Jennifer Cassidy
Jennifer Cassidy (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Missouri House of Representatives to represent District 32. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Cassidy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jennifer Cassidy was born in Kansas City, Kansas. She graduated from Berean Christian School. She attended Kansas University. Her career experience includes working as a business owner.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Missouri House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Missouri House of Representatives District 32
Incumbent Jeff Coleman defeated Jennifer Cassidy in the general election for Missouri House of Representatives District 32 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jeff Coleman (R) | 66.6 | 13,067 |
 | Jennifer Cassidy (D)  | 33.4 | 6,544 | |
| Total votes: 19,611 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 32
Jennifer Cassidy advanced from the Democratic primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 32 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jennifer Cassidy | 100.0 | 1,671 |
| Total votes: 1,671 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 32
Incumbent Jeff Coleman advanced from the Republican primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 32 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jeff Coleman | 100.0 | 3,838 |
| Total votes: 3,838 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Cassidy in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jennifer Cassidy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Cassidy's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
I am a wife, a mother, and a small business owner. I have been a resident of Grain Valley, Missouri for 22 years, but have lived in the Kansas City area my entire life. I am a registered Democrat, and I believe that the government should stay out of our private lives, healthcare decisions meant to only be decided between a patient and their doctor, union labor, strong public education, safer communities, common sense gun laws, and the funding of our state through fiscal management and state infrastructure and reigning in corporations, maintaining regulations on big businesses that seek to pollute our air and our waterways, encouraging tourism to our beautiful state. It is time to break the stranglehold of the supermajority in Missouri legislature that has fully intended on removing the ability to have reproductive rights, giving tax breaks to corporations, and trying to strip Missourians of voting rights that are enshrined in our constitution, and simplifying the one-to-one vote of the people.
- I place the highest priority on public education for all children in Missouri. Teachers in this state receive the lowest pay of any state in the US. Teachers are leaving the state for better pay because Republicans in the Missouri Legislature have been attempting to defund public schools and send public tax dollars to private and religious schools with little or no state accreditation, oversight, or standardized testing. Children in rural or urban areas, or with special needs will have no choice, and will go without education. Trickle down economics is a myth, and it is beyond time for those at the top to pay their fair share.
- I will work to restore reproductive rights to women, including reproductive choice. Missouri does not have to right to determine or override the needs of women and children under a doctor's care simply because it offends their faith. No person should make a healthcare decision for another person, unless they are the legal guardian, parent, or their medical provider. When the voters have decided that reproductive rights should be on the ballot, it is the will of the people that the Missouri legislature should preserve without attempting to remove the ability to petition to have our voices heard and attempting to do an end-run around the votes of our citizens by attempting to legislate away the right to vote.
- Missouri workers deserve to have protections in their jobs, and that every large corporation should pay their fair share of taxes. I believe that Missourians do not deserve to shoulder the bulk of the taxation that rich seem to avoid, and the rush to the bottom as one of the poorest states in the United States, and that corporations should pay their fair share of taxes.
My focus as a politician is on preserving democracy an, the citizens of Missouri's right to vote and have that vote count, especially in women's reproductive rights. Supporting families, children, public safety and lowering crime, encouraging and supporting small businesses, ending puppy mills and animal cruelty, public transparency in our fiscal responsibility to taxpayers, and re-establishing trust in our government institutions.
"All the President's Men" by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
"Peril" by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
"If God Is Love, Don't Be A Jerk" by John Pavlovitz
Fiscal transparency in campaign funds, accountability for officials who are corrupt, fairness and the ability to separate out government from religion.
Governing, not performative politics, serving the people over their party affiliation or an individual politician, and legislating Missouri with fiscal management instead of giving tax cuts to the wealthy, preserving earned benefits such as Social Security and Medicare instead of cutting funding to these programs, treating all citizens fairly under the law and the Missouri Constitution and managing the state budget to support our elderly, veterans, financially disadvantaged and our persons with disabilities.
The Challenger space shuttle explosion
The Governor should be the liason between the state legislature and the fiscal governing body, with line-item veto power, as well as advisory board roles.
Re-instituting and preserving women's reproductive rights, fiscal responsibility, including higher minimum wages and prevailing union wage without cutting earned benefits programs and support for veterans, elderly and disabled, overhauling our infrastructure, and supporting public education and teacher pay.
It is beneficial, it is not required.
Yes, it is beneficial to establish relationships on both sides of party lines, to get an understanding of how a group of people with vastly different beliefs will need to work together for several years to actually govern.
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill was my inspiration when I briefly worked on her campaign in the telephony department in 2006. She is a strong and eloquent woman, and truly cared about the people of Missouri.
My aspirations currently do not include a lifelong political career or to use this office as a stepping stone to another office. However it is a possibility when my terms are up in this office, when the time comes, that decision will be made.
While canvassing, a lady in Grain Valley told me that she had no help for her disabled son and could not afford in home care for him, while she was recovering from her own hip replacement, and she was worried about how to make the rent payment when the government would cut her Social Security and SSI benefits for her son. She had to go back to work at age 75 and there were no jobs available that should could do and take care of her disabled son, and I asked a friend if they could give her a call and offer her volunteer services to set him up with Self-Directed Services to allow the state to keep her son at home while she worked. She made it onto the waiting list before the Missouri Legislature slashed this funding by $800M. If she had waited a week later, her son would not be eligible due to the defunding of the DMH. My heart was both warmed that she was able to hope for help, and yet broken for the thousands of Missouri residents who will not be able to receive services.
It depends on the situation, but I think limiting the power of the government is the direction we should be headed, not granting more power to the legislature who has not been able to get much done. Incompetency should not be rewarded.
I would like to help enshrine women's reproductive rights in the Missouri Constitution.
AFL-CIO, Mom's Demand, Pipe Fitters 533
Ways and Means, Budget Committee (which I understand we currently do not have)
Governing officials should be treated under the law as citizens, without a separate tier of financial responsibility or accountability than the average Missouri citizen. Tax and campaign funding reform which include transparency should be implemented to regulate "dark money" and funding from super PAC interest groups, Sunshine requests under FOIF should not be exempted for politicians, and oversight boards or committees should be bipartisan.
I do not support those who would decimate the petition process and dilute the voice of each voter.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
Campaign finance summary
Note: The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may represent only a portion of all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer. Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
|
Candidate Missouri House of Representatives District 32 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 8, 2024
