Tom Fiegen

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Tom Fiegen
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Last election

June 7, 2016

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Tom Fiegen was a 2016 Democratic candidate who sought election to the U.S. Senate from Iowa.[1] Fiegen was defeated by Patty Judge in the Democratic primary.[2]

Elections

2016

See also: United States Senate election in Iowa, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated Iowa's U.S. Senate race as safely Republican. Incumbent Chuck Grassley (R) won re-election, defeating Patty Judge (D), Charles Aldrich (L), Jim Hennager (New Independent Party Iowa), and Michael Luick-Thrams (I) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Grassley faced no opponent in the Republican primary on June 7, 2016, while Judge defeated Rob Hogg, Bob Krause, and Tom Fiegen to win the Democratic nomination.[3][2]

U.S. Senate, Iowa General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngChuck Grassley Incumbent 60.1% 926,007
     Democratic Patty Judge 35.7% 549,460
     Libertarian Charles Aldrich 2.7% 41,794
     New Independent Party Iowa Jim Hennager 1.1% 17,649
     Independent Michael Luick-Thrams 0.3% 4,441
     N/A Write-in 0.1% 1,685
Total Votes 1,541,036
Source: Iowa Secretary of State


U.S. Senate, Iowa Democratic Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngPatty Judge 47.7% 46,322
Rob Hogg 38.9% 37,801
Thomas Fiegen 6.8% 6,573
Bob Krause 6.6% 6,425
Total Votes 97,121
Source: Iowa Secretary of State

Campaign themes

2016

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

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  • The Obscenity of Student Debt: Can't think of a more bizarre policy than to tell our best and our brightest to get an education to make them more productive workers and better citizens, but then tell them that the price is a lifetime of slavery to student loans? At graduation this spring, the total of our student loans reached One Trillion Two Hundred Billion Dollars! Loans that our graduates cannot refinance, they will never likely pay back, and which will prevent them from ever owning a house, getting married, or starting a family. Enough of this madness! We need to make higher education free to every qualified student and we need to refinance, reform and reduce the loan burden for people who have already graduated.
  • Social Security: We are going to expand it, not cut it. There are powerful special interests who want to severely cut this bedrock program that is a part of America. We are going to stop them from doing that and expand it, not cut it.
  • Why do you support Bernie Sanders for president?: I support Bernie Sanders because he has demonstrated unconditional support for working people since he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont 34 years ago. He tells the truth.
  • Wall Street Reform, taxes and restrictions: How is it that after all of the fraud, corruption and greed, nobody from Wall Street went to jail? They held our country hostage for nearly a trillion dollar bailout in 2008 and threw us into the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. Bernie Sanders is absolutely right, too big to fail is too big to exist! These giant Wall Street firms are casinos where the executives always win and the consumers and taxpayers always lose. These are not bankers, they are banksters aka gangsters. We need to break up the big banks and bring back Glass Steagall. As a United States Senator, I look forward to working with President Sanders’s to re-enact Glass Steagall and break up the big banks.
  • Why do you swear off PAC money?: Because whoever underwrites your campaign, owns you. And as the Bible says, you cannot serve two masters. You cannot take money from corporate PACs and then serve working people. If I or anyone else running for public office wants to stand with working people, they cannot owe anything to the corporate PACs.

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—Tom Fiegen's campaign website, http://fiegenforussenate.com/issues/

Campaign finance summary

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Recent news

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See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Tom Fiegen for U.S. Senate, "Home," accessed October 26, 2015
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The New York Times, "Iowa Caucus Results," June 7, 2016 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "primary16" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ Iowa Secretary of State, "Candidate Listing by Office," accessed March 19, 2016
  4. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.


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