Greg Orman

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Greg Orman

Greg Orman (born December 2, 1968 in Mankato , Minnesota ) is an American entrepreneur and politician . As a non-party candidate, he ran in the November 2014 election with the support of the Democratic Party , but also numerous moderate Republicans for one of the two seats of the state of Kansas in the United States Senate . In the election campaign he was given a good chance of beating the Republican mandate holder Pat Roberts , but Orman finally lost by a clear margin. In 2018, he is running for state governor.

Life

Orman grew up as one of six siblings in his native Mankato, Minnesota, with his mother Darlene Gates; his parents divorced when he was three years old. As a teenager, he spent most of the summer months in Stanley , Kansas, where his father ran a furniture business. After attending Mankato East Senior High School , he studied economics at Princeton University from 1987 to 1991 ( AB 1991).

From 1991 to 1994 he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company , but in 1992 he founded Environmental Lighting Concepts (ELC), which specialized in the development of energy-efficient lighting systems. In 1996 he sold 70% of his shares in Kansas City Power & Light, in which he also took over a managerial position and ultimately the management. Under his leadership, the company's sales increased tenfold to nearly $ 1 billion. Since 2004 he has been the managing partner of Denali Partners, an equity investment company he co-founded.

Orman is married and lives in Olathe .

politics

Orman was active for the Republican Party for a long time and, as a member of the Republican campus group of his university (the Princeton College Republicans), supported George HW Bush's ultimately successful election campaign in the 1988 presidential election . In the meantime he was registered as a Democrat and made donations in 2006 for the Democratic Senator Harry Reid , but also for the Republican MP in the House of Representatives, Todd Akin . In 2008, he supported both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the primaries of the presidential elections and even ran for the internal selection of the Democrats for the 2008 Senatorial election , but withdrew his candidacy before the primary election . In 2010 he assisted with Scott Brown , in turn, a Republican candidate, in his own words to Obama's health care reform to prevent, and was in the 2012 presidential election claims to Mitt Romney his voice.

In 2010 he founded his own political platform, the "Common Sense Coalition", which positioned itself between the two established parties in order to attract dissatisfied voters from both camps. For the 2014 senatorial election , she brought together the 5,000 signatures that Orman needed to run as an independent candidate. The Democrats then withdrew their own candidate, Chad Taylor, and from then on supported Orman's campaign. From September 2014, several opinion polls surprisingly saw him in front of his Republican competitor, incumbent Pat Roberts . Nevertheless, Orman lost significantly on election day with around 43 to 53 percent of the vote against the mandate holder.

In the gubernatorial election in 2018 in Kansas Orman appeared again as independent. The election was considered open, as the Trump-inclined Republican Kris Kobach had defeated the incumbent governor, his party colleague Jeff Colyer , in the primary and thus Kobach, Orman and the Democrat Laura Kelly face each other. The campaign manager Colyers switched to Orman's campaign in the same position at the end of August 2018. Orman won 6.5% of the vote in the November 6, 2018 election, while Democrat Kelly won 47.8%. In the meantime, 43.3% of the voters had spoken out in favor of Kobach.

Positions

Orman describes himself as “fiscally conservative” and “socially tolerant”, so he is closer to the Republicans in terms of economic and financial policy, while he tends to adopt moderate, and therefore democratic, positions on socio-political issues such as abortion and weapons law.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Thomas Beaumont, Philip Eliott: In Kansas Senate Debate, Orman Cites Independence. AP message. In: Yahoo News , October 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ Dave Helling: Senate Candidate Greg Orman's Business, Political Interests Run Wide. In: The Kansas City Star , September 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ HuffPost Pollster Poll Chart: 2014 Kansas Senate (viewed October 3, 2014), realclearpolitics.com: Kansas Senate - Roberts vs. Orman (seen October 3, 2014).
  4. ↑ Dave Helling, Steve Kraske: Sen. Pat Roberts Survives, Defeating Challenge from Greg Orman. In: The Kansas City Star , Nov. 4, 2014.
  5. ↑ Jonathan Shorman: Republican Defection: Kansas Gov. Colyer's campaign chair jumps to Orman team. In: Kansas.com , August 27, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Orman, Greg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Mankato , Minnesota