Barbara Bollier

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Barbara Bollier

Barbara Golsbee Bollier (born January 13, 1958 in Galveston , Texas ) is an American politician. She has been a member of the Kansas Senate since 2017 , having previously served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2010 . In December 2018, she switched from Republicans to Democrats . For this she will stand in the election to the US Senate in November 2020 .

Family, education and work

Bollier is the daughter of the nurse Betty Hauck and the anesthetist Robert L. Goolsbee. She grew up in the towns of Fairway and Mission Hills in Kansas and attended local public schools. At the University of Kansas in Lawrence she began studying human biology , which she graduated with a Bachelor of General Studies in 1980, and then studied medicine at the School of Medicine at the University of Kansas in Kansas City , which she received in 1984 with a Doctor of Medicine left.

From 1984 Bollier worked as an anesthetist . Bollier was employed in the anesthesia department at Baylor College of Medicine until 1987 and was an anesthetist at Surgicenter in Kansas City until 2000. She was a temporary lecturer at the Kansas University of Medicine , a delegate to the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and its state president.

The active Presbyterian lives in Mission Hills. She has a daughter and a son with her husband René, a general practitioner.

Political career

State MP

From 2010 to 2013, Bollier represented the 25th constituency in the Kansas House of Representatives and the 21st constituency from 2013 to 2017. In 2016, she ran for election to the Upper House of the State Legislature , the Kansas Senate . She won in the 7th constituency, which includes parts of the Kansas City metropolitan area with Overland Park in Johnson County , with 54.3 percent of the vote. She has been a member of the state senate since January 2017 and was temporarily vice chair of the health committee.

Bollier supported Democrat Laura Kelly before the 2018 gubernatorial election against Republican candidate Kris Kobach , who is known for right wing positions, and announced that he will help Democrat Tom Niermann in the election campaign against Republican Kevin Yoder in the state's 3rd congressional electoral district . Her party then withdrew her leadership positions in parliament in July 2018.

Change of party

On December 12, 2018, she switched to the Democratic Party. Bollier , who is considered politically moderate, named the Republicans' negative attitude towards LGBTQ and the funding of K-12 schools as reasons . She also cited the refusal of the Republican Party in Kansas to implement what she describes as common sense - such as the federally funded offer to expand Medicare to the state level - as another reason for her move .

2020 Senate candidacy

After longtime US Senator Pat Roberts announced that he would not run again in 2020, Bollier announced on October 16, 2019 that he would apply for his previous Senate seat in the November 2020 election . She had previously spoken to the Democratic Party leader in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer . The next day, Barry Grissom, who had previously been the favorite for the Democratic nomination, withdrew his candidacy and declared his support for Bollier. The former governor and US Minister of Health under Barack Obama , Kathleen Sebelius , spoke out in favor of her. Bollier competes against two competitors in the Democratic primary in August 2020 and is considered the favorite of the party leadership. She would be the first female doctor in the US Senate and the first person to be elected to the US Senate from Kansas for the Democrats since the 1930s. In the Senate election campaign, she sees the health system as the most important issue.

Bollier is likely to face the loser in the 2018 gubernatorial election, Republican Kris Kobach, who is also controversial in his own party because of his extreme positions; Also running in the Republican area code are Congressman Roger Marshall and Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle . Of three forecasting institutes, two (Cook Political Report, Inside Elections) consider the election to be Republican inclined (leans Republican), one ( University of Virginia Center for Politics) considers a Republican victory to be likely (likely Republican). Polls in February 2020 saw an open race; Kobach had negative popularity ratings, while Bollier was unknown to 70 percent of those surveyed.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Barbara Bollier's Biography. In: Vote Smart
  2. ↑ Morgan Gstalter: Republican state senator in Kansas demoted after endorsing Dems. In: The Hill , July 19, 2018.
  3. ^ A b Brian Lowry: Democrat Barry Grissom drops out of Kansas Senate race, endorses Bollier. In: The Kansas City Star , October 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c Democratic candidate sees opening in Kansas's US Senate race. In: KWCH.com , February 23, 2020.
  5. ^ Brian Lowry: Former Kansas Gov. Sebelius endorses Bollier in US Senate race. In: The Kansas City Star , October 21, 2019.
  6. ↑ Bryan Lowry: Kobach vs. Bollier: Competing polls test potential Senate race matchup in Kansas. In: The Kansas City Star , February 14, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Bollier, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bollier, Barbara Golsbee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Galveston, Texas