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Jeff Pittman (Kansas)

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Jeff Pittman
Image of Jeff Pittman
Prior offices
Kansas House of Representatives District 41
Successor: Pat Proctor

Kansas State Senate District 5
Predecessor: Kevin Braun

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 5, 2024

Education

Graduate

University of Oxford

Personal
Profession
Supply chain engineer
Contact

Jeff Pittman (Democratic Party) was a member of the Kansas State Senate, representing District 5. He assumed office on January 11, 2021. He left office on January 13, 2025.

Pittman (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Kansas State Senate to represent District 5. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Jeff Pittman graduated from Leavenworth High School in 1989. Pittman volunteered with the American Red Cross at Munson Army Hospital, a local veterinary clinic, and the Sacred Heart Parish.[1]

Committee assignments

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2023-2024

Pittman was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Pittman was assigned to the following committees:

2019-2020

Pittman was assigned to the following committees:

2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

Kansas committee assignments, 2017
Agriculture
Government, Technology, and Security
Transportation
Veterans and Military

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

2024

See also: Kansas State Senate elections, 2024

General election

General election for Kansas State Senate District 5

Jeff Klemp defeated incumbent Jeff Pittman in the general election for Kansas State Senate District 5 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Jeff Klemp
Jeff Klemp (R)
 
50.0
 
15,732
Image of Jeff Pittman
Jeff Pittman (D)
 
50.0
 
15,701

Total votes: 31,433
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Kansas State Senate District 5

Incumbent Jeff Pittman advanced from the Democratic primary for Kansas State Senate District 5 on August 6, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Jeff Pittman
Jeff Pittman
 
100.0
 
2,805

Total votes: 2,805
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Kansas State Senate District 5

Jeff Klemp defeated Echo Van Meteren in the Republican primary for Kansas State Senate District 5 on August 6, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Jeff Klemp
Jeff Klemp
 
59.3
 
3,174
Image of Echo Van Meteren
Echo Van Meteren
 
40.7
 
2,178

Total votes: 5,352
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Endorsements

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Pledges

Pittman signed the following pledges.

  • U.S. Term Limits

2020

Kansas State Senate

See also: Kansas State Senate elections, 2020

General election

General election for Kansas State Senate District 5

Jeff Pittman defeated incumbent Kevin Braun in the general election for Kansas State Senate District 5 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Jeff Pittman
Jeff Pittman (D) Candidate Connection
 
53.1
 
16,753
Image of Kevin Braun
Kevin Braun (R)
 
46.9
 
14,818

Total votes: 31,571
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Kansas State Senate District 5

Jeff Pittman advanced from the Democratic primary for Kansas State Senate District 5 on August 4, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Jeff Pittman
Jeff Pittman Candidate Connection
 
100.0
 
5,575

Total votes: 5,575
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Kansas State Senate District 5

Incumbent Kevin Braun advanced from the Republican primary for Kansas State Senate District 5 on August 4, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Kevin Braun
Kevin Braun
 
100.0
 
5,571

Total votes: 5,571
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Endorsements

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Kansas House of Representatives

See also: Kansas House of Representatives elections, 2020

Jeff Pittman did not file to run for re-election.

2018

See also: Kansas House of Representatives elections, 2018

General election

General election for Kansas House of Representatives District 41

Incumbent Jeff Pittman defeated Tony Barton in the general election for Kansas House of Representatives District 41 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Jeff Pittman
Jeff Pittman (D)
 
57.4
 
3,037
Tony Barton (R)
 
42.6
 
2,256

Total votes: 5,293
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41

Incumbent Jeff Pittman advanced from the Democratic primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41 on August 7, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Jeff Pittman
Jeff Pittman
 
100.0
 
920

Total votes: 920
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41

Tony Barton advanced from the Republican primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41 on August 7, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Tony Barton
 
100.0
 
1,148

Total votes: 1,148
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2016

See also: Kansas House of Representatives elections, 2016

Elections for the Kansas House of Representatives were held 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.

Jeff Pittman defeated incumbent Tony Barton in the Kansas House of Representatives District 41 general election.[2][3]

Kansas House of Representatives, District 41 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Jeff Pittman 55.00% 3,433
     Republican Tony Barton Incumbent 45.00% 2,809
Total Votes 6,242
Source: Kansas Secretary of State


Jeff Pittman ran unopposed in the Kansas House of Representatives District 41 Democratic primary.[4][5]

Kansas House of Representatives, District 41 Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Jeff Pittman  (unopposed)


Incumbent Tony Barton ran unopposed in the Kansas House of Representatives District 41 Republican primary.[4][5]

Kansas House of Representatives, District 41 Republican Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Tony Barton Incumbent (unopposed)


Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2020

Candidate Connection

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

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The son of a two time combat Vietnam veteran, I've grown up in this area, graduated from Leavenworth High and taken that public education on to MIT for a Masters in Engineering and Oxford for an MBA. I went on to apply that experience into the business world, helping companies deal with supply chain disruption successfully. I've taken that business expertise to help fix some of the fiscal mess the previous Brownback administration had made of our state budget.

I got involved with public service in 2016 when elected to the House of Representaives representing Leavenworth and Fort Leavenworth. The state of Kansas was in a financial crisis with our credit rating dropping 3 times in 18 months during Governor Brownback's tax experiment. I promised to put fiscally responsible measures in place to support education, support KPERs, supporting investment in roads and I kept that promise. I have served on the following committees: Veterans and Military Affairs, Agriculture, Transportation, Publics Safety Budget, Joint Committee on IT, and the Information Technology Executive Committee. Raising my family here with Holly Shehorn Pittman, we have been heavily involved with the community. I understand the unique needs of a city like ours. I have worked on behalf of my constituents every day. I hope for your support as I bring a greater Leavenworth-Lansing presence to a broader area as State Senator.

  • I promised to put fiscally responsible measures in place to properly fund public education, support funding our KPERs promise to the people, supporting investment in roads and I kept that promise.
  • Healthcare is on everyone's mind during this COVID 19 pandemic. I support and voted repeatedly to expand Medicaid which would have brought $4Bil into this state over the last 5 years. My opponent has stood resolutely against it.
  • An educated workforce is good for business. I stepped up before to ensure our public education system was funded and provided every student an equitable education no matter their zip code. We
I am most passionate about aiding Veterans. As an example, I initiated the bipartisan process of getting a Veterans home in northeast Kansas with widespread support across the region and the Veteran Service organizations. I am passionate about education and working through this pandemic to get our students the education they need despite the challenges of the pandemic. I am interested in standing up for our workers who often bear the burden of our economy while corporations get sweeping tax cuts. I'm passionate on doing what we can to combat overpriced pharmaceutical prices and getting Kansas to take advantage of Medicaid Expansion. And I'm passionate about going after true criminal justice reform that comes up with alternatives to the current system that continues to churn people into overcapacity prisons.
I believe someone elected at the level I am in State Government must be approachable, must be a part of the community, must have a sense of authenticity when working with the public. We as public servants must understand the many aspects of different stakeholders in our community and look at legislation to meet the needs of the many while protecting the rights of the few.
I remember the bicentennial when our country gathered together to celebrate two hundred years as a great nation. There was excitement and unity as we came out of a troubled Vietnam Era which I didn't really understand at the time. I remember the fascinating aspects of space discovery going on with the first shuttle launch and the Voyager flybys of Saturn and Jupiter which captured my imagination, as we looked to broaden our understanding of our solar system and our place in it.
I saw opportunity in entrepreneurship. In high school and in college, my first job was running my own business, mowing lawns and landscaping and also painting houses to earn money.
The Kansas State Senate has been much more partisan and more of a legislative logjam over the past 4 years than has the House. The Senate leadership and their followers/appointees have impeded progress in our state and we need a change.
Yes, having been in the House for two terms, I see how it takes at least a term to become effective at understanding the process of legislation much less being effective at it.
Kansas must drive innovation. We must stabilize state government policies, education funding and other key pieces to make the state a more business friendly environment and then look for ways to take advantage of regional strengths to drive the economy forward.
I have been very disappointed in the gerrymandering I've seen over the past decades. Partisan redistricting is a tool politicians use to benefit themselves, not the people. It ends up politicians picking their voters instead of voters selecting their representatives. It results in the elected officials pandering to the extremes instead of listening to their district. I support independent, non-partisan redistricting. That's why I earned the endorsement of Eric Holder for my support to end gerrymandering and fight against map manipulation.
As a Representative of Leavenworth that has Fort Leavenworth in its boundaries, the Military and Veterans committee appealed to me because we reviewed many initiatives, programs and ideas related to improving the lives of military and veterans in Kansas. I was drawn to Transportation because I wanted to be a part of restoring funding to our infrastructure. I was on the Technology committee, as well as the Joint Committee on IT as well as the IT Executive Council because I have a good working knowledge of many aspects of technical infrastructure where most in the Legislature do not. I enjoyed my time on the Agriculture committee as well, as I learned about the issues in the sector that drives well over 50% of the Kansas economy.

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Campaign finance summary


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Jeff Pittman campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* Kansas State Senate District 5Lost general$280,017 $0
2020Kansas State Senate District 5Won general$154,895 N/A**
2018Kansas House of Representatives District 41Won general$64,828 N/A**
2016Kansas House of Representatives, District 41Won $47,816 N/A**
Grand total$547,556 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

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2024

In 2024, the Kansas State Legislature was in session from January 8 to April 30.

Legislators are scored on their stances on conservative fiscal policy.
Legislators are scored on their votes on a variety of issues of interest to the organization.
Legislators are scored on their support for bills that the organization lists as promoting "individual liberty, limited government, free markets and student-focused education."
Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to business issues.
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2022


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2019


2018


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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by
Kevin Braun (R)
Kansas State Senate District 5
2021-2025
Succeeded by
-
Preceded by
-
Kansas House of Representatives District 41
2017-2021
Succeeded by
Pat Proctor (R)


Current members of the Kansas State Senate
Leadership
Senate President:Ty Masterson
Majority Leader:Chase Blasi
Minority Leader:Dinah Sykes
Senators
District 1
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District 5
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District 25
Mary Ware (D)
District 26
District 27
District 28
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District 30
District 31
District 32
District 33
Tory Blew (R)
District 34
District 35
TJ Rose (R)
District 36
District 37
District 38
District 39
District 40
Republican Party (31)
Democratic Party (9)



Current members of the Kansas House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Daniel Hawkins
Majority Leader:Chris Croft
Minority Leader:Brandon Woodard
Representatives
District 1
District 2
District 3
District 4
District 5
District 6
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Ron Bryce (R)
District 12
Doug Blex (R)
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District 25
Rui Xu (D)
District 26
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District 34
District 35
District 36
District 37
District 38
District 39
District 40
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Mike Amyx (D)
District 46
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Dan Osman (D)
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Mike King (R)
District 75
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Ford Carr (D)
District 85
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Jill Ward (R)
District 106
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Dawn Wolf (R)
District 108
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District 117
Adam Turk (R)
District 118
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Bob Lewis (R)
District 124
District 125
Republican Party (88)
Democratic Party (37)