Kyra Kennedy
Kyra Kennedy (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Colorado House of Representatives to represent District 30. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 25, 2024.
Kennedy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kyra Kennedy was born in Mobile, Alabama. Kennedy earned a bachelor's degree from the Metropolitan State University of Denver in 2013. Her career experience includes working as a nonprofit executive director.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Colorado House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Colorado House of Representatives District 30
Rebekah Stewart defeated Ramey Johnson in the general election for Colorado House of Representatives District 30 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Rebekah Stewart (D)  | 62.2 | 26,647 |
 | Ramey Johnson (R) | 37.8 | 16,162 | |
| Total votes: 42,809 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 30
Rebekah Stewart defeated Kyra Kennedy in the Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 30 on June 25, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rebekah Stewart | 58.0 | 5,657 |
 | Kyra Kennedy | 42.0 | 4,103 | |
| Total votes: 9,760 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 30
Ramey Johnson advanced from the Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 30 on June 25, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ramey Johnson | 100.0 | 3,585 |
| Total votes: 3,585 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kyra Kennedy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kennedy's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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After a rocky adolescence, I’d started preparing for medical school when I took a job as a care manager for patients with diabetes, and who were uninsured or on Medicaid. This gave me a firsthand view into the barriers the health delivery system created for folks. When our federal grant funding disappeared, I saw all the progress my patients had made disappear, too. That heartbreak shifted my trajectory into making better public policy.
In the years since then, I worked for a federal health policy nonprofit that was focused on implementation of Obamacare and later on the response to the water crisis in Flint, MI. I ran for Lakewood City Council in 2017 on a platform of expanding affordable housing at a time when the community was rebelling against new development. Losing that election drove me to find new ways to serve.
Starting in 2018, I focused my energy on state-level policy and was Chief of Staff for then-State Representative Brittany Pettersen, Government Affairs Director for Metropolitan State University of Denver, and the Rocky Mountain Director for Young Invincibles. Between MSU and YI, I’ve helped pass over 50 pieces of legislation at the Colorado State Capitol. For the last year, I’ve been running an innovative whole health policy organization called Co-Thrive.
Watch this video to learn more: https://tinyurl.com/vufaf9ap- I am the most experienced candidate in this race. I have worked on public policy in Colorado with countless legislators, executive branch leaders, and advocates over the last seven years. I know how to win big fights at the Capitol because I’ve been doing it. While much of my policy work has been on expanding access to healthcare, mental health, and higher education, I have also worked on policies impacting abortion rights, gun violence prevention, and collective bargaining.
- I’m the most progressive candidate in this race. I’ve seen the way the sausage is made, and it’s not pretty. There are too many legislators who think stakeholding means meeting your opponents in the middle. While I certainly value the stakeholding work that must be done, it’s often the case that our legislators must stand and fight. There’s no meeting the fossil fuels industry in the middle when it comes to climate change. There’s no meeting corporate healthcare interests in the middle when it comes to building a better healthcare system that actually puts people at the center.
- I’ve always cared about climate change, abortion rights, gun violence prevention, and public education, but having my daughter, Lennon, changed everything for me. Everything just feels twice as urgent as it used to. I’m not interested in slow, incremental change. I’m interested in building a healthier, safer, and more resilient community NOW.
I’m also passionate about health and social systems reform. I’ve seen too many public policy ideas that are just bandaids on broken systems. The best legislators I’ve seen are system builders. We can and must build a better way for people to navigate healthcare systems and everything that connects to a person’s health from affordable housing and transportation to healthy food.
I think our broken healthcare system is perhaps where the most work is needed. We continue to have a fragmented system, largely because of corporate greed. We need much larger system reform if we’re going to build the kind of system that truly supports people and helps them thrive.
I believe my experience working hand-in-hand with legislators is actually the most pertinent experience. My work in helping pass over 50 pieces of legislation has taught me so much about how to write good policy, negotiate good compromises, and win big fights. That’s why I’ve earned the endorsements of over two dozen sitting legislators, and many former elected officials that I’ve worked in partnership with over the years.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 27, 2024
