Westerville woman top Ohio House GOP donor
By Jim Siegel
The Columbus Dispatch Saturday November 3, 2012 6:22 AM
The top contributor to Ohio House Republicans this election is not a charter-school operator, oil driller, coal-company executive or major utility.
Rather, it’s a 67-year-old Westerville woman whose primarily public work over the past two decades has been elder-care advocacy, working with families affected by dementia and promoting both in Washington and the Ohio Statehouse issues important to seniors, such as pushing for more home-based care.From the start of 2011 through mid-October 2012, Virginia “Ginni” Ragan has given $345,000 to Ohio House Republicans. That not only makes her the top giver, she’s in a league by herself based on data from the secretary of state. The next-closest single contributor, the Ohio Beer and Wine Association, has given $100,000 less.
Ragan was once awarded the Outstanding Advocate Award from the National Alzheimer’s Association. She has testified a number of times on state budgets and other issues related to the elderly, serving as legislative chairwoman for the Ohio Advisory Council for the Aging and a volunteer representative of the Ohio Council of the Alzheimer’s Association.
The Truth-O-Meter Says:
"We have more hospitals that are children’s hospitals than any other state in the union."
William G. Batchelder on Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 in an interview with The Plain Dealer
William Batchelder claims Ohio has the most children's hospitals
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Ohio House Speaker William G. Batchelder, up for re-election Nov. 6, 2012, recently sought the support of The Plain Dealer’s editorial board.
During an endorsement interview on Sept. 18, 2012, the subject turned to healthcare in Ohio and the Medina Republican, among other things, noted the state’s impressive network of children’s hospitals was worth bragging about.
For example, Ohio is the only state with a "flagship, world-class children’s hospital within two hours of every child living in the state," according to the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association.
During the interview, Batchelder noted that "We (Ohio) have more hospitals that are children’s hospitals than any other state in the union."
That got Politifact Ohio’s attention.
During an endorsement interview on Sept. 18, 2012, the subject turned to healthcare in Ohio and the Medina Republican, among other things, noted the state’s impressive network of children’s hospitals was worth bragging about.
For example, Ohio is the only state with a "flagship, world-class children’s hospital within two hours of every child living in the state," according to the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association.
During the interview, Batchelder noted that "We (Ohio) have more hospitals that are children’s hospitals than any other state in the union."
That got Politifact Ohio’s attention.
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2012/nov/05/bill-batchelder/william-batchelder-claims-ohio-has-most-childrens-/
Election 2012: Cross and Batchelder run for District 69 House seat
Published: Monday, November 05, 2012, 8:00 AM Updated: Monday, November 05, 2012, 8:19 AM
Judith A. Cross is challenging Ohio’s Speaker of the House Bill Batchelder this November in District 69.
The former Medina County Common Pleas judge said she got into the race because of last year’s Ohio Collective Bargaining Limit Repeal, otherwise known as Senate Bill 5, which would have limited collective bargaining for public employees and allow union workers to opt out of paying dues.
“Senate Bill 5 is what got me angry enough to get in the race,” she said. “I was a teacher — I worked for Brunswick schools when it was illegal for public employees to strike. Collective bargaining agreements were just being written. My brother and sister were in unions. I honestly believe unions have made the middle class. I think Senate Bill 5 was the first step in an attack on unions.”
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