Lander Bethel
Lander Bethel (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 4th Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on March 6, 2018.
Biography
Lander Bethel was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and lives in Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Oklahoma. Bethel’s career experience includes working as a pastor. He served as the board chair for the Federal Emergency Food and Shelter Program and he served on the Bio-Ethics Committee of Wilson N Jones Hospital. Bethel founded Grayson Disaster Relief.[1]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 4
Incumbent John Ratcliffe defeated Catherine Krantz and Ken Ashby in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 4 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | John Ratcliffe (R) | 75.7 | 188,667 |
 | Catherine Krantz (D) | 23.0 | 57,400 | |
| Ken Ashby (L) | 1.3 | 3,178 | ||
| Total votes: 249,245 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 4
Catherine Krantz defeated Lander Bethel in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 4 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Catherine Krantz | 68.6 | 8,840 |
 | Lander Bethel | 31.4 | 4,048 | |
| Total votes: 12,888 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 4
Incumbent John Ratcliffe defeated John Cooper in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 4 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | John Ratcliffe | 85.4 | 61,902 |
 | John Cooper | 14.6 | 10,560 | |
| Total votes: 72,462 | |||
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Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Lander Bethel participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on February 26, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Lander Bethel's responses follow below.[2]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Strengthening public schools and support for higher education. 2) Protecting Social Security and Medicare for a secure future for seniors. |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Education puts the building blocks in place for future generations and for the future of our country. We must not allow public education to be dismantled in order to supplement private education for the wealthiest among us. We must make vocational and higher education more affordable. We need a new Congress who will be more determined to spend an extra 25 billion dollars as the present Congress is determined to spend it on a wall. The security of our future depends upon being prepared to compete in the world. We must re-establish this as one of our highest priorities.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[4]
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See also
- United States House of Representatives
- Texas' 4th Congressional District election, 2018
- Texas' 4th Congressional District
External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- Campaign website
- Campaign Facebook page
- Campaign Twitter page
- Campaign YouTube page
Footnotes
- ↑ Bethel for Congress, "Bio," accessed February 3, 2018
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Lander Bethel's responses," February 26, 2018
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
