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Ken Tucker (Indiana)
Ken Tucker (independent) ran for election to the Indiana House of Representatives to represent District 24. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Biography
Ken Tucker was born in Munster, Indiana. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University in 2004. Tucker’s career experience includes working as an educator.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Indiana House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Indiana House of Representatives District 24
Incumbent Donna Schaibley defeated Joellyn Mayer and Ken Tucker in the general election for Indiana House of Representatives District 24 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Donna Schaibley (R) | 56.6 | 14,674 |
 | Joellyn Mayer (D)  | 40.8 | 10,571 | |
 | Ken Tucker (Independent) | 2.5 | 660 | |
| Total votes: 25,905 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 24
Joellyn Mayer advanced from the Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 24 on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joellyn Mayer | 100.0 | 1,134 |
| Total votes: 1,134 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 24
Incumbent Donna Schaibley advanced from the Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 24 on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Donna Schaibley | 100.0 | 3,373 |
| Total votes: 3,373 | |||
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2020
See also: Indiana's 5th Congressional District election, 2020
Indiana's 5th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Republican primary)
Indiana's 5th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Indiana District 5
Victoria Spartz defeated Christina Hale and Ken Tucker in the general election for U.S. House Indiana District 5 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Victoria Spartz (R) | 50.0 | 208,212 |
 | Christina Hale (D) | 45.9 | 191,226 | |
| Ken Tucker (L) | 4.0 | 16,788 | |
| Total votes: 416,226 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Vernon Moore (Independent)
- Ellen Kizik (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 5
Christina Hale defeated Dee Thornton, Jennifer Christie, Andy Jacobs, and Ralph Spelbring in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 5 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Christina Hale | 40.8 | 30,123 |
 | Dee Thornton | 27.1 | 20,049 | |
 | Jennifer Christie | 18.1 | 13,345 | |
| Andy Jacobs | 13.3 | 9,817 | ||
| Ralph Spelbring | 0.8 | 575 | ||
| Total votes: 73,909 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 5
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 5 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Victoria Spartz | 39.7 | 34,526 |
 | Beth Henderson | 17.6 | 15,343 | |
 | Micah Beckwith | 12.7 | 11,063 | |
 | Carl Brizzi | 6.5 | 5,619 | |
 | Kent Abernathy | 5.6 | 4,901 | |
 | Kelly Mitchell | 5.3 | 4,643 | |
 | Chuck Dietzen | 4.7 | 4,071 | |
 | Matthew Hook | 2.5 | 2,147 | |
 | Andrew Bales | 1.5 | 1,329 | |
 | Mark Small | 1.2 | 1,057 | |
 | Danny Niederberger | 0.8 | 675 | |
 | Victor Wakley | 0.5 | 465 | |
 | Allen Davidson | 0.5 | 411 | |
 | Russell Stwalley | 0.4 | 379 | |
 | Matthew Hullinger | 0.4 | 333 | |
| Total votes: 86,962 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mark Jay (R)
- Steve Braun (R)
- Jeremy Miner (R)
Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for U.S. House Indiana District 5
Ken Tucker advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Indiana District 5 on March 7, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Ken Tucker (L) |
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Ken Tucker did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Ken Tucker completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Tucker's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I want to earn your vote,
not buy it.
Currently I'm a stay at home dad. Previously I was an Indiana Public School teacher for 11 year where I taught 5th and 6th grade within the Noblesville Schools. I want to be the voice of public education.
I'm a product of Indiana. I was born, raised, and have always lived here. I want to be a voice for my state. I want to be part of the conversation that moves Indiana forward.
I'm a tree huggin, sun lovin, dirt worshiper that understands the importance and the value of alternative energy for our future. I want to be a voice for wind, solar, hemp, and marijuana to make Indiana a leader in those areas to help create jobs and new markets here in Indiana.
Personally I am passionate about equality, education, and the environment. If elected I promise to do everything I can to ensure equality for any and all American Citizens irregardless of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other way we as a society tend to categorize ourselves.
I'll never ask for a dime.
Just some of your time.Education
Equality
- Environment
Professionally I am passionate about education. Our public education system has been broken my entire life. Having politicians make education policy has proven to not be beneficial to our most important natural resource, our children.
I love the natural world. I love my country. There has to be a way that America can continue to be an industrial nation and also care for the overall health of our world.
As a human being I am passionate about equality for all irregardless of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or identity.
Finally, I am also passionate about maintaining the physical, mental, and emotional health of our citizens. Specifically our most vulnerable. Those being the young, the old, and our military veterans. If you fall into either of those categories you should not want for anything, especially basic health care services irregardless of your personal finances or socioeconomic status.
If I could focus on nothing but those four things while in office. I think I could leave the world a better place for my children, your children, their children, and so on.
Thank you for your time,
In life I have always tried to emulate the work ethic of my grandfather. He was a doer. He always went to work. Placed his family above all else and believed if a job's worth doing it was worth doing the right way. A measure twice, cut once type of a guy.
My grandfather was the type of person who, even later in life, would brake for squirrels, or park and help an injured animal to safety. But the real reason I look up to him and my grandmother was the fact that they welcomed three complete strangers into their home and raised them as if we were their own daughter and grandsons.
Not to ruin the suspense but those three strangers were me, my brother, and my mom upon first being introduced by my moms boyfriend to his parents as his girlfriend Lynn and her kids Timmy and Kenny. From that moment on even though my last name has always been Tucker. I was now a Montasiewicz.
Honesty.
Open Mindedness.
Dedication to serve in the best interest of their constituents.
Empathy.
First, I'd like to get money out of politics.
I want to utilize my time in politics to help build a more sustainable Indiana, America, and World for our future.
When I was 6 I remember sitting with my family in front of the TV and witnessing The Challenger Disaster. We had been learning about in my Kindergarten class.
I remember George H. Bush's inauguration in 1988. I was 9.
My first legitimate jobs were working as a gate attendant at the Cedar Lake pool one summer. Followed by a summer or two detasseling corn the next summer. Regardless, during the school year I was a live-in babysitter for my two younger siblings.
During high school I did various odd jobs for friends and family. I was an independent contractor of sorts for various odd jobs such as wood splitting, yard and field maintenance. Some of my friends and I were also contracted to do some preservation work within a historical landmark in Crown Point.
The summer before attending college I worked for what is now known as Regional Mental Health as summer maintenance. In college I was a clerk then assistant manager at The Discount Den. I also worked at a before and after school daycare within Klondike Elementary School. Muck like the Den working my way up to middle management. During my summer and winter breaks from Purdue I worked in a steel fabrication warehouse that supplied slide gates to US Steel, Bethlehem Steel, and Great Lakes to name a few. After graduation I continued to work at this warehouse for two years while trying to land a teachign positions. During that time I also tutored at Sylvan Learning Center. After relocating to Indianapolis I continued working with Sylvan and was also employed as a substitute teacher within Noblesville Schools, MSD's of Lawrence, Washignton, and Pike townships on the northside of Indianapolis.
I was first introduced to Noam Chomsky in college during my linguistics course which lead me to his philosophical, cognitive science and historical, social, and political works.
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See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 19, 2020
