Jackson Hayes

Jackson Hayes earned a high school diploma from Ridgeview High School. He attended Brigham Young University of Idaho. Hayes' career experience includes working as a politician.[1]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am Jackson T. Hayes and I am running as the Democrat candidate for State House seat 41. My guiding principle in running is to provide every Hoosier with the tools they need to pursue happiness. As a state representative I will do my best to lower costs for utilities, ensure that large corporations are fair to communities and their employees, and ensure that emergency services are never too far away to help.

I was born in Utah and grew up in rural Illinois close to Champaign. I lived in Southern Brazil for two years and attended college at BYUI in Idaho where I studied History and American Government. I moved to Indiana in 2016 and to Frankfort in 2023. I’ve worked in factories, theaters and gas stations, for moving companies and call centers, and I have seen first hand how hard people work to get by and how often we are hurt by the systems and people we trust to protect and help us.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Education: Almost 2,000,000,000 dollars, that’s 2 Billion, has been siphoned from Indiana public schools into for profit private organizations with very little to show for it other than a worsening educational experience for every Hoosier. Private schools should be shut down, and the money returned to the communities that it was taken from. Everyone in Indiana deserves a top notch education and the opportunity to train for success.

Children are people too.Transgender Rights: Each individual has a right to do what they want with their body. People should be allowed to change their names, gender, and whatever else about themselves that they desire. This is very important because to attempt to deny this at any level hurts everyone. For example, there has been a recent push to require your ID to match the name on your birth certificate. This was designed to hurt transgender individuals, but it also hurts every married woman who changed their last name to match their husbands. Every man, woman, child, and anyone else deserves to have the final say in what happens to their body and the ability to continue to participate in society regardless of what they decide.

Trans people are people too.Abortion: Attempts to limit, ban, and prosecute doctors and patients for abortion have led to unnecessary injury and death for mothers and their children. If we don’t want abortions to happen then birth control and education are the answers, rather than prosecuting doctors or mothers who had to make the already difficult decision to proceed with an abortion no matter what their reasoning.

Women are people too.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Healthcare, Immigration, and corporate overreach.

Cuts to funds for hospitals, public insurance, and other necessities have severely limit how many people are able to receive adequate care.

Otherwise law-abiding residents are able to be kidnapped from their homes at our expense, this is wrong on so many levels, so I'll just say that more working is only a boon to the economy.

Indiana is being sold piecemeal to corporate interests, land and water for data centers, inadequate utilities that continuously raise their prices, and environmental destruction to fuel corporate greed, all at the expense of our people and communities.

What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?

Clinton County Democratic Party