Kate Bierman
Kate Bierman (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Oklahoma House of Representatives to represent District 44. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 28, 2022.
Bierman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kate Bierman was born in Rochester, New York. She earned a bachelor's degree from American University in 2009. Her career experience includes working as a small business owner. As of her 2022 campaign, Bierman was the board president of Jazz in June. She served on the Norman Animal Welfare Oversight Committee from 2015 to 2017.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Oklahoma House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 44
Jared Deck defeated RJ Harris in the general election for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 44 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jared Deck (D)  | 71.3 | 6,548 |
 | RJ Harris (R) | 28.7 | 2,635 | |
| Total votes: 9,183 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 44
Jared Deck defeated Kate Bierman in the Democratic primary for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 44 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jared Deck | 64.6 | 2,329 |
 | Kate Bierman | 35.4 | 1,279 | |
| Total votes: 3,608 | |||
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Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. RJ Harris advanced from the Republican primary for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 44.
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kate Bierman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bierman's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Local voices directing local futures - The state’s government is stripping away the right of residents to self-govern, centralizing power for themselves. It is time to restore the voices of local concern.
- Building better communities: Politicians are taking cues from special interests, hurting our neighbors. It is time for real community issues to take center stage.
- Putting people first: Divisive politics are stealing the show from the issues affecting everyday Oklahomans. It is time to fight for each other to make our communities stronger.
Improve healthcare access and outcomes - Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, which has stretched our healers and health care systems to the breaking point, Oklahoma ranked at the bottom of all major indicators of a strong healthcare infrastructure - access & affordability, health disparity, prevention & treatment, avoidable hospital use & cost, and healthy lives. We must face this growing crisis head-on and recognize health care access as the economic development driver it truly is.
At 5' 4" and 100lbs, she was a wisp of a woman who carried the most resilient strength inside her, a strength I've come to carry with me too. Divorced in the 1960s with three young children and just a high school education, she couldn't even open a checking account because she didn't have a man to co-sign for her. The high school she graduated from let her work in the secretary's office as a switchboard operator, and much of my mother's early life is full of memories of stretching casseroles for a whole week and living on bread, butter, and sugar when the casseroles were gone. When Norma retired in the early 2000s, she had worked at Columbia High School for 36 years, and her three children had all received secondary and post-secondary degrees. When she died, she was surrounded by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
- Finding the right path to stopping bad legislation. With such a strong Republican majority, Republicans can pass almost any bill they decide they want to pass. We must work to use their own thought processes and their own ideology to show them why legislation shouldn't be passed, instead of simply voicing the Democratic reasons.
- Determining how to build the relationships necessary to pass impactful legislation. Standing on ideology doesn't help make it easier for Oklahomans to make it from paycheck to paycheck if Democrats can't actually find any path to getting bills passed. Seeking out small islands of common ground and building on those successes can yield significant results over time. Some Democratic lawmakers already do this well, and I want to build on their successes.
As an adult, and largely through the rise of social media, I have become more aware of how ADHD presents itself differently in girls/women than in boys, and how much more prevalent it may be in women than previously thought. This realization has been a monumental shift in my life, and even before seeking any kind of formal diagnosis, having a better understanding of ADHD and implementing behavioral techniques has not only made a significant difference in my mental health, my relationships, and my work productivity, it has also helped me identify early signs in my daughter and start to work with her on ways to work with her brain and not against it.
We also see more partisanship at the state level when legislators have no prior government experience. At the local level, most of the decisions city councils are faced with don't attach to a national political talking point - for either party. And I myself worked hand-in-hand with conservative colleagues on budget issues. Even though we disagreed on details, we still recognized that the other was in it for positive, productive outcomes for our community, and we were able to work together. We don't have that same sense of cooperative spirit at the capitol. Legislators wage fierce primary and general election battles to get to the capitol, and then don't have the experience of working with the other party once they hold the seat. We need to get back to tough fights on the capitol floors that still recognize we are all in it for the same reasons, and we'll only get there if we elect experienced legislators who have demonstrated the ability to do that.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 17, 2022.
