Lewis Rolen
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Lewis Rolen (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Missouri. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 2, 2022.
Rolen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Lewis Rolen was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned a bachelor's degree from Harris-Stowe State University in 1983. His career experience includes working as an operations assistant for the Washington University Department of Otolaryngology. Previously, he was a middle school social studies teacher.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: United States Senate election in Missouri, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Missouri
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Missouri on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Eric Schmitt (R) | 55.4 | 1,146,966 |
 | Trudy Busch Valentine (D) | 42.2 | 872,694 | |
 | Jonathan Dine (L) | 1.7 | 34,821 | |
 | Paul Venable (Constitution Party) | 0.7 | 14,608 | |
| Nathan Mooney (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 14 | ||
| Steve Price (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 9 | ||
 | Rik Combs (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 6 | |
 | Gina Bufe (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 5 | |
 | Theodis Brown Sr. (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 4 | |
| David Kirk (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 3 | ||
| Martin Lindstedt (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | ||
| Total votes: 2,069,130 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Nicholas Strauss (Independent)
- Ronald Deets (Independent)
- John Wood (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Missouri
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Missouri on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Trudy Busch Valentine | 43.2 | 158,957 |
 | Lucas Kunce | 38.3 | 141,203 | |
 | Spencer Toder | 4.7 | 17,465 | |
 | Carla Wright | 3.9 | 14,438 | |
 | Gena Ross | 2.4 | 8,749 | |
 | Jewel Kelly, Jr. | 1.8 | 6,464 | |
 | Lewis Rolen | 1.4 | 5,247 | |
 | Pat Kelly | 1.4 | 5,002 | |
 | Ronald William Harris | 1.1 | 4,074 | |
 | Joshua Shipp | 0.9 | 3,334 | |
 | Clarence Taylor | 0.9 | 3,322 | |
| Total votes: 368,255 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Timothy Shepard (D)
- Scott Sifton (D)
- Ronald Deets (D)
- MD Rabbi Alam (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Missouri
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Missouri on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Eric Schmitt | 45.6 | 299,282 |
 | Vicky Hartzler | 22.1 | 144,903 | |
 | Eric Greitens | 18.9 | 124,155 | |
 | Billy Long | 5.0 | 32,603 | |
 | Mark McCloskey | 3.0 | 19,540 | |
 | Dave Schatz | 1.1 | 7,509 | |
| Patrick Lewis | 0.9 | 6,085 | ||
 | Curtis D. Vaughn | 0.5 | 3,451 | |
| Eric McElroy | 0.4 | 2,805 | ||
| Robert Allen | 0.3 | 2,111 | ||
 | C.W. Gardner | 0.3 | 2,044 | |
| Dave Sims | 0.3 | 1,949 | ||
 | Bernie Mowinski | 0.2 | 1,602 | |
| Deshon Porter | 0.2 | 1,574 | ||
 | Darrell Leon McClanahan III | 0.2 | 1,139 | |
| Rickey Joiner | 0.2 | 1,084 | ||
| Robert Olson | 0.2 | 1,081 | ||
| Dennis Lee Chilton | 0.1 | 755 | ||
 | Russel Pealer Breyfogle Jr | 0.1 | 685 | |
| Kevin Schepers | 0.1 | 681 | ||
| Hartford Tunnell | 0.1 | 637 | ||
| Total votes: 655,675 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Brinkmann (R)
- Dan McQueen (R)
- Ronald Deets (R)
- Rik Combs (R)
Constitution primary election
Constitution primary for U.S. Senate Missouri
Paul Venable advanced from the Constitution primary for U.S. Senate Missouri on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Paul Venable | 100.0 | 792 |
| Total votes: 792 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
Libertarian primary for U.S. Senate Missouri
Jonathan Dine advanced from the Libertarian primary for U.S. Senate Missouri on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jonathan Dine | 100.0 | 2,973 |
| Total votes: 2,973 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Lewis Rolen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Rolen's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Lewis Rolen is a 64-year-old former middle school social studies teacher who currently works for Washington University as an Operational Assistant for the Department of Otolaryngology. I enjoy watching sports and regularly attend Mizzou Football and St. Louis U. Men's and Women's Basketball contests. I love listening to music particularly blues, reggae, jazz, funk, and classic rock. I have four older sisters and two wonderful children who are independent and creative. As a child I attended Hamilton, Rock Springs, and Dewey Elementary. Every summer I played baseball with the Mathews-Dickey Boy's Club and considerable time playing basketball at West End Center. I graduated from Southwest High School and was captain of the football team my senior year. I attended Forest Park C C, the University of Missouri - Columbia, and graduated from Harris-Stowe State University with a degree in Elementary Education and certification in Middle School Social Studies. I've taught mainly in the St. Louis Public Schools but also at Emma E. Booker Elementary in Sarasota, Florida, Thurgood Marshall Academy Charter School, and spent a year teaching English in Japan for the company Interact. My parents are the greatest influences in my life, my mother Gertrude was an angel, that nurtured all of us. My father was a strong independent thinker who retired from the post office and was the first African-American to run in a Democratic primary for Mayor of Saint Louis.
- Access to high quality public education regardless of your zip code, must be the number one focus of this nation. If we refuse to invest in the most important resource we have, our children, then we have failed as a nation. Students must be taught to distinguish fact from opinion and gain the tools to study and research while evaluating possible biases of the information they receive. An educated populace will ensure a strong democracy. The arts and athletics must become an integral part of our educational system because they are the carrot which motivates students to learn. Our school lunchrooms should cook and prepare hot meals that we would be proud to eat ourselves. Schools must become the anchor which positively impact our society.
- A universal healthcare system which is assessible to every person living in America regardless of income must be established by eliminating the health insurance middle man. A system which authorizes private companies to receive your payments and they then make the decision of whether your treatment is covered is not practical or cost efficient. Insurance companies make about $40 billion annually in PROFIT. This doesn't even include money for their business expenses. Imagine how we could improve healthcare outcomes if all that money was directly funded, through our government, to the actual healthcare providers. There will be some who would cry "socialized medicine" but can we seriously continue to throw away billions.
- President Dwight Eisenhower's warning during his farewell address of the dangers of the military -industrial-complex becoming too powerful in our society ring eerily true. Congress must totally adjust the size of our military and address the urgent needs of the American people. Our military needs a complete transformation of its size, scope, and focus. Our troops represent us around the world, how different would America be percieved if our military was also used as first responders in times of crisis. Trained in rescue operations when natural disasters occur with equipment and manpower staged at military installations around the world.
I wholeheartedly support legislation which reforms policing and restores trust between police departments and the people they are to protect and serve. I understand how emotional the debate over abortion has always been, however, we must recognize who the real stakeholder is in an unwanted pregnancy. I believe that abortion is a private choice solely between a woman and her physician. I support ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. I believe there should be a" Marshall Plan" to restore our inner cities and rural communities and this plan would include the rehabilitation of our citizens who are afflicted with drug abuse to get the help they need to break their addiction. I would also support ending privatized prisons and creating real steps for prisons to be about rehabilitation, counseling, and growth so a person has the opportunity to become a positive member of society. I also believe in restoring voting rights for every citizen who is not incarcerated and those on parole should have their right to vote restored in order to bring them back fully into society. I also fully support the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and making access to voter registration available through our high school social studies classes.
Martin Luther King was an important role model in my life. It is amazing the amount of positive change he brought to America without holding an elected position in government. His ability to confront wrong with the power of justice and the people behind him makes him the most influential person in my lifetime. I can remember sitting in a casino in Tunica, Mississippi while a young white waitress was making sure I was comfortable and that my needs were met and I started thinking how Dr. King could have probably never imagined that this type of interaction could be possible in Mississippi.
Honesty and openness. My constituents will not have to guess about where I stand on a position. Also I am not afraid to say when I don't have knowledge or expertise on an issue, but I will ensure I will do the due diligence to get myself up to speed.
The core responsibility is to do the most good for the most people and not to benefit the few at the detriment of the masses.
The first historical event I remember was the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. I was five years old and back then kindergarten was only a half day. I understood that people were sad about President Kennedy being killed but the Zapruder film hadn't been released and I was a kid not really paying much attention. I was watching probably cartoons or some kids show when a special report came on the air about here's the man accused of killing the president and then right while I was watching he gets shot. My mom was downstairs making lunch and I remember running down the steps screaming "Mom, come look at the TV!"
My very first job was as a camp counselor for Camp Personality which operated out of Cuivre River State Park. My job lasted for ten weeks.
Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
Our greatest challenge will be making America a modern, dynamic, innovative, society by bringing a first-class educational system to every community and bridging the differences between various cultures with the understanding that we are all on the same team and we need to listen and learn from the experiences of all our people,
There should be no term limits except by the will of the people at the ballot box and those limits which are prescribed in the U.S. Constitution.
I believe it's more important for people to be in the Senate who are intelligent and able to discuss and solve problems. A lot of career politicians forget what they were elected to do. A lot of Senators forget who they are supposed to represent. Experience in government means nothing if you aren't actively representing the needs of the people.
I think the Senate should return to the "talking filibuster" and require those trying to block a bill go through the process of having to hold the floor. Nothing in the U.S. Constitution requires a sixty-vote threshold in order to continue debating legislation. These obstructionist rules run contrary to the manner in which the Senate should debate.
Like any job interview you need to determine if that person is uniquely qualified for the position. You also need to be sure there are no conflicts of interest in that person's background,
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Environment Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Health Subcommittee on Children and Families
I am an admirer of Senator Paul Simon of Illinois. He was always willing to build bridges and was always respectful to his opposition while at the same time remaining steadfast and tough.
I would determine if in their career have their previous rulings were well thought out and logical without following a particular ideology. Is their background representative of additional experiences which would add greater understanding and perspectives on the court.
I will make connections and build bridges with anyone who is sincerely willing to make positive change in our society regardless of their political affiliation.
Compromise is the necessity of good government. All voices should be heard and issues discussed which lead to an overall agreement.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 27, 2022
Senators
Josh Hawley (R)
Eric Schmitt (R)
Representatives
District 1
Wesley Bell (D)
District 2
Ann Wagner (R)
District 3
Bob Onder (R)
District 4
Mark Alford (R)
District 5
Emanuel Cleaver (D)
District 6
Sam Graves (R)
District 7
Eric Burlison (R)
District 8
Jason Smith (R)
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Democratic Party (2)
