A Connolly Gallagher attorney won election to the Delaware Senate on Tuesday, flipping the fifth district seat blue for the first time in at least four decades.
Kyle Evans Gay said Wednesday she attributed her win over 20-year Republican incumbent Catherine Cloutier to Brandywine Hundred voters’ prioritization of action on education, health care and COVID-19 relief and recovery.
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This election, 26 local issues appeared on the ballots in Athens County. All but two of them passed.
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Republicans won the overwhelming majority of Ohio’s State Senate seats Tuesday night, and the 30th District seat was no exception. Republican Frank Hoagland beat incumbent Democrat Lou Gentile by 8,859 votes, winning eight of the 10 counties represented in the 30th District.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Ohio voters could be registering online before the 2016 election, if one Ohio Senate bill becomes law.
Senate Bill 63 deals primarily with creating a system for online voter registration and, if passed, would make Ohio the 29th state to implement such a system. Registration would involve the Bureau of Motor Vehicles database verifying personal information, allowing anyone with an Ohio driver’s license or state ID to register remotely.
“It’s convenient for voters, and what that means is that it can help them take that first step of participating in our democracy,” said Sen. Frank LaRose, R-Copley, the bill’s primary sponsor. “Obviously, before you vote, you have to register, and every year we’ve got a new group of people that are turning 18 and should be registering to vote, and yet they don’t register until later in life.”
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More than 7.5 million Ohioans participated in Tuesday’s election and voted on the issues appearing on the ballot. Ultimately, two of the three issues passed.
Issue 1, which dealt with ending gerrymandering in Ohio’s legislative districts, passed by the largest margin of any of the three issues with 71.46 percent voting in favor, according to Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s website.
“It was just one of those moments in time — a rare moment in time, in a very divided state — where the two major parties came together and fortunately did something greatly in the public interest, to give the public rational-looking legislative districts,” said Rep. Michael F. Curtin, D-Columbus, who has supported Issue 1 since its introduction to the House. “Even though it won’t take effect until 2022, it’s a huge move forward in good government for the people and now hopefully we can get the second half of the job done, and that’s to do the same thing with congressional districts.”
The New Political has put together a voters’ guide for the November 2015 city and state elections. As state editor, I contributed the blurbs for state Issues 1, 2 and 3. See the full guide here.
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