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{{short description|American Democratic politician.}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix =
|name = Sondy Pope
|honorific-suffix =
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|office = Member of the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]]
|constituency = [[Wisconsin's 80th Assembly district|80th Assembly district]]
| term_start = January 7, 2013
| term_end = January 2, 2023
| predecessor = [[Janis Ringhand]]
| successor = [[Mike Bare]]
|constituency1 = [[Wisconsin's 79th Assembly district|79th Assembly district]]
| term_start1 = January 6, 2003
| term_end1 = January 7, 2013
| predecessor1 = [[Rick Skindrud]]
| successor1 = [[Dianne Hesselbein]]
|party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|4|27}}
|birth_place = [[Madison, Wisconsin]], U.S.
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|residence = [[Mount Horeb, Wisconsin]], U.S.
|spouse = Reed Van Gordon
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|website = [https://legis.wisconsin.gov/assembly/80/pope Official website]
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'''Sondy M. Pope''' (born April 27, 1950) is a retired American nonprofit executive and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] politician from [[Dane County, Wisconsin]]. She served 20 years in the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]], from 2003 through 2022. She represented the [[Wisconsin's 79th Assembly district|79th Assembly district]] for the first 10 years, then represented the [[Wisconsin's 80th Assembly district|80th district]] after the 2011 [[Redistricting in Wisconsin|redistricting]].

==Early life and family==
Pope was born in Madison; she graduated from [[River Valley High School (Spring Green, Wisconsin)|River Valley High School]] in [[Spring Green, Wisconsin|Spring Green]] and attended [[Madison Area Technical College]] and [[Edgewood College]]. Prior to election to the Assembly, she was a staff member for the Foundation for Madison's Public Schools. She is married with one daughter.<ref name="legis.state.wi.us">[http://www.legis.state.wi.us/assembly/asm79/news/bio.htm]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Legislative career==
Pope first ran for the Assembly to represent the 79th district (western parts of Madison and [[Middleton, Wisconsin|Middleton]], [[Blue Mounds, Wisconsin|Blue Mounds]], [[Cross Plains, Wisconsin|Cross Plains]], [[Fitchburg, Wisconsin|Fitchburg]], [[Mount Horeb, Wisconsin|Mount Horeb]], [[Springdale, Wisconsin|Springdale]], [[Vermont, Wisconsin|Vermont]], and [[Verona, Wisconsin|Verona]]) in 2000 against [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[incumbent]] [[Rick Skindrud]], but lost by 13,765 to 18,510 for Skindrud and 887 for [[independent (politics)|independent]] Bob Menamin.<ref>[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk2001 Barish, Lawrence S.; Meloy, Patricia E., eds. ''State of Wisconsin 2001-2002 blue book'' Madison: Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, 2002; p. 930]</ref>

She was re-nominated in 2002, and unseated Skindrud, with a vote of 12,311 to Skindrud's 10,865. She was assigned to the [[standing committee]]s on [[aging]] and [[long-term care]]; [[education]]; [[rural life|rural affairs]]; and [[small business]].<ref>[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk2003 Barish, Lawrence S., ed. ''State of Wisconsin 2003-2004 blue book'' Madison: Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, 2004; pp. 73, 930.]</ref>

She was re-elected in 2004, after an unsuccessful challenge in the Democratic [[Partisan primary|primary election]] from Manamin; re-elected in 2006 (without opposition), 2008 and 2010; and as of 2011 is ranking minority member of the Assembly's standing committee on [[education]], and a member of the committees on [[Home|housing]], and on [[children]] and [[family|families]].<ref name="legis.state.wi.us"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://legis.wisconsin.gov/Pages/leg-info.aspx?d=80&h=A Wisconsin Assembly - Representative Sondy Pope] ''official government website''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121028210818/http://sondypoperoberts.com/] ''official campaign website''
* {{CongLinks | congbio= | votesmart=56415 | fec= | congress= }}
* ''Follow the Money'' - Sondy Pope-Roberts
**[http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=110261 2008] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=87584 2006] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=68294 2004] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=12235 2002] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=58858 2000] campaign contributions
*[http://www.wisdc.org/pro08-103840.php Campaign 2008] campaign contributions at ''Wisconsin Democracy Campaign''

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