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Monroe Vice Mayor Suzi Rubin says this year is the best shot a Democrat has to win one of Butler County’s Statehouse seats this November.
She talked about her candidacy for the 53rd Ohio House District seat to the Oxford-based Butler County Progressive PAC at the group’s general meeting Tuesday, and said the previous two attempts were really setting up this year’s election where she wouldn’t face a popular incumbent.
“This has been a six-year effort for this seat,” said Rubin, who’s trying for a third time to win the 53rd Ohio House seat. “It’s a presidential year so if we’re going to take the district, this is the year we do it.”
The Monroe Democrat has competed twice against former Ohio Rep. Tim Derickson, R-Hanover Twp., but was soundly defeated by the state lawmaker. Derickson could not seek re-election due to term limits, and then resigned last month to take a job with the Ohio Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors.
This year Rubin, a former Monroe Local Schools board member, faces Republican Candice Keller, the executive director of the Community Pregnancy Center in Middletown, for the open seat. She told the PAC their support “means the world” because she has a small campaign.
“It’s very hard to raise money for a small campaign,” she said.
Keller said she’s running because it’s her “heart’s desire to represent the people of the district.” There are a number of issues she wants to address, but as Rubin has previously said, she wants to ensure education in Ohio is a top issue.
“As the schools go, so goes the community,” she said.
Rubin said she’s not the only one that needs the help of the PAC, as well as any other Butler County Democrat. Oxford Twp. Trustee John Kinne is running for the 4th Ohio Senate District because “Ohio is a great place to live, and I think Butler County is a great place to live” and said earlier in the week one of the “various reasons” he’s making a state senate bid is his concern of how the state’s tax structure has changed.
“We’re concerned about social justice, we’re concerned about the poorest among us,” he said. “Right now the poorest among us with an income are paying into state and local taxes. The top 1 percent is paying about 6.7 percent.”
Kinne is seeking to unseat another popular Republican, 4th Ohio Senate District Sen. Bill Coley, of Liberty Twp. Coley is seeking re-election for his second, and final, four-year term in the Statehouse.
Coley said over his 12 years in the Statehouse, the last four-plus being in the Ohio Senate, the state’s gone from the fifth-highest taxed state to 28th and falling.
“I think we’ve done a lot of good things but we’ve got a lot more to do,” he said.
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