Gail Allison
Gail Allison (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Iowa House of Representatives to represent District 58. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Allison completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Gail Allison was born in Charles City, Iowa. She graduated from Plainfield Community School. She earned an associate degree from Hawkeye Community College in 1986, a bachelor's degree from Wartburg College in 1991, and a graduate degree from Morningside College in 2010. Her career experience includes working as an educator. She has been affiliated with ISEA (NEA) and the Iowa Choral Director's Association (ICDA).[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Iowa House of Representatives District 58
Incumbent Charley Thomson defeated Gail Allison in the general election for Iowa House of Representatives District 58 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Charley Thomson (R) | 63.4 | 10,060 |
 | Gail Allison (D)  | 36.4 | 5,782 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 21 | ||
| Total votes: 15,863 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 58
Gail Allison advanced from the Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 58 on June 4, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Gail Allison | 99.6 | 270 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 1 | ||
| Total votes: 271 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 58
Incumbent Charley Thomson advanced from the Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 58 on June 4, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Charley Thomson | 99.4 | 481 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 3 | ||
| Total votes: 484 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Allison in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Gail Allison completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Allison's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
- Education is the foundation for a successful life. Whether it be earning your high school diploma, learning a trade, or getting your 4-year degree, the more you learn, the farther you will go! Our kids deserve better and that means supporting our Public Schools and the educators in them. The trend in Iowa has been to tighten the screws on the components of our educational system, starting with the dismantling of collective bargaining, continued underfunding for school budgets year after year, implementing a voucher system, and the latest dismantling of our AEA supports which will negatively impact the rural schools in my district. We also have an unqualified director leading the Iowa DOE. A course correction is urgently needed.
- Equality is seeing each person having the same opportunities and rights as everyone else. By allowing people to lead their best lives we are working toward that goal, but we still have much work to do. Government needs to tear down barriers, not put them up. It should not matter your gender, sexual orientation, skin color, religion, or age. Equality hurts no one.
- As families across Iowa work to provide for their families, we are seeing rising costs across the board. How has our state helped with these costs? We need to work on solutions to help lessen the burden on our families. Working to lower costs in healthcare, housing, childcare, elder care and concerns that go along with our aging family members, and our high cancer rates. Let’s work on what matters to Iowans.
Healthcare including the lack of specialists throughout the state and also rural access to hospital/ambulance services. Under the health care umbrella, women’s ability to find providers during pregnancy is stressed because of extreme abortion laws being pushed throughout the country, including Iowa. These bans are driving providers to leave, prompting female patients into situations where care is sparse or not available.
Place the people above political theatrics.
Be open and transparent.
Be truthful and accurate.
Be fair and focus on the big picture and not special interests.
Listen.
Ask hard questions.
Give careful consideration to the impact of the legislation before us.
Advocate for amendments (if necessary) that will be beneficial to those the law will affect.
Returning to a more cordial relationship between parties.
Creating a state that is welcoming and not discriminatory toward marginalized groups who live here.
Working on our cancer rates and cleaning up our water (rivers, streams, lakes, ponds).
Working on our Mental health shortfalls in service access and availability.
Assuring women have access to health services they need.
Her story struck and angered me. Women are being put under a microscope when it comes to their reproductive health. The bans being put in place throughout the country, including Iowa, have made women no more than incubators. The nuances that happen in each woman’s experience is discarded with blanket legislation aimed at protecting the unborn, but there is no regard for the one who is presently tasked to carry a pregnancy to term.
Abortion bans are proving to harm women who want the babies they carry. The ability to have healthcare services when needed is being blocked when the only focus is on the fetus. Women deserve a say in what happens to them, their futures, their bodies, and their families. Abortion bans do not consider the ramifications that occur in the aftermath. We need to let women decide what is best for them and their families and not the government.
Waiting on a couple others who have yet to complete the process..
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
Campaign finance summary
Note: The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may represent only a portion of all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer. Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
|
Candidate Iowa House of Representatives District 58 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 6, 2024
