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Robin Ficker
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Republican Party

Prior offices
Maryland House of Delegates
Elections and appointments
Last election

May 14, 2024

Education

Bachelor's

U.S. Military Academy at West Point, 1965

Graduate

American University

Law

University of Baltimore School of Law

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Army

Years of service

1960 - 1966

Personal
Birthplace
Takoma Park, Md.
Religion
Christian
Profession
Real estate broker
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Robin Ficker (Republican Party) was an officeholder of the Maryland House of Delegates.

Ficker (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Maryland. He lost in the Republican primary on May 14, 2024.

Biography

Robin Ficker was born in Takoma Park, Maryland. Ficker served in the U.S. Army from 1960 to 1966. He earned a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1965, a graduate degree from American University, and a law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Ficker's career experience includes working as a real estate broker and farmer.[1]

Elections

2024

See also: United States Senate election in Maryland, 2024

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Maryland

The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Maryland on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Angela Alsobrooks
Angela Alsobrooks (D)
 
54.6
 
1,650,912
Image of Larry Hogan
Larry Hogan (R)
 
42.8
 
1,294,344
Image of Mike Scott
Mike Scott (L) Candidate Connection
 
2.3
 
69,396
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Patrick Burke (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
879
Image of Billy Bridges
Billy Bridges (Unaffiliated) (Write-in) Candidate Connection
 
0.0
 
70
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Robin Rowe (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
17
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Christy Helmondollar (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
3
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Irwin Gibbs (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
2
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
5,755

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 3,021,378
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Maryland

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Maryland on May 14, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Angela Alsobrooks
Angela Alsobrooks
 
53.4
 
357,052
Image of David Trone
David Trone
 
42.8
 
286,381
Image of Joseph Perez
Joseph Perez
 
0.7
 
4,688
Image of Michael Cobb Sr.
Michael Cobb Sr.
 
0.7
 
4,524
Image of Brian Frydenborg
Brian Frydenborg Candidate Connection
 
0.5
 
3,635
Image of Scottie Griffin
Scottie Griffin
 
0.5
 
3,579
Image of Marcellus Crews
Marcellus Crews Candidate Connection
 
0.5
 
3,379
Image of Andrew Wildman
Andrew Wildman
 
0.3
 
2,198
Image of Robert Houton
Robert Houton Candidate Connection
 
0.3
 
1,946
Image of Steven Seuferer
Steven Seuferer Candidate Connection
 
0.2
 
1,664

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 669,046
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Maryland

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Maryland on May 14, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Larry Hogan
Larry Hogan
 
64.2
 
183,661
Image of Robin Ficker
Robin Ficker
 
27.8
 
79,517
Image of Chris Chaffee
Chris Chaffee
 
3.2
 
9,134
Image of Lorie Friend
Lorie Friend Candidate Connection
 
2.1
 
5,867
Image of John Myrick
John Myrick Candidate Connection
 
1.7
 
4,987
Image of Moe Barakat
Moe Barakat Candidate Connection
 
0.8
 
2,203
Image of Laban Seyoum
Laban Seyoum
 
0.3
 
782

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 286,151
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Endorsements

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2022

See also: Maryland gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2022

General election

General election for Governor of Maryland

The following candidates ran in the general election for Governor of Maryland on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Wes Moore
Wes Moore (D)
 
64.5
 
1,293,944
Image of Dan Cox
Dan Cox (R) Candidate Connection
 
32.1
 
644,000
Image of David Lashar
David Lashar (L) Candidate Connection
 
1.5
 
30,101
Image of David Harding
David Harding (Working Class Party)
 
0.9
 
17,154
Image of Nancy Wallace
Nancy Wallace (G) Candidate Connection
 
0.7
 
14,580
Image of Kyle Sefcik
Kyle Sefcik (Independent) (Write-in) Candidate Connection
 
0.0
 
596
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
4,848

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 2,005,223
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Governor of Maryland

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Governor of Maryland on July 19, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Wes Moore
Wes Moore
 
32.4
 
217,524
Image of Tom Perez
Tom Perez
 
30.1
 
202,175
Image of Peter Franchot
Peter Franchot
 
21.1
 
141,586
Image of Rushern Baker III
Rushern Baker III (Unofficially withdrew) Candidate Connection
 
4.0
 
26,594
Image of Douglas F. Gansler
Douglas F. Gansler
 
3.8
 
25,481
Image of John B. King Jr.
John B. King Jr.
 
3.7
 
24,882
Image of Ashwani Jain
Ashwani Jain Candidate Connection
 
2.1
 
13,784
Image of Jon Baron
Jon Baron
 
1.8
 
11,880
Image of Jerry Segal
Jerry Segal
 
0.6
 
4,276
Image of Ralph Jaffe
Ralph Jaffe
 
0.4
 
2,978

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 671,160
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Governor of Maryland

Dan Cox defeated Kelly Schulz, Robin Ficker, and Joe Werner in the Republican primary for Governor of Maryland on July 19, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Dan Cox
Dan Cox Candidate Connection
 
52.0
 
153,423
Image of Kelly Schulz
Kelly Schulz
 
43.5
 
128,302
Image of Robin Ficker
Robin Ficker Candidate Connection
 
2.8
 
8,268
Image of Joe Werner
Joe Werner
 
1.7
 
5,075

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 295,068
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2016

See also: Maryland's 6th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. In Maryland's 6th Congressional District, incumbent John Delaney (D) defeated Amie Hoeber (R), David Howser, George Gluck (G), and Ted Athey (Write-in) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Delaney defeated Tony Puca in the Democratic primary, while Hoeber defeated seven other Republican challengers to win the Republican nomination. The primary elections took place on April 26, 2016. [2][3]

U.S. House, Maryland District 6 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngJohn Delaney Incumbent 56% 185,770
     Republican Amie Hoeber 40.1% 133,081
     Libertarian David Howser 2.1% 6,889
     Green George Gluck 1.8% 5,824
     N/A Write-in 0.1% 409
Total Votes 331,973
Source: Maryland State Board of Elections


U.S. House, Maryland District 6 Democratic Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngJohn Delaney Incumbent 84.9% 69,343
Tony Puca 15.1% 12,317
Total Votes 81,660
Source: Maryland State Board of Elections
U.S. House, Maryland District 6 Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngAmie Hoeber 29.3% 17,967
Terry Baker 22.6% 13,837
Frank Howard 17.4% 10,677
Robin Ficker 11.4% 7,014
David Vogt 9.4% 5,774
Christopher Mason 4.2% 2,590
Scott Cheng 3.8% 2,303
Harold Painter 1.8% 1,117
Total Votes 61,279
Source: Maryland State Board of Elections

2014

See also: Maryland State Senate elections, 2014

Elections for the Maryland State Senate took place in 2014. A primary election took place on June 24, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was February 25, 2014. Incumbent Brian Feldman was unopposed in the Democratic primary, while Robin Ficker was unopposed in the Republican primary. Feldman defeated Ficker in the general election.[4][5][6]

Maryland State Senate District 15, General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngBrian Feldman Incumbent 60.5% 19,925
     Republican Robin Ficker 39.5% 13,028
Total Votes 32,953

2012

See also: Maryland's 6th Congressional District elections, 2012

Ficker ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. House to represent Maryland's 6th District. Ficker sought the nomination on the Republican ticket, but he was defeated by Roscoe Bartlett in the April 3, 2012, primary.[7]

The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run was January 11, 2012.[8]

U.S. House, Maryland, District 6 Republican Primary, 2012
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngRoscoe G. Bartlett Incumbent 43.6% 17,600
Kathy Afzali 10.2% 4,115
David R. Brinkley 19.8% 7,987
Robert Coblentz 2.4% 970
Robin Ficker 7.1% 2,854
Peter James 2.3% 933
Joseph T. Krysztoforski 7.6% 3,073
Brandon Orman Rippeon 7% 2,843
Total Votes 40,375

2009

He was a Republican candidate in the 2009 Montgomery County Council special election.[9]

2006

Ficker ran for Montgomery County Executive in 2006 as an independent, and received 28,063 votes, more than any other independent candidate in Montgomery County has earned.[10]

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Robin Ficker did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Ficker’s campaign website stated the following:

“

PROUD TO CALL MARYLAND HOME
Ficker is a lifelong Marylander. He grew up here. He raised his family here. He started a business here. He owns a farm here.

ARMY VETERAN FIGHTING FOR MARYLAND VALUES
He knows what it means to serve and is a veteran of the United States Army.

PUBLIC SERVANT STANDING UP FOR THE PEOPLE OF MARYLAND
He served in the Maryland legislature where he empowered voters throughout Maryland. The Democrats and Washington Post did everything in their power to stop Ficker, but he passed ballot initiatives including limiting property taxes and imposing term limits on county officials. Robin Ficker has fought for 25 such Amendments, which have received over 2.5 Million votes!

SMALL BUSINESS OWNER PUSHING FOR JOB GROWTH IN MARYLAND
Ficker has started and run successful businesses. He knows what it takes to create jobs, and what the government does to make that harder and harder every day.[11]

”
—Robin Ficker’s campaign website (2024)[12]

2022

Candidate Connection

Robin Ficker completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Ficker's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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A lifetime Maryland resident and former elected legislator, I have placed 25 ballot measures which received 2,537, 403 votes to pass Term Limits, property tax revenue increase limits, and to bar the trenching of sewage sludge and operating garbage dumps in residential zones. I spent the summers of 2020 and 2021 meeting residents of all 23 counties of Maryland and Baltimore City on the Ocean City Boardwalk. I have completed 40,000 in all Maryland courts, standing up for the rights of Marylanders, and have overturned 4 state/local laws in federal court, including one last year overturning durational and size restrictions on political signs on the Eastern Shore.
  • To give every Marylander a fiscal stimulus every day by cutting the state sales tax 2 cents or $780 per year per household. No state has ever cut its state sales tax. Delaware, with which we share an 85 mile border, has no sales tax. This cut will send a nation-wide message that Maryland is business friendly..
  • I will form a Jobs Strikeforce to visit large companies all of which have shunned Maryland while our Maryland Department of Commerce was sleeping. In the last few years Amazon, Apple, Facebook/Meta, Global Foundries, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Nucor Steel, Samsung, Taiwan Semiconductor, Tesla and Texas Instruments have built multi-BILLION dollar projects in other states, not Maryland. We’ll reverse Maryland’s passivity and failure to attract major employers.
  • Keep schools open. It is inexcusable that Maryland ranked last of all the states in percentage of students participating in actual physical, non-virtual learning. Give parents a big say in whether students are safe, what they are taught, and whether they should be the victim of any mandates.
Taxes. Limit property tax increases. Of my 25 ballot questions, about 16 sought to limit property taxes. In 2008, we were successful in passing a requirement that a 9-member-council unanimous vote was needed to increase property tax revenues more than the rate of inflation. Every elected office holder in Montgomery County (all Democrats) opposed this question but it was passed by the voters. It stopped property tax increases for almost a decade. Peter Sepp, President of the National Taxpayers Union said, “Your victory is a national record to pass a taxpayer protection measure at the local level against such difficult odds.”

and

To give every Marylander a fiscal stimulus every day by cutting the state sales tax 2 cents or $780 per year per household. No state has ever cut its state sales tax. Delaware, with which we share an 85 mile border, has no sales tax. This cut will send a nation-wide message that Maryland is business friendly.
I recommend the "Path to Power," a 4-volume work by Robert Caro.
To give compassionate, efficient leadership.
Perseverance, focus, honesty
Get the state up early in the morning, work throughout the day efficiently, and then rest and prepare for the next work day.
He was the best Governor Maryland ever had.
I was 4 years old when I sat on my Dad's shoulders and watched Harry Truman's inaugural parade.
I delivered the Washington Post newspaper to my residential paper route at 5 a.m. every morning--double paper weight on Sunday. I did this for 3 years in elementary school.
Maryland Travel Guide
The Gladiator
America the Beautiful
As Harry Truman said, "The buck stops here." Someone needs to be the final arbiter. Thank goodness for someone who can make up his or her mind.
To craft the budget. We have to provide the best services to the voters that we can, while living within our fiscal means, without raising taxes.
I would like to have strong control over the budgetary process because our state legislature is made up of people of the opposite party who don't seem too concerned with the pocket books of the taxpayers.
I would veto expenditures that are of marginal benefit to the voters. No pork-barrel politics in Maryland.
Very friendly. Never make enemies. Disagree without being disagreeable. Work hard for the people of Maryland from sun-up to sunrise.
The smart, generous, friendly people,.
In the last few years Amazon, Apple, Facebook/Meta, Global Foundries, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Nucor Steel, Samsung, Taiwan Semiconductor, Tesla and Texas Instruments have built multi-BILLION dollar projects in other states, not Maryland. We must reverse Maryland’s passivity and failure to attract major employers. I will form a Jobs Strikeforce to visit large companies all of which have shunned Maryland while our Maryland Department of Commerce was sleeping.
When there are true emergencies. Pandemics lasting 2 to 3 years are not true emergencies.

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Campaign website

Ficker's campaign website stated the following:

“
  • Robin has placed 25 ballot measures which received 2,537,403 votes to approve Term Limits, Property Tax Revenue Increase Limits, and to keep sewage sludge trenching and garbage dumps from residential zones. Peaceful change is important!
  • Cut the Maryland Sales Tax 2 Cents or $780/yr/household making MD the first state to ever cut its sales tax.
    • Voters will get an annual fiscal stimulus and Maryland will get a business-friendly reputation.
  • They will fight gridlock to improve I-270, 495, 695, 81, 5, 219 and Bay Bridge Capacity.
  • Robin is the only Gubernatorial candidate who will spend the 3rd summer in a row this year on the Ocean City Boardwalk finding out what Marylanders are going through and how he can help them. Every 2 hours there he can meet folks from all 23 Maryland counties plus Baltimore City.
  • They will strive to double the clean electrical energy production at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant to 2 million homes, adding many Maryland jobs.
  • They will increase accessibility to the Governor's Mansion by holding a first come, first served, Open House at 6 am every Monday morning.
  • They will ensure swift endorsement for Chesapeake Bay pollution sources.
    • A clean, healthy Bay is essential!

[11]

”
—Robin Ficker[13]

Campaign finance summary

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Robin Ficker campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* U.S. Senate MarylandLost primary$4,430,740 $4,428,872
2022Governor of MarylandLost primary$1,223,467 $996,565
Grand total$5,654,207 $5,425,437
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal 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

Issues

Political positions

Ficker is known for proposing anti-tax ballot initiatives.[14] A county initiative he proposed for the November 2008 ballot (Montgomery County Question B (2008)) prevailed by about 5,000 votes.[15] The measure requires the nine-member Montgomery County Council to vote unanimously to raise property tax revenue above the local limit. The victory earned him the Libertarian Party's Free Market Hero of the week award.[16]

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 24, 2022
    2. ↑ Maryland State Board of Elections, "2016 Presidential Primary Election State Candidates List," accessed February 5, 2016
    3. ↑ The New York Times, "Maryland Primary Results," April 26, 2016
    4. ↑ Maryland Secretary of State, "Official primary election candidate list," accessed March 3, 2014
    5. ↑ Maryland State Board of Elections, "Official 2014 Gubernatorial Primary Election results for State Senate," accessed December 5, 2014
    6. ↑ Maryland State Board of Elections, "2014 Official General Election Results," accessed April 30, 2015
    7. ↑ The Baltimore Sun, "6th District candidates spar over jobs" accessed January 6, 2012
    8. ↑ Maryland State Board of Elections, "2012 Presidential Primary Election Results," accessed March 24, 2014
    9. ↑ http://www.justupthepike.com/2009/03/robin-ficker-accessibility-at-all-costs.html
    10. ↑ http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/content/elections/electionResults2006General/jurisdictionwidefinal-1.htm
    11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    12. ↑ Robin Ficker’s campaign website, “Meet Robin,” accessed April 19, 2024
    13. ↑ Robin Ficker's campaign website, “Reasons to VOTE for Robin for Governor / LeRoy for Lt. Governor,” accessed June 17, 2022
    14. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/md/candidates/fickerrobin/
    15. ↑ http://voices.washingtonpost.com/annapolis/2008/11/ficker_prevails_in_moco_by_abo.html
    16. ↑ http://www.lp.org/blogs/andrew-davis/free-market-heroes-vol-1-robin-ficker


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