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Marty Read
Marty Read is a former Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing District 4 from 2013 to 2017. Read did not seek re-election to the Kansas House of Representatives in 2016.
Committee assignments
2015 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Read served on the following committees:
| Kansas committee assignments, 2015 |
|---|
| • Agriculture and Natural Resources |
| • Federal and State Affairs |
| • Transportation |
2013-2014
At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Read served on the following committees:
| Kansas committee assignments, 2013 |
|---|
| • Agriculture and Natural Resources |
| • Federal and State Affairs |
| • Transportation |
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2016
Elections for the Kansas House of Representatives were held in 2016. The primary election was held on August 2, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 1, 2016. Incumbent Marty Read (R) did not seek re-election.
Trevor Jacobs ran unopposed in the Kansas House of Representatives District 4 general election.[1][2]
| Kansas House of Representatives, District 4 General Election, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Republican |  Trevor Jacobs (unopposed) | |
| Source: Kansas Secretary of State | ||
Trevor Jacobs defeated Rick James and Arlyn Briggs in the Kansas House of Representatives District 4 Republican primary.[3][4]
| Kansas House of Representatives, District 4 Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Trevor Jacobs |
57.88% | 1,749 | |
| Republican | Rick James | 36.47% | 1,102 | |
| Republican | Arlyn Briggs | 5.66% | 171 | |
| Total Votes | 3,022 | |||
2014
Elections for the Kansas House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election was held on August 5, 2014, and a general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was June 2, 2014. Lucas Cosens was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Incumbent Marty Read was unopposed in the Republican primary. Read defeated Cosens in the general election.[5][6]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Marty Read Incumbent |
68.2% | 5,126 | |
| Democratic | Lucas Cosens | 31.8% | 2,387 | |
| Total Votes | 7,513 | |||
2012
Read won election in the 2012 election for Kansas House of Representatives District 4. Read defeated Arlyn Briggs and Lynne Oharah in the August 7 Republican primary and defeated Shirley Palmer (D) in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.[7][8]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Marty Read |
62.6% | 6,084 | |
| Democratic | Shirley Palmer | 37.4% | 3,629 | |
| Total Votes | 9,713 | |||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
|
Marty Read |
72.5% | 2,451 |
| Lynne Oharah | 23% | 778 |
| Arlyn Briggs | 4.6% | 154 |
| Total Votes | 3,383 | |
Campaign finance summary
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Scorecards
Kansas Freedom Index
The Kansas Policy Institute, Kansas’s "first free market think tank," releases its legislator scorecard as a part of its Kansas Freedom Index for Kansas state representatives and senators once a year. The Score Card gives each legislator a score from 1%-100% based on how they voted in the prior legislative term on specific issues which the Kansas Policy Institute thought were pro-limited government policies.[9]
2013
Marty Read received a score of 66.0% in the 2013 index.[10]
Recent news
This section links to a Google news search for the term "Marty + Read + Kansas + House"
See also
- Kansas House of Representatives
- House Committees
- Joint Committees
- Kansas state legislative districts
- Kansas State Legislature
External links
- Kansas Legislature - Representative Marty Read
- Profile from Open States
- Biography from Project Vote Smart
- Legislative profile from Project Vote Smart
- Campaign Contributions: 2012
Footnotes
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "Candidate list," accessed August 23, 2016
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2016 General Election official results," accessed December 19, 2016
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "Candidate list," accessed June 3, 2016
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2016 Official Kansas Primary Election Results," accessed September 12, 2016
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2014 Primary Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed September 15, 2014
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2014 General Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed April 17, 2015
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2012 Primary Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed March 31, 2014
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2012 General Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed March 31, 2014
- ↑ Kansas Policy Institute, "Freedom Index," accessed March 31, 2014
- ↑ Ballotpedia, "2013 Kansas Policy Index," accessed March 10, 2015
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Caryn Tyson (R) |
Kansas House of Representatives District 4 2013–2017 |
Succeeded by Trevor Jacobs (R) |
