Abbie Hodgson

Abbie Hodgson (born September 27, 1981) is an American professor, policy expert and political candidate. She has been a speechwriter for two governors, policy advisor and chief of staff to the Minority Leader of the Kansas House of Representatives.
Hodgson is a fifth-generation Kansan who was raised on a farm that her family has operated for 150 years.
A policy wonk, she was a speechwriter for Kansas Democratic Governors Kathleen Sebelius and Mark Parkinson.
Hodgson subsequently worked in a senior staff role for the Pew Charitable Trusts, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization, leading policy change efforts in Kansas and state legislatures across the country to stop predatory payday lenders and increase access to dental care. Hodgson worked in particular with a coalition of Republicans and Democrats to increase school funding.
2014 Primary campaign
Hodgson lost the Democratic primary, 57.9% to 42.1% in the heavily Democratic 46th Kansas House district, to current third term incumbent Dennis "Boog" Highberger, the former mayor of Lawrence, Kansas, the district's largest city.
2020 Kansas Congressional District 2 campaign
In July 2019, Hodgson announced that she would be running against freshman incumbent Representative Steve Watkins. Having been informed widely by her prior vocational experience, Hodgson thinks she can focus on the issues of trade, agriculture, health care and the changing economy in a way that will assist the district's urban and rural constituencies.<ref name=Ottawa/>

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