Lamar Foley
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Lamar Foley (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 130. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Foley completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Lamar Foley was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor's degree from Penn State University in 1979. He earned a doctor of medicine from the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in 1983. Foley's career experience includes working as a family physician. He has served as a chairman with the Boyertown, Pennsylvania board of health. Foley has been affiliated with the Penn State Alumni Society, with Physicians for Social Responsibility, with the Sierra Club, with Berks Stands Up, and with Berks Democratic Women.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 130
Incumbent David Maloney defeated Lamar Foley in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 130 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | David Maloney (R) | 63.8 | 23,508 |
 | Lamar Foley (D)  | 36.2 | 13,332 | |
| Total votes: 36,840 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 130
Lamar Foley advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 130 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lamar Foley | 100.0 | 5,950 |
| Total votes: 5,950 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 130
Incumbent David Maloney advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 130 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | David Maloney | 100.0 | 6,945 |
| Total votes: 6,945 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Lamar Foley completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Foley's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Francis Lamar Foley Jr. - I grew up in Colebrookdale Township. I'm a graduate of Boyertown High School, Penn State's College of Science and Penn State's College of Medicine at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. After earning my medical degree I completed a residency in Family Medicine at The York Hospital in 1986, then returned to the Boyertown area to practice in and around the area of the 130th District since that time. My career in medicine spans 37 years to 2020. As a student I volunteered, studied, and worked at the NIH under Dr Anthony Fauci and his group at the NIAID. I continued immunology research as a student at Hershey before entering clinical practice. I am a former Chairman of the Boyertown Borough Board of Health. Since January this year I have been on a planned interim break from medical practice and seeking the office of State Representative. I've currently lived in the Oley valley for 27 years. I have 4 grown children and 4 grandchildren all living in Pennsylvania.
- Healthcare Administration Reform - Our government allowed the medical insurance industry to convert from the non-profit status to a typical corporate profit model. Costs skyrocket, lengthy and confusing medical insurance policies are created, and physician autonomy suffers. Coverage denials and pre-authorizations hamper efficiency. I will be working to return us to non-profit administration and rejuvenate private practice.
- Tax Reform - Personal taxes, especially residential real estate and to a lesser extent sales taxes currently threaten the common good. Corporations as a whole are not paying their fair share. I shall work for secure funding of the public school system while eliminating or minimizing a real estate component. The current proposals are inadequate.
- Environmental Preservation - The report of the 43rd Statewide Investigating Grand Jury in June clearly cast Pennsylvania's rush to fracking in the light appropriate to flush out bad government. The report stated, " ...the lack of criminal prosecution is not because such crimes have not been committed. They felt our very Pennsylvania consitution was breached. I will work for protection of our constitutional duty to conserve and maintain the people's right to clean air, pure water, and a healthy environment.
I am passionate about the common good. I would like to see all citizens share in the liberty and justice which our foregoing parents wrested from the British "Crown". Let's see to it that in deed "All men are created equal" and realize that patriotism is not merely shouting and waving a flag. It includes embracing diversity, looking out for the poor and protecting the vulnerable.
Let's honor those who created this nation, those who fought to cure it from evils within, and those who fought against foes from abroad. Let's also honor those who fed our people and manufactured it's necessities in war and in peace. Let's hold in disdain those who promote perpetual war, and those who profit off of war. Let's give our disabled veterans world class healthcare and a decent life in retirement.
Let's see that world class healthcare is appropriately accessible and affordable for everyone. Let's respect our environment and work to make life sustainably good. Let's be grateful in our work as were those who ordained the constitution of this state.
I am passionate about our natural resources and the public estate. Article 1 of our constitution: The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. I support preservation of family farms and farmland. I'd focus on re-development of our cities and public transportation in an effort to protect our more rural areas.
I am thoughtful and a problem solver by nature. I am generally calm and able to defuse interpersonal conflict.
I'd like to help try to leave a better world to those who are yet to come.
I recall very well November 22, 1963 and hearing of the assassination of President Kennedy. There was profound sadness at school as the radio broadcast over the loudspeakers at Colebrookdale Township Elementary School detailed the event. Teachers cried. I recall walking back the dirt lane to our farmhouse and being the one to tell my mother when I got home from school. I recall watching the funeral on our black and white TV. It was a type of universal sadness and shock that I never felt before. I was six years old. A few years later that feeling returned with the Apollo 1 fire and the loss of our astronauts.
Ecclesiastes. Probably because of the thought-provoking wisdom it contains and because of fond memories of the people with whom I first studied it. But, how can I pick a favorite?
Finding enough time for everything I'd like to do.
Senators would be expected to address problems and solutions of longer term issues and perhaps be less responsive to fleeting changes in public opinion. The differences essentially relate to procedural code.
Not necessarily, and at least some of them should not have much experience.
Conversion to renewable sources of clean energy. Monitoring natural gas pipelines and infrastructure of the oil and gas industry. Preparation for disassembling much of the oil and gas infrastructure.
Election reform. Implementation of the American Anti=Corruption Act. Hopefully it won't take a decade.
Adoption of a private healthcare system which provides superior quality, affordability, and availability for everyone.
A mutually supportive one. Partisan rancor is inappropriate at all levels of our government.
Absolutely. These relationships should be blind to party affiliation.
I strongly favor a non-partisan independent citizen's commission to draw district lines.
Yes. Committees related to the priorities mentioned previously, and appropriations.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 23, 2020
