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Andrew Kaleigh
Andrew Kaleigh (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Maine House of Representatives to represent District 100. He lost in the Democratic primary on June 14, 2022.
Kaleigh completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Andrew Kaleigh was born in the District of Columbia. His career experience includes working as a nonprofit organizer.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Maine House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Maine House of Representatives District 100
Dan Ankeles won election in the general election for Maine House of Representatives District 100 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Dan Ankeles (D)  | 100.0 | 4,056 |
| Total votes: 4,056 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Angela Lallier (R)
Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for Maine House of Representatives District 100
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Dan Ankeles in round 1 .
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Total votes: 975 |
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Republican primary election
Republican Primary for Maine House of Representatives District 100
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Angela Lallier in round 1 .
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Total votes: 128 |
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Andrew Kaleigh completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kaleigh's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Beyond my campaign, I have volunteered with food banks across the US for over ten years. Now, I am using this experience to build a non-profit dedicated to housing and food insecurity in Maine. Locally, I attend Bowdoin College (even though my parents met at Colby, and my brother goes to Colby), where I am a government major and student body vice president.
As a young Asian Latino, I am excited to bring diverse perspectives to the 2022 election. I am eager to promote housing reform and combat the opioid epidemic.- Before the pandemic, 30% of Mainers faced housing insecurity. While only 0.4% of Americans were Mainers, Maine accounted for 5% of the homeless population. I am campaigning for Housing First legislation: a homelessness program based on the idea that people need necessities like food and shelter before focusing on abstract goals like employment, budgeting, and sobriety. In the Housing First model, the state houses homeless people. It ends their homelessness and gives them a platform to work on abstract goals. Housing First has a 98% long-term success rate and is 2.66x more successful than our current model. Further, it is so efficient that it would save taxpayers 23,000 - 31,545 USD per participant.
- As a young American, I've grown up in the opioid epidemic. People close to me have struggled with addiction, and friends have lost loved ones to opioids. Countless Mainers share similar stories. As our crisis continues to grow, we must invest in addiction therapy and make sure treatment is available on all sorts of healthcare plans. Because the state government works for the people, it must reevaluate the role of opioids in medicine and ask if their current level of availability is harming Maine. Despite recent reform efforts, 2020 and 2021 were the deadliest years in Maine's opioid crisis. Continuing to invest in treatment and fighting this epidemic means saving the lives of children, friends, and family.
- Climate change is the fight of our generation. It threatens Maine's farm economy, ecosystems, and future. As a young progressive who will live to see the full impact of our climate crisis, I hope to hold corporations accountable and move towards carbon neutrality. Clean and renewable energy systems are long overdue, and I will continue Ralph Tucker's fight for a green Maine. I want to bring millennial views on climate change to Congress. I want to elevate voices that believe climate change is a bipartisan issue and encourage other young Democrats to fight for their future.
I am campaigning for Housing First legislation. Housing First is a homelessness program based on the proven theory that people need necessities like food and shelter before focusing on abstract goals like employment, budgeting, and substance use. In the Housing First model, the state houses homeless people. This ends their homelessness and gives them a platform to work on abstract goals.
Housing First has a 98% long-term success rate and, among people with severe mental illness, it is 2.66x more successful than our current model. Further, it is so efficient that it would save taxpayers between 23,000 - 31,545 USD per participant.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 8, 2022
