Amanda Douglas
Amanda Douglas (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District. She lost in the Democratic primary runoff on August 28, 2018.
Douglas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2018. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1
Kevin Hern defeated Tim Gilpin in the general election for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kevin Hern (R) | 59.3 | 150,129 |
 | Tim Gilpin (D) | 40.7 | 103,042 | |
| Total votes: 253,171 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1
Tim Gilpin defeated Amanda Douglas in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1 on August 28, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tim Gilpin | 59.4 | 16,995 |
 | Amanda Douglas | 40.6 | 11,628 | |
| Total votes: 28,623 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1
Kevin Hern defeated Tim Harris in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1 on August 28, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kevin Hern | 54.9 | 40,401 |
 | Tim Harris | 45.1 | 33,155 | |
| Total votes: 73,556 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1
Tim Gilpin and Amanda Douglas advanced to a runoff. They defeated Gwendolyn Fields, Mark Keeter, and David Matthew Hullum in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1 on June 26, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tim Gilpin | 34.5 | 24,567 |
| ✔ | | Amanda Douglas | 32.4 | 23,093 |
 | Gwendolyn Fields | 19.6 | 13,980 | |
 | Mark Keeter | 8.5 | 6,025 | |
 | David Matthew Hullum | 5.0 | 3,580 | |
| Total votes: 71,245 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1
Tim Harris and Kevin Hern advanced to a runoff. They defeated Andy Coleman, Nathan Dahm, and Danny Stockstill in the Republican primary for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1 on June 26, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tim Harris | 27.5 | 28,431 |
| ✔ | | Kevin Hern | 22.7 | 23,466 |
 | Andy Coleman | 21.8 | 22,608 | |
 | Nathan Dahm | 20.2 | 20,868 | |
 | Danny Stockstill | 7.8 | 8,100 | |
| Total votes: 103,473 | |||
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Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Amanda Douglas participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on July 11, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Amanda Douglas's responses follow below.[1]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | Repair and protection of federal funding for public education. Social justice reform, to increase equity among all citizens. |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Public education is a huge priority for me, for a very personal reason. My daughter will be two at the end of this month, so she is just a few years away from entering the public education system in Oklahoma, which gained national attention earlier this year for its terrible condition. This will affect my family directly, so not only do I have a vested interest in turning education around in Oklahoma (and the rest of the nation), I have a DEADLINE.
Social justice is also something I am very passionate about. I will be the voice for so many who have been mistreated and ignored for too long in this state. The human and civil rights violations, excessive incarcerations, and police brutality that have become commonplace under the current administration MUST come to an end.Cite error: Invalid |
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Amanda Douglas answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?
| “ | Bernie Sanders.
The amount of excitement and energy that he was able to around his presidential campaign was incredible. He's not afraid to stand up to giant firms and corporations taking advantage of the middle class. He is not secretive about who he is and what he believes, even if it isn't the most popular ideas, and even when some choose to mock it. He also does not live the life of excess that you see in so many politicians; rather, his motivations in his work seem truly and wholly based in a desire to help those who need it, and to guarantee all Americans fair treatment and opportunities for success.[3] |
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| “ | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'. Jimmy Stewart plays a young, optimistic senator who wants to do right by his constituents, and him standing up to his less scrupulous colleagues, who are in politics for their own benefit and not that of the people.[3] | ” |
| “ | Honesty. Integrity. Intelligence. Diligence.[3] | ” |
| “ | I am an excellent communicator and mediator. Conflict-resolution and problem-solving are both core competencies of my current job, because at the end of the day, my charge is to make sure both sides of the company I work for (the corporate office and all the operating companies that they own) feel like we have found a win-win solution for all stakeholders involved.
I'm also very open-minded. I'm willing to listen and respect others' perspectives on matters, which is a huge deficit in many politicians. In a deeply polarized time like this, we have to send representatives to Congress who are willing to listen, compromise, and find a path forward, rather than continuing the screaming match in progress. Thirdly, I know what it means to actually struggle. To have no money for food or bills and still have 3 days until payday. I grew up in poverty, and it was only through social programs and educational opportunities afforded to me (which are now being eroded more and more every day) was I able to climb my way into the middle class. I can relate to the poor and working class in Oklahoma in a way that I don't believe many people who run for office can.[3] |
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| “ | Introduce and support legislation and amendments that will benefit the constituents of my district. Represent my state in votes on other legislation. |
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| “ | I want to be the first woman to have ever held this seat. I want to be the first female Democratic representative from Oklahoma. |
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| “ | I remember the Berlin Wall coming down in 1989, and watching it on television with my siblings. I remember thinking how crazy that sounded, to build a physical wall to divide countries. (Ahem.)[3] | ” |
| “ | The pharmacist in my hometown hired me to clean the parking lot of the shopping center where his store was located. I believe he paid me $6 an hour, which was well above minimum wage at the time-- but it was only a few hours of work each week. I did that for one summer, before I went back to school in the fall.[3] | ” |
| “ | In college, I sent my Valentine a box of gourmet cookies, from ""an anonymous admirer""-- fully planning to tell him they were from me as soon as I saw him. Then he showed up for our date that night WITH THE COOKIES-- for ME as a gift. He thought the cookies actually were from an anonymous admirer, and was passing them off as a gift to me because he had forgotten to get me anything. Let's just say... he wasn't my Valentine any more after that.[3] | ” |
| “ | Christmas! Being together with my family, cooking, keeping up all of our traditions-- I look forward to it all year.[3] | ” |
| “ | For a long while, I had a very hard time getting (and then staying) pregnant. I went through several years of loss, grief and depression because of these fertility issues. It took a lot of hard work, changing my lifestyle, and working with endocrinologists to get my diabetes under control so that I could have a healthy and full-term pregnancy. After all that, I feel incredibly blessed to have my little girl, Charlotte.[3] | ” |
| “ | Right now I think it is more important that we rid Congress of this internal inertia of being incapable of compromise and progress that benefits the citizens of the U.S. If a candidate's experience is in the kind of politics that we have seen lately, we are better off with candidates who have fresh ideas and not send more of the same kinds of people to Washington.[3] | ” |
| “ | For one, we must become less polarized against one another and more focused on progress that is beneficial to us all. We will have to reinstate sincere diplomacy in our foreign relations. And we have to show the rest of the world that America is not made up of racists, or bullies, and that the majority of us are looking out for our fellow man.[3] | ” |
| “ | Because I am so passionate about education, I am interested in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. I also think the House Committee on the Judiciary would be really interesting, as well as the House Committee on Ethics (but that committee is small and must be equally bipartisan, so a bit more difficult to join).[3] | ” |
| “ | I think it would be IF representatives didn't have to start running for office again pretty much as soon as they are elected. That's not fault with the term length, though, that's the result of election spending being out of control and campaigning starting earlier and earlier each election cycle.[3] | ” |
| “ | For far too long, gerrymandered districts have served to deny so many their right to be heard. To ensure that redistricting is accurate and fair, a truly bipartisan commission MUST be appointed to this task, without possibility of veto by the state's governor.[3] | ” |
| “ | I've heard so many stories: people who need healthcare but can't afford it; people who work two jobs, but still don't have enough money to pay the bills; people who have family members serving long prison sentences for non-violent crimes, like possession of marijuana; families being completely torn apart because of current immigration practices; our honored veterans, receiving poor quality care from our VA hospitals. Among all these heart-breaking stories, it is hard to focus on just one. There is a lot of suffering happening right now, and I am ready to fight to put a stop to ALL of it.[3] | ” |
See also
- United States House of Representatives
- Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District election, 2018
- Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Amanda Douglas's responses," July 11, 2018
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
