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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area and asked of all candidates for this office.
See below for questions on
Qualifications,
Top Priority,
Pressing Issue,
State Revenue shortfalls,
Education Funding,
Tax Reform,
Transportation
Click on a name for other candidate information. See also more information about this contest.
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1. What are your qualifications for office?
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Answer from Steve Driehaus:
I bring to the job a willingness to work with all parties on issues of housing, education, health care, etc. in order to serve the people of the 31st district. I will continue to be an aggressive advocate for our neighborhoods and our families.
Answer from Terry Weber:
I have been involved in public administration for the past thirt years at with both state and county government and have learned the way to get things done by cutting through red tape and going around the red tape and over the hierarchy. I have also been involved in the legal profession for 22 years for twenty-two years supervising the Public Defenders Office in the Juvenile Division getting a first hand view of crime.
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2. How would you implement your top priority?
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Answer from Terry Weber:
We need to attach crime in the home. Go to the lowest level where the children begin to learn it is ok to steal. This is not an issue you begin to address at the ages of eight or nine but at four and five. We also need to hold parents much more accountable for their childrens actions. The excuse that they are only a child is understandable but let's teach them a better and more acceptable way from the beginning.
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3. What do you see as the two most pressing issues you would address if elected? What plans do you have relative to those issues?
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Answer from Steve Driehaus:
1. State Budget/Taxes
The state must enact performance audits to reduce wasteful spending and should implement H.B. 110 to close the tax credits, exemptions, deductions no longer achieving their purpose.
2. Housing
We must enact predatory lending legislation that aggressively goes after financial institutions and unscrupulous real estate investors who are harming our families and damaging our neighborhoods.
Answer from Terry Weber:
I believe the two most pressing issues would be jobs and neighborhood safety and I believe they go hand in hand. Both jobs and people are fleeing unsafe neighborhoods. It is possible even practicable to revitalive previously rundown neighorhoods. Allow peopele to become owners of their own property and share in the neighborhoods. As they revive I believe business will also to some extent revive. This can be done without the hugh tax incentives and giveaways sometimes seen.
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4. What are your suggestions for reconciling state revenue shortfalls with increasing costs for state services?
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(No candidates submitted answers to this question)
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5. How much of public education should be funded by the state? Explain your answer.
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(No candidates submitted answers to this question)
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6. What Ohio state tax reforms would you support to re-develop existing older communities?
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(No candidates submitted answers to this question)
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7. What plans do you have to promote a more balanced transportation system in Ohio?
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(No candidates submitted answers to this question)
Responses to questions asked of each candidate
are reproduced as submitted to the League.
Candidates' statements are presented as submitted.
The answers must not exceed 150 words.
Direct references to opponents are not permitted.
The order of the candidates is random and changes daily.
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League of Women Voters of Ohio Education Fund
