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Armond Budish Elected as Next Speaker of the House
Szollosi, Garrison, Heard, Goyal, Sayre Round Out New Majority Leadership TeamCOLUMBUS – Ohio House Democratic Leader Joyce Beatty (D-Columbus) announced tonight Ohio House Democratic Caucus members for the 128th General Assembly have unanimously elected State Representative Armond Budish (D-Beachwood) as the next Speaker of the House.
“I am proud and humbled to lead our Caucus into the next General Assembly as we continue the work to turn around Ohio,” Budish said. “We partnered with Governor Strickland over the past two years to lay the groundwork for positive change. I look forward to working with him, President Harris, Minority Leader Batchelder, and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to continue building the foundation for long-term prosperity and success in Ohio.”
Speaker-Elect Budish joined Leader Beatty to lead the Caucus as it gained as many as seven seats on November 4, securing the House majority for the first time in 14 years. It was the first time in Ohio history that a House caucus won a majority on a district map the opposing party drew.
Other members elected to leadership roles for the 128th General Assembly include:
· Rep. Matt Szollosi (D-Toledo): Speaker Pro Tempore
· Rep. Jennifer Garrison (D-Marietta): Majority Floor Leader
· Rep. Tracy Maxwell Heard (D-Columbus): Assistant Majority Floor Leader
· Rep. Jay Goyal (D-Mansfield): Majority Whip
· Rep. Allan Sayre (D-Dover): Assistant Majority Whip“This leadership team will work tirelessly to steer our state through this challenging time and set a course for prosperity and opportunity,” Budish said. “The voters trust them, I trust them, and I can’t wait to get started pursuing the goals and solutions important to all Ohioans.”
Ohio House Democratic Leader Joyce Beatty (D-Columbus), who will leave the House at the end of the year because of term limits, reflected on the transfer of power and the potential of the new Democratic Caucus.
“I see wonderful promise in our new House Administration to craft policies that improve the quality of life for Ohioans in every corner of our state,” Beatty said. “Speaker-Elect Budish’s priorities are in line with the concerns and challenges of our citizens, and I know he and his leadership team are committed to facing those issues head-on, in a bipartisan manner, and finding common-sense solutions.
“I am proud of the legacy I leave behind in the Ohio House of Representatives – one of service, sacrifice and success on behalf of the people of Ohio. This new majority is the perfect capper to my legislative career, and I am very confident that we will see great things in the next General Assembly.”
I’m happy that a rep from near my area who also happens to be Jewish is the House Speaker. That is really very cool indeed. Likewise, I’m happy to see women and minorities in the make-up of leadership. Goyal is known most recently for teaming up with State Rep. Josh Mandel (R-17th, Lyndhurst) on a proposal to give money to college grads who choose to stay in Ohio. Given the way the economy has turned since they made that announcement, I have serious doubts about its viability. But never say never.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:40 pm November 18th, 2008 in Democrats, Government, Jewish, OH17, Ohio, Politics, leadership
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Hard to quibble with any of these choices.
Budish is a terrific fundraiser, Szollosi and Garrison bring a lot of energy and tenacity, Heard and Sayre are trusted hands, and Goyal is ODP’s version of Bobby Jindal (young, diverse face of the future).
I’m excited to see Gov. Strickland finally get the partner he needs to fix the mess he inherited.
Good night.
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The City of Columbus (city) was awarded $22,845,495 of NSP funds from HUD.
How much did Cleveland get?
Even though it looks like Columbus got more than Cleveland, they did not, Cleveland is Geographically much smaller than Columbus and in so much Cuyahoga received more than Franklin County.
Here is a list of where the money is being allocated…combined Cuyahoga and Cleveland will get near 38M in funding.
http://voinovich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsCenter.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=9fcb84ec-9a17-b02f-13e7-6064c900e093
250 million for the State to help recover foreclosed properties, to prevent blight.
If you offer $100.00 to everyone that will change nothing, if you gave $30,000,000,000.00 to the correct individual that could very well change everything.
Fair is unfair, makes you think. A wise and benevolent dictator or even a very wealthy venture capitalist can do way more than a bunch of novices elected by the peanut gallery.
If the government has money to hand out they should not just hand it out and hope for the best, they need to fund specifics and in the web of dispersions it often looses all accountability.
Government is too big and the State of Ohio government is nothing much more than the largest State employer and the biggest waste of money.
It maybe they are too conservative…yah that for sure, but we have little ingenuity in this state…we have even less creativity.
Our kings and Queens are basically unimpressive.
A wealthy Beachwood separatist…please. How to stay wealthy until you die…how the baby boomers will hang the next generation out to dry.
I should write a book…
Dropping dimes…calling out the operators.