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Nancy Bardgett
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Nancy Bardgett (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Kentucky House of Representatives to represent District 68. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Bardgett completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Nancy Bardgett was born in Chicago, Illinois. She obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1984 and a master's degree from Northern Kentucky University in 2008. Her professional experience includes working as a special education teacher, providing new teacher training and support in Kentucky schools, and working for a university.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Kentucky House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Kentucky House of Representatives District 68
Incumbent Joseph Fischer defeated Nancy Bardgett in the general election for Kentucky House of Representatives District 68 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Joseph Fischer (R) | 67.1 | 19,122 |
 | Nancy Bardgett (D)  | 32.9 | 9,358 | |
| Total votes: 28,480 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Nancy Bardgett advanced from the Democratic primary for Kentucky House of Representatives District 68.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Joseph Fischer advanced from the Republican primary for Kentucky House of Representatives District 68.
Campaign themes
2020
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Nancy Bardgett completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bardgett'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 a retired special education teacher who has lived in this district for the past twenty years. My husband and I have raised our children here. I have become deeply connected to this community not only through the schools, but through community volunteer work, through faith-based outreach, and through advocacy for a variety of causes. In all of these experiences, and especially through listening to many different people and their stories, I have come to recognize the unique strengths and challenges of this Northern Kentucky district. I have also seen how families and children are left behind as politicians prioritize money and power over the needs of constituents, and how sowing divisiveness so often replaces actual action. I have come to realize that we need someone in Frankfort who will support strong communities. When we focus on the issues that affect the daily lives of the people who live here, we can build and maintain strong communities. I find, at this moment in time, that I can be the person to step up to be the candidate who listens and takes action.
- Public education is an investment in ALL of our children, and so is an investment in our future. We need to fund our schools and support our teachers.
- Prioritization of jobs that pay a living wage will do more to strengthen our local economy than being a source of cheap labor for companies that invest their profits elsewhere
- Affordable health care is a pressing need in our communities, and needs to be addressed through access to public options for insurance and caps on prescription drug costs.
PUBLIC EDUCATION is the way to give ALL children opportunity. In Kentucky we struggle to adequately fund our schools, and we are now facing a teacher shortage. We need to make sure that public money is going to our public school systems (and not to private entities who pick who they choose to educate), and we need to actively pursue new revenue sources. We need to retain experienced teachers and attract new teachers by treating and paying teachers as the professionals that they are, and by making research-based practices the basis of our educational decision making.
Too many families have to make the choice between HEALTHCARE and rent or food, and too many families have been caught in a cycle of medical debt. We need to look at a variety of practical solutions to start to fix these problems, including increasing access to insurance by making sure that Kentuckians have the opportunity to participate in whatever expanded public options become available, capping the costs of insulin and prescription drugs, and making cost-effective research-based alternative treatment such as the use of medical marijuana an option. Care for mental health issues and addiction issues needs to be de-stigmatized and more readily available.Good jobs that pay a LIVING WAGE are essential to our communities, and create consumers who keep money flowing through the local economy. Investing in much-needed INFRASTRUCTURE (physical, technical, environmental) is one way to create good jobs.
An elected official is a public servant whose focus should be on actively pursuing policy and legislation that benefits his or her constituents. An elected official's constituents are all those within the district, and not just those of a particular party. Legislative decisions should be made based on how the benefits/costs positively or adversely affect the people represented, and should be directed at solving actual problems rather than building political power.
The governor and the state legislature need to work together in order to move the state forward. All were elected, and so cumulatively they represent the voices of the people. While they provide for important and necessary checks and balances on each other, meaningful action is accomplished by working together on the areas where agreement can be found. Working against the governor solely as a way to consolidate partisan political power does not serve the people.
It is beneficial for legislators to build relationships in order to accomplish important legislation, but also to be able to see all of the different sides of an issue. Collectively legislators represent views from across the state, and so it is important to be able to craft legislation and policy that reflects that. More can be accomplished by working to find areas of agreement than to engage in the politics of division.
I would love to serve on the Education, Health and Family Services, and Economic Development and Workforce Committees.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 26, 2020
Current members of the Kentucky House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:David Osborne
Representatives
District 1
Steven Rudy (R)
District 2
District 3
Randy Bridges (R)
District 4
D. Wade Williams (R)
District 5
Mary Imes (R)
District 6
Chris Freeland (R)
District 7
Suzanne Miles (R)
District 8
Walker Thomas (R)
District 9
Myron Dossett (R)
District 10
Josh Calloway (R)
District 11
J.T. Payne (R)
District 12
Jim Gooch (R)
District 13
D.J. Johnson (R)
District 14
Scott Lewis (R)
District 15
Rebecca Raymer (R)
District 16
Jason Petrie (R)
District 17
Robert Duvall (R)
District 18
Samara Heavrin (R)
District 19
Michael Meredith (R)
District 20
Kevin Jackson (R)
District 21
Amy Neighbors (R)
District 22
Shawn McPherson (R)
District 23
Steve Riley (R)
District 24
Ryan Bivens (R)
District 25
Steve Bratcher (R)
District 26
Peyton Griffee (R)
District 27
Nancy Tate (R)
District 28
Jared Bauman (R)
District 29
Chris Lewis (R)
District 30
Daniel Grossberg (D)
District 31
District 32
Tina Bojanowski (D)
District 33
Jason Nemes (R)
District 34
Sarah Stalker (D)
District 35
Lisa Willner (D)
District 36
John Hodgson (R)
District 37
Emily Callaway (R)
District 38
Rachel Roarx (D)
District 39
Matt Lockett (R)
District 40
Nima Kulkarni (D)
District 41
Mary Marzian (D)
District 42
Joshua Watkins (D)
District 43
Pamela Stevenson (D)
District 44
District 45
Adam Moore (D)
District 46
Alan Gentry (D)
District 47
Felicia Rabourn (R)
District 48
Ken Fleming (R)
District 49
Thomas Huff (R)
District 50
Candy Massaroni (R)
District 51
Michael Pollock (R)
District 52
Ken Upchurch (R)
District 53
James Tipton (R)
District 54
Daniel Elliott (R)
District 55
Kim King (R)
District 56
Daniel Fister (R)
District 57
Erika Hancock (D)
District 58
Jennifer Decker (R)
District 59
David Osborne (R)
District 60
Marianne Proctor (R)
District 61
Savannah Maddox (R)
District 62
Tony Hampton (R)
District 63
Kimberly Banta (R)
District 64
Kimberly Moser (R)
District 65
Stephanie Dietz (R)
District 66
T.J. Roberts (R)
District 67
Matthew Lehman (D)
District 68
Mike Clines (R)
District 69
Steven Doan (R)
District 70
William Lawrence (R)
District 71
Josh Bray (R)
District 72
Matthew Koch (R)
District 73
Ryan Dotson (R)
District 74
David Hale (R)
District 75
Lindsey Burke (D)
District 76
Anne Donworth (D)
District 77
George Brown (D)
District 78
Mark Hart (R)
District 79
Chad Aull (D)
District 80
David Meade (R)
District 81
District 82
Nick Wilson (R)
District 83
Joshua Branscum (R)
District 84
Chris Fugate (R)
District 85
Shane Baker (R)
District 86
Tom Smith (R)
District 87
Adam Bowling (R)
District 88
Vanessa Grossl (R)
District 89
Timmy Truett (R)
District 90
Derek Lewis (R)
District 91
Billy Wesley (R)
District 92
John Blanton (R)
District 93
Adrielle Camuel (D)
District 94
Mitchum Whitaker (R)
District 95
Ashley Laferty (D)
District 96
Patrick Flannery (R)
District 97
Bobby McCool (R)
District 98
Aaron Thompson (R)
District 99
Richard White (R)
District 100
Scott Sharp (R)
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