Pablo Hurtado
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Pablo Hurtado (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Indiana House of Representatives to represent District 85. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Hurtado completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Hurtado's professional experience includes working as an office administrator. He earned an associate degree from Ivy Tech Community College in 2016.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Indiana House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Indiana House of Representatives District 85
Incumbent David Heine defeated Pablo Hurtado in the general election for Indiana House of Representatives District 85 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | David Heine (R) | 71.8 | 21,238 |
 | Pablo Hurtado (D)  | 28.2 | 8,332 | |
| Total votes: 29,570 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 85
Pablo Hurtado advanced from the Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 85 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Pablo Hurtado | 100.0 | 3,086 |
| Total votes: 3,086 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 85
Incumbent David Heine advanced from the Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 85 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | David Heine | 100.0 | 5,736 |
| Total votes: 5,736 | |||
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Endorsements
To view Hurtado's endorsements in the 2020 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2020
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Ballotpedia survey responses
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Pablo Hurtado completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hurtado'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 was raised in Fort Wayne and have lived here for 27 years. I am a product of public schools and I want to do my part in ensuring our district is seeing the same growth the rest of our city has. I have spoken to people all across our city, in my years of doing community work and canvassing for different candidates be it for state or municipal seats. What I have found is people want an elected official who is actually going to be there. Community members want representatives who are going to take the time to address the concerns of the people, to fight for legislation that is going to help everyone not a select few. I feel passionate about different issues we can directly affect at the state house affordable education, police reform, women's right, ensuring everyone is paid a living wage, and community development. believe it is part of my duty as a citizen of this country and as a Latino to use my voice and work towards as much change in our country as I can and to help those in our community who are struggling. I want to be the representative people deserve.
- I intend to address the concerns of our educators and to support legislation that ensures their wages reflect the importance of their jobs, to ensure our public schools are fully funded, and to pass fully funded pre-k education.
- district. I will work to support and introduce legislation that pushes our state forward toward a more inclusive future while working to reduce the strain we are putting on our planet. Additionally, I will work to create a sustainable planet for current and future generations.
- I would ensure ample affordable housing in my district by introducing rent and security deposit caps.
I support any efforts to provide affordable housing and protect tenants against exploitative landlords. The growing cost of rent is an issue I am passionate about tackling, and I support efforts to invest in our neighborhoods. Taxpayer dollars should be strategically utilized for our community, rather than being stored in rainy day fund. I want to direct as many tax dollars back to District 85 as possible and restore abandoned homes and make them affordable for those who are trying to improve their status in life. I am dedicated to adjusting state poverty guidelines based on modern, real-world wages and costs of living and I support the raising of minimum wage $15.
I support the Green New Deal. I support imposing taxes on excess carbon emissions to achieve global carbon targets. I also support legislation that eliminates the phase out of net metering passed by the General Assembly in 2017. I support legislation to direct funding for the creation of infrastructure repair and make streets more accessible for cycling, walking, and riding transit.
I equally look up to both my mother and my father. My mother spent her life doing social work prior to her passing away in April of this year. I want to continue the work she did in helping those less fortunate and those struggling to move forward with their lives in a positive way. I want to follow my dad's lead of working hard and providing for my family and ensuring the generations that are being raised, my nieces and nephews, and children of my own someday, are able to pursue their dreams without struggling in life. My dad came to this country to build a life for himself at the age of 16 not speaking any English, he raised my siblings and myself along with my mother, to become working members of society and active community members, to pursue higher education, and to have opportunities he never hard. I want to leave the mark behind that my parents did.
Novels
No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder.
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Squeezed by Alissa Quart.
Characteristics that are important for an elected official are honesty, empathy, to be open minded,.
Principles are to putting the needs of the community in front of their own.
Principles are to putting the needs of the community in front of their own.
As a resident of Fort Wayne for the greater part of my life I am familiar with the obstacles and issues the people in my community face and truly care about improving the quality of life of those in the community.
I am a working class individual and who is living the same lifestyle the people in my District live. I am bilingual, fluent in both English and Spanish and this allows me to better communicate with the different people in my community.
Elected officials have a duty to ensuring everyone in their community is heard and to ensuring they are passing legislation that helps all in a community and not a select few. Elected official also have an obligation to be available and open to speaking to community members to best help them move forward through their problems or provide resources which can do so.
I want to ensure the community feels represented. My goal is to be the support at the State House that has currently been lacking for our community. If elected I would work to restore faith in our electoral process to community members who have been ignored for far too long and to be an elected official people could actually count on.
The first historical event I remember is 9/11. I was nine years old and in the 3rd grade. I remember someone came on over our school's PA system and told our teachers not to turn the tv's on, though my teacher had already turned it on, and we saw smoke billowing from one of the Twin Towers. Soon after my teacher shut the tv off.
My first official job was a pizza maker and Enzo Pizza when I was a junior in High school from 16 to 17 and I worked there for about a year. Though, besides that job, I began doing jobs around my neighborhood when I was young to earn money, from mowing lawns, to raking leaves, and shoveling snow . Later when I entered middle school I would fix computers for money, I did this for my relatives as well as my parents coworkers.
100 years of Solitude. It is a fascinating dive into a families lineage that touches on generational trauma, love, war, growth, facing obstacles or succumbing to them. It's a testament to the changes people go through and the way they shape our lives for both the good and the bad.
The Doctor from Doctor Who.
Good News by Mac Miller.
I have struggled with having to work harder to prove myself to those in positions of leadership and those would other wise write me off based on my race and socioeconomic status. Growing up as a Latino in the lower income part of our community, as someone who wasn't the most academically inclined, proving I wasn't just another stereotype has always sat in the back of my mind and has been one of the driving forces in going above and beyond in all the tasks I give myself.
Even having a support system behind me, I struggle with imposter syndrome in most of the spaces I inhabit and am working to overcome these obstacles.
Even having a support system behind me, I struggle with imposter syndrome in most of the spaces I inhabit and am working to overcome these obstacles.
I support an independent redistricting commission be established when district lines are redrawn.
Representative have the ability to take the time to address the issues
and concerns within the community and works as a collective to ensure everyone feels
represented, to ensure everyone is paid proper wages, have access to healthcare
Yes, I believe it is a beneficial, to have been active as a community member in some capacity, whether it be through political organizations that consistently engage with and encourage voters by creating a dialogue about the importance of civic and political involvement among the newer generations. I do not necessarily believe a previous seat of government is necessary because I believe restrictions like that keep individuals who have been active in different aspects of their community, who may not have access to government positions, from seeking elected office.
Those in lower class America find themselves in a system that does not give them the
opportunity to elevate their socio-economic status. We are allowing corporations to
destroy people's lives; we are allowing banks and wall street to control every facet of
our society, from the housing market, to education with student loans, to our
government with elected officials who do the bidding of these entities. We need to put
an end to the control these corporations and entities have on our country. We need to
put more stock into helping those who are struggling and less into helping line the
As of now no.
Yes. Elected officials need to regularly show they are determined to work for those they are elected to represent. That means fighting for support for your community every election cycle and not becoming complacent from sitting in a seat for an extended period of time and believing it is yours to lose, rather than yours to fight to keep.
I support term limits and believe they are essential to ensuring we have elected officials changing as the communities they represent grow and change.
At some point in the future yes.
I spoke to a teacher recently who was thinking of retiring because of the strain the coronavirus pandemic put on himself and his family. When the pandemic and schools shut down he struggled with not being paid enough during his time off and with the doubt of whether or not the school year would resume. He told me when schools did resume he worried not only about his own health, but that of his families and of the students he'd be teaching as there were still doubts of how safe everyone would be. With the ever rising number of cases he is unsure of what he will do if schools shut down again and if he will be paid during that time, on top of struggling with the fact that he may be putting those he loved in harms way. This lifelong educator told me that he loved teaching and wanted to continue, but with all the doubts in front of him he may be forced to retire because the government wasn't doing enough to ensure educators they would be protected. He has lived in the District for years and wants an elected official who actually stands with educators and uses their power to support them in the legislation they pass.
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 30, 2020
Current members of the Indiana House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Todd Huston
Majority Leader:Matthew Lehman
Representatives
District 1
Carolyn Jackson (D)
District 2
Earl Harris (D)
District 3
Ragen Hatcher (D)
District 4
Edmond Soliday (R)
District 5
Dale DeVon (R)
District 6
Maureen Bauer (D)
District 7
Jake Teshka (R)
District 8
Ryan Dvorak (D)
District 9
Patricia Boy (D)
District 10
Charles Moseley (D)
District 11
District 12
Mike Andrade (D)
District 13
Matt Commons (R)
District 14
Vernon Smith (D)
District 15
Harold Slager (R)
District 16
Kendell Culp (R)
District 17
Jack Jordan (R)
District 18
David Abbott (R)
District 19
Julie Olthoff (R)
District 20
Jim Pressel (R)
District 21
Timothy Wesco (R)
District 22
Craig Snow (R)
District 23
Ethan Manning (R)
District 24
Hunter Smith (R)
District 25
Becky Cash (R)
District 26
Chris Campbell (D)
District 27
Sheila Klinker (D)
District 28
Jeffrey Thompson (R)
District 29
District 30
District 31
Lori Goss-Reaves (R)
District 32
District 33
John Prescott (R)
District 34
Sue Errington (D)
District 35
Elizabeth Rowray (R)
District 36
Kyle Pierce (R)
District 37
Todd Huston (R)
District 38
Heath VanNatter (R)
District 39
Daniel Lopez (R)
District 40
District 41
Mark Genda (R)
District 42
Tim Yocum (R)
District 43
Tonya Pfaff (D)
District 44
Beau Baird (R)
District 45
Bruce Borders (R)
District 46
Bob Heaton (R)
District 47
Robb Greene (R)
District 48
Doug Miller (R)
District 49
Joanna King (R)
District 50
Lorissa Sweet (R)
District 51
Tony Isa (R)
District 52
Ben Smaltz (R)
District 53
Ethan Lawson (R)
District 54
Cory Criswell (R)
District 55
District 56
Bradford Barrett (R)
District 57
Craig Haggard (R)
District 58
Michelle Davis (R)
District 59
Ryan Lauer (R)
District 60
Peggy Mayfield (R)
District 61
Matt Pierce (D)
District 62
Dave Hall (R)
District 63
Shane Lindauer (R)
District 64
Matt Hostettler (R)
District 65
Christopher May (R)
District 66
Zach Payne (R)
District 67
Alex Zimmerman (R)
District 68
Garrett Bascom (R)
District 69
Jim Lucas (R)
District 70
Karen Engleman (R)
District 71
District 72
Edward Clere (R)
District 73
Jennifer Meltzer (R)
District 74
Steve Bartels (R)
District 75
Cindy Ledbetter (R)
District 76
Wendy McNamara (R)
District 77
Alex Burton (D)
District 78
Tim O'Brien (R)
District 79
Matthew Lehman (R)
District 80
Phil GiaQuinta (D)
District 81
Martin Carbaugh (R)
District 82
Kyle Miller (D)
District 83
Christopher Judy (R)
District 84
Bob Morris (R)
District 85
David Heine (R)
District 86
Edward DeLaney (D)
District 87
Carey Hamilton (D)
District 88
Chris Jeter (R)
District 89
Mitch Gore (D)
District 90
Andrew Ireland (R)
District 91
Robert Behning (R)
District 92
Renee Pack (D)
District 93
Julie McGuire (R)
District 94
Cherrish Pryor (D)
District 95
John Bartlett (D)
District 96
Gregory Porter (D)
District 97
Justin Moed (D)
District 98
District 99
Vanessa Summers (D)
District 100
Robert Johnson (D)
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Democratic Party (30)
