Sandy Spidel Neumann pushes for integrity in politics in run for U.S. Senate
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How did Sandy Spidel Neumann’s early life and career lead to her Senate run?
When Sandy Spidel Newman was a teenager growing up in Kansas, she announced she wanted to be a US senator someday. Today, after a long career in the financial services industry, Sandy is running as a Democrat in a crowded race for the opportunity to challenge Senator Roger Marshall for his seat. This is Morgan Chilson with the Kansas Reflector. Sandy's joining me today to talk about her Senate run, where she stands on some of the big issues of today, and what she brings to the race. Good morning Sandy. Welcome to the Kansas Reflector Podcast.
Oh, it's so excited to be here with you today. Thanks so much for having me.
Absolutely. Well let's talk just a little bit first about just kind of who you are. How did you come to be in this race?
Well, who I am, um, born in Topeka, raised in Ovalon Park, uh went to Shawnee Mission North, uh did undergrad in economics at the University of Chicago, um, did my MBA at Northwestern, uh had a forty year plus business career, um, saw things going on that I didn't like in terms of um what was being delivered or not delivered out of Washington, saw Roger Marshall you know, walk out on people that reminded me of my cousins who farm and no doubt voted for him. Mm. Um and I thought to myself, Oh no, honey, you work for us and so I said, I can help make you understand that and so then I I hopped in. And so
That's great. That's great. Did you always want to be in politics? I think I saw something. Part of me yeah, part Yeah.
of me did you have to understand I tend to run whatever I'm involved in, be it schools, uh you know, high school, gr uh college, grad school, or even after it um, you know, at uh various institutions on a boards for things, typically in Kansas boards, even if I wasn't living in Kansas at the time. Um so in high school, yeah, they asked me what I wanted to be and I said you United States Senator. It just I've taken a little business route to get there.
But that can be really helpful. Talk about those leadership roles and how they support what you bring to politics.
Well, and I think so much of what needs to happen now is us to take just strong looks at things and and apply some business principles like what's the data telling us? Not not you know, what what strategy do we have? What you're seeing a lot of going on in Washington right now, I mean take the Iran war for an example. There doesn't appear to be a strategic uh policy behind the war. There seems to be a lot of tactics where you when you see uh press conferences and they're talking about who sunk whose battleship kind of thing. I mean it just seems like it's more of a unfortunately a children's game to them than something that has actual strategic focus and then a uh a plan to actually be executed upon and 'cause that's where you see some of the is the
war on is the war off and it seems to be a lot of miscommunication. But looking at business principles like data, say the health care, um Obamacare, right? We know that the big abomination of a bill took away the ACA premium health care credits, right? Right. Yes. Tax credits. But they didn't replace them with anything, right? So now all of a sudden people's health care is about thirty percent higher for people that were using Yeah. Yeah, is is the ACA the end all be all? No it's not. But what we have now is data. We have fifteen years, twenty years worth of data, so we can take a look at it and say what's working, what's not working, fix the things that aren't working and then go about, you know, uh honoring the things that are working.
So you don't have to do some kind of a a broad brush stroke, right? And you need to obviously Restore the premium tax cred credits as you work toward a better solution being something along the lines of a single payer solution for health care. Do you see what I mean? So but you can you can optimize what we have based on data, right? Yeah. Okay. So that's what really works. Um other types of business intuition and business thought around this, when you have when you build Build teams, right? And part of that is building coalitions, right?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Sandy Spidel Neumann’s early life and career lead to her Senate run?
0:02–5:24
2
What business‑focused strategies does she propose for solving Kansas’ biggest problems?
5:24–10:03
3
How does she plan to use data to fix health‑care affordability and the ACA?
10:03–13:37
4
What solutions does she suggest for immigration enforcement and ICE reform?
13:37–17:24
5
How does she address election integrity, voting rights, and Supreme Court reforms?
17:24–21:31
6
What are her priorities for Kansas farmers and the upcoming farm bill?
21:31–27:30
7
How does she envision rebuilding trust, accountability, and bipartisan cooperation?
27:30–32:40
8
What final message does she give to Kansas voters about her qualifications and vision?
32:40–36:54
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