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Tamyra Persinger-Andres

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Tamyra Persinger-Andres
Candidate, Indiana House of Representatives District 70
Elections and appointments
Next election
May 5, 2026
Education
High school
Floyd Central High School
Graduate
Indiana University Southeast, 1989
Personal
Profession
Realtor
Contact

Tamyra Persinger-Andres (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Indiana House of Representatives to represent District 70. Persinger-Andres is on the ballot in the Democratic primary on May 5, 2026.[source]

Persinger-Andres completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Tamyra Persinger-Andres earned a high school diploma from Floyd Central High School and a graduate degree from Indiana University Southeast in 1989. Persinger-Andres' career experience includes working as a realtor.[1]

Elections

2026

See also: Indiana House of Representatives elections, 2026

General election

The primary will occur on May 5, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.

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Democratic primary

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Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 70

Sarah Blessing (D), Jerry Finn (D), and Tamyra Persinger-Andres (D) are running in the Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 70 on May 5, 2026.


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Republican primary

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Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 70

John Colburn (R) and Scott Fluhr (R) are running in the Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 70 on May 5, 2026.


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Campaign themes

2026

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Tamyra Persinger-Andres completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Persinger-Andres' responses.

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I am a life-long resident of Southern Indiana, graduate of IUS (B.S '86, M.S. '89), retired public school educator, and licensed realtor in Indiana and Kentucky. I am married to Norb Andres and I have 2 children Gretchen Krammes (Kellen), Jacob Cunningham (Kristin) and 3 amazing grandsons with a sweet baby girl on the way. My husband and I grew up on farms in Floyd County and currently own a small farm in Harrison County. We were both raised in families that knew the importance of faith, hard-work, education, and serving our community. Based on our upbringing, my brother, Kevin Hammersmith, served on several local boards and loved giving back to our community, and it inspired me to become a public school teacher, teaching students in Clark and Floyd counties for 31 years. I was music director at my church, a member of Tri Kappa Nu Chapter, a philanthropic sorority in Indiana, and now I serve on the St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities Advisory Board and the Board of Directors for Southern Indiana Realtors' Association. I want to be the strong, trusted voice for Southern Indiana, helping Hoosiers find the answers to issues that matter most: affordability, supporting family farms, providing the best education for our children, building a strong infrastructure, including high-speed internet, giving Hoosiers opportunities to succeed, and uplifting ALL people of Indiana, focusing on teachers, farmers, veterans, police, fire-fighters, unions, and healthcare workers.
  • Southern Indiana is TRULY the "Crossroads of America", yet we are often overlooked at the Statehouse. It is imperative that we have a strong voice in our state legislature to address the issues that are most concerning to the people here in Harrison, Floyd, Clark, and Washington Counties. Our families are struggling with the price of everything: higher heating bills, the cost of groceries, the cost of childcare, higher housing prices, and the rising cost of healthcare. We are spending more and more, while our leaders choose to ignore that Hoosier families need policies that will address these issues. Our families should not have to choose what bills get paid and which ones don't. It's time to put people first.
  • Our current legislators in Indiana and Washington D.C. seem to be more concerned with the success and wealth of the few over the success, education, and cost of living of the many. Every child in Indiana deserves to have opportunities to achieve their fullest potential. This begins with affordable childcare and outstanding preschools and continues through grades K - 12, and beyond. Our children deserve a safe learning environment that is filled with a well-paid, quality staff. They deserve services that will provide for their physical, mental, emotional, and social needs. We must ensure that funds stop being taken from our public schools, vocational schools, and universities if Indiana is going to succeed today and into the future.
  • Uplifting ALL Hoosiers. Yes, our children deserve a safe, quality learning environment, but that is only the beginning. It is time that our legislators do more to support our farmers in Indiana who are struggling to maintain family farms. Higher property taxes, fuel costs, equipment maintenance, and the loss of industries that purchase what is produced by our farmers must be addressed. Our current lawmakers in Indianapolis seem to believe that making homelessness a crime, questioning a person's beliefs or how they identify, destroying the rights of women, and dictating what we can and cannot read or say is what is most important to Hoosiers. We need to stand together to make our voices heard and our rights protected.
I am passionate about protecting public education, ensuring that our rights and responsibilities as Hoosiers are upheld in every government policy, addressing the needs of our children, families, seniors, veterans, disabled, and homeless, and creating an excitement in this great state that we will be the standard that every other state strives to become. We can only do that if we sit down, calm down, and listen to each other, working to build a strong infrastructure, welcoming new businesses and industry that will provide good Hoosier jobs, lower the cost of living, and maintain the beauty and integrity of our state's farms, forests, waters, parks, and history.

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 2, 2026


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