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Sandy Dockendorff
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Sandy Dockendorff (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Iowa House of Representatives to represent District 88. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Dockendorff completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Sandy Dockendorff was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended James Madison University| and eorge Mason University for her undergraduate education and obtained a graduate degree from American University.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Iowa House of Representatives District 88
Incumbent David Kerr defeated Sandy Dockendorff in the general election for Iowa House of Representatives District 88 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | David Kerr (R) | 65.7 | 9,880 |
 | Sandy Dockendorff (D)  | 34.2 | 5,141 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 22 | ||
| Total votes: 15,043 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 88
Sandy Dockendorff advanced from the Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 88 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sandy Dockendorff | 99.0 | 1,846 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.0 | 18 | ||
| Total votes: 1,864 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 88
Incumbent David Kerr advanced from the Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 88 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | David Kerr | 99.4 | 2,667 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 15 | ||
| Total votes: 2,682 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Sandy Dockendorff is serving her third term as an elected member of the Danville Board of Education. Her professional experience includes five years as a Budget Analyst for the US Navy before returning to college and earning a BS in Nursing from George Mason University. Following an on-the-job injury that ended her hospital nursing career, Dockendorff served five years as a nurse case manager for a managed care health insurance company and then as a community planning coordinator for Des Moines, Henry and Louisa counties. She currently serves on the Government Relations Committee of her local Chamber of Commerce as well as a member of the Legislative Resource Committee for the Iowa Association of School Boards and a similar role for the Rural Schools Association of Iowa. Dockendorff has served on the RM/PS/QI Committee for the Community Health Centers of SEIA since the organization started in 2001. A life-long active Democrat, Dockendorff has held many leadership roles for the Iowa Democratic Party. She lives on a small acreage in an unincorporated, rural part of Des Moines County.
- Public education is the most effective investment in economic development available to state government. Over the last ten years, the Iowa legislature has approved an investment in public education that has not kept up with the need, the growth in the economy, nor the pace of technological advancement. It is difficult for schools to prepare our children to compete in a global economy without adequate resources to keep up. They are trying to prepare students for jobs that do not yet exist with resources that were not equitable a decade ago and have slipped further behind since then. We can do better and we must.
- Our health care delivery system is too fragmented - too open to fraud, waste, and abuse - and there are too many profit takers between patients and their caregivers. Folks treat it like a profit center, rather than a public good. Iowa is ranked 40th in Disparity in Health Status; 44th in Mental Health providers per capita. We spend more on the insurance than on the care received. We need a new plan. We need a health care delivery model that recognizes that there is an excessive cost for delaying early care and we are all paying it.
- Folks know that someone has stacked the financial deck against them, but it is hard for them to figure out who is holding that deck and how to take it back. Somewhere along the way, we stopped thinking of families, of people, as being the basic unit of society and began to act as if corporations were. So, while the economy is working very well for corporate entities, it is not working so well for the people who work in them or those who own their own small business. We must shift the lens through which we define public policy back to people and families so that our economy works well for everyone.
If we get Education and Healthcare policy right, it will go a long way toward moving our state in the best direction for all Iowans. Those are the areas I have the most experience with and about which I feel most strongly. However, all the issues we deal with in crafting public policy, and the legislation that drives it, are connected. We must take care to view them with an eye toward equity, empowerment, and inclusion. If we get that right, Iowa will be the best place to live and work for everyone.
A positive focus on doing what helps the most and harms the least... those things which a person is unable to do themselves, but that serve the common good. Being a problem-solver. Listening. A willingness and ability to learn about issues from as many perspectives as possible. Effective communication skills. A desire to serve others. Trustworthy. Empathetic. A willingness to fight for what their constituents need, for the protection, security, and benefit of ALL the people.
My first paid job was as a cashier at a movie theatre that showed horror films during the week and hosted live bands on the weekends. I was 13. I continued working there until my family moved too far away for me to get there by walking - about a year later. At that point, I started working as a pool lifeguard. I worked for the pool management company throughout my three years of high school and the first three summers of college. I also worked as a gift wrapper, at a men's haberdashery, at a restaurant, and as a phone operator at a financial planning corporation... all before graduating college.
Three years ago, our children gave my husband a guitar for Christmas. He's been teaching himself how to play ever since and practices for about an hour every evening. There was a month or two during which he struggled with a couple of measures of Louie Louie...so he played those measures over and over every night and I thought I would never get it out of my head... it was even showing up in my dreams... and I woke up humming it in the morning. Thankfully, he finally mastered that song and nothing else he's learned since has been nearly as painful for him, nor as much of an earworm for me.
Weight and the frustration from not being as physically functional as I use to be is a daily issue for me. I have more than my share of weight and I would like to have less, but have not found a solution, yet. I was super active as a child and young adult... right up until I injured my back at work twenty-five years ago. Since it hurts to walk, I avoid walking and other activities that cause pain. Some folks are very unforgiving when other people's appearance does not meet their expectation, and my weight is outside the norm. That causes a different kind of pain. Still, it has increased my awareness of the many challenges a lot of people deal with every day. It has made me see a lot of opportunities for inclusion that we miss from how we craft legislation to how we plan meetings and events, even how we speak about "dignity of work" as though a person is devoid of dignity unless they are able to work for a paycheck. I am grateful that I avoided the trap that many with chronic pain have fallen into with narcotics.
Because only half of the Iowa Senate seats are elected each general election cycle, that chamber can take a bit of a longer view on issues before the General Assembly... while the House members, whose seats are ALL up for election every two years, are more likely to want to be closer to the heartbeat of their constituents. The other difference is that the Senate members represent roughly twice the number of constituents and have half the numbers of members to work with on legislation. Any bill can originate in either chamber and has to pass in the same form in both chambers, so there is no specialization needed in one chamber over the other.
Iowa is going to have to figure out how to balance their responsibility to the residents in our vast areas of rural communities with the political and economic power of the few more urban centers, particularly in the arenas of education and health care. We need to confront the broken health care delivery model we have and it's inequities and cost challenges. The third challenge will be to diversify Iowa's economy without devastating the agricultural base that has been a bulwark against many economic challenges the rest of the nation has faced, while increasing environmental sustainability and increasing economic opportunity for more Iowans.
Education would be my first choice. I have always been an advocate for high quality, equitable public education. As a 3-term school board member from a rural district, I have spent ten years experiencing the impact of the decisions the legislature has made regarding education funding and some other key pieces of legislation that had a huge impact on public education. I think that perspective would be useful in the Iowa House. I have also worked with the Legislative Resource Committees for two state organizations of school board members which has given me the opportunity to hear from other administrators and board members from other districts, as well. I served on Iowa's Every Student Succeeds Act state plan development team which gave me the opportunity to hear from every kind of stakeholder in Iowa's public education.
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 23, 2020
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Kenan Judge (D)
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Tracy Ehlert (D)
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Bobby Kaufmann (R)
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Cindy Golding (R)
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Amy Nielsen (D)
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Jeff Shipley (R)
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Helena Hayes (R)
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Elinor Levin (D)
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Adam Zabner (D)
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Judd Lawler (R)
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