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Viraphanh Douangmany Cage

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Viraphanh Douangmany Cage was a 2016 Democratic candidate for the Third Hampshire District of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Campaign themes

2016

Douangmany Cage's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Healthy Communities

  • Spending on the health of the people of the Commonwealth is the single biggest area in the state budget. Vira will work to write and pass legislation that ensures smart cost-saving measures and initiatives that emphasize prevention and wellness. She is a strong advocate for single-payer health care and will defend reproductive rights. She will always fight for people to have access to the services they need and for us to solve problems together. Vira will continue to stand up for a criminal legal system that is more just. A system that does not build and perpetuate the mass criminalization of black and brown women and men, boys and girls and others from the vulnerable and marginalized communities, including immigrants.

Environmental Justice

  • Vira will draft legislation that will create an environmentally green and healthy state – accelerating the development of renewable energy, divesting state pension funds from fossil fuels, putting a price on carbon, keeping fossil fuels in the ground, and restoring the environment. She will continue to oppose pipelines and other projects that use our state to make private profits while putting us at risk of ecological disasters and leaving taxpayers holding the bag. She will focus on clean energy, clean water, and green jobs.

Strong Public Education

  • Education should enable each person to achieve all that the person is capable of achieving. Vira will fight for all of our K-12 students having the schools they deserve and for affordable, fully-funded, high-quality public higher education. Our schools should not be pipelines to prison for black and brown children. Schooling must be about creating pathways to progress that draw strength from our diversity. Through legislation, Vira will advocate for more resources for education, transportation infrastructure, and other areas of social need, and for the smarter use of public funds to meet those needs.

An Economy for All

  • UMass Amherst and the larger Knowledge Economy (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke & Smith College) are the critical drivers of social mobility and future progress in our district and beyond. Vira will effectively work with other legislators to recognize how UMass impacts the Commonwealth and to support it as the dynamic engine of change and smart economic growth it is and can continue to be. Making UMass and our community colleges tuition-free can be done the right way. Strong leadership from UMass' home district is vital and Vira, a UMass graduate and a great bridge builder between Eastern and Western Mass, will provide that strong leadership.
  • Vira will be an articulate and strong voice in the legislature for small businesses and farmers, living wages that can support families, fairer taxation, and job training for today’s economy.[1]
 ”
—Viraphanh Douangmany Cage, [2]

Elections

2016

See also: Massachusetts House of Representatives elections, 2016

Elections for the Massachusetts House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election took place on September 8, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 7, 2016. Incumbent Ellen Story (D) did not seek re-election.

Solomon Israel Goldstein-Rose ran unopposed in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Third Hampshire District general election.[3][4]

Massachusetts House of Representatives, Third Hampshire District General Election, 2016
Party Candidate
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Solomon Israel Goldstein-Rose  (unopposed)
Source: Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth


The following candidates ran in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Third Hampshire District Democratic Primary.[5][6]

Massachusetts House of Representatives, Third Hampshire District Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Solomon Israel Goldstein-Rose 34.21% 1,788
     Democratic Eric T. Nakajima 23.13% 1,209
     Democratic Sarah C. LaCour 18.62% 973
     Democratic Viraphanh Douangmany Cage 13.26% 693
     Democratic Bonnie MacCracken 7.10% 371
     Democratic Lawrence E. O'Brien 3.67% 192
Total Votes 5,226


Endorsements

2016

In 2016, Douangmany Cage's endorsements included the following:[7]

  • Representative Ben Swan, Eleventh Hampden District
  • MassCare

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  2. ↑ Vote for Vira, "Issues," accessed September 6, 2016
  3. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of State, "2016 State election candidates," accessed October 3, 2016
  4. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, "Election data lookup," accessed December 20, 2016
  5. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of State, "2016 Primary Candidates (Democratic)," accessed June 20, 2016
  6. ↑ Secretary of the Commonweath of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts Election Statistics," accessed October 14, 2016
  7. ↑ Vote for Vira, "Endorsements," accessed September 6, 2016


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