Tracy Quint

American politician

Tracy Quint
Member of the Maine House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office
December 7, 2022
Constituency8th district
In office
December 2, 2020 – December 7, 2022
Preceded byGregory Swallow
Succeeded byJeffrey Sean Adams
Constituency144th district
Personal details
Political partyRepublican
SpouseClayton
Children2
OccupationNurse

Tracy Quint is an American politician from Hodgdon, Maine. She is currently serving in the Maine House of Representatives from the 8th district, having first been elected in 2020 from the Republican Party.

Career

Quint is a registered nurse.[1][2]

In September 2020, incumbent Representative Gregory Swallow withdrew from the race for the Maine House of Representatives seat from the 144th district after winning the Republican primary unopposed. Tracy Quint announced that she would seek the seat instead in early October, running as a Republican. Her platform emphasized combatting obesity, support for small businesses, and support for the Second Amendment.[1] Quint won the election, defeating Democrat Kathryn Harnish with 68 percent of the vote.

In March 2021, Quint introduced a bill that would ban mandates of the COVID-19 vaccine in Maine until 2024. Quint said the measure was "not an anti-vaccine bill",[3] arguing in part that it was intended to stem reproductive harm. Patrick Whittle with the Associated Press pushed back on this claim, citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's statement that there is "no evidence that any of the COVID-19 vaccines affect future fertility".[4] Whittle also said that Maine was not considering any vaccine mandates at the time of the bill's drafting.[4] The bill was later dropped in May 2021.[5] Quint again introduced legislation prohibiting vaccine mandates in 2022; a legislative committee rejected it in January of that year.[6]

In August 2021, Quint spoke at a rally protesting a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for Maine healthcare workers.[7] The progressive States Newsroom affiliate Maine Beacon said that the event "validated false and dangerous claims about vaccines, at times framing the public health initiative as a government experiment in violation of individual liberties."[8]

In November 2022, Quint won re-election to the Maine House of Representatives with 72.8% of the vote.[9]

Personal life

Quint is married and has two children.[2]

Electoral history

2020 Maine House of Representatives election, District 144[10]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Tracy Quint 2,835 68.3%
Democratic Kathryn Harnish 1,325 31.7%

References

  1. ^ a b "Quint launches bid for House District 144 seat". The County. October 7, 2020. Archived from the original on December 9, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Tracy L. Quint". Maine House of Representatives. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  3. ^ Cole, Megan (March 4, 2021). "Rep. Tracy Quint gives update on how the session is going". WAGM. Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
  4. ^ a b Whittle, Patrick (December 7, 2021). "Republicans in Maine eye 5-year ban on mandatory COVID shots". The Associated Press. Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
  5. ^ "Vaccine mandate bill tabled". SeacoastOnline. May 11, 2021. Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
  6. ^ Jenkins, Cameron (January 21, 2022). "Legislative panel in Maine halts proposal to ban COVID-19 vaccine mandates". The Hill. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
  7. ^ MacDougall, Alexander (August 31, 2021). "Aroostook protesters resist vaccine mandate despite county's rising virus cases". The Bangor Daily News. Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
  8. ^ "GOP lawmakers headline conspiracy-laden vaccine mandate protest". The Maine Beacon. August 19, 2021. Archived from the original on August 24, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
  9. ^ News, WAGM (November 9, 2022). "Maine's 2022 Election Results". www.wagmtv.com. Retrieved January 15, 2023. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  10. ^ "2020 Maine election results". Government of Maine. November 3, 2020. Archived from the original on November 26, 2020. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
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