Rick Hammond

Hammond's Congressional Portrait

###  Other political affiliations

Bull Moose (November 2019- February 2020)Independent (March 2019-November 2019)Democratic (July 2018- March 2019)Republican (March 2018-July 2018)

### Occupation

Senator from FremontFormer RepresentativeFormer ICAO Ambassador

### Status

Active

Rick Ray Hammond joined MEC in March right after the election of David Delaney to the presidency. He mainly stayed in the background flirting with the idea of running. After the removal of Dank Underwood from the senate he announced he would participate in the jungle primary, he came fourth in the race and was removed from the second round. Hammond then mainly stayed in the background making analysis of house and senate elections. Hammond then became a major supporter of the abolishment of the Board of Directors after Chris Miller rigged the May 2018 house elections. Following it's removal by Ethan Kelly, the admin council was created, Hammond ran for it but then announced he would pull out. After the resignation of President Trey Cranfield, moderator Uberfeld asked the community if they wanted to get rid of the AC. 65% voted in favour, Hammond suggested a direct democracy to take it's place.

In June 2018 Rick Hammond announced his candidacy for District Three House after Jon S. Überfeld retired. This however did not last long as after Portillo entered the race he announced he would end his campaign and run for the District Three Senate under a three party unity ticket, R

He was then appointed ambassador to the International Civil Aviation Organisation by Former President Tom Kirkman.

Rick Hammond ran for District Two House but was unsuccessful against Dom Coms in the democratic primary.

Rick Hammond won the democratic nomination for D6 House in November 2018. And won the House in a three party race

## Life Before Politics

### Early Life

Rick Hammond was born in Melbourne, Australia to Ray Hammond and to Jess Hammond in December 1990. He lived there for 3 years before moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico. He went to a private boys school from the age of five to 18.

### College Years

He lived there until he was 18 when he moved to Boston for five years and completed a double degree in Law and Marketing.

### Boeing Years

Aged 23 (In 2013) he was hired as Boeing's Deputy Marketing Director, he soon became the director in 2014. In 2017 He won an award for the most innovative marketing and was credited with the large success of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. In September 2017 the CEO of Boeing announced he would give the role as Deputy Chairman in February. After the Board of Directors of Boeing announced that the incumbent CEO would not be renominated, Rick Hammond resigned.

## Early Political Career

### Early Politics

After Rick Hammond left Boeing he announced he would run for D2 House as an Independent. he received around 5% of the vote. He then Joined the Republican Party as a centrist. He ran a campaign for the District One Senate Open Primary after the expulsion of Dank Underwood, he came 4th in the Open Primary receiving 17% of the Vote.

### District Three House Campaign

After the Election of Trey Cranfield to the Presidency, he announced that he was Running for District Three House. He was mainly uncontested for the nomination, as he was running under a unity ticket as a transition to the Democratic Party. However Former VP Joe Portillo ran for the seat, he then saw that he was loosing and dropped out.

### District Three Senate Campaign

Rick would then move back to his childhood home of Albuquerque (NM) and began to run a campaign against former Majority Leader Rickey Adams. He stayed out in a close race, running under a unity ticket. However due to the fact that he was running under a unity ticket he was excluded from the ballot. He would then endorse Adams and fully join the Democratic Party.

### ICAO Ambassadorship

In August 2018. Tom Kirkman announced he would be the ICAO Ambassador due to his Boeing career. He now commutes from Albuquerque to Montreal whenever needed. As Ambassador Hammond has reopened the investigation into MH370.

### District Two House Campaign

Rick Hammond entered the D3 house race in September, he started off in a competitive primary but it soon became safe for Dom Cons. He lost to Dom by a 35 point margin.

## District Six House

### Campaign

Two weeks before the November House Elections Hammond declared his candidacy for District Six House. He started off in single digits but was soon able to close the gap between independent front runner Joe Szymanski. Republican Candidate and Former representative Kameron Scott stayed inactive during the campaign. Before the primary was leading Szymanski by around 10 points. Hammond won the democratic primary unopposed with 80% of the vote. Some called this the end to his campaign and expected him to lose badly to Szymanski. After the primary most pollsters gave the race Lean, Tilt Ind or Toss up. But as the election neared Hammond gained more momentum. Some pollsters gave the race to be Lean DEM with projections of 1-5 for Hammond.

### Results

At the start of the election Hammond maintained a small lead of 4-5 votes against Scott and Syzmanski who were tied. Rickey Adams projected the race for Hammond at four AM eastern just four hours after polls opened. But an hour later Hammond's lead had dropped to just 3 votes and Rickey withdrew his projection for Hammond. From around 12pm onwards Hammond's lead shot up to around 10 votes leading to the media projecting the race for Rick Hammond. At 3pm EST Joe Syzmanski conceded the race, Scott never conceded the race. Hammond declared victory at 4:30pm EST and congratulated Scott and Syzmanski. At 12am Sunday the 11th Tom Kirkman confirmed that Rick Hammond was the victor.

### As Representative

Rick Hammond was sworn in by outgoing speaker Aaron Stemann on Wednesday the 14th of November. He decided to not seek re-election as well and at the same time moved to New Mexico

He retired from MEC in April 2019.

## District Three House

### Campaign

On June 8th Rick Hammond announced he was coming out of retirement and would be forming and exploratory committee for District Three House to challenge incumbent representative Chase Stevens.

Hammond focused his campaign on Crime, poverty and the environment. But later on in campaign started focusing on auditing US government agencies. In the final week of the campaign Christian Louthan entered the campaign running on an anti Stevens platform. The day before the elections polls showed the race would likely be close.

### Results

Early results showed that Stevens had a 10 point lead over Hammond. Throughout the day Stevens was able to expand his lead gaining a narrow majority in the polls. But by the time of close Stevens had exactly half the vote. With this Hammond announced he would concede the elections but after preferences were counted Stevens tied with Hammond and withdrew his concession angering Stevens. A runoff was scheduled for the Tuesday after the election.

#### Runoff Election

After the race tied a runoff needed to take place. A short campaign then took place. At the start of the night results looked promising with Hammond leading by around a 10 point lead. However throughout the night Stevens was able to achieve a narrow lead over Hammond. Hammond then began to recover with a around a 4 point lead. In the Final hour Hammond stretched his Lead to a six vote margin and was declared the winner. Stevens soon after conceded the race.

### Tenure

#### Speakership Election

Hammond was quick to confirm his support for Rep. Matthew Volfson's speakership run. He was sworn in by outgoing speaker Aaron Stemann on the 24th of June.

## Fremont Senate

### Campaign

Hammond announced on the 10th of November his decision to run for Senate as an Independent. He faced incumbent Senator Corey Léreux (R-AK). Throughout the race Hammond was continuously down in the polls however, Hammond said he believed he was confident in winning the race despite the polls. Hammond led his campaign on building a bipartisan group of Democrats and Republicans in an attempt to defeat Sen. Léreux.

### Election Night

At the start of election night Hammond remained behind Léreux in a close margin however, by the early hours of the morning Hammond tied with Léreux. Around 6:00 am EST Hammond pulled ahead, Hammond kept a narrow lead throughout most of the night. Hammond won the race in a last minute vote surge and won by 14%.

### Tenure

Hammond Announced that he would caucus with the Democrats after being elected. Hammond was sworn in on the 25th of November by Vice President Andrew Dominguez

## Electoral Results

### D2 House Democratic Primary October 2018

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### D6 House November 2018

 Kameron Scott
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### District Three House June 2020

#### First Preferences

 Chase Stevens
 Rick Hammond
 Christian Louthan

#### Final Preferences

 Chase Stevens
 Rick Hammond

#### Runoff

 Rick Hammond
 Chase Stevens

### Fremont Senate November 2020

 Rick Hammond
 Corey Leroux\*
 Kaide Faibro
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