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Coleen Martinez
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Coleen Martinez (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Tennessee House of Representatives to represent District 89. She lost in the general election on November 6, 2018.
Martinez completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2018. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2018
General election
Justin Lafferty defeated Coleen Martinez in the general election for Tennessee House of Representatives District 89 on November 6, 2018.
General election
General election for Tennessee House of Representatives District 89
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Justin Lafferty (R) | 64.0 | 16,665 |
 | Coleen Martinez (D)  | 36.0 | 9,389 | |
| Total votes: 26,054 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Coleen Martinez defeated Keifel Agostini in the Democratic primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 89 on August 2, 2018.
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 89
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Coleen Martinez | 83.2 | 2,290 |
| Keifel Agostini | 16.8 | 463 | ||
| Total votes: 2,753 | |||
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Republican primary election
Justin Lafferty defeated Tim Hutchison, Stacey Campfield, Guy Smoak, and Jesse Nelson in the Republican primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 89 on August 2, 2018.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 89
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Justin Lafferty | 30.3 | 2,734 |
 | Tim Hutchison | 25.7 | 2,322 | |
 | Stacey Campfield | 21.4 | 1,929 | |
| Guy Smoak | 11.4 | 1,029 | ||
| Jesse Nelson | 11.3 | 1,019 | ||
| Total votes: 9,033 | |||
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Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Coleen Martinez participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on July 25, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Coleen Martinez's responses follow below.[1]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | My top three legislative priorities will be to fully fund public education, expand access to affordable healthcare, and enact gun safety legislation.[2][3] | ” |
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | The areas of public policy that I am most passionate about are public education, affordable healthcare and gun safety legislation. I have two children in public schools so they directly feel the effects of low funding. I have a degree in health education so that gives me insight into what we need to do to increase our health outcomes. With my children in public school, I am afraid they will get shot in school so we need to do something so I am not afraid and so that my children are not afraid.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[3]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Coleen Martinez answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?
| “ | I look up to my mom. She is a successful attorney in a small town in West Virginia. She works very hard everyday and she never gives up. She taught me how to be organized and how to learn. She reads and keeps up with current events and she often wins her age group in 5K running races. I hope to one day be as successful as she is.[3] | ” |
| “ | I believe that a successful legislator needs to be able to network, talk with people, learn about them, find common ground and then work together toward a goal to help people have a better life. I do this all the time as a community volunteer. I enjoy working for my community and I would enjoy helping my community from Nashville.[3] | ” |
| “ | The first historical event that I remember was watching the Challenger Shuttle explosion on TV.[3] | ” |
| “ | A constant struggle in my life is that I have never been accepted and been able to attend a Ph.D. program or something similar like a law program or pharmacist program. My lifelong goal is to get a Ph.D.[3] | ” |
| “ | The greatest challenges that we will have in Tennessee over the next decade is that we need to fully fund public education, expand Medicaid, and increase wages. We are underfunding education by $500 to $900 million. We cannot sustain this any longer. Our children need us to do everything we can to educate them to the best of our abilities. We have 300,000 Tennesseans who are working in low-income jobs that do not have access to health insurance. We have had 8 rural hospital closures. We have lost $4 billion dollars in taxes to other states that expanded Medicaid. Our money is being spent elsewhere and we need to change course and spend that money in our state on our people. We have had a lot of corporations come into Tennessee but we have the highest rate of minimum wage jobs. No one can live on $7.25 an hour. We need to do better and we need to raise wages to $15/hour so folks can actually thrive.[3] | ” |
| “ | Of course I believe it is beneficial to build relationships with other legislators. How else would we get anything done if we never talk to each other? We likely have more in common then we think. We may disagree on hot button topics but we more than likely will agree on how to do the best for Tennessee.[3] | ” |
| “ | I favor non-partisan redistricting. We live in a state with the worst voter turnout in the country. We have to admit that the districts are adding to the problem. Plus we do not put any money into informing voters of their choices and the issues at stake for each office. I also favor ranked choice voting and mail-in ballots.[3] | ” |
| “ | I would like to serve on the education and health committees.[3] | ” |
See also
- State legislative elections, 2018
- Tennessee House of Representatives elections, 2018
- Tennessee House of Representatives
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Coleen Martinez's responses," July 25, 2018
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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