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- OFT Endorsements:
- Local Union Endorsements
- Voting Information and Tips
- Joe Biden
We are simultaneously confronting three crises that threaten our future as a nation: the ongoing fight to overcome a public health pandemic, an economic recession and systemic racial injustice. We need proven leaders who will inspire solutions, not conflict. Those leaders are former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris.
AFT endorsed Joe Biden because his administration will:
- Triple Title I funding and fully fund IDEA.
- Use Title I funding to ensure educators are receiving competitive salaries and benefits
- Double the number of psychologists, guidance counselors, nurses, social workers, and other health professionals in our schools.
- Ban for-profit charters and increase accountability and transparency for current charters.
- Oppose diverting public funds for private school voucher programs.
- Provide universal pre-K and provide funding for a living wage for early childhood educators.
- Provide debt-free community college or other high-quality training programs.
- Improve the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to offer $10,000 of student debt relief for every year of public service, up to five years.
Between the ECOT scandal and the rapid escalation of private school vouchers that have drained school district budgets, we’ve seen what Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump’s agenda of defunding and privatizing education looks like in reality. We can’t afford four more years of an administration that is hostile to public school students, educators, and staff.
In contrast, Joe Biden has pledged to run a “teacher-oriented Department of Education, and it’s not going to come from the top down — it’s going to come from the teachers up.”
- Jennifer Brunner
- John O'Donnell
We endorsed Jennifer Brunner and John O'Donnell for the Ohio Supreme Court because they will work to protect our rights, including our rights for a fair election and constitutionally-funded public schools, and will not place profits over people when deciding a case. They’ll also ensure that redistricting following the 2020 census is done fairly because we deserve a system where voters should choose our representatives rather than letting our representatives choose their voters.
We endorsed candidates for the Ohio legislature who have demonstrated their support for public education, higher education, and children services either in their experience as an elected official or in our detailed candidate questionnaire.
| SD-02 Joel O’Dorisio | SD-18 Betsy Rader |
| SD-04 Kathy Wyenandt | SD-22 Ryan Hunter |
| SD-06 Mark Fogel | SD-24 Tom Jackson |
| SD-08 Louis Blessing | SD-26 Craig Swartz |
| SD-10 Charles Ballard | SD-28 Vernon Sykes |
| SD-14 Ryan Ottney | SD-30 Michael Fletcher |
| SD-16 Crystal Lett | SD-32 Sean O’Brien |
| HD-01 Alison Theiss | HD-45 Lisa Sobecki |
| HD-06 Phil Robinson | HD-46 Michael Sheehy |
| HD-07 Joan Sweeny | HD-47 Nancy Larson |
| HD-08 Kent Smith | HD-49 Thomas West |
| HD-09 Janine Boyd | HD-53 Michelle Novak |
| HD-11 Stephanie Howse | HD-54 Morgan Showen |
| HD-13 Mike Skindell | HD-55 Gayle Manning |
| HD-14 Bride Sweeney | HD-56 Joe Miller |
| HD-15 Jeffrey Crossman | HD-57 Dara Adkison |
| HD-16 Monique Smith | HD-58 Michelle Lepore-Hagan |
| HD-17 Adam Miller | HD-59 Chris Stanley |
| HD-18 Kristin Boggs | HD-60 Dan Troy |
| HD-19 Mary Lightbody | HD-61 Adam Dudziak |
| HD-20 Rich Brown | HD-62 Erin Rosiello |
| HD-21 Beth Liston | HD-63 Gil Blair |
| HD-22 David Leland | HD-64 Michael O’Brien |
| HD-23 Nancy Day-Achauer | HD-65 Alan Darnowsky |
| HD-24 Allison Russo | HD-67 Rachael Morocco |
| HD-25 Dontavius Jarrells | HD-69 Donna Beheydt |
| HD-26 Erica Crawley | HD-73 Kim McCarthy |
| HD-27 Sara Bitter | HD-75 Randi Clites |
| HD-28 Jessica Miranda | HD-76 Garrett Westhoven |
| HD-31 Brigid Kelly | HD-77 Melissa Wilde |
| HD-32 Cathy Ingram | HD-78 Charlotte Owens |
| HD-34 Emilia Sykes | HD-79 Cynthia Richards |
| HD-36 Matthew Shaunghessy | HD-80 Ted Jones |
| HD-37 Casey Weinstein | HD-86 Tiffanie Roberts |
| HD-39 Willis Blackshear | HD-88 Chris Liebold |
| HD-40 Leronda Jackson | HD-89 Alexis Miller |
| HD-41 Cate Berger | HD-92 Beth Workman |
| HD-43 Amy Cox | HD-95 Don Jones |
| HD-44 Paula Hicks-Hudson | HD-99 Richard Dana |
- OH-01 Kate Schroder
- OH-03 Joyce Beatty
- OH-09 Marcy Kaptur
- OH-10 Desiree Tims
- OH-11 Marcia Fudge
- OH-12 Alaina Shearer
- OH-13 Tim Ryan
- OH-16 Aaron P. Godfrey
You can find your Ohio Board of Education district here.
- District 5 Christina Collins
- District 6 Antoinette Miranda
- District 9 Michelle Newman
- District 10 Mary Binegar
- District 11 Meryl Johnson
Local Union Endorsements
In addition to the statewide endorsements listed above, local unions have endorsed the following candidates and school levies.
Cincinnati Federation of Teachers
Cincinnati Public Schools Levy
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Vote YES on Issue #17 (Levy renewal, will not raise taxes.)
U.S. Congress:
- OH-02 Jamie Castle
Ohio House of Representatives
- HD 33 Sedrick Denson
Ohio Court of Appeals – 1st District
- Ginger Bock
Hamilton County Offices
- Commissioner: Alicia Reece
- Commissioner: Denise Driehaus
- Prosecutor: Fanon Rucker
- Clerk of Courts: Aftab Pureval
- Sheriff: Charmaine McGuffey
- Recorder: Scott Crowley
- Treasurer: Jill Schiller
- Coroner: Lakshmi Kode Sammarco
Hamilton County Judicial
- Court of Common Pleas: Heidi Rosales
- Court of Common Pleas: Christian Jenkins
- Court of Common Pleas: Chris Wagner
- Court of Common Pleas: Jennifer Branch
- Court of Common Pleas: Alan C. Triggs
- Court of Common Pleas: Thomas Beridon
- Court of Common Pleas: Wende Cross
- Court of Common Pleas: Alison Hathway
- Court of Common Pleas – Drug Court: Nicole Sanders
- Court of Common Pleas – Probate Court: Pavan Parikh
- Court of Common Pleas – Juvenile division: Kari Bloom
- Court of Common Pleas – Domestic Relations: Anne B. Flottman
Cleveland Teachers Union
Cleveland Metropolitan School District (Renewal and increase)
- Vote yes!
Toledo City Council
- Katie Moline
Lucas County Commissioner
- Pete Gerken
- Tina Skeldon Wozniak
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
- Bernie Quilter
Sixth District Court of Appeals
- Myron Duhart
- Tom Osowik
Lucas County Offices
- Engineer: Mike Pniewski
- Prosecuting Attorney: Julia Bates
- Recorder: Phil Copeland
- Treasurer: Lindsay Webb
Lucas County Judicial
- Court of Common Pleas: Ian English
- Court of Common Pleas: Lori Olender
- Court of Common Pleas (Probate): Jack Puffenberger
- Court of Common Pleas (Juvenile): Denise Navarre Cubbon
- You must be registered at your current address to vote in Ohio. You can register or update your registration online here. The deadline is Monday, October 5th, but don’t wait until then, update your registration today!
- Due to the pandemic, the safest way to vote is with no-excuse absentee voting by mail. Learn more here and download your ballot request form here.
- You can also avoid the Election Day crowd by voting early in-person at your county Board of Elections. Early voting runs from Tuesday, Oct. 6 through Monday, Nov. 2. Visit the website of your county’s Board of Elections for early voting locations and details in your county.
- Even if you are not concerned about the coronavirus risk on Election Day, please vote early by mail or in person to make sure your vote is cast and make it easier for other people to vote on Election Day.
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