Elizabeth Mercedes Krause
Elizabeth Mercedes Krause (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Nevada's 2nd Congressional District. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Krause completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Elizabeth Mercedes Krause was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2001. She attended Montana State University, Bozeman. She earned a master's degree in educational leadership from Concordia University in 2016. As of August 2022, Krause was pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership and policy. Krause has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1][2]
- Nevada Minority Affairs Commission
- Nevada Native Caucus
- NEA-SN Hispanic Caucus
- ACLU Nevada
- NV Muslim Caucus
- Nevada State Education Association
Elections
2022
See also: Nevada's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Nevada District 2
Incumbent Mark Amodei defeated Elizabeth Mercedes Krause, Russell Best, and Darryl Baber in the general election for U.S. House Nevada District 2 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mark Amodei (R) | 59.7 | 185,467 | |
| Elizabeth Mercedes Krause (D) | 37.8 | 117,371 | ||
| Russell Best (Independent American Party) | 1.4 | 4,194 | ||
| Darryl Baber (L) | 1.1 | 3,466 | ||
| Total votes: 310,498 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Nevada District 2
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Nevada District 2 on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Elizabeth Mercedes Krause | 49.0 | 22,072 | |
| Timothy Hanifan | 14.3 | 6,440 | ||
| Michael Doucette | 12.2 | 5,478 | ||
| Rahul Joshi | 8.0 | 3,613 | ||
| Brian Hansen | 7.3 | 3,276 | ||
| Joseph Afzal | 6.9 | 3,117 | ||
| Gerold Lee Gorman | 2.3 | 1,034 | ||
| Total votes: 45,030 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Aaron Sims (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Nevada District 2
Incumbent Mark Amodei defeated Danny Tarkanian, Joel Beck, Catherine Sampson, and Brian Nadell in the Republican primary for U.S. House Nevada District 2 on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mark Amodei | 54.9 | 49,779 | |
| Danny Tarkanian | 32.6 | 29,563 | ||
| Joel Beck | 7.4 | 6,744 | ||
| Catherine Sampson | 3.3 | 3,010 | ||
| Brian Nadell | 1.8 | 1,614 | ||
| Total votes: 90,710 | ||||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Elizabeth Mercedes Krause completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Krause's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Mercedes has been an active union member for as long as she has been an educator, and holds title roles with the Nevada Minority Affairs Commission (Education Committee co-chair), the Clark County Native American Caucus, the Native American Alumni Club at UNLV, the Las Vegas Indian Center, and was a member of the inaugural Superintendent's Advisory Committee with the Nevada Department of Education. She is also bi-lingual in Spanish with roots in Belen, New Mexico.
Mercedes is a tireless advocate for pushing forward initiatives that benefit Indigenous peoples and all communities. Representation matters, Krause aims to uplift the platform issues important to diverse communities, including the 18 of our state's 27 tribal communities housed in CD2.
- My family instilled a respect for the inherent dignity of every person, but it is hard for many to carry themselves with dignity when they are unable to care for their families despite working hard. 1 in 7 Nevadans live in poverty. We need to support living wages, wages that afford a safe home, healthful food, healthcare, and the ability for Nevada families to care for their children.
- Enough is enough. We must demand that Nevada rise from its position of 48th in the nation in our education ranking. It is time to stop talking and fund our education system so that students can learn safely, and so that EVERY STUDENT IN NEVADA has the same opportunities. We are better than this.
- Nevadans should be able to afford safe housing and have a path to homeownership. The cost of living is above what our current salary base is, a balance must be created.
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Campaign website
Krause's campaign website stated the following:
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Women Reproductive Rights and Health Thank you to all the women bravely telling their stories, you are appreciated. I want to say that I genuinely feel every story that I read. Women all over the country and the world are so passionate because of the memories and emotions that our stories are stirring up. Not everyone is sharing their story, and we should truly not have to re-traumatize ourselves telling some of the hardest stories of our lives, to try to convince people that we deserve autonomy over our bodies! Just listen to women! It is so upsetting listening to people with the nerve to go on in detail about what a woman should do so she doesn’t get pregnant, how she should act, how she should feel and handle it if she does become pregnant. It is so frustrating because it’s some of the same people who could not even be asked to wear a mask in order to make their fellow citizens feel comfortable and safe, yet they want to force women to go through the intensely physical, mental, emotional and financial changes that are needed for carrying a pregnancy. It must be considered that a part of the reason that many women do not want have children is because of how harsh and frightening this world is. Let’s focus on what is needed make the world a safer place. Let’s create space where everyone has the financial security that is needed to have a safe, happy family. One that will have the clean air and water that is needed. Before we have conversations about forcing women to give birth let’s put the horse before the court. How can our Supreme Court Justices stand under oath and speak to the fact that they implied they would not interfere with the constitutional right for women’s right to choose what happens to their body. How dare anyone talk about freedom or representing the people and then make a decision so contrary to majority public opinion. This is not a campaigning point, this is our lives. I will not allow this to stand. I pledge full commitment to this issue.
Gun violence is the leading cause of death of children in America age nineteen and under. It is unacceptable. We must keep our children safe. This is why I support Ethan’s Law (H. R. 748 – 117th Congress, passed U.S. House 223-204 , now at Senate) I ask that the U.S. Senate pass this as well. I support the campaign against assault weapons and urge others to also. #BanWeaponsofWar Nevada is seventeenth in the nation for deaths from gun violence per 100,000 total population. This is according to the CDC/National Center for Health Statistics for Mortality by State 2022 Report.
Free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous people for all decisions that affect Indigenous people and their traditional territories (FPIC) needs to be enforced. NO decision, project or development should take place without the FPIC of the tribal community that will be impacted. THIS IS A HARD LINE, consent NOT consultation.
We need to enforce limits on water use/waste and support the expansion of existing federal programs to support wastewater reuse. Our senators are already creating a path to funding through grants to help create a base for large projects to combat drought. We are also seeing bipartisan action such as the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act. We need to ensure that this funding is distributed to tribal and rural communities equitably as this infrastructure investment are being made. In addition to quantities of water we need to be sure to ensure good quality of water also. According to Environment Nevada having The Clean Water Standards for PFAS 2.0 Act “would help protect Americans from further exposure to toxic PFAS by starting to turn off the tap on these harmful chemicals. PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a class of over 12,000 chemicals that don’t break down and can build up in the environment and our bodies, earning them the nickname “forever chemicals.” Research links PFAS exposure in humans to cancer, immune system deficiencies, high cholesterol, low fertility, and even developmental issues in children and infants. Moreover, the health impacts of PFAS are magnified because the chemicals accumulate in air, soil, water and our own bodies and persist in the environment indefinitely.” We must preserve and protect our water, we cannot live without it.
I can tell. It is often very easy to tell when a student has attended preschool or not. Our public education system is one of the foundations of our country. Education is “the great equalizer” and we must expand our service to our students. Every child should have preschool, access to highly qualified teachers and the courses they need to get into college or the trades, and then an opportunity to go to college or trade school. Expanding opportunity creates a more civil, happy society. This is one of the areas where we are behind other parts of the world…”you can tell about a people by the way they treat their children”…what do we want our treatment to say? I am committed to voting for and pursuing means for the funding to support education.
Just as with education, Nevada ranks low in healthcare, near last. According to the Commonwealth Fund “The only states that fared worse than Nevada nationally were Texas, Oklahoma and Mississippi.” This is unacceptable. We need access to quality healthcare providers, healthcare coverage for all and caps on prescription drugs. We are talking about our lives. Nevadans deserve better.
“The right to live, not simply exist. …The right to life And the sun. And music and art. The worker Must have bread But she must have roses too.” -1912 Schneiderman UNION PROUD Unions protect workers by protecting them through ensuring safer work spaces, living wages, health care benefits and stand up for their working conditions. I AM…
PRO Act (Borrowed/adapted from adlcio.org) 13 ways that the PRO Act helps working people: 1. Strengthens employees’ bargaining rights 2. Holds corporations accountable 3. Increases wages 4. Increases workplace safety. 5. Addresses inequality 6. Expands civil rights 7. Protects collective action and removes barriers to worker voice 8. Modernizes the union election and enforcement processes 9. Ensures most workers are included under NLRA (National Labor Relations Act) protections 10. Repeals “right to work” laws: The PRO Act would repeal right to work laws, which are divisive and racist laws created during the Jim Crow era that lead to lower wages, fewer benefits and more dangerous workplaces. 11. Helps fix the economy 12. Helps fix our democracy: Another consequence of declining worker power and economic failure is that more and more people lose confidence in the system as a whole. To restore that confidence and strengthen our democracy, we need to make the economy work for working people. 13. Gives working people a real say in our future
We continue to work to reverse centuries of injustice. I implore all of us, no matter where we are from, to work toward the ideal of life, liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness promised to us all.
I believe in the 2nd Amendment and support the right of law-abiding citizens to bear arms for the protection of their families, hunting and recreation. With this in mind we must also take measures to protect Nevadans from gun violence. Background checks and closing loopholes that jeopardize the safety of our families must be prioritized.
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| —Elizabeth Mercedes Krause's campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 18, 2022
- ↑ Ballotpedia staff, Email communication with Elizabeth Mercedes Krause, August 12, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Mercedes Krause for Congressional District 2, “Platform,” accessed August 26, 2022
