Kelley Dragoo

Kelley Dragoo is a grassroots activist and community advocate living in Kansas City, Missouri. She has spent many years focusing on education and accountability in both the private and public sector. She believes civil servants should serve as conduits for the will of the people and that Democracy deserves more, from all of us, than simply showing up on Election Day.

• Worker's Rights
• Medicare For All
• Public Transportation

Climate change, democratic representation, equity in the distribution of wealth and opportunity, social justice.

The Lieutenant Governor is a very interesting and vital support position in the executive branch. The job, itself, oversees many different types of committees and therefore has to have a working knowledge of a wide variety of topics. In addition, this office presides over the Senate and needs to have a very solid understanding of what legislation is being brought to discussion.

Humility. I talk often about how service, in this capacity, should be a sacrifice. Being an elected official should be, in many ways, losing yourself in the service of the whole. I think that is what we are missing currently in our political process. Our leaders have stopped listening to what the citizens are telling them they need and instead acting on their own, personal, wants. Humility allows us to recognize that we are not the most important, we are simply part of something bigger.

Transparency, effective communication, solid working relationships.

It is my desire to show people how important it is to engage with the political process and that there is no 'right' way to look, or be, for our elected officials.

My first job was working for Bob Evans Restaurant when I was fifteen. I had this job until I went to college. It taught me about service and responsibility.

Best question.
Illusions by Richard Bach and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The first is one of those books that you can come back to, again and again, and find something new - learn something new. The second, shows us that creation is an act that requires responsibility.

I just want to be me.

Holly Wood Died by Yellowcard

I think the most important part of the Lieutenant Governor's job is presiding over the legislature. It is vital that these two branches of government work together effectively and efficiently in order to best serve the people.

Currently, people are fairly disenchanted with "politicians" as a whole. I believe it is my strength that I am not a political figure - while still understanding the fundamentals of how our government works. Better yet, I am an activist, which means I get things done.