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Jean Mastin

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Jean Mastin
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Independent

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 3, 2020

Education

Associate

American River College, 1978

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Birthplace
Sacramento, Calif.
Religion
None
Profession
Medical clerk
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Jean Mastin (independent) ran for election to the Ohio House of Representatives to represent District 48. She lost as a write-in in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Mastin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Mastin was born on September 7, 1955, in Sacramento, California. She graduated from the American River College with an associate degree in 1978. Her professional experience includes working as a medical clerk. Mastin has been affiliated with ActionTogetherStark.[1]

Elections

2020

See also: Ohio House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Ohio House of Representatives District 48

Incumbent Scott Oelslager defeated Jean Mastin in the general election for Ohio House of Representatives District 48 on November 3, 2020.

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2.6
 
1,361

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Total votes: 52,176
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 48

Incumbent Scott Oelslager advanced from the Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 48 on April 28, 2020.

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Total votes: 8,453
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2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Jean Mastin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Mastin'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'm Jean Mastin. I'm a wife, mother and grandmother. I've lived in North Canton for 16 yrs. I am now retired from clerical work, and our daughters are grown. I stepped up to run as a Write-In for the position of State Rep for District 48 when I heard that there was no Democratic opposition in 2020's election. I have no political experience, but am a concerned citizen who is disgusted with the Republican leadership with its scandals, no progress on either preventing gun violence or on women's rights, and the non-handling of the COVID crisis. I am aching to hold my children and grandchildren again. We need more Democratic leadership in the house, and I'm willing to lead District 48
  • I've done no fund-raising in this campaign. ActionTogetherStark has covered all costs of printing and literature drops. I am commited to giving District 48 a Democratic voice in the Ohio House,; not be an approval stamp on any of the GOP policies.
  • I want to get back to caring about people that are here now and caring how we leave the planet for generations to come. We are being threatened by a virus and by climate change, and both problems need to be addressed head on by people, not corporations or energy interests.
  • Our basic human rights are being stripped away, and I intend to fight to keep a women's right to choose, a right to live in a safe environment free from guns that shouldn't be on the streets, be able to have clean air and water, and keeping public lands free from industrialization.
Most important now is getting the virus under control with adequate free testing so we can find cases and isolate any new outbreaks early, not only on the state, but the national level, while keeping people fed and housed. I'm very passionate that we not go backward in regards to the basic right of a woman to control her own body. I feel strongly about the right to affordable health care for all and health care coverage for people with preexisting conditions and wish to keep LGBTQ and marriage equality rights. We need to attack institutional systemic racism and make sure Dreamers who know of no other home other than the United States, have a path to citizenship. We need to take on the NRA and make background checks and waiting periods standard for those wishing to buy guns. We need to stop calling White Terrorists at the Ohio Statehouse and elsewhere"armed militias" and prosecute them accordingly. We need fair district boundaries and to stop the gerrymandering here in Ohio and make voting easy and SAFE. Having only one early polling place and one ballot drop box in the entire Stark County is disgraceful. I worked the polls today handing out sample ballots and watched many cars narrowly avoid crashes while entering and leaving the facility, trying to figure out where to park, where the line started and where the line was for dropping off completed ballots. This could and should be an easy and fun way to make our voices heard. But people persevered; the line never stopped!
I'm honest and will listen. This will be a huge learning curve for me, so I am eager to learn.
The responsibilities of someone elected to a public office are to the public that elected them. It's been disgusting to watch my elected representatives fawn over and heap praise on our current president and to know they have to praise him before they can ask for help for their constituents. Representatives need to listen to doctors and scientists about ways to keep their constituents safe and then protect those same doctors and scientists if they are threatened for trying to keep us safe.
That I stood up and did what I could when I saw wrong; not often enough, but I've gotten stronger as I've gotten older. That, and my 3 amazing, strong adult daughters and my husband who helped me raise them.
I remember being in grade school doing the duck and cover drills under our desks in case of a nuclear war before President Kennedy was shot. Now I see kids doing those same kinds of drills, but instead the drills are for school shootings. It breaks my heart that we've learned nothing in all these years. That our children still have to live in fear.
Ohio's greatest challenges will be to keep our citizens safe and healthy. Not only from this pandemic, but keep our water, air and land clean. We need to protect our Lake Erie shoreline, our Cuyahoga Valley National Forest, the Portage Lakes State Parks, and so many other beautiful spaces here in Northeast Ohio. We need to keep our groundwater safe, which will require big investment into renewable energy, which has the plus side of creating jobs. Keeping our citizens healthy also requires affordable healthcare for all, and women's reproductive health is an important part of healthcare. So is keeping dangerous guns off the street. We need to take on the challenge of the systemic institutional racism in policing and other systems here in Ohio and welcome all cultures so that we truly can live and work together.
Adequate time needs to be given for the Census to be completed so that all people are counted. Especially during this time of the pandemic. Only after we have been assured that as many people as possible are counted, lines should be drawn around communities; no more squiggly lines to try to get as many people from one party as possible. Communities should share the same district so that neighbors can work with neighbors to get problems solved in their own communities. The representative should also live in that community. Party affiliation should have nothing to do with the district lines.

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