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Favede right choice in 95th

To the editor:

If you have not made up your mind yet about who you will vote for in November for representative of Ohio’s 95th House District, let me tell you about a candidate that has impressed me and my friends and neighbors.

Her name is Ginny Favede. She has had a successful career as a politician as a councilwoman and a county commissioner for all of Belmont County. She has proven that she is worthy of our support because she produces results. She is recognized nationally for her work on economic development.

She told me the very first time that I met her she is going to work to straighten out educational funding so that local people are not taxed to death with levies. She prays for the day that every child in Ohio has equal opportunities as others do in other parts of the state. She knows that our funding system has been ruled unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court, and she wants to fix it. Those responsible should be voted out.

She will do what is necessary to help restore local government funds back to townships, villages, cities and counties. Being a retired trustee, I know how difficult it was when that money was taken from us. We could no longer make improvements in our township, we laid off one employee and stopped paying health insurance. Maintaining what we had was difficult. I am confident Ginny will help us.

It’s easy for me to write this letter being a retired teacher and a retired trustee. I personally saw how school funding hurts local schools, children and property owners. I also had the experience of having a decent budget for paving streets, replacing culverts and providing services to my constituents before local government funds were taken.

The 95th District has been gerrymandered to cut through any area on the eastern portion of Ohio to benefit a particular party. Our 95th District is the most ridiculously drawn district in Ohio. All of the areas along the Ohio River where thousands of jobs used to be, are not in the 95th district now. Our current representative has been in office while a lot of those jobs were cut, eliminated. That representative was in office in 2012 when this map was designed. Wonder why he would not want those areas to have the ability to vote whether he stays or is voted out. I say out.

Favede will fight to bring jobs back, support miners, support seniors, support veterans, support Social Security, support children and their teachers, work for taxpayers and work across the aisle to make our district and our state one we would all be proud of.

Ginny Favede is the candidate I have chosen to vote for and I hope you will consider my reasoning, regardless of your party affiliation, and vote for the best candidate, as I will, not necessarily by party lines.

John R. Karas

Marietta

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