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Paul Anderson (Nevada)

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Paul Anderson
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Prior offices
Nevada State Assembly District 13

Education

Graduate

Chapman University, 1996

Law

Clark High School, 1988

Ph.D

Chapman University, 1996

Personal
Profession
Business owner
Contact

Paul Anderson is a former Republican member of the Nevada State Assembly, representing District 13 from 2013 to 2017. He resigned his seat on September 22, 2017, to take a job with the state's economic development agency.[1] He served as House minority leader in 2017.

Committee assignments

2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

Nevada committee assignments, 2017
Commerce and Labor
Taxation
Ways and Means

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Anderson served on the following committees:

2013-2014

In the 2013-2014 legislative session, Anderson served on the following committees:

Campaign themes

2012

Anderson's website highlighted the following campaign themes:[2]

Economy

  • Excerpt: "..The experiences that I have had running a business, hiring employees, meeting payroll, paying taxes and consulting with businesses across the whole spectrum of the economy has given me an insight and understanding of what businesses need to succeed that I will take with me to the legislature."

Education

  • Excerpt: "We will never be able to diversify our economy if we do not improve the performance of our schools. Parents need more choice in their children’s education, good teachers need to be supported and rewarded, and everyone involved needs to be accountable for the results we get from the tax dollars we spend...."

Government reform

  • Excerpt: "Our budgeting process is broken. Why would we allow our state budget to grow each year even if our costs and population do not? We need to look at what we have to spend then set our priorities, spend and invest where our communities can get the most benefit...."

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2016

See also: Nevada State Assembly elections, 2016

Elections for the Nevada State Assembly took place in 2016. The primary election took place on June 14, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was March 18, 2016.

Incumbent Paul Anderson ran unopposed in the Nevada State Assembly District 13 general election.[3][4]

Nevada State Assembly, District 13 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Paul Anderson Incumbent (unopposed) 100.00% 23,897
Total Votes 23,897
Source: Nevada Secretary of State



Incumbent Paul Anderson defeated Steve Sanson and Leonard Foster in the Nevada State Assembly District 13 Republican primary.[5][6]

Nevada State Assembly District 13, Republican Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Paul Anderson Incumbent 62.16% 1,738
     Republican Steve Sanson 25.36% 709
     Republican Leonard Foster 12.48% 349
Total Votes 2,796

2014

See also: Nevada State Assembly elections, 2014

Elections for the Nevada State Assembly took place in 2014. A primary election took place on June 10, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was March 14, 2014. Incumbent Paul Anderson ran unopposed in the Republican primary, while Christine Kramar was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Anderson defeated Kramar in the general election.[7][8][9][10]

Nevada State Assembly District 13, General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngPaul Anderson Incumbent 62.4% 9,493
     Democratic Christine Kramar 37.6% 5,726
Total Votes 15,219

2012

See also: Nevada State Assembly elections, 2012

Anderson ran in the 2012 election for Nevada State Assembly, District 13. Anderson defeated Leonard Foster in the June 12 primary election and defeated Louis Desalvio in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.[11][12][13][14]

Nevada State Assembly, District 13, General Election, 2012
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngPaul Anderson 54.2% 14,271
     Democratic Louis Desalvio 45.8% 12,059
Total Votes 26,330
Nevada State Assembly, District 13 Republican Primary, 2012
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngPaul Anderson 68.5% 1,680
Leonard Foster 31.5% 773
Total Votes 2,453

Campaign finance summary


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Paul Anderson campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2016Nevada State Assembly, District 13Won $421,200 N/A**
2014Nevada State Assembly, District 13Won $150,540 N/A**
2012Nevada State Assembly, District 13Won $130,919 N/A**
Grand total$702,659 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

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2017

In 2017, the Nevada State Legislature was in session from February 6 through June 5.

Legislators are scored on their votes on bills relating to civil liberties.
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2016


2015


2014


2013



Recent news

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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by
Scott Hammond (R)
Nevada State Assembly District 13
2013–2017
Succeeded by
Tom Roberts (R)


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