Doug Peterson (Arkansas)
Doug Peterson (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the Arkansas State Senate to represent District 35. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Peterson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Doug Peterson was born in Indiana. He earned a bachelor's degree from Purdue University in 1982.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Arkansas State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Arkansas State Senate District 35
Tyler Dees defeated Doug Peterson in the general election for Arkansas State Senate District 35 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tyler Dees (R)  | 73.7 | 18,411 |
 | Doug Peterson (L) | 26.3 | 6,578 | |
| Total votes: 24,989 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for Arkansas State Senate District 35
Tyler Dees defeated Gayla McKenzie in the Republican primary runoff for Arkansas State Senate District 35 on June 21, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tyler Dees | 63.3 | 2,950 |
 | Gayla McKenzie | 36.7 | 1,714 | |
| Total votes: 4,664 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Arkansas State Senate District 35
Tyler Dees and Gayla McKenzie advanced to a runoff. They defeated Jeff Tennant in the Republican primary for Arkansas State Senate District 35 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tyler Dees | 45.7 | 4,292 |
| ✔ | | Gayla McKenzie | 33.7 | 3,162 |
 | Jeff Tennant | 20.6 | 1,934 | |
| Total votes: 9,388 | |||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Arkansas State Senate District 35
Doug Peterson advanced from the Libertarian convention for Arkansas State Senate District 35 on February 20, 2022.
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| ✔ | | Doug Peterson (L) |
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Doug Peterson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Peterson's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Freedom matters. Our founders understood that a just and equitable government must be founded on the principle of individual liberty. Government's righteous duty is to to defend life, liberty, and property. If an individual's actions are not causing harm to another, then it is no concern of government. I am not afraid of your freedom, you shouldn't be afraid of mine. I will fight to defend your freedom, even if I don't agree with your actions.
- If we want a different result we must do something different. The two Parties want us to believe that they are the only choice. They both operate from exactly the same two page playbook. Page one is "Do whatever is necessary to win elections and maintain power." Page two says "Always blame the other side." They want us divided and isolated. They work diligently to suppress third party and independent candidates. Most of us don’t operate at the margins of the political spectrum, we don’t have to vote that way.
- You have the power. The political parties are heavily invested in the fiction that they are the only choice. The two parties ignore the people once elected. Instead, they serve special interests and big money donors. It does not have to be that way. The Arkansas motto is “Regnat Populus” which is “the people rule.” We can reclaim our state. No political action committee owns even one single vote. Your vote outnumbers them. A vote for third party and independent candidates is a vote for hope. We can forge a better future and it starts with your vote.
Our state and our country are badly in need of criminal justice reform. One in five incarcerated people in the world are in the USA. Arkansas has the 6th highest incarceration rate in the US. Our recidivism rate is higher than most of the rest of the world. Half of the prisoners on Arkansas death row are racial minorities when they make up about 18% of our state’s population. What does this accomplish? Is this just? Are we somehow better of safer because of it? We must do better.
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See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 7, 2022
