2024 Kentucky General Election

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Mary Lou is from Louisville, Kentucky. She graduated from Assumption High School, attended Jefferson Community College, and earned her bachelor's in nursing from the University of Louisville. Mary and her husband, Bill, have one child and two grandchildren.

Mary Lou is a Transplant Coordinator at the University of Louisville. She has also been a member of the Kentucky Nurses Association and the American Civil Liberties Union.

WHAS11, Kentucky State Rep. Mary Lou Marzian withdraws from May primary

Mary Lou Marzian previously served as Kentucky State Representative for District 34 for 28 years. During this time period, she served on numerous committees, including the House Judiciary Committee and the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee.

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Supports helping seniors stay in their homes.

Supports job creation by helping small businesses.

Supports increasing the minimum wage, improving workplace safety, advocating for collective bargaining, and ensuring prevailing wage standards.

Supports policies that benefit working families.

- Supports helping seniors stay in their homes.
- Supports job creation by helping small businesses.
- Supports increasing the minimum wage, improving workplace safety, advocating for collective bargaining, and ensuring prevailing wage standards.
- Supports policies that benefit working families.

Economy

Believes in removing "dangerous guns" from the streets.

Public Safety

Supports maternal and child health, paid child care, and reproductive freedom.

Supports investing in mental health resources.

Sponsored legislation to prohibit insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other administrators of pharmacy benefits from imposing certain requirements on the public.

Believes in protecting access to healthcare for all.

- Supports maternal and child health, paid child care, and reproductive freedom.
- Supports investing in mental health resources.
- Sponsored legislation to prohibit insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other administrators of pharmacy benefits from imposing certain requirements on the public.
- Believes in protecting access to healthcare for all.

Healthcare

Supports increasing education funding, improving school safety, and raising salaries for teachers.

Supports improving school safety and raising salaries for teachers.

- Supports improving school safety and raising salaries for teachers.
- Supports fully funding public education.

Education

As a state representative, sponsored legislation banning non-recycled single-use plastics, such as bags, straws, and Styrofoam, and balloon releases.

Sponsored legislation banning non-recycled single-use plastics.

- Sponsored legislation banning non-recycled single-use plastics.

Energy & the Environment

As of August 20, 2024, Mary Lou Marzian’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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Sara-Elizabeth has a bachelor's degree in English and Spanish education and a master's degree in linguistics from the Univeristy of South Carolina.

Sara-Elizabeth is a Spanish curriculum consultant and developer. She previously worked as a Spanish teacher. 

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Ballotpedia, Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell

Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell previously ran for Kentucky State Representative for House District 41 in 2022, but did not win. 

Supports right-to-repair policies and fewer regulations like prohibitive insurance and licensing requirements.

Plans to support small businesses through right-to-repair policies and reducing regulations like prohibitive insurance and licensing requirements.

Supports developing sustainable tourism attractions.

Supports providing broadband internet to remote workers and educating them to fill those jobs.

Supports expanding access broadband internet to increase the availability of remote work.

- Plans to support small businesses through right-to-repair policies and reducing regulations like prohibitive insurance and licensing requirements.
- Supports developing sustainable tourism attractions.
- Supports lowering income taxes.
- Supports expanding access broadband internet to increase the availability of remote work.

Believes in funding technological advancements to monitor high-crime areas and increase solve rates and convictions.

Supports collaborating with nonprofit organizations and businesses to help reformed offenders reintegrate successfully.

Believes in implementing strategies to strengthen ties and trust between law enforcement and the community, imitating Jeffersontown’s success in this area.

Believes in implementing strategies to strengthen ties and trust between law enforcement and the community.

Supports incentivizing police officer training in de-escalation, mental health support, and victim advocacy.

Believes that teamwork between the community and law enforcement is essential for promoting safe streets and a peaceful city.

Supports building community policing initiatives.

Supports creating community policing initiatives.

Supports efforts to combat human trafficking and child abuse.

- Believes in funding technological advancements to monitor high-crime areas and increase solve rates and convictions.
- Supports collaborating with nonprofit organizations and businesses to help reformed offenders reintegrate successfully.
- Believes in implementing strategies to strengthen ties and trust between law enforcement and the community.
- Supports incentivizing police officer training in de-escalation, mental health support, and victim advocacy.
- Believes that teamwork between the community and law enforcement is essential for promoting safe streets and a peaceful city.
- Supports creating community policing initiatives.
- Supports efforts to combat human trafficking and child abuse.

Supports transparency in healthcare pricing.

Believes Kentucky’s Certificate of Need laws are outdated and removing them will foster competitive pricing in healthcare.

Supports measures to improve maternal health and childbirth outcomes, ensure access to medical cannabis, and increase mental health support.

Supports House Bill 3, the Pro-Life Omnibus Bill, which bans abortion in Texas.

Opposes allowing transgender women from competing in women's sports.

Opposes allowing transgender women to compete in women's sports.

- Supports transparency in healthcare pricing.
- Believes Kentucky’s Certificate of Need laws are outdated and removing them will foster competitive pricing in healthcare.
- Supports measures to improve maternal health and childbirth outcomes, ensure access to medical cannabis, and increase mental health support.
- Opposes abortion access.
- Opposes allowing transgender women to compete in women's sports.

Believes in creating charter school and voucher legislation to enhance school choice and improve public schools.

Believes in creating charter school and voucher legislation to enhance school choice.

Believes in reducing testing, especially for early learners and English language learners.

Supports enabling more Kentuckians to become certified teachers.

Supports implementing high-value skills instruction in high schools to help students qualify for high-wage jobs.

- Believes in creating charter school and voucher legislation to enhance school choice.
- Believes in reducing testing, especially for early learners and English language learners.
- Supports enabling more Kentuckians to become certified teachers.
- Supports implementing high-value skills instruction in high schools to help students qualify for high-wage jobs.

Supports a "just transition" from coal to nuclear energy.

Supports transitioning from coal to nuclear energy.

- Supports transitioning from coal to nuclear energy.

As of August 20, 2024, Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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- Your state representative represents the interests of your local district in the Kentucky State House of Representatives. The State House of Representatives, along with the State Senate, makes up your state lawmaking body: the Kentucky General Assembly.
- Your state representative can author, sponsor, and vote on bills that may become state laws. 
- There are 100 members of the Kentucky House of Representatives, each representing a single district. Representatives must be at least 24 years old and reside in the state for at least two years before their election. 
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- In addition to a $203 per day salary, state representatives also receive mileage reimbursements and a daily expense stipend of $182. 

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