Ryan Huffman (Illinois)
Ryan Huffman (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Illinois House of Representatives to represent District 54. He lost in the Democratic primary on March 17, 2020.
Huffman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Huffman was a Democratic candidate for Illinois' 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House. Huffman lost the primary on March 20, 2018.
Biography
Ryan Huffman was born in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. He earned a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 2004 and a graduate degree from the University of Chicago in 2015. His career experience includes working as a data analyst.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Illinois House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Illinois House of Representatives District 54
Incumbent Thomas R. Morrison defeated Maggie Trevor in the general election for Illinois House of Representatives District 54 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Thomas R. Morrison (R) | 51.8 | 30,121 |
 | Maggie Trevor (D) | 48.2 | 28,017 | |
| Total votes: 58,138 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 54
Maggie Trevor defeated Ryan Huffman in the Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 54 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Maggie Trevor | 80.5 | 11,273 |
 | Ryan Huffman | 19.5 | 2,725 | |
| Total votes: 13,998 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 54
Incumbent Thomas R. Morrison advanced from the Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 54 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Thomas R. Morrison | 100.0 | 4,690 |
| Total votes: 4,690 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Illinois District 6
Sean Casten defeated incumbent Peter J. Roskam in the general election for U.S. House Illinois District 6 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Sean Casten (D) | 53.6 | 169,001 |
 | Peter J. Roskam (R) | 46.4 | 146,445 | |
| Total votes: 315,446 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 6
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 6 on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sean Casten | 29.5 | 19,774 |
 | Kelly Mazeski | 26.8 | 17,984 | |
 | Carole Cheney | 17.4 | 11,663 | |
 | Amanda Howland | 12.7 | 8,483 | |
 | Becky Anderson Wilkins | 6.0 | 4,001 | |
 | Jennifer Zordani | 4.1 | 2,743 | |
| Ryan Huffman | 3.5 | 2,365 | |
| Total votes: 67,013 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 6
Incumbent Peter J. Roskam advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 6 on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Peter J. Roskam | 100.0 | 56,544 |
| Total votes: 56,544 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ryan Huffman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Huffman's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Ryan represents a fresh start for Illinois
- He will fight to end political corruption in Springfield and make politics work for our communities
- A pragmatic progressive, he will champion reforms that make our economy and state work better for everyone
In Springfield, I will champion the creation of a 2-year "cooling off period" before elected officials can take jobs as lobbyists. I will advocate to strengthen the legislative Inspector General office by allowing them to begin investigations and issue subpoenas without first obtaining approval from the legislators they are tasked with overseeing. Additionally, I will work to put restrictions on business ownership for legislators, so they cannot profit off the laws they create-with a particular emphasis on forbidding legislators from profiting off side businesses related to our broken property tax assessment system.
Clean energy-There is no issue I am more passionate about than climate change. That's why I've devoted much of my career to fighting against it, first with the Obama Administration and then with Argonne National Laboratory.
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2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Ryan Huffman participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on February 27, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Ryan Huffman's responses follow below.[2]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Getting money out of politics 2) Banning assualt weapons |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | I am most passionate about money in politics. We can't make any of the big changes our country needs as long as leaders feel more beholden to wealthy donors than to their own constituents. I'm also passionate about climate change - my expertise is in energy policy, and I've devoted much of my career to putting a price on carbon.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[4]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Ryan Huffman answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
| “ | I admire Franklin Roosevelt, and I think the Democratic Party needs to return to the principles he espoused. I believe, as Roosevelt did, that the government can be a force for good in peoples' lives. If communities are being torn apart daily by gun violence, the government has a responsibility to enact measures that stop it. If millions of people are unable to afford healthcare, the government needs to guarantee that every person will have coverage, no matter how much money they have. That's the philosophy I will seek to follow as a leader of this country.[4] | ” |
| “ | I'm a little young yet (31) to be thinking about my legacy, but I’d like to be known as someone who was so stubbornly determined to get money out of politics that he refused to play into a broken system. I’d like to be known as someone who would rather lose re-election after spending two years doing real good for his constituents, than spend half his time in Washington raising money for re-election and never actually accomplishing anything for the district he represented. I hope that my unflinching adherence to my principles will inspire others to campaign and govern the same way.[4] | ” |
| “ | Money has always been a struggle for me and my family. My dad lost his job when I was in high school, and never found work again. My mom was a high school dropout, but managed to work her way up the ladder at our local library, always managing to earn just enough for us to scrape by. My sister and I both graduated college with mountains of student loan debt, only to find few job opportunities as we tried to start our careers during the Great Recession. My parents took out a second mortgage on their house to keep us all afloat. We've had to shift money from account to account for over a decade, trying to make sure we're all able to cover our student loan, credit card, and mortgage bills. This experience is what motivates me to run for office, so I can go to Washington and make changes that will help families all over the country who are facing similar economic hardship.[4] | ” |
| “ | The number one challenge we face is fixing our broken democracy to ensure that our leaders once again have to be accountable to their constituents, not merely to their wealthy donors. Every move made by the Republicans over the past 30 years has been designed to reduce the influence of the individual voter in our democracy, and increase the influence of the wealthy donor. They require state IDs and run voter cross-check programs, designed to make sure fewer people are able to vote. They redraw the district lines in a way that ensures people who share their ideology have votes that count for more than the votes of people who don't. They allow unlimited money to flow into our campaigns, and then pass legislation that gives away billions of dollars to the billionaires and corporations who fund their campaigns. In the most extreme case yet, they allow foreign adversaries to wage widespread misinformation campaigns to sway voters without facing any repercussions. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party has too often been willing to play into this broken system. We need leaders who will be bold enough to fix this problem, and quickly, if we're ever going to get our country moving in the right direction again.[4] | ” |
| “ | Redistricting should be a non-partisan process, period. Gerrymandering is an issue I'm passionate about, and it was the focus of my Honor's thesis in graduate school. Both parties seek to game the system in order to make votes for their party count for more than the other party's, and that is in direct contradiction with our democratic ideal of “one person, one vote.” Maps drawn by courts or non-partisan commissions have been proven to result in much fairer outcomes, and so we must ensure that all maps are drawn in this manner across the country.[4] | ” |
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 14, 2020
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Ryan Huffman's responses," February 27, 2018
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
