Kevin Wilson (Wyoming)
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Kevin Wilson (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Wyoming House of Representatives to represent District 54. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
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Biography
Wilson was born in Syracuse, New York. He served in the United States Navy from 2005 to 2010. Wilson's professional experience includes serving as a registered nurse. His organizational affiliations include membership in the American and Wyoming Nurses Association and membership in the Veterans of Foreign Wars.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Wyoming House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Wyoming House of Representatives District 54
Incumbent Lloyd Charles Larsen defeated Kevin Wilson in the general election for Wyoming House of Representatives District 54 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lloyd Charles Larsen (R) | 58.4 | 3,148 |
 | Kevin Wilson (D)  | 41.6 | 2,244 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 3 | ||
| Total votes: 5,395 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Wyoming House of Representatives District 54
Kevin Wilson advanced from the Democratic primary for Wyoming House of Representatives District 54 on August 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kevin Wilson | 99.1 | 808 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.9 | 7 | ||
| Total votes: 815 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Wyoming House of Representatives District 54
Incumbent Lloyd Charles Larsen advanced from the Republican primary for Wyoming House of Representatives District 54 on August 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lloyd Charles Larsen | 96.6 | 1,841 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 3.4 | 65 | ||
| Total votes: 1,906 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Kevin Wilson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Wilson's responses.
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I am a third generation military veteran, I served in the Navy Submarine Service, and I now serve my community as a Registered Nurse. I am an outdoor enthusiast and love to fish, hike, ski, mountaineer, climb, and run. I am passionate about standing up for working people and working families. When I am elected to the legislature I will work tirelessly to expand access to affordable healthcare and prescription drugs, fight for a pay raise for working people, diversify our economy and revenue streams, and protect our environment and public lands.
- Working families deserve a raise and wealthy people moving to our state need to pay their fair share in taxes.
- We need a better solutions for our rural healthcare systems and better access to affordable care and prescription drugs.
- Our public lands are the Declaration of Independence applied to the landscape. We need to keep our public lands in public hands and keep our environment pristine so we may all enjoy hunting, fishing, and recreating.
As a registered nurse, I am most passionate about expanding access to affordable healthcare. I see far too many patients and families who fall through the cracks of the system everyday. Often by the time patients are able to jump through all of the hoops required to pay for their care, they are much worse off than they would have been if they didn't live in fear of an enormous bill bankrupting their family. No one should go bankrupt seeking necessary medical care. I will fight that battle everyday.
I am also very passionate about providing hope and relief to working families. I come from a working class household, my mom and dad were in the Army Reserves and National Guard and my mom worked as a bank teller and teacher and my dad worked as a computer repair man and police officer. The struggles of working families are my own, I know what it means to budget and scrimp and save and still barely feel like you are getting by. The wealthiest in our state pay far less taxes proportionally than working class people. I want to bring more revenue to the state to give working people a fighting chance.
I look up the most to my late grandfather Thomas Young. He was a tail gunner in a B-24 in World War II flying 30 combat missions over Germany. He was in the 8th Army Air Force when it suffered some of the worst casualties of any branch of the military. He earned numerous Air Medals and the Distinguished Flying Cross. After the war, he raised a family of five children working at a factory that made fine china in Syracuse, New York. He continued to serve his community as a volunteer firefighter and eventually the chief of the fire department. He raised my mother at a time when you could own a home, raise a family, take a vacation every year, and be a member of the middle class on a factory workers salary. His example is with me everyday and I hope to work in the legislature to bring back the dignity to working people that my grandfather knew working people deserve.
It would be hard to name just one book, but a recent book I have really enjoyed is called Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker. One of my favorite authors in the world is also Ta-Nehisi Coates. His book We Were 8 Years in Power is, well, Powerful.
Honesty, Integrity, and to borrow a phrase from my former employer NOLS "Tolerance for Adversity and Uncertainty."
Do the work of the people. Period. If legislators are not showing up everyday to represent the people who sent them to Cheyenne, they really have no business being there. I will always vote and work for the people of Lander, not the lobbyists and the rich and powerful.
The first major historical event was the war in Bosnia in 1995. I remember distinctly because my mom was a lieutenant in the Army Reserves and she was deployed to Hungary and Bosnia as a transportation officer for almost a year. I was about 8 or 9 years old at the time, and it was about that time that I realized all politics was local. When the President committed U.S. forces to help come to the aid of the former Yugoslavia and stave off a humanitarian catastrophe, he was committing my mom. The decisions that politicians make affect our lives personally whether we pay attention or not. So we might as well get involved and do something to be the change we want to see in this world.
My first "real job" where I got paid was making $5.50 per hour working at a skating rink. I would repair roller skates, manage the rental inventory, and skate around in a referee jersey blowing a whistle at unruly skaters and helping people up when they fell down. I had that job for about a year, working on some weeknights and weekends in high school.
My second job was as a lifeguard at a Disney World water park called Typhoon Lagoon, and that job was much more fun and interesting and I got to give first aid and help to a lot of diverse people.
My second job was as a lifeguard at a Disney World water park called Typhoon Lagoon, and that job was much more fun and interesting and I got to give first aid and help to a lot of diverse people.
The Wyoming House has a decent history of working together for the good of the state and our people. The Senate seems to get a bit more rancorous and partisan sometimes which is unfortunate. I intend to continue to reach out to people as people, and not pay attention to political labels when working to pass legislation that is good for the people of our state.
No, I honestly don't. We have a lot of legislators with experience, but they are disconnected from the everyday concerns of working people. I am a registered nurse, I will bring the perspective of a frontline healthcare worker to conversations about healthcare reform. I have also served in the military, so I know how decisions at the state level effect our soldiers and airmen in the national guard. That perspective is necessary. We need more legislators that know the issues and how they effect peoples everyday lives. We need less politicians who are bought and paid for by powerful lobbyists.
We need to diversify our economy, now. Our legislature has been really good at conducting studies over the years that all point to the same problem - we are far too reliant on extractive industries. Those same legislators who conduct those studies then turn around and ignore all of the recommendations for diversifying our economy so we are not so reliant on the extractive industries for our financial health and well being. It is an insane cycle that needs to be broken. We need new voices and perspectives so we can grow recreation tourism, agriculture, healthcare, education, and innovation in our state. Now, more than ever, we need to be focusing on attracting business to the state and keeping workers in our state. That means the Cowboy State cannot be a one trick pony.
The legislative and executive branches should be co-equal. The legislature should give the executive enough latitude to fulfill his or her constitutional duties, but always provide oversight and control the purse strings of the state government.
Yes, of course. I have already begun reaching out the democratic and republican members of both houses, as well as democratic and republican candidates for the state house to find common ground on issues like healthcare and criminal justice reform.
I prefer as non-partisan of a redistricting process as possible. Districts should be drawn around voters with similar concerns, not for the perpetuation of political party power.
I would love to be a part of tribal affairs because I live right on the border of the Wind River Indian Reservation and the voices and perspectives of indigenous people are extremely important to me. I would also love to serve on the health and labor committee to bring a new voice to the healthcare debate in our state.
Not applicable, the GOP has a supermajority that will remain in the upcoming session.
I am my own person. I hope to model myself after personal heroes of mine like Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandella.
Not at the moment. I sincerely just want to represent the people of Lander better than I think they are currently being represented.
I have been knocking on doors relentlessly in this election, so I have gotten little snapshots of peoples lives. I will tell you that I have noticed we have a lot of heroes living in our community. I have met so many fellow veterans who have served our country both at home and overseas. I have met a lot of Vietnam veterans who I have been able to thank for their service as I know they were not well treated when they immediately arrived home from war.
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 9, 2020
Current members of the Wyoming House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Chip Neiman
Majority Leader:Scott Heiner
Minority Leader:Mike Yin
Representatives
District 1
Chip Neiman (R)
District 2
J.D. Williams (R)
District 3
Abby Angelos (R)
District 4
Jeremy Haroldson (R)
District 5
Scott Smith (R)
District 6
Tomi Strock (R)
District 7
Bob Nicholas (R)
District 8
Steve Johnson (R)
District 9
Landon Brown (R)
District 10
Justin Fornstrom (R)
District 11
District 12
Clarence Styvar (R)
District 13
Ken Chestek (D)
District 14
Trey Sherwood (D)
District 15
Pam Thayer (R)
District 16
Mike Yin (D)
District 17
J.T. Larson (R)
District 18
Scott Heiner (R)
District 19
Joseph Webb (R)
District 20
Michael Schmid (R)
District 21
McKay Erickson (R)
District 22
Andrew Byron (R)
District 23
Liz Storer (D)
District 24
Nina Webber (R)
District 25
Paul Hoeft (R)
District 26
Dalton Banks (R)
District 27
Martha Lawley (R)
District 28
John Winter (R)
District 29
Ken Pendergraft (R)
District 30
Thomas Kelly (R)
District 31
John Bear (R)
District 32
Ken Clouston (R)
District 33
Ivan Posey (D)
District 34
Pepper Ottman (R)
District 35
Tony Locke (R)
District 36
Art Washut (R)
District 37
Steve Harshman (R)
District 38
Jayme Lien (R)
District 39
Cody Wylie (R)
District 40
Marilyn Connolly (R)
District 41
Gary Brown (R)
District 42
Rob Geringer (R)
District 43
Ann Lucas (R)
District 44
Lee Filer (R)
District 45
Karlee Provenza (D)
District 46
Ocean Andrew (R)
District 47
Robert Davis (R)
District 48
Darin McCann (R)
District 49
Robert Wharff (R)
District 50
District 51
Laurie Bratten (R)
District 52
Reuben Tarver (R)
District 53
District 54
Lloyd Larsen (R)
District 55
Joel Guggenmos (R)
District 56
Elissa Campbell (R)
District 57
Julie Jarvis (R)
District 58
Bill Allemand (R)
District 59
J.R. Riggins (R)
District 60
Marlene Brady (R)
District 61
Daniel Singh (R)
District 62
Kevin Campbell (R)
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