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Ken Fipps
Ken Fipps (Republican Party) ran for election to the South Carolina House of Representatives to represent District 119. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Fipps completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Fipps was a 2014 Republican candidate for District 119 of the South Carolina House of Representatives.[1]
Biography
Ken is a native of Johns Island, the community his family has called home for multiple generations. After graduating from Charleston Southern University in 2013 he worked in politics before returning to CSU to work as an enrollment counselor. In June of 2016, Ken married his beautiful wife and they decided to settle in West Ashley as they started their new life together. Having worked in higher education and also with kids as the youth leader at his church he decided to mix the two and become a teacher. Having lived the life of a teacher and after getting to know so many families in West Ashley, Ken decided to run for state House to offer new leadership for the community that he loves.[2]
Elections
2022
See also: South Carolina House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for South Carolina House of Representatives District 119
Incumbent Leonidas Stavrinakis defeated Ken Fipps in the general election for South Carolina House of Representatives District 119 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Leonidas Stavrinakis (D) | 57.5 | 10,299 |
 | Ken Fipps (R)  | 42.5 | 7,609 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 13 | ||
| Total votes: 17,921 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Leonidas Stavrinakis advanced from the Democratic primary for South Carolina House of Representatives District 119.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Ken Fipps advanced from the Republican primary for South Carolina House of Representatives District 119.
2014
Elections for all 124 seats in the South Carolina House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election took place on June 10, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was March 30, 2014. Incumbent Leon Stavrinakis was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Chris Cannon defeated Ken Fipps in the Republican primary. Colin Ross ran as a Libertarian candidate. Sean Thornton (L) was defeated at convention. Stavrinakis defeated Cannon and Ross in the general election.[3][4][1]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |  Leon Stavrinakis Incumbent |
60.5% | 6,676 | |
| Republican | Chris Cannon | 35.9% | 3,961 | |
| Libertarian | Colin Ross | 3.5% | 389 | |
| Total Votes | 11,026 | |||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
|
Chris Cannon |
58.2% | 1,119 |
| Ken Fipps | 41.8% | 803 |
| Total Votes | 1,922 | |
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ken Fipps completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fipps' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- We need an education system that makes people excited about the opportunity their children will have by attending school in Charleston while preparing students for the modern job market.
- We need a tax system that makes our state competitive with the rest of the southeast, while encouraging new and current business growth.
- We need to make sure that we update our roads and build new roads to ease our congestion problems. This means making sure that the flyover at Main road and Hwy 17 is completed soon to alleviate the bottleneck that is created for those turning to go to Johns Island.
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2014
Fipps listed the following themes on his campaign website:[5]
- Healthcare
- Excerpt: "End ObamaCare in South Carolina-ObamaCare is a gross overstep by the federal government."
- Education
- Excerpt: "Replace Common Core- Common Core has relinquished control of our education system to the federal government and ultimately hinders the future of our state."
- Gun control
- Excerpt: "The right to bear arms is simply that, a constitutional right. South Carolina should not require citizens to have a permit in order to carry a gun, and should instead adopt an open carry policy that would give free exercise of our second amendment right."
- Abortion
- Excerpt: "Abortion is an evil that needs to be abolished."
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Candidate South Carolina House of Representatives District 119 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 South Carolina State Election Commission, "2014 Election Information," accessed March 31, 2014
- ↑ Elisabeth Moore, "Information submitted by Ken Fipps," March 21, 2022
- ↑ South Carolina State Election Commission, "Primary Election Results," accessed June 11, 2014
- ↑ South Carolina State Election Commission, "Official general election results," accessed November 13, 2014
- ↑ Ken Fipps for SC 119: "On the Issues," accessed April 7, 2014
