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Kim Jorgensen Gane
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Kim Jorgensen Gane (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Michigan State Senate to represent District 20. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Gane completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Kim Jorgensen Gane has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]
- BCHD RUHB Taskforce & ABEST work group
- Advocates & Leaders for Police & Community Trust
- Berrien Immigrant Solidarity Network
- Berrien County Democratic Party & Women’s Caucus
- City of St. Joseph Sustainability Committee, citizen appointee
- Leadership Accelerator graduate, Class of 2020
- Listen to Your Mother, co-director
- NARAL Pro-Choice America Michigan Action Council
- National Storytellers of Planned Parenthood, Michigan representative
- Benton Harbor/St. Joseph Womxn’s Unity Walk Across The Bridge, organizer
- Race Relations Council
- Unified Civic Monuments Project
Elections
2022
See also: Michigan State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Michigan State Senate District 20
Incumbent Aric Nesbitt defeated Kim Jorgensen Gane in the general election for Michigan State Senate District 20 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Aric Nesbitt (R) | 61.0 | 69,316 |
 | Kim Jorgensen Gane (D)  | 39.0 | 44,403 | |
| Total votes: 113,719 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan State Senate District 20
Kim Jorgensen Gane advanced from the Democratic primary for Michigan State Senate District 20 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kim Jorgensen Gane | 100.0 | 16,014 |
| Total votes: 16,014 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan State Senate District 20
Incumbent Aric Nesbitt defeated Austin Kreutz and Kaleb Hudson in the Republican primary for Michigan State Senate District 20 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Aric Nesbitt | 67.2 | 24,691 |
| Austin Kreutz | 21.4 | 7,853 | ||
 | Kaleb Hudson | 11.4 | 4,172 | |
| Total votes: 36,716 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kim Jorgensen Gane completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Gane'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'm the 5-foot-tall Mother Activist running for State Senate in Michigan's new district 20, fighting for Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, for strong, safe, well-funded Public Schools and Paid Leave because I believe these are the keys to putting political and economic power into the hands of working people, parents, moms like me, and all individuals who care for themselves and others. I am parenting two generations of adult children including the daughter I had alone at age twenty and raised alone until she was six. She and her husband are having their first baby this spring. My stepdaughter and her husband are anticipating a cross-country move this year as he transitions from USAF to the private sector. The son we had together and the nephew we raised both graduated in 2021. Our nephew is attending college in Detroit. Our son is still deciding what's next for himself. Because he gets to decide. He has that right and that luxury without question. I've spent the last six years working with organizations like Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America, fighting for reproductive freedom and justice so that all of us get to decide for our own lives and futures when, whether, and with whom to start or grow our families. There is no freedom more precious, no freedom more foundational to our households and to our communities than ensuring every pregnant-capable person has access to the education and the healthcare necessary to understand and exercise this right.
- Voting Rights wouldn't be under attack if they didn't hold so much power for regular, everyday people, regardless of our socioeconomic or familial status. We have made great improvements in access to voting in Michigan in recent years, but we still have a long way to go. I want to ensure that every eligible voter has convenient, unfettered access to exercise their right to vote and I want us to be able to guarantee that every vote is counted every time. I want to enshrine these standards and accessibility in our state constitution so that it can never be compromised or broken, no matter who is in power.
- Reproductive Rights: My opponent's first mailing told voters that his most important job is protecting “unborn children.” His every deed & action while in office has eviscerated the reproductive & human rights of Michiganders to time pregnancies in ways that keep us in school, that allow us to escape abusive relationships, that keep us working & earning with good benefits that keep us healthy & able to care for ourselves & our families when we do choose to have them. When I had my daughter alone at 20 my healthcare was only covered for the first six months after giving birth. Thirty-five years later, that is still the MedicAid policy in Michigan. How can we have healthy kids if we don't have healthy parents? Such ideology is unforgivable.
- Strong, safe, well-funded Public Schools: Kids just want to learn in peace. It is simply unsustainable for our communities to pit parents against parents in a war over Public Education vs. private and parochial education when we could have it all if the effort weren't, in fact, privatizing and profiting off of education. We should've been supporting Public Schools in Michigan and throughout the country all along. First they came for Public Schools in communities of color, and those of us in communities that could fill the gaps left by decades of Republican defunding didn't fight for them. Now the fight is in our backyards.We must support ALL students, our schools, school board members, educators, administrators and support staff everywhere.
Whatever happens in November, I will work for the rest of my life to ensure that Michigan's disastrous unemployment system actually serves working people and their families, and that it includes paid family and medical leave. Our system needs a complete overhaul so that it 1) is immediate; 2) assumes best intentions and stops treating claimants like fraudsters (we can address rare instances of fraud if/when they occur); 3) removes the power from individual employers to determine whether working people deserve benefits; 4) assesses benefits fairly, based on effort, income and need. For instance, someone working twenty hours a week waiting tables is contributing significantly to their household income; they need and deserve unemployment and paid family and medical leave that accurately includes and reflects their tipped wages. By the same token, someone working sixty hours a week at three low-wage part-time jobs needs immediate access to unemployment and paid family and medical leave, too. If we elect Democrats and more moms like me who give a damn, I believe we can do it. This single area would have an immediate positive impact on nearly every household and, therefore, nearly every child in Michigan. It would also empower small businesses to compete with larger employers that offer benefits as a condition of employment.
To pay for it, I will tax the fight out of the entities that organize against our civil and human rights, including those hiding behind nonprofit status.
To pay for it, I will tax the fight out of the entities that organize against our civil and human rights, including those hiding behind nonprofit status.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 11, 2022
Current members of the Michigan State Senate
Senators
District 1
Erika Geiss (D)
District 2
Sylvia Santana (D)
District 3
Stephanie Chang (D)
District 4
Darrin Camilleri (D)
District 5
Dayna Polehanki (D)
District 6
Mary Cavanagh (D)
District 7
Jeremy Moss (D)
District 8
Mallory McMorrow (D)
District 9
Michael Webber (R)
District 10
Paul Wojno (D)
District 11
District 12
Kevin Hertel (D)
District 13
Rosemary Bayer (D)
District 14
Sue Shink (D)
District 15
Jeff Irwin (D)
District 16
Joseph Bellino (R)
District 17
Jonathan Lindsey (R)
District 18
Thomas Albert (R)
District 19
Sean McCann (D)
District 20
Aric Nesbitt (R)
District 21
Sarah Anthony (D)
District 22
Lana Theis (R)
District 23
Jim Runestad (R)
District 24
Ruth Johnson (R)
District 25
Dan Lauwers (R)
District 26
Kevin Daley (R)
District 27
John Cherry (D)
District 28
Sam Singh (D)
District 29
Winnie Brinks (D)
District 30
Mark Huizenga (R)
District 31
Roger Victory (R)
District 32
Jon Bumstead (R)
District 33
Rick Outman (R)
District 34
Roger Hauck (R)
District 35
Vacant
District 36
Michele Hoitenga (R)
District 37
John Damoose (R)
District 38
Ed McBroom (R)
Democratic Party (19)
Republican Party (18)
Vacancies (1)
