Barry Wendell
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Barry Wendell (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent West Virginia's 2nd Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Wendell completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Wendell was a 2016 Democratic candidate for District 51 of the West Virginia House of Delegates.[1]
Biography
Barry Wendell was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He earned a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1971. His career experience includes working as a teacher, employee for Social Security, and Jewish clergy. Wendell has been affiliated with the League of Women Voters, Sierra Club, and ACLU.[2]
Elections
2022
See also: West Virginia's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House West Virginia District 2
Incumbent Alexander Mooney defeated Barry Wendell and Susan Buchser-Lochocki in the general election for U.S. House West Virginia District 2 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Alexander Mooney (R) | 65.5 | 160,493 |
 | Barry Wendell (D)  | 34.4 | 84,278 | |
 | Susan Buchser-Lochocki (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 115 | |
| Total votes: 244,886 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House West Virginia District 2
Barry Wendell defeated Angela Dwyer in the Democratic primary for U.S. House West Virginia District 2 on May 10, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Barry Wendell | 57.1 | 22,139 |
 | Angela Dwyer | 42.9 | 16,653 | |
| Total votes: 38,792 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House West Virginia District 2
Incumbent Alexander Mooney defeated incumbent David McKinley, Susan Buchser-Lochocki, Mike Seckman, and Rhonda Hercules in the Republican primary for U.S. House West Virginia District 2 on May 10, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Alexander Mooney | 54.2 | 45,164 |
 | David McKinley | 35.6 | 29,619 | |
| Susan Buchser-Lochocki | 4.0 | 3,329 | |
 | Mike Seckman | 3.7 | 3,076 | |
 | Rhonda Hercules | 2.5 | 2,083 | |
| Total votes: 83,271 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Michael Sisco (R)
- Carly Braun (R)
2016
Elections for the West Virginia House of Delegates took place in 2016. The primary election took place on May 10, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was January 30, 2016. Incumbent William Flanigan (R) did not seek re-election.
The following candidates ran in the West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 general election.[3][4]
| West Virginia House of Delegates District 51, General Election, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Barbara Fleischauer Incumbent |
11.84% | 16,269 | |
| Democratic | John Williams |
10.47% | 14,386 | |
| Democratic | Rodney Pyles |
9.48% | 13,025 | |
| Republican | Cindy Frich Incumbent |
11.78% | 16,182 | |
| Republican | Joe Statler Incumbent |
11.15% | 15,318 | |
| Democratic | Evan Hansen | 9.45% | 12,988 | |
| Democratic | Nancy Jamison | 9.04% | 12,426 | |
| Republican | Michael Acevedo | 7.09% | 9,742 | |
| Republican | Eric Finch | 7.16% | 9,832 | |
| Republican | Roger Shuttlesworth | 9.03% | 12,407 | |
| Libertarian | Eddie Wagoner | 3.51% | 4,824 | |
| Total Votes | 137,399 | |||
| Source: West Virginia Secretary of State | ||||
The following candidates ran in the West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 Democratic primary.[5][6]
| West Virginia House of Delegates District 51, Democratic Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Barbara Fleischauer Incumbent |
20.12% | 9,702 | |
| Democratic | Evan Hansen |
13.30% | 6,414 | |
| Democratic | John Williams |
13.35% | 6,438 | |
| Democratic | Nancy Jamison |
12.73% | 6,136 | |
| Democratic | Rodney Pyles |
12.12% | 5,842 | |
| Democratic | John G. Lucas | 8.51% | 4,105 | |
| Democratic | Billy Smerka, Jr. | 11.62% | 5,603 | |
| Democratic | Barry L. Wendell | 8.24% | 3,971 | |
| Total Votes | 48,211 | |||
Michael Acevedo, Eric Finch, incumbent Cindy Frich, incumbent Brian Kurcaba and incumbent Joe Statler were unopposed in the West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 Republican primary.[5][6]
| West Virginia House of Delegates District 51, Republican Primary, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Republican | Michael Acevedo | |
| Republican | Eric Finch | |
| Republican | Cindy Frich Incumbent | |
| Republican | Brian Kurcaba Incumbent | |
| Republican | Joe Statler Incumbent | |
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Barry Wendell completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Wendell'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 10 year resident of Morgantown. While here, I have taught pop music history at Osher Life-Long Learning Institute at West Virginia University as a volunteer. I served two two-year terms on Morgantown's City Council. I am married to Rabbi Joe Hample of Tree of Life Congregation, so I work as a rabbi's spouse.
I'm a native of Baltimore, Maryland where I attended Baltimore County Public schools and graduated from Johns Hopkins University. I completed a year of graduate study at The Urban Studies Institute at Tulane University. I worked as a bilingual Spanish SSI claims rep in Miami, Florida, and I was a substitute teacher for more than 18 years in Los Angeles Unified School district. I studied acting and voice and worked for seven years as a soloist in the Jewish community, I also tutored bar and bat mitzvah kids for 12 years. Joe and I were legally married in California in 2008.
- There are things we can get through President Biden's agenda here in West Virginia, starting with the now-expired Extended Child Care Tax Credit, which brought 40,000 children out of poverty. We could also cap the price of insulin and other life-saving drugs. We could tax coal to keep the Black Lung Fund for disabled miners solvent.
- Most advanced countries provide healthcare for all citizens. Our country can afford this if we tax the extremely wealthy and the big corporations at a reasonable rate. This is important to prevent the spread of epidemics and to make sure our schools are safe from disease.
- The latest Supreme Court decisions suggest there is no "right-to privacy" overturning precedent. This is where the "radical judges live now. We should have a right to privacy, including medical decisions like abortion, the right to use contraception and marry whomever we choose . The government should not interfere in these issues.
I want to make the tax system fair for everyone in the country. I support public schools and public libraries and trade unions. I want a higher minimum wage nationally, guaranteed maternity and parental leave and sick leave. I am a member of United Teachers Los Angeles and SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union. Social issues are a distraction the Republican Party and the highly partisan Supreme Court use to distract from the real economic issues we face. They are a ploy to divide Americans when we should all be together.
We also need to work to slow climate change. West Virginia needs a representative who is not beholden to the fossil fuel industry.
I look up to early feminists, fighters for gay rights, public school teachers, especially my grandfather, my mother and my sister. Jimmy Carter was the best President in my lifetime because he is honest and his religion is real and not just performance. I admire Jamie Raskin among politicians today for his strength and integrity and Katie Porter for telling it like it is.
I listen well and speak and write well. I have a good conscience and want what's best for everyone.
To be knowledgeable about what's going on in government, to be responsive to people in the district, to be a leader and follow one's own conscience.
"Genesis" in the Bible because it is a textbook of poor family relationships.
People should have some experience in government just to understand how frustrating it can be. One should also be well-read from a variety of sources.
The greatest challenge is income inequality. Included in that is the turn to extremism of the Republican Party and the Supreme Court and the worship of the previous President. We need to find common ground on social issues, on taxation, on the best use of government funds. Another challenge is voting rights for everyone, as the Voting Rights Act has been gutted by the Supreme Court and the Republican Party is bent on lying about elections to the point of threatening election workers.
I think we have to do it up to a point. Everyone, even if they have the country's bast interests at heart will not completely agree on things.
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Campaign website
Wendell's campaign website stated the following:
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pro-Choice I am a strong proponent for women’s rights not only in West Virginia, but across the country. WV’s Elected Officials Don’t Care About Women’s Rights Since the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June of 2022, several states have already banned abortions, and West Virginia wants to join them. On July 27th, I drove nearly three hours to Charleston to speak out against West Virginia’s proposed abortion ban. It was clear the legislature made it as difficult as possible to speak out, scheduling the hearing at the last minute, for a Wednesday morning, when most people are at work. Further, they gave each participant only 45 seconds to speak. Even then, most of the legislators didn’t come to hear those who worked so hard to voice their opinion, and more importantly, tell their stories. I was shaken by what I heard. There were a few anti-abortion people who spoke. Some were encouraged years ago to have an abortion but didn’t and now have adult children and grandchildren. There were a number of harrowing stories from women who were raped when they were pre-teens. Some of them had abortions. Others didn’t get pregnant, but still relived the horror of that experience, saying they couldn’t imagine having to carry a rapist’s offspring to term and then raise it. Some of the women wanted to go over their 45 seconds. Some left the podium screaming at the delegates. And many were emotional about their experiences. While I, personally, have never had to worry about being in this situation, I still feel strongly for the women that have been and are. West Virginia’s Pro-Choice Candidate I believe in women’s rights to bodily autonomy, reproductive freedom, privacy, and a right to be treated equally under the law. Without question, women have the right to access and use contraception without restriction. I strongly oppose policies that force young girls and women to remain pregnant in cases of rape and incest. Since West Virginia’s state legislature doesn’t feel it answers to the people, we need to be sure the federal government does.
I am pro-union because I have witnessed, through personal experience, their importance in maintaining workers’ rights. They improve the working conditions of their members. I joined my first union when I was seventeen and landed a summer job at Food Fair supermarket in Arbutus, Maryland. The union then was called “Retail Clerks.” The store closed at 10 on weekend nights, when I was scheduled to work. We were supposed to check out and then clean up the store. I filed my first grievance, in which I said we should not check out until we were walking out the door. I won that grievance. Experiences as a union member in College I worked as an ice cream vendor for Good Humor for two summers when I was in college. I was a Teamster then. When I later worked for Social Security in South Florida, I was a member of AFGE, The American Federation of Government Employees. For a time, I was the shop steward in my office and later for all the South Florida Social Security employees. I traveled by train to a conference in Washington, D.C., because the union asked us not to fly after President Reagan fired the air traffic controllers. Experiences as a union member while an Educator In California, I was a substitute teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District for more than eighteen years. Thanks to United Teachers Los Angeles, I had good health insurance, which continues today for Part B Medicare, vision and dental benefits. Now I am a member of United Teachers Los Angeles- Retired. During that time, I was able to join A.F.T.R.A. and later S.A.G., the two acting unions, which are now merged. I retain my membership in AFTRA-SAG. I am Pro-Union and Pro-Educator As a former teacher and an advocate for education and respect for educators, I supported the two strikes by teachers in West Virginia. I will oppose taking any money out of public schools for private schools, religious schools or charter schools.
I believe in putting people over politics. I and my fellow Democratic candidate for the 1st Congressional District, Lacy Watson, are both interested in slowing or stopping climate change, creating gender and racial equity, helping West Virginia by fixing the roads via the Infrastructure Bill, helping the poor in our state by reinstating the Expanded Childcare Tax Credit, and capping the price of insulin so that people afflicted with diabetes don’t have to choose between food and medication. We are both pro-choice, pro-LGBT, pro-union and pro-worker. The Governor and the Legislature have repeatedly talked about increasing the population of West Virginia by encouraging young people to stay and people from outside the area to move here. Open minds and hearts and a willingness to accept diversity of thought and religion would do infinitely more to get young people to stay here than tax breaks for the rich and giveaways to large out-of-state corporations. The other side Our opponents refused to certify the results of the last election, encouraging the false claims of fraud by the former President. Instead of putting our people over politics, they are more interested in restricting what teachers can teach, restricting what women can do with their bodies, restricting how doctors can help their patients, than in helping the citizens of West Virginia thrive.
Pro-Women's Rights |
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| —Barry Wendell's campaign website (2022)[8] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ West Virginia Secretary of State, "Candidate Listing By Office," accessed February 1, 2016
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 17, 2022
- ↑ West Virginia Secretary of State, "Candidate search," accessed November 4, 2016
- ↑ West Virginia Secretary of State, "2016 official general election results," accessed May 3, 2017
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 West Virginia Secretary of State, "Candidate Listing by Office," accessed January 30, 2016
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 West Virginia Secretary of State, "Statewide Results - Primary Election - May 10, 2016," accessed August 2, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Barry Wendell Official Campaign Website, “Home,” accessed October 31, 2022
