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Sally Jercha
Sally Jercha (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Kansas House of Representatives to represent District 28. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Jercha completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jercha was born in Lenexa, Kansas. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in 2000. She went on to obtain her master's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2004. Jercha's professional experience includes working as a business development professional at Burns & McDonnell. She also has worked as a process engineering supervisor at ExxonMobil.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Kansas House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Kansas House of Representatives District 28
Carl Turner defeated Sally Jercha in the general election for Kansas House of Representatives District 28 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Carl Turner (R) | 53.2 | 7,638 |
 | Sally Jercha (D)  | 46.8 | 6,732 | |
| Total votes: 14,370 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 28
Sally Jercha advanced from the Democratic primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 28 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sally Jercha | 100.0 | 1,899 |
| Total votes: 1,899 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 28
Carl Turner defeated Fred Lehman in the Republican primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 28 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Carl Turner | 62.6 | 2,638 |
| Fred Lehman | 37.4 | 1,574 | ||
| Total votes: 4,212 | |||
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Endorsements
To view Jercha's endorsements in the 2020 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Sally Jercha completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Jercha's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- The COVID-19 Pandemic has made us rethink how we run our businesses, work, attend school, and socialize. It is crucial that we have a representative who respects science and will listen to the guidance of our community health professionals. Keeping our local community safe can be done while keeping our economic engines running and should not be politicized. Sally will ensure our focus remains on funding education, critical safety-net programs, and job-creating infrastructure investment in Kansas while our revenue stream recovers.
- A strong supporter of public education, Sally will work to ensure our schools are fully funded while she is in the Legislature. Sally understands that this funding is needed beyond simply "the classroom" - special education resources, librarians, nurses, information technology, paraprofessionals, foreign language and the arts, utilities, and safety modifications are just some of the areas within the school system that require investment. In addition, she opposes all efforts to remove Kansas Supreme Court oversight of our state's constitutional obligation to fund K-12 public education.
- Sally supports the expansion of KanCare in our state to provide affordable healthcare to approximately 150,000 Kansans and reduce the burden of uncompensated care on our health service providers. This will create jobs in Kansas, improve health care outcomes and bring hundreds of millions of federal dollars paid by Kansas taxpayers back to the state each year. She will also advocate for a robust mental healthcare system to ensure all Kansans have access to treatment in a coordinated and timely fashion.
Creating opportunities for entrepreneurial growth
I believe every elected official should be accountable to the people they represent, which means we need to end gerrymandering.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 8, 2020
