Kasich Praises FitzGerald Convention Center Stewardship

April 3, 2014

“This is a great city with great assets and great neighborhoods and great people. If you have any doubt, just look around you today at this convention center.”

Last night during his speech at the Cleveland Convention Center before The Greater Cleveland Partnership, a regional partner of JobsOhio, Governor Kasich praised the Convention Center project, which Ed FitzGerald oversaw and ensured was completed ahead of schedule and under budget as Cuyahoga County Executive.

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For Ohio families, pay equity is a matter of fairness

March 9, 2014

Male-female wage inequality is persistent, unfair, unnecessary — and real.

Too many Ohioans are living in difficult economic times. Things are even harder for families with two wage earners when women are consistently paid almost one-fourth less than what men earn, often for doing the same job.

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One-size doesn’t fit all – voting made harder, not easier

February 26, 2014

Despite touting his campaign slogan of “making it harder to cheat and easier to vote,” Jon Husted’s decision to restrict early voting on weekdays from 8am to 5pm and to cut Sunday voting simply ignores the realities of everyday, hard-working Ohioans. His one-size fits all directive doesn’t make it easier for ALL Ohioans to vote, it makes it harder.

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Democratic Secretary of State Candidate Nina Turner’s Response to Secretary of State’s Early Voting Directive

February 25, 2014

Ohio’s elected officials should be making it easier to vote, but Secretary of State’s directive does irreparable harm to the people of Ohio. One-size-fits-all solutions don’t work for our diverse state. Our largest county is 95-times the size of the smallest—our local elections officials need the flexibility to craft a system that works for their voters. At a time when 400,000 plus Ohioans are unemployed or underemployed, and we have middle class folks working two and three jobs to make ends meet, working families should not lose their voice in our government because we suddenly we want to close the polls on Sundays–the only day that some have off.

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