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Will Stancil

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Will Stancil
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Democratic Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

August 13, 2024

Education

Bachelor's

Wake Forest University, 2007

Graduate

Queen's University Belfast, 2008

Law

University of Minnesota, 2013

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Birthplace
Belmont, N.C.
Profession
Attorney
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Will Stancil (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Minnesota House of Representatives to represent District 61A. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 13, 2024.

Stancil completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Will Stancil was born in Belmont, North Carolina. He earned a bachelor's degree from Wake Forest University in 2007, a graduate degree from the Queen's University Belfast in 2008, and a law degree from the University of Minnesota in 2013. His career experience includes working as an attorney and policy researcher focusing on metropolitan governance, housing, schools, and civil rights.[1]

Elections

2024

See also: Minnesota House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for Minnesota House of Representatives District 61A

Katie Jones defeated Toya López in the general election for Minnesota House of Representatives District 61A on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Katie Jones
Katie Jones (D) Candidate Connection
 
83.9
 
18,234
Image of Toya López
Toya López (G) Candidate Connection
 
15.1
 
3,284
 Other/Write-in votes
 
1.0
 
209

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 21,727
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 61A

Katie Jones defeated Will Stancil and Isabel Rolfes in the Democratic primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 61A on August 13, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Katie Jones
Katie Jones Candidate Connection
 
43.2
 
3,956
Image of Will Stancil
Will Stancil Candidate Connection
 
36.4
 
3,340
Image of Isabel Rolfes
Isabel Rolfes Candidate Connection
 
20.4
 
1,872

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 9,168
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2024

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Candidate Connection

Will Stancil completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Stancil's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I’m Will Stancil. I’m an attorney and an advocate for civil rights, fair housing, and strong public schools. For fifteen years I've lived in Minneapolis as a renter in the Lowry Hill neighborhood. I'm on the neighborhood board and a committee of the US Commission on Civil Rights. In order to build urban prosperity, support public education, achieve decarbonization, and fight for fundamental democratic values, I’m running to be your state representative.
  • I want to revitalize Minneapolis. The city's business districts and key commercial corridors are suffering from too many vacancies and are a shadow of their former selves. I think we can bring prosperity back to the city by protecting and supporting current and new businesses. Revitalization also requires addressing public safety and quality-of-life challenges. Minneapolis residents should be able to feel safe and secure in their homes, and confident that law enforcement will be professional, responsive, and do the job we expect of them. I also think we can boost the city by reforming the Metropolitan Council, including by making it elected and accountable.
  • We need to support K-12 public education and public educators. I've spent years working on school policy at the state level, and I know the extreme challenges our public schools face, especially in Minneapolis. Minneapolis is losing student population and under attack from right-wing forces that want to undermine the entire system of public schools. We need to ensure that the entire region does its part to bolster K-12 education, and that students and resources are not suctioned out of Minneapolis's traditional schools into educational Rube Goldberg schemes or affluent suburban districts.
  • Many neighbors have told me they find the recent tenor of politics in Minneapolis exhausting. After 2020, the city has seem caught in endless factional divides over hot-button issues. It has made progress on complicated problems difficult, because many people fear being treated like an enemy if they come down on the wrong side. I think a better, more conversational politics is possible. In a diverse city and district it's impossible to agree on everything, but there's no reason we can't talk about issues as neighbors. I am committed to turning down the temperature on factional battles by listening to everyone and continually reevaluating my views.
Housing, schools, economic development, civil rights, government accountability, and metropolitan governance.
One of favorite books is A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, a history of the period surrounding the Hundred Years' War. I'm a real history nerd, but what really recommends this book is not the depth of the scholarship but how it infuses dark and terrible times with a wry sense of humor. Tuchman writes at the start of the book that she wanted to show how ordinary life persists through calamity, and I remember that a lot when it seems like our world is spiraling out of control.
I think the biggest political challenge in Minnesota - and indeed, much of the US - are the myriad dangers created by the rise of far-right radicalism in America. This includes attacks on people of color, religious minorities, immigrants, LGBT people, and women. It also includes the risk of losing civil rights, reproductive rights, and voting rights. In the worst instances, the rule of law itself is in danger. And should these forces succeed, they will enact their deplorable policy agenda of gutting institutions like schools and universities, destroying important public services, and undoing important environmental and climate protections. Resisting far-right radicalism is a core purpose of my run for office.

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    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 25, 2024


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