Ryan Quarles

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Quarles ran for Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture in 2015. He won the Republican nomination against fellow State Representative Richard Heath in a very close election, with 92,700 votes (50.39%), versus 91,273 votes (49.61%) for Heath. He had been endorsed by the incumbent Commissioner of Agriculture, James Comer, [11] and defeated Jean-Marie Lawson Spann in the general election.

2019 election and term

Quarles ran for a second term in 2019. He won the Republican primary with 82% of the vote (and was the only Kentucky candidate with a primary challenger to win all of Kentucky's 120 counties), and won the general election with 58% of the vote. [12]

In February 2022, he lost the case of Kentucky Hemp Association vs. Quarles, with Kentucky's Boone Circuit Court declaring Delta-8 to be a legal derivative of hemp, and issuing an injunction against Quarles and Kentucky law enforcement preventing them from taking any action against people for selling Delta-8. [13] [14] [15] The lawsuit against Quarles was prompted by the Agriculture Commission having issued an advisory opinion that Delta-8 hemp products were not exempted from the federal controlled substances list, which was followed by Kentucky State Police raiding several lawful hemp retail stores in Kentucky and taking a wide variety of hemp products, money, and cameras, and charging store employees with marijuana trafficking. [15]

In June 2022, the Kentucky Attorney General's Office, led by Daniel Cameron, concluded that the Kentucky Department of Agriculture violated Kentucky's open records law by failing to respond to a request for records related to any litigation involving Quarles, or involving the agriculture department during his tenure, that had been made by the Kentucky Democratic party. [16]

2023 gubernatorial campaign

In April 2022, Quarles began a run for the Republican 2023 nomination for Governor of Kentucky. [17] In the primary, he ran against a number of Kentucky Republicans, including former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft, state Attorney General Daniel Cameron, and state auditor Mike Harmon. [18] Quarles officially filed his candidacy on January 4, 2023. [19]

Quarles campaigned aggressively in rural areas of the state and earned 235 endorsements from local officials. [20] He lost the Republican primary to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, coming in second place with 21 percent of the vote. Despite the loss, he managed to place ahead of Kelly Craft, a former Ambassador to the United Nations who had raised $8.5 million and was endorsed by prominent elected officials such as Ron DeSantis and Mike Pompeo. [21]

Electoral history

Ryan Quarles
Ryan-Quarles (cropped).jpg
4th President of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System
Assumed office
January 2, 2024
Kentucky House of Representatives 62nd District Republican primary election, 2010
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanRyan Quarles2,08159.99
RepublicanRicky Hostetler1,38840.01
Kentucky House of Representatives 62nd District Election, 2010
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanRyan Quarles8,50850.66
DemocraticCharlie Hoffman8,28749.34
Kentucky House of Representatives 62nd District Election, 2012
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanRyan Quarles (inc.)12,40854.03
DemocraticCharlie Hoffman10,55745.97
Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Republican primary election, 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanRyan Quarles92,70050.39
RepublicanRichard Heath91,27149.61
Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Election, 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanRyan Quarles563,01360.08
DemocraticJean-Marie Lawson Spann374,07739.92
Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Republican primary election, 2019
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanRyan Quarles193,99482.21
RepublicanBill Polyniak41,97117.79
Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Election, 2019
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanRyan Quarles821,41458.2
DemocraticRobert Haley Conway545,09938.6
LibertarianJoshua Gilpin44,5963.2

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References

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  2. ↑ "Student Named Truman Scholar". University of Kentucky Public Relations. 2005-03-29. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  3. ↑ "Ryan Quarles biodata". Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
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  14. ↑ "Order"; Kentucky Hemp Association v. Ryan Quarles, Commonwealth of Kentucky Boone Circuit Court (2022).
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  16. ↑ "Records case leads to rare agreement among political rivals". Spectrum News. June 4, 2022.
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  18. ↑ "Kentucky Auditor Mike Harmon is running for governor". Louisville Courier Journal. July 12, 2021. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
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