Mike Tussey
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Mike Tussey (Republican Party) ran for election to the Ohio House of Representatives to represent District 73. He lost in the Republican primary on March 19, 2024.
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Biography
Mike Tussey was born in Columbus, Ohio. Tussey's career experience includes working as a retired. He earned an associate degree from the Columbus State Community College and a bachelor's degree from Columbia Southern University.[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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates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
Tussey received the following endorsements.
2020
See also: Municipal elections in Fairfield County, Ohio (2020)
General election
General election for Fairfield County Sheriff
Alex Lape won election in the general election for Fairfield County Sheriff on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Alex Lape (R) | 100.0 | 61,005 | |
| Total votes: 61,005 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Fairfield County Sheriff
Alex Lape defeated Mike Tussey in the Republican primary for Fairfield County Sheriff on April 28, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Alex Lape | 70.2 | 8,374 | |
| Mike Tussey | 29.8 | 3,552 | |
| Total votes: 11,926 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Mike Tussey completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Tussey'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 grew up in Columbus, Ohio. This is where I met my wife of 49 years, Mary. We have one son and three grandsons. Mary and I moved to Fairfield County in 1979. I have a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice administration along with my associate degree in law enforcement. I graduated from the Police Executive Leadership College.
I have 46 years in public service and retired as a police chief. I have dedicated myself during that time to championing those who can’t fight for themselves. I have worked with the addicted and abused. I have spent time in the worst areas of central Ohio feeding the homeless and, in some cases, the hopeless. I teach Criminal Justice at Columbus State. I have given expert testimony on numerous occasions to Senators and Representatives on legislation to protect our children from sexual predators. I was invited to and attended a meeting at the White House to discuss the constantly changing policing tactics in the United States. I am a firearms instructor, and supporter of the Second Amendment. I am pro-life and pro-family. My wife and I are members of the United Brethren Church in Lancaster where I am an elder. I am a strong supporter of businesses and farmers. I believe that every person should have the right to have a good-paying job without government interference. I believe the purpose of government when it comes to business is to ensure safety and quality of work. I am a conservative Republican who will defend our Constitution against all threats.
- I will work to change Ohio’s unfair tax laws to reduce the property tax burden on disabled veterans and elderly residents on a fixed income to make sure they can afford to stay in their homes.
- Schools and politicians need to respect the family unit and its values. Parents should raise their children, not the state. I will work to protect parental rights in the education and health care of their children by sponsoring legislation making it a felony to indoctrinate students in CRT or gender identity.
- I will protect girls' sports by supporting legislation that mandates that only those born as girls can compete in girls' sports.
Instead of working to make going to the grocery store or the gas pump affordable again, my opponent voted with House Biden Democrats, many of the same Biden Democrats who support abortion up to birth and the suppression of your second amendment rights, to remove the duly elected Conservative House Speaker. He and twenty-one other so-called Republicans worked with Biden Democrats to overturn the will of the voters of Ohio. His actions worked to divide and weaken the State Republican Party.
I pledge to stand up as a Conservative and represent every citizen. I will always work for my district.
I pledge to stand up as a Conservative and represent every citizen. I will always work for my district.
My Dad. He worked hard his entire life and never complained. He was as tough as nails, but you always knew he loved you. He taught me no one owes you anything and that if you don't work for it then you don't deserve it. He always put family first and took such good care of my mom. He's been gone 12 years now and not a day goes by I don't remember something he taught me or said to me.
Honesty and integrity are very important. Remembering that you are the representative of what the people who elected you need or want and not there to serve yourself. Understanding that not everyone shares the same economic, social or religious backgrounds and being open to discuss rationally ideas and thoughts that can affect their lives. Always take time to be compassionate when necessary and strong when needed. Never be afraid to change your mind when new information supports that change. Always remember that being elected to any office is a blessing not to be squandered.
I am a fighter when it comes to right or wrong. I will stand up for the rights of others and firmly believe that doing the easy thing comes with a price. I truly enjoy people and have dealt with them at their best and worst. I don't hate. To me when I was on patrol and needed to make an arrest people thought that I arrested them out of anger. Many times, I had to explain that to me it's just business. I will do the right thing sometimes even at personal cost. I have worked with addicted persons, mentally challenged persons, homeless, and victims to where I can absolutely say I get it. I have been a leader at many levels from a police chief to an elder at my church, I am a fiscal conservative who will always remember that taxes are not my money. I will hold at arm's length power brokers and those with their own agenda. I will always serve the people who have put their faith in me to represent them.
Listen to the needs of those that sent you. Be fiscally frugal with the taxpayers money and remember that the money you are spending is theirs and not yours.
I hope it would be honesty and integrity along with the ability to have compassion when making decisions. At the end of the day, I hope people will say," He severed his God and those he represented well people well."
JFK assassination. I think I was in the second grade. I remember that they took all the students to the gym and the principal told us what happened. Then I saw teachers crying but I think I was too young to really grasp it.
Dairy Queen. Worked for almost a year until a better job came around. And yes, it is true that you get to a point that you never want to eat ice cream again!
Anything by Bill O'Rielly. I am a history buff and I find his books very insightful.
Go rest high on a mountain.
Not really a struggle but I don't tolerate bully's well. I have seen their victims in many forms including the victims of Domestic Violence. For 46 years I fought to protect them and get the victims help. In some cases, with good outcomes. Unfortunately, and in many cases, it becomes a cycle of the same victims and the same abusers.
When I first was doing door to door I ran into a retired man and Navy veteran. He told me his wife had died several years ago and that he was living on a fixed income. He said that he was to the point that he was contemplating selling his house of thirty years because of the large increase in property tax. No person should ever be put in a position to have to make that decision. That became my most pressing issue to address once i am elected.
Don't really have one.
The legislature should have the ability to override along with a sunset provision that would require an up or down vote to continue after the meeting of the sunset date. There would be very few exceptions to this such as a national declared emergency or an event that would fall under catastrophic. With that, first priority must be with protecting the constitutional rights of citizens.
As i stated above it would be the elder and veteran home protection act. This would either reduce or eliminate property taxes on anyone who is on a fixed income over seventy years of age or any disabled veteran living on a veteran's pension.
Fraternal Order of Police #50, Associated Builders and Contractors, Ohio Citizen PAC, Ohio Value Voters, Ohio Republican Party Central Committee Woman Carrie Masterson, Ohio Republican Party Central Committee Woman Antonia Blake, Ohio Republican Party Central Committee Man Jake Warner, Pleasantville Mayor Jason Henderson, Thurston Mayor Gina Malos, Former Thurston Mayor Mary Boring, Baltimore Council President Darla Reedy, Liberty Township Trustee Randy Kemmerer, Lancaster City Council person Becky Tenor, retired Lancaster City Councilman Tom James.
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2020
Mike Tussey did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 26, 2024
Current members of the Ohio House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Jason Stephens
Majority Leader:Marilyn John
Minority Leader:Dani Isaacsohn
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Mike Dovilla (R)
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Juanita Brent (D)
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Phil Robinson (D)
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Darnell Brewer (D)
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Dan Troy (D)
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Rachel Baker (D)
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Karen Brownlee (D)
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Cindy Abrams (R)
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Mike Odioso (R)
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Bill Roemer (R)
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Jack Daniels (R)
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Veronica Sims (D)
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Derrick Hall (D)
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Steve Demetriou (R)
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Andrea White (R)
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Tom Young (R)
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Desiree Tims (D)
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Phil Plummer (R)
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Rodney Creech (R)
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Erika White (D)
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Thomas Hall (R)
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Diane Mullins (R)
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Matthew Kishman (R)
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Joe Miller (D)
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Michelle Teska (R)
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Tex Fischer (R)
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Roy Klopfenstein (R)
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D.J. Swearingen (R)
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Mark Johnson (R)
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Jason Stephens (R)
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Kevin Ritter (R)
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Ty Moore (R)
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Ron Ferguson (R)
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