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Pepper Pikers, it appears that you will have a new state rep in 2011.
Mayor Marlene Anielski has announced she is running for the Ohio House 17th District seat in the 2010 election.
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Anielski has served as Mayor and Safety Director of Walton Hills for nine years, and was on city council for 2 years. She said she would contine in the Ohio House her work as a mayor to lower taxes, to have a smaller, more responsive government, and to continue economic intitiatives that create jobs and opportunities.
Of course this doesn’t mean she won’t have GOP or Democratic challengers. The 2010 primary for the Ohio House 17th will be next May. Kudos for having a female GOP candidate for the Ohio statehouse – I’ve written so many times on the need for more women in the statehouse and more GOP women in particular so this is a step in the right direction for them – assuming she’s a good candidate (I’d never heard of her before reading the above article).
You can learn more about Walton Hills, a town of about 2200 individuals, here.
You can view the Ohio House District 17 map here but it looks like this:
The cities that the seat represents are:
Bentleyville
Brecksville
Broadview Heights
Chagrin Falls
Glenwillow
Hunting Valley
Independence
Lyndhurst
Part of Mayfield Heights
Moreland Hills
Oakwood
Pepper Pike
Seven Hills
Solon
Valley View
Walton Hills
More on the Mayor:
Hurst to challenge Anielski (7/07)
Walton Hills Council President to Run for Mayor (10/07)
Review of three-way mayoral race debate (10/07)
Mayors lobby Congress to pass auto industry rescue plan (12/08)
Mayor’s Corner at Walton Hills city website
Walton Hills can’t break away from Bedford School district (11/08) (Walton Hills filed an appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court – there’s a letter to residents about this here)
She does not appear to have a website, Facebook, LinkedIn or Wikipedia entry that I can find. She is mentioned as a Republican mayor here.
Now, Anielski ran and won the mayor’s race in 2007, and I assume the term is for four years (though I haven’t been able to find specific information on that yet so I could be wrong). So her announcement for the house race would mean that she is going to vacate her mayoral job as well, since she has to run for that again in 2011. Meaning folks could start to eye her mayor’s job.
Unless she’s just a placeholder for the 2010 GOP statehouse candidate – whomever that might be? Oh, so much manuevering – how does it all work.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:04 pm June 3rd, 2009 in Breaking, Campaigning, Cleveland+, conservatives, Elections, Gender, Government, leadership, OH17, Pepper Pike, Republicans, Statehouse, Women
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[...] Hills Mayor, Marlene Anielski (R), announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination a little over two months ago. News coverage of her run indicates that the current holder of the seat, Josh Mandel (R, Lyndhurst) [...]