiring freeze on all Nevada state employees. All new hires will have to be approved by the Governor. I will implement an an early retirement program with a goal of reducing the Nevada State workforce by 10% in four years and establish a Competitive Contracts Board which will review all state programs and identify those that can be competitively bid out to the private sector. I will work with the legislature to change Nevada law regarding the competitive bargaining structure with state, municipal and county unions.
The sound money of gold and silver built the great State of Nevada. But since 1971, the Federal Reserve has pursued an inflationary policy that has resulted in increased prices on commodities, wages, housing and financial assets. The current Fed target of 2% inflation per year results in a 10% loss of purchasing power every five years. These policies reward the rich and destroy the middle and lower classes. In order to have honest Government, we need honest money. Dr. Simon will work with the Legislature to pass legislation to make Gold, Silver and Bitcoin legal tender for all transactions and contracts in the State of Nevada and, following the lead of the State of Texas, work to pass legislation establishing a Nevada Bullion Depository where Nevada citizens can safely store gold and silver bullion.
One the key goals of a Dr. Simon administration will be to drive down electrical energy costs to near zero to reduce costs for our entertainment and gaming industry, for our manufacturing and retail industries and for consumers. Low cost, reliable energy will make Nevada very attractive to new manufacturing, datacenter and knowledge based businesses. We will pursue modular nuclear power plant designs developed at UNR that have the potential to deliver low cost, zero CO2, power over a State-wide grid. Our goal is to place (100) 100MW power plants on a Statewide grid to provide reliable baseline power to all parts of the State.
Our own University of Nevada at Reno (UNR) engineering department has developed a conceptual modular power plant that runs on thorium, a nuclear material found in great abundance in Nevada. We intend to form a partnership with NV Energy, the University of Nevada, the Federal Energy Commission and the State of Nevada Energy Department to develop safe, low cost, modular, 50-100 MW Thorium nuclear power plants which each generate enough power for 50,000 homes for 30 years without being refueled. Over the next 20 years, our goal is to place 100 of these power plants on a State-wide grid to provide reliable baseline power to all parts of the State.
A Simon administration will require all Hospitals to post their prices for all services. We will encourage and license doctor groups who wish to practice medicine on a direct revenue model that involve the delivery of a variety of medical services (Labs, check-ups, ENT services, outpatient surgery, pharmacy, house calls and referrals) for a fixed monthly fee. And we will authorize all pharmacies in the State to purchase prescription drugs from Canada or other competitive international suppliers.
Dr. Fred Simon is uniquely qualified to address the addiction and mental health crisis in our cities in our states. Addiction is a healthcare issue and is the primary cause of homelessness and crime in our cities. It is responsible and compassionate to help our citizens overcome their addiction and return to being productive citizens. To that end Dr. Simon will bring a program from Rhode Island to Nevada that has a proven track record of greater than 85% of rehabilitating addicts and returning them to their families and productive lives. By partnering with our major healthcare providers like Renown, we will create an in-patient mental health facility where homeless persons who are suffering from mental illness can be evaluated, treated and housed. Additionally, a) We will work with our Senators and Congressional members to gain as many Federal dollars as possible to support these programs, b) work with the business communities in our cities to identify and fund local programs for the poor, hungry and homeless, c) monitor all opioid prescriptions in the state and the flow of opioids to pharmacies in the state, d) criminally prosecute those that abuse opioid prescriptions e) set up a task force to work with the DEA and state and local law enforcement to interdict the illegal flow of opioids, methamphetamines and fentanyl.
A Dr. Simon administration will be tough on crime and will recommend maximum sentencing for violent crimes. However, a Simon administration believes in “self-rehabilitation” and will provide incentives for prisoners to “get their lives together” in return for reducing their sentences. Prisoners will be encouraged to get their GED diplomas, gain bachelors and master’s degrees and other professional credentials or take part in other skills training that prepares them for a career on the outside. In return , inmates will progressively receive a reduction of the sentence. It will be up to the individual to turn their life around.
Latinos are a natural constituency for the Republican Party. They are hard working, family oriented, conservatives that share Republican values. Yet, there are Latino elders who have been in this country for over 20 years that are not citizens, yet they have raised their children here and all their children and grandchildren are citizens. It’s time to make these elders citizens and bring these families into the Republican party. I want a fast-track program to move these elders to citizenship as soon as possible and I will work with our Federal Representatives to get this done.
Water The Colorado River system supplies 90% of Clark County’s water needs. Nevada must aggressively protect its interests in the Colorado River system waters by renegotiation of the Colorado River Compact or through litigation. The Southern Nevada Water Authority’s proposal to outlaw ornamental grass (“non-functional turf”) as a conservation measure would reduce annual water usage by 15%, buying time to develop new conservation measures. Conservation measures will greatly diminish pressures to drain water from aquifers, streams, and other surface waters in the north. I oppose transfers of water from one hydrologic basin to another as these aggressive water diversions would raise serious policy issues, extensive and expensive litigation and they would cause unacceptable damage to rural county resources, business, and communities.
I am pro-life and believe that the unborn have rights as persons under the constitution. I will work tirelessly with organizations to convince women that the best option for a woman is to take their baby to term, be a single mother or give the baby up for adoption. As a doctor, I am very familiar with the psychological trauma that women face by having an abortion. My wish is to see abortion available, but so very rare.
The people have spoken and they want marijuana available for purchase through dispensaries. I support county control over whether a county will allow a dispensary within their borders. And I support our dispensaries being able to establish banking relationships in the State to conduct their business. This is a States rights issue. Marijuana has proven to be an effective therapeutic for medical conditions such as glaucoma and CBD is an anti-inflammatory. We have to be realistic that any drug, including marijuana, can be abused and can lead to abuse of other drugs. Similarly, we have to deal with the issue of driving while under the influence of marijuana
I believe that we must retain the death penalty for the most heinous crimes. It serves as a deterrent in that the perpetrator will never, ever again commit a crime in Nevada and it brings closure to the family of the victim. Recently, in Douglas County and in Washoe County and violent criminal killed four persons in three separate home invasions. This is the type of heinous crime that deserves the death penalty.
Certain Counties in Nevada have had a long and successful history of regulating sex workers and brothels. I support these counties in their local regulation of brothels and enforcement of health standards in these establishments. At the end of the day this is a self-governance and freedom issue.
I want to remove barriers that prevent Nevadans from opening and running their own business so they can gain financial independence. Occupational licensing laws can prevent business formation by requiring an insurmountable cost to disadvantaged Nevadans to open certain businesses. I will streamline or eliminate certain requirements that are preventing business formation.[6] |
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2014
Simon's campaign website listed the following issues:[2][8]
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| —Fred Simon's campaign website, http://fredsimonforcongress.com/?page_id=40 | ||
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Personal
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Simon is married with three children.[2]
See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Fred Simon for Congress, "Resume," accessed March 17, 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Information submitted through Ballotpedia's biographical submission form on March 6, 2014
- ↑ Simon for Governor, "Bio," accessed May 1, 2022
- ↑ UT San Diego, "Peters on the verge of victory," November 7, 2014
- ↑ Politico, "Rep. Scott Peters beats Carl DeMaio for San Diego seat," November 7. 2014
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Simon for Governor, “My Platform,” accessed April 25, 2022
- ↑ Campaign website, "Issues," accessed April 28, 2014
