John Beck was a political candidate in Toronto, Canada. Beck was a Reform Party candidate in the 1993 federal election who was forced to abandon his candidacy after making a series of racially insensitive remarks.
Beck was an heir to the Beck Taxi family, but received only a grade 9 education. He worked as a taxi driver, but was barred from operating in Toronto by the Metro Licensing Commission. He responded to an advertisement asking for Reform candidates, and won the nomination in York Centre, in North York. There was little support for the Reform Party in the area, and there were few candidates willing to run. Beck was given little scrutiny when he applied.
In an interview with the York University student newspaper, he expressed particularly strong views regarding immigrants and Natives. Among them:
He later reiterated his comments in an interview with the _Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, saying "I feel if an immigrant comes into Canada and gets a job for $150,000, he is taking jobs away from us, the gentile people." In another interview with the Financial Post, Beck said that "I feel it's time some white Anglo-Saxons get involved" in politics and told another paper that "it seems to be predominantly Jewish people who are running this country."
Angry York students confronted Reform leader Preston Manning at a campus speech and demanded a response. Manning was quick to distance himself from Beck, calling his statements inconsistent with Reform policy. The same day, however, word spread that the interview was taped. Within an hour, the party asked Beck to abandon his candidacy, which he did. "They think I'm nuts, but I've had no breakdown. They asked me to resign, so I resigned," Beck told reporters the next day.
It was too late to remove Beck's name from the ballot, however, and he ended up placing fourth in the election with 2,141 votes.
John Beck (born 28 January 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American actor. He grew up in Joliet, Illinois. Renowned as a gritty actor with plenty of presence on set, he is ultimately best-known worldwide for playing the role of Mark Graison in Dallas during the mid-1980s, but is also well-known for several other roles in which he specialised in playing hard-ball businessmen.
John Dalton Beck (born August 21, 1981 in Hayward, California) is an American football quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Dolphins in the second round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Brigham Young University.
John Edward Francis Beck (born August 1, 1934, Wellington, died April 24, 2000, Wellington) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in eight Tests from 1953 to 1956.
John Beck is a British musician, probably best known for his role as keyboard player in 1980s UK band It Bites. He is currently in the part-time supergroup Kino, which features guitarist John Mitchell from the band Arena, bassist Peter Trewavas of Marillion fame and former Porcupine Tree drummer Chris Maitland who was later replaced with It Bites drummer Bob Dalton.
Another musician with the same name has worked with Tasmin Archer and Corinne Bailey Rae. They are two different people.
John Alexander Beck (born Edmonton, London May 25 1954) is a former British footballer and manager. He is best remembered for his role as manager of Cambridge United from 1990 to 1992, where he had previously been assistant to Chris Turner.
John started his playing career at QPR signing in May 1972 and made his debut in the 3-1 win against Leyton Orient in December 1972. Beck was unable to hold down a regular place in the immensely successful QPR side of the mid 70's competing with England captain Gerry Francis and Scottish international Don Masson for the creative midfield role. In 1976 he moved to Coventry City after playing 40 league games for Rangers, scoring once. he also played for Fulham, AFC Bournemouth and finally joined Cambridge United in July 1986.
Beck's career was ended by injury in 1988, and he was appointed Assistant Manager. Following the dismissal of Chris Turner he was appointed manager of Cambridge United in January 1990. In his first season United won the Fourth Division playoffs, and reached the sixth round of the FA Cup (the first Fourth Division side to do so). The following season (1990-91) they won the Third Division title after an excellent finish to the season saw them climb from 10th to top in less than three months, and they repeated the feat of reaching the sixth round of the FA Cup. During the Summer Beck turned down the opportunity to manage Leicester City, saying he wanted to take the club all the way to the First Division. In 1991-92 they finished 5th in the Second Division, the highest position ever achieved by the club, but lost to Leicester City in the play off semi-finals, ending their hopes of a unique third successive promotion and denying them the chance of becoming Premier League founder members.
Beck's long ball playing style was heavily criticised in the media, and by fans and managers of other clubs, particularly Glen Hoddle then of Swindon Town. However, he remained popular with United fans. He also oversaw many unorthodox developments at the club, including the tactical repositioning of the away team dugout, ensuring the grass around the corner area was longer so as to slow the ball down when played in that part of the pitch, and the practice of throwing buckets of cold water over players before a match.
The club made a poor start to the 1992-93 season, and Beck was dismissed in October 1992.
He made a quick comeback with Preston North End, but was unable to prevent them from being relegated to Division Two. He spent two more seasons at Deepdale, enduring successive Division Three playoff disappointments, before resigning.
Beck's next stop was at Lincoln City. They won automatic promotion to Division Two in 1998, but Beck had been controversially sacked just weeks earlier.
In 1999, Beck teamed up with Shane Westley, his assistant at Lincoln City and joined Barrow FC in a short lived advisory role.
Beck returned to Cambridge in March 2001, and kept them in Division Two, but he resigned the following November with relegation looking increasingly likely.
Beck is currently coaching at Histon in Conference National where he has helped First Team Coach Steve Fallon achieve a club record 4 promotions during his time at the club.
