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Jared Martin
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Libertarian Party

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Last election

November 3, 2020

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Doylestown, Pa.
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Lutheran
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Jared Martin (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 147. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Martin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2020

See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 147

Tracy Pennycuick defeated Jill Dennin and Jared Martin in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 147 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Tracy Pennycuick (R)
 
54.7
 
21,437
Image of Jill Dennin
Jill Dennin (D)
 
42.2
 
16,534
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Jared Martin (L) Candidate Connection
 
3.1
 
1,207

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 39,178
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 147

Jill Dennin advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 147 on June 2, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Jill Dennin
 
100.0
 
6,520

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 6,520
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 147

Tracy Pennycuick defeated Annamarie Scannapieco in the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 147 on June 2, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Tracy Pennycuick
 
75.2
 
5,862
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Annamarie Scannapieco
 
24.8
 
1,936

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 7,798
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2020

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Candidate Connection

Jared Martin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Martin's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Jared Martin is running to be an independent voice in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. A resident of the 147th District for nearly two decades, Jared has cultivated a commitment to service. His limited government ideas are fresh, and his spirited dedication to his community is direly needed in Harrisburg. As your Representative, Jared will fight for the principles of liberty this country was founded on. He will fight for the issues important to our community. He will fight for you. You may have seen Jared in our community before. He graduated from Souderton Area High School as Salutatorian, and he has proceeded to study Engineering Science with Honors at Penn State University. If you have seen him around the 147th District, you know he is passionately dedicated to logical solutions that improve life for all Pennsylvanians. Join our team, and help Jared enact change.
  • Fiscal responsibility: we need to cut overspending and decrease taxes.
  • Criminal justice reform: we must protect liberty and justice for ALL.
  • Not left. Not right. Forward. Libertarians are a unique, viable option to decrease the size and power of government in Harrisburg.
I believe the unique promise of America is the right to live your life as you see fit as long as you do no harm to others. The government exists to protect those fundamental rights: to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In Pennsylvania, our politicians have forgotten these principles, especially with regards to fiscal responsibility and personal freedoms. Even with a balanced budget amendment in place, the General Assembly incurs billions of dollars in debt every year. Meanwhile, our politicians have fallen behind the times: we must end the failed War on Drugs while reforming the criminal justice system to hold officials accountable for their actions.
One of my greatest role models is U.S. Representative Justin Amash. Rep. Amash is the first Libertarian member of Congress, hailing from Michigan. Besides being a strong voice for freedom, he explains every single vote to his constituents through social media. His transparency is unmatched, and highlights an innate quality in Libertarians: a commitment to serve the people, and not a lust for power. With that in mind, I aspire to a level of honest civic duty as respectable as Rep. Amash. I will share that same commitment to the people of the 147th District if I am honored with their votes in November.
"1984", directed by Michael Radford and based on the novel by George Orwell, is a perfect portrayal of a world where libertarian principles have been abandoned. Some would lead you to believe that the political battle is between left and right. Orwell knew that the true battle is between "authoritarians and libertarians". And he tried to warn us with this dystopian vision of a totalitarian state. Some of his warnings have already come to fruition. Libertarianism exists in opposition to this regression, as an ideological protector of individual freedom. The necessity for freedom fighters is on full display in the aforementioned cinematic masterpiece.
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury is a literary classic and a favorite of mine. It simply and elegantly captures the destruction of free speech and a free nation which can easily happen in a complacent society.
Relationships with other legislators are paramount. As a Libertarian, I am often asked how I would accomplish anything if I am the only one in Harrisburg. In the end, each Representative is in the General Assembly to serve the people of Pennsylvania. Party labels should be irrelevant. Libertarians have a unique position as centrists, finding platforms of agreement with both Democrats and Republicans. In Harrisburg, a Libertarian Representative would be just what we need to develop compromise and to get things done.
For future redistricting efforts, I support the creation of an independent citizens' commission. Such a commission would be multipartisan and would allow the constituents of the Commonwealth to draw their own electoral districts. This process would be wholly transparent and would strip away the allure of corruption that has led to our current legislative map.

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