{{Short description|American politician from Michigan (b. 1983)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jon Hoadley | state_house = Michigan | district = 60th | term_start = January 1, 2015 | term_end = January 1, 2021 | predecessor = Sean McCann | successor = Julie Rogers | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|8|14}} | birth_place = Vermillion, South Dakota, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | party = Democratic | education = Michigan State University (BA) | website = {{URL|jonhoadley.com|Official website}} }}
'''Jon Hoadley''' (born August 14, 1983) is an American politician from Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoadley has represented the 60th district—which includes the entire City of Kalamazoo and the majority of Kalamazoo Township—in the Michigan House of Representatives since first winning election in November 2014.<ref name="caucus_bio">{{Cite web| title = Biography For Rep. Hoadley| work = Michigan House Democrats| access-date = June 30, 2015| url = http://housedems.com/state-rep-jon-hoadley-biography| archive-date = July 2, 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170702035942/http://housedems.com/state-rep-jon-hoadley-biography| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name="mlive1114">{{cite news |url=http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/11/2014_live_michigan_election_re_3.html | title=2014 Live Michigan election results: State House Districts 1-110 | work=MLive | date=November 4, 2014 | access-date=June 30, 2015}}</ref><ref name="mlive1114-2">{{Cite news | title = 2014 election results: Democrat Jon Hoadley wins easily in 60th district state House race | author = Mitchell, Alex | work = MLive.com | date = November 4, 2014 | access-date = June 30, 2015 |url=http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2014/11/2014_election_results_jon_hoad.html }}</ref><ref name="btl1114">{{Cite news | title = Jon Hoadley: Next State House Rep. District 60 | author = Trager, AJ | work = Between The Lines | date = November 5, 2014 | access-date = June 30, 2015 |url=http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=68790 }}</ref>
In April 2019, Hoadley announced that he would run in the 2020 Democratic primary election in Michigan's 6th congressional district. He won the Democratic primary but lost to incumbent Republican Fred Upton in the November 2020 general election.
==Early life and education==
Hoadley was born on August 14, 1983, to Michael and Diane Hoadley. He has an older sister.<ref name="caucus_bio" />{{dead link|date=September 2020}}<ref name="campaign_bio">{{Cite web | title = Meet Jon | work = Jon Hoadley for State Representative | access-date = June 30, 2015 | url = http://www.jonhoadley.com/#!about/c4nz | archive-date = July 8, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150708230403/http://www.jonhoadley.com/#!about/c4nz | url-status = dead }}</ref> Hoadley grew up in Vermillion, South Dakota.<ref name="mlive913" /> After high school, he moved to Michigan and graduated from Michigan State University.<ref name="caucus_bio" /><ref name="campaign_bio" />
==Career== Hoadley has been involved in LGBTQ and progressive political advocacy since college, and has worked on political campaigns since 2004.<ref name="mlive913" /> He has worked for the Gill Action Fund, managed the campaign opposing South Dakota Amendment C, and served as executive director of the National Stonewall Democrats.<ref name="caucus_bio" />{{dead link|date=September 2020}}<ref name="mlive1114-2" /><ref name="campaign_bio" /> Currently, he serves on the Michigan Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
Prior to his election to the Michigan Legislature, he became president and owner of Badlands Strategies, a progressive public affairs consulting firm. During this time he managed a local campaign to defend Kalamazoo's local non-discrimination ordinance, and assisted with a similar campaign in Royal Oak.<ref name="caucus_bio" />{{dead link|date=September 2020}} He also managed the campaign to elect Justice Bridget Mary McCormack and worked with the Unity Michigan Coalition.<ref name="mlive1114-2" /><ref name="campaign_bio" /><ref name="mlive913" />
==State legislature==
He was elected to serve the 60th district in the Michigan House of Representatives in November 2014<ref name="mlive1114" /><ref name="mlive1114-2" /><ref name="btl1114" /> and re-elected in 2016 and 2018.
In his first term in the Michigan House of Representatives, he served on the House Elections Committee and the House Appropriations Committee, where he has served as the Democratic vice chair of the Judiciary and Agriculture subcommittees and sat on the Higher Education subcommittee.<ref name="caucus_bio" />{{dead link|date=September 2020}}<ref name="bpedia-hoadley">{{Cite web | title = Jon Hoadley |publisher=Ballotpedia | work = ballotpedia.org | access-date = June 30, 2015 |url=http://ballotpedia.org/Jon_Hoadley }}</ref>
In his second term in the Michigan House of Representatives, he served on the Appropriations Committee. He was the Democratic vice chair of the Higher Education and Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development subcommittees. He also served on the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Subcommittee.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
===2014 election=== Hoadley defeated David Buskirk and Pamela Brown Goodacre in the Democratic primary for the 60th district of the Michigan House of Representatives on August 5, 2014. He then went on to defeat Republican Party candidate Mike Perrin in the general election on November 4, 2014.<ref name="mlive1114" /><ref name="mlive1114-2" /><ref name="btl1114" /><ref name="bpedia-hoadley" />
{{Election box begin no change | title = 2014 Michigan House of Representatives, District 60<ref name="mlive1114" /> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link no change |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Jon Hoadley |votes = 15,514 |percentage = 70.12% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Mike Perrin |votes = 6,611 |percentage = 29.88% }} {{Election box majority no change |votes = 8,903 |percentage = 40.24% }} {{Election box total no change | votes = 22,125 | percentage= 100 }} {{Election box hold with party link no change | winner = Democratic Party (United States) | swing = }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change | title = Democratic Primary – 2014 Michigan House of Representatives, District 60<ref name="bpedia-hoadley" /> }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change | candidate = '''Jon Hoadley''' | party = Democratic Party (United States) | votes = '''3,276''' | percentage = '''58.98''' }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change | candidate = David Buskirk | party = Democratic Party (United States) | votes = 1,525 | percentage = 27.46 }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change | candidate = Pamela Brown Goodacre | party = Democratic Party (United States) | votes = 753 | percentage = 13.56 }} {{Election box total no change | votes = 5,554 | percentage= 100 }} {{Election box end}}
===2016 election=== After being elected to his first term in November 2014, Hoadley was unopposed in the 2016 Democratic Party primary for the 60th district of the Michigan House of Representatives. He went on to defeat the Republican Party nominee, Kalamazoo College student Alexander Ross, and Libertarian Party nominee, activist Logan Fleckenstein, in the general election on November 8, 2016.
{{Election box begin no change |title = 2016 Michigan House of Representatives, District 60 }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link no change | candidate = Jon Hoadley | party = Democratic Party (United States) | votes = 26,570 | percentage = 69.31 }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change | candidate = Alexander Ross | party = Republican Party (United States) | votes = 9,595 | percentage = 25.03 }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change | candidate = Logan Fleckenstein | party = Libertarian Party (United States) | votes = 2,170 | percentage = 5.66 }} {{Election box total no change | votes = 38,335 | percentage= 100 }} {{Election box hold with party link no change | winner = Democratic Party (United States) | swing = }} {{Election box end}}
==2020 congressional campaign== {{main|2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan#District 6}}
Hoadley was a candidate in the 2020 U.S. House election in Michigan's 6th congressional district. He won the Democratic primary on August 4, 2020, and challenged incumbent representative Fred Upton in the November 3, 2020, general election. According to his campaign website, Hoadley ran on a platform of progressive policies, such as a Green New Deal and single-payer healthcare system.<ref name="issues">{{cite web |title=On the Issues |url=http://jonhoadley.com/issues/ |website=Jon Hoadley for Congress |access-date=September 24, 2020 |archive-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922172901/https://www.jonhoadley.com/issues/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> His campaign website stated that he has been endorsed by Democratic politicians and organizations including Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and the Sunrise Movement.<ref name="endorsed">{{cite web |title=Endorsements |url=http://jonhoadley.com/endorsements/ |website=Jon Hoadley for Congress |access-date=September 24, 2020 |archive-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922172230/http://jonhoadley.com/endorsements/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The day before Michigan's Democratic primary, a blog Hoadley had kept as a college student was deleted from the Internet. In the blog, Hoadley had discussed drug use and sex and made controversial comments about women and children.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bowden |first1=Ebony |title=Michigan Democratic rising star Rep. Jon Hoadley blogged about drug use and sex |url=https://nypost.com/2020/08/04/michigan-democrat-jon-hoadley-blogged-about-drug-use/ |access-date=September 30, 2020 |work=New York Post |date=August 4, 2020}}</ref> Hoadley's campaign said the blog was "bad college poetry."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gremore |first1=Graham |title=Lawmaker says blog posts about meth and calling sex partners "victims" are just "bad college poetry" |url=https://www.queerty.com/lawmaker-says-blog-posts-meth-calling-sex-partners-victims-just-bad-college-poetry-20200805 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |work=Queerty |date=August 5, 2020}}</ref> The LGBTQ Victory Fund said Hoadley's controversial comments were satirical and taken out of context. The group accused the National Republican Congressional Committee of using homophobic tropes against Hoadley in relation to the blog.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Burke |first1=Melissa Nann |title=GOP campaign group accused of using homophobic trope against Hoadley |url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/08/gop-campaign-group-accused-homophobic-trope-against-hoadley/5750335002/ |work=The Detroit News |date=September 8, 2020}}</ref> In a Facebook video, Hoadley apologized for the comments, and his Democratic primary challenger, Jen Richardson, apologized for her part in publicizing the comments.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ring |first1=Trudy |title=Republican Group Slams Gay Candidate as 'Pedo Sex Poet' |url=https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/9/08/republican-group-slams-gay-candidate-pedo-sex-poet |access-date=September 30, 2020 |work=www.advocate.com |date=September 9, 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Moore |first1=Lindsay |title=State rep calls for end to 'swamp politics' from national Republicans in congressional race |url=https://www.mlive.com/news/2020/09/state-rep-calls-for-end-to-swamp-politics-from-national-republicans-in-congressional-race.html |access-date=September 30, 2020 |work=mlive |date=September 16, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
===Election results=== {{Election box open primary begin no change | title=Michigan's 6th district Democratic Primary, 2020<ref name="primary results">{{cite web |title=2020 Michigan Election Results |url=https://mielections.us/election/results/2020PRI_CENR.html |website=The Office of Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson |publisher=Michigan Department of State |access-date=September 24, 2020 |archive-date=June 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611014207/https://mielections.us/election/results/2020PRI_CENR.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link no change | party = Democratic Party (US) | candidate = Jon Hoadley | votes = 33,976 | percentage = 52.2 }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change | party = Democratic Party (US) | candidate = Jen Richardson | votes = 31,061 | percentage = 47.8 }} {{Election box total no change | votes = 65,037 | percentage = 100 }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change | title=Michigan's 6th district general election, 2020<ref name="election results">{{cite web |title=2020 Michigan Election Results |url=https://mielections.us/election/results/2020PRI_CENR.html |website=The Office of Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson |publisher=Michigan Department of State |access-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-date=June 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611014207/https://mielections.us/election/results/2020PRI_CENR.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link no change | party = Republican Party (US) | candidate = Fred Upton (Incumbent) | votes = 211,496 | percentage = 55.9 }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change | party = Democratic Party (US) | candidate = Jon Hoadley | votes = 152,085 | percentage = 40.2 }} {{Election box total no change | votes = 378,980 | percentage = 100 }} {{Election box end}}
==Personal life== Hoadley is openly gay<ref name="btl1114" /> and lives in Kalamazoo with his partner, Kris.<ref name="caucus_bio" />{{dead link|date=September 2020}}<ref name="mlive913">{{Cite news | title = Jon Hoadley announces state House bid; will face Buskirk in primary | author = Mitchell, Alex | work = MLive.com | date = September 24, 2013 | access-date = June 30, 2015 |url=http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2013/09/jon_hoadley_announces_state_ho.html }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
==External links== * {{official website}} * [http://housedems.com/state-rep-jon-hoadley Representative Jon Hoadley] government website * {{Ballotpedia}} * {{C-SPAN|1024882}} {{CongLinks|votesmart=153515|fec=H0MI06152}}
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