Wichie Artu
Wichie Artu (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Vermont State Senate to represent Windham District. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 9, 2022.
Artu completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Wichie Artu was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He earned a bachelor's degree from Northeastern University in 2018. His career experience includes working as a data engineer.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Vermont State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Vermont State Senate Windham District (2 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Vermont State Senate Windham District on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Wendy Harrison (D)  | 34.2 | 10,968 |
| ✔ |  | Nader Hashim (D) | 31.2 | 9,997 |
 | Tim Wessel (Independent) | 11.5 | 3,677 | |
 | Richard Morton (R) | 10.1 | 3,249 | |
| Richard Kenyon (R) | 9.6 | 3,082 | ||
 | Mark Coester (Independent) | 3.2 | 1,036 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 42 | ||
| Total votes: 32,051 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Windham District (2 seats)
Nader Hashim and Wendy Harrison defeated Wichie Artu in the Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Windham District on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Nader Hashim | 40.3 | 4,684 |
| ✔ | | Wendy Harrison | 36.7 | 4,262 |
 | Wichie Artu | 22.8 | 2,650 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 28 | ||
| Total votes: 11,624 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Vermont State Senate Windham District (2 seats)
Mark Coester and Richard Kenyon defeated Richard Morton in the Republican primary for Vermont State Senate Windham District on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mark Coester | 32.9 | 542 |
| ✔ | Richard Kenyon | 32.8 | 539 | |
| Richard Morton | 32.1 | 528 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.2 | 36 | ||
| Total votes: 1,645 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Wichie Artu completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Artu's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Born/raised in Puerto Rico and Boston by an Indigenous father, two mothers, and a sister - we faced many opportunity barriers: homelessness, mental institutionalization, poverty, and more. But community stepped in with food, housing, education, and hope. E.g. As a teen, I was given a college mentor - a lawyer, and my first representation of a successful gay person; not someone who ended up beaten to death (Matthew Shepard) or dead from AIDS (uncles). Today I thrive because community gave me tools to realize my potential and plan for my future. I have given back:
- VT’s Racial Equity Task Force - Pushed Governor to provide undocumented folks COVID relief. - VP at the local NAACP- Co-chair a Health Justice Committee, collaborating with healthcare professionals, State officials, community leaders, and policy consultants - Criminal Justice Advisory - I co-authored a legislative report: creating an ethical criminal justice data warehouse to identify systematic disparities.
- Nothing about us without us
- Government needs to get out of the way of our success, and lift us up instead
- We must lay the stones for those that come behind us, and thank those that come in front of us
- Data systems must be guided by an ethical code of transparency and public-driven. For me, that means all legislation regarding data gathering, analysis, and decision-making processes must be governed by those whose data is collected, analyzed, and decided with. Furthermore, all data touched by the government should have a public, legally-binding report on what is gathered, how it's gathered, why it's used, and the end products it is used in.
- Vermont legislators make ~13,000 a year. This creates an oligarchy where those who are marginalized by government policies (e.g. single mothers, people who are homeless, people who are deaf or hard of hearing) are at a significant financial disadvantage in assuming political office. I aim to strengthen the pipelines for civil action among those most vulnerable in our society.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 18, 2022
