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Lisa Barker
Lisa Barker (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Indiana House of Representatives to represent District 68. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Barker completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Lisa Barker was born in Pensacola, Florida. She earned a high school diploma from South Dearborn High School and a bachelor's degree from Northern Kentucky University in 1988. Barker also graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1999 and California State University, Sacramento in 2009. Her career experience includes working as a real estate broker. She has also worked in airline travel, entertainment, the food and beverage industry, beverage alcohol production, energy production, hospitality, construction, and information technology. She has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]
- Eastern Star
- Moose Lodge Aux.
- American Legion Aux.
- Veterans of Foreign War Aux.
- Alliance of Rural Water
- South Eastern Indiana Board of Realtors
- Farm Bureau Association
Elections
2024
See also: Indiana House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Indiana House of Representatives District 68
Garrett Bascom defeated Lisa Barker in the general election for Indiana House of Representatives District 68 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Garrett Bascom (R) | 79.5 | 26,983 |
 | Lisa Barker (D)  | 20.5 | 6,970 | |
| Total votes: 33,953 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 68
Lisa Barker advanced from the Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 68 on May 7, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lisa Barker | 100.0 | 785 |
| Total votes: 785 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 68
Garrett Bascom advanced from the Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 68 on May 7, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Garrett Bascom | 100.0 | 6,000 |
| Total votes: 6,000 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Brent Fox (R)
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Barker in this election.
Pledges
Barker signed the following pledges.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Lisa Barker completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Barker'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 was born to a Navy Vietnam veteran, but it was my mother and stepfather (also Navy veteran) that encouraged my education, which was the foundation for earnings potential. My mother cleaned houses and I worked several summer jobs to be able to go to school. My stepfather was a union electrician for IBEW 212. I value public education and continuous learning.
Until 2012, when I started businesses of my own, I worked for various local businesses. I worked for some of the best and worst companies, recognizing loopholes, pitfalls and opportunities to make work life better for all people.
Along with my husband, we grew and started several small businesses in the local area.
Understanding the cultural dilemma that stigmatizes progress along with the relationships that have helped some thrive while others fail, it became my objective to help balance the inequalities and bring fairness, hope and joy back to the hardest working people who make up our communities.- I stand for ethics and integrity in the legal system and the statehouse, and legal reform as required. I am a protector of the United States Constitution and hold dearly the freedoms that are promised to the people as a citizen of the USA. I stand firmly for private property rights, women's rights and fair taxation. I am passionate about environmental stewardship, government fiscal responsibility, legal and healthcare for all, and public education.
- I am running for office for all People of my district, of Indiana, and of the United States. I am a grassroots girl who grew up poor, was given an opportunity to further my education through Pell grants and student loans. I worked for multiple large corporations. I also have started small businesses. I worked as hard as I could work during my campaign. I only received one handful of donations totaling less than $100. The entire campaign was funded by my husband and I. I received NO PAC money and I have NO political affiliations from any entity who might want to collect on favors. I have no agendas, other than to represent my constituents and protect the Constitution of the USA.
- I am a woman who grew up in Southeastern Indiana and understands the challenges of women. Women today try to balance being mothers and wives, the stresses of careers, household duties, childcare duties, elderly care duties, among a few obligations. Our legislature has not done nearly enough to protect the finances of women of Indiana. Women in Indiana still make far less than men in a given job and are not afforded the higher paying salaries or promotional opportunities. Women are able to save less money for retirement, and thus also receive lower social security than a male counterpart. The male dominated, GOP led Indiana has failed the women of Indiana and continues to want to take away the freedoms afforded to her.
2. Riparian right are a growing areas of concern. With the everyday increasing demand on water supplies by the public for recreational and affordable residential use; use by businesses for production, cooling and cleaning; use by our natural resources for survival; use by our farmers for crop growth and watering; and use by our utilities suppliers for affordable drinking water supplies and waste management.
I have always embraced the freedom that was afforded to every American and guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America. To understand my political philosophy, is to understand the concept of Freedom. Every human being born to the earth, is afforded the same right and no person shall impede on another regardless of race, sex, familial orientation, social status, religion, age, or for any other reason.
Because I love talking with people and gaining understandings, and I love research and investigative work, I feel that I would be in a great position to utilize common sense required to be a successful Legislator.
That Lisa was a tough but fair negotiator.
Prior to Harbor Manager and graduation, our school hosted a bus load of detasselers to top seed corn, thus preventing germination.. I helped pull and set tobacco, cut and spear tobacco, put in hay, and I mowed a lot of grass for various people.
The challenges of Indiana that currently exists are many. To name a few, high inflation, low wages, lack of housing, extreme utility costs, and fiscal responsibility (taxes and programs) can either boast the economy or send it downward. Local government finance, public policy, and statutory committee on ethics will be busy finding ways to improve.
Another global challenge complicated by the possibility that global warming has an effect, is the diminishing supply of clean drinking water. Riparian rights may be subjected to the taking over my businesses, governmental entities, farmers, and more stake holders to large supplies of fresh ground water supplies. Common sense must trump profits by big business when it comes to sharing one of our most precious and abused natural resources.
To that, the State must also find a way of cleaning up the waters, air, and land of the state with the existing polluters. It is unfair for our taxpayers to continue paying for cleanups that others have caused.
On the other hand, previous experience holding offices of varying degrees in government can only be as beneficial as having private sector experiences, except that governmental positions are bound more to rigid rules, structures, and heirarchy..
Mr. Robert Bischoff - he helped me on a critical project when I was at least a couple decades younger. Bob always 'heard' what you said. He just didn't listen...he absorbed and already knew how he was going to get the answers required. He always looked into issues and he always responded. Bob knew where to go in the state house for help and he was a very effective leader in our community.
So during my career and in public, I just minded my own business and kept my own beliefs to myself as a form of protectionism against the other side. A protection from haters, criticism, and abuses. I feared losing jobs, relationships, friends, and even family.
A certain turn of events called me to run for State Representative. I could see where many of the abuses I had experienced all my life were the same as those who have grown up after me. I could see that justice was not meant for common everyday people with small bank accounts and a lack of education. I could see where the legal system morphed over my lifetime. Lawyers no longer were interested in the harder litigation cases and when they were, they left nothing but crumbs for those who were damaged while they took the entire pot of gold. I saw where politics became intwined in justice or lack thereof. I saw a lifetime of everyday challenges that were unethically decided because law became a game of attorney strategies instead of a common sense ruling on truth that profoundly alters other's lives.. The attorney's in Indiana that went to work in the State house, have made the law too complicated for the average person to navigate by oneself. The built-in loopholes they wrote into law had thwarted the intent itself.
The next day, the duck comes back into the store and asks the clerk, "Got any duck food?" The store clerk says, "I told you yesterday, we don't sell duckfood." Duck says, okay and leaves.
The third day, the duck comes in and asks the same question, "Got any duck food?" The store clerk say, "If you ask me that one more time, i am going to nail your web feet to the floor!" The duck leaves with his head held low.
The next day the duck comes back and in a low voice asks, "Got any nails?". The store clerk answers, "No". The duck then yells, "Got any duck food!?"
2. Government and Regulatory Reform
3. Environmental and Natural Resources
4. Agriculture and Rural Development
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 8, 2024
