Aaron Harder (Mayor of Perrysburg, Ohio, candidate 2025)
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Aaron Harder is running for election to the Mayor of Perrysburg in Ohio. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.[source] He was on the ballot in the primary on May 6, 2025.[source]
Harder completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Aaron Harder provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on September 23, 2025:
- Birth place: Oregon, Ohio
- High school: Clay High School
- Bachelor's: University of Toledo, 2020
- Gender: Male
- Profession: Analyst
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: Opportunity for all!
- Campaign website
- Campaign Facebook
Elections
General election
General election for Mayor of Perrysburg
Aaron Harder and Mark A. Weber are running in the general election for Mayor of Perrysburg on November 4, 2025.
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Mayor of Perrysburg
Deborah L. Born, Aaron Harder, and Mark A. Weber ran in the primary for Mayor of Perrysburg on May 6, 2025.
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Aaron Harder completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Harder's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|- Opportunity for everyone. Every resident in our community deserves a fair deal: a good education, a comfortable home, and financial security. This means promoting the funding of our school system and taking measures to ensure its sustainability. This also means promoting affordable housing by making it easier and more attractive to build starter homes and multi-use buildings, removing unnecessary barriers to housing development, while still ensuring quality and safety. And opportunity means making good use of our land, promoting the development of industry and commerce where possible and appropriate. Our community has been blessed with a rich history, and that history is best served by making possible the creation of new histories today.
- A responsible community. Our city must continue to fulfill the basic functions of government: maintain the roads, provide emergency services, and keep the lights on. City government should be responsible with each tax dollar, investing it where it will be most effective. Government should also take a long term view of responsibility. Investing in green energy, such a solar panels, to power municipal buildings, could cut costs while demonstrating a commitment to fighting climate change and promoting local industry. The city should also take measures to prepare for hotter summers and poor air quality days, caused by distant forest fires, which will pose risks to public health. The city should prioritize the long-term prosperity of residents.
- A fair deal. Tying all this together is the idea that people should be able to expect government to stand up for them -- their rights, their prosperity, and their future. Expanding on this, government should be accessible, modern, and navigable. The city should continue to invest in updating its computer systems and simplifying the places people interact with government; improved online tax fling, guided form submission, and straightforward record requests all come to mind. Competence is a form of kindness. Government should work as quickly and efficiently as reasonably possible. Government should work to make people's lives better, as I know many civil servants are passionate about putting in the work to achieve.
When I think on the highlights of our nation's shared history, I see that the most profound leaders were those who defined what opportunity meant for the moment. They charted courses, even in times of trouble, towards the aspirations that sit at the heart of the American project: a better, more prosperous life for our children; safety and security throughout life, in youth and old age; liberty and the pursuit of happiness which only that can allow.
I desire a politics that believes in hope and strives to make it effective. I want to see leadership that is bold in the face of challenge, that is constrained by good finance and sound reason, but is dedicated to the dream of a society that is free of poverty, preventable illness, and needless suffering; leadership should be in the business of hope and defining opportunity for the moment. I believe a lot of people also desire such a new politics, and we all have a part to play in building it--I would like to do my part.
Perrysburg has been relatively fortunate in its economic positioning; the city budget is balanced and most people enjoy a high standard of living. But looking towards the future, we can anticipate some possible challenges. Inflation will likely continue to drive prices higher, which will mean tighter budgets for individuals. Aging city infrastructure, as all cities face, will demand more government funding to keep up an acceptable quality. Climate change will likely stress systems not designed for more sudden precipitation and abrupt cold snaps. Forest fires will pose health risks for residents with asthma and other respiratory ailments. All these foreseeable issues and more will likely demand more of city government, at a time when state and federal government seem to be withdrawing their support.
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See also
2025 Elections
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