Ryan Liedtky
Ryan Liedtky (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Indiana House of Representatives to represent District 21. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Liedtky completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2020
See also: Indiana House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Indiana House of Representatives District 21
Incumbent Timothy Wesco defeated Ryan Liedtky in the general election for Indiana House of Representatives District 21 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Timothy Wesco (R) | 64.5 | 15,346 |
Ryan Liedtky (D)  | 35.5 | 8,446 | ||
| Total votes: 23,792 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 21
Ryan Liedtky advanced from the Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 21 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Ryan Liedtky | 100.0 | 2,478 | |
| Total votes: 2,478 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 21
Incumbent Timothy Wesco advanced from the Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 21 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Timothy Wesco | 100.0 | 3,771 |
| Total votes: 3,771 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ryan Liedtky completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Liedtky's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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He has coached youth baseball, organized and worked closely with charity organizations, and assists people with getting connected to charities and resources when hard times happen upon their lives.
He has shown a consistent dedication to his belief that a stronger, healthier community, state and nation will lead to a stronger, healthier life for him and his family.- Ryan aims to increase teacher pay and wants teachers to be the voices heard when education is discussed.
- Ryan believes that when healthcare costs cripple Hoosier families it creates generational debt. He wants to eliminate health care networks and ensure that insured families are fully covered no matter where they go.
- Ryan believes that solid infrastructure leads to long-term economic growth and diversity. He wants to ensure that instead of simply going with the lowest bidder the state of Indiana considers the overall long-term cost, reliability of the contracted party, and economic benefits to Hoosier families before providing infrastructure projects.
The real American Dream is family. It's opportunity. It's life without limitations.
The real American Dream is about providing a better tomorrow for ourselves and our children.
Yet for too many the real American Dream is fading, out of reach, unobtainable. Why? Prices are rising faster than wages. It's difficult for families to keep up. Two jobs are no longer enough.
The world is changing. Workers need retraining. Our schools need to prepare our children for a fast changing future.
The real American Dream invests in education, invests in small business, and invests in neighborhoods, roads and bridges. The real American Dream invests in itself.
The real American Dream is not the dream of mega-corporations or political action committees. It's not the bottom line or the stock market or the CEO bonus package. Its not political parties or rallies or hate-speech or rants on social media. The real American Dream is all of us coming together, facing our problems as one, sharing our ideas and finding common ground, no matter who we are or what we do, the poor, the rich, every race, every gender.I am passionate about the future of our state, and hope to listen to Hoosiers and their passions as well.
I learned later that my cousin was a leader in the KKK, and my parents decision to remove me from a potentially negative situation and explain to me the importance of judging the character of a man, and not the color of his skin, continues to be a lesson I carry with me. I have watched my family change their values over the years to understand that my parents were correct. I have watched as the hatred has faded or died as various family members have married black or Hispanic partners, myself included. And I have come to realize that it is familiarity that breeds love.
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See also
2020 Elections
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