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Jennifer Childers
Jennifer Childers (Democratic Party) ran for election to the North Carolina House of Representatives to represent District 111. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Childers completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jennifer Childers was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana. She pursued her undergraduate education at Keiser College, Manatee Community College, and Cleveland Community College. Childers' career experience includes working as a peer support specialist.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: North Carolina House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 111
Incumbent Timothy K. Moore defeated Jennifer Childers in the general election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 111 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Timothy K. Moore (R) | 63.5 | 24,491 |
 | Jennifer Childers (D)  | 36.5 | 14,063 | |
| Total votes: 38,554 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Jennifer Childers advanced from the Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 111.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Timothy K. Moore advanced from the Republican primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 111.
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jennifer Childers completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Childers' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My goal is to help people to get over their personal road blocks and live to the fullest. My experience working with families has given me empathy and a broad understanding of how to empower people to help themselves. I would work to find solutions to problems and creative ways to utilize the strengths of our citizens. Education is the key to most problems, but the ability to think outside the box will bring about the ideas for needed change.
- For capitalism to work, the people need buying power, and this means a living wage. I support a $15 minimum wage to accomplish this.
- A person cannot grow and be their best self if not physically and mentally healthy. I support medicaid expansion and single payer healthcare.
- Education. Not just a means to better jobs, education is a security issue. Technology is ever expanding and changes our economy, as well as the rest of the world daily. America ranks 38th in Math and 24th in science according to PEW Research. As a leader in the free world, we cannot afford to fail our country with subpar education.
There is a stigma attached to mental illness, poverty and even to those who have been victims of crimes.
People put a shield around themselves, rhetorically speaking, to protect them from the fear that "this could happen to me". The fear manifests itself in self-assurance that people who are sick "brought it on themselves". Victims of crime, like rape, did something to "deserve" the misfortune.
Those living in poverty are lazy or don't work when the reality is far different.
One parent I spoke with told me about how she chided her nine year old daughter who, when confiding to her mother about the grandfather's sexual abuse of her, stated "how could you let him do that?"
Her story is our story. She is what Americans used to think of when we talked about a self-made woman.
She put herself through college at a time when women went only to get their M.R.S.
She worked as a teacher. She saw a need in her community, people fighting with issues of poverty and bankruptcy. She researched the causes and came up with workable solutions. This inspired her to become a lawyer and she began to teach law , and you know the rest.
Gun running and election interference would be examples of violations of the Prime Directive. Moral imperative would be a reason to break the "hands off" tradition if the actions of one group endangered the rest. Example: America ignoring the Paris Accord on climate change to benefit the wealthy by allowing them to continue to pollute the environment.
It is important to see all sides of an issue and to research the issue so it is understood.
I prefer to be a hand up, empowering people to reach their own goals and live their best life.
Often policy is made on a reactionary basis, responding to symptoms rather than getting to the core of the problem.
For example: New York has "handled" its homeless problem by busing them to southern states. A symptom was addressed, but the issue remains.
Desegregation of schools. Efforts reached their peak in the late 1960's and early 1970's. I was about 9 years old. There was no effort to acclimate children to each other so any fear, prejudice and assumptions held be the parent were held by the child.
I worked there for five years. (age 17-22)
It was at this job that I worked with a child who had severe developmental disabilities. I took she and her brother swimming and tried to engage her. In the 1980's, not much was known in the areas of special education. I did manage to come up with ideas to help the child manage better. Cutting her food in small pieces and placing it on her plate in small quantities kept her from tossing food across the room, for example.
Another child had separation anxiety and a mother struggling with alcoholism. I called AA for advice on how to help the children cope with their mother's recovery. The younger child (age 2) was helped by reading to him and rocking him to sleep. The older child, (age 6) was helped by story telling. She would tell a story about the story, which gave her coping skills when applied to the story book characters.
In her version of Little Red Riding Hood, the hunter was more problematic than the wolf. The wolf needed to be placated in hopes of one day befriending the wolf. The hunter, as an outsider, was making the situation worse by keeping this from happening.
Art was another means to help children cope and encourage them to express themselves. Art therapy was a new idea that interested me. I took note of preferred colors, and the individual symbolism the artwork had to each child. A child suffering from cancer drew a head with knives stuck in the head from all sides to represent his pain. Another sick child drew a blue butterfly and colored the areas around the butterfly black. A representation of the illness keeping him locked in place, incapable of flight.
The music from the sixties and seventies had heart and soul that is lacking in more contemporary music.
While some experience in government is not a bad thing, a representative of the people is one of the people. We have farmers, teachers and mechanics in our county. The down side to politics is the people's best interest are forgotten for the sake of agenda.
Cleveland County is hurting for jobs, and young people are moving away to search for better opportunities.
Businesses are not prospering. Kings Mountain has been described as a "ghost town" despite efforts to bring small business into the community.
Mission Critical was an effort to train people for higher tech jobs, the logic being "if you educate them, they (jobs) will come" Jill Biden spoke at Cleveland Community College to praise this effort.
Co-workers should always get along; 120 people who don't get along would get nothing done.
We are working for the betterment of the people, which in turn, means the betterment of NC.
The mother arrived, the counselor told her what happened. The mother was angry and said "that bitch tried to take my man"
Later, the same counselor was told by her mother that incestuous rape was normal and did nothing to help the child when she saw what was happening to her.
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 23, 2020
