Voter Guide: Candidates
Election 2010: Ohio Senate
Charlena Renee Bradley (D)
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=234705
Jennifer Brunner (D)
http://jenniferbrunner.com/index.php/pages/index_new/about_jennifer_brunner/
Eric W. Deaton (Constitutional)
http://www.deatonforsenate.com/
Lee Fisher (D)
http://www.fisherforohio.com/
Traci Johnson (D)
http://johnsonforussenate.com/
Daniel H. LaBotz (Socialist)
http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/cincinnati-socialist-dan-la-botz-for-us-senate/
Steven R. Linnabary (Libertarian)
http://www.linnabary.us/HomePage.php
Rob Portman (R)
http://www.robportman.com/
Charlena Renee Bradley
No website, no information on issues.
Photo not available.
Jennifer Brunner
Health Care: Constituents should be able to keep their employer-provided health care if they wish, but everyone should have access to health care if it is not employer-provided. Supports government insure health care, not government operated health care.
Jobs: Supports 1. Unfreezing the credit market for small businesses and manufacturers; 2. Helping small and mid-sized manufacturers (especially former auto suppliers and auto component manufacturers – Ohio’s largest industry) retool for the clean energy economy; 3. Fostering entrepreneurialism and the creation of new jobs through business incubators like I’ve seen in Beachwood, Ohio; 4. Preparing our workforce for new jobs through tailored, regional workforce development programs to support high-growth industries; 5. Enforcing trade laws to invest in domestic manufacturing and production, like Senator Sherrod Brown’s Trade Enforcement Priorities Act, to give the federal government more authority to address trade barriers and require the U.S. Trade Representative (Ohio Republican Senate candidate Rob Portman’s former job in the Bush administration) to analyze trade barriers that have the most adverse effect on U.S. exports and employment to crack down on the unfair practices that have killed American jobs and drained our country of our sources of prosperity.
Energy: Supports Senator Sherrod Brown’s proposal for more funding for green businesses. Agrees that the field of energy could create more jobs and supports Obama’s plan for a comprehensive approach to energy independence.
Climate: Supports commercialization of conservation, efficiency and renewable energy technologies and products for a goal with clean energy legislation. Would like to create a federal program reflecting Ohio’s AEPS.
Eric W. Deaton
Healthcare: Against government running healthcare industry. Jobs: Nothing posted about unemployment extension on website.
Energy: Supports using our own energy sources including alternative power sources, nuclear fission reactions, electric cars, and a comprehensive energy plan for the nation.
Climate: Believes there needs to be more research done on global warming as current research is biased, but has noticed a change; does not support new taxes for climate issues.
Lee Fisher
Healthcare: Believes every citizen should have access to quality and affordable health care via lowering costs, ensuring choice, expanding coverage, improving quality of care, offer voluntary long term care coverage, and no tax increases on the middle class.
Jobs: Establish a Job Creation Tax Credit; Redirect Stimulus Funds to Projects Immediately Creating Jobs; Create $30 Billion Small Business Loan Fund; Double the Deduction for Small Business Start-Up Costs; Make the Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit Permanent; Extend the R&D Tax Credit to Keep and Create Jobs in Ohio; Keep Families In Their Homes; Eliminate Incentives for Companies that Ship Jobs Overseas; Tear Down Unfair Trade Barriers to American Exports by Enforcing Trade Laws; Establish a Bipartisan Budget Commission with Real Authority; Prevent Banks From Becoming "T
oo Big to Fail"; End Bonuses at Bailed Out Banks; Create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
Energy: Believes Americans should become energy independent and create new clean energy jobs that should not be outsourced. Co-wrote energy bill with Governor Strickland that Ohio’s energy sources need to be advanced through alternative energy by 25% by 2025. Wants to advance energy through wind turbines, solar panels, fuel cell-powered cars, and clean coal technologies.
Climate: See Energy.
Traci Johnson
Healthcare: Plans to work closely with Obama for a comprehensive healthcare reform that will benefit all Americans. “Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege.”
Jobs: Believes in workforce development programs to meet the economy’s changing demands and long-term economic strength. Plans to fight to keep spending down.
Energy: Nothing posted about energy and sources on website.
Climate: Nothing posted about climate on website.
Daniel H. LaBotz
Healthcare: “We must bring our citizens single-payer healthcare.”
Jobs: “We must create jobs for all at living wages. When private enterprise fails the government must step in to become the employer of last resort.”
Energy: “We must confront the environmental crisis, rejecting coal, petroleum and nuclear energy and prioritizing solar and other green solutions.”
Climate: See Energy.
Steven R. Linnabary
Healthcare: Nothing about healthcare posted on website.
Jobs: Nothing about jobs posted on website.
Energy: Nothing about energy posted on website.
Climate: Nothing about climate posted on website.
Rob Portman
Healthcare: We must make health care coverage affordable and accessible to every Ohio family, regardless of their situation or preexisting health conditions. Families and businesses should be able to design a health care plan that works best to meet their needs. If you like your health care now, you should be able to keep it. There should be incentives for healthy living through prevention, wellness programs and effective disease management. Government and the private sector should collaborate on finding cures and new treatments for life-threatening diseases. Patients and their doctors, and other health providers, should be making personal and sensitive medical decisions, not government bureaucrats. Medical malpractice costs and the mounting costs of defensive medicine must be reduced through sensible legal reform and better health information.
Jobs: Sees great opportunities in training facilities. Does not support cap-and-trade due to closing of plants like Allied Machine and Engineering.
Energy: Does not support Washington’s “job-killing tax on the kind of energy Ohio depends on”. Encourages the use of all of our natural resources, renewable energy, nuclear power, technology, and conservation in a means to become energy independent.
Climate: See Energy.