State Sen. Lindsey Williams says she will continue to do her job in an effort to keep it for another term. Lori Mizgorski wants residents of the state 38th Senatorial District to get to know her better so she can take over the job next year.
Unofficial results from Tuesday’s primary show Mizgorski won the Republican nomination for the state 38th Senatorial District seat that Williams, a Democrat, now holds.
With 97.2% of the votes counted, Mizgorski, 55, of Shaler had 15,673 votes (68%), and Jake Roberts, 31, of Ross had 7,375 votes (32%).
Williams, 38, of West View was unopposed for the Democratic nomination to retain her seat.
Williams narrowly won the seat in 2018 when she collected 50.1% of the vote to Republican Jeremy Shaffer’s 49.7%,
Now, Mizgorski is looking ahead to the November general election. Mizgorski said she was excited by Tuesday’s results.
“I have a long record of servicing the community, and my values aligned to the voters’,” she said. “I look forward to the opportunity to know more people and them getting to know me.”
Moving forward, she wants to home in on her passions of discussing education and funding it, protecting taxpayers and expanding affordable health care access.
She said transportation will be a focus on her campaign to evaluate how to use federal funds on projects.
“We need to look at transportation issues and how we fund repairs of crumbling bridges,” Mizgorski said.
Williams looks forward to continuing her work. Public education is still a priority on her platform, she said.
“I will be making sure we, as a state, invest and fund public education,” she said.
Williams said she will be fighting for working families to ensure they have jobs that treat them well, pay them well and protect them well.
Pushing for affordable health care and access to reproductive health care — including the right to have an abortion — will be at the forefront, she said.
She previously spoke about keeping property taxes down and being transparent and accountable for her expenses to taxpayers. Her campaign strategy will stay the same: meeting constituents where they are and talking to them about issues they care about, she said.
“I am just ready to get out there to continue to talk to my constituents,” Williams said.
