Heidi Sloan
Heidi Sloan (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 25th Congressional District. She lost in the Democratic primary on March 3, 2020.
Sloan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Sloan was born in Cedar Hill, Texas. She obtained an undergraduate degree from the University of Baylor.[1]
Sloan's professional experience includes teaching in public schools. In 2013, she began working for Community First Village, where her tasks include farming and being a service provider with the formerly homeless.[1]
As of 2019, Sloan was affiliated with the Austin Democratic Socialists of America, Homes Not Handcuffs, Workstrong Austin, the Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, and the Young Farmers Coalition.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Texas' 25th Congressional District election, 2020
Texas' 25th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Democratic primary)
Texas' 25th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 25
Incumbent Roger Williams defeated Julie Oliver and Bill Kelsey in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 25 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Roger Williams (R) | 55.9 | 220,088 | |
| Julie Oliver (D) | 42.1 | 165,697 | ||
| Bill Kelsey (L) | 2.0 | 7,738 | ||
| Total votes: 393,523 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 25
Julie Oliver defeated Heidi Sloan in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 25 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Julie Oliver | 69.6 | 56,151 | |
| Heidi Sloan | 30.4 | 24,512 | ||
| Total votes: 80,663 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 25
Incumbent Roger Williams defeated Keith Neuendorff in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 25 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Roger Williams | 87.6 | 63,146 | |
| Keith Neuendorff | 12.4 | 8,965 | ||
| Total votes: 72,111 | ||||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 25
Bill Kelsey advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 25 on March 21, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | Bill Kelsey (L) | |
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Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Heidi Sloan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sloan's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I've been a worker since age fifteen, and I've spent much of my professional life teaching children with disabilities in public schools. For the past six years, I've farmed alongside the formerly homeless with a local nonprofit here in Austin.
I'm running for office because I believe there is plenty in America for every person to live the good life. Our country has enough to provide homes, health care, childcare, a healthy environment, college and a good job to every one of us. But a small number of extremely rich people make their money by profiting off of our work. They buy politicians like our current representative, Roger Williams, who pass laws that take more and more of our money and time, leaving us with less and less.
I've spent years organizing my community to win Paid Sick Days, to move Congressional Representative Lloyd Doggett to sign onto the House Medicare for All bill, to restore the rights of the homeless, to demand accountability in our city's police contract, and to win the largest affordable housing bond in Texas history. I know that one Congresswoman can't change a broken system alone, but I also know that mobilizing people into the fights that affect our lives is a surefire strategy to end the tyranny of big business over our lives.We can defeat the power of organized money with the power of organized people.- Working people deserve more power over our political system and our economy. When every one of us has democracy in the workplace, in the home, and in our government, we will be able to create the change we want to see in the world. We believe we can only win this change alongside unions and organized labor.
- We're demanding bold solutions to the profound problems facing America. This includes fighting for Medicare for All, housing for all, childcare for all, real access to abortion as well as the resources needed to raise a family, a Green New Deal, and an end to the racist "War on Drugs."
- One congresswoman can't change a broken system alone. None of these bold progressive plans will be possible just because I get elected; we must organize ordinary, working people to fight for our political future, and I have a plan to use this office to organize my district. I will legislate with one boot in office and the other in the streets, hiring organizers as my staffers to bring more constituents into the fights that affect our lives.
But as an organizer, it's difficult to just pick one policy area as most important to me. I've helped fight for Paid Sick Days in Austin and won; defended Paid Sick Days at the lege; pressured congressional representative Lloyd Doggett to sign on to support Medicare For All; fought to decriminalize homelessness in Austin; marched for Black lives, queer liberation, and workers rights on picket lines; supported Austin's Freedom Cities resolution; and fought to win the largest affordable housing bond in Texas history. Because I understand that all of these issues are deeply intertwined and connect to both economic inequality and trauma, I know we cannot fight just one at a time. Our movements grow stronger when we connect them, and so all work from health justice to housing justice to strengthening labor must be intersectional.
Austin City Councilmember Greg Casar, who somehow manages to see every chess piece in a political fight, and pulls every lever of power with compassion and wisdom and grace.
Representative Pramila Jayapal, who set a table before making policy, and who wrote policy around the demands of the people.
Senator Bernie Sanders, who has been saying the same things about our broken system and making the same demands for justice longer than my lifetime.
Angela Davis, for talking about her own oppression in a way that liberated so many other people.
In office, I am ready to continue this work by bringing groups and individuals together around policy, spinning off organizing hubs that will bring more people into and advance the work that we are doing. Effective politicians are the folks who understand that people power gets things done, and I have the qualities that most effectively pull people into the fights that affect our lives. Finally, I take it as a point of pride that an elected official in my city once told me I have too much faith in the people. We cannot win without this faith, and I'm ready to move people into taking the leaps of faith we will need to take together in order to win.
But we have seen the limits of what an elected official can do alone, and I believe keeping campaign promises means doing what it takes to win. I understand that as devoted as I am to this movement, I'll be up against a political establishment, corporate interests, and an uncompromising right-wing that will fight our progressive agenda tooth and nail. Therefore, it will be my job in office to not simply represent my constituents, but to organize them as well, to support social movements and progressive organizations in TX-25 and across this country to push for transformative change. Nothing in our country has ever changed for the better without ordinary, working people demanding it. As a Congresswoman in TX-25, it will be my job to mobilize working people in Texas to make those demands and win them.
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See also
2020 Elections
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