Tay Waltenbaugh
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Tay Waltenbaugh (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Pennsylvania State Senate to represent District 39. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Waltenbaugh completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2020
See also: Pennsylvania State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 39
Incumbent Kim Ward defeated Tay Waltenbaugh in the general election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 39 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kim Ward (R) | 67.6 | 93,310 |
 | Tay Waltenbaugh (D)  | 32.4 | 44,768 | |
| Total votes: 138,078 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 39
Tay Waltenbaugh advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 39 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tay Waltenbaugh | 100.0 | 25,362 |
| Total votes: 25,362 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 39
Incumbent Kim Ward advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 39 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kim Ward | 100.0 | 27,583 |
| Total votes: 27,583 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Tay Waltenbaugh completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Waltenbaugh's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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A husband, father, grandfather and a lifelong advocate of workers and families. I spent my entire executive career focused on early childhood education, behavioral health, community development, employment and training, and housing while also being the boots on the ground as a volunteer serving on over twenty local and state boards and coaching high school basketball in Westmoreland County where I've lived for forty years with my wife, Brenda. I'm incredibly grateful for the life I've been able to build but it did not come easy. Like most people in our region, I grew up in a working class family. As the son of a union bricklayer and a proofreader, I know how hard people work to keep food on the table and I believe that hard work should be valued, protected and yield a living wage. I'm coming into this race not as a politician, but as a first time candidate with the dedication, desire and experience to be a new, strong voice in Harrisburg where I will fight tirelessly for families, good jobs, good schools and safe communities.
- I will work to create, sustain and protect good, safe jobs where workers earn a wage that reflects their value and the cost of living.
- Public schools are the bedrock of our communities and every child deserves a safe, equitable K-12 education but our schools are strugling under the weight of a broken funding formula that requires districts and taxpayers to pay millions of dollars to failing, for-profit charter schools. No one should be making a profit from a public fund. I will fight to change this formula, bring balance and give the taxpayers a fair return for their investment.
- As long as politicians accept money from pharamceutical companies, big oil and other special interests, we will never see a cap on perscrition drugs like insulin or practices that keep our communities safe.
Economic growth for the middle class, workers' rights, infrastructure, behavioral health, and healthcare are critical issues that I am committed to improving.
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See also
2020 Elections
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