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Michael Walbom
Michael Walbom (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Missouri House of Representatives to represent District 57. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Walbom completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Michael Walbom was born in Lorain, Ohio. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1986 to 2010. He earned a graduate degree from the University of Central Missouri in 2016. His career experience includes working in the military.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Missouri House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Missouri House of Representatives District 57
Incumbent Rodger Reedy defeated Michael Walbom in the general election for Missouri House of Representatives District 57 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Rodger Reedy (R) | 81.2 | 15,240 | |
 | Michael Walbom (D)  | 18.8 | 3,526 | |
| Total votes: 18,766 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 57
Michael Walbom advanced from the Democratic primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 57 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Michael Walbom | 100.0 | 906 |
| Total votes: 906 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 57
Incumbent Rodger Reedy advanced from the Republican primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 57 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Rodger Reedy | 100.0 | 5,715 | |
| Total votes: 5,715 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Walbom in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Michael Walbom completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Walbom's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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The state's business is passing laws that Missourians need in order to make our state economically competitive, protect individual human rights, protect our agriculture, provide education for all Missouri children, and ensure justice for all. A couple of things that aren't the state's business are a woman's right to control her own body, banning books, and interfering in personal choices that have nothing to do with the safety and security of our state.
Threatening to shut down libraries because they have books that someone doesn't like is not reasonable or a responsible use of government authority. Failing to pay our teachers adequately is a recipe for a poorly educated citizenry. Private schools should not be funded by the state especially at the expense of our public schools.
I oppose Project 2025, abortion bans, the defunding of our state's regulatory agencies, and the decline of corporate taxation. Our local farmers need to be protected from Wall St. corporate farms polluting at will.
I am running because the GOP cannot be given free rein due to uncontested seats. I am retired and I am standing up to totalitarianism, standing against government overreach into citizen's lives, and standing up for individual's rights.- Women's bodily autonomy rights need to be defended from anyone who believes that the government should be able to usurp decisions that are exclusively personal decisions.
- Missouri's constitution is sacrosanct and shall not be used as a bludgeon to repress citizens. I propose the the Constitution of the State of Missouri can only be amended in November elections. I believe that attempts to alter something as inviolate as the governing document for our state during elections with lower voter turnout is cheating.
- The right of workers to form unions needs to be enshrined in Missouri law.
-Transparency of legislation including who supports it, why it is good for Missouri, who benefits from it, and who stand to profit from it.
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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 July 11, 2024
