G. Perry Adelmann

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G. Perry Adelmann

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November 5, 2024

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G. Perry Adelmann (independent) ran for election to the Kentucky House of Representatives to represent District 31. She did not appear on the ballot for the general election on November 5, 2024.

Elections

2024

See also: Kentucky House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for Kentucky House of Representatives District 31

Incumbent Susan Tyler Witten defeated Colleen Davis in the general election for Kentucky House of Representatives District 31 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Susan Tyler Witten (R)	50.7	12,067
	Submit photo	Colleen Davis (D)	49.3	11,727

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 23,794
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• G. Perry Adelmann (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Kentucky House of Representatives District 31

Colleen Davis defeated Carma Marshall in the Democratic primary for Kentucky House of Representatives District 31 on May 21, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Colleen Davis	65.9	1,889
	Submit photo	Carma Marshall	34.1	976

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,865
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Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Susan Tyler Witten advanced from the Republican primary for Kentucky House of Representatives District 31.

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Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Adelmann in this election.

2022

See also: Jefferson County Public Schools, Kentucky, elections (2022)

General election

General election for Jefferson County Public Schools Board of Education District 3

Incumbent James Craig defeated J. Stephen Ullum, G. Perry Adelmann, and Samuel Cowan II in the general election for Jefferson County Public Schools Board of Education District 3 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	James Craig (Nonpartisan)	43.0	17,626
		J. Stephen Ullum (Nonpartisan)	40.6	16,607
		G. Perry Adelmann (Nonpartisan)	9.2	3,764
	Submit photo	Samuel Cowan II (Nonpartisan)	6.5	2,665
		Other/Write-in votes	0.7	283

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 40,945
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2018

See also: Kentucky State Senate elections, 2018

General election

General election for Kentucky State Senate District 36

Incumbent Julie Raque Adams defeated Sheri Donahue in the general election for Kentucky State Senate District 36 on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Julie Raque Adams (R)	53.4	29,729
		Sheri Donahue (D)	46.6	25,977

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 55,706 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Kentucky State Senate District 36

Sheri Donahue defeated G. Perry Adelmann in the Democratic primary for Kentucky State Senate District 36 on May 22, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Sheri Donahue	56.2	5,694
		G. Perry Adelmann	43.8	4,442

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified.	Total votes: 10,136
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Kentucky State Senate District 36

Incumbent Julie Raque Adams defeated Sheeba Jolly in the Republican primary for Kentucky State Senate District 36 on May 22, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Julie Raque Adams	90.3	5,800
		Sheeba Jolly	9.7	622

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified.	Total votes: 6,422
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Campaign themes

2024

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2022

G. Perry Adelmann completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Adelmann's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a PTA Mom who has always been an advocate for public schools, students and educators. When I moved to Louisville 10 years ago, little did I know that I was about to embark on an undertaking to protect my son's school and others from falling victim to the charter school scam. Over the years, I organized hundreds of stakeholders to speak at board meetings and our efforts were successful in removing a willfully incompetent superintendent as well as board members who enabled her. During that time, I co-founded Dear JCPS, a grassroots advocacy non-profit, to demand accountability and transparency of our district leaders, in 2015. In 2016, when we realized the threat was part of a national effort, I co-founded Save Our Schools Kentucky to educate and inform Kentuckians, as well as lawmakers and local leaders, about the threats that were being posed by outside groups like ALEC and the Koch Brothers, as well as local groups such as SCALA. Our group's mission is to prevent these same predators from undermining and siphoning scarce resources and tax dollars away from our public schools across the state. When my current school board member demonstrated he doesn't have what it takes to fight the MAGA-Republicans who recently began disrupting our school board meetings and turned a blind while district officials kept sweeping problems under the rug, I realized he needed to go. When our non-profit couldn't identify a qualified candidate, I realized it was my responsibility to step up.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Stop fascist ideology from infiltrating Kentucky schools.
• Protect students, employees and taxpayers from government overreach, including bans on books, bodies and free thought.
• Stop the "War on JCPS" through authentically addressing the achievement gap, an equitable student assignment plan and "busing."

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

As a JCPS school board member, one of only seven in fact, not every issue that I am passionate about will be within my jurisdiction, but I have a proven track record of bringing the most marginalized voices to the table and working to build consensus, not just compromise, so that progress can continue to be made. During my four-year term, I will lead efforts to engage school board members across the state to embark upon an education reform act comparable to KERA more than 30 years ago. I believe we owe it to the people of Kentucky to revisit funding forumlas, strengthen site-based decision-making councils, ensure student, parent, teacher and staff voices, from districts large and small, wealthy and poor, urban and rural and everywhere in between are reflected in the final result. I also believe strengthening our public schools is vital to not only economic development, career opportunities for graduates, increasing property values and community safety, but building strong communities and developing future civic leaders. Our public schools are in crisis. They didn't get this way overnight, and our problems won't be fixed overnight. That is why I have a four-year plan and a 10-year plan to address the short and longer-term goals of our district and the state of education in Kentucky. This will require honest introspection, a fundamental shift that brings meaningful change, and root cause solutions, which will save not only tax dollars, but educational futures, in the long run.

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G. Perry Adelmann campaign contribution history

Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	Kentucky House of Representatives District 31	Withdrew general	$0	$0
2018	Kentucky State Senate District 36	Lost primary	$18,968	N/A**
Grand total			$18,968	N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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Current members of the Kentucky House of Representatives

Leadership

Speaker of the House:David Osborne

Representatives

District 1

Steven Rudy (R)

District 2

Kimberly Holloway (R)

District 3

Randy Bridges (R)

District 4

D. Wade Williams (R)

District 5

Mary Imes (R)

District 6

Chris Freeland (R)

District 7

Suzanne Miles (R)

District 8

Walker Thomas (R)

District 9

Myron Dossett (R)

District 10

Josh Calloway (R)

District 11

J.T. Payne (R)

District 12

Jim Gooch (R)

District 13

D.J. Johnson (R)

District 14

Scott Lewis (R)

District 15

Rebecca Raymer (R)

District 16

Jason Petrie (R)

District 17

Robert Duvall (R)

District 18

Samara Heavrin (R)

District 19

Michael Meredith (R)

District 20

Kevin Jackson (R)

District 21

Amy Neighbors (R)

District 22

Shawn McPherson (R)

District 23

Steve Riley (R)

District 24

Ryan Bivens (R)

District 25

Steve Bratcher (R)

District 26

Peyton Griffee (R)

District 27

Nancy Tate (R)

District 28

Jared Bauman (R)

District 29

Chris Lewis (R)

District 30

Daniel Grossberg (D)

District 31

Susan Tyler Witten (R)

District 32

Tina Bojanowski (D)

District 33

Jason Nemes (R)

District 34

Sarah Stalker (D)

District 35

Lisa Willner (D)

District 36

John Hodgson (R)

District 37

Emily Callaway (R)

District 38

Rachel Roarx (D)

District 39

Matt Lockett (R)

District 40

Nima Kulkarni (D)

District 41

Mary Marzian (D)

District 42

Joshua Watkins (D)

District 43

Pamela Stevenson (D)

District 44

Beverly Chester-Burton (D)

District 45

Adam Moore (D)

District 46

Alan Gentry (D)

District 47

Felicia Rabourn (R)

District 48

Ken Fleming (R)

District 49

Thomas Huff (R)

District 50

Candy Massaroni (R)

District 51

Michael Pollock (R)

District 52

Ken Upchurch (R)

District 53

James Tipton (R)

District 54

Daniel Elliott (R)

District 55

Kim King (R)

District 56

Daniel Fister (R)

District 57

Erika Hancock (D)

District 58

Jennifer Decker (R)

District 59

David Osborne (R)

District 60

Marianne Proctor (R)

District 61

Savannah Maddox (R)

District 62

Tony Hampton (R)

District 63

Kimberly Banta (R)

District 64

Kimberly Moser (R)

District 65

Stephanie Dietz (R)

District 66

T.J. Roberts (R)

District 67

Matthew Lehman (D)

District 68

Mike Clines (R)

District 69

Steven Doan (R)

District 70

William Lawrence (R)

District 71

Josh Bray (R)

District 72

Matthew Koch (R)

District 73

Ryan Dotson (R)

District 74

David Hale (R)

District 75

Lindsey Burke (D)

District 76

Anne Donworth (D)

District 77

George Brown (D)

District 78

Mark Hart (R)

District 79

Chad Aull (D)

District 80

David Meade (R)

District 81

Deanna Frazier Gordon (R)

District 82

Nick Wilson (R)

District 83

Joshua Branscum (R)

District 84

Chris Fugate (R)

District 85

Shane Baker (R)

District 86

Tom Smith (R)

District 87

Adam Bowling (R)

District 88

Vanessa Grossl (R)

District 89

Timmy Truett (R)

District 90

Derek Lewis (R)

District 91

Billy Wesley (R)

District 92

John Blanton (R)

District 93

Adrielle Camuel (D)

District 94

Mitchum Whitaker (R)

District 95

Ashley Laferty (D)

District 96

Patrick Flannery (R)

District 97

Bobby McCool (R)

District 98

Aaron Thompson (R)

District 99

Richard White (R)

District 100

Scott Sharp (R)

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