The New Political: Voters’ Guide 2016

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Like last year, I contributed to The New Political’s voters guide. This year I wrote blurbs about Ohio’s 30th District State Senate candidates Lou Gentile and Frank Hoagland, Ohio House of Representatives candidates Sarah Grace and Jay Edwards, and several unopposed candidates running for offices in Athens County and Athens proper. The full voters’ guide can be viewed here.

Tony Goldwyn of “Scandal” makes the case for a President Hillary Clinton

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Actor Tony Goldwyn visited Athens on Sunday afternoon to express his support for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Goldwyn, who plays President Fitzgerald Grant on ABC’s “Scandal,” addressed a small group of local political activists in the driveway of a Graham Drive home, encouraging them to continue getting people to vote early and sharing his personal reasons for supporting Clinton.

In the House

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Many Ohioans are unable to name their elected representative or even identify which of the state’s 99 districts they live in.

Despite this lack of recognition, Ohio’s state legislators, both in the House and the Senate, put significantly more time into their jobs than legislators in many other states do, from deciding how to vote to simply finding a way to get to and from the statehouse.