Tiffany Bond
Tiffany Bond ran for election to the Maine House of Representatives to represent District 73. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Bond completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Tiffany Bond was born in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Edmonds-Woodway High School.[1] Bond received an associate degree from Cascadia Community College, a bachelor's from the University of Washington, an M.B.A. from the Drexel University College of Business and Administration, and a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. Bond's professional experience includes working as a family law attorney and mediator.[2][3]
Elections
2024
See also: Maine House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Maine House of Representatives District 73
Incumbent Michael Soboleski defeated Tiffany Bond in the general election for Maine House of Representatives District 73 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Michael Soboleski (R) | 55.0 | 3,032 | |
| Tiffany Bond () | 45.0 | 2,476 | ||
| Total votes: 5,508 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Kevin Scott (R)
- Vincent House (D)
Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for Maine House of Representatives District 73
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Vincent House in round 1 .
| Total votes: 345 |
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Republican primary election
Republican Primary for Maine House of Representatives District 73
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Kevin Scott in round 1 .
| Total votes: 765 |
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Bond in this election.
2022
See also: Maine's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Maine District 2
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Jared Golden in round 2 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
| Total votes: 316,382 |
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Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for U.S. House Maine District 2
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Jared Golden in round 1 .
| Total votes: 25,684 |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Michael Sutton (D)
Republican primary election
Republican Primary for U.S. House Maine District 2
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Bruce Poliquin in round 1 .
| Total votes: 36,848 |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Garret Swazey (R)
- Harold Stewart (R)
- Michael D. Perkins (R)
2020
See also: United States Senate election in Maine, 2020
United States Senate election in Maine, 2020 (July 14 Democratic primary)
United States Senate election in Maine, 2020 (July 14 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Maine
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Susan Collins in round 1 .
| Total votes: 819,183 |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Linda Wooten (Independent)
- Danielle VanHelsing (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate Maine
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Sara Gideon in round 1 .
| Total votes: 162,681 |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jonathan Treacy (D)
- Cathleen London (D)
- Ross LaJeunesse (D)
- Michael Bunker (D)
- Christine Gates (D)
Republican primary election
Republican Primary for U.S. Senate Maine
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Susan Collins in round 1 .
| Total votes: 88,448 |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Derek Levasseur (R)
2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Maine District 2
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Jared Golden in round 2 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
| Total votes: 289,624 |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dennis O'Connor (Independent)
- Danielle VanHelsing (Independent)
- Henry John Bear (G)
Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for U.S. House Maine District 2
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Jared Golden in round 2 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
| Total votes: 45,211 |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Tim Rich (D)
- Phil Cleaves (D)
Republican primary election
Republican Primary for U.S. House Maine District 2
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Bruce Poliquin in round 1 .
| Total votes: 43,047 |
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Tiffany Bond completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bond's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I’m a family law attorney who lives in Rangeley, Maine with our two boys and my husband of 19 years, who is a merchant marine. When I’m not running our active boys to go mountain biking, skiing, or to one of their games for school, I’m helping folks reconfigure the next journey of their lives – and I keep getting stuck on our laws not working for families. It’s excruciating for so many families to afford the current cost of living and painful to run a small business here. I’m excited to go fix what broken with our statutes so that it’s easier to survive and thrive in Maine.
Before having children, I volunteered as a city official (Parks and Recreation Commissioner) and served on a variety of boards, committees, and citizen action panels. I took a break from service work while our children were little, but now that our youngest is closing in on 12, I have the ability to go work for us in Augusta.
- Our existing statutes need a good polish; many are out of date, unclear, and/or written with good intentions but poor outcomes. We have way too many overlapping, unclear criminal laws. We also need considerable updates to our domestic violence and family law statutes to better protect victims and use of the court system as a tool of abuse. It’s also a challenge to run a business here - we don’t have laws that accurately reflect the challenges our small business owners face while supporting employees.
- Government should be accessible, approachable, and make our lives easier – we need to balance regulations that keep us safe with red tape hindering our success. Minor tweaks to our current laws and policies can make it much easier for us to connect with government resources. For example, it shouldn’t be a 3+ hour round trip journey to renew a drivers’ license.
- We should be focusing on long-term sustainability – for our environment, our economy, our children. These things are not mutually exclusive, but we keep getting sold on the idea that they are. We need flexible leaders willing to regularly review possibilities to make sure we have a state that is frequently checking in and making sure that our goals balance out for all of us, not just a few.
Our courts have multiple areas of improvement (e-filing has significant inefficiencies, we are unable to keep staff, we are unable to adequately protect abused people at all life stages, allowing remote participation, etc).
We need to allow our town office to provide a wider range of services, and then ensure that they have the resources to do so.
We have too many laws that are out-of-date, too many laws that overlap, and too many laws generally.
Our services are not focused on providing a return-on-investment to the community and helping families and individuals become self-sustaining. Many programs are designed to disincentivize use through failure instead of helping folks get a bridge to a better life; it’s a short-sighted set-up.
I don't know that pop culture is the best reference. You should get a pretty good feel for me if you watch a few of my youtube videos (/tiffanybond) and follow my twitter account (@tiffanybond).
My overall philosophy is that it's not that hard to be kind and cost-effective, particularly if you aren't paying attention to those who are lining their own pockets.
Honesty, diligence, flexibility, ethics, compassion, and ability to work with others.
To make sure that the laws that create the scaffolding for our society are well-written, well-maintained, and well-executed.
I don't need anyone to remember who I am, but I would like to know that I've made all our lives a little less stressful.
The governor should run day-to-day operations within the confines of the laws created by and maintained by the legislature, which may be a collaboration between the executive branch and the legislative branch.
Maine’s greatest challenges are around sustainability – the sustainability of our environment, our cost of living, our educational institutions, our business community. Right now our resources often battle each other instead of helping all of us be successful. We have massive strides to make in ensuring that Maine is an affordable, functional place to live.
I don’t think that state legislators have to have previous experience (though I do, and having experience working in the law is a huge plus since I can come in with a laundry list of tweaks that can be made right away to improve our laws). However, I do think anyone who is a state legislator needs to be willing to learn about the job they are doing regardless of their background so don’t end up with ineffective, clunky, junky laws.
It isn’t particularly important to me that legislators develop personal friendships with each other, but I do think that there needs to be honest, respectful, and professional working relationships between legislators.
Jill Goldthwait
I don't know the answer to this. I don't need to be the person in charge, but I do need the job being done well. I'm perfectly happy doing my day job - I wouldn't be running for office if I didn't keep running up against statutes that make my job (and all of our lives) harder.
Though this was from a bit back, it still haunts me. Someone had emailed that they were in a care facility in Maine and that they had no say in items so small at the fragrance of the lotion that was used in their care, and they didn’t even have the dignity or control over their own lives to make that decision. It sticks in the back of my mind and jabs at me to remember that small pieces of our lives are what can make us feel like we have no hope and no control – government should never make us feel like that.
This is a difficult question to answer because it depends on the severity and length of the situation. Are we talking about a short-term designation where there is no time to bring the legislature together to address? Or a longer-term recovery effort?
I would introduce a bill to make some significant changes in the way the courts are working (allow remote appearances, clarify procedures court-to-court, require the judiciary to email attorneys with major changes, update changes in the e-filing system including scheduling checks between courts/attorneys/parties and information management issues).
Maine Conservation Voters Action Fund
National Association of Social Workers Maine Political Action Committee
Maine Service Employees Association, SEIU Local 1989
Maine Education Association
Judiciary, family law, criminal justice, government oversight, health and human services.
Government should be as transparent and accountable as is logistically and topically possible. There are some areas where discretion is required, but that should be limited to data that includes sensitive data (details of abuse, information that should be objectively private, etc). Absent sensitive data, citizens should have a right to know what is being done in their name and as a shared purchasing decision.
I think that Mainers should always have a way to tell the legislature/governor that they have missed something fairly significant, and to bring that thing into law.
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2022
Tiffany Bond did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Tiffany Bond did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Tiffany Bond completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bond's responses.
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
1. Ensuring that legislation is actually read/fully considered before voting on it 2. Measurable, balanced, sustainable progress in our legislation in a range of areas, including rural broadband, climate change, appropriate tax policy, healthcare, economic development 3. Proving a viable method to decrease campaign spending
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?
Making certain we recognize as many unintended consequences of law while it is in draft form so citizens are not negatively impacted by poorly performing legislators. We should be paying attention to the words on the page and be focused on conquering as many non-partisan challenges possible. Climate change, healthcare, our economy, social security - none of these are partisan issues. We have common goals that require a range of view and proficient, dedicated professional to resolve.
What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?
We should have a variety of background represented that cross law, science, healthcare, and other industries. We should be seeking out professionals that want to make Congress a career, where they do not moonlight as lobbyists for their own campaign, but do show up on time, prepared, ready to make wise, balanced, thoughtful law like their retirement depends on it.
What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?
I enjoy reading federal law. I understand that it s the duty of a representative to be beholden to a wide range of views, handling disagreements with grace. I believe in affirmative responsibility to communicate major decisions to constituents. My skills are also rounded out by being able to remove drama from conflict and turning nonsense into common sense.
What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?
The House has a very specific important duty, to create our federal laws, including the budget. It's such an important and encompassing task, that few things should distract from doing it properly.
What legacy would you like to leave?
I would like to change the way we elect our officials and what skills we value. Right now we have a very serious, important job that requires collaboration, the ability to accept criticism, and flexibility in method. However, the job interview is more like a game show where parties compete with sound bites and money for a job that pays a fraction of the spending. It's irresponsible and gets us exactly the government we deserve. We need to deserve the government we want.
What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?
It's not the first historical event, but I remember being in school when I found out the Berlin wall was coming down and it felt like humanity was moving to a different space where we could really all work together and stop being afraid. I miss that feeling and I hope we can give it to our children.
What was your very first job? How long did you have it?
When I was 11, I had a newspaper route for a while. I also tried very unsuccessfully to start my own roadside snack shop, which managed to get me in the local paper, but not enough for the toy I wanted.
What is your favorite holiday? Why?
Thanksgiving. I love a day devoted to favorite smells, sounds, flavors, and family. It delights all the senses and reminds us to be grateful.
What is your favorite thing in your home or apartment? Why?
It's just outside my home and seasonal, but I love to lay in my hammock with my children under the crabapple tree and listen to the world go by.
What qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution?
It focuses on bills. The Senate has a range of other responsibilities, like confirmations. The House, though it does have committees, etc, focuses on wading up its sleeves and wading around in the law.
Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?
Yes.
What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?
Our inability to collaborate and move past partisanship is the single-greatest threat to our nation. If we cannot do that we will fail at governance, and likely a habitable planet.
Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?
No. It creates a cycle of perpetual campaigning.
What are your thoughts on term limits?
I do not think term limits are appropriate. It is our responsibility as citizens to take the performance reviews seriously for this job.
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| “ | What is your political philosophy?
Be realistic with what the law can do. Send qualified, balanced, thoughtful people who enjoy federal law to make law that is functional, cost-efficient, and humane.[4] |
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| —Tiffany Bond[2] | ||
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 7, 2024
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Information submitted on Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form on September 17, 2018
- ↑ Vote Smart, "Tiffany Bond's Biography," accessed September 30, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
