Cindy Deporter
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Cindy Deporter (Democratic Party) ran for election to the North Carolina House of Representatives to represent District 2. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Deporter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Cindy Deporter was born in Sylva, North Carolina. She earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Tennessee in 1980. She earned a master's degree in social work from the University of Tennessee in 1982. Deporter's career experience includes working as a state agency director with the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation. Her professional credentials include working as a senior event judge and technical delegate with the United States Equestrian Federation, as a Level II event judge and as a Level III eventing technical delegate with the Fédération Équestre Internationale.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: North Carolina House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 2
Incumbent Larry Yarborough defeated Cindy Deporter in the general election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 2 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Larry Yarborough (R) | 60.4 | 25,928 |
 | Cindy Deporter (D)  | 39.6 | 17,000 | |
| Total votes: 42,928 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Cindy Deporter advanced from the Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 2.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Larry Yarborough advanced from the Republican primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 2.
Campaign finance
Endorsements
To view Cindy Deporter's endorsements in the 2020 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Cindy Deporter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Deporter's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I have worked in health care for over 30 years. We need Medicaid expansion to support the citizens in our district to assure they have assistance in prosperous times as well as current times. Our most vulnerable citizens have been left behind by the current incumbents' voting a straight party line and the promise of a trickle down economy. I support women and children and women's rights to make decisions about their health care needs. I support teachers and the public school system, we need better teacher pay and to provide teachers with the resources they need to teach our children. I believe in keeping our environment safe and holding individuals and corporations accountable when they harm our air and water. I am appalled with the way the Republican legislature has eroded our citizens rights in voting, women's right to choice, LGBTQ rights and the hateful, unkind disrespectful way that all our citizens have been treated. I believe in transparency, I have the same values as my neighbors, I believe in our rural way of life and that our farmers are crucial to our economy. I believe there is a place for all of us and we have to fiercely fight for a fairness for all of our citizens. Maya Angelou's quote about courage resonates with me personally she said, "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous or honest."
- We need Medicaid Expansion in N and supporting our most vulnerable citizens.
- We need to support all of our citizens regardless of race, sex, economic status or religious preferences and not disinfranchise them do to their beliefs.
- I believe in public education and supporting our teachers and asuring they are paid well and have the resources to teach.
I believe that the current NC Republican legislature has eroded women's rights in NC. They want to make decisions about bout our rights as women and our bodies. Along with this they have refused to support and have attacked organizations like Planned Parenthood that support women and children's health initiatives to access health care. The republicans have supported a racist bigoted campaign to erode and disenfranchise our African American citizens and our LGBTQ citizens through laws pointed at restricting their rights as citizens. They have not removed these laws or made changes to them without a legal challenge from the course. They have went about making our voting districts favor Republican candidates instead of representing the people of the area. With the Republicans agenda it is going to cost the tax payors 28 cents on the dollar instead of just 10 cents on the dollar to pay for the current health care needed by our most vulnerable citizens that utilize Medicaid instead of expanding Medicaid when they had the opportunity. The lack of access affects our citizens in NC that have limited resources to cope in this current pandemic. The emphasis is on greed and power, It is time that we had representation for our citizens that is about our citizens needs and what helps the whole instead of just a few. Frankly I decided to run for office because we are not being heard as citizens that and the blatant disregard that we are all created equal.
I look up to people who are strong and independent. I like strong women who are not afraid to speak their mind and are not afraid to be seen as being outside the box. I admire people that who do not mind standing up for the right thing instead of the policitcally correct thing. Honesty and transparency are bery important to me including be honest with your self and being honest with what you want out of life. I look up to people who have the courage to do the right thing even in the face of great adversity. I believe that out pasts make us what we are and that they define the character we develop.
I look up to people that have worked hard to get to where they have gotten. Both my grandmother and mother were strong independent women that taught me i can be anything i wanted to with hard owrk and perserverence. The fact that i was a women did not matter and i could grow up to be anything that I wanted to be. I believe in being the best i can be and taking responsiblity for my actions. These are the things that the strong women in my life taught me.
I look up to people that have worked hard to get to where they have gotten. Both my grandmother and mother were strong independent women that taught me i can be anything i wanted to with hard owrk and perserverence. The fact that i was a women did not matter and i could grow up to be anything that I wanted to be. I believe in being the best i can be and taking responsiblity for my actions. These are the things that the strong women in my life taught me.
Honesty, integrity and transparency are the values that I think are most important in an elected official. Along with that it comes to wanting to help others and to help provide a way forward for everyone. I have worked all my life to support our most vulnerable people in NC which are the elderly. In the end what matters is that person has what they need to grow old as healthy as possible and to have a place to live and be taken care of with dignity and respect. I do not particularly care if i am liked or disliked i just believe in doing the right thing that people have what they are entitiled too through our laws and regulations. I think that standing up for those that are less forunate and making opportunities available are waht are most important.
Withink all of that then comes in being honest with your self and honest with people that come to you for your help. Someimtes you can't help them the way they needed put that doesn't meant that you can help be the change agent to help others. Integrity is another value that i try to live by. My word and my promise mean something. I have to stand by them. Finally there needs to be transparency in what govenrment does, without it we have no way to assure that our political leaders are making decisions that are for the poeple and by the people.
Withink all of that then comes in being honest with your self and honest with people that come to you for your help. Someimtes you can't help them the way they needed put that doesn't meant that you can help be the change agent to help others. Integrity is another value that i try to live by. My word and my promise mean something. I have to stand by them. Finally there needs to be transparency in what govenrment does, without it we have no way to assure that our political leaders are making decisions that are for the poeple and by the people.
Strong Minded
Honest
Forthcoming
i will call it like i see it
Kind
Fairminded
Belive in giving credit where credit is due
Ethical
That i alwasy did my very best and made decisions from a place of kindenss and strenght. That when i knew better I did better.
President Kennedy being shot. I was five year old and I can remember the anquish and uncertainty of America at that time. I remember my parents were nervous and concerned about the assaignation and the magnitude that it had occured in America. I rememer watching the funeral and the horse that was led behind the cassick with the boots turning backwards. I remembered seeing the thousands of poeple that lined the route the coffin took and the incredible outpouring of grief for John F Kennedy and his family.
I worked for the Veteran's Administration Hospital as a Clinical Socail Worker. I worked in the Hospitl on a surgical floor and also in the Nursing Home Unit. This was my first job out of graduate school. My responsibliites was helping veterans transition back into their homes and also assure that they had any benefits that they were entitled. I also worked in the nursing home care unit at the VA Hospital. This unit housed veterans that had multiple complex co morbidities and required skilled nursing home care. Their diagnosis's contributed to them being unable to return to the community. I worked at VA for three years until my then spouse went to do his residency in Virginia
I don't have a particular one.
I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor
Being a woman is both a joy and a challenge. It is difficult to be passed over because as a female that you have strong opinions and a strong personality. Just beause you are a strong woman shouldn't make you less than a man. Being a strong woman is still looked down on in our current way of life.
I believe that the legislative chambers help balance each other out provide a more well rounded opportunity for respresentation. It is hard right now to tell there are any differences since they are both controlled by the Republicans which always vote party lines. Which means that the all of poeples voices are not being heard. Also the Republicans are not interested in bipartisianship or corroborating for the benefit of all. It has taken the outside court system to make them taek the correct legal action.
No i do not, i think that we need new people and new ideas and different viewpoints.
Health Care and providing for our most vulnerable population. NC needs Medicaid expansion to make sure our citizens are healthy and able to work. The current health care crisis is effecting our citizens with less opporutnities and lower paying work. We need to have jobs that cover all levels of our states poulations and the jobs needs to have a decent wage. There is a huge economic disparity in NC with the haves and the have nots. The current Republican legislature have done nothing but increase that divide and written legislation to continue to keep certain segments of our poulations disenfranchised. We need to get back to a respectful and corroborative relationship with all the different people in NC. It should not matter if your are black or white, poor or rich, LGBTQ or straight, or your religious preferences. We are all citizens of NC and we all need to have opportunities to be the best we can be. It is disheartening that because you look different, or you act different, or you have a different sexual persuaisn or different religion that you are not not treated equally. The challeng will be to make sure that all our citizens have a place at the table.
It is a give and take relationsip. The terrible rancour and hositlity of the Republicans against any Democratic solutions is ridiculous. I would except that the parties with the governor would work together for the citizens of NC, not for the special interest that the Republicans want. There is no "working together" in this current legislative envornment with the governor. We have to work together and we all have to be willing to compromise in order to help everyone, not just an entitiled few.
The fact that the Republicans lost their "super majority" and the governor has veto power to stop their nonsense has helped to provide a little better corroboration.
The fact that the Republicans lost their "super majority" and the governor has veto power to stop their nonsense has helped to provide a little better corroboration.
Yes i believe you have to build rsepectful corroborative relationships with other legislators. It is important to bridge the differences with thoughtful well reasoned discussions to be able to make legislation that workds for all NCs.
Health Care
Appropriations, Justice and PUblic Safety
Nope i need to be who i am and that the citizens of my District know that I reprsenet them and the interests that promote our conties.
Yes i am I think we need strong female voices in all areas of political offices.
THe storys that I have heard come from residents who believe that our current legilsture is "too good" for them. It has been intersesting to hear that our residents believe that their voices are not heard. Entitled is what i hear our residents saying about our current legislator. They do not feel that he is attuned to what is going on in our counties, like the environment and the need for Medicaid Exapancion. I have been told many times that the health of all the citizens in the county is not considered. People work hard and they want to have all the same opportunites of everyone. They believe that envornmentally there is not adequate safe drinking water and because of that people have become sick and coul dnot afford health care, and there was no Medicaid serviess that they could access.
The biggest complaint i have heard is that they have not had their voice heard!
The biggest complaint i have heard is that they have not had their voice heard!
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 27, 2020
Current members of the North Carolina House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Destin Hall
Majority Leader:Brenden Jones
Minority Leader:Robert Reives
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Ed Goodwin (R)
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Ray Jeffers (D)
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Steve Tyson (R)
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James Dixon (R)
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Bill Ward (R)
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Joe Pike (R)
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Matthew Winslow (R)
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Gloristine Brown (D)
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Timothy Reeder (R)
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John Bell (R)
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Allison Dahle (D)
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Chris Humphrey (R)
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Celeste Cairns (R)
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Wyatt Gable (R)
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Phillip Shepard (R)
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Carson Smith (R)
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Frank Iler (R)
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Deb Butler (D)
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Charles Miller (R)
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Ted Davis (R)
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Ya Liu (D)
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William Brisson (R)
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Dante Pittman (D)
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Allen Chesser (R)
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Donna White (R)
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Rodney Pierce (D)
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Larry Strickland (R)
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Vernetta Alston (D)
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Marcia Morey (D)
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Zack Hawkins (D)
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Bryan Cohn (D)
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Tim Longest (D)
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Mike Schietzelt (R)
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Julie von Haefen (D)
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Erin Paré (R)
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Abraham Jones (D)
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James Roberson (D)
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Phil Rubin (D)
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Maria Cervania (D)
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Mike Colvin (D)
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Diane Wheatley (R)
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Charles Smith (D)
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Frances Jackson (D)
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Brenden Jones (R)
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John Lowery (R)
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Garland Pierce (D)
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Cynthia Ball (D)
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Renée Price (D)
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John Sauls (R)
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Ben Moss (R)
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Howard Penny (R)
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Robert Reives (D)
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Mark Brody (R)
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Allen Buansi (D)
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Tracy Clark (D)
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Amos Quick (D)
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Alan Branson (R)
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Cecil Brockman (D)
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Mary Harrison (D)
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John Blust (R)
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Stephen Ross (R)
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Dennis Riddell (R)
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A. Reece Pyrtle (R)
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Sarah Crawford (D)
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Cody Huneycutt (R)
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David Willis (R)
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Dean Arp (R)
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Brian Biggs (R)
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Kanika Brown (D)
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Amber Baker (D)
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Jonathan Almond (R)
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Jeff Zenger (R)
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Donny Lambeth (R)
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Harry Warren (R)
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Julia Howard (R)
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Neal Jackson (R)
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Keith Kidwell (R)
District 80
Sam Watford (R)
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Larry Potts (R)
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Brian Echevarria (R)
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Grant Campbell (R)
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Jeffrey McNeely (R)
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Dudley Greene (R)
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Hugh Blackwell (R)
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Destin Hall (R)
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Mary Belk (D)
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Mitchell Setzer (R)
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Sarah Stevens (R)
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Kyle Hall (R)
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Terry Brown (D)
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Ray Pickett (R)
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Blair Eddins (R)
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Todd Carver (R)
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Jay Adams (R)
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Heather Rhyne (R)
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Nasif Majeed (D)
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Julia Greenfield (D)
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Carolyn Logan (D)
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Laura Budd (D)
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Brandon Lofton (D)
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Tricia Cotham (R)
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Carla Cunningham (D)
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Aisha Dew (D)
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John Torbett (R)
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Donnie Loftis (R)
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Kelly Hastings (R)
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Paul Scott (R)
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Jordan Lopez (D)
District 113
Jake Johnson (R)
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Eric Ager (D)
District 115
Lindsey Prather (D)
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Brian Turner (D)
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Jennifer Balkcom (R)
District 118
Mark Pless (R)
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Mike Clampitt (R)
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Karl Gillespie (R)
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