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Shannon Fabert
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Shannon Fabert (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Kentucky's 4th Congressional District. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 23, 2020.
Fabert completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2020
See also: Kentucky's 4th Congressional District election, 2020
Kentucky's 4th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 23 Republican primary)
Kentucky's 4th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 23 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Kentucky District 4
Incumbent Thomas Massie defeated Alexandra Owensby in the general election for U.S. House Kentucky District 4 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Thomas Massie (R) | 67.1 | 256,613 |
 | Alexandra Owensby (D)  | 32.9 | 125,896 | |
| Total votes: 382,509 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Kentucky District 4
Alexandra Owensby defeated Shannon Fabert in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Kentucky District 4 on June 23, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Alexandra Owensby | 58.4 | 41,531 |
 | Shannon Fabert | 41.6 | 29,557 | |
| Total votes: 71,088 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Kentucky District 4
Incumbent Thomas Massie defeated Todd McMurtry in the Republican primary for U.S. House Kentucky District 4 on June 23, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Thomas Massie | 81.0 | 68,591 |
 | Todd McMurtry | 19.0 | 16,092 | |
| Total votes: 84,683 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Shannon Fabert completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fabert's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Shannon Fabert is a business process consultant who has been successful collaborating with companies of all sizes in a variety of industries and sectors. She has worked tirelessly to meet goals that improve the stakeholder environment, not just shareholders. Compassion and creative problem solving have been the cornerstones that built her winning track record of working with CEOs and front line workers to reach a common goal. It was her current representative's lack of action that pushed her into running for Congress. She believes elected officials are obligated to representing all of their constituents and working across the aisle for progress.
Shannon is the oldest of 4 children born into a multicultural family; her father is of African American descent and her mother is a Filipino immigrant. She is the proud product of a public school education graduating from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2001. Shannon lives in Boone County with her husband Greg and dog Hines.
- We need people in Congress who embrace the cycle of change, especially right now economically. I have always been focused on continuous improvement in my professional life. In that carreer I have real experience bringing about progressive change. We need the type of expertise that offers creative solutions and for entrepreneurs and blue collar workers to thrive.
- Public education should be a right for every child. We need to put policy in the hands of educators who understand that we need. We also need new methods of preparing our children for 21st century challenges. Education needs to be as diverse as our children, where trade schools rival college as a successful path.
- Health care is a fundamental right to every human being. In the preamble of the Constitution "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" are paramount. Universal healthcare fits every single word of that famous phrase. Every individual deserves the right to have access to quality health care, in an affordable private or public option.
-Economic empowerment in the 21st century looks and feels different than the 20th. We need to support new infrastructure that includes broad band as a utility, re-training of fossil fuel workers to support sustainable engery, and small business as the backbone of the new economy.
-Public school education needs to be heavily reinvested at the state and federal levels. Education is the great equalizer and every child deserves the opportunity to grow in a profession, whatever that profession may be. Education should not be about confining limits.
I have so many people in my life that I look up to but mostly my parents. Both of my parents are recovering addicts. Both of my parents fought every day to make sure I had everything I and my siblings needed to be successful in life. The most important thing my parents taught me was unconditional love. I was taught to love without judgement and that lesson has taken me so far. That fierce love is about compassion and justice. If I had to pick one example, I would follow in the footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His fight for the working class resonates with my parent's trajectory. America was built on the backs of the working class with hope and love.
I believe that more than ever we need elected officials in government who value incremental change in order to make lasting progress. I have spent most of my career in process and continuous improvement. I am the only candidate running in my district who is uniquely qualified through my experience of making these types of changes by bringing stakeholders to the table and creating accountability in making those agreed upon actions a reality.
An elected officials first responsibility is to all of her constituents, not just ones who voted for them. Thus, she is accountable to legislating in a transparent manner that benefits the people in the district not the corporations or lobbies. Elected officials do not have the benefit of being ideologues who refuse to take action or work across the aisle. It is paramount that elected officials are making decisions for the safety, security, and prosperity of all of her constituents.
I was in the first grade when Geraldine Ferraro was nominated as Vice President of the Democratic ticket for the Presidential election. I cannot say that I understood it at the time, but looking back, being a little girl in Mississippi, it was surreal. Prior to knowing she was on the ticket, I was overwhelmed with the idea of being on SCOTUS. Sandra Day O'Connor was nominated when I was 3, s I remember wanting to be in that illustrious crowd. Almost 40 years later we still have not seen a woman of African American descent on the high court and we have failed to successfully seat a woman in the highest offices.
My very first job out of college was a package handler for FedEx Express. I was in that job for maybe 6 months before I transitioned to a supervisor job at FedEx Ground. My first job was overnight and manual labor. I will never forget my team and the willingness of every one of them to show up with pride. We wanted to succeed for each other, and our boss, every day. I learned there that people quit their bosses, not their jobs. More than anything, I learned what it was to come out of college to work in an unrelated job field and to accept a different reality beyond your planned adulthood. I would not trade my experience for anything in the world. I got to work along side of my baby brother, he was straight out of high school and I was coming out of college. While our paths have been different since then, I know we did the same work at the same time with no expectations other than to work hard. I was a front line worker and as a supervisor worked side by side with my team members to be great because of this experience. Nobody wakes up to be average, and my team and I showed up every day to be the best. I'm proud of the teams I've built and of which I've been a part because of this.
Freedom '90, a remake of the George Michael song from Pitch Perfect 3. "I won't let you down, I will not give you up. Gotta have some faith in the sound."
It is important to know how the government works but if previous experience is necessary, career politician wouldn't be a dirty word. Specifically, how would one know how to address the needs of private citizens if they cannot relate to them? As a consultant, I haven't needed specific expertise in an industry to effectively build business processes that encourage change and growth.
Our biggest challenge in the next decade will be how we tackle environmental issues. We will have to rebuild all of the protections that have been stripped from the current administration and develop new strategies to mitigate further environmental damage. We must harness a new industrial revolution and learn how to shape our economy and educational systems to adapt environmental stewardship for future generations.
Transportation and Infrastructure, Small Business, Education & Labor, Energy and Commerce
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
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Mitch McConnell (R)
Rand Paul (R)
Representatives
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James Comer (R)
District 2
Brett Guthrie (R)
District 3
Morgan McGarvey (D)
District 4
Thomas Massie (R)
District 5
Hal Rogers (R)
District 6
Andy Barr (R)
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