Hope Kaufman
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Hope Kaufman (Democratic Party) ran for election to the New Jersey General Assembly to represent District 23. She lost in the general election on November 2, 2021.
Kaufman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kaufman earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester in 1995 and a master's degree from the University of Colorado in 2005. Her career experience includes working as a strategic planner.[1]
Elections
2021
See also: New Jersey General Assembly elections, 2021
General election
General election for New Jersey General Assembly District 23 (2 seats)
Incumbent John DiMaio and incumbent Erik Peterson defeated Hope Kaufman and Nicholas LaBelle in the general election for New Jersey General Assembly District 23 on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | John DiMaio (R) | 30.7 | 46,020 |
| ✔ |  | Erik Peterson (R) | 29.9 | 44,801 |
 | Hope Kaufman (D)  | 19.9 | 29,894 | |
 | Nicholas LaBelle (D) | 19.4 | 29,146 | |
| Total votes: 149,861 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 23 (2 seats)
Hope Kaufman and Nicholas LaBelle advanced from the Democratic primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 23 on June 8, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Hope Kaufman | 50.1 | 6,523 |
| ✔ | | Nicholas LaBelle | 49.9 | 6,493 |
| Total votes: 13,016 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 23 (2 seats)
Incumbent John DiMaio and incumbent Erik Peterson advanced from the Republican primary for New Jersey General Assembly District 23 on June 8, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | John DiMaio | 50.5 | 14,142 |
| ✔ | | Erik Peterson | 49.5 | 13,881 |
| Total votes: 28,023 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Joel Weingarten (R)
Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Hope Kaufman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kaufman'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 problem solver and a collaborator. I have always taken a careful and balanced approach to bringing functional policies and initiatives forward and to completion. After completing my dual Masters in Landscape Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning, I have spent the last 15 years managing over 500 million dollars in environmental, parks, resiliency and infrastructure projects.
I am deeply committed to my community, investing my strategic planning expertise as an Environmental Commissioner, Chair of the Tewksbury Parks Committee, founding member of the Tewksbury Green Team and Ad-Hoc Committee on Stormwater Management. Board Development Chair for the Tewksbury Education Foundation and former Board member of Whittemore.
- INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS: We need infrastructure improvements and modernization now. We will create a REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCY PLAN that meets the unique needs of our District. Solutions focused on fixing our roads, modernizing digital connectivity, growing our mass transit network, improving recreational amenities and hardening our power infrastructure.
- CLIMATE RESILIENCY: New Jersey is warming faster than any other state in our Nation. Our District needs effective leadership on climate issues to preserve and protect the quality of our land, air and water resouces. We will fight to INCENTIVIZE PRESERVATION and conservation, fighting back against industrializing our farms, logging our public forests and the taking of our land for pipeline projects.
- TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION: We will streamline governmental processes from small business licensing to permitting to the DMV. Our mission is to ACCELERATE RESPONSE TIMELINES and ease pathways for businesses and citizens, saving time and money.
Climate Resiliency: We cannot afford to wait for a disaster to find out how prepared we are. We need to execute a resiliency strategy that takes into account preservation, infrastructure hardening and softening and advanced training and equipping of our first responders to handle the demands of climate emergencies.
Incentivizing preservation and adaptive re-use of developed lands, the challenges associated with building on already developed sites makes it more cost effective to develop on "raw land." We need to change that paradigm. Additionally, we need to incentivize the preservation of land, as the highest and best use for the ability of our state and nation to thrive for generations.
Women's Reproductive Health: A woman's body belongs to her and to no one else. A woman's right to choose what she does with her body is a non-negotiable position for me. I defer to the 14th Amendment:
Constitution of the United States Amendment XIV (1868)
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The ability to garner the financial resources necessary to address the needs of the district.
John Lennon was killed, I was 8.
I think this is a judgement call based on experience, I look forward to answering this question once elected.
Climate Resiliency
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See also
2021 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 28, 2021.
