Lauren C Arikan was born on December 14,1984 and is an American politician who has served as a Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates since 2019.
19 Facts About Lauren Arikan
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Lauren Arikan previously represented the 7th district from 2019 to 2023, afterwards being redrawn into district 7B.
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Lauren Arikan attended McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland and the University of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Lauren Arikan is married and lives on an eight-acre chicken and dairy goat farm in Jarrettsville, Maryland with her husband, Yusuf, and their four children.
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Lauren Arikan first got involved in politics in 2012 by becoming a member of the Board of Directors for the Maryland Friends of Midwives organization.
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In February 2018, Lauren Arikan filed to run for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 7.
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Lauren Arikan won the Republican primary with 13.6 percent of the vote, coming in third place in a field of thirteen candidates.
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Lauren Arikan defeated Democrats Allison Berkowitz and Gordon Koerner and Green Party candidate Ryan Sullivan in the general election, receiving 23.3 percent of the vote.
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Lauren Arikan was sworn into the Maryland House of Delegates on January 9,2019.
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Lauren Arikan was assigned to the Judiciary Committee by House Speaker Michael E Busch.
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Lauren Arikan left the caucus in 2022 after its members voted to elect Delegate Lesley Lopez as its new president over Arikan, who was in line to become its next president.
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Steele's campaign dismissed these allegations, calling them "completely meritless" and accusing Lauren Arikan of supporting Dan Cox in the Republican primary.
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Lauren Arikan denied these claims, saying that she intended to stay "completely out of the gubernatorial Republican primary".
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Lauren Arikan opposed legislation that would temporarily place restrictions on when landlords could evict their tenants until April 2022, and another that would guarantee low-income tenants a right to counsel in eviction cases, saying that she would sell her rental properties if the bills were enacted, instead investing in rental property in Pennsylvania.
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In May 2024, Lauren Arikan signed onto a letter condemning the jury's guilty verdict in the Trump hush money trial, calling the ruling a "political prosecution from a kangaroo court and left-leaning prosecutor" that is turning the US justice system into a "third world parody of law and order".
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In February 2025, Lauren Arikan defended the Trump administration's mass firing of federal employees, saying that jobs aren't "guaranteed" and changing careers was "just a part of life".
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In March 2022, Lauren Arikan proposed an amendment to abortion rights legislation that would ban abortion services based on the gender of the fetus.
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In March 2020, Lauren Arikan voted against a measure to kill legislation that would allow for liquor sales in Baltimore County on Sundays.
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In February 2025, Lauren Arikan opposed a bill to repeal the prohibition of selling condoms in public school vending machines, saying that the bill is "the kind of stuff that makes swing states go red" and questioning why the bill would allow such vending machines to be installed in preschools.