Lee Carter (Virginia)
Lee Carter (Democratic Party) was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing District 50. He assumed office in 2018. He left office on January 12, 2022.
Carter (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Virginia House of Delegates to represent District 50. He lost in the Democratic primary on June 8, 2021.
Carter also ran for election for Governor of Virginia. He lost in the Democratic primary on June 8, 2021.
Biography
Carter was born in North Carolina. His professional experience includes working in information technology. He has served in United States Marine Corps.[1]
Committee assignments
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2020-2021
Carter was assigned to the following committees:
2019-2020
Carter was assigned to the following committees:
Sponsored legislation
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Elections
2021
Governor of Virginia
See also: Virginia gubernatorial election, 2021
Virginia gubernatorial election, 2021 (June 8 Democratic primary)
Virginia gubernatorial election, 2021 (May 8 Republican convention)
General election
General election for Governor of Virginia
Glenn Youngkin defeated Terry McAuliffe, Princess Blanding, and Paul Davis in the general election for Governor of Virginia on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Glenn Youngkin (R)  | 50.6 | 1,663,596 |
 | Terry McAuliffe (D) | 48.6 | 1,600,116 | |
 | Princess Blanding (Liberation Party) | 0.7 | 23,125 | |
 | Paul Davis (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 2,593 | ||
| Total votes: 3,289,430 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Brad Froman (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Governor of Virginia
Terry McAuliffe defeated Jennifer D. Carroll Foy, Jennifer McClellan, Justin Fairfax, and Lee Carter in the Democratic primary for Governor of Virginia on June 8, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Terry McAuliffe | 62.1 | 307,367 |
 | Jennifer D. Carroll Foy | 19.8 | 98,052 | |
 | Jennifer McClellan | 11.8 | 58,213 | |
 | Justin Fairfax | 3.6 | 17,606 | |
 | Lee Carter | 2.8 | 13,694 | |
| Total votes: 494,932 | |||
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Republican convention
Republican Convention for Governor of Virginia
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Glenn Youngkin in round 6 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Total votes: 12,555 |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Merle Rutledge (R)
- Kurt Santini (R)
- Paul Davis (R)
Virginia House of Delegates
See also: Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2021
General election
General election for Virginia House of Delegates District 50
Michelle Maldonado defeated Steve Pleickhardt in the general election for Virginia House of Delegates District 50 on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Michelle Maldonado (D) | 54.7 | 14,426 |
 | Steve Pleickhardt (R) | 45.1 | 11,893 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 52 | ||
| Total votes: 26,371 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 50
Michelle Maldonado defeated incumbent Lee Carter and Helen Zurita in the Democratic primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 50 on June 8, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Michelle Maldonado | 44.1 | 1,558 |
| Lee Carter | 38.4 | 1,355 | |
 | Helen Zurita | 17.5 | 617 | |
| Total votes: 3,530 | |||
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Republican convention
Republican convention for Virginia House of Delegates District 50
Steve Pleickhardt defeated Mike Allers in the Republican convention for Virginia House of Delegates District 50 on May 1, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Steve Pleickhardt (R) | 61.1 | 266 |
 | Mike Allers (R) | 38.9 | 169 | |
| Total votes: 435 | |||
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Campaign finance
2019
See also: Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2019
General election
General election for Virginia House of Delegates District 50
Incumbent Lee Carter defeated Ian Lovejoy in the general election for Virginia House of Delegates District 50 on November 5, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lee Carter (D) | 53.3 | 10,701 |
 | Ian Lovejoy (R) | 46.5 | 9,336 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 55 | ||
| Total votes: 20,092 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 50
Incumbent Lee Carter defeated Mark D. Wolfe in the Democratic primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 50 on June 11, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lee Carter | 57.7 | 1,441 |
| Mark D. Wolfe | 42.3 | 1,055 | ||
| Total votes: 2,496 | |||
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2017
General election
Elections for the Virginia House of Delegates took place in 2017. All 100 house seats were up for election. The general election took place on November 7, 2017. A primary election took place on June 13, 2017. The filing deadline for primary election candidates was March 30, 2017. The filing deadline for non-party candidates and candidates nominated by methods other than a primary was June 13, 2017.[2] Lee Carter (D) defeated incumbent Jackson H. Miller (R) in the Virginia House of Delegates District 50 general election.[3]
| Virginia House of Delegates, District 50 General Election, 2017 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Lee Carter |
54.42% | 11,366 | |
| Republican | Jackson H. Miller Incumbent | 45.58% | 9,518 | |
| Total Votes | 20,884 | |||
| Source: Virginia Department of Elections | ||||
Democratic primary election
Lee Carter ran unopposed in the Virginia House of Delegates District 50 Democratic primary.[4]
| Virginia House of Delegates, District 50 Democratic Primary, 2017 | ||
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| Lee Carter | ||
Republican primary election
Incumbent Jackson H. Miller defeated Harry Parrish II in the Virginia House of Delegates District 50 Republican primary. Parrish withdrew prior to the primary, but his name remained on the ballot.[5]
| Virginia House of Delegates, District 50 Republican Primary, 2017 | ||
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Jackson H. Miller Incumbent |
83.56% | 2,500 |
| Harry Parrish II | 16.44% | 492 |
| Total Votes | 2,992 | |
Campaign themes
2021
Governor of Virginia
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Campaign website
Carter's campaign website stated the following:
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Healthcare Lee's vote to expand Medicaid was one of the proudest moments of his life, and people are signing up faster than expected for the program. He introduced and passed into law a $50/month cap on insulin co-pays and introduced budget language that would have guaranteed insulin for all Virginians, regardless of whether or not they have insurance. As Governor, Lee will press Virginia's Congressional delegation to pass Medicare for All at the federal level. But if the federal government keeps dragging their feet, Lee will take action at the state level. He'll create an office to reimburse people's out-of-pocket COVID expenses, whether that's $20 for a test or $20,000 for an ICU stay. You just bring in your receipts, and Virginia will cover it so you don't have to worry about fighting the insurance companies. He’ll also stem the tide of rural hospital closures by directly funding not-for-profit rural healthcare providers. He’ll move Virginia’s public health insurance programs from the fee-for-service medical billing model that encourages for-profit providers to fight over profitable patients and drives full service hospitals out of business to a pay-for-performance medical billing model that incentivizes the best treatment possible for the patient. In 2017, he authored a policy paper outlining how Virginia could implement a state-level universal plan that would cover everyone, improve patient outcomes, and reduce costs by upwards of 30%. He then led a coalition of 16 candidates for the House of Delegates - mostly from rural areas - who pledged to fight for that system. There are still over half a million Virginians with no health insurance, and over a million more who have insurance yet can't afford to use it. Lee will build on these successes, and won't stop fighting until we achieve universal coverage in Virginia. This universal plan will guarantee healthcare for everyone. Not access, not affordability, but healthcare. Criminal Justice Reform The 2020 special session demonstrated that just tinkering around the edges of policing can't fix the violence at the core of our policing system. Ultimately, to fix this problem, we will have to reduce the size and scope of policing in this Commonwealth. That means taking tasks like traffic enforcement, mental health checkups, and substance use interventions out of the purview of police, creating new non-police agencies to handle them, and reducing police budgets to pay for it. Lee supports defelonization across the board. The United States incarcerates more of its people than any other country in history, and it's mostly due to length of prison sentences. He also supports the Portuguese model of drug policy, which decriminalizes all drugs and treats substance use and addiction as the medical problems that they are. Portugal adopted that policy 20 years ago and has seen significantly lower rates of drug-related incarceration, overdose deaths, and HIV infections as a result. Lee supports amending the Virginia Constitution to end felon disenfranchisement entirely, even during the term of incarceration. Lee believes in legalizing cannabis the right way with an immediate end to the harm of prohibition and the sequestration of every penny of cannabis tax revenue into a fund for reparations for Black and Indigenous Virginians. Lee also steadfastly opposes the creation of new mandatory minimum sentences, supports eliminating all current mandatory minimums, opposes increasing police presence in schools, supports legalizing sex work, and has never accepted contributions from police organizations. Lee will personally guarantee that Virginia’s prison population is at least 30% lower at the end of his term than it is at the beginning, even if he has to sign thousands of clemency petitions individually as Governor. Housing We have a crisis of housing affordability - housing costs are the single largest squeeze on residents of Northern Virginia, and Richmond and Hampton Roads lead the nation in eviction rates. Lee recognizes that the problem with our housing system is not a lack of supply – Virginia currently has more vacant housing units than homeless people – it is a problem of speculators using mass eviction to prop up the price of housing. Lee supports a wide array of housing policies aimed at cracking down on property speculators and de-commodifying housing. These include statewide rent control, good-cause eviction laws, vacancy taxes for corporate landlords, right of first refusal for multi-family units’ tenants to cooperativize their community rather than being evicted en masse, and a public option for housing. LGBTQ Equality Education Lee has introduced legislation for the last three years to allow educators the ability to strike without retaliation, because he believes that if conditions are bad enough to warrant a strike, we should be thanking teachers for blowing the whistle and demanding better for their students. Lee supports the creation of a state program to audit physical education infrastructure, including the condition of school buildings, IT capabilities, air quality, water quality, and classroom capacity at each public school in Virginia. Similar to the Department of Transportation’s database for deficiencies in transportation infrastructure, this would give a standard metric for each school’s need for repair, renovation, or replacement, and would allow the General Assembly to allocate funds directly to the specific schools with the most need each year as part of our annual capital improvement process. This, in addition to a Constitutional mandate to provide an equal and equitable education for all students, will guarantee that we no longer allow some students to be forgotten in crumbling buildings. Lee also believes we need to disconnect school funding from local property taxes, raise teacher pay and retirement benefits, and increase the number of counselors and nurses in our schools. Disability Rights Transportation & Infrastructure Solving the problem of the digital divide requires a completely different approach than the one the General Assembly has relied on for decades. Our current approach builds a trust fund to subsidize private broadband providers in the hopes that more subsidies will get them to expand service into unprofitable areas. This is the same approach that failed to deliver electric service to all homes in the early part of the 20th Century, until the creation of the rural electric cooperatives as part of the New Deal. Delivering broadband service to all residential addresses will require drawing on the New Deal for inspiration, directly building the necessary infrastructure as a public works project, and then handing ownership of that infrastructure over to the existing electric cooperatives or creating municipal broadband utilities. Investor-owned telecom companies will never serve everyone, and we must stop waiting for them to do so. Demanding Women's Rights Campaign Finance Reform & Transparency Lee’s personal, gift, and campaign finance disclosures can be found here. Protecting & Empowering Workers Three years in a row, Lee introduced legislation to repeal the anti-union freeloader law (aka, “right to work”), and he’ll continue to fight for repeal until it gets done. Three years in a row, he also introduced legislation to allow educators the ability to strike without retaliation. Lee also introduced and passed into law legislation to create worker cooperatives as a type of business in Virginia. Environment Lee supports massive investments in green energy and believes consumers should be able to purchase or produce their own renewable energy. As one of the few Delegates who objected to the so-called “Virginia Clean Economy Act” on the grounds that it was too slow, and that it disregarded the principles of environmental justice, this has been a key area of Lee’s fight for justice in Virginia. Lee is a staunch supporter and legislative co-sponsor of Virginia’s Green New Deal Act, and as we move forward with the transition to a renewable energy economy, he recognizes that we must do so with two things in mind. We must get to zero carbon by absolutely no later than 2035, and we cannot let the big electric monopolies control the process and price-gouge working Virginians on the transition. As Governor, Lee will ensure that municipal and cooperative utilities are the primary drivers of this transition, so that the process is owned and controlled by Virginia’s consumers. He will also bring Dominion and APCO back before the SCC immediately for a long-overdue rate review, so that the regulators who are tasked with protecting Virginia’s consumers can order that refunds be paid for the hundreds of millions of dollars of “over-earnings” by those monopolies. And he’ll center the protection of endangered species and proper cleanup of coal ash and Superfund sites while protecting the health of the Chesapeake Bay. Voting Rights & Electoral Reform Consumer Protection |
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| —Lee Carter's campaign website (2021)[7] | ||
Virginia House of Delegates
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2019
Lee Carter did not complete Ballotpedia's 2019 Candidate Connection survey.
2017
Carter’s campaign website highlighted the following issues:[8]
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Expanding Medicaid Access Real and Clean Energy and Transportation Solutions Protecting Workers Limiting Corporate Influence in Virginia Politics Defending Human Rights Criminal Justice Reform |
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Endorsements
2017
In 2017, Carter’s endorsements included the following:
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2021
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2020
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2019
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2018
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In 2018, the Virginia General Assembly was in session from January 10 through March 10. Special sessions were held from April 11 to May 30 and from August 30 to October 30.
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2021 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ carterforvirginia.com, "About Lee," accessed August 18, 2017
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "Candidacy Requirements for the November 7, 2017 General Election," accessed March 21, 2017
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "2017 November General Unofficial Results," accessed November 7, 2017
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "2017 June Democratic Primary," accessed July 6, 2017
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "2017 June Republican Primary," accessed July 6, 2017
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Lee Carter's campaign website, “Issues,” accessed April 29, 2021
- ↑ carterforvirginia.com, "On the Issues," accessed August 18, 2017
- ↑ Our Revolution, "Our Revolution Endorses Three Candidates for Virginia House of Delegates," April 10, 2017
- ↑ NARAL, "2017 Endorsed House Candidates," accessed August 31, 2017
- ↑ People for the American Way, "Next Up Victory Fund Endorses in Virginia," August 29, 2017
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Virginia House of Delegates District 50 2018–2022 |
Succeeded by Michelle Maldonado (D) |
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