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Kris Nall

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Kris Nall
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Democratic Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 8, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

Mount Mercy College, 2007

Personal
Birthplace
Elgin, Ill.
Religion
Christian
Profession
Administrative assistant
Contact

Campaign website

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Kris Nall (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Iowa House of Representatives to represent District 83. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Nall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Kris Nall was born in Elgin, Illinois. She earned a bachelor's degree from Mount Mercy College in 2007. Her career experience includes working as an administrative assistant.[1]

Elections

2022

See also: Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Iowa House of Representatives District 83

Cindy Golding defeated Kris Nall in the general election for Iowa House of Representatives District 83 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Cindy Golding
Cindy Golding (R)
 
59.1
 
9,172
Image of Kris Nall
Kris Nall (D) Candidate Connection
 
40.9
 
6,350
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.0
 
7

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 15,529
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 83

Kris Nall advanced from the Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 83 on June 7, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Kris Nall
Kris Nall Candidate Connection
 
99.7
 
1,760
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.3
 
6

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 1,766
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 83

Cindy Golding advanced from the Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 83 on June 7, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Cindy Golding
Cindy Golding
 
99.4
 
1,706
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.6
 
11

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 1,717
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Kris Nall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Nall'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 am running for the average Iowan. I am pro-choice, pro-union, pro-public education. I believe it is the job of the legislature to listen and support laws and actions that support the needs and wants of their community. They say leadership is a privilege. You might think that that means one is lucky to be chosen. Another way to look at it is, that it is only for the select lucky few. If you look to our legislature, you might see who those people are. It is not the average Iowan, who is a woman (50.3%) and 38.3 years old. The average Iowan legislature member is a 60+ years old male, who is retired, a business owner, a farmer or all three. I am a mother, a wife, a hard-working administrative assistant, running for my local house seat against a retired business owner/hobby farmer. Why? Because public schools matter, abortion access matters, affordable healthcare & childcare matters. Because the average Iowan should be represented in the Iowa Legislature. Because when there is a disconnect between the governing body and the people who are served by that body, it causes policies and laws that favor the select few and not the general populace. We need leadership that understands what it is like to face overwhelming debt. To face living paycheck to paycheck. We need representatives that will listen, who will work with both sides of the aisle, who believe in science and discourse. The average Iowan matters.
  • Like main Iowans, I am pro-choice. I believe that the decision to have or to conduct this medical procedure is between the individuals having the procedure and their medical team. I believe abortion access is part of an individual’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that women (and all people) have reproductive rights -the right to choose when, where, and with whom to have children. And as such, would oppose any measure that caused an undue burden or restriction on the right to abortion access.
  • I am the wife of a teacher. I am a graduate of both public and private schools. I will tell you no private school needs public money. Public taxes dollars belong in public schools.
  • I will not support the use of eminent domain with the carbon pipelines. Eminent domain is a government tool, and only as a final measure to put in public utilities. It is not a tool for forced redevelopment or a gift to private businesses for campaign donations. The Co2 pipelines are not a public utility and do not serve the public good.
Affordable Housing is my passion. Two major barriers to more affordable housing are: 1. Local zoning ordinances and policies that limit development to only certain types of housing (ie Des Moines' attempt to require all new house have 3-car garages or CR's 'snot' house ban) and 2. Developers make more money on higher end housing. The rule of supply and demand tells us that the only way to guarantee decrease prices is to create an abundance of supply. We do that with development policies that support gentle density and YIMBY policies- smaller lots, ADUs, pre-fab housing units. We need to take a hard look at policies that support NIMBY-ism and how to counter or just get rid of those policies. Relaxing requirements on lot size, home size, home design. We need partner with developers to create more affordable housing, not just slightly less-expensive housing. That means looking at how best to develop a public-private equity coalition that is dedicated to creating housing that is limited to 2 to 3x the Iowa average salary ($61,000, so a house at $120,000- $150,000), not $350,000 to $500,000/home.
My parents. Both hard workers and very smart people.
A willingness to listen. Experience in working in field with people of a variety of personal and political backgrounds. A desire to find common ground. A respect for facts and science. An understanding of real world and practical living experiences.
One of respect and courtesy. Respect needs to be earned but courtesy should aswalsy by freely given.
Gulf War is probably the first one I remember coverage of. I would have been 5-6 years old. After that I remember voting in a mock election in my classroom for Bill Clinton (because he played the saxophone) over Bush or Ross Perot. I remember SNL making fun of Perot's ears but that just gave our class reason to vote for him as we likened him to Dumbo, and who doesn't love Dumbo?
First 'job' was summer babysitting for $2/hour to help out my mom's coworker while her family was struggling. My mom and her were both nurses. My first taxable job was waitressing. I would work as a waitress, a nurse's aid, event set up person, package handler, dish washer, short-order cook over my college years. The I worked for FedEx Office (kinkos) for 7 years.
I love to read. Especially romance (comedy, mystery, paranormal, everything) Favorite authors include Pippa Grant, J Bree, Shelly Laurenston, Ruby Dixon, CM Owens. Growing up books that help form my opinions included: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Grendel by John Gardner, Tamora Pierce's Lioness series and Immortal series.
Hermione Granger, smart, talented, hard worker.
Wellerman, but my daughter is working on Let it go as I type this (yay, kids)
I was diagnosed with Dysgraphia (a learning disability) and a speech disability in elementary school. Basically my handwriting was (is) horrible and I could not spell. Think the opposite of Dyslexia, I could read just fine but trying to get words back out and it was a jumbled mess. Thank you autocorrect! I was quickly sideline as a 'bad reader' and dumped into the low performer group. It was in fourth grade that an instructor realized I couldn't read well because of lack of proper intervention, not inability and helped my parents seek intervention and a proper diagnosis. Within a year of proper diagnosis, I was reading at a 12th grade level.
This should me the importance of good teachers, smaller classrooms, and better intervention services. My handwriting still stinks but that is why cursive is so great.
Don't trust atoms, they make up everything.
Yes, in fact it is key to policymaking.

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    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 9, 2022


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