Samara Barend
Samara "Sam" Barend was the 2004 Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives for the 29th Congressional district of New York State. She lost with 41 percent of the vote against Conservative Mark Assini and the winner, Republican Randy Kuhl, in the race to succeed retiring Republican Congressman Amo Houghton.[1]
Campaign[edit]
At 26 years old, Barend would have been the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Barend, who had never run for public office before, raised $627,952[2] in her contest against Randy Kuhl, a Republican state senator who served in the NY State Assembly and Senate for more than 25 years. The heavily Republican nature of the 29th district, covering the Southern Tier in rural upstate New York, worked against her.
Barend was a featured candidate in several major Internet sources including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's blog, The Stakeholder[3] and on the website of ActBlue, the non-profit "527" political committee that supports Democratic candidates.[4]
Early life[edit]
Prior to the campaign, Barend was best known for her work in spearheading the campaign to bring a major interstate highway, Interstate 86, to the "Southern Tier" area of New York state, in an attempt to revitalize the lagging economy of the region.[5] Barend was a college student at the time and had worked previously as an intern for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. She later worked as Statewide Neighborhood program director for Hillary Clinton's first US Senate campaign.[citation needed]
Barend grew up in Vestal. .
According to an article in the August[year missing] edition of Harvard Kennedy School's monthly magazine, "At 19, she undertook a long-dormant plan to convert New York State Route 17 into Interstate 86. At 22, she founded Minds of Steel, a non-profit organization that promoted the benefit of physical fitness in addressing mental illness."[citation needed]
Aftermath[edit]
From 2005-2008, Barend was the governmental affairs director for engineering and consulting firm STV Group, Inc. and director of her nonprofit Minds of Steel in Vestal. In 2008, Barend was appointed Executive Director of the New York State Asset Maximization (SAM) Commission which was tasked to identify specific public private partnerships for the State. From 2010-2021 Barend served as Senior Vice President & National Public-Private Partnership Lead for AECOM & AECOM Capital. Barend is currently CEO of Idion (www.idion.us), a skin applied, secure identification and vitals tracking company. Barend has an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania with an individualized major in governing complex organizations (1999) and a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government (2004). Barend was named a member of the 1999 USA TODAY All-USA Academic Team. In 2015, Barend was named to the Vestal Central School District Hall of Fame. Barend was a 2017 Bond Buyer Rising Star.
Barend wrote an op-ed in Politico June, 2016 entitled "How to Fix our Crumbling Schools" https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/06/how-to-fix-our-crumbling-schools-000143/
Barend wrote an op-ed in the New York Times July 17, 2017, "The Benefits of Private Financing for Public Works." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/opinion/the-benefits-of-private-financing-for-public-works.html
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References[edit]
- ↑ "The Races in New York: Who Won Where". New York Times. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
- ↑ "Total Raised and Spent, 2004 Race: New York District 29". OpenSecrets.org. Center for Responsive Politics. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
- ↑ "NY-29: Sam Barend". The Stakeholder. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2012. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Paur, Kathy. "Inspiring Women". ActBlue. Archived from the original on 14 March 2006. Retrieved 24 January 2012. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ WEIGAND, ROBERT (March 9, 1999). "WOMAN WHO DEVELOPED INTERSTATE 86 PROPOSAL HONORED BY LEGISLATURE". Buffalo News. Retrieved 2022-01-22. Unknown parameter
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