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Alan Claypool

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Republican Party

Education

High school

Daviess County High School

Bachelor's

Furman University, 1989

Graduate

University of Illinois, 1994

Personal
Religion
Christian
Profession
Business owner
Contact

Personal website

Alan Claypool was a 2014 Republican candidate for District 10 of the Kentucky House of Representatives.[1]

Campaign themes

2014

Claypool's website highlighted the following campaign themes:

“

Principled leadership

  • Lead through respectful discourse
  • Reject favor-based voting and earmarks
  • Eliminate General Assembly retirement plans
    • State Legislators are part time employees. No part time employee in the private sector expects a pension, let alone such a lavish one

Individual life, liberty, and private property

  • Simplify most state regulation
    • Insurance
    • Licensing
    • Agriculture
  • Defend states’ rights granted in the Tenth Amendment
    • Oppose federal government overreaches including:
      • Gun control
      • Obamacare
        • We need to shut down the Kentucky Healthcare Exchange
      • EPA
      • FDA
      • Medicaid
      • EMTALA, which requires hospitals to provide care for emergencies
      • Department of Education
  • Fully protect the life of the unborn (100% pro-life)

Personal responsibility

  • Convert unsustainable government worker pensions to a portable and profitable 401k plan
  • Reduce government dependence
  • Eliminate the state income tax
  • Rewrite labor laws to protect property rights
  • Eliminate pork projects that bring money to one county over and from another[2][3]
 ”

Elections

2014

See also: Kentucky House of Representatives elections, 2014

Elections for the Kentucky House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election took place on May 20, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was January 28, 2014. Dean Schamore ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, while Alan Claypool defeated Jerry Lucas and Brian Key in the Republican primary. Schamore defeated Claypool in the general election.[1][4][5]

Kentucky House of Representatives, District 10 General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngDean Schamore 53.6% 8,099
     Republican Alan Claypool 46.4% 7,002
Total Votes 15,101
Kentucky House of Representatives, District 10 Republican Primary, 2014
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngAlan Claypool 51.4% 1,807
Jerry Lucas 38.6% 1,359
Brian Key 10% 352
Total Votes 3,518

Endorsements

2014

In 2014, Claypool's endorsements included:[6]

Recent news

This section links to a Google news search for the term "Alan + Claypool + Kentucky + House"

Alan Claypool News Feed

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kentucky Secretary of State, "Candidate Filings with the Office of the Secretary of State," accessed October 29, 2014
  2. ↑ Campaign Fund to Elect Alan Claypool, "Issues," accessed May 6, 2014
  3. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  4. ↑ Kentucky Secretary of State, "Official 2014 Primary Election Results," accessed October 29, 2014
  5. ↑ Kentucky Secretary of State, "Official 2014 General Election Results," accessed December 5, 2014
  6. ↑ Campaign Fund to Elect Alan Claypool, "Endorsements & Media," accessed May 6, 2014


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