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Ernie Whiteside
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Ernie Whiteside (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Michigan House of Representatives to represent District 56. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 4, 2020.
Whiteside completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Whiteside graduated from Morley-Stanwood High School in 1979. He earned his A.S. in medical laboratory technology from the Community College of the Air Force in 1987 and his B.S. in business management from Park College in 1992. He is a veteran of the United States Air Force.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 56
TC Clements defeated Keith Kitchens and Jeffrey Rubley II in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 56 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | TC Clements (R)  | 64.2 | 31,325 |
| Keith Kitchens (D) | 33.8 | 16,478 | ||
 | Jeffrey Rubley II (G) | 2.0 | 993 | |
| Total votes: 48,796 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 56
Keith Kitchens defeated Ernie Whiteside in the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 56 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Keith Kitchens | 51.6 | 3,505 | |
 | Ernie Whiteside | 48.4 | 3,291 | |
| Total votes: 6,796 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 56
TC Clements defeated Austin Blaine in the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 56 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | TC Clements | 72.8 | 7,927 |
| Austin Blaine | 27.2 | 2,962 | ||
| Total votes: 10,889 | |||
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Green convention
Green convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 56
Jeffrey Rubley II advanced from the Green convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 56 on June 20, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Jeffrey Rubley II (G) |
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Campaign finance
2018
General election
Incumbent Jason Sheppard defeated Ernie Whiteside in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 56 on November 6, 2018.
General election
General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 56
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jason Sheppard (R) | 62.3 | 21,979 |
| Ernie Whiteside (D) | 37.7 | 13,289 | |
| Total votes: 35,268 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Ernie Whiteside advanced from the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 56 on August 7, 2018.
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 56
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ernie Whiteside | 100.0 | 5,565 |
| Total votes: 5,565 | |||
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Republican primary election
Incumbent Jason Sheppard advanced from the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 56 on August 7, 2018.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 56
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jason Sheppard | 100.0 | 7,846 |
| Total votes: 7,846 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Ernie Whiteside completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Whiteside'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 consider myself to be a progressive. Regressive people yearn for "the good old days" which all to often turn out to have been good for some at the expense of others. Moderates benefit from present condition and work to maintain the status quo even if it fails to meet the needs of others. Progressives learn from the past, live in the present and work for the future.
I am also something of an economic populist. There are three conditions that get in the way of the better future: poverty, deprivation and a precarious existence. Poverty is easy to understand, but deprivation is harder; many people live just above the poverty live working for way too little to afford what we might call the American Dream. And there are also those who live in relative comfort but worry always about unfortunate circumstances might rob them of their comfortable future; they live precariously.
Whether we are concerned about the economy, social justice, infrastructure, energy or the environment, our broader concerns all tend to take a back seat to the more narrow and often financial concerns of the moment. I am nearing 60 and winding down, I wand to do what I can while I can to leave future generations with hope for a life at least as good as the one I have lived and if possible better.- The public sector should be public and the private sector should be private. The public interest should be served ahead of private profit in all public services and public utilities. The public sector should be owned and managed by the public and employees should be public employees. When we partner with the private sector to provide public services there should be public accountability and public transparency.
- Future generations should NOT be required to pay for the goods and services whether they be public or private that are purchased and consumed by the current generation. The persons, including corporate persons, who benefit the most from public goods and services should pay the most and it isn't difficult to identify them because they have the highest income and the most wealth. I support a fair corporate tax rate and a graduated income tax. Various schemes to earmark this tax or that tax for this purpose or that purpose have failed and it is time to revisit how we fund government and pay for public goods and services.
- Partisanship is getting in the way of progress. There will always be those who prefer a more authoritarian or more libertarian approach or an approach from the right (individualistic/hierarchical/competition oriented) or the left (collectivist/non-hierarchical, cooperation oriented). Putting on a blue or a red jersey should NOT divide us; putting a D or and R on the ballot should be less divisive. I would like to visit the issues of non-partisan election, ending primary elections, instant runoff voting and the popular vote for president.
The very human right to live a dignified life and be the best and most productive version of themselves that they can be. To do so we must NOT live in poverty, deprivation or precariousness. I support tuition free education for everyone and at a minimum for preschoolers through the Associates or Technical/Vocational level of education. We must understand that those who benefit most from a well educated public are those who employ them and the burden of paying for a public education should principally fall on the more prosperous ownership/employer class. I support affordable access to certain public utilities such as water, electricity, gas, and Internet/telephone access. The best price and the simplest terms must be made available to residential rate payers. Commercial and industrial rate payers should include the full cost of utilities in the product or service they sell. Healthcare should be free at the point of care. Of course it must be paid for and I support the Medicare for All plan co-sponsored by Rep Debbie Dingell with its public option. If the federal government will not make this available I would support a state level Medicaid for All with a public option. I oppose outsourcing public goods and services whether it is schools, prisons or benefits/payment processing. Let's just put the public first again!
I admire Senator Bernie Sanders. We aren't 100% but he has had principled and consistent views about how to best meet the needs of everyday people all of his life. He has been able to expand his personal platform even in his advanced years to address concerns of new constituents and supporters. On the opposite end of the age spectrum I admire Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Andrew Yang. Each has incredibly well thought out positions on a really broad list of issues and they are able to articulate their positions in a way that I can only wish too. All three of the people listed hold what can only be described as heterodox views on issues that don't set well with either the neoliberal left or the neoconservative right political establishment. Meeting the needs of everyday people almost always put you at odds with those who benefit from the status quo circumstance.
Almost anything by Thomas Frank. I haven't read all of his work but I listen to him a lot and find him compelling. The titles say it all: "One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy" (2000); "What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America" (2004); "The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule" (2008); "Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?" (2016). Andrew Yang's book, "The War on Normal People" (2018). If you really want to get into the weeds, "The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism" (1990) by Gosta Esping-Anderson. Historically important, "Agrarian Justice" (1797) by Thomas Paine or "Looking Backward: 2000-1887" (1887) by Edward Bellamy.
There are people who dig for the facts and I am one of them. I am always digging and always learning.
I would like to be the representative that persuaded Michigan that people were more important than profits and that if public utilities fail to meet the needs of everyday people where they live at a price they can afford then we should not call them public utility companies. Any bill that ensured residential rate payers that they would get the lowest price and an affordable price for water, gas, electricity or Internet service vs commercial and industrial rate payers and that a local service counter would be open to them would be a fitting legacy to leave.
I remember watching the very early Apollo launches when I was very young, perhaps 5 or 6 and later watching at least one of the lunar landings. Another event stands out in my mind. My grandmother lined all of us up in front of the television and told us to watch what was happening. She said it had never happened before and may never happen again in our lifetime. We watched Richard M. Nixon resign.
United States Air Force, August 1979 thru March 1993, Honorable Discharge, Technical Sergeant (E-6), Medical Laboratory Technician (AFSC 92470), Decorations: Commendation, Outstanding Unit, Good Conduct, National Defense Service Medal; Longevity; NCO Professional Military Education, Training, Small Arms Expert Marksmanship.
"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien. I think it was my first hero's journey in fiction. It left me hungry for more and thankfully there was a trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings". And I was still hungry, so I read the Silmarillion and it was as dry as the Bible but somehow it felt like I was discovering lost gems of knowledge about a distant past, even about creation. I was very depressed when I finished the Silmarillion because I wanted more Tolkien but there wasn't more Tolkien to be had. "Courage is found in unlikely places."
Erika. I can say a few words in German (no many) and this old military march gets in my head sometimes, "Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein. Und das heißt: Erika." "On the heather blooms a small flower. And that means: Erika."
Sometimes an old Scottish song gets in my head, "O you take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland afore ye, but me and my true love will never meet again, on the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond."
A friend once told me that I spend too much time sharpening my sword and too little time slaying dragons. My sword is very sharp, there is no dragon meat in my freezer.
I lived in Nebraska for 7 years and I would love to see Michigan become a non-partisan and unicameral state. When I was young I learned that the law came from the Senate and the budget came from the House. Maybe that was a thing in past but now they only purpose two legislative bodies serves is to obfuscate legislation.
While I have not held local office, I think there are advantages to electing representatives who have. I also see advantages to electing people who have not held office. Sometimes you really just need some people in office who are not hung up maintaining the status quo. For example, we don't have money for roads and the real problem is the math models used to allocate funds from earmarked taxes and the like. Call me naive but I don't think we have to just keep doing it that way in the future because we did it that way in the past.
The elephant is the room is climate change and a host of other problems of related to the problem of growth. I don't think we are going to even try to address this challenge. Most people do not grasp just how existential the problem is. We are all caught up in our day-to-day concerns of the present moment and those need to be addressed so we can begin to address the concerns of the future. But the future is far too close. It takes CO2 ten years to make its way up into the atmosphere were it has its greenhouse effect. That means if we stopped emitting CO2 today the levels will keep rising for ten years. When the climate does undeniably begin to interfere with our preferred way of life by reducing food production we will already be at least ten years past the tipping point and it will be too late to mitigate so we will have to adapt. Most of what we are doing now is green washing. We need to talk about abandoning growth in favor of a steady state and to talk about adaptation. Neither the right nor the left is ready for that conversation.
One of mutual concern for the well being the people living in the state and nation. I am a Democrat but my favorite governor will always be William G. Milliken. Maybe it is just because he was my first remembered governor but I like to think he was the governor of Michigan at a time when Republicans brought business acumen to table and Democrats brought the concerns of wage earners to the table and each tried to make Michigan a better place. Who knows, maybe it wasn't that good, but that is how I like to remember it and how I think it should be.
Of course. Tribal partisanship breaks down when we discover we like one another. The left begins to recognize the value of competition and therefore competence; the right begins to recognize the value of cooperation and inclusion. The next thing you know we might realize we are not Democrats and Republicans, we are humans.
Energy, we need to produce clean, efficient and renewable energy here in Michigan and we need to give our residential rate payers the best price instead of the worst. Agriculture, we need to grow more of what we eat in here in the state and that means finding ways to encourage more greenhouses and local gardens that grow food and more processing to get that food to the local markets. There is a water and energy component to agriculture as well that concerns me. Financial Services, most folks have probably given up on the state bank initiative modeled on the Bank of North Dakota but I haven't; we can make money available in Michigan for the things that matter most to Michigan instead of putting our tax money in a commercial bank account that does more for people in New York or elsewhere. Elections and Ethics, I already mentioned the problems related to partisanship and my preference for instant runoff elections over primary elections. Education, in support of tuition free though at least the Associates level. To be honest I could be put on almost any committee and find a cause I support relevant to the committee and something put before the committee by others that would benefit from a member whose principled position is to put the very public interests of everyday people at the top of my priority list.
I am NOT a career political figure; I am winding down I am NOT winding up. Party leadership would NOT be a high priority to me. I want to be able to work with whoever I am sitting next to without feeling like we are on teams with blue and red jerseys and letters and the like. I will try to work with party leadership rather than trying to be party leadership.
Representative Yousef Rabhi. He is issue oriented and principled.
I don't think so but who knows? If I get elected and find out I am good at this maybe I will want to stick around and grow old in public office or seek other offices.
I met a woman who was wearing a dress with interesting designs that I took to be western tribal art. I was right. My grandparents didn't talk much about their tribal roots because of prejudices of the day. Her family never talked about their tribal roots because the family had moved north and south of the US-Mexico border many times with the result of uncertain residence status. The tribal borders didn't match the modern geopolitical boarders. So, they lied about where they were born on every census to stay legal. I have done some genealogy. Some of my own ancestors came to Michigan from Canada. They moved back and forth several times before settling in Michigan. They too lied on census records to avoid questions about citizenship and residency. Our modern dilemmas aren't so modern after all.
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2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Ernie Whiteside participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on August 27, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Ernie Whiteside's responses follow below.[2]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Enact "fair share" tax reforms to roll back the effect of 2011 income tax reforms which left Michigan underfunded while virtually erasing corporate income tax revenue and shifting the tax burden to retired and low income individuals. 2) Roll back so-called Right to Work laws passed in 2012 along with countless other measures that have had a negative impact on everyday working people in Michigan. 3) Push for measures that would protect our water and environment for this and future generations.[3][4] |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | The economics of everyday people are so important. People who are worried about paying the bills this week are NOT going to worry about environmental problems that seem to be far in the future. People who are experiencing the economic injustice of obtaining a college degree only to be left with job options that will NOT pay off the loan in a lifetime are NOT going to be empathetic to the kind of injustices that people of color in urban neighborhoods experience every day. And people who work too many hours just to get by are NOT going to have time, energy and resources for personal passions. Real liberty is more than just freedom from legal restraints, it is freedom from want, worry and material deficiency.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[4]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Ernie Whiteside answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?
| “ | I am inspired by Bernie Sanders and I don't think it is just because I find myself for the most part in agreement with his social, political and economic views. I think it is in the fact that he does NOT let messages that have the highest level of priority get hijacked by emotionally charged distractions. He is smart, tough, and honest and stays focused on what is important.[4] | ” |
| “ | Read either "The Wrecking Crew" or "Listen Liberal" by Thomas Frank. Or, just watch any long Thomas Frank interview on the Internet. The political right is wrecking government and then telling us that the government they wrecked is the problem while the political left is failing to address the real concerns of low-wage, working class people because it has become obsessed with maintaining the relatively high quality of life enjoyed by a higher paid professional and skilled class of working people. Every day, working people who have been left behind or are worried they will be left behind do NOT have a real voice in government. Both the left and the right make endless appeals to their own brand of identity groups while focusing on the shortcomings of some hated member of the other group. "We are not as bad as they are" is NOT a motivating political message. And neither is, "We just need one more term to totally wreck government so you can live the government-free life you always dreamed of."[4] | ” |
| “ | Competence, integrity and empathy. The ability to disagree with others without being hostile and the ability to understand others even when you disagree with them.[4] | ” |
| “ | I think outside the box. I am NOT invested in maintaining the status quo.[4] | ” |
| “ | To act in the best interest of those you represent. An elected representative should NOT be a populist who checks the wind and votes the way the majority of their constituents would wish although their wishes should be considered. He or she must look more closely at the issues and related facts so that the representative casts a better vote than less informed members of their district would and must be willing to go back to the voters and explain their votes. Sometimes they must vote against their own personal interests and even risk future support for the sake of doing what is right and not what is merely expedient.[4] | ” |
| “ | If I could be known for just one achievement in Lansing, it would be to champion a state-level Medicare for All plan. Nothing has the negative economic impact on individuals and businesses that the high cost of healthcare does. Most of the advanced nations of the world provide healthcare to all of their citizens for as little as 9% of their GDP, but here in the USA healthcare costs 20% of our GDP while leaving almost every person who has even a minor health issue financially insecure.[4] | ” |
| “ | I remember my mother setting us around the television to watch the first manned space flight in 1968. I was seven (7) years old. I remember seeing on the news helicopters pushed off naval flight decks as America evacuated from Vietnam. And I remember my grandmother calling all of us into the living room to watch Richard M. Nixon resign in August of 1974 and that experience has never left my mind.[4] | ” |
| “ | In entered the United States Air Force when I was just seventeen (17) years old and there I served for thirteen (13) years before being honorable discharged at the rank of Technical Sergeant (E-6). I completed my Associates of Science in Medical Technology and Bachelor of Science in Business Management while on active duty and left to look for better employment at a higher rate of pay.[4] | ” |
| “ | I don’t have any awkward dating experiences to share because I was an awkward young man who did NOT have dating experiences. My wife of 35 years is pretty much the only girl that I’ve ever take to dinner or a movie. We’ve raised six children together.[4] | ” |
| “ | I am NOT fond of holidays but if there was one that I prefer over others it is Thanksgiving. It is a day for gratitude and a day to consider our own personal good fortune, much of which comes to us from the labor of so many others who each do their part to produce the things that make our lives better, but also for just being lucky enough to live in a time and place where knowledge, technology and resources have come together in a way so much better than in times past. I celebrate Yule in much the same tradition, remembering that for our ancestors each winter was the beginning of great misfortune, that food became less available as the winter progressed, that bitter cold penetrated even the warmest homes and that disease or just old age brought death to the feeble and the weak.[4] | ” |
| “ | Brave New World by Aldus Huxley. This is a real thinker's book, here are a few aphorisms from it, “...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution,” and “...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....”[4] | ” |
| “ | Radagast the Brown, one of the Istari, or wizards, sent by the Valar to aid the Elves and Men of Middle-earth. Radagast did something really important in a story without ever being much noticed for it. Radagast was held in contempt by Saruman but greatly respected by Gandalf. That is how I would like to see myself, busy behind the scenes doing things that must be done, held in contempt by the contemptible and respected by the respectable.[4] | ” |
| “ | My computer. It connects me to a much larger world that would be otherwise either difficult to connect with or totally inaccessible. Having so much knowledge so close at hand is such an incredible treasure that I can hardly stand to let it go at bed time. My computer is also a great source of distraction when I am frustrated. It opens the door for achievement in a virtual way that is almost always closed in the real and material sense.[4] | ” |
| “ | Always Look on the Bright Side of Life written Eric Idle for "Monte Python's Life of Brian". I take my politics serious and sometimes I need a reminder of how important it is to put all of life in perspective and so that every moment, even the difficult ones, and especially those end of life moments, should be cherished and appreciated.[4] | ” |
| “ | The younger version of me thought that my own success was almost exclusively the fruit of my own competence and usefulness. The current version has discovered that we are all very much the beneficiaries and/or victims of forces largely beyond our control. An entire generation of mostly white men about my age has discovered that they are NOT needed by corporate America. They/we can be, and have been, replaced by technology, foreign labor and/or cheaper domestic labor. I consider myself fortunate to have been able to see the bigger picture but many don't. They have lost their jobs, their families, their homes, their retirements and the sense of self-worth. Depression, opiate use and suicide are rising fast in my once privileged demographic of older white males. Being left behind hasn't broken me, but it has been and continues to be one of the personal struggles of life that challenges me to find other ways to be both competent and useful and shapes my character.[4] | ” |
| “ | I do NOT believe that Michigan needs both a State Senate and a State House. The effective role of a bicameral legislative body is largely one of redundancy.[4] | ” |
| “ | N/A[4] | ” |
| “ | There are some obvious benefits to sending representatives to Lansing who have some political experience, BUT ... I believe that we should also be sending people to Lansing who are NOT career politicians. Everyday people are frustrated by the tendency of political people toward policies that maintain the status quo and fail to meet the needs of everyday people. We all benefit when we are represented by people with diverse backgrounds.[4] | ” |
| “ | For most people the most urgent issue is income inequality, income insecurity and income insufficiency. For the state the problem is insufficient revenue. The urgent and immediate problems associated with income and revenue interfere with the ability of individuals and the state to invest in the future. The special challenge for the future is to protect our environment, especially the water, and to invest in clean, efficient and renewable energy while also attempting to restore, maintain and/or improve other important infrastructure like roads and the Internet that are important for every productive activity in our state.[4] | ” |
| “ | The legislature should set the priorities for government and make sure that they are funded. The governor should take direction from the legislature. Sadly, tribal partisanship has led to constantly shifting priorities that are more accommodating to big corporate interests than those of everyday Michigander. It is only natural that with this kind of division the people will look to the Governor to press the legislature to meet the needs of the state.[4] | ” |
| “ | The real question is whether a legislator sees benefit in developing relationships with other legislators that they disagree with. And this is the great challenge![4] | ” |
| “ | I support the aims of "Voters NOT Politicians" to end gerrymandering and "Promote the Vote" to regulate the timing of issuing absentee ballots, authorize no-reason absentee voting, require a straight party voting option on general election ballots, provide for automatic voter registration, require post-election audits, and other voting changes. I also support the "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact" to award electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote and a "Vote by Mail" system to conduct elections entirely by mail.[4] | ” |
| “ | N/A[4] | ” |
| “ | N/A[4] | ” |
| “ | I think this is a question for the future.[4] | ” |
| “ | I know, like and respect a number of legislators but I don't know that I am likely to model myself after any of them. I'll probably beat my own path through the snow for a while and discover who it is that I model after later.[4] | ” |
| “ | I have a hard time believing that political office will be something like a "career" in which I will move from one office to another.[4] | ” |
| “ | I met a woman who appeared to be Native American so I asked. She told me she was Apache. Her family never spoke about being Apache in large part because earlier generations had crossed to border to Mexico and later generations returned. Her parents were undocumented immigrants. I was reminded of my own ancestors from Canada who on the Canadian census recorded that they were born in Ontario and on the US census recorded that they were born in Michigan. My adoptive grandfather was one-quarter Native American and never spoke of it. I later found pictures of him at pow wows. Native Americans should NOT be shy about their ancestral heritage, and Euro Americans like myself should know that our ancestors were all immigrants whether they were documented or not.[4] | ” |
Biographical submission
Whiteside submitted the following campaign themes through Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form:
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What is your political philosophy? Socially, politically and economically progressive; both liberal and libertarian. Protect our water for this and future generations; public investment in clean, renewable and efficient energy; new labor policies and living wages for a highly automated world; public oversight and direct employment for public services; a higher level of tuition-free public education for the next generation; end the fear of financial ruin to pay medical bills; a fiscally responsible, fair-share tax system; restore confidence in the election system. [4] |
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| —Ernie Whiteside[1] | ||
See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted through Ballotpedia's biographical submission form on June 8, 2018.
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Ernie Whiteside's responses," August 27, 2018
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 4.24 4.25 4.26 4.27 4.28 4.29 4.30 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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District 24
Ranjeev Puri (D)
District 25
Peter Herzberg (D)
District 26
Dylan Wegela (D)
District 27
Rylee Linting (R)
District 28
Jamie Thompson (R)
District 29
James DeSana (R)
District 30
William Bruck (R)
District 31
Reggie Miller (D)
District 32
Jimmie Wilson (D)
District 33
Morgan Foreman (D)
District 34
District 35
Jennifer Wortz (R)
District 36
Steve Carra (R)
District 37
Brad Paquette (R)
District 38
Joey Andrews (D)
District 39
Pauline Wendzel (R)
District 40
Matt Longjohn (D)
District 41
Julie Rogers (D)
District 42
Matt Hall (R)
District 43
Rachelle Smit (R)
District 44
Steve Frisbie (R)
District 45
Sarah Lightner (R)
District 46
Kathy Schmaltz (R)
District 47
Carrie Rheingans (D)
District 48
Jennifer Conlin (D)
District 49
Ann Bollin (R)
District 50
Jason Woolford (R)
District 51
Matt Maddock (R)
District 52
Mike Harris (R)
District 53
Brenda Carter (D)
District 54
Donni Steele (R)
District 55
Mark Tisdel (R)
District 56
Sharon MacDonell (D)
District 57
Thomas Kuhn (R)
District 58
Ron Robinson (R)
District 59
Douglas Wozniak (R)
District 60
Joseph Aragona (R)
District 61
Denise Mentzer (D)
District 62
District 63
Jay DeBoyer (R)
District 64
Joseph Pavlov (R)
District 65
Jaime Greene (R)
District 66
Josh Schriver (R)
District 67
Phil Green (R)
District 68
David Martin (R)
District 69
Jasper Martus (D)
District 70
Cynthia Neeley (D)
District 71
Brian BeGole (R)
District 72
Mike Mueller (R)
District 73
Julie Brixie (D)
District 74
Kara Hope (D)
District 75
District 76
Angela Witwer (D)
District 77
Emily Dievendorf (D)
District 78
Gina Johnsen (R)
District 79
Angela Rigas (R)
District 80
Phil Skaggs (D)
District 81
Stephen Wooden (D)
District 82
Kristian Grant (D)
District 83
John Fitzgerald (D)
District 84
Carol Glanville (D)
District 85
Bradley Slagh (R)
District 86
Nancy De Boer (R)
District 87
William Snyder (D)
District 88
Greg VanWoerkom (R)
District 89
Luke Meerman (R)
District 90
Bryan Posthumus (R)
District 91
Pat Outman (R)
District 92
Jerry Neyer (R)
District 93
Tim Kelly (R)
District 94
Amos O'Neal (D)
District 95
Bill Schuette (R)
District 96
Timothy Beson (R)
District 97
Matthew Bierlein (R)
District 98
District 99
Mike Hoadley (R)
District 100
Tom Kunse (R)
District 101
Joseph Fox (R)
District 102
Curt VanderWall (R)
District 103
Betsy Coffia (D)
District 104
John Roth (R)
District 105
Ken Borton (R)
District 106
Cameron Cavitt (R)
District 107
Parker Fairbairn (R)
District 108
David Prestin (R)
District 109
Karl Bohnak (R)
District 110
Republican Party (58)
Democratic Party (52)
