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Lisa Cardenas

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Lisa Cardenas
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Lisa Cardenas was a 2016 Democratic candidate for District 54 of the Michigan House of Representatives.

Campaign themes

2016

Cardenas' campaign website highlighted the following issues:[1]

Education

“

Lisa will work to improve education by:

  • Advocating to increase education funding at the state level
  • Promote new education programs, including early childhood education
  • Explore programs for regional solutions to improve education opportunities, such as scholarship programs[2]
 ”

Business

“

Lisa will work to improve the economic environment in the following key areas:

  • Continue efforts to make the District more walkable
  • Work with AAATA to increase public transportation options in the District
  • Boost economic development in the commercial areas such as retail and entertainment
  • Increase the number of jobs by balanced incentive-based programs that do not disadvantage current business owners[2]
 ”

Housing

“

Lisa seeks to address housing policy in these key areas:

  • Reduce homelessness in the region, especially veterans
  • Increase the number of affordable housing options
  • Enable new inclusionary zoning practices (regulations that requires a minimum of affordable units in new housing developments) with state-level legislation
  • Improve the housing market in the District by implementing Smart Growth policies[2]
 ”

Safety

“

Lisa will address these issues by work in key areas:

  • explore state-of-art policing practices to determine is new programs would be more effective in our communities
  • continue to encourage regional coordination in efforts to address crime
  • further develop current resources that are available, such as mobile phone technologies (safe-walk and neighborhood watch applications)[2]
 ”

Healthcare

“ Lisa wants to work toward better health care coverage in these key areas:
  • Promote current health care options at the county and state level to boost health care enrollment
  • Work to create more affordable drug options for the elderly and low-income
  • Decrease physical environment health factors, such as air pollution[2]
 ”

Elections

2016

See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2016

Elections for the Michigan House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election was held on August 2, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was April 19, 2016. Incumbent David Rutledge (D) did not seek re-election because of term-limits.

Ronnie Peterson defeated Kevin Jardine in the Michigan House of Representatives District 54 general election.[3]

Michigan House of Representatives, District 54 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Ronnie Peterson 74.99% 30,148
     Republican Kevin Jardine 25.01% 10,053
Total Votes 40,201
Source: Michigan Secretary of State


The following candidates ran in the Michigan House of Representatives District 54 Democratic primary.[4][5]

Michigan House of Representatives, District 54 Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Ronnie Peterson 34.69% 2,940
     Democratic Anne Brown 25.83% 2,189
     Democratic Lisa Cardenas 11.24% 953
     Democratic Bill Krebaum 2.51% 213
     Democratic Gregory Peoples 18.25% 1,547
     Democratic Michael White 7.47% 633
Total Votes 8,475


Kevin Jardine ran unopposed in the Michigan House of Representatives District 54 Republican primary.[4][5]

Michigan House of Representatives, District 54 Republican Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Kevin Jardine  (unopposed)

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Lisa Cardenas, "Issues," accessed June 24, 2016
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  3. ↑ Michigan Secretary of State, "2016 official general election results," accessed May 2, 2017
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michigan Secretary of State, "2016 Michigan Candidate Listing," accessed April 22, 2016
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michigan Secretary of State, "2016 Michigan Election Results," accessed August 2, 2016


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