Jackie Bright Grubbs
Jackie Bright Grubbs (Republican Party) ran for election to the Indiana House of Representatives to represent District 72. She lost in the Republican primary on May 3, 2022.
Grubbs completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jackie Bright Grubbs was born in New Albany, Indiana. She earned a bachelor's degree from the Indiana University Southeast in 1986. Grubbs' career experience includes working as a marketing director of a fire, water, and storm restoration company. She has been affiliated with Saint Mary's Catholic Church, the Knight of Columbus, the VFW, and the American Legion.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Indiana House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Indiana House of Representatives District 72
Incumbent Edward Clere defeated Keil Roark in the general election for Indiana House of Representatives District 72 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Edward Clere (R) | 60.4 | 13,386 |
 | Keil Roark (D)  | 39.6 | 8,773 | |
| Total votes: 22,159 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 72
Keil Roark advanced from the Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 72 on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Keil Roark | 100.0 | 2,340 |
| Total votes: 2,340 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 72
Incumbent Edward Clere defeated Jackie Bright Grubbs and Thomas Jones in the Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 72 on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Edward Clere | 50.2 | 3,021 |
 | Jackie Bright Grubbs | 36.7 | 2,208 | |
| Thomas Jones | 13.1 | 786 | ||
| Total votes: 6,015 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jackie Bright Grubbs completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Grubbs' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Our freedom and liberty have been trampled on by the government over the past years. Our individual rights have been infringed upon by stay at home orders, forced closures of small businesses and churches , riots, burning, looting and violence while police are ordered to stand down, suppressed medical treatment and mandated experimental vaccines with the threat of unemployment, etc. I am running for office to stand up for our individual rigjhts as outlined in the Constitution.
- I firmly believe in the Constitution and the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for everyone, including children in the womb. I will fight to protect and save the lives of the children in the womb.
- Our public schools aged children including college, are being negatively influenced instead of academically educated by some of the curriculum. CRT/DEI/ SEL are based on theory and ideology of Antonio Gramski and Hegal, both who were communists. We must get this indoctrination out of the schools and provide students with the academic training and knowledge that they need. In addition, there is sexual perversion being taught in the schools. I will work to ban CRT/SEL/DEI from our public schools as well as explicit sexual content.
The government should not have the authority to forcibly close businesses for extended periods of time nor to tell tenants that they don't have to pay rent to their landlords. We need a free market economy, not the government choosing winners and losers.
I am passionate about preventing ESG scores and other manipulative practices to restrict and infringe upon citizens lives and freedoms.
The Indiana election process should be examined with a full forensic audit and a return to paper ballots. We need to do away with the voting machines which can easily be tampered with or hacked.
Indiana's fuel tax is one of the highest in the country. We need to lower this tax and seek other ways to rid the citizens of other taxes such as income or property taxes.
Elected officials must have self control to resist favors and bribes that obligate them to a special interest group or big corporation. Elected officials should be trustworthy but not necessarily trusting.
Although I genuinely like most people, I am not a "go along to get along" person. I am not afraid to speak up and stand up, unlike many people who cannot stand confrontation. I will hold my ground for what I believe is right.
I am diligent at research on the issues. I want to know the facts about current issues in our state and country. I am concerned about our freedom and liberty and am determined to defend it for all Hoosiers as a state representative.
When I have a tasks, I do not procrastinate. I like to get things done.
I have no fear of speaking in public or addressing a crowd.
Recently, while meeting with voters, a man told me that he had heard that local governments were going to be done away with in upcoming years and everything would be handled by appointed people on a state level. I have no idea if this is at all true but if this is being considered, it should be alarming to the citizens. "We the people" should never allow for the consolidation of power that would eliminate us from having small and local branches of government from our communities. We should also eliminate or greatly restrict appointed representatives that we cannot vote out.
Someone who is not already in politics and would run for a government office, obviously sees serious problems that concern him or her enough to motivate that person to sacrifice what they are currently doing to run for the state legislator. That person would be running for office to be the difference that he or she believes needs to be made.
Legislation needs to be constitutional, have merit, and be in the best interest of the freedom and liberty of the citizens. The bills would need to reflect the views of my constituents for me to favor them. After all, they would be electing me to represent them. In addition, what is true and right will be voted for, not compromised for falsehoods and wrongs. Perhaps "we the people" have lost so much of our freedom and have had our individual rights trampled on because of too much compromise.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 3, 2022
