Michael Bagdes-Canning
Michael Bagdes-Canning (Green Party) ran for election for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
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Biography
Michael Bagdes-Canning was born in Takoma Park, Maryland. He earned a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania in 1978 and 1989, respectively. Bagdes-Canning also earned a master’s degree from Clarion University in 2003. His career experience includes working as a teacher at George Junior Republic.
Bagdes-Canning has served as Vice President of the Pennsylvania State Education Association and was a founding member of the Better Path Coalition, which describes itself as “a statewide frontline- and grassroots-led coalition forging a path to a clean, renewable energy future for Pennsylvania.”[1] He has also worked with the Pennsylvania Poor People’s Campaign and Marcellus Outreach Butler, an environmental organization in Butler County, Pennsylvania.[2]
Elections
2022
See also: Pennsylvania gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2022
General election
General election for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
Austin Davis defeated Carrie DelRosso, Timothy McMaster, Michael Bagdes-Canning, and Nicole Shultz in the general election for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Austin Davis (D) | 56.5 | 3,031,137 |
Carrie DelRosso (R) | 41.7 | 2,238,477 | ||
![]() | Timothy McMaster (L) ![]() | 1.0 | 51,611 | |
Michael Bagdes-Canning (G) | 0.5 | 24,436 | ||
![]() | Nicole Shultz (Keystone Party of Pennsylvania) ![]() | 0.4 | 20,518 |
Total votes: 5,366,179 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
Austin Davis defeated Brian Sims and Ray Sosa in the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Austin Davis | 63.0 | 768,141 |
![]() | Brian Sims | 25.1 | 305,959 | |
![]() | Ray Sosa ![]() | 11.9 | 145,228 |
Total votes: 1,219,328 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Carrie DelRosso | 25.6 | 318,970 | |
![]() | Rick Saccone | 15.7 | 195,774 | |
![]() | Teddy Daniels | 12.1 | 150,935 | |
![]() | Clarice Schillinger | 11.9 | 148,442 | |
![]() | Jeff Coleman | 10.1 | 126,072 | |
![]() | James Jones ![]() | 9.1 | 113,966 | |
![]() | Russell Diamond | 6.0 | 74,265 | |
![]() | John Brown | 4.8 | 59,267 | |
![]() | Chris Frye | 4.7 | 58,752 |
Total votes: 1,246,443 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Gerald Carnicella (R)
- Brandon Flood (R)
- Angela Grant (R)
2020
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 64
Incumbent R. Lee James defeated Michael Bagdes-Canning in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 64 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | R. Lee James (R) | 80.5 | 23,004 |
Michael Bagdes-Canning (G) ![]() | 19.5 | 5,587 |
Total votes: 28,591 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 64
Incumbent R. Lee James advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 64 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | R. Lee James | 100.0 | 6,964 |
Total votes: 6,964 | ||||
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2016
Elections for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election was held on April 26, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was February 16, 2016.
Incumbent R. Lee James defeated John Kluck and Michael Bagdes-Canning in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 64 general election.[3][4]
Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 64, General Election, 2016 | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
Republican | ![]() |
62.48% | 16,082 | |
Democratic | John Kluck | 34.91% | 8,987 | |
Green | Michael Bagdes-Canning | 2.61% | 672 | |
Total Votes | 25,741 | |||
Source: Pennsylvania Department of State |
Incumbent R. Lee James ran unopposed in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 64 Republican primary.[5][6]
Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 64 Republican Primary, 2016 | ||
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Republican | ![]() |
John Kluck (D) received enough votes as a write-in candidate to appear on the general election ballot.[7]
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2020
Candidate Conversations
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|I taught at George Jr. Republic, a reformatory school, for thirty years because, as a high school trouble maker myself, I know the impact a good teacher can have on struggling students. My wife Karen and I did our best to welcome students into our home and be a caring figure for them. I was a proud member of PSEA and the vice president of my local.
I retired from teaching ten years ago and have thrown myself full time into community organizing. I have driven all across Pennsylvania knocking on doors and rallying towns against the exploitative Fracking and Pipeline companies that seek to tear up their land, poison their water supply, and ship any and all profits off to Wall Street.
I have been a member of the Cherry Valley Borough Council for 8 terms and counting. I am a member of Marcellus Outreach Butler, a founder of Better Path Coalition, and previously have served on the State Coordinating Committee of the PA Poor People's Campaign.- Jobs you can live on.
- Water you can drink.
- Healthcare as a human right.
Instead, our local officials have directed billions of dollars in tax payer money into the dying Oil and Gas industry. They have let Fracking and Pipeline companies tear up our land and poison our water yet have gotten us hardly any new jobs or profits in return. Oil Region is no stranger to environmental destruction from extractive and heavy industries, but we accepted that as the cost of economic prosperity. That prosperity has long since left the area, but the destruction remains.
That legacy of pollution has left our community sick even before the pandemic hit, yet far too many of us cannot afford to see a doctor or access the care we need. I am for a Medicare for All policy that will cover all necessary health care expenses with no co-pays, deductibles, or premiums.
Healthcare is a human right. We cannot live without it.
I have lived my life trying to live up to that example, of fighting for your friends and colleagues even when it comes with personal risk. No fight worth fighting is easy, but they are necessary.
A legislator can gain this experience through previous government experience. I have served in my municipal government before, but I have learned far more from my time as a community organizer and activist. My beliefs have not been formed by lobbyists streaming in and out of my office, but by hundreds of conversations I have had while knocking on doors across the state with moms, dads, factory workers, teachers, and oil field workers.
A well, just over 700 feet from the school was flaring. Flaring releases highly toxic shit into the air. I started knocking on doors to find out what the people in the neighborhood thought. I met a woman at her mailbox and asked her what she thought. Her response has stuck with me. She said, "I've lived here for 47 years. We have a good community, we all get along, but we don't talk about the tough things." When she said this, it struck me. It shows just how broken our communities are. Here is this monstrosity is poisoning young people in the community but they don't talk about it because it's a tough thing. That's a total breakdown of community. Community comes from communis "common, public, general, shared by all or many." If we can't even talk about our shared obligation to each other, then we are doomed.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Better Path Coalition, “About Us,” accessed September 2, 2020
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 23, 2020
- ↑ Pennsylvania Voter Services, "Candidate listing," accessed August 31, 2016
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "November 8, 2016, official election results," accessed May 17, 2017
- ↑ Pennsylvania Secretary of State, "Election Information," accessed February 18, 2016
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "2016 Presidential Primary," accessed August 2, 2016
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "Write in winners from April 26, 2016, primary election," accessed June 9, 2016
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