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League of Women Voters of Ohio
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Candidates Answer Questions on the Issues State Representative; District 28 | |||
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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area and LWV Ohio and asked of all candidates for this office.
See below for questions on
Redistricting,
Qualification,
Priorities,
Oversight Charter Schools,
Foreclosure
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(No candidates submitted answers to this question)
Answer from Connie Pillich:
Answer from Connie Pillich:
Immediately form a task force to study the school funding formula. Learn from the dozens of other states that have successfully revised their school funding to more equitable methods.
Initiate bold health care reforms that provide affordable health insurance to those who wish to have it. Hospitals prosper if patients have insurance. And patients with insurance seek preventive care.
Answer from Connie Pillich:
The schools they leave? The voucher program doesn't help them. It just reduces funding, further strapping the struggling schools. This means a greater burden to taxpayers: not only do we pay for our public schools and all the students there, but now we must pay for private schools, too.
Voucher experiments throughout the nation show that voucher and public school students achieve similar test scores. But, voucher students have a high attrition rate, and charter schools have trouble surviving. The voucher program is like pouring salt on a wound: it makes it hurt, and heals nothing.
Answer from Connie Pillich:
As a lawyer, I've represented victims of predatory lending. Saving my clients' homes has been some of the most gratifying work I have ever done.
Ohio's legislature recently reversed its protracted opposition to pass some long overdue reforms. The Ohio Home Buyers Protection Act, effective in 2007, should help some consumers swindled by unscrupulous brokers. But the Act should be modified to extend the regulations to mortgage assignees. This loophole leaves consumers just as vulnerable as before. In addition, Ohio should expand the ability of consumers to pursue civil remedies.
But not all foreclosures stem from predatory lending. Many foreclosures happen from the loss of a good job. Ohio must begin to attract 21st Century businesses in order to help all of us survive.
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