Geoff Young

Geoff Young was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Young graduated from Marblehead High School in 1974.[1] He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1981, and a master's degree in agricultural economics from the University of Kentucky in 1988. His career experience includes working as assistant director of the Kentucky Division of Energy and as an environmental engineer in the Energy and Environment Cabinet. Young has been affiliated with the Sierra Club, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Democratic Socialists of America, and Lexington Friends Meeting (Quakers).[2][3][4]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I'm a former Democrat who has worked for the last 50 years (sometimes part-time and sometimes as a full-time volunteer activist) to end all of our wars around the world, end corruption in government, get big money out of politics, and protect the environment. In 2024 some friends and I formed a new third party in Kentucky, the Kentucky Party (the KYP). The KYP's platform is pro-peace, anti-corruption, and focused on Kentucky. Both huge parties have proven again and again that they don't care about regular people and work only for the extremely rich 1% who invest in their campaigns.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Kentucky should eliminate the sales tax, cut income taxes for poor and working Kentuckians, and increase taxes on large corporations and very rich Kentuckians. Kentucky first implemented a 6% state sales tax in 1960, following an earlier attempt in 1934 that was repealed 2 years later because most Kentuckians realized it harmed the poor and working class. The Republican Party of KY (the RPK) wants to raise the sales tax and eliminate the income tax. That's exactly the wrong idea. Instead, we should eliminate the sales tax and make up for the lost revenue by taxing rich and extremely rich Kentuckians more.Kentucky must prepare for another Great Depression. Every state is heading for another Great Depression because the federal government's foreign policies have been horribly aggressive and violent from about 1947 to today. The world's population is 8.3 billion people, and 6 billion of them - approximately three-quarters - hate and fear the US government. Israel is the most hated country in the world, followed closely by the United States. To prepare, Frankfort should start a State Bank of Kentucky (like North Dakota's), support credit unions and small local banks, expand organic farming and local farmer's markets, and support small businesses instead of huge, out of state corporations.Kentucky judges dismiss far too many meritorious lawsuits before trial or even before the discovery phase. That's the most crooked, unethical thing a judge can do because it makes justice impossible. Circuit Court judges who throw out too many strong lawsuits should be impeached by the Kentucky House and removed from their powerful positions. Before 1975, there was no Supreme Court in Kentucky. We should amend the Kentucky Constitution back to the way it was before, which would make the Kentucky Court of Appeals the highest court in Kentucky again. The current system allows the Court of Appeals to throw out a case, and the KY Supreme Court rubber stamps the Court of Appeals. It's like a tag team in professional wrestling.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I want to make it easier for regular people to tell politicians what to do to improve our lives, instead of what the two Establishment parties do. The RPK and the KDP spend all their time attacking the other party and doing what lobbyists and rich donors want. Frankfort should be helping Kentuckians become more self-sufficient and prepare for runaway inflation - diesel fuel, gasoline, and all other necessities - which is inevitable in the next few years and has already started to happen in the autumn of 2026.

Note: Young submitted the above survey responses to [the profile publisher] on September 22, 2026.

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Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Kentucky should eliminate the sales tax, cut income taxes for poor and working Kentuckians, and increase taxes on very rich Kentuckians.The Legislative Branch should be a full-time job that pays well enough to allow people other than lawyers and rich people to serve as state Representatives.Kentucky judges dismiss far too many meritorious lawsuits before trial or even before the discovery phase. That's the most crooked, unethical thing a judge can do because it makes justice impossible ever to obtain.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Stamp out corruption in the Judicial, Executive and Legislative Branches of our government.

No corporation or organization should be allowed to contribute any money to candidates. Only individual contributions and public funding should be allowed.

The CIA and FBI should be abolished.

End all our foreign wars immediately and cut the budget of the War Department by 80%.

The US should quit NATO and all of our other entangling alliances and make friends with Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and all of the BRICS countries.

The president should be impeached and removed as soon as he or she commits his or her first war crime. The most impeachable war crimes are aggression, genocide and international terrorism.

The environment.

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I have been a committed, effective peace activist and environmental activist since 1976. I moved from Massachusetts to Kentucky in 1982 and worked in Frankfort for the Energy and Environment Cabinet for 15 years. My focus there was improving energy efficiency in all sectors of Kentucky's economy. If I'm elected to the US House in November, 2024, I will be the most pro-peace, pro-diplomacy, antiwar, and anti-genocide Representative in Washington.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

I will work harder for peace than any other member of Congress. The federal government must stop supporting Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people.Wars and excessive preparations for war are making us poor and weakening our national security. Congress must cut the so-called "Defense" budget by at least 75% and help the American people rebuild our economy, our transportation system, our health care system, and our education system.The Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 was the best Supreme Court decision in my lifetime, but six reckless, totally corrupt, Constitution-shredding, Republican, partisan hacks on the US Supreme Court overturned it in June 2022 for no valid reason. They simply had the votes. If all abortions are made illegal nationwide, which is the goal of the “Right-To-Life” political movement, thousands of women will die every year for lack of reproductive health care.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Ending all of our wars; cutting the so-called "Defense" budget and number of troops by at least 75%; abolishing the CIA, which has been the most evil terrorist organization in the world since it was founded in 1947; negotiating a treaty with the other nuclear powers to eliminate all nuclear weapons worldwide; protecting all American women's right to reproductive health care; getting money out of politics; breaking up the 10 hugest mainstream media corporations; abolishing the Federal Reserve; increasing taxes on the 1 percent and America's billionaires; cleaning up corruption; and protecting the environment.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Mohandas K. Gandhi because he developed many effective, nonviolent methods for helping the people of India make large-scale political and social changes in their country. He was considered "the Father of Indian Independence" from the British Empire.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

1. Courage, because it's often necessary to stand against an enraged mob of legislators and explain exactly why going to war is the worst possible strategy. Or why the Constitution does not allow the President to assassinate a foreign leader or bomb a foreign city. Or why my own party's most powerful leader, even the President, must be impeached.

2. An open mind and the ability to change one's position if it's shown to be wrong.

3. The ability to work with other people on issues where we agree, even if I've just called them ignorant, savage, genocide-supporting neocons on a different issue.

What is your favorite book? Why?

Catch-22, because it exposed the insanity of war in a very humorous and satirical way.

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Getting the Kentucky Democratic Party, the Republican Party of Kentucky, and Kentucky Educational Television to obey Kentucky's election laws. So far, I have had no success in doing that, but I have another active lawsuit against them right now, and I might win this one.

What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Our current "leaders" in all four branches of our government are the worst we've ever had in our nation's history. The four branches are the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches, plus the Fourth Estate - the mass media. These “leaders” are driving America into a concrete wall. The State Department is unable and unwilling to practice real diplomacy. Instead, it relies on threats, regime-change operations, and attempting to bomb other countries into submission. Both parties are totally corrupt. We, the American people, must throw the bums out and try to regain the trust of the rest of the world. Right now, America is the greatest threat to the survival of humanity.

Geoff M. Young did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2023 Candidate Connection survey.

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I was born and raised in Massachusetts. I went to MIT, got a bachelor's in Economics, and took two classes with Noam Chomsky on US foreign policies after World War 2. I became an antiwar activist (part-time), moved to Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky in 1982, and have lived here ever since. I have mater's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from UMass (Amherst) and Agricultural Economics from UK. I worked in Frankfort for 15 years in the state energy office, which has the mission of promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies in all sectors of Kentucky's economy. I started running against Andy Barr (R-Pro-War Neocon) in 2013, and I've learned enough since then to be able to beat him this time.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

The so-called "defense" budget must be cut by at least 60%. If we blunder into a war against Russia and China, our country will be destroyed economically and militarily.Abolish the CIA because it gets us into wars and is the worst terrorist organization in the world today.All elections should be publicly financed because big money in politics has corrupted our entire political process. Other countries have developed effective ways to get money out of politics, and we should imitate them.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Almost all of our foreign policies must be changed because the world has changed. Washington no longer dominates the rest of the world, and that's a good thing. Washington's worst strategic blunder was to threaten the national security of both China and Russia. One would've been dangerous enough, but ignorant, aggressive, hostile, violent US policies have forced Russia & China to become allies. If we try to fight them both, we will be defeated and the USA will cease to exist. It will break up into small, violent regions run by warlords. If, in desperation, Washington uses nuclear weapons, a global nuclear war will happen, followed by a nuclear winter, and humanity will be wiped out forever.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Gandhi, and an American leader who was inspired by Gandhi: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They both used nonviolent actions such as speeches, marches, rallies, and boycotts to generate lasting changes in their societies.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

By far the most important quality is a desire to find out the truth about any given issue and to challenge falsehoods, even if they are widely-accepted falsehoods. I have a highly-developed BS detector.

Elected officials must be incorruptible. They should be in this profession to make America better, not for personal ego gratification or personal gain.

Elected officials must have the courage to stand up for peace, even when the mainstream media and their colleagues are braying for war.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

I'm a good listener. I don't open my mouth without knowing that I can back up what I'm saying with facts and logic. I can work well in groups and compromise when that's appropriate. I have a lot of determination, and I work hard to make a difference. I'm incorruptible. I have turned down offers of support because they had strings attached that I didn't feel good about. I hate injustice and false propaganda.

What is your favorite book? Why?

Catch-22, because it uses humor and satire to show the absurdity and insanity of war.

What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

The American people, our politicians and our generals must adjust to the fact that our military and the US dollar no longer dominate the world. We have to change our self-image and become a normal, constructive, law-abiding member of the community of nations, not the single "exceptional" nation that tries to control every other country's internal decisions. America should join the International Criminal Court because it is hypocritical of us to criticize human rights violations in other countries while refusing to accept the court's jurisdiction over American war criminals.

The half-dozen huge, mass media corporations must be broken up because they have all come under the control of America's billionaires and the military-industrial-"intelligence" complex. They do nothing but spew imperialist, pro-war propaganda and "entertainment" that distracts us from what is most important.

I am opposed to censorship of the internet because the censors always end up working for the military-industrial-"intelligence" complex.

If you are not a current representative, are there certain committees that you would want to be a part of?

1. The House Foreign Affairs Committee.

I am one of Kentucky's foremost experts in US foreign policy. I plan to replace any one of the pro-war, neoconservative Democrats now on the committee.

The Constitution says that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House. What role would this power play in your priorities if elected?

I will propose sweeping changes in the tax code to raise the marginal tax rate for billionaires and multi-millionaires while lowering taxes for working people. I will also float the idea of a wealth tax, with the aim of setting a maximum wealth level for all American citizens; possibly $100 million or so. I am a Bernie Sanders Democrat when it comes to domestic policy.

Campaign website

Young's campaign website stated the following:

1. Abolish the CIA

I put up a billboard that says, “Abolish the CIA.” Why? Because it's the worst terrorist organization in the world today. Ever since the CIA was founded in 1947 it has gotten us into one illegal, immoral war after another. The CIA has tortured many prisoners, for example at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and has trained thousands of foreign torturers who work for countries allied to Washington. Their so-called “intelligence” is almost always wrong. CIA officials are frequently caught lying to Congress and the American people. The CIA also smuggles addictive drugs like heroin and cocaine into America and profits from the drug trade. The opiate addiction that has plagued Kentucky is not Kentucky's fault; it was inflicted upon us by the CIA. The CIA was almost certainly involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (D) in 1963. We have 16 other agencies that gather intelligence on what other countries are doing, and the CIA has the worst record among these members of America's "Intelligence Community." Abolishing the CIA and ending all of our immoral, illegal wars is the simplest way to make our country more secure, not less.

Millions of people around the world, including me, regard our military invasions as illegal aggression, which is the supreme international crime, and we end up with more and more enemies. Military empires always go bankrupt and collapse when they make too many enemies and start too many wars, even if each enemy is small; and Iran, Russia and China are not small countries. Washington is stoking the fires of anti-American hatred by maintaining about 900 military bases all around the world and assassinating foreign military leaders and innocent civilians. All of the world's other countries combined have only about 30 military bases outside their own countries.

Peace is my top priority, and it's not even on Andy Barr's list. He has always been a reckless, vicious, pro-war, ignorant neocon, and as such, he supports all U.S. wars that the military-industrial complex supports - even if they're illegal and immoral.

On February 4, 2022, Barr voted against H.R. 4521, the America COMPETES Act of 2022: the Bioeconomy Research and Development Act. Almost every Democrat voted for it, and almost every Republican voted against it. The final vote was 222-210, so it was sent to the Senate. I would've voted for it because I believe it would have helped America's R&D efforts in an area of increasing importance to our economy.

Barr issued a press release that tried to explain why he voted against it. The title of the press release was, "Barr Votes Against the America Concedes to China Act," which one could call a misleading name. I would call it an intentional misrepresentation that Barr used to appeal to the Republican base, which has been indoctrinated to hate China. One reason Barr cited was that the bill didn't include "any provisions preventing the funding from going to projects in China that use Uyghur Slave Labor." Through my own independent research that looked at all sides of that issue, I found and concluded that the accusation that China forces members of the Uyghur ethnic group to work as slaves is totally false propaganda. So Barr constantly repeats a vicious claim against China's human rights record when the evidence strongly suggest that the claim is totally false and fraudulent; and he also voted against a bill that would have been good for our economy at home. No one likes to see false propaganda and illegal sanctions used against their country. China and Russia are now allies, partly because the US government and the mainstream media corporations keep threatening their national security, lying about them, and trying to damage their economies.

Conclusion: Andy Barr is a clear & present danger to our troops, our economy and our national security.

2. Get Big Money out of politics

Vast amounts of money in politics have corrupted our entire political system. We no longer have a republic; the entire federal government is now run by corporations, lobbyists and billionaires.

Many individuals and groups are working to enact campaign finance reform, and I will work with them when I get to Washington. The group, campaignfinancereform.org has proposed a constitutional amendment that includes the following necessary reforms:

1) "Every second year, Congress shall establish a single limit on the amount of wealth each citizen may contribute or use to aid in the election or appointment of candidates seeking to represent the citizen in any government office. That limit shall not exceed one percent of the median annual income of all citizens of the United States."

Explanation: "Today median income, the very middle of all income (half of Americans make more, half less) is about $36,000. So, the limit that anyone, rich or poor could give to each candidate for one election would be about $360 (1% of the median), which would automatically adjust with inflation. The phrase “seeking to represent the citizen” nullifies the Supreme Court’s decision in McCutcheon et al. v. Federal Election Commission which allowed citizens to contribute to an unlimited number of candidates throughout the country."

2) "The limit shall apply to the costs of producing and distributing messages pertaining to candidates or their campaigns when those messages are designed by the producer or distributor for audiences to witness unintentionally or without seeking the message, or the message fails to identify the source of the message. The costs of no other messages about candidates shall be limited by this amendment."

Explanation: "This is the key element to nullifying the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision because it stops superPACs from advertising for candidates.

Independent advertising above the $360 limit is prohibited. However, candidates can still advertise, and all other speech about candidates from any person or organization is allowed. What defines advertising here is the public's ability to choose to hear it. When you tune in to news, opinion and political satire shows, you know you're going to hear political messages in the show, so those would be exempt from this law." ...

... 4) "No wealth or assets other than those authorized by this Amendment may be contributed to candidates’ campaigns, or be used to supplement or offset the costs of candidates' campaigns. Candidates may use only the wealth and assets authorized by this Amendment to fund the cost of campaigning and advertising for election or appointment."

Explanation: "All other sources of contributions and advertising are not allowed. This closes the door on independent advertising from any source other than campaigns and citizens, which must be funded under the limit. This also prevents predictable and unpredictable loopholes, like contributions to candidates from non-citizens and foreign governments, or wealthy candidates funding their own campaigns. This sweeping limitation also nullifies the portion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Buckley v. Valeo which allowed candidates to spend their unlimited personal money on their campaign; under CFR28 they are subject to the same limit as all citizens established in Section 1."

I will also work to enact other laws that would help get big money out of politics and restore some democracy to our government.

3. Defund AFRICOM

On October 3, 2018, Netfa Freeman and the Black Alliance for Peace published the following demands:

1. the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Africa,

2. the demilitarization of the African continent, and

3. the closure of U.S. military bases throughout the world.

When I'm elected, I will work with my colleagues in both dominant parties to implement these just, reasonable and sensible demands. The Black Alliance for Peace and Netfa Freeman provide many reasons to do so:

"Although U.S. leaders say AFRICOM is 'fighting terrorism' on the continent, in reality AFRICOM is a dangerous structure that has only increased militarism. The real reason for its existence is geopolitical competition with China.

When AFRICOM was established in the months before Barack Obama assumed office as the first Black President of the United States, a majority of African nations -- led by the Pan-Africanist government of Libya -- rejected AFRICOM, forcing the new command to instead work out of Europe. But with the U.S. and NATO attack on Libya that led to the destruction of that country and the murder of its leader, Muammar Gaddafi, in 2011, corrupt African leaders began to allow AFRICOM forces to operate in their countries and establish military-to-military relations with the United States. Today, those efforts have resulted in 46 U.S. bases as well as military-to-military relations between 53 out of the 54 African countries and the United States. U.S. Special Forces troops now operate in more than a dozen African nations."

The article (here's a link to it) continued:

"Vice Admiral Robert Moeller (who served as the first Deputy to the Commander for Military Operations, U.S. Africa Command, from October 2007 to April 2010) declared in 2008, 'Protecting the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market is one of AFRICOM’s guiding principles.'

"AFRICOM is the flip side of the domestic war being waged by the same repressive state structure against Black and poor people in the United States. The Black power and civil rights movement of the 60s and 70s was met with the repressive response of the FBI in the form of its COINTELPRO or Counter Intelligence Program that effectively obliterated these movements for social justice and self-determination. While in the very same era on the continent of Africa, the CIA conspired with other colonizing powers to do the exact same things, exemplified by the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana the and the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo."

4. Help prevent a nuclear war

Humanity is threatened today and every day with a nuclear war that could end all life on earth - started or triggered by the United States. You might think a nuclear war is so unlikely that it will never happen, but most of our foreign policies are so ignorant, hostile, aggressive and militaristic that a conventional war could break out at any time, for example in or near Iran, Syria, Korea or Venezuela. Any conventional war could turn into a nuclear war at any time. A nuclear war could also start by accident, and this two-minute video by the Union of Concerned Scientists explains how:

The WIN/Gallup International polling organization regularly surveys people in many of the world's countries asking them which country they feel is the greatest threat to world peace. According to the survey results, the US was the overwhelming choice (24% of respondents) for the country that represents the greatest threat to peace in the world today. This was followed by Pakistan (8%), China (6%), North Korea, Israel and Iran (5%). Respondents in Russia (54%), China (49%), and Bosnia (49%) were the most fearful of the US as a threat. Here is a link to a report about one such survey: Which Country is the Greatest Threat?

This result has been consistent over many years, and it does not reflect well on Washington's and Andy Barr's violent, aggressive, ignorant foreign policies.

In an interview on August 9, 2019, Geoff Wilson said: "The United States and Russia have 93% of the world’s nuclear weapons. We have about 6,000; the Russians also. The Chinese have about 300 nuclear weapons. And we host them on three different platforms. We have nuclear submarines that carry ballistic missiles. We have strategic bombers that can either launch air-launch cruise missiles we have, or gravity bombs. We have the silo-based ICBMs. I don’t think that we are missing a capability. In fact, we have lots of alternatives.

"The INF Treaty was around since 1987 and nobody thought that we were less safe because all of a sudden we didn’t have ground-launched missiles inside of Europe. The other part of this is that the Europeans I don’t think want any more weapons. We already base tactical nuclear weapons in several NATO countries. And those populations, those constituencies, don’t want them anymore. There’s a whole lo