Sandy Adams

Sandra "Sandy" Adams (born December 14, 1956, in Wyandotte, Michigan) was a 2016 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 6th Congressional District of Florida.^[1] Adams withdrew from the race in January 2016, citing health issues.^[2]

Adams is a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Adams was first elected by voters from Florida's 24th Congressional District in 2010. After being redistricted to Florida's 7th Congressional District, she lost her bid for re-election in the 2012 primary election.^[3] She was defeated by incumbent John L. Mica in the Republican primary on August 14, 2012.^[4]

Based on an analysis of bill sponsorship by GovTrack, Adams was a "centrist Republican."^[5]

Career

• 2011-2013: United States House of Representatives, Florida, District 24
• 2003-2011: Florida House of Representatives, 33rd District
• 1974-1975: United States Air Force

Committee assignments

U.S. House

2011-2012

• United States House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology^[6]
• United States House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary^[6]

Issues

Presidential preference

2012

See also: Endorsements by state officials of presidential candidates in the 2012 election

Sandy Adams endorsed Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election.^[7]

Specific votes

Fiscal Cliff

Adams voted against the fiscal cliff compromise bill, which made permanent most of the Bush tax cuts originally passed in 2001 and 2003 while also raising tax rates on the highest income levels. She was 1 of 151 Republicans that voted against the bill. The bill was passed in the House by a 257 - 167 vote on January 1, 2013.^[8]

Elections

2016

See also: Florida's 6th Congressional District election, 2016

Adams briefly ran in the 2016 election for the U.S. House to represent Florida's 6th District.^[1] However, Adams withdrew from the race in January 2016.

Prior to her withdrawal, Adams has been listed as a member of the NRCC's Young Guns Program in 2016. The Young Guns program "supports and mentors challenger and open-seat candidates in races across the country."^[9]

2012

See also: Florida's 7th Congressional District elections, 2012

Adams ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. House, representing Florida's 7th District.^[10] Adams was defeated by fellow incumbent John L. Mica in the Republican primary on August 14, 2012.^[4]

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
John Mica	61.2%	32,119
Sandra Adams	38.8%	20,404
Total Votes	52,523

2010

On November 2, 2010, Adams won election to the United States House of Representatives. She defeated Suzanne M. Kosmas (D) and Nicholas Ruiz II (I) in the general election.^[11]

U.S. House, Florida District 24 General Election, 2010
Party	Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Suzanne M. Kosmas Incumbent	59.6%	146,129
	Republican	Sandra "Sandy" Adams	40.3%	98,787
	Independent	Nicholas Ruiz III	0%	115
Total Votes	245,031

Campaign finance summary

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Analysis

Congressional staff salaries

See also: Staff salaries of United States Senators and Representatives

The website Legistorm compiles staff salary information for members of Congress. Adams paid her congressional staff a total of $732,575 in 2011. She ranks 16th on the list of the lowest paid Republican representative staff salaries and ranks 18th overall of the lowest paid representative staff salaries in 2011. Overall, Florida ranks 36th in average salary for representative staff. The average U.S. House of Representatives congressional staff was paid $954,912.20 in fiscal year 2011.^[12]

Net worth

See also: Changes in Net Worth of U.S. Senators and Representatives (Personal Gain Index) and Net worth of United States Senators and Representatives

Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org, Adams' net worth as of 2010 was estimated between $2,004 and $32,000. That averages to $17,002, which is lower than the average net worth of Republican representatives in 2010 of $7,561,133.^[13]

National Journal vote ratings

2011

See also: National Journal vote ratings

Each year National Journal publishes an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of Congress voted in the previous year. Adams ranked 31st in the conservative rankings in 2011.^[14]

Voting with party

2011

Sandy Adams voted with the Republican Party 95 of the time, which ranked 30 among the 242 House Republican members as of November 2011.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many

Personal

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Adams and her husband, Judge John Adams, live in Orlando, Florida. Together they have three children.^[15]

Recent news

This section links to a Google news search for the term Sandy + Adams + Florida + Congress

See also

• United States House of Representatives
• Florida's 6th Congressional District election, 2016
• Florida's 6th Congressional District

External links

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