Connor Nowalk
Connor Nowalk (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Missouri House of Representatives to represent District 24. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 4, 2020.
Nowalk completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Connor Nowalk was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2009 and a master's degree from the University of Missouri in 2018. His professional experience includes working as the director of data and evaluation at The Literacy Lab.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Missouri House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Missouri House of Representatives District 24
Emily Weber defeated Andrew Miller in the general election for Missouri House of Representatives District 24 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Emily Weber (D)  | 89.0 | 20,167 |
 | Andrew Miller (L) | 11.0 | 2,501 | |
| Total votes: 22,668 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 24
Emily Weber defeated Connor Nowalk and Sammie Arnold in the Democratic primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 24 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Emily Weber | 69.8 | 5,850 |
 | Connor Nowalk | 21.0 | 1,762 | |
 | Sammie Arnold | 9.2 | 769 | |
| Total votes: 8,381 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
Libertarian primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 24
Andrew Miller advanced from the Libertarian primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 24 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Andrew Miller | 100.0 | 33 |
| Total votes: 33 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Connor Nowalk completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Nowalk'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've spent my career working to ensure that students have equitable access to a great education. I have been a teacher, an entrepreneur, and a nonprofit leader. For nearly a decade, I've worked with students and families in our community, and now I'm ready to represent our district as a state representative.
As a math teacher at Guadalupe Centers High School, I saw that the challenges our schools face are far greater than the resources we've provided to address them. Since then, my work has focused on supporting students and schools: I founded an education technology company to help teachers provide feedback to their students, and I helped start a scholarship to support undocumented college students. Currently, I'm the data director for a nonprofit that provides literacy tutoring for 1,000+ students in Kansas City each year.
I believe that providing a strong foundation for the youngest Missourians is the best way to achieve a better future for our state. I'm running because I've been fighting for these goals for my entire career, and I'm ready to take the fight to Jefferson City.
- Education: One of the biggest responsibilities of our state government is to provide schools with the resources they need to be successful. And our state is failing in its duty. Education budget increases have been outpaced by rising costs, forcing schools to make tough choices about how to best educate our kids. And this year, at a time when schools will need more support than ever in helping their students catch up, our governor has cut millions for the state education budget. Funding education is my number one priority as a legislator.
- Healthcare Access: Access to healthcare is a human right. Our state failed to accept federal funding that would cover 90% of the cost of expanding Medicaid to all those eligible, and has made it harder for folks to stay covered with strict eligibility requirements. This places an enormous burden on patients and hospitals alike, specifically many rural hospitals which are in danger of closing. We need to expand access to healthcare in this state because it's the right thing to do, and frankly, we can't afford not to.
- Racial Equity: Dismantling the systems that perpetuate racial inequity will require attention in all areas of government. To start, we must take significant measures to divert the funding we use for punishing people and apply it towards meeting people's needs. Missouri prisons are filled to capacity, disproportionately with black people and people of color, many of whom are nonviolent drug offenders locked in excessive mandatory minimum sentences. Prison and all of the interactions with law enforcement that precede it are often unjust, unnecessary, ineffective, and expensive. Reallocating funding from systems that punish our citizens would help us fund priorities like education and healthcare, while contributing to a more equitable society.
Increasing literacy
Equity for undocumented college students
Criminal justice reform
Access to affordable healthcare
Reducing gun violence
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 8, 2020
