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Michael Scarmack
Michael Scarmack (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Ohio House of Representatives to represent District 73. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Scarmack completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Michael Scarmack's career experience includes working as a architect and author. Scarmack earned a bachelor's degree from Ohio University in 1976. He has been affiliated with the American Institute of Architects.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Ohio House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Ohio House of Representatives District 73
Incumbent Jeff LaRe defeated Michael Scarmack in the general election for Ohio House of Representatives District 73 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jeff LaRe (R) | 61.0 | 38,390 |
 | Michael Scarmack (D)  | 39.0 | 24,595 | |
| Total votes: 62,985 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 73
Michael Scarmack advanced from the Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 73 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Michael Scarmack (Write-in) | 100.0 | 211 |
| Total votes: 211 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 73
Incumbent Jeff LaRe defeated Mike Tussey in the Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 73 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jeff LaRe | 55.1 | 6,026 |
 | Mike Tussey | 44.9 | 4,907 | |
| Total votes: 10,933 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Austin Beigel (R)
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Scarmack in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Michael Scarmack completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Scarmack's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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He's running for this office to give voters a choice, be they Democrats, Unaffiliated Citizens and disgruntled Republicans, in a gerrymandered district, to balance the legislator field within the Ohio House General Assembly.
In the longest living democracy the world has experienced in known history, political complete disorder. It is an imperative, we collectively strive to preserve and protect the human rights of every individual in our township, our county, our district, our state, our nation and our world, to further all life, to free people to pursue happiness.
Working for constituencies within District 73, Scarmack intends to replicate in word, spirit, need and impartiality the promise to all for peace, dignity and equality, while opposing oppression and cruelty, from rogue rulers, by reclaiming the authority of the rule of law.
Michael is “an Ohioan who cares, for our Home”.- Is our desire for a good life being infringed upon? What sets our write-in candidate apart is his unwavering commitment to transparency, accountability, and integrity.
- Is our liberty being infringed upon? Liberty stands as a sacred pillar, protected and preserved from the encroachment of tyrannical forces that seek to impose their will on the individual.
- Is our pursuit of happiness being infringed upon? In our pursuit of happiness, it is crucial to prioritize self-awareness and introspection.
In this specific time within the earthly environs we as a planet, nation, state, and district within our state be environmentally aware of our interaction not only with others, yet also with the natural world within which we reside. Our every decision, and there can be thousands, should reflect our observance of materials used and dismantled, reconstituted and provided for a building, a product, a good, a railway or a rocket to space.
We together must be diligent and conscious of people in our society, spending public tax dollars for their own benefit. Case in point, we have unfair and illegal districting, in Ohio threw a gerrymandered process of one-sided legislative and governing body leading us to autocratic solutions meant for a few people, however, not for the many citizens, now living in our District and our State.
Martin Luther King, Jr. is worthy of study.
Why?
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
It is a story of trees, injustices and activism, superbly written.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 6, 2024
