Primary Candidates

On Monday, I promised you a list of the candidates in the upcoming May election. Here's what you will be seeing on your ballot, depending on residency (since, y'know, if you live in Reynoldsburg you won't be voting for anyone to run for the Hilliard city council).

Remember this is a primary ballot, which means whoever wins in May will get to run in November for the actual position. It's like a qualifying round. All addresses and other contact info are from the Franklin County Board of Elections publication of said information.

Hilliard

Member of Council (Democrat), vote for 4:

Meagan Pandey 4495 Avery Rd, Hilliard 43026 Website: www.meaganpandey.com
E-mail: meagan@meaganpandey.com

Member of Council (Republican), vote for 4:

Jim Ashenhurst 5147 Vinington Pl, Dublin, 43016
Doug Jackson 3261 Prairie Gardens Ct, Hilliard, 43026
Heather L. Keck 3400 Heritage Oaks Dr, Hilliard, 43026
Stephanie Kunze 5994 Farm Creek Ct, Hilliard, 43026 Website: www.StephanieKunze.com
Kelly McGivern 3257 Northampton Dr, Hilliard, 43026
Brett A. Sciotto 3701 Boathouse Dr, Hilliard, 43026

Reynoldsburg

City Auditor, Democrat:
None

City Auditor, Republican:
Richard E. Harris 1100 Bedlington Ct, Reynoldsburg 43068

Member of Council (vote for 3 of each party):

Democrats

Cornelius McGrady, III 8675 Kingsley Drive, Reynoldsburg 43068
Donna A. Shirey 1023 Lancaster Ave, Reynoldsburg 43068

Republicans

Nathan Burd 1566 Burkey Ct, Reynoldsburg 43068
Barth R. Cotner 1439 Jackson St, Reynoldsburg 43068
Chris Long 1675 Haft Dr, Reynoldsburg 43068
Ron Stake 7660 Rodebaugh Rd, Reynoldsburg 43068

Whitehall
Only elections with more than 1 candidate will appear on ballot.

Member of Council, Ward 1 (vote for 1):

Bob Bailey 567 W Virginia Circle, Columbus, 43213
Karen Liepack-Conison 958 Karl Ct, Columbus, 43227

Member of Council, Ward 4 (vote for 1):

Van Gregg 5182 Doral Ave, Columbus, 43213
Leslie LaCorte 5066 Etna Rd, Columbus, 43213

Others

There are Franklin County Municipal Court candidates who won't be appearing on the primary ballot. There are also City of Columbus positions with candidates who are certified to run, but there aren't enough of them to hold a primary. Ditto with the Columbus Board of Education candidates...there aren't more than will be able to run in the actual election, so there won't be a primary for them.

If you'd like to see who's set to run for these positions in the fall, check out the 2009 Elections information page from the Franklin County Board of Elections website.

Your Take: Not So Much

So...either I don't have as many dedicated, interactive readers as I thought, or I picked a really crummy topic for the "Your Take" on Wednesday. Why do I think this? Well, because there were zero comments, e-mails, text messages, or tweets about the post. So, the recap I promised? Won't be happening.

It's a good thing I had a backup plan, eh?

We're less than a month away from the May 5th election. Why, might you ask, should anyone care about an election in May?

Telling you the answer is my back up plan.

There are several issues up for vote in Franklin County:

• Metro Park levy, a renewal and increase issue. Replacing the .65 mill levy that's expiring, and adding a .1 mill on top of that. That's a .75 mill levy, or $0.075 cents per $100 value of property, for ten years.
• Grandview Heights operating levy renewal, 8.3 mills ($0.83 per $100 of value) for the next 3 years.
• Upper Arlington, bond issue. Improvements to library, from furnishing to renovation to land interest. $25,000,000 total, $0.099 per $100 value for 28 years.
• Hamilton and Jefferson Townships, fire protection levies. Hamilton replacement would be $0.30 per $100 value for 5 years, Jefferson renewal would be $0.20 per $100 value for 5 years.
• Canal Winchester emergency school levy. $6,439,000 total funds, $1.482 per each $100 of value for 2 years.
• Groveport Madison school levy. Renewal and increase of an emergency levy. Renewal: $4,508,652. Increase: $3,198,463. Total levy up for vote: $7,707,115 or $0.936 per $100 of value for 3 years.
• Reynoldsburg school operating levy. $1.56 per $100 of value, ongoing.
• South-Western school operating levy. $0.83 per $100 of value, for 4 years.
• Westerville school permanent improvement levy. Renewal of 2.7 mills, increase of 1.25 mills, total 3.95 mills. That's $0.395 for each $100 of value, on going.
• Worthington school operating levy. $0.74 per $100 of value, on going.
• And a couple Columbus local Sunday alochol sales options.

Over the next month, I think I'm gonna try and dig into some of these a bit more. On Wednesday, I'll give you the scoop on primary candidates!

So I Goofed

Thursday and Friday...my arm was in no shape to type. I wasn't up to it, bluntly put. So...yeah. That's what happened. My apologies. This upcoming week shall be better, no least of all because there's a special election/primary coming up!