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Dena Sattler
Dena Sattler (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Kansas State Senate to represent District 3. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Sattler completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Dena Sattler was born in Burlington, Iowa. She served in the U.S. Army Reserve. She earned a high school diploma from Burlington High School and a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa. Her career experience includes working as an independent contractor. Sattler has been affiliated with the Kansas Press Association.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Kansas State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Kansas State Senate District 3
Incumbent Rick Kloos defeated Dena Sattler in the general election for Kansas State Senate District 3 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Rick Kloos (R) | 57.4 | 21,942 |
 | Dena Sattler (D)  | 42.6 | 16,285 | |
| Total votes: 38,227 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Kansas State Senate District 3
Dena Sattler advanced from the Democratic primary for Kansas State Senate District 3 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dena Sattler | 100.0 | 2,813 |
| Total votes: 2,813 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Kansas State Senate District 3
Incumbent Rick Kloos advanced from the Republican primary for Kansas State Senate District 3 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rick Kloos | 100.0 | 5,200 |
| Total votes: 5,200 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Sattler in this election.
Pledges
Sattler signed the following pledges.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Dena Sattler completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sattler's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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As a career journalist, I was a truth teller who fought for transparency and accountability. I’m also a professional listener thanks to my work in journalism, so I’m well prepared to listen to the people of my district. My work in state government gave me a close look at the challenges of policymaking, and the pragmatic, common-sense approach by Governor Kelly in particular. Her work has inspired me in my run for Kansas Senate. As for my military service, it definitely gave me an important skill set that will be useful as a state senator. First, when you serve in the military, you learn pretty quickly to work with people of different backgrounds and beliefs. We desperately need that spirit of tolerance and cooperation in the Kansas Statehouse. I will work toward bipartisan, Kansas-specific solutions.
Thanks to my time as a journalist and soldier, I won’t be intimidated or bullied. I’ll fight for what’s right to deliver results that matter to all Kansans.- I will defend our freedoms that are under constant attack in the Legislature — from our freedom to vote, to our freedom to make our own healthcare decisions.
- Medicaid expansion will help 152,000 Kansans, mostly the working poor, access healthcare — and that includes 40,000 children. Besides being the right thing to do to help so many Kansas families, expanding Medicaid also is fiscally responsible. It simply makes no sense to continue sending billions of our tax dollars to other states to help them expand health care to help their residents. We can be fiscally responsible and still support our friends and neighbors.
- We have to continue to defend our public schools and educators from scams like school vouchers. As we’re seeing in other states, school vouchers are nothing more than welfare for the well off. These vouchers will devastate our neighborhood schools, which is the long-standing goal of ultraconservatives working to undermine public education by diverting our tax dollars to private schools that then dodge the strict accountability of public schools.
Health Care.
Economic Development.
Rural Policy.
Veterans Affairs.
Affordable Housing.
My work in state government gave me a close look at the challenges of policymaking, and the pragmatic, commonsense approach by Governor Laura Kelly in particular as the state rebounded from reckless policies of the previous administration.
My military service gave me an important skill set that will be useful as a state senator. When you serve in the military, you quickly learn to work with people of different backgrounds and beliefs. We desperately need that spirit of tolerance and cooperation in the Kansas Statehouse.
• Protecting our constitutional freedoms, from our healthcare decisions to voting.
• Medicaid expansion
• Access to affordable childcare
• Access to affordable housing
• Fair tax relief, and especially property tax relief
I also have been motivated by two prominent former legislators, starting with my state senator when I lived in Garden City, Kan.: former two-term Kansas Senate President Steve Morris. President Morris, who also served as president of the bipartisan National Council on State Legislatures, was a respected moderate Republican who operated in a thoughtful, bipartisan way. He has publicly endorsed my campaign. Another, former Senate Democratic Leader Anthony Hensley, has also endorsed my campaign, and I’m honored to have him as my campaign treasurer. Senator Hensley’s run in the Kansas Legislature — the longest in state history — makes him an invaluable resource when it comes to understanding the workings of the Statehouse.
- Commerce. I am a staunch supporter of economic development and its part in creating healthier communities.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 23, 2024
