Karen U. Kwiatkowski, née Unger, is an American activist and commentator. She is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency. Since retiring, she has become a noted critic of the U.S. government's involvement in Iraq. Kwiatkowski is primarily known for her insider essays which denounce a corrupting political influence on the course of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In 2012, she challenged incumbent Bob Goodlatte, in the Republican primary for Virginia's 6th congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives and garnered 34% of the Republican vote on a constitutional and limited government platform.
Bryan Roy Lentz is an American politician from Pennsylvania. He served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 161st legislative district from 2007 to 2010. He was the 2010 Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district. He was an officer in the U.S. Army and served in the Iraq War and during peacekeeping missions in the Sinai Peninsula and Bosnia. He worked as an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia from 1993 to 1999. He led the Philadelphia Gun Violence Task Force in 2011 and currently serves as chairman of the Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission.
The 2006 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 7, 2006, in the middle of Republican President George W. Bush's second term. Democrats won control of both houses of Congress, which was the first time either party did so since the 1994 elections. These elections were widely categorized as a Democratic wave.
Jon Cumberland Bruning is an American politician who served as the 32nd Attorney General of Nebraska from 2003 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he previously represented the 3rd district in the Nebraska Legislature from 1997 until 2003. He was a candidate in the 2012 United States Senate election in Nebraska, losing the Republican nomination to Deb Fischer and in the 2014 Nebraska gubernatorial election, also losing the nomination to Pete Ricketts.
Jon Lundberg is an American politician and a Republican member of the Tennessee State Senate for the 4th district. He was first elected to the 105th Tennessee General Assembly (2007–2008). He serves as Deputy Speaker of the Senate and first Vice Chairman of the Education Committee, a member of the Finance and Judiciary Committee. In the House, he was Chairman of the Civil Justice Committee, The Commerce Sub Committee, a member of the Civil Justice Sub Committee, a member of the Insurance and Banking Committee and a member of the Calendar and Rules Committee. He also served in leadership as the Republican Floor Leader.
Jerry Sonnenberg is an American farmer and politician who serves in the Colorado Senate from the 1st district as a member of the Republican Party. During his tenure in the state senate he served as the President pro tempore. Prior to his tenure in the state senate he served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 65th district.
Mike Kopp is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as a member of the Colorado Senate, representing Senate District 22, which encompassed southern Jefferson County. He served from 2007 and as Senate Minority Leader from 2009 until his resignation in October 2011 after his wife died from cancer. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Colorado in 2014.
Jacob Doyle Corman III is an American politician. He has been a member of the Pennsylvania Senate since 1999, when his father Doyle Corman retired from the same seat. A member of the Republican Party, he was majority leader from 2015 to 2020, and has been president pro tempore since 2020. Corman represents the 34th Senate District, which includes all of Centre, Mifflin and Juniata Counties and portions of Huntingdon County, and includes State College.
The politics of Colorado, United States, are that of a more recently leaning blue state. Once considered a definitive swing state, Colorado has been trending Democratic in recent years due to the rising percentage of young, college educated, suburban, and unaffiliated voters leaning Democratic. The growing shift of the state's Republican Party towards social and religious conservatism has also been cited as a reason for the changing voting patterns of Colorado.
Mark Waller is a former Colorado county commissioner as well as a former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado and county level assistant district attorney. Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Republican in 2008, Waller represented House District 15, which encompasses portions of northeastern Colorado Springs, Colorado. Waller also served in the US Air Force from 1993 until 2000, joining the Air Force Reserves in 2001, and following his graduation from the University of Denver Law School, he worked as an attorney prosecuting insurgents during the Iraq War; he was deployed in 2006.
Cheri Rodgers Gerou is an American architect and former politician, who served as a Republican in the General Assembly of the U.S. state of Colorado. First elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Republican in 2008, Gerou represented House District 25, which encompasses western Jefferson County, Colorado. She currently serves as the Director of Capital Assets at the University of Colorado.
Lawrence G. Liston is an American politician who serves in the Colorado Senate from the 10th district as a member of the Republican Party. He served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 16th district from 2005 to 2013, and 2017 to 2021.
Jay Hottinger is a Republican member of the Ohio Senate for the 31st district. A longtime member of the Ohio General Assembly, Hottinger has served in both the Ohio House of Representatives and the Senate since 1995. His current district includes Coshocton, New Lexington, New Philadelphia, and Newark. Hottinger serves as the President pro tempore of the Ohio Senate.
Leroy Garcia is an American politician who serves in the Colorado Senate from the 3rd district, since 2015, as a member of the Democratic Party. He has served as the President of the state senate since 2019, and previously served as the Minority Leader from 2018 to 2019. Before his tenure in the state senate he served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 46th district from 2013 to 2015, and on the city council in Pueblo, Colorado.
The 2016 United States Senate election in Colorado was held November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Colorado, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Karl A. Brabenec is the New York State Assemblyman from the 98th District. A Republican, he has served in the Assembly since 2014, when he won a special election. Under New York's ballot fusion law, he has also run on the ballot lines of the Conservative Party, Independence Party, Reform Party and "Tax Cuts Now." The 98th District contains portions of Orange and Rockland Counties in the Hudson Valley.
Darryl LeMon Glenn is an American lawyer and politician. He was the nominee of the Republican Party in the 2016 United States Senate election in Colorado. He lost to Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet.
Paul Lundeen is a Colorado politician and a member of the Colorado State Senate, representing District 9. Previously he served in the Colorado House of Representatives as the representative from the 19th District, which encompasses portions of El Paso County, including the communities of Black Forest, Calhan, Ellicott, Gleneagle, Monument, Peyton, Ramah, and Woodmoor.
The 2018 Colorado House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Colorado voters elected state representatives in all 65 of the state house's districts. State representatives serve two-year terms in the Colorado House of Representatives. The Colorado Reapportionment Commission provides a statewide map of the state House here, and individual district maps are available from the U.S. Census here.
Michael Joseph Garcia is an American politician and former United States Navy pilot serving as the U.S. representative for California's 25th congressional district since 2020. A Republican, he was first elected in a May 2020 special election and went on to win a full term in the general election.
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