Janice Pauls
Janice Pauls was a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing District 102 from 1991 to 2017. A Democrat for most of her political career, Pauls announced her switch to the Republican Party on May 30, 2014.[1] Pauls died in July 2017.[2]
Committee assignments
2015 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Pauls served on the following committees:
| Kansas committee assignments, 2015 |
|---|
| • Administrative Rules and Regulations |
| • Federal and State Affairs |
| • Judiciary |
| • Corrections and Juvenile Justice |
2013-2014
At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Pauls served on the following committees:
| Kansas committee assignments, 2013 |
|---|
| • Judiciary |
| • Rules and Journal |
| • Corrections and Juvenile Justice |
2011-2012
In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Pauls served on the following committees:
| Kansas committee assignments, 2011 |
|---|
| • Administrative Rules and Regulations |
| • Corrections and Juvenile Justice |
| • Judiciary |
| • Rules and Journal, Vice chair |
2009-2010
In the 2009-2010 legislative session, Pauls served on the following committees:
| Kansas committee assignments, 2009 |
|---|
| • Corrections and Juvenile Justice |
| • Judiciary |
| • Rules and Journal |
| • Administrative Rules and Regulations Joint |
| • Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight Joint |
Issues
Policy positions
Pauls did not take Project Vote Smart's 2008 Political Courage Test. The test, which is administered to all candidates for presidential, congressional, gubernatorial, and state legislative offices, asks one central question - "Are you willing to tell citizens your positions on the issues you will most likely face on their behalf?"[3]
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2016
Elections for the Kansas House of Representatives were held in 2016. The primary election was held on August 2, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 1, 2016.
Patsy Terrell defeated incumbent Janice Pauls in the Kansas House of Representatives District 102 general election.[4][5]
| Kansas House of Representatives, District 102 General Election, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Patsy Terrell |
55.58% | 3,132 | |
| Republican | Janice Pauls Incumbent | 44.42% | 2,503 | |
| Total Votes | 5,635 | |||
| Source: Kansas Secretary of State | ||||
Patsy Terrell ran unopposed in the Kansas House of Representatives District 102 Democratic primary.[6][7]
| Kansas House of Representatives, District 102 Democratic Primary, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Democratic | Patsy Terrell (unopposed) | |
Incumbent Janice Pauls ran unopposed in the Kansas House of Representatives District 102 Republican primary.[6][7]
| Kansas House of Representatives, District 102 Republican Primary, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Republican | Janice Pauls Incumbent (unopposed) | |
2014
Elections for the Kansas House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election was held on August 5, 2014, and a general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was June 2, 2014. Brian Davis defeated Chris Givan in the Democratic primary. Incumbent Jan Pauls was unopposed in the Republican primary. Pauls defeated Davis in the general election.[8][9]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Jan Pauls Incumbent |
53.6% | 2,169 | |
| Democratic | Brian Davis | 46.4% | 1,881 | |
| Total Votes | 4,050 | |||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
|
Brian Davis |
76.2% | 446 |
| Chris Givan | 23.8% | 139 |
| Total Votes | 585 | |
2012
Pauls won re-election in the 2012 election for Kansas House of Representatives District 102. She faced Erich Bishop in the August 7 Democratic primary. The race remained too close to call, with Pauls leading Bishop by 7 votes.[10] Following a recount, Pauls was declared the winner on August 20 by a margin of 428-420.[11][12]
She defeated Dakota Bass (R) in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.[13]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Janice Pauls Incumbent |
66.3% | 3,711 | |
| Republican | Dakota Bass | 33.7% | 1,890 | |
| Total Votes | 5,601 | |||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
|
Janice Pauls Incumbent |
50.5% | 428 |
| Erich Bishop | 49.5% | 420 |
| Total Votes | 848 | |
2010
Pauls won re-election to the 102nd District Seat in 2010 with no opposition. She was also unopposed in the Democratic primary. The general election took place on November 2, 2010.[14]
2008
On November 4, 2008, Pauls was re-elected to the 102nd District Seat in the Kansas House of Representatives with no opposition.[15] She raised $9,590 for her campaign.[16]
| Kansas House of Representatives, District 102 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidates | Votes | Percent | ||
| Janice Pauls (D)
|
4,167 | 100% | ||
Campaign finance summary
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Scorecards
Kansas Freedom Index
The Kansas Policy Institute, Kansas’s "first free market think tank," releases its legislator scorecard as a part of its Kansas Freedom Index for Kansas state representatives and senators once a year. The Score Card gives each legislator a score from 1%-100% based on how they voted in the prior legislative term on specific issues which the Kansas Policy Institute thought were pro-limited government policies.[17]
2013
Janice Pauls received a score of 39.0% in the 2013 index.[18]
Noteworthy events
Party switch
Pauls, a social conservative, switched her party affiliation from Democratic to Republican on May 30, 2014, following the end of the year's legislative session. She issued the following statement:
| “ | As the 2014 legislative session closes, I have made the relatively easy decision to go from Blue Dog Democrat to Blue Collar Republican. I am filing for re-election as a Republican simply because the Democrat leadership will no longer support candidates like myself who care about life issues and traditional family values. When I first came to the Kansas House, the Democrats were in the majority with many prolife members of our caucus and for many years the caucus leadership was majority prolife. My friend, the late Governor Joan Finney, was a strong prolife populist governor. That party has changed, I haven't changed. In 2012 I became the longest serving House member and also the last Democrat standing in the western half of the state of Kansas. I have watched over the years as the party leadership has refused to acknowledge the public rebuke of the political correctness now associated with the Kansas Democrat party. By giving priority to those who advocate for abortion, the homosexual agenda, and even gun control, the Democrats have lost much public support and lost elected representatives because of their ever more leftist image.
I think everyone knows my long standing support for working families and Labor. I have watched the various unions put huge amounts of funding into the Democrat party with little to show for it. They have fewer and fewer advocates in the House because Labor issues appear to be linked to the destructive social issues of abortion, LGBT, and anti-second amendment. This is not a winning association. Public policy is what we elected officials are all about. I feel that the state of Kansas has a huge vested interest in promoting a policy of strong families. I support growing businesses, and business owners also have a huge vested interest in strong family structure in their workers and in their communities. Police officers, school teachers and business owners tell me what broken families cost us. They dominate the penal system, they require remedial efforts in the school systems, and in businesses, owners struggle to maintain a stable, loyal workforce. Conservatism on social issues is good for building sound families and is also very sound fiscal policy. Without basic moral family values, government can never find enough tax money to pay for all the programs and fixes of a society that jettisons traditional religious principles. My jump to the Republican party should not be surprising to any of my fellow Democrats. They have seen the direction that the Party Chair and others have taken the Kansas Democrat party. My twenty years of loyalty to the Democrat party was met last election with official support from the party headquarters for the LGBT caucus that was attacking and trying to unseat me, the senior member of the Democrat House caucus. That was a clear demonstration to me of a new Democrat party policy and priority. The blue dogs are run off, Labor is at the back of the line, and political correctness rules even though it doesn't sell with the public. Also, when I saw wholesale mocking of the deeply held beliefs of the Catholic church on abortion and the religious freedom bill, I felt that it was time to go. I look forward to debating the issues and making Kansas and my community a better place to live, now with the Republican Party.[19][20] |
” |
Personal
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Pauls had a husband, Ronald.
Recent news
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See also
- Kansas House of Representatives
- House Committees
- Joint Committees
- Kansas state legislative districts
- Kansas State Legislature
External links
- Rep. Pauls' website
- Profile from Open States
- Biography from Project Vote Smart
- Legislative profile from Project Vote Smart
- Kansas Votes profile
- Campaign contributions: 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1996
Footnotes
- ↑ The Hutchinson News, "Pauls drops the 'D' and joins GOP," May 30, 2014
- ↑ U.S. News and World Report, "Former State Rep. Jan Pauls of Hutchinson Has Died," July 6, 2017
- ↑ Project Vote Smart, "Janice Pauls' Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)," accessed June 5, 2014
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "Candidate list," accessed August 23, 2016
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2016 General Election official results," accessed December 19, 2016
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kansas Secretary of State, "Candidate list," accessed June 3, 2016
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kansas Secretary of State, "2016 Official Kansas Primary Election Results," accessed September 12, 2016
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2014 Primary Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed September 15, 2014
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2014 General Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed April 17, 2015
- ↑ The Wichita Eagle, "Two state House races await provisional ballot counts," August 9, 2012 (dead link)
- ↑ Kansas City Star, "Conservative Kansas House member wins recount," August 20, 2012 (dead link)
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2012 General Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed March 31, 2014
- ↑ C-SPAN, "Kansas - Summary Vote Results," accessed August 7, 2012
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2010 General Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed March 29, 2014
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2008 General Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed March 29, 2014
- ↑ Follow the Money, "Kansas 2008 - Candidates," accessed March 29, 2014
- ↑ Kansas Policy Institute, "Freedom Index," accessed March 31, 2014
- ↑ Ballotpedia, "2013 Kansas Policy Index," accessed March 10, 2015
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by - |
Kansas House of Representatives District 102 1991–2017 |
Succeeded by Patsy Terrell (D) |
