Kelly Thompson

Kelly Thompson is married to her high school sweetheart and has six children and twelve grandchildren.¹ She lives in North Webster and shares ownership of Thompson Concrete, a contracting business.² The company's service area extends across northern Indiana, southern Michigan and western Ohio.¹

She earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Central Florida.¹ She also founded a nonprofit focused on helping young people, with goals that included suicide prevention, academic support and safer homes through work with parents.¹ She says that work helped draw her into electoral politics.¹

Thompson describes herself as someone who voted Republican until 2016.¹ She ran unsuccessfully for Indiana House District 22 as a Democrat in 2020 and is now the Democratic challenger to Republican Congressman Marlin Stutzman.² Her healthcare platform calls for Medicare for All, with national coverage financed according to ability to pay and no premiums, deductibles or copayments.³

Her farmland plan would exempt qualifying transfers to individuals or family members from federal estate tax and limit purchases by foreign governments and investment businesses outside agriculture.⁴ She also proposes assistance for homeowners facing climate related insurance increases and a resilience fund financed by major fossil fuel companies.⁵ That plan includes grants and financing for home protection against storms, floods and other disasters.⁵