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Omar Tarazi
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Republican Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 8, 2022

Education

Law

Franklin University, 2004

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Muslim
Profession
Owner, law firm
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Omar Tarazi (Republican Party) ran for election to the Ohio House of Representatives to represent District 11. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Biography

Omar Tarazi was born in Besançon, France. He received a J.D. from Franklin University in 2004. Tarazi's career experience includes working as a practicing attorney and as an owner of a law firm.[1]

Elections

2022

See also: Ohio House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Ohio House of Representatives District 11

Anita Somani defeated Omar Tarazi in the general election for Ohio House of Representatives District 11 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Anita Somani
Anita Somani (D) Candidate Connection
 
56.0
 
28,216
Image of Omar Tarazi
Omar Tarazi (R)
 
44.0
 
22,151

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

Total votes: 50,367
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 11

Anita Somani advanced from the Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 11 on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Anita Somani
Anita Somani Candidate Connection
 
100.0
 
2,472

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

Total votes: 2,472
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 11

Omar Tarazi advanced from the Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 11 on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Omar Tarazi
Omar Tarazi
 
100.0
 
1,272

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

Total votes: 1,272
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Campaign finance

2021

See also: Ohio's 15th Congressional District special election, 2021

Ohio's 15th Congressional District special election, 2021 (August 3 Republican primary)

Ohio's 15th Congressional District special election, 2021 (August 3 Democratic primary)

General election

Special general election for U.S. House Ohio District 15

Mike Carey defeated Allison Russo in the special general election for U.S. House Ohio District 15 on November 2, 2021.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Mike Carey
Mike Carey (R) Candidate Connection
 
58.3
 
94,501
Image of Allison Russo
Allison Russo (D)
 
41.7
 
67,588

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

Total votes: 162,089
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Democratic primary election

Special Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 15

Allison Russo defeated Greg Betts in the special Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 15 on August 3, 2021.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Allison Russo
Allison Russo
 
84.2
 
13,704
Image of Greg Betts
Greg Betts Candidate Connection
 
15.8
 
2,576

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

Total votes: 16,280
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Republican primary election

Special Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 15

The following candidates ran in the special Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 15 on August 3, 2021.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Mike Carey
Mike Carey Candidate Connection
 
37.0
 
18,805
Image of Jeff LaRe
Jeff LaRe
 
13.3
 
6,776
Image of Ron Hood
Ron Hood
 
13.1
 
6,676
Image of Bob Peterson
Bob Peterson
 
12.6
 
6,407
Image of Ruth Edmonds
Ruth Edmonds Candidate Connection
 
10.0
 
5,090
Image of Tom Hwang
Tom Hwang
 
4.9
 
2,499
Image of Stephanie Kunze
Stephanie Kunze
 
4.6
 
2,363
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Thad Cooperrider
 
2.1
 
1,076
Image of Omar Tarazi
Omar Tarazi Candidate Connection
 
1.8
 
907
Image of John Adams
John Adams
 
0.3
 
173
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Eric M. Clark
 
0.2
 
83

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

Total votes: 50,855
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2021

Candidate Connection

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

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We have lived in central Ohio for 31 years, and Hilliard Ohio has been our home since 2009. My wife and I have raised our children here. There are Eagle Scouts, and one is in the U.S. Navy. I have over 12 years of experience as an attorney working with businesses and organizations on contracts, litigation, and management issues. My undergraduate degree is in Business Administration from Franklin University, and I graduated Cum Laude from Dayton Law School with honors in Dispute Resolution. It was an honor to have served on the Columbus Bar Association Admissions Committee for eight years, and I also served on the Ethics committee for 3 years. In addition, I previously served on the Hilliard Board of Zoning Appeals. I was elected to the Hilliard City Council in 2019 and continue to serve to the present helping to take our community to the next level as a great place to live and raise a family.
  • I will be a champion for applying conservative principles to governance as the path forward to maximize economic opportunity and quality of life for everyone.
  • I am the best candidate to represent the diverse voices and interests in Ohio’s 15th Congressional District
  • I am running for Congress to rebalance the system, so it works fairly for all Americans, and to fight for the reforms and investments we need to secure our long-term prosperity as a nation.
I am passionate about securing our long-term prosperity as a nation. There are many areas for reform that necessarily come from this that I want to work on among them: A- Creating incentives for simplification and greater efficiency from government agencies B- Balancing our economic policy to invest and favor the middle class C- Reforming the justice system with the goal of streamlining procedures towards greater simplicity and predictability D- Reducing the footprint of government to allow the private sector the space to breath and compete E- Re-Re-evaluating our trade and alliances around a consensus long term strategy.
First, a servant leader attitude. Too many elected leaders adopt and autocratic elitist attitude towards others and I disagree with that approach. Second, having a diverse life experience and good temperament is important to understand where people are coming from and the human consequences of decisions made. Third, having a legal, financial, and procedural background is very helpful to increase effectiveness and protect you from being manipulated by others.
I would like to leave a legacy in two areas: first, I would like to help lead our nation in overcoming its current problems and put it on a path to secure our collective prosperity through innovative and creative solutions derived from conservative governing principles. Second, the culture of congress has deteriorated over the years such that it has become extremely ineffective. I would like to be able to play a role in transforming the culture to a more effective outcomes-oriented culture.
When I was young, my parents moved to Kuwait so that my father could teach at the university there. I don’t have many memories from the time, but I do have a strong memory of sitting on the beach when I was about 7 years old and listening to bombs going off in the distance as major battles were being fought in the Iran-Iraq war. It was surreal seeing the other kids playing around me in the water, and thinking about the people dying in the distance in a war I didn’t understand. A few years later, Iraq invaded Kuwait and actually stationed troops in the apartment complex where our home was. We were in America at the time and never went back. In some ways, these experiences root my deep desire to end war and find peaceful solutions to problems.
I enjoy watching Japanese Anime and I really liked the song Gurenge by Lisa that is played at the beginning of the Demon Slayer series.
Yes, I do believe it is beneficial for a representative to have some prior experience as it will help them be more effective in getting things done. As a representative you are just one vote out of 435. Experience in figuring out what others want and working with them through the legislative procedural process and experience in working with government agencies can all be very useful to getting something done and serving your district.
We are losing faith in our institutions and each other. Our infrastructure is falling apart. We keep artificially inflating the stock market and keeping zombie companies alive. Most Americans have seen their condition stagnate or decline. Congress has mostly kicked the can down the road for decades instead of making the hard decision needed to bring real reforms. We have lost the lead in many of the technologies of the future to Asian countries who have formed the world’s largest trade block around China. A culture of fear is permeating our institutions which focuses on the appearance of doing the right thing instead of facts and outcomes. I believe all of these factors are bringing us closer to a real breaking point that will require strong leadership to navigate and set the foundations for the next several decades of prosperity.
Yes, I am interested in joining at least the following committees: Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee, the Finance and Financial Institutions Committee, the Ways and Means Committee, the Judiciary Committee on Civil Justice, and the Judiciary Committee for Criminal Justice.

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Campaign website

Tarazi's campaign website stated the following:

“

On the Economy
The U.S. The Federal Reserve’s intervention into the economy for the last dozen years has been in many ways counterproductive. Then the Federal government comes in with wasteful deficit spending, which burdens our economy with additional unproductive debt. All of this serves the interest of politicians, billionaires, and major corporations, but it does not serve the interest of the average American. I will fight for federal spending that has a strong positive return on investment. Otherwise, we need to stop all wasteful spending, and we need to prioritize the long-term economic vitality of the country over short-term political interests. Capitalism built our country through competition and allowing failing companies to fail. No industry should be allowed to consolidate to such a degree that competition is effectively eliminated and we must constantly work to protect American businesses from the unfair competitive practices of other countries that take advantage of us.

On Big Tech
Big tech are the leaders of innovation that we will rely on to keep our country competitive against emerging big technology companies from countries like China. However, we need to do three things in this area: A- Punish unfair intellectual property theft, B- Allow the marketplace to force our companies to innovate instead of trying to protect them from fair competition, and C- We need to intelligent regulation of these large technology companies to prevent abuses and protect the integrity of our political and election systems.

On the Environment
Nobody cares more about the land and the environment more than our great farmers who work with it every day. The problem is our farmers are often just trying their best to stay afloat financially so they often lack the means to invest in better practices. This has led a lot of small farmers going out of business and being bought out or consolidated by big companies. As a nation, we are healthy when our food is healthy. Therefore, we need to work on the current incentive structures and unfair international competition, and we need to invest in our farmers as part of an overall plan to keep America healthy and beautiful.

On Healthcare
We already spend more than anyone else in the world on our health care system and get poor or substandard results on average. The good news is we don’t need to spend any more money on our system. We just need to spend what we already spend in a smarter and more productive manner. This means creating greater competition and transparency, and measuring the productivity of the money we do spend against health outcomes. We need to change the incentive structures that favor the interests of big corporations over the interests of the patient.

On Infrastructure & Debt
Generations before us invested in the infrastructure that has been the foundation of our prosperity. It is now crumbling and in need of modernization. We need to update and modernize our nation with the infrastructure for the next 40 years of prosperity. Currently, we incentivize corporations to buy back their stock instead of investing in research and development, and we reward failing companies with bailouts. We need to incentivize research and development and allow capitalism’s creative destruction to work again. We must invest our limited resources as a nation more productively towards securing our future productivity.

On Policing and the Justice System
We must work with and celebrate our brave members of our law enforcement community who keep us safe. At the same time, there are a lot of reforms we can and should do through a collaborative process. Our legal system has become so complex that the complexity and discretion built into the system occasionally produce erratic and inconsistent outcomes, particularly for poor and minorities. We will work with the various stakeholders to streamline the system to ensure greater accountability towards the goal of making it simpler, more consistent, and predictable.

On Military and Foreign Policy
Today's global supply chains are moving and technology standards being developed around the world’s largest trading block dominated by China. As an American nationalist, I believe it is critical to our long-term prosperity that we do not shrink away from the world, or use our existing advantage to try to prevent fair competition. We need to win the future by out-competing and provide the best model for the world to follow in all areas. The global pandemic showed us how interconnected we all are. The proliferation of pollution, chemical and biological weapons, and human tragedy in one part of the world can easily migrate to affect other parts of the world. We must take a holistic global approach to defending our national interests with our allies without getting sucked into no-win military adventures. As an example, we must work with our allies to ensure Iran and Russia do not win in Syria and a peaceful outcome is reached. Our long-term prosperity is dependent on our allies, seeing that we are both strong, principled, and smart in how we conduct ourselves. If we shrink from the world, the world will turn away from us, which will threaten our long-term prosperity as a nation. In addition, we need to continue to adapt and make hard decisions in our military investments to deal with the changing realities, and new technological threats, particularly from countries like China and Russia. I will fight to put our nation’s long-term safety and security first in all of our military spending decisions.

On the Second Amendment
I fully support the second amendment, own guns, and value and support the healthy and positive sport, hunting, and gun culture in our country. The problems we have in our country involving guns are not because of the guns, but rather because we have done a poor job at dealing with mental health, social isolation, crime, and maximizing economic opportunity. In order to protect the second amendment and our constitutional rights in general, we need to continue to appoint judges to the bench who interpret the law as it is, not as their politics would want it to be. I will fight hard against the efforts to destroy the Supreme Court through Court packing.

On the Border and Immigration
No nation can survive with open borders. We need to secure our borders and develop a consensus national immigration strategy. This country was built and developed by immigrants and immigration is critical to economic vitality. We need two things. Modernization of our immigration laws and actual consistent enforcement of those laws. What we don't need is open borders like we have now, and we must stop the depletion of border patrol resources I will fight to build a national consensus, immigration strategy which will be both humane, will secure our borders, and will advance our economic interests as a nation.

Right to Life
Every human life, including the life of the unborn, is sacred and special. We must ensure that every mother receives the best level of care and support, both before and after birth. We have allowed too many chemicals to pollute our environment which we know affect the very sensitive development of children, particularly in the womb. We must take a holistic approach to maximizing the quality of health for every new generation of Americans both before and after birth. [2]

”
—Omar Tarazi's campaign website (2021)[3]

Campaign advertisements

"Top Priorities 3" - Tarazi campaign ad, released June 25, 2021
"commercial Tarazi for Congress" - Tarazi campaign ad, released June 14, 2021
"commercial 2 CRT" - Tarazi campaign ad, released June 14, 2021
"Omar Tarazi for Congress" - Tarazi campaign ad, released May 18, 2021

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    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 21, 2021
    2. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    3. ↑ Omar Tarazi for U.S. Congress, "Campaign Issues," accessed June 22, 2021


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