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Gavi Begtrup
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Democratic Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

August 2, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

Western Kentucky University, 2002

Ph.D

University of California, Berkeley, 2008

Personal
Birthplace
Clarksville, Tenn.
Religion
Jewish
Profession
Small business owner
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Gavi Begtrup (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Ohio House of Representatives to represent District 27. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 2, 2022.

Begtrup completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Begtrup was born in Clarksville, Tennessee. He earned a bachelor's degree from Western Kentucky University in 2002 and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 2008. He is a small business owner, entrepreneur, and business consultant. He previously served as the CEO and CTO of Eccrine Systems, a medical device company. He has also worked with the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincytech, and many other organizations to launch and support companies in the region. He was also a policy advisor to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D) where he wrote bipartisan legislation that became law.[1]

Begtrup has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]

  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Committee member
  • Jewish Community Relations Council, Former board member
  • The Spencer Center for Gifted and Exceptional Students, Chairman of the board
  • Case Western Reserve University, Entrepreneur in residence

Elections

2022

See also: Ohio House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Ohio House of Representatives District 27

Rachel Baker defeated Jenn Giroux in the general election for Ohio House of Representatives District 27 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Rachel Baker (D) Candidate Connection
 
55.9
 
31,203
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Jenn Giroux (R)
 
44.1
 
24,604

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 55,807
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 27

Rachel Baker defeated Gavi Begtrup in the Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 27 on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Rachel Baker Candidate Connection
 
62.4
 
4,510
Image of Gavi Begtrup
Gavi Begtrup Candidate Connection
 
37.6
 
2,718

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 7,228
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 27

Jenn Giroux defeated Joe Murray and Lindsay Cole in the Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 27 on August 2, 2022.

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Jenn Giroux
 
47.9
 
2,468
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Joe Murray
 
40.3
 
2,079
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Lindsay Cole
 
11.8
 
607

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 5,154
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Endorsements

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2021

See also: Mayoral election in Cincinnati, Ohio (2021)

General election

General election for Mayor of Cincinnati

Aftab Pureval defeated David Mann in the general election for Mayor of Cincinnati on November 2, 2021.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Aftab Pureval (Nonpartisan)
 
65.8
 
34,541
Image of David Mann
David Mann (Nonpartisan)
 
34.2
 
17,919

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 52,460
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Mayor of Cincinnati

The following candidates ran in the primary for Mayor of Cincinnati on May 4, 2021.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Aftab Pureval (Nonpartisan)
 
39.2
 
13,302
✔
Image of David Mann
David Mann (Nonpartisan)
 
29.0
 
9,830
Image of Cecil Thomas
Cecil Thomas (Nonpartisan)
 
16.5
 
5,589
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Gavi Begtrup (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
9.5
 
3,229
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Raffel Prophett (Nonpartisan)
 
3.5
 
1,196
Image of Herman Najoli
Herman Najoli (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
2.3
 
780

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 33,926
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Gavi Begtrup completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Begtrup's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Eleven years ago my boss and mentor Congresswoman Gabby Giffords – along with three of my colleagues – were gunned down in a grocery store parking lot while meeting with constituents. My friend Gabe Zimmerman, who had dedicated his life to public service, senselessly lost his life to political violence. Since then, I have dedicated my life to applying my skills to do good where I could. With Gabby, I applied the analytics skills from my physics Ph.D. to create sound policy for the Defense Department and NASA. When I left Congress, I applied my newly developed skills to build startups that developed technologies to improve agriculture and healthcare while creating good-paying jobs. Now, as Ohio is wracked by corruption and extremists in our State House attack women, children, and the LGBTQ+ community, I am running for State Representative to help build a more prosperous and inclusive state to raise my kids.
  • We need to create an Ohio that works for everyone. I have created jobs and brought millions of dollars of investment to Ohio. I have passed bipartisan legislation in Congress, and will get our State House focused more on schools and jobs instead of attacking women and kids.
  • We must end the epidemic of gun violence. We all want a safe place to raise our families. Yet, Ohio keeps loosening gun laws. As the Everytown for Gun Safety-endorsed candidate, I will be a champion for gun safety.
  • With Roe v. Wade overturned, the State House matters more than ever. Extremists in the State House call rape an ‘opportunity’ and want to outlaw abortion at 0 weeks. Meanwhile we have 0 weeks of paid family leave. I will be a champion for women’s rights and families.
When I helped build a public school, it was about cutting across racial and socioeconomic lines to break down barriers and invest in our next generation. When I served on the Jewish Community Relations Council, I was guided by the ideals of intersectionality, building community across historically oppressed peoples. When I ran for Mayor of Cincinnati, I ran a clean money campaign focused on improving the lives of Cincinnatians.

In my race for State Representative, we’re again running a people-powered campaign with grassroots organizing at the heart. It’s by talking with people on their doorsteps that we center and ground our priorities. Listening to our community fuels our mission.

One of the most consistent things I have heard people say while knocking doors is that Cincinnati cannot continue to be a tale of two cities. It cannot be prosperous for some and barren for others. That’s why I will fight to reduce income inequality at the State House by growing good jobs with a $15 minimum wage. I will fight for unions and pathways to gainful employment. I know the struggle of starting a small business, and I’ll work to support the creation and growth of small businesses, so we can build wealth in our community instead of shelling out millions to big business. I will fight to lower costs for families including by passing paid family/medical leave and universal pre-K. I will stand with organized labor to protect the right to collective bargaining, defeat “right-to-work” laws,
My greatest inspiration is my former boss and mentor Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. When I worked with her in Congress, she was the epitome of what we want from an elected official. She was smart and thoughtful and she truly cared about the issues and the people she represented.

After she was shot, I continued working for her until she retired from Congress. I left politics, as I had seen the best and worst of it. But Gabby didn’t stop serving. Despite her challenges, she has dedicated the past decade to combating gun violence. Even through her gruelling recovery, Gabby was indefatigable.

Gabby always told me to “fight, fight, fight” for what I believe in, and I am doing my best to follow her example.

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2021

Candidate Connection

Gavi Begtrup completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Begtrup's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I am a small business owner, the former policy advisor to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and a proud husband and father of three young kids. I have created jobs and brought tens of millions of dollars of investment to Cincinnati. I’ve written and passed bipartisan legislation in Congress. And I’ve built a public school, the Donald and Marian Spencer Center, that serves 350 diverse kids from all over the city.

I believe Cincinnati’s greatest days are ahead, but we must address the system challenges in our city by putting people before politics. As a Ph.D. physicist, I’ve solved hard problems. As an executive leader, I’ve built and run organizations.

  • I’m committed to ending the corruption in City Hall that is keeping the city from growing and our communities from thriving. That’s why I am running the only clean campaign, in which I’m not accepting donations from developers with business in front of the city. Changing the culture of corruption to a culture of collaboration requires personal responsibility and leadership.
  • We will solve the housing affordability crisis in the city. Housing costs are rising faster than wages and families are getting pushed out of their homes. We will replace a policy of gentrification with one of strategic development that is paired with community supports to prevent housing and economic displacement.
  • Cincinnati will lead the nation in police reform by reinvigorating the Collaborative Agreement and improving police-community relations. The city must be safe for everyone.
I am passionate about creating a livable and equitable city. I have spent my career creating good jobs and bringing tens of millions of dollars to the city of Cincinnati, and livability starts with access to jobs with livable wages. But the people of our city also need affordable housing, mobility (public transit), and education or job training. Delivering these basic needs and creating opportunity for everyone requires creative solutions and leadership. My deep experience in policy, business, and community development make me uniquely capable of convening public and private partners to get Cincinnati thriving.
My greatest inspiration is my former boss and mentor Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. When I worked with her in Congress, she was the epitome of what we want from an elected official. She was smart and thoughtful and she truly cared about the issues and the people she represented.

After she was shot, I continued working for her until she retired from Congress. I left politics, as I had seen the best and worst of it. But Gabby didn’t stop serving. Despite her challenges, she has dedicated the past decade to combating gun violence. Even through her gruelling recovery, Gabby was indefatigable.

Gabby always told me to “fight, fight, fight” for what I believe in, and I am doing my best to follow her example.
Humility, openness, and trust. Every leader must possess these qualities to be effective.

Humility and openness allows an elected official to hear others (regardless of status or party), to bring in new ideas, and to be truly innovative. And trust is paramount for elected office, and sorely lacking in City Hall. If you have lost the trust of the people, you no longer deserve to serve.

Finally, a leader must possess vision, for where there is no vision, the people perish.
Together we will prove that Cincinnati’s best century is ahead of us. By choosing to lead, not languish, we’ll put Cincinnati back on the map in a way it hasn’t been in this millenium. We’ll make Cincinnati a leader in innovation, in growth, and equality.

At the end of my time as Mayor, the whole country will know we’re the Queen City.
“Everything is Awesome,” the Lego Movie theme song. I’ve got three kids, and this never fails to lift everyone’s mood.
The Mayor’s greatest responsibility is to set a vision and values for the city and then convening and leading stakeholders to make it so. My vision is of an equitably growing city, one in which families are thriving, where every person can reach their full potential. I believe in a Cincinnati that leads the country in economic inclusion,affordability, and police reform. As Mayor I will set values of equity, inclusion, and transparency. I will work with the council to enact policies aligned with our vision and values, and I will ensure that the city manager runs a City Hall dedicated to serving the people.
Cincinnati is a city with wonderful history, amazing people, and tremendous potential. It’s a big enough city to have world-class arts, culture, and sports, but small enough in which anyone can make a difference. It’s welcoming and friendly, and it puts chili on spaghetti.
Cincinnati must finally address the systemic inequalities holding the city back. We are a city with some of the greatest companies and hospitals in the world, yet we have 45% child poverty, unacceptably high infant mortality, and food deserts. We are a city that has left entire neighborhoods behind, and continues to pursue policies that give to the rich and take from the poor.

We cannot grow, we cannot all prosper, without investing in everyone.

If we do not act, if we continue to have a reactive and corrupt City Hall, Cincinnati will become stagnant while other, more innovative, mid-sized US cities continue to grow.

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Campaign website

Begtrup’s campaign website stated the following:

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#1 - Participatory Budgeting
Budget decisions affect every Cincinnati citizen. So Cincinnati citizens should have a say in the budget. Gavi is proposing that Cincinnnati should allocate 1% of ARPA funding through participatory budgeting, a democratic engagement process to ensure funds go to the issues residents care about most.

#2 - Small Business One Stop
As a small business owner, Gavi understands just how critical support from the city is, but how unnecessarily complicated working with City Hall can be. That’s why he is proposing a Small Business One Stop for business owners and entrepreneurs that will consolidate city services and permitting in one shop to make it easier for new businesses to start, grow, and thrive in Cincinnati.

#3 - Minority Seed Fund
The pandemic hit black-owned small businesses twice as hard as white-owned small businesses. We must help small businesses get back on track and succeed in Cincinnati. Access to capital, often tied to socioeconomic status, is one of the greatest challenges for new small businesses, often limiting entrepreneurship for minorities. This plan will set aside $3M of the ARPA funds to seed an early investment fund for minority-owned businesses in the city. Early money spurs further investment and can catapult businesses forward, creating jobs and growing our economy.

#4 - Complete Streets
We can make Cincinnati a 15-minute city, in which basic needs can be met within a quarter hour of transportation without the use of a car. This plan requires new transportation projects to consider multi-modal transportation, such as bike and bus lanes and improved sidewalks for pedestrian safety.

#5 - CPS Liaison
The education of our children is one of the most important investments we can make. But today, there is no one responsible for coordinating between Cincinnati Public Schools and City Hall to ensure we are addressing our schools’ greatest needs.. It’s time to change that. We need to create an official liaison between City Hall and CPS to give our children and their families the support they deserve. It’s that simple.

#6 - Cincinnati Skills Bank
Cincinnnati must invest in people first. The Cincinnati Skills Bank, an evergreen Career Impact Bond, will increase access to career training programs for those who face barriers to education and employment, raising wages and breaking the cycle of poverty.

#7 - Lead the Nation in Police Reform
Instead of waiting for the next tragedy, Cincinnati should be proactive and lead the country in police reform. As Mayor I will prioritize police reform and commit fully to reengaging in the Collaborative Agreement, fully funding the Citizen Complaint Authority to end the backlog of cases, and create a new $1M Reimagining Police Fund. [2]

”
—Gavi Begtrup’s campaign website (2021)[3]

Campaign advertisements

Supporting Begtrup

"The Affordable Housing Trust Fund" - Begtrup campaign ad, released March 4, 2021
"The Clean Campaign Pledge" - Begtrup campaign ad, released March 1, 2021
"It's Cold Outside" - Begtrup campaign ad, released February 16, 2021


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    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 13, 2021.
    2. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    3. ↑ Gavi Begtrup’s campaign website, “Vision,” accessed April 20, 2021


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