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Michelle Kaplan
Michelle Kaplan (Republican Party) ran for election to the Maine House of Representatives to represent District 132. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Kaplan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kaplan earned a degree from University of Maine at Machias in 2003 and a New York Institute of technology at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2007.[1]
Kaplan has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]
- American Heart association
- Maine Osteopathic Association
- AOA
- AMA
Elections
2020
See also: Maine House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Maine House of Representatives District 132
Incumbent Nicole Grohoski defeated Michelle Kaplan in the general election for Maine House of Representatives District 132 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Nicole Grohoski (D) | 55.3 | 3,099 |
Michelle Kaplan (R)  | 44.7 | 2,505 | ||
| Total votes: 5,604 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for Maine House of Representatives District 132
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Nicole Grohoski in round 1 .
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Total votes: 1,012 |
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Republican primary election
Republican Primary for Maine House of Representatives District 132
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Michelle Kaplan in round 1 .
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Total votes: 911 |
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Michelle Kaplan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kaplan'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 am self made and grew up dirt poor. I understand that sometimes hard decisions must be made between a want and a need. Having worked since I was 12 years old in a variety of dead end jobs I understand how valuable a marketable degree is. I also know that education is the only area of spending which has a return on investment. In healthcare I know where there is room for improvement. There's literally thousands of pages of unfunded mandates that contribute to the rise in the cost of healthcare.
As for everything else I believe in common sense. Look to facts, science, and statistics and you will always find your answers.
I reject agenda 21 which is the UN global agenda signed in 1996 under the guise of environmental preservation but what it really does is grant control over virtually every avenue of life to outside agencies. Everything from private property rights to what you eat for dinner is under attack by agencies that see the American middle class lifestyle as a threat to the environment.
The one thing standing in the way of full implementation of agenda 21 is the US constitution. That's why our constitution is under attack. I believe in the Constitution and American Dream because I am living proof that with hard work and perseverance, literally anyone can become a success.- We can try
- Let's get together
- Reject socialism and embrace common sense
Unfunded mandates
Economic growth
Equality for everyone
Liberty
Constitutional rights
Roads
Taxes
Education
Rejecting agenda 21
Gun rights
Hunting rights
Fishing
Abortion
Elder abuse
Elderly rights
Addiction medicine
Psychiatric care
Healthcare costs
Private property rights
Balanced budgets
Deficit spending
Family values
Rosa Parks because she changed America through peaceful civil disobedience.
Martin Luther king because in his dream I became color blind
Ronald Reagan one of the last great presidents.
Ethics
Conviction
Humility
Self reliant
Optimistic
Generous in spirit
Adaptable
Moral principles
It's the teach a man to fish mentality.
There's also the attempted assassination of Reagan and the subsequent Brady bill.
Let us not forget the rise of the HIV epidemic
The Ethiopian famine in 1984
The Rwanda genocides.
Enron
The death of Princess Diana
September 11
The war in Afghanistan
The Iraq war
The housing crisis
The first black president
Like many I have worked McDonald's, Walmart among other low wage jobs so I get what it feels like to work for minimum wage.
C'mon people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
So I didn't have a fairy tale upbringing (unless you count Cinderella). But I turned pumpkins into carriages, straw into gold, and made this ugly duckling into a swan.
Just because one branch might pass a bill doesn't mean it's going to be passed by the others. By the time a bill is completed it's gone through much discussion and consideration based upon The will of those that were duly elected to be the voice of their constituents.
Psychiatric care
Elder care
Infrastructure
Tax relief
Psychiatric hospital reform
Virtually every psychiatric hospital agrees that the patient needs care but because they are psychotic and has moments of violent outbursts they are impossible to place. Thus the patient languishes in a local emergency department in a small room hour after hour and day after day for a week or more. This utilizes ER resources that are stretched thin as it is. The patient is not getting the care they need because psychiatric hospitals are not subject to EMTALA laws and therefore can cherry pick the patients with the least amount of need. Meanwhile the patients Mose in need languish in an ER only getting medicated or sedated until they either get better or the meds kick in enough to make the patient calm enough to be low maintenance. Only then do they get a bed assignment.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
