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{{Infobox politician|name=Geoff Young|political_line=[[Anti-imperialism]]<br>[[Democratic socialism]]|image=Geoff Young.png|birth_place=Marblehead, Massachusetts, [[USA|United States]]}}
{{Infobox politician|name=Geoff Young|political_line=[[Anti-imperialism]]<br>[[Democratic socialism]]|image=Geoff Young.png|birth_place=Marblehead, Massachusetts, [[USA|United States]]}}


'''Geoff Young''' is a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidate who ran for Kentucky's 6th congressional district on an anti-war platform as well as the abolition of the [[Imperialism|imperialist]] secret police, the [[Central Intelligence Agency]].<ref name=":0">{{News citation|author=Jeremy Kuzmarov|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]|title=Geoff Young: Peace Candidate Who Wants to Abolish CIA Wins Democratic Primary in Kentucky|date=2022-06-01|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/06/01/geoff-young-peace-candidate-who-wants-to-abolish-the-cia-wins-democratic-primary-in-kentucky/}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|author=[[Ben Norton]]|newspaper=[[Multipolarista]]|title=US Congress candidate: Abolish CIA, stop arming Nazis, end drug war|url=https://youtu.be/JyKdEizCOII}}</ref>
'''Geoff Young''' is a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidate who is running for Kentucky's 6th congressional district on an anti-war platform as well as the abolition of the [[Imperialism|imperialist]] secret police, the [[Central Intelligence Agency]].<ref name=":0">{{News citation|author=Jeremy Kuzmarov|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]|title=Geoff Young: Peace Candidate Who Wants to Abolish CIA Wins Democratic Primary in Kentucky|date=2022-06-01|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/06/01/geoff-young-peace-candidate-who-wants-to-abolish-the-cia-wins-democratic-primary-in-kentucky/}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|author=<nowiki>[[Ben Norton]{</nowiki>|newspaper=[[Multipolarista]]|title=US Congress candidate: Abolish CIA, stop arming Nazis, end drug war|url=https://youtu.be/JyKdEizCOII}}</ref>


President [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] famously wanted to abolish the CIA and was assassinated.<ref>{{News citation|author=Amando Flavio|newspaper=AnonHQ|title=President Kennedy Wanted to Abolish the CIA and was Assassinated. Bernie Sanders Supported Him|date=2017-03-17|url=https://anonhq.com/president-kennedy-wanted-abolish-cia-assassinated-bernie-sanders-supported/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Young for Congress|title=Abolish the CIA|url=https://www.young4ky.com/issues/abolish-the-cia/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814195232/https://www.young4ky.com/issues/abolish-the-cia/|archive-date=2022-08-14|retrieved=2022-08-20}}</ref>
President [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] famously wanted to abolish the CIA and was assassinated.<ref>{{News citation|author=Amando Flavio|newspaper=AnonHQ|title=President Kennedy Wanted to Abolish the CIA and was Assassinated. Bernie Sanders Supported Him|date=2017-03-17|url=https://anonhq.com/president-kennedy-wanted-abolish-cia-assassinated-bernie-sanders-supported/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Young for Congress|title=Abolish the CIA|url=https://www.young4ky.com/issues/abolish-the-cia/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814195232/https://www.young4ky.com/issues/abolish-the-cia/|archive-date=2022-08-14|retrieved=2022-08-20}}</ref>


He ran against [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] incumbent [[Andy Barr]], who pushed for expanding [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] surveillance operations against Chinese academics as part of the [[New Cold War]] against [[People's Republic of China|China]].<ref name=":0" /> Multiple former CIA agents were reelected, but Young lost with 26.3% of the vote.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Jeremy Kuzmarov|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]|title=CIA Democrats—Abigail Spanberger and Elissa Slotkin—Gain Reelection to Congress, While Anti-CIA Candidate Geoff Young Loses|date=2022-11-09|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/11/09/cia-democrats-abigail-spanberger-and-elissa-slotkin-gain-reelection-to-congress-while-anti-cia-candidate-geoff-young-loses/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221116174131/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/11/09/cia-democrats-abigail-spanberger-and-elissa-slotkin-gain-reelection-to-congress-while-anti-cia-candidate-geoff-young-loses/|archive-date=2022-11-16|retrieved=2022-11-20}}</ref>
In November, Geoff Young will face [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] incumbent Andy Barr, who pushed for expanding [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] surveillance operations against Chinese academics as part of the [[New Cold War]] against [[People's Republic of China|China]].<ref name=":0" />


== Political positions ==
== Political positions ==
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