Samuel Ronan
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Samuel Ronan was a 2018 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 1st Congressional District of Ohio.[1] Ronan initially filed to run as a Democrat but changed party affiliation to Republican in November 2017.[2]
Ronan was a 2016 Democratic candidate for District 62 of the Ohio House of Representatives.[3]
Ronan was a 2016 Democratic candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 1st Congressional District of Ohio.[4][5]
In 2017, he was a candidate for the chair of the Democratic National Committee.[6]
Biography
Samuel Ronan was born in Germany and lives in Ohio. Ronan served in the Air Force from 2009 to 2015 and began service with the Reserves in 2015. He earned an A.S. in military sciences and applied sciences from the University of Maryland University College in 2011. Ronan's career experience includes working as an electronics technician with SIMCO Electronics.[7]
Campaign themes
2016
Ronan's campaign highlighted the following issues:[8]
| “ |
Strong Supporter of the 2nd Amendment and personal right to bear and keep arms - Improve legislation by implementing personal responsibility instead of creating more red tape for: attachments, muzzle size, magazine/clip size, etc. Strong supporter of Religious Freedom - Prayer, "Under God," all these things are perfectly acceptable in our country and culture so long as they are optional and not forced. Prayer in the classroom may very well be a good thing so long as it isn't limited to Judeo-Christian religions only. Strong supporter of Fiscal Responsibility - Nobody wants to pay taxes, rich, poor, citizen or business, but nobody wants to pay a disproportionate amount of taxes either! We can standardize taxes across the board to be proportional to income and not based off of "levels of wealth." Strong Supporter of improving Health Care - Nobody likes being forced to pay for health insurance, and nobody likes being in debt for going to the hospital, but the fact is the ACA is law and until it goes away we can at least fix the cost of services. Hospitals charge different amounts for the same exact issue, I vow to fight for standardized cost of care, medicine, and treatment all across the state. Strong Supporter of improving Education - Colleges, Vocational Schools, and Universities are some of the best institutions in the country to improve our career potential, so why should it be so damaging to the individual to utilize those services? Standardizing the cost of tuition across the state, the weight of credits across the state, and other common sense solutions can drastically mitigate the devastating debt our students are suffering through after graduation![9] |
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Elections
2018
General election
Congressional elections will take place in Ohio in 2018. The primary election took place on May 8, 2018, and the general election will be held on November 6, 2018. The filing deadline for partisan candidates was February 7, 2018. The filing deadline for independent candidates was May 7, 2018.
Ballotpedia will publish vote totals here after they become available.
| U.S. House, Ohio District 1 General Election, 2018 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Independent | Mike Goldschmidt | |
| Democratic | Aftab Pureval | |
| Republican | Steve Chabot Incumbent | |
Democratic primary election
Aftab Pureval ran unopposed in the Democratic primary.[10]
| U.S. House, Ohio District 1 Democratic Primary, 2018 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidates | ||
 Aftab Pureval | ||
| Source: The New York Times | ||
Republican primary election
Incumbent Steve Chabot defeated Samuel Ronan in the Republican primary.[10]
| U.S. House, Ohio District 1 Republican Primary, 2018 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Steve Chabot Incumbent |
83.19% | 40,875 |
| Samuel Ronan | 16.81% | 8,259 |
| Total Votes | 49,134 | |
| Source: The New York Times | ||
2016
Elections for the Ohio House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election was held on March 15, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was December 16, 2015. Incumbent Ron Maag (R) did not seek re-election because of term-limits.
Scott Lipps defeated Samuel Ronan in the Ohio House of Representatives District 62 general election.[11]| Ohio House of Representatives, District 62 General Election, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Scott Lipps |
78.60% | 48,427 | |
| Democratic | Samuel Ronan | 21.40% | 13,184 | |
| Total Votes | 61,611 | |||
| Source: Ohio Secretary of State | ||||
Samuel Ronan ran unopposed in the Ohio House of Representatives District 62 Democratic primary.[12][13]
| Ohio House of Representatives District 62, Democratic Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Samuel Ronan (unopposed) |
100.00% | 4,203 | |
| Total Votes | 4,203 | |||
Scott Lipps defeated Steve Muterspaw and Ray Warrick in the Ohio House of Representatives District 62 Republican primary.[12][13]
| Ohio House of Representatives District 62, Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Scott Lipps |
40.62% | 10,358 | |
| Republican | Steve Muterspaw | 39.06% | 9,960 | |
| Republican | Ray Warrick | 20.31% | 5,179 | |
| Total Votes | 25,497 | |||
Campaign themes
Ronan issued the following statement regarding his bid for office:
| “ | I hope to bring common sense and integrity back into politics. For to long career politicians have been serving their own selfish purposes and leaving us, the American People behind in their wake. That needs to change immediately if we are to continue as a Democracy for the people, of the people, by the people. I believe in order to achieve that we need to work together as one nation, one common cause, that of being an American. There are millions of us with just as many different beliefs, views and opinions. That is our greatest strength and we should cultivate it. Once we do our achievements will be boundless. It starts by exercising our right to vote and ensuring only those who would actually do their jobs in representing the common citizen make it into office! | ” |
| —Samuel Ronan, [7] | ||
Congress
Ronan briefly ran in the 2016 election for the U.S. House to represent Ohio's 1st District. His filing for candidacy was not certified by the Hamilton County Board of Elections.[4][5]
Recent news
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See also
- Ohio's 1st Congressional District election, 2018
- Democratic National Committee
- United States House of Representatives
- Ohio's 1st Congressional District election, 2016
- Ohio's 1st Congressional District
- Ohio House of Representatives
- Ohio House of Representatives District 62
- Ohio House of Representatives elections, 2016
- Ohio State Legislature
External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- Campaign website
- Campaign Facebook page
- Campaign Twitter page
- Campaign YouTube page
- Campaign Instagram page
- LinkedIn page
Footnotes
- ↑ Samuel Ronan for Congress, "Home," accessed September 28, 2017
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "RONAN, SAMUEL," accessed January 29, 2018
- ↑ Ohio Secretary of State, "Candidate Listing By Office," accessed February 8, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Green Papers, "Ohio 2016 General Election," accessed December 17, 2015
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hamilton County Board of Elections, "Hamilton County Candidates & Issues List, Primary Election March 15, 2016," January 4, 2016
- ↑ CNN, "Samuel Ronan: DNC always been 'an insider's game,'" February 23, 2017
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 LinkedIn, "samuel ronan," accessed April 19, 2018
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia via email sent on September 22, 2016
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributed to the original source.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Hamilton County Board of Elections, "Hamilton County Candidates and Issues That Have Filed for Primary Election May 8, 2018," accessed February 21, 2018
- ↑ Ohio Secretary of State, "Official election results," accessed December 21, 2016
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Ohio Secretary of State, "Candidate Listing By Office," accessed February 8, 2016
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Ohio Secretary of State, "2016 Official Elections Results," accessed August 29, 2016
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