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  Heitkamp, Heidi
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<-  2013-01-01  
 
NameHeidi Heitkamp
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Mandan, North Dakota 58502, United States
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Born August 30, 1955 (68 years)
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InfoHeidi Heitkamp learned her North Dakota values of hard work and responsibility growing up in a big family in the small town of Mantador. Her mom was the school cook and custodian, and her dad did all kinds of jobs, from truck driver to seasonal construction.

Heidi and her six brothers and sisters all went to work as soon as they could to earn extra money for the family and later for school. She got her first babysitting job when she was 13, and worked her way through high school and college with a series of jobs, everything from waitressing to summer highway construction on a North Dakota road crew.

She says her father taught her the importance of working within the community to get the job done, from building the town VFW hall to putting a public park in Mantador so that every child had a place to play. And she says her mother, who never let the bullies beat up on the little kids in school, taught her to stand up for the little guy and demand fair play.
Ray Heitkamp Family yearly

Heidi brought those small-town values to her career, choosing a life of public service. As a crime-fighting attorney general, she battled drug dealers, protected senior citizens from scams, and worked to keep sexual predators off our streets and away from our kids, even after their prison terms are up.

Her reputation as an advocate for the people grew when she served as a leader in the national settlement with the tobacco companies that required them to tell the truth about smoking and health, and pay restitution to the states. That settlement has so far brought $336 million to North Dakota for successful programs to reduce teen smoking and support schools and water supplies throughout the state.

Today, as a director of the one-of-a-kind Dakota Gasification synfuels plant, she’s a champion for North Dakota’s energy industry. Heidi believes we need to use all of North Dakota’s rich energy resources wisely, creating and keeping high-paying jobs right here. She believes in reducing our dependence on oil from the Mideast and investing in the sustainable, renewable power sources of the future, including harnessing North Dakota’s abundant potential for wind and solar power. And she believes energy companies should do their fair share to build the infrastructure that North Dakota needs to support a thriving energy industry.

Heidi will bring her North Dakota values to the U.S. Senate. She says there are too many extreme politicians in Washington willing to hold our economy hostage to advance their narrow political agenda. Heidi says it’s time to put country first, put politics aside and work together to cut government spending, balance the budget, create jobs and get our economy back on track—while protecting North Dakotans.

Heidi lives in Mandan with her husband, Dr. Darwin Lange, a family practitioner, their golden retriever Copper, and their elderly tabby cat, Sport. They have two grown children, Ali and Nathan.

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JOB APPROVAL POLLS
DateFirmApproveDisapproveDon't Know
06/11/2018-07/02/2018 SurveyMonkey 54.00% ( 0.0) 46.00% ( 0.0) 1.00% ( 0.0)
01/01/2017-03/31/2017 Morning Consult 60.00% ( 0.0) 32.00% ( 0.0) 8.00% ( 0.0)
FAVORABILITY POLLS
DateFirmFavorableUnfavorableDon't Know
09/08/2018-09/11/2018 Beacon Research (D) / Shaw & Company (R) - FOX News 51.00% ( 0.0) 45.00% ( 0.0) 5.00% ( 0.0)
02/18/2018-02/20/2018 Tarrance Group (R) 54.00% ( 0.0) 38.00% ( 0.0) 8.00% ( 0.0)
10/26/2012-10/28/2012 Pharos Research Group 53.00% ( 0.0) 43.00% ( 0.0) 4.00% ( 0.0)

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NEWS
Date Category Headline Article Contributor
Apr 05, 2013 12:00pm News Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) Announces Support For Gay Marriage  Article karin1492 
Nov 20, 2012 02:30pm News The best candidate of 2012  Article John 

DISCUSSION
Importance? 6.66670 Average

FAMILY
Father Raymond Bernard Heitkamp 0000-
Brother Joel C. Heitkamp 1961-

INFORMATION LINKS
RACES
  11/06/2018 ND US Senate Lost 44.27% (-10.84%)
  06/12/2018 ND US Senate - D Primary Won 99.58% (+99.16%)
  03/17/2018 ND US Senate - D Endorsement Won 84.93% (+69.86%)
  01/03/2017 US Senate Indian Affairs Committee Minority Members Won 14.29% (-9.52%)
  01/03/2015 US Senate Agriculture Committee Minority Members Won 5.56% (-13.89%)
  11/06/2012 US Senate Banking Committee Majority Members Won 1.52% (-13.64%)
  11/06/2012 ND US Senate Won 50.24% (+0.91%)
  06/12/2012 ND US Senate - D Primary Won 99.85% (+99.70%)
  11/07/2000 ND Governor Lost 44.97% (-10.06%)
  06/13/2000 ND Governor - D-NPL Primary Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/05/1996 ND Attorney General Won 63.82% (+27.64%)
  11/03/1992 ND Attorney General Won 62.37% (+24.75%)
  11/08/1988 ND Tax Commissioner Won 65.80% (+31.60%)
  12/02/1986 ND Tax Commissioner - Appointment Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/06/1984 ND Auditor Lost 45.94% (-8.13%)
ENTERED, DROPPED OUT
  06/08/2010 ND US Senate - D Primary Lost 0.00% (-99.64%)
SPECULATIVE, DID NOT RUN
  03/15/2021 US Secretary of the Interior Lost 0.00% (-56.04%)
  02/23/2021 US Secretary of Agriculture Lost 0.00% (-92.93%)
  01/21/2021 DNC Party Chair Lost 0.00% (-100.00%)
  06/09/2020 ND Governor - D-NPL Primary Lost 0.00% (-99.33%)
  04/24/2017 US Secretary of Agriculture Lost 0.00% (-87.88%)
  03/02/2017 US Secretary of Energy Lost 0.00% (-62.63%)
  03/01/2017 US Secretary of the Interior Lost 0.00% (-68.69%)
ENDORSEMENTS
AK US Senate - Open Primary - Aug 16, 2022 R Lisa Murkowski
ND US President - D Caucus - Mar 10, 2020 D Joe Biden
ND CM3: Legalize Marijuana - Nov 06, 2018 NO No
Eleventh Circuit Court Judge - Jul 31, 2018 R Britt C. Grant
CA District 45 - Open Primary - Jun 05, 2018 D Brian Forde
US Ambassador to Luxembourg - May 24, 2018 R James Randolph “Randy” Evans
C.I.A. Director - May 17, 2018 I Gina Haspel
US Secretary of State - Apr 26, 2018 R Mike Pompeo
US Ambassador to Germany - Apr 26, 2018 R Richard Grenell
US Secretary of Health & Human Services - Jan 24, 2018 R Alex M. Azar II
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board - Jan 23, 2018 R Jerome H. "Jay" Powell
US Secretary of Homeland Security - Dec 05, 2017 R Kirstjen Nielsen
US Ambassador to the Holy See - Oct 16, 2017 R Callista Gingrich
US Deputy Secretary of the Interior - Jul 24, 2017 R David Bernhardt
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Apr 07, 2017 R Neil M. Gorsuch
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator - Mar 13, 2017 R Seema Verma
US Secretary of Energy - Mar 02, 2017 R Rick Perry
US Secretary of Housing & Urban Development - Mar 02, 2017 R Ben Carson
US Secretary of the Interior - Mar 01, 2017 R Ryan Zinke
US Secretary of Commerce - Feb 27, 2017 R Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.
EPA Administrator - Feb 17, 2017 R Scott Pruitt
US Secretary of State - Feb 01, 2017 R Rex W. Tillerson
US Attorney General - Apr 23, 2015 D Loretta Lynch
C.I.A. Director - Mar 07, 2013 N John O. Brennan
FEC COMMITTEES
C00505552 HEIDI FOR SENATE $ 355436.41