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Robert E. Kibler

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Robert E. Kibler
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Elections and appointments
Last election

November 3, 2020

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Air Force

Years of service

1979 - 1983

Personal
Religion
Protestant
Profession
Professor
Contact

Robert E. Kibler (Democratic Party) ran for election to the North Dakota House of Representatives to represent District 40. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Kibler completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Kibler was also a 2012 Democratic candidate for District 38 of the North Dakota House of Representatives.

Biography

Robert E. Kibler served in the United States Air Force from 1979 to 1983. He attended the University of Maryland for undergraduate study and earned a degree in 1985. He attended the University of Maryland and the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities for graduate study and earned a degree in 1998. He earned a doctorate in literature. Kibler's career experience includes working as a professor of humanities with Minot State University.[1]

Elections

2020

See also: North Dakota House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for North Dakota House of Representatives District 40 (2 seats)

Incumbent Matthew Ruby and incumbent Randy Schobinger defeated Kalyn Dewitt and Robert E. Kibler in the general election for North Dakota House of Representatives District 40 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Matthew Ruby
Matthew Ruby (R) Candidate Connection
 
36.2
 
3,224
Image of Randy Schobinger
Randy Schobinger (R)
 
33.1
 
2,948
Kalyn Dewitt (D)
 
15.9
 
1,413
Image of Robert E. Kibler
Robert E. Kibler (D) Candidate Connection
 
14.7
 
1,314
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
14

Total votes: 8,913
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 40 (2 seats)

Kalyn Dewitt and Robert E. Kibler advanced from the Democratic primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 40 on June 9, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Kalyn Dewitt
 
53.6
 
419
Image of Robert E. Kibler
Robert E. Kibler Candidate Connection
 
46.4
 
362

Total votes: 781
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 40 (2 seats)

Incumbent Randy Schobinger and incumbent Matthew Ruby advanced from the Republican primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 40 on June 9, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Randy Schobinger
Randy Schobinger
 
50.2
 
1,243
Image of Matthew Ruby
Matthew Ruby Candidate Connection
 
49.6
 
1,228
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
4

Total votes: 2,475
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2012

See also: North Dakota House of Representatives elections, 2012

Kibler ran in the 2012 election for North Dakota State House District 38. Kibler and Mike Rose ran unopposed in the Democratic primary on June 12. They were defeated by incumbents Larry Bellew and Dan Ruby in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.[2][3]

North Dakota House of Representatives, District 38 General Election, 2012
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngDan Ruby Incumbent 35.3% 3,947
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngLarry Bellew Incumbent 32.3% 3,613
     Democratic Mike Rose 18% 2,009
     Democratic Robert E. Kibler 14.4% 1,605
Total Votes 11,174

Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Robert E. Kibler completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kibler'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 running on the following 5 positions:

1. North Dakota has mostly Republicans in office. This creates imbalanced discussions and ensuing policies. I will add a needed voice. We fought a revolution to get away from unilateral rule. Democracy demands the alternative view. I would think the same way we're I a Republican.

2. I want more regulation of corporations and fewer for small businesses and people. We need a higher oil extraction tax, for example. Republicans won't give us that.

3. Our Educational systems in North Dakota are controlled by people who politicize education yet know little, care less about it. They have commodified it and are ruining it. I want to return education to the educators, and fund education to make all of our social and economic systems stronger. Education is the sure route to success.

4. I value the rural character of North Dakota, just as I believe in education- and the two in combination allow for the greatest of possible worlds. I want to help District 40 stay rural, while developing for the state one of the best educational systems in America.

5. There is a 5. I am still thinking about it, but something involving justice, fairness, the rule of law, and government for the people rather than the other way round. REK.
  • Representation In government not unilateralism.
  • Corporate Regulations, but Freedom for Small Businesses and People.
  • Education Education Education
Education- without is we are less successful, less in control of our destinies, and more easily duped.
Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Both learned men, both farmers. Both believers in democracy and willing to fight for it.
Some sort of legislative success that helped people.
Death of John Kennedy. Our elementary principal announced it, tearfully, closed school, told us all to go home. The girls started to cry.
Dishwasher, pizza maker, landscaper, construction. Till college, these
Too many to answer, and as soon as I say one, I think another has been done wrong. I am a reader.
Credence Clearwater's Coming Up Around the Bend
In my state there is parity, with each side of the aisle initiations law then amending the proposed laws of the other. We just have no effective or balanced discussions today. All Republicans, who most generally, tow their party line. No good for anyone.
Protecting resources and self strengthening through education.
It is a relationship based on differing perspectives. Those perspectives must have voice, then reconcile with the vote.
Yes. Nothing gets done well without it. Perhaps policy is best understood as positive when everyone gets part of what they see as essential in it.

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