West Side Leader
By Kathleen Collins

County, state, federal races on ballot

SUMMIT/MEDINA COUNTIES — Summit and Medina county voters will see county, state and federal candidates on the May 4 Primary Election ballot.

Feb. 18 was the Summit and Medina counties’ boards of elections filing deadline for some candidates for the Primary, as well as the Ohio Secretary of State’s deadline. At presstime, both boards of elections still were in the process of certifying the candidates. The Summit County Board of Elections was still in the process of certifying candidates for state central committeeman and committeewoman and did not have a list of those candidates available.

The following is a listing of races in the West Side Leader coverage area that will appear on the Primary Election ballot. If only one name appears under a party affiliation, the candidate is running unopposed in the Primary. An * symbol indicates an incumbent.

Summit County races

Summit County Council at large

Democrat (three to be elected)

Pete Crossland*
Jon Poda*
Ilene Shapiro*

Republican (three to be elected)
Mendy Palumbo
Gloria Rodgers
William Roemer
Amy Schwan

9th District Court of Appeals judge

Term commencing Feb. 9, 2011
Democrat (one to be elected)
Carla Moore*

Republican (one to be elected)
William Wellemeyer

9th District Court of Appeals judge

Term commencing Feb. 10, 2011
Democrat
Robert Brown

Republican
Donna Carr*

9th District Court of Appeals judge

Term commencing Feb. 11, 2011
Democrat
Rita Rochford

Republican
Beth Whitmore*

Summit County Court of Common Pleas judge
Term comencing Jan. 5, 2011

Democrat
Elinore Marsh Stormer*

Republican
Scot Stevenson

Summit County Domestic Relations judge

Term commencing Jan. 6, 2011
Democrat
Carol Dezso*

Republican
John Casalinuovo

State races

41st District state representative

Democrat
Brian G. Williams*

Libertarian
David Finley

Republican (one to be elected)
Lance Reed
Lynn Slaby

42nd District state representative

Democrat
Mike Moran*

Libertarian
John Hoover

Republican
Kristina Daley Roegner

44th District state representative

Democrat
Vernon Sykes*

Libertarian
Kurtis Liston

Republican
Josh Sines

27th District state senator

Democrat (one to be elected)
Frank Comunale
Tamela Lee

Republican
Frank LaRose

Governor/lieutenant governor

Democrat
Ted Strickland* and Yvette McGee Brown Green
Dennis Spisak and Anita Rios Libertarian
Ken Matesz and Ann Leech

Republican
John Kasich and Mary Taylor

Attorney general

Constitution
Robert M. Owens

Democrat
Richard Cordray*

Libertarian
Marc Allan Feldman

Republican (one to be elected)
Steve Christopher
Mike DeWine

State auditor

Democrat
David Pepper

Libertarian
L. Michael Howard

Republican (one to be elected)
Seth Morgan
Dave Yost

Secretary of state

Democrat
Maryellen O’Shaughnessy

Libertarian
Charles Earl

Republican (one to be elected)
Jon Husted
Sandra O’Brien

State treasurer

Democrat
Kevin Boyce*

Libertarian
Matthew Cantrell

Republican
Josh Mandel

Supreme Court chief justice

Democrat
Eric Brown

Republican
Maureen O’Connor

Supreme Court justice

Democrat
Mary Jane Trapp

Republican
Judith Ann Lanzinger*

Supreme Court justice

Democrat
None filed

Republican
Paul Pfeifer*

Federal races

13th District congressional representative

Democrat (one to be elected)
Betty Sutton*
Justin Wooden

Republican (one to be elected)
James Brihan
Frank Chestney
Tom Ganley
Bill Haney
Jim Hrubik
Jason Meade
Todd Sharkey

14th District congressional representative

Democrat (one to be elected)
Dale Blanchard
John Greene Jr.
Bill O’Neill

Libertarian
John Jelenic

Republican
Steven LaTourette*

17th District congressional representative

Democrat (one to be elected)
Robert Crow
Dan Moadus
Tim Ryan*

Republican (one to be elected)
Damian Degenova
Jim Graham
M.E. Henderson

U.S. senator

Constitution
Eric Deaton

Democrat (one to be elected)
Charlena Renee Bradley
Jennifer Brunner
Lee Fisher
Traci Johnson

Libertarian
Steven Linnabary

Republican
Rob Portman

Socialist
Daniel LaBotz

Medina County, state, federal races

County commissioner

Democrat
William Lamb

Republican (one to be elected)
Adam Friedrick
Kathryn Truman

County auditor

Democrat
Michael Kovack*

Republican
None filed

Medina County Court of Common Pleas judge

Democrat
None filed

Republican
Christopher Collier

16th District congressional representative

Democrat
John Boccieri*

Libertarian
Jeffrey Blevins

Republican (one to be elected)
Daniel Deckler
Kevin Kapel
James Liossis
Matt Miller
Paul Schiffer
H. Doyle Smith
Fred Wallace

69th District state representative

Democrat
Jack Schira

Republican
William Batchelder*

ISSUES

Summit County

•Akron-Summit County Public Library: Most Summit County voters will see a five-year 1.4-mill replacement levy for the Akron-Summit County Public Library. The replacement levy would be collected beginning in 2011 and would pay for the library system’s operating expenses.

• Norton City Schools District: Voters will see a 37-year, $27.5 million school construction bond issue, averaging 4.6 mills, and a 2-mill permanent improvement levy. The bond issue would be used to construct, furnish and equip a new high school, which would house ninth- through 12th-graders, and to rehabilitate and improve three other district buildings.

• Revere Local Schools District: Voters will see a 6.86-mill emergency operating levy that would generate $6.7 million per year for 10 years.

• Woodridge Local Schools District: Voters will see a 2.03-mill renewal levy that would generate about $1.1 million per year for 10 years.

• Peninsula Village: Voters will be asked whether a commission should be formed to frame a charter.

• Richfield Village: Voters will be asked whether the village should have the authority to aggregate the retail electric loads located in the village and enter into service agreements to facilitate for those loads for the sale and purchase of electricity, such aggregation to occur automatically except where any person elects to opt out. Medina County

• Medina County Board of Developmental Disabilities: Voters will see a 1.12-mill replacement levy.

• Highland Local Schools: Voters living in the district will see a five-year, 5.9-mill emergency levy on the ballot. The levy would generate $4 million annually.

• Granger/Sharon townships: Voters in both townships will be asked to approve an electric aggregation program.

State issues

• Issue No. 1: This proposed constitutional amendment would extend the Ohio Third frontier program by authorizing the issuance of additional general obligation bonds to promote economic growth, according to the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office. According to the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office, this proposed amendment would:

√ Continue funding for research and development purposes by authorizing the state to issue $700 million of general obligation bonds to renew and continue programs for research and development in support of Ohio industry, commerce and business.

√ Limit the amount of all state general obligations that may be issued for, and the amounts of proceeds from, those state general obligations that may be committed to those research and development purposes to no more than $450 million total for the period including state fiscal years 2006 through 2011, no more than $225 million in fiscal year 2012 and no more than $175 million in any fiscal year thereafter, plus any amounts that in any prior fiscal year could have been but were not issued or committed.

√ Require state agencies awarding funding from those state general obligations to obtain independent reviews of and recommendations as to the merits of proposed research and development projects. State officials must be provided information regarding the independent reviewer prior to any award, and the state agency proposing the award also must notify those officials if the recommendations of an independent reviewer are not adopted by that state agency for the proposed project and the reasons for not adopting those recommendations.

• Issue No. 2: This proposed constitutional amendment would change the location of the Columbus area casino authorized by statewide vote in the November 2009 general election from the area known as “The Arena District” to the site of a former General Motors/Delphi Corp. manufacturing plant. The amendment makes no change regarding any other casino authorized by the previous statewide vote.

Posted with the permission of the West Side Leader