Stephen Howard Slaughter

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Stephen Howard Slaughter

Republican Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

May 17, 2016

Contact

Personal website

Stephen Howard Slaughter was a 2016 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. Senate from Kentucky. Slaughter was defeated by incumbent Rand Paul in the Republican primary.

Elections

2016

See also: United States Senate election in Kentucky, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated Kentucky's U.S. Senate race as safely Republican. Incumbent Rand Paul (R) defeated Jim Gray (D) and Billy Ray Wilson (Write-in) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Paul defeated James Gould and Stephen Howard Slaughter in the Republican primary, while Gray defeated six other challengers to win the Democratic nomination. The primary elections took place on May 17, 2016.

U.S. Senate, Kentucky General Election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Rand Paul Incumbent	57.3%	1,090,177
	Democratic	Jim Gray	42.7%	813,246
	N/A	Write-in	0%	42
Total Votes				1,903,465
Source: Kentucky Secretary of State

U.S. Senate, Kentucky Republican Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Rand Paul Incumbent	84.8%	169,180
James Gould	8.3%	16,611
Stephen Slaughter	6.9%	13,728
Total Votes		199,519
Source: Kentucky State Board of Elections

U.S. Senate, Kentucky Democratic Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Jim Gray	58.7%	240,598
Sellus Wilder	12.9%	52,729
Ron Leach	9.5%	39,026
Tom Recktenwald	5.3%	21,910
Grant Short	5.3%	21,558
Jeff Kender	4.9%	20,237
Rory Houlihan	3.3%	13,585
Total Votes		409,643
Source: Kentucky State Board of Elections

Campaign themes

2016

The following issues were listed on Slaughter's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

“	Social Security: This program has been used and abused by Congress. This program has paid for foreign wars, the space program, tax cuts and Congressional pensions. Now congress is saying, “entitlements need to be cut.” These are not entitlements, but our earned money. I will fight for our earned money to no longer be diverted to fund other programs and enhance the stability of the Social Security System. Education: Access to good quality education is the single best way to increase the lifetime earnings of people of the United States. The increased use of local community colleges and accredited online courses should be promoted as low cost alternatives to a conventional college for basic and pre-requisite courses with the expectation that a four year degree will be completed at a conventional college. Energy: Coal mining is under severe pressure. Even removing the environmental component, coal is competing with other forms of energy, particularly natural gas. Natural gas is at prices not seen since the mid-1980s. Natural gas will soon be competing with renewable sources of energy, solar and wind. Campaign Reform: We need to take the money out of politics and have politics be about the issues. Healthcare: The U.S. pays the most for health care (nearly 20% of GDP) and gets limited value out of it. Since the government is the single biggest provider of healthcare in the country, I propose limited government provided health care for three chronic diseases (hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol) to keep people out of the ER.	”
—Stephen Slaughter's campaign website, http://www.steve4senate.com/about/

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See also

• United States Senate
• United States Senate election in Kentucky, 2016

External links

Suggest a link

• Campaign website

Footnotes

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Kentucky's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Mitch McConnell (R)

Rand Paul (R)

Representatives

District 1

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)

Republican Party (7)

Democratic Party (1)