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Michael Acevedo

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Michael Acevedo was a 2016 Republican candidate for District 51 of the West Virginia House of Delegates.[1]

Campaign themes

2016

Acevedo's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Job creation

  • Creating jobs begins with retaining college graduates. There has been a diaspora of young people from West Virginia which has been the impetus for many of the state's problems. Over 40 percent of West Virginians have only a high school diploma which is well above the national average. We should make it a priority to collaberate with the private sector to conceive ways in which we can preserve our young talent because individuals with a college education enjoy more opportunities and higher incomes. In order to make the state more attractive to potential businesses it is imperative that we develop strategies which improve education and strenghten the middle class.

Education

  • There is an inordinate amount of emphasis given to evaluating teacher performance with student test scores. We should empower teachers to teach in schools as opposed to classrooms, that is—they approach the totality of the school as their job by collaborating with their colleagues to discover what works best. To be at the forefront of education West Virginia needs to invest in their teachers by establishing competitive salaries. This will keep the exceptional teachers in our state and improve student outcomes because talent begets talent.

Transportation

  • It is crucial that we act now to improve the roads around West Virginia. According to TRIP, poor road conditions cost motorists $715 million in extra vehicle repairs and operating costs each year which causes a significant drag to the economy. The amount of money needed to properly address the substandard road conditions across the states is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The state is currently projecting a budget deficit for fiscal 2016 and does not possess the funds necessary to repair the roads.

Drug abuse

  • We must stop treating addiction as a crime and instead treat it as the mental health problem that it is. The state should make it a priority to make rehabilitation programs easily accessible to get users the help they desperately need and do what we can to save lives. This also means making the drug Naloxone which is used to reverse the effects of an overdose more readily available. In order to circumvent drug abuse it is prudent to provide alternatives to opioids which are used for pain relief and are the catalyst for many inadvertent overdoses.[2]
 ”
—Michael Acevedo[3]

Elections

2016

See also: West Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2016

Elections for the West Virginia House of Delegates took place in 2016. The primary election took place on May 10, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was January 30, 2016. Incumbent William Flanigan (R) did not seek re-election.

The following candidates ran in the West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 general election.[4][5]

West Virginia House of Delegates District 51, General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Barbara Fleischauer Incumbent 11.84% 16,269
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png John Williams 10.47% 14,386
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Rodney Pyles 9.48% 13,025
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Cindy Frich Incumbent 11.78% 16,182
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Joe Statler Incumbent 11.15% 15,318
     Democratic Evan Hansen 9.45% 12,988
     Democratic Nancy Jamison 9.04% 12,426
     Republican Michael Acevedo 7.09% 9,742
     Republican Eric Finch 7.16% 9,832
     Republican Roger Shuttlesworth 9.03% 12,407
     Libertarian Eddie Wagoner 3.51% 4,824
Total Votes 137,399
Source: West Virginia Secretary of State


The following candidates ran in the West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 Democratic primary.[6][7]

West Virginia House of Delegates District 51, Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Barbara Fleischauer Incumbent 20.12% 9,702
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Evan Hansen 13.30% 6,414
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png John Williams 13.35% 6,438
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Nancy Jamison 12.73% 6,136
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Rodney Pyles 12.12% 5,842
     Democratic John G. Lucas 8.51% 4,105
     Democratic Billy Smerka, Jr. 11.62% 5,603
     Democratic Barry L. Wendell 8.24% 3,971
Total Votes 48,211


Michael Acevedo, Eric Finch, incumbent Cindy Frich, incumbent Brian Kurcaba and incumbent Joe Statler were unopposed in the West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 Republican primary.[6][7]

West Virginia House of Delegates District 51, Republican Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Michael Acevedo
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Eric Finch
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Cindy Frich Incumbent
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Brian Kurcaba Incumbent
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Joe Statler Incumbent


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Footnotes

  1. ↑ West Virginia Secretary of State, "Candidate Listing By Office," accessed February 1, 2016
  2. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  3. ↑ Acevedo for WV, "Issues," accessed September 21, 2016
  4. ↑ West Virginia Secretary of State, "Candidate search," accessed November 4, 2016
  5. ↑ West Virginia Secretary of State, "2016 official general election results," accessed May 3, 2017
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 West Virginia Secretary of State, "Candidate Listing by Office," accessed January 30, 2016
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 West Virginia Secretary of State, "Statewide Results - Primary Election - May 10, 2016," accessed August 2, 2016


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