Katy Stamper
Katy Stamper (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Georgia's 11th Congressional District. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Stamper completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Katy Stamper was born in Hondo, Texas. She received a high school diploma from Temple High School, a bachelor's degree in political science from Emory College in 1983, and a J.D. from the University of Georgia in 1986. Stamper served in the U.S. Army from 1976 to 1979. Her career experience includes working as a lawyer and managing a small business.[1][2]
Elections
2024
See also: Georgia's 11th Congressional District election, 2024
Georgia's 11th Congressional District election, 2024 (May 21 Republican primary)
Georgia's 11th Congressional District election, 2024 (May 21 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Georgia District 11
Incumbent Barry Loudermilk defeated Katy Stamper and Tracey Verhoeven in the general election for U.S. House Georgia District 11 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Barry Loudermilk (R) | 65.6 | 269,849 |
 | Katy Stamper (D)  | 31.9 | 131,064 | |
 | Tracey Verhoeven (D) (Write-in) | 2.5 | 10,226 | |
| Total votes: 411,139 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 11
Katy Stamper defeated Antonio Daza in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 11 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Katy Stamper | 56.6 | 13,615 |
 | Antonio Daza | 43.4 | 10,449 | |
| Total votes: 24,064 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 11
Incumbent Barry Loudermilk defeated Michael Pons and Lori Pesta in the Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 11 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Barry Loudermilk | 86.1 | 46,567 |
 | Michael Pons | 9.1 | 4,912 | |
| Lori Pesta | 4.9 | 2,629 | ||
| Total votes: 54,108 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Katy Stamper completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Stamper's responses.
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The country is degrading and the uni-party is totally fine with that. I'm not. I want to restore the American customs of easy openness, when you could speak your mind, tell a joke, or put a political sticker on your car, without people calling you names they think are nasty, threatening you, or deplatforming or cancelling you.
We also have government actively eroding the relationships between the sexes and I will work to stop and reverse that damage.
I want to restore our custom of appreciating our history rather than tearing it all down constantly. Some people who have had a burr under their saddles for their entire lives live in a constant blind rage against our country. Those who loved the beautiful prosperous and happy place it was before this rage began have been stultified into quiet, exhausted by the unrelenting barrage of attacks by the unhinged who for the most part are Marxists or some flavor thereof.
Finally, American jobs, homes, schools, roads and hospitals must be for Americans and not the random foreign nationals that a derelict executive branch unlawfully decides to admit.- To reduce inflation of food, gas, and housing, government spending must return to 2019 levels. When government spends too much on goods and services, prices go up, up, up.
Spending bills must originate in the House. The power must be robustly and courageously used to bring to heel the geriatrics in the Senate who wouldn't know a financial, immigration, or business over-regulation problem if it bit them in the ass.
I will not vote for a Continuing Resolution that does not reduce spending.
Media coverage is irresponsible but is no excuse. But too often the cause is also that House members are not "Americans-First." They rarely disclose their true priorities, which Americans have a right to know. I will be open and honest. - Our country is overburdened by too many immigrants, illegal and legal. In 2018, the conservative estimate of a Yale Management School study put the number of illegal aliens in the United States at 22 million which did not include Obama's DACA recipients or the 10-million-plus that have come in since 2021. We must close the border with all legal loopholes eliminated so no discretion is left to the executive branch on enforcing our border laws and immigration laws; send home 25+ million illegal foreign nationals; reduce legal immigration; strengthen requirements for assimilation; and remove the Supreme Court's jurisdiction to hear challenges to state laws related to reducing or eliminating the presence of illegal aliens in their states.
- Term limits would be a real help to restoring America, as would be limiting the length of time someone could be employed by the federal government to 10 or 20 years. As it is, career bureaucrats outmaneuver our elected representatives and become a law unto themselves. This is really hurting us in industry, the environment, medicine and other areas. We cannot trust people who over more than two decades create their own fiefdoms and they have illustrated this over and over again.
I'm also distressed that our elected politicians have made a deal to import cheaper labor and give them bundles of benefits, which they then force American citizens to pay for by taxing them. Americans are not the pack mules of foreign nationals!
I have a few friends who are unusually honest, hardworking and charitable. I have other acquaintances who suffered devastating trauma as children and they impress me because they are determined to overcome the fallout which has so many lifelong facets. Their determination amazes me.
But in politics, I admire the man who has the vision to recognize a problem and its solution and the courage to stand alone to address it, if need be. Such men are the rarest people on earth and quite possibly the most important. Andrew Jackson ridding us of the national bank is one example. Many members of our revolutionary generation also had such courage and determination.
John Locke's Second Treatise on Government.
Murray Rothbard book on Money and Banking - can't recall exactly which one.
Some of Thomas Jefferson's private letters.
Too many others to list.
And then I'll learn I don't fully understand it, and I'll chip away some more, always trying to reach an accurate understanding of the fundamental qualities. Too many people take one barnacle off the boat and call it "done." Then, when the boat still doesn't perform well, they wonder why but shrug it off. I don't shrug it off.
It's important to challenge institutional practices which are not working and to find new ways to do things. It's also important to be very transparent about what is driving a particular policy or decision, because Americans DESERVE to know the whys and the wherefores.
It also warns me about the math of an expanding foreign population, as do the books by Mark Steyn.
The imposition of term limits will help rejuvenate the use of the Power of the Purse because if you're not singularly focused on re-election, you're risking less when you won't sign off on an unlimited credit card for government. Right now, it's nothing but a rubber-stamp on the budget.The power of the Speaker of the House needs to be reduced and returned to the House as a whole. The idea that currently four or five people meet to decide the fate of this nation destroys actual representation by the 430 other people sent to represent their citizens.
Real-world experience in business or the professions is clearly exceptionally helpful. I remember Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern starting a small business called the Stratford Inn, lamenting after he left politics that
“I’m for protecting the health and well-being of both workers and consumers. I’m for a clean environment and economic justice. But I’m convinced we can pursue those worthy goals and still cut down vastly on the incredible paperwork, the complicated tax forms, the number of minute regulations, and the seemingly endless reporting requirements that afflict American business. Many businesses, especially small independents such as the Stratford Inn, simply can’t pass such costs on to their customers and remain competitive or profitable.”
What McGovern Learned » Richard Nixon Foundation
Getting our federal budget cut down to size so inflation will be manageable.
Rolling back multi-faceted anti-family and anti-male policies the Establishment has imposed, making the youngest members of our society unhappier than ever.
We deserve Ma Bell, not Big Brother. Altering the legal status of big tech and its manipulations and strangulation of free speech and deplatforming, which may require a completely new legal approach to reduce, limit, or eliminate the disproportionate influence of tech companies and their owners on political and other expression.
Artificial Intelligence use and misuse. This technology is germinating under our watch, and whatever we do or fail to do, will reverberate possibly for hundreds of years or millennia. Commercial interests alone cannot be permitted to determine its course. If our current constitutional and regulatory paradigms do not adequately address the reality of AI, then we must alter them to adjust to reality.
Dismantling or restructuring those parts of the executive branch, which, without Americans' approval or consent, are spying on and censoring American citizens contrary to our unalienable rights. Relatedly those parts of the executive branch which are destabilizing regions around the world must be reined in or eliminated. Americans do not want and cannot afford, to be both the destroyer and restorer of nations around the world.
Returning our manufacturing and industrial base from other countries in order to be self-sufficient even in emergencies or war, and to provide our working-age citizens with opportunities.
I would personally prefer two four-year terms for senators, however, passing a constitutional amendment is difficult, and therefore I defer to those who are working hard to get the above limits passed.
The anti-Federalists contended in the 1780s that a senate term of six years would create an aristocracy, which of course has turned out to be correct. Senators usually leave in a wheelchair or a coffin.
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/02/opinion/opinion-contributor/jared-golden-donald-trump-going-to-win-election-democracy-be-just-fine/
Another young married couple told me that even with both of them working, they were struggling financially. Clearly our current economic policies don't support successful family formation, and it is so unnecessary.
Right now, the House punts EVERY TIME on the budget. This makes them the worst, most predictable football team EVER. I will not be one of those pushovers.
The Senate routinely lets House bills languish without votes, including the impeachment articles against the actual immigration czar Alexander Mayorkas.* Just deny the Senate spending bills for a while, and they'll come around.
I would do my best to support using an actual budget process instead of huge 2,000 page bills, and work to use the budget power to reduce inflation of food, gas, and housing.
Further, I would relish using the power to force transparency from rogue agencies and to punish bureaucrats who don't recognize proper limits to their power.
I will not vote for a Continuing Resolution that does not reduce spending.
Fear of irresponsible media coverage is no excuse. But too often the cause is also that House members are not "Americans-First." They rarely disclose their true priorities, which Americans have a right to know. I will be open and honest.
- He can Americanize his name just like immigrants before him.
But I'm not fooling myself; getting on some committees takes a miracle.
Government accountability is something else: all these agencies in these buildings where no one can check on them. "Checks and balances" sound good in theory and sometimes in practice, but a legislature is not match for the Bureaucratic State. We need to examine how federal bureaucracies can be made transparent, because they are not.
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Campaign website
Stamper’s campaign website stated the following:
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Prices need to be reduced. Kate believes our economy exists to serve Americans; Americans do not exist to serve an economy or the 1%. Protect Social Security. and Medicare. Americans have paid in to Social Security for all of their working years, and rely upon it. It must be our nation’s priority. Women Deserve Respect and Dignity. Non-women should not displace us or intrude into women’s and children’s sports and bathrooms.[3] |
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| —Katy Stamper’s campaign website (2024)[4] | ||
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Katy L Stamper for Congress, "About," accessed April 24, 2024
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 7, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Katy Stamper’s campaign website, accessed April 24, 2024
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