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Simone Collins
Simone Collins (Republican Party) ran for election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 150. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Collins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Simone Collins earned a bachelor's degree from The George Washington University in 2010 and a graduate degree from the University of Cambridge in 2016. Her career experience includes working as a business executive.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 150
Incumbent Joseph Webster defeated Simone Collins in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 150 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Joseph Webster (D) | 58.7 | 22,359 |
![]() | Simone Collins (R) ![]() | 41.0 | 15,624 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 87 |
Total votes: 38,070 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 150
Incumbent Joseph Webster advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 150 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Joseph Webster | 99.2 | 6,050 |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.8 | 49 |
Total votes: 6,099 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 150
Simone Collins advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 150 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Simone Collins ![]() | 98.7 | 3,844 |
Other/Write-in votes | 1.3 | 50 |
Total votes: 3,894 | ||||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Collins in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Simone Collins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Collins' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|For work, I run a travel management business with my husband Malcolm. Together, we also write books (so far we’ve written five bestselling books: The Pragmatist’s Guide series) and do nonprofit work, which includes education innovation (CollinsInstitute.org) and family advocacy (Pronatalist.org). We have become internationally known for our advocacy for a soft landing on demographic collapse.
Having grown up around San Francisco in California, I started my life as a staunch Democrat, but after watching their policies slowly destroy my childhood community, I am committed to do everything to prevent the same fate befaling my own children and my chosen community.
- There is a huge opportunity in PA to increase the quality and efficiency of government services while simultaneously lowering costs and inspiring investment and business growth in the state. How can this be achieved? By systematically automating (with the help of tech and AI) government services. Doing so can massively improve our experience as PA citizens while lowering our taxes and putting the state on the map for its innovation in governance (thereby drawing in investment).
- PA’s school system can be made the best in the United States if we empower local schools and educators to innovate and thrive. We can do this by enabling maximum school choice—meaning a student’s tax-supported education dollars should follow them wherever they go, whether they attend public school, private school, or a home-based education. Doing so will make all education better by fostering competition and encouraging educators and schools to learn from those models that produce the best outcomes.
- I see family and local community as playing a core role in people’s mental, financial, and social flourishing. I therefore believe strongly in all policies that support families—not just kids and not just parents, but also extended family members, family elders, and neighbors. Rather than support policy that atomizes family and community members into isolation, I advocate for policy that defends and reinforces family ties such as tax credits for family member caregivers, caregiver training programs, development of community programs like babysitting co-ops, and more.
1. Leveraging tech and AI to improve and expand government services while increasing transparency and eliminating redundant bureaucracy (and therefore reducing expenses and citizens’ tax burdens).
2. Supporting school choice (I believe tax dollars allocated for education should follow the student, whether they choose public school, private school, or homeschool).
Malcolm demonstrates inhuman amounts of honor, dedication, enthusiasm, and drive.
On the fiction front, I love Iain Banks’ Culture series, but high-minded sci-fi aside, I’m a sucker for the cozy mystery genre, such as the Hannah Swensen Mysteries book series.
When “Baba Yetu” isn’t in my head, it’s “Buy Dirt” by Jordan Davis and Luke Bryan.
Posturing and virtue signaling should play no role in this. Blocking measures from an opposing party just because it was their idea or pet issue—or moving forward measures and initiatives an opposing party would never let pass just to make a show of things—should play no role in this.
Pennsylvania has the potential to be a hot spot for new industry and a top destination for families to raise their kids. If the state fails to realize this potential, it may enter a vicious cycle of decline from which it will never recover given industry trends and demographic collapse (which geographically consolidate wealth and flourishing).
It’s a parent.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Candidate Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 150 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 26, 2023.