Kyle Faust
Kyle Faust (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Colorado's 7th Congressional District. He was disqualified from the Democratic primary scheduled on June 28, 2022.
Faust completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kyle Faust was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Colorado in 2019. Faust's career experience includes working as a middle school math and social studies teacher.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Colorado's 7th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Colorado District 7
Brittany Pettersen defeated Erik Aadland, Ross Klopf, Critter Milton, and JP Lujan in the general election for U.S. House Colorado District 7 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Brittany Pettersen (D) | 56.4 | 204,984 |
Erik Aadland (R) ![]() | 41.4 | 150,510 | ||
Ross Klopf (L) ![]() | 1.7 | 6,187 | ||
![]() | Critter Milton (Unity Party) ![]() | 0.5 | 1,828 | |
JP Lujan (Independent) (Write-in) ![]() | 0.0 | 92 |
Total votes: 363,601 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Colorado District 7
Brittany Pettersen advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Colorado District 7 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Brittany Pettersen | 100.0 | 71,497 |
Total votes: 71,497 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Kyle Faust (D)
- Julius Mopper (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Colorado District 7
Erik Aadland defeated Tim Reichert and Laurel Imer in the Republican primary for U.S. House Colorado District 7 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Erik Aadland ![]() | 47.9 | 43,469 | |
Tim Reichert | 35.9 | 32,583 | ||
Laurel Imer ![]() | 16.2 | 14,665 |
Total votes: 90,717 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Brad Dempsey (R)
- Carl Andersen (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kyle Faust completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Faust'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 pretty young, at the time of the election I will be 25, can't really get much younger to get into the U.S. House of Representatives! But that youth is a benefit. We are underrepresented in Congress. We are the ones who have to live with the results of the laws that are passed for decades, and yet Gen X, Baby Boomers, and even the Silent Generation all have more representation than Millennials and Gen-Z combined, and Millennials are entering their 40's.
Being young means I am not tied down by how things were done in the past. I can look at the processes, the laws, the ideas, and bring a fresh gaze unhampered by the false justification of "tradition" and I carry that with me even while I am running. I don't have political connections. My family is far from wealthy. But I'm trying anyway, because I believe that we as Americans are ready to charge Boldly Forward to meet the challenges that we will have to fight against for decades.
My dad is perhaps the greatest person in my life. He served 26 years in the US Air Force, and allowed me to grow up all over the world before moving to Colorado permanently in 2008, he supported me in all of my poorly thought out adventures (such as when I originally enrolled at UNC for theatre), and he is supporting me now.- The Climate Crisis Requires Immediate Action: Time and again we see national and international policy goals fall short. A good example of this is the Paris Climate Accords. The goal is to keep warming below 1.5C to avoid the worst of the effects of the Climate Crisis. Experts say Paris doesn't go far enough, in fact many say it will not keep us below the 2C mark. That 2C mark is by the way, what scientists call "disastrous." We are talking world changing consequences, and Paris doesn't even prevent them. Instead, current policies mean the globe will warm 2.9C. Therefore, as the second largest gross emitter, the United States must be a leader here. We need policy, laws, actions. Not promises, not targets. Action.
- Healthcare, Labor, and Education - The Rights of Humanity: Our founding document lays out inalienable human rights. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. How can we have life without healthcare? How can we have liberty without labor protections? How can we pursue happiness without education? The United States needs to invest in the human side of our country. We need medicare for all. We need tuition free public universities and trade schools. We need improved labor rights. For too long Americans have been exploited. We own this country, we built this country, and we deserve dignity and respect. Without healthcare, without education, without better leave and living wages, we have neither dignity, nor respect.
- Of the people, by the people, for the people: To say Americans feel disconnected to their leadership is a bit of an understatement. But when you have cash as king, it comes as no surprise. Americans need to be put back into power. Many of the woes of this country come down to the fact that businesses have made billions of dollars exploiting us, and have spent millions of dollars to make sure they can continue. We need to overturn Citizens United. We need to crackdown on corporate meddling. I won't be taking money from corporations, because America is not for corporations. It is for us, and I want to help take it back. We are the people of the United States. We are the people who built this country, and we should run it too.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He lead the country through some of the most challenging times it has ever been through. He had bold plans, and enacted as many as he can. He created many of the federal programs that I seek to strengthen. His leadership ensured that when all was said and done he left the country better off than when he found it. I want to do the same. I want to help as many Americans as I can, and I want to be able to leave the country in the best state it has ever been in.
9/11 had repercussions on my family for years. My dad was lucky, he only came home with some minor PTSD regarding helicopters. Since those were used for medevacs, he just came to associate them with injured or killed servicemen. But his consistent absences, especially since his deployments always seemed to be during the holidays and my birthday really strained our relationship, especially when I was a teenager. He tried his best though, and I'm glad I eventually came around, even if it did take until college. I do my best to visit every week, have been for a few years now and I hope to continue for as long as possible. There's a family side to deploying service members, and it feels like it all gets lost sometimes. I hope to be able to change that.
But my first "real" job would have been the summer when I worked at a Jack-in-the-Box to get some money for college. I was actually convinced to apply for the job thanks to one of my friends, and I thought we would be able to work together throughout the summer. The dude quit about two weeks after I was hired! Still friends though, but I refuse to let him live that one down. Jokes aside, that job taught me a lot. The abuses that workers have to go through, the exploitation and grinding down by management. I only worked it for a summer, but that job transformed the way I look at the world, and how I interact with people. They deserve a living wage, they deserve labor protections. They deserve dignity and respect.
In all seriousness: Madeline from the video game "Celeste." She climbs a mountain called Mount Celeste, and during her climb confronts her anxiety and mental health struggles. She also meets a guy named Leo, who has his own struggles. It is a story of determination, confronting yourself, and growing together with your struggles to make yourself a stronger person. I admire her determination, her bravery, and her willingness to look within herself.
But I'm also interested in Armed Services' Cyber, Innovative Technologies and Information Systems subcommittee, Energy and Commerce's Environment and Climate Change subcommittee, the Foreign Affairs committee, Transportation and Infrastructure committee, and Veterans' Affairs.
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Noteworthy events
Arrested on charges of child sexual assault
On June 16, 2021, Faust was taken into custody and arrested on charges of sexual assault of a child. He was charged with four felonies: enticement of a child, sexual assault of a child by a person in a position of trust, internet sexual exploitation of a child, and internet luring of a child.[2] As of September 2, 2021, Faust's hearing was scheduled for October.[3]
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 22, 2021
- ↑ TimesCall.com, "Berthoud middle school teacher arrested on charges of sexual assault on a child," June 17, 2021
- ↑ Loveland Reporter-Herald, "Hearing for former Berthoud middle school teacher accused of sexual assault on a child moved to October," August 17, 2021