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Karen Butler
Karen Butler (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Florida State Senate to represent District 1. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Butler completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Butler was born in Washington, D.C.. She served in the United States Air Force from 1978 to 1998. Butler earned an associate degree from The University of Maryland, and her professional experience includes working as a realtor. She has served as president of the Women's Council of Realtors and as chairman of the Fair Housing Committee. Butler's organizational affiliations include the Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce, the Okaloosa County NAACP, the Hispanic Caucus, the Democratic Black Caucus, the Democratic Women's Club, the Environmental Caucus, and Moms Demand Action.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Florida State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for Florida State Senate District 1
Incumbent Doug Broxson defeated Karen Butler in the general election for Florida State Senate District 1 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Doug Broxson (R) | 65.3 | 185,380 |
 | Karen Butler (D)  | 34.7 | 98,407 | |
| Total votes: 283,787 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Karen Butler advanced from the Democratic primary for Florida State Senate District 1.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Doug Broxson advanced from the Republican primary for Florida State Senate District 1.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Karen Butler completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Butler's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- We must protect our homeless Veterans. Expand medicaid and provide them the necessary healthcare they need and affordable housing.
- Protecting our environment is protecting ourselves. Our drinking water is being poisoned, the soil and air an corporations aren't being held accountable.
- Upgrading our infrastructure, will bring more and better jobs to the area. And we need to support and protect our teachers, they are responsible for guiding our future leaders.
We have to stop the siphoning of public education funds to private schools. Our teachers are the most important careers of our society, that of handling the education of our children and need to receive the resources and pay they deserve and the funding to provide the educations programs that are available. Florida is in the 47th percentile, Pay them what they are worth!
So here we are 100 years after women were given the right to vote, and I am the first Woman in over 100 years to run for and hopefully be elected to represent Florida's 1st District.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 24, 2020
