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Monique Smith
Monique Smith (Democratic Party) was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing District 16. She assumed office on January 1, 2021. She left office on December 31, 2022.
Smith (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Ohio House of Representatives to represent District 16. She lost in the Democratic primary on August 2, 2022.
Smith completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Monique Smith was born in Cincinnati, Ohio[1][2] She earned a bachelor's degree from the Ohio State University in 2000. Her career experience includes working in sales and marketing with a Westlake-based software company.[1][3]
Committee assignments
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2021-2022
Smith was assigned to the following committees:
- Commerce and Labor Committee
- Economic and Workforce Development Committee (decommissioned)
- Technology and Innovation Committee
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2022
See also: Ohio House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Ohio House of Representatives District 16
Incumbent Bride Rose Sweeney defeated Michael Lamb in the general election for Ohio House of Representatives District 16 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bride Rose Sweeney (D)  | 55.3 | 28,469 |
 | Michael Lamb (R) | 44.7 | 23,020 | |
| Total votes: 51,489 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 16
Incumbent Bride Rose Sweeney defeated incumbent Monique Smith in the Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 16 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bride Rose Sweeney | 56.0 | 4,777 |
 | Monique Smith | 44.0 | 3,751 | |
| Total votes: 8,528 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 16
Michael Lamb advanced from the Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 16 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Michael Lamb | 100.0 | 3,564 |
| Total votes: 3,564 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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2020
See also: Ohio House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Ohio House of Representatives District 16
Monique Smith defeated incumbent Dave Greenspan in the general election for Ohio House of Representatives District 16 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Monique Smith (D) | 50.7 | 35,013 |
 | Dave Greenspan (R) | 49.3 | 34,075 | |
| Total votes: 69,088 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 16
Monique Smith defeated Joe Romano in the Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 16 on April 28, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Monique Smith | 70.2 | 9,025 |
| Joe Romano | 29.8 | 3,839 | ||
| Total votes: 12,864 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 16
Incumbent Dave Greenspan advanced from the Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 16 on April 28, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dave Greenspan | 100.0 | 5,353 |
| Total votes: 5,353 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Monique Smith completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Smith's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Monique’s concern for her community comes from having experienced tough challenges growing up. As a daughter of a single mother, her family struggled to overcome issues like threats to safety and stability caused by domestic violence, doing full-time work without a living wage or health insurance and difficulty finding affordable, high-quality childcare and housing in areas with good schools.
Thanks to perseverance and access to resources and opportunities, Monique is in a position to give back to her community today.- Ohioans should be given full access to quality health care, including reproductive care and mental health care
- Ohioans should feel safe in schools and in their community. As a gun sense advocate, I work on legislation that will create safer communities and works to eliminate gun violence.
- Ohio should be a leading state in technology and innovation. I work to expand job training that promotes the future of work.
I'm a passionate advocate for gun sense - the simple idea that more should be done to keep our families and communities safe from gun violence. As a result I’ve introduced a bill seeking to create Extreme Risk Protection Orders or “Red Flag” laws to reduce gun violence.
I’m also personally passion ate about mental health. As a result, I’ve introduced a bill to require publicly-funded health care organizations to admit or stabilize individuals who are voluntarily admitting themselves for mental health or addiction crises
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2020
Monique Smith completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Smith's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Providing full access to affordable health care and stopping the spread of COVID should be our top priorities in Ohio.
- We must support Ohio workers and local businesses with resources to make workplaces safe and economically sustainable during the pandemic.
- Ohio's broken school funding formula must be fixed in order to improve outcomes and ensure that Ohio is competitive.
We must protect workers and small businesses by providing resources to make workplaces safer during the pandemic and offering grants and loans to keep our local businesses operating safely. My opponent has failed to take such steps to protect his constituents and the small businesses in his district. He must be voted out because of his lack of leadership which is threatening the safety and success of our community.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
Scorecards
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2022
In 2022, the Ohio State Legislature was in session from January 19 to December 15.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to LGBTQ, civil rights, and racial justice issues.
- Representatives are scored on their votes on bills affecting working families.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills impacting Ohio's business community.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to business issues.
- Legislators are scored on their adherence to the limited government principles of the U.S. Constitution.
2021
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In 2021, the Ohio State Legislature was in session from January 4 to December 31.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Candidate Ohio House of Representatives District 16 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 15, 2020
- ↑ Ohio House of Representatives, "Monique Smith Biography," accessed March 19, 2021
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 7, 2022
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| Preceded by Dave Greenspan (R) |
Ohio House of Representatives District 16 2021-2022 |
Succeeded by Bride Rose Sweeney (D) |
