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Jeff Melcher
Jeff Melcher is a former Republican member of the Kansas State Senate, representing District 11 from 2013 to 2017. He was defeated in the August 2016 primary.
Issues
2016
Melcher's campaign website highlighted the following issues:[1]
Tax code
- Excerpt: "Kansas currently has one of the highest cost governments which has lost us more jobs than any other state in the nation. We must change this by implementing a competitive tax policy which will immediately turn our state into a magnet for job creators."
Waste and inefficiency
- Excerpt: "Public employees who are on the job every day know where government inefficiency exists. However, unlike private business, they are not incentivized to identify and eliminate waste and inefficiency. We must reward public employees for saving taxpayer dollars and shrinking the footprint of government."
Education
- Excerpt: "A world-class education is essential to our children’s future. Jeff believes educators and administrators should be rewarded for exceptional academic results delivered in the most cost-effective manner. At the same time, we must provide our teachers with the tools for success and the latitude to employ their most innovative teaching methods."
Committee assignments
2015 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Melcher served on the following committees:
| Kansas committee assignments, 2015 |
|---|
| • Commerce |
| • Ways and Means |
| • Education |
| • Assessment and Taxation |
2013-2014
At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Melcher served on the following committees:
| Kansas committee assignments, 2013 |
|---|
| • Commerce |
| • Ways and Means |
| • Assessment and Taxation |
| • Education |
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2016
- See also: Kansas State Senate elections, 2016
Elections for the Kansas State Senate took place in 2016. The primary election was held on August 2, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 1, 2016.
John Skubal defeated Skip Fannen in the Kansas State Senate District 11 general election.[2][3]
| Kansas State Senate, District 11 General Election, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican |  John Skubal |
65.02% | 25,992 | |
| Democratic | Skip Fannen | 34.98% | 13,983 | |
| Total Votes | 39,975 | |||
| Source: Kansas Secretary of State | ||||
Skip Fannen ran unopposed in the Kansas State Senate District 11 Democratic primary.[4][5]
| Kansas State Senate, District 11 Democratic Primary, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Democratic | Skip Fannen (unopposed) | |
John Skubal defeated incumbent Jeff Melcher in the Kansas State Senate District 11 Republican primary.[4][5]
| Kansas State Senate, District 11 Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | John Skubal |
56.51% | 5,665 | |
| Republican | Jeff Melcher Incumbent | 43.49% | 4,360 | |
| Total Votes | 10,025 | |||
Primary election
In the primary elections held on August 2, 2016, six incumbents were defeated in the state Senate, while nine incumbents were defeated in the state House. Outside of the one incumbent Democrat who was defeated in the House, moderates defeated 14 conservative Republican incumbents in the primary. Before the 2016 primary, moderate Republicans had been losing ground in the state legislature since the 2010 election of Gov. Sam Brownback (R), shifting from a more moderate Republican-controlled state legislature to a more conservative one after the 2012 elections. Eighteen Republican incumbents were defeated in the conservative wave in 2012. Jeff Melcher was one of 14 Republican incumbents who were defeated in the 2016 primary.
2012
- See also: Kansas State Senate elections, 2012
Melcher won the 2012 election for Kansas State Senate District 11. Melcher defeated House incumbent Pat Colloton in the Republican primary on August 7 and defeated Michael F. Delaney (D) in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.[6][7][8]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Jeff Melcher |
62.8% | 23,565 | |
| Democratic | Michael F. Delaney | 37.2% | 13,985 | |
| Total Votes | 37,550 | |||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
|
Jeff Melcher |
59.4% | 5,479 |
| Pat Colloton | 40.6% | 3,748 |
| Total Votes | 9,227 | |
Campaign finance summary
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Scorecards
Kansas Freedom Index
The Kansas Policy Institute, Kansas’s "first free market think tank," releases its legislator scorecard as a part of its Kansas Freedom Index for Kansas state representatives and senators once a year. The Score Card gives each legislator a score from 1%-100% based on how they voted in the prior legislative term on specific issues which the Kansas Policy Institute thought were pro-limited government policies.[9]
2013
Jeff Melcher received a score of 75.9% in the 2013 index.[10]
Recent news
This section links to a Google news search for the term "Jeff + Melcher + Kansas + Senate
See also
- Kansas State Senate
- Senate Committees
- Joint Committees
- Kansas state legislative districts
- Kansas State Legislature
External links
- Sen. Melcher's website
- Profile from Open States
- Campaign Contributions: 2012
Footnotes
- ↑ Jeff Melcher, "Home," accessed June 13, 2016
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "Candidate list," accessed August 23, 2016
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2016 General Election official results," accessed December 19, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kansas Secretary of State, "Candidate list," accessed June 3, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kansas Secretary of State, "2016 Official Kansas Primary Election Results," accessed September 12, 2016
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "Candidates for the 2012 primary (unofficial)," accessed July 16, 2012
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, Official 2012 Primary Results
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2012 General Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed March 31, 2014
- ↑ Kansas Policy Institute, "Freedom Index," accessed March 31, 2014
- ↑ Ballotpedia, "2013 Kansas Policy Index," accessed March 10, 2015
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by John Vratil (R) |
Kansas State Senate District 11 2013–2017 |
Succeeded by John Skubal (R) |
