Anita Jacobson
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Anita Jacobson (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Rhode Island State Senate to represent District 37. She lost in the Democratic primary on September 10, 2024.
Jacobson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Anita Jacobson earned a degree from the University of Rhode Island in 1998. Her career experience includes working as a pharmacist, clinical professor, and director of the Community First Responder Program. She has been affiliated with the Rhode Island Pharmacists Association and the University of Rhode Island.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Rhode Island State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Rhode Island State Senate District 37
Incumbent V. Susan Sosnowski defeated Raymond Gardner in the general election for Rhode Island State Senate District 37 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | V. Susan Sosnowski (D) | 66.0 | 8,516 |
 | Raymond Gardner (R) | 33.8 | 4,356 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 31 | ||
| Total votes: 12,903 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 37
Incumbent V. Susan Sosnowski defeated Anita Jacobson in the Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 37 on September 10, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | V. Susan Sosnowski | 63.0 | 1,357 |
 | Anita Jacobson | 37.0 | 796 | |
| Total votes: 2,153 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 37
Raymond Gardner advanced from the Republican primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 37 on September 10, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Raymond Gardner | 100.0 | 285 |
| Total votes: 285 | |||
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Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Jacobson in this election.
2022
See also: Rhode Island State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Rhode Island State Senate District 37
Incumbent V. Susan Sosnowski defeated Raymond Gardner and Anita Jacobson in the general election for Rhode Island State Senate District 37 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | V. Susan Sosnowski (D) | 57.8 | 6,077 |
| Raymond Gardner (R) | 29.3 | 3,084 | |
| Anita Jacobson (Independent) | 12.9 | 1,352 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 4 | ||
| Total votes: 10,517 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 37
Incumbent V. Susan Sosnowski advanced from the Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 37 on September 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | V. Susan Sosnowski | 100.0 | 2,757 |
| Total votes: 2,757 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Maggie Kain (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 37
Raymond Gardner advanced from the Republican primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 37 on September 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Raymond Gardner | 100.0 | 413 |
| Total votes: 413 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jason Souza (R)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Anita Jacobson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Jacobson's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My name is Dr. Anita N. Jacobson and I am running for a State Senate seat representing South Kingstown District 37. I am a pharmacist, professor at URI, and lifelong SK resident who cares deeply about advocacy for our community and improving the quality of our healthcare, environment, schools, and political system.
- I am committed to addressing the shortage of primary care and other providers in RI. I have specific suggestions to address the crisis level shortage of primary care providers in our state. My vision is grounded in experience, education, and evidence. To address the provider shortage, we need to: raise reimbursement rates, remove unnecessary prescribing barriers, reign in predatory pharmacy benefit managers, limit coding requirements, facilitate foreign medical graduates to practice in RI, bolster our existing Nurse Practitioner program at URI, allow pharmacists to practice in an expanded capacity (as modeled in other states), and work to change the residency accreditation monopoly.
- Climate change is real. We need innovative and safe energy strategies that include and go beyond wind and solar power if we are going to halt the damage being caused by carbon emissions. Our District houses esteemed agricultural and environmental researchers, scientists and scholars who can inform our path forward as a community. I seek to support strategies for carbon capture and sequestration, improve and expand public transportation, develop safe and innovative alternatives to fossil fuels, ensure projects on public lands fully disclose carbon emissions and climate impacts, reduce factory farmed animal meats and products, and encourage regenerative agriculture and diverse cover crops.
- Ensuring that every student has early access to the literacy skills needed to succeed in elementary school helps to avoid disparities in education and behavioral problems that can develop from frustration. Working parents need support and increasing rely on the educational system, as a result our teachers risk being overwhelmed and unable to provide for all students. We need real strategies to create an equitable and sustainable system. I support universal access to Pre-K with a focus on literacy skills, addressing disparities in education quality, reducing student to teacher ratios in public schools, expanding access to mental health services, and ensuring resources are used to invest in students and teacher professional development.
Healthcare access, disability rights, reducing plastic waste, clean energy, early literacy, reproductive freedom, equitable education, and political reform.
Accessibility, humility, diligence, integrity, and tenacity. We need representatives at the State House who will utilize evidence-based information when considering and developing policy, and who will turn to true experts in areas of education, healthcare, environmental science, and more instead of relying on lobbyists. I am running for office because I am committed to doing the hard work. I want to critically evaluate legislation, be fully present at committee meetings and public hearings, have difficult but important conversations, and examine the pitfalls of our current political system with a goal of making things better.
Honestly I am a bit of a nerd who is interested in really reading and researching legislation to make the best informed decisions for our community. I have a long history of advocacy at the State House in my role as Past President of the Rhode Island Pharmacists Association and am known in my professional and personal circles as someone who comes up with innovative solutions to problems and makes them happen. The words my students at URI use to describe me are "tough, but fair". I am tenacious and will not back down from a debate when one is warranted, but I also have the humility to listen to others and empathy to consider the impact of decisions on people with different backgrounds and viewpoints.
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2022
Anita Jacobson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Jacobson'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 am a 40+ year resident of South Kingstown and have two children attending our public schools. I have experience in navigating public health policy and have been active in advocacy at the State House in my role as President/Past-President of the Rhode Island Pharmacists Association. I have worked to expand access to hormonal contraception and tobacco cessation medications for the past 8 years and was inspired to run for office due to a lack of progress and support by our elected officials for these and other important topics that affect our district. I am a consensus builder by nature and will work hard to navigate the State House in a way that directly benefits our community as a whole. We need an independent, accessible, knowledgable, hard-working person, like me, to represent us in the Senate.
- I have been a licensed pharmacist practicing in Rhode Island for 24 years and bring a great deal of experience in both direct patient care and public health policy with me.
- As a professor at URI, I have seen first hand the challenges that our students face upon graduation and will work hard to ensure opportunities for our young citizens who are transitioning from high school or college into the workforce. I value both higher education and careers in the trades - we need to support both paths and make decisions that encourage entrepreneurship in Rhode Island.
- South Kingstown is a coastal town and we need representatives in office who will advocate and support the bill for enhanced public shoreline access. I will fight to ensure the public has clearly defined rights of way and equitable access to all of our beaches and waterways.
Protecting our community from the harms of climate change; defining and enhancing public shoreline access; expanding reproductive healthcare; addressing the opioid overdose epidemic; ensuring high quality education for all; political reform.
Michelle Obama - she is poised, professional and smart.
The tragedy of the explosion of the space shuttle challenger - I was 12 years old.
Kingston Hill Store, cashier - about one year before going to work as a bus girl at Camdens Old Mountain Lanes, and later Dad's Place breakfast restaurant in Narragansett.
We need strong consensus builders at the State House. We have had too many years of partisan politics and culture war extremists leading to strife in our communities. Compromise is often necessary, but it is also critically important to ensure we have a system that allows that legislation the people support is actually heard on the floor of the General Assembly.
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
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 1, 2022
