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Sarah Shorter
Sarah Shorter (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Missouri State Senate to represent District 34. Shorter lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Shorter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Sarah Shorter was born in Oklahoma. They earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas in 2020. Shorter's career experience includes working as a emergency room administrator.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Missouri State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Missouri State Senate District 34
Incumbent Tony Luetkemeyer defeated Sarah Shorter in the general election for Missouri State Senate District 34 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tony Luetkemeyer (R) | 59.1 | 37,236 |
 | Sarah Shorter (D)  | 40.9 | 25,767 | |
| Total votes: 63,003 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Missouri State Senate District 34
Sarah Shorter advanced from the Democratic primary for Missouri State Senate District 34 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sarah Shorter | 100.0 | 10,642 |
| Total votes: 10,642 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Missouri State Senate District 34
Incumbent Tony Luetkemeyer advanced from the Republican primary for Missouri State Senate District 34 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tony Luetkemeyer | 100.0 | 14,881 |
| Total votes: 14,881 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Sarah Shorter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Shorter'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 don't come from three generations of politicians--I barely come from three generations of Americans. I'm just a regular person. I work two jobs and force myself not to get into facebook arguments with my cousins. I battle depression, I have anxiety; I try to support small businesses whenever I can and believe every job deserves a living wage. I have chronic pain and a mountain of student debt, and what I see in the news scares me. Sometimes it makes me angry.
I'm here because I'm angry. I'm here because nobody else stepped up. If I see a need, I will try and fill it, and I will always, always keep trying.- I believe we are failing our kids in many ways. We need to protect them by enacting gun control and increasing funding to Children's Division. We need to ensure they have access to mental health care and meals.
- I support worker's rights. It is the duty of the government to protect workers by supporting unions, increasing corporate regulations, and increasing minimum wage. We must also increase pay and protections for firefighters, social workers, medical staff, and teachers.
- There are many communities I can't speak for, but I will listen to them, and I will hold space for them to speak. I support the rights of marginalized communities and will work for equity and restorative justice.
Like most Americans, I am deeply concerned about the state of gun violence in our country and and ready to fight for gun control.
I am, of course, very passionate about increasing taxes on corporations and billionaires.
Both shows are about what it means to be bad vs what it means to be good. Leverage is a show about people with money have all the power. They can afford lawsuits and fancy lawyers, they can pay for silence, they can pay for intimidation, they can pay for politicians. The rich and powerful take what they want, and I believe it's the government's job to safeguard the people who too often become collateral damage.
but also
There's a line in one of the first episodes where the team is helping a wounded veteran. There's a doctor who has been suspicious of them the whole time, and at the end they give her a truckload of money to help pay for rehabilitation for soldiers. She's stunned and she says people don't just do this. "That's not the way the world works."
And the leader of the team looks at her and says "So change the world."
I'm a good listener, but I'm not afraid to be loud in order to make my point.
The biggest thing I remember is, of course, 9/11. I was in 7th grade. I remember someone coming in to the classroom and saying a plane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers, and not understanding what it meant. I remember the whole middle school (it was a religious school, so we were small classes) going into the 8th grader's room, because that was the TV that we could get the news on. I remember watching it, and not understanding. I don't remember what George W. said but I remember watching his speech.
My first "real" job was at Wal-Mart the summer before I went to college. I worked maintenance, which meant I emptied the trash, cleaned the bathrooms, cleaned the floors, things like that.
I can still smell the trash compactor in 100 degree heat, a mix of car oil and groceries. I can still smell the trash cans that people threw out cups that still had coke in them, mixing with the rest of the trash.
I think our government--on all levels--needs more regular people in it. Middle class, blue collar people. I also think marginalized communities have fewer opportunities to get that experience, so if we only elect career politicians, we're missing out on some very valuable voices.
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See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 6, 2022
